2024 Autumn Community Service Project

Visions: Fantasy, Science, and Speculative Fiction

Submission Deadline: October 30, 2024.
​Release Date Coming Soon!

VISIONS is the title for our our Autumn 2024 Community Service Anthology.  For this collection, we are calling for stories and poems in the genres of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and/or Speculative Fiction.

Writers.com compares the three genres this way:
"Science Fiction is a genre in which fictional science and technology plays an important role in society. By exploring how these futuristic technologies shape human behavior, those technologies become metaphors for our own social predicaments.

"Fantasy, by contrast, describes stories that involve some form of magic. These could be magical worlds, magical powers, or magical creatures. The world being developed must be clearly fantastical, even if it’s set somewhere on Earth; these fantasy elements also drive the story forward, and can also be metaphors for real human conflict.

Speculative Fiction encompasses these genres, but it also encompasses any genre where unnatural, futuristic, or supernatural elements exist within and are essential to the story."
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Pages Promotions acknowledges, and will accept, Dystopian Fiction as fitting into these genres.

Submission Deadline:
​October 30, 2024
Word Count: 200 - 20,000 words
​Multiple Submissions
and Reprints Accepted
​​No Entry Fee!

The Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Speculative Fiction genres are diverse, extremely creative, and often involve mature themes, scenes, language, and characters.  So, for this collection, we are allowing a lot of flexibility with what we will accept.  However, we will reject stories and poems with graphic sex, instructional drug use, instructions for explosive design and detonation, violence against animals, and violence against children.  For this book, we request that all content fall in or below the "Adult" rating.  We will print a Reader's Advisory on the cover of the book, warning readers of potentially challenging material inside.  Below is a list of the rating limits.  Stories and poems that reach beyond these limitations will be rejected.

• May contain significant profanity
• May contain significant crude humor
• May contain passionate and extended kissing
• May contain one to three onscreen semi-detailed or detailed consensual love scenes 
• May also contain additional fade-out intimacy scenes
• May contain graphic descriptions of nudity
• May contain extended and gruesome violence May NOT include instructions for the design and detonation of explosives
• May contain significant drug, alcohol or tobacco use
• May NOT include instructions for drug use
• No Violence against animals
  
• No Violence against children
  

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​Submission Guidelines: Please Read Carefully!

• There is no "read fee" associated with this program.  It is FREE for writers to submit as many stories as they like.
• Writers from every continent on Earth are invited to submit.  If we can get submissions from beings living in space stations or on a different planet, moon, or asteroid, that would be a bonus!
• Writers must be 18 Earth years old, or have permission from a parent or guardian to submit.
• All stories and poems must be submitted in Earth English.  Stories and poems submitted in another language will be rejected.  We simply don't have the translators (human or computer) to do that kind of work.
• The final submission deadline is October 30, 2024.
• All stories and poems must be submitted by Midnight, Eastern US Time.
•  Late submissions will NOT be accepted.
• Stories and poems must be rated "AD (Adult)" or below, and follow the guidelines listed on this page.
• ​All stories and poems must be submitted through the form on the Pages Promotions website, in MS Word, RTF, or open office equivalent.   Stories submitted in PDF and other formats will be rejected.  
• ​Each story or poem must be submitted separately.  Multiple stories in a single submission will reject ALL of the files in that submission.   No exceptions.
• Stories and poetry submitted via  email, social media, postal, or currier delivery will not be accepted.  Writers MUST use the form on this page to submit their work.
• All submissions must be no fewer than 200 words, and no more than 20,000 words.  We use MS Word to verify word counts.
• Reprints are permitted, and authors are required to supply proof of ownership, upon request.  If ownership cannot be validated, the submission will be rejected.
• Multiple submissions are permitted, and there is no limit to how many stories or poems an author may submit.
• Authors may submit using a Pen Name, if they choose.  Multiple submissions by a single writer under different pen names is acceptable.
• The book will be edited and published for a targeted December 2024 release.
• Proceeds from sales will benefit The Haley Sue Foundation. 
• High School Students who submit a minimum of six pieces will earn a certificate for two hours of community service toward their high school graduation requirements.  Students who live anywhere in the United States are eligible for this award.  Students must share their legal name if they are eligible for this certificate to coincide with school records.
• Writers are NOT compensated for their work, but will be entitled to ONE copy of the anthology at print cost.
• All writers retain ownership rights to their work, and grant Pages Promotions, LLC publication, sales, and distribution rights to their work for this anthology title, in perpetuity.

Proceeds from Sales Benefit
​The Haley Sue Foundation

Submission Deadline:
​October 30, 2024
Word Count: 200 - 20,000 words
​Multiple Submissions
and Reprints Accepted
​​No Entry Fee!