Below are a number of publications with calls for submissions. Only the basics are listed here, not full reviews, but we try to give enough information to pique your interest. One of the reasons we started this new series is because placing your work in anthologies are a great way to get your foot in the door, in terms of experience but also in terms of getting to know a potential publisher for a manuscript.

This is a new column and at the moment we are just trying it out. So please send us your feedback about it. If you are a publisher with a call for submissions, please email us as well. The best address to reach us at is support@authorspublish.com

Anthologies:

Other Countries: Contemporary Poets Rewiring History is an anthology containing poems about history, particularly ‘alternative’ history, all over the world. The submission deadline is the 30th of July. All contributors will receive 5 copies of the anthology. To learn more visit: http://ctrevien.wix.com/rewiringhistory#!faq/cjg9

Blue Lobster Book Co. is currently open to submissions for their second edition of their parenting bestseller The Mother of All Meltdowns, the editor is searching for humorous and strange arguments between you and your spouse. The editor is only interested in publishing work by female writers. There is a delayed payment of a hundred dollars to contributors. They are only interested in personal non fiction. They will close to submissions on July 15th.You can learn more here: http://www.bluelobsterbookco.com/open-for-submissions-two-books/

Main Street Rag, an indie publishing company is looking for submissions to their currently untitled anthology about car. They are looking for short fiction non fiction pieces. They will close to submissions on August 1st unless they have enough content before then. More information is available on their website: http://www.mainstreetrag.com/MSR_Short%20Fiction%20Anthology.html

The independent e-publisher Kind of a Hurricane Press is looking for submissions to its new anthology, Life is a Roller Coaster. They are looking for original and previously unpublished poetry and flash fiction in the theme of Amusement Parks, however you choose to interpret or include that theme, to its pages. They close to submissions on July 31st. You can learn more here: http://www.kindofahurricanepress.com/p/switch-difference-our-anthology-for_1.html

Themed Literary Journals:

Tigershark Magazine, a literary journal from the UK e-book publisher Tigershark is currently open to submissions for issue five. The theme is Mystery/Thriller taking in murder mysteries, philosophical puzzles, thefts, ancient secrets, etc, with submissions requested by July 15th. You can learn more here: http://tigersharkpublishing.blogspot.co.uk/

The Four Quarters Magazine, is an India based electronic journal that publishes work in English. They are currently considering work along the themes of big love, small towns. They will be accepting submissions till the 10th of July. You can learn more here: http://tfqmagazine.org/submissions/