HWA announces HALLOWS’ EVE anthology
Hallows’ Eve
An Anthology for the HWA
Editors: Ellen Datlow & Lisa Morton
Submissions open to HWA members only. You can join here, if you like.
Hallows’ Eve is an anthology focused on the horror genre’s favorite holiday – Halloween. We’re looking for stories that explore the festival from many different points of view. Tell us something about the emotional meaning of the night. Investigate a historical angle that isn’t often done. Give us a story about a modern element of the holiday – haunted attractions, large-scale festivals, retailing – that we haven’t seen before. Halloween has a two-thousand-year history and is spreading around the globe, so the range of stories we want is just as long and broad.
We’re also willing to consider stories that might focus on Halloween’s closest cousins: All Saints’ Day; All Souls’ Day; Devil’s Night; Samhain; Dia de los Muertos; and the Irish “Old Halloween” or “Old Samhain” (this happens on November 11th, the date of Halloween under the old Julian calendar).
What We Don’t Want:
- No reprints.
- No stories told from a child’s or teenager’s point of view (this includes first/second/third person).
- No stories about childish or teenager pranks.
Submitted stories must be between 4,000 and 8,500 words, in standard manuscript format, submitted in .RTF, .DOC, or .DOCX format. Please do not use Microsoft Word’s default setting for paragraphs – paragraphs must be indented on the first line, with no space between paragraphs, and the entire manuscript should be set to double-spaced lines. No multiple submissions, but if your first submission is turned down, feel free to try us with another.
IMPORTANT: DO NOT INCLUDE ANY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION ON YOUR MANUSCRIPT
This includes name or e-mail address (and please be sure to check headers/footers for this information as well). Submittable will take your name and information when you submit the file. We are accepting stories as “blind submissions”, meaning the editors will be judging the stories without any knowledge of the author’s identity.
Submissions are now open and will be accepted only via HWA’s Submittable link:
https://horrorwritersassociation.submittable.com/submit/d3aae594-1add-4696-9079-ea0603b774e5
NOTE: YOU MUST BE A CURRENT HWA MEMBER TO SUBMIT.
The deadline for submissions will be JULY 1st. Payment will be seven cents a word (upon acceptance). The book will be published by Blumhouse Books, a series of Doubleday/Anchor Books, in 2017.
What We Don’t Want: Stories told from a child’s or teenager’s point of view. Stories about childish or teenager pranks. Stories that use Halloween as no more than a single, passing mention. Stories that use other holidays (i.e., the autumn equinox, Guy Fawkes Eve/Bonfire Night, Martinmas) than those mentioned above. Stories that are full of factual errors, especially regarding the history of Halloween (please remember that one of the editors is a leading authority on the holiday). Non-fiction pieces. Poetry. The Obvious. Submissions that don’t follow these guidelines.
If you have questions, please contact us at hallowseve@horror.org (however, please do NOT write to query about the status of a submission – we’ll be in touch). Thank you, and we look forward to reading your submission!
