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2025 Anthology - Big Announcement!
By Valkyrie
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Joyous Kwanzaa to all who celebrate! I'm still in a bit of a food coma from Christmas dinner, but I wanted to bring a reminder and also some important news for next year's anthology. First, submissions for Carlos' tribute event are due tomorrow, so be sure to put the finishing touches on your stories and post the link in the thread in the Writer's Circle. Second, I decided to do things a little differently this year, and instead of having a committee decide- 13 comments
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Yes. They need to be complete stories that stand alone and not require prior reading of a story. They cannot be chapters in a serial. I will work on updating the guidelines for participation, but I don't anticipate any changes from last year's guidelines. I anticipate having them completed and posted shortly after the new year.
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By BendtedWreath · Posted
Do anthology entries need to be complete works? -
By Lee Wilson · Posted
Fins to the left, fins to the right, and you're the only bait in town. RIP Mr. Buffett. -
Perfect! I mean this can be basically anything: two legs, four legs, six legs, eight legs (shudder), wings, fins... -
Rein in that ol' imagination and slow it down a bit before those horses run over you. You've got plenty of time to figure things out without losing sleep or getting your blood pressure going through the roof. -
Myr stated it perfectly. This year, for a variety of reasons, this was the way to go. That doesn't mean we won't go back to having a committee for theme suggestions and then site-wide voting in the future.
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Oh my I said to myself as my imagination began to run wild...... -
In the 20 years of Anthologies, we've done it a lot of ways, including setting the theme up front. There is always a mix of conflicting feedback no matter which way it goes. That said, the selection of topics by soliciting members and then voting on it all is a lot of work on the staff side. As our volunteers are rather busy, and to keep this going at all, we are reducing the workload so it remains possible to continue without overloading our volunteers. -
I'm not sure how I feel about the anthology theme being taken completely out of the hands of the authors. Seems weird to me. -
Keep in mind that the theme doesn't have to hit us over the head. The nice thing about this theme is that you can write pretty much anything. Maybe one of your characters has a pet kitty or dog or dragon or whatever. That will fit the theme, even if it's subtle. I'm sure you will come up with something
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