2019 Spring Anthology: In the Stars & Snapped

[Renee Stevens]

The themes of the 2019 Spring Anthology are: In the Stars and/or Snapped

 

Feel free to interpret these themes in any way you want. The anthologies are not exclusive, but inclusive, so don't worry if you think your entry has only a tangential link to the theme. If you are inspired, then write a short story, poem or play, and submit it.

 

Please read these submission guidelines carefully.

 

You may address these themes in any style or genre you choose. Be as creative as you want to be with the themes. However, please note that this anthology is an anthology of short stories. By definition, a short story must stand alone and not require reading a prior story. It therefore cannot be a chapter in a serial.

 

Who may participate

 

Everyone is welcome and encouraged to participate. However, submission to GA Stories requires that you be a member here at GA so you can be assigned as the author. If you have author status (which is free and you can get after five posts in the GA forums), you can submit stories.

Submission Guidelines

 

Submission Date: May 15th, 2019

 

Please Note: Submission date is for submission to the Anthology Proof Team. Proofreads should take no more than 72 hours once you have been paired with a proofreader, if you have not received your story back within 72 hours, please contact Renee Stevens via PM. If you send your stories in within the last 48 hours of the deadline, you have 48 hours after receiving it back to upload it in order for it to be included in the Anthology.

 

Non-Poetry

• No Story Limit: Each story submitted must meet quality and editing guidelines and only one story can be under 1,000 words.
• Each story posted as its own submission
• Minimum Word Count Per Story: 1,000
• Maximum Word Count Per Story: 25,000

Poetry

• Up to five poems
• Posted as a single submission (a collection)
• Each poem posted as its own chapter

Submission Procedure *Please read carefully*

 

Once your story is complete and has gone through your beta and editing team, please complete the following steps:

• Contact @Valkyrie via PM. Include in the PM the following information: Title, original editor, genre, synopsis, word count, and excerpt in the body of the PM. Attach your story file. You will be paired with an editor from the Anthology Proof Team who will perform a final proof for the anthology and return the file to you. *Please Note: The Anthology Proof Team is not meant to take the place of an author’s normal editing team so all entries MUST be edited prior to contacting  Valkyrie*
• Once you receive your proofed file, complete your edits and submit your story into GA Stories, for help, please read How do I upload my anthology entry into GA Stories?
  • Make sure the story is unpublished by clicking BOTH the publish sliders, one for the chapter and one for the story itself
  • Select “Fiction” as the category. It will be moved to the correct category by the anthology team.
  • Mark your story as COMPLETE. Only completed stories are allowed in the anthologies
  • Please note that once you submit a story it will NOT show up in your list of stories until the anthology has gone live.
  • Copy the URL for your story and provide Renee Stevens with the URL via the announcement thread so that your submission may be checked to ensure it has been submitted correctly and meets submission guidelines. This also ensures that it will get moved to the anthology category. Please give the URL to the STORY page, not the chapter page.
  • *NEW* Each theme will have it's own category. When providing the URL for your story in the announcement thread, please state which theme your story best represents.

  [*]Please do a visual check of your story once it has been uploaded to ensure that it uploaded correctly

Extensions

 

Occasionally things happen that prevent an author from meeting the deadline. If you should find yourself in such a predicament, PM Renee Stevens, before the deadline (not the day of or after), and something may be able to be worked out. Please contact Renee only if you need an extension; requests will only be considered when requested by the author personally. However, if the same author is consistently asking for extra time, extensions may no longer be granted for that particular author. Deadlines exist for a reason. The Anthology Team needs time to prep the anthology to go live and extensions, while occasionally warranted due to unforeseeable circumstances, add to the already hectic workload. If you have NOT made arrangements with Renee prior to the deadline, your Anthology will not be included. Please do not send a message the day an anthology is due requesting an extension, these will not be granted. You are welcome to post your story on your own and include a story note stating that it was originally meant to be part of the anthology.

 

Story Titles

 

Please do not use the anthology themes or your GA Username as a title. Be as original as you can. In case of duplicate titles within the anthology, we will request that titles be changed.

 

Unacceptable entries & Content Warnings

 

Entries that are obviously unedited (containing many errors), are overly graphic, or which are deemed to have unacceptable content will be either declined outright, or changes may be requested as a condition of entry. For information on what is considered to be unacceptable, please see the Story Content Rules FAQ. If you still have questions, ask.

 

Please include a Content Warning in the story notes if your story contains sensitive content. Examples of sensitive content: abuse, especially graphic/extreme abuse or child abuse, in-scene graphic violence, suicide attempts/themes, allowable incest, etc... if you're unsure that your story falls within this type of content please alert Valkyrie when you send the PM requesting the final proof.

 

Previously posted stories (whether at GA or elsewhere) are not eligible for inclusion into the GA anthologies.

 

Editing

 

All entries MUST be edited prior to being sent to the Anthology Proof Team. If you need an editor, please visit the Writing Support Requests forum to request one. There are editors who prefer to edit only one shots, such as anthologies. Please make sure to state that your story is for the upcoming anthology. Also, please make sure to follow the guidelines when requesting an editor.

 

Copyright

 

As with all content in GA Stories, the rights remain with the individual authors. Your story will post with a simple 2019 copyright notice, using your GA user display name. If you have another preference (for example, a different name, or a Creative Commons license, or specific copyright wording you'd like to use), please include that with your submission.

 

However, with this anthology, by submitting your story, you are giving GayAuthors.org first worldwide rights with 14 days exclusivity. What that means is you are giving GayAuthors.org permission to archive your story on its website, distribute it via RSS, kindle, iphone, ipad, eyeball…. And you agree not to publish it anywhere else for 2 weeks.

 

If you later decide to post your story at another site, please mention at the beginning or end of the story that it was first published as part of the 2019 Gay Authors Spring Anthology: In the Stars and/or Snapped, and include a link back to GA if possible.

 

If you have any questions, please contact Renee Stevens via PM or via the Anthology Blog or Forum.

[Aditus]

In the Stars

Here is my story:

 

[CassieQ]

Here is my submission for Snapped.

 

 

 

[Rigby Taylor]

Hi, Renee,

Is this the announcement thread? if so this is the URL to my short story , on the theme of Snapped.

 

Edited April 23, 2019 by Rigby Taylor

[Defiance19]

 Here is my submission for  Snapped

[AC Benus]

Here is my piece for In the Stars

 

[Thorn Wilde]

Here's my story for Snapped. https://gayauthors.org/story/thorn-wilde/black-blue/

(I did click both publish sliders, but then I went in to edit the tags and now it looks like the story itself is published after all, though the chapter isn't...)

Edited May 1, 2019 by Thorn Wilde

[CassieQ]

2 hours ago, Thorn Wilde said:

Here's my story for Snapped. https://gayauthors.org/story/thorn-wilde/black-blue/

(I did click both publish sliders, but then I went in to edit the tags and now it looks like the story itself is published after all, though the chapter isn't...)

I can see the story, but I can't read it, and it says 0 words.

[AC Benus]

On 5/1/2019 at 2:52 AM, Thorn Wilde said:

Here's my story for Snapped. https://gayauthors.org/story/thorn-wilde/black-blue/

(I did click both publish sliders, but then I went in to edit the tags and now it looks like the story itself is published after all, though the chapter isn't...)

Had the same experience setting it up. When I edited the chapter itself, the 'save' posted the chapter on the Story Updates -- even though the story itself was unpublished. No one's seen the chapter other than me, but my story description has had quite a few views, and even some likes 

[Thorn Wilde]

4 minutes ago, AC Benus said:

Had the same experience setting it up. When I edited the chapter itself, the 'save' posted the chapter on the Story Updates -- even though the story itself was unpublished. No one's seen the chapter other than me, but my story description has had quite a few views, and even some likes 

Yeah, I noticed that. I think the Story software doesn't like it when you edit unpublished stories.

[AC Benus]

6 minutes ago, Thorn Wilde said:

Yeah, I noticed that. I think the Story software doesn't like it when you edit unpublished stories.

Nah, this is related to the recent software update. It never used to act like this 

[Timothy M.]

12 hours ago, Thorn Wilde said:

Yeah, I noticed that. I think the Story software doesn't like it when you edit unpublished stories.

Nope it totally messes up things - it also means the chapter wouldn't show on the Recent Story Updates list, if this wasn't an Anthology. But this is an old bug.

12 hours ago, AC Benus said:

Nah, this is related to the recent software update. It never used to act like this 

I wonder if the story publish slider automatically resets to publish when you edit the chapter or the story ? You wouldn't notice that if you were looking at the chapter, and perhaps not when editing tags on the story itself.

Edited May 3, 2019 by Timothy M.

[AC Benus]

12 hours ago, Timothy M. said:

 

I wonder if the story publish slider automatically resets to publish when you edit the chapter or the story ? You wouldn't notice that if you were looking at the chapter, and perhaps not when editing tags on the story itself.

No, it used to be fine. And I think it is fine again; it was just down when I needed it to work

[Aditus]

Here is my story for 'Snapped'.

 

Gee, you guys made me nervous, I was sure I'd screw this up.

[Timothy M.]

Here is my contribution to Snapped.

[northie]

Finally. Phew! Here is my contribution for Snapped.

 

[Parker Owens]

My tiny contribution to Stars is now in. 

[Timothy M.]

On 5/10/2019 at 2:48 AM, Parker Owens said:

My tiny contribution to Stars is now in. 

Don't forget to provide a link.

[Headstall]

Here is my offering for 'Snapped.'

 

 

[Parker Owens]

7 hours ago, Timothy M. said:

Don't forget to provide a link.

Oh, drat! 

[Parker Owens]

7 hours ago, Timothy M. said:

Don't forget to provide a link.

Here is the link...

 

[Altimexis]

My two Anthology entries are now posted.

In the them of Snapped: Bullying Starts in the Home

In the them of In the Stars: Reminiscing About the Future

 

[Puppilull]

Well, I never thought I would get anything written this time, despite an instant idea. But here it is. After speedy editing help from @Timothy M. and @Parker Owens for which I'm most grateful. 

 

[Cia]

 

[Valkyrie]

Here's mine for Snapped: