{"id":2206,"date":"2010-08-10T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T02:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2010-08-11T10:57:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T02:57:29","slug":"submission-call-for-steampunk-short-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/10\/submission-call-for-steampunk-short-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Submission call for Steampunk short stories!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1151\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/28\/young-writers-seminar-and-a-submission\/theliterary\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/theliterary.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"400,80\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"theliterary\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/theliterary.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1151\" title=\"theliterary\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/theliterary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/theliterary.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/theliterary-300x60.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hello everyone! Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/happiness-at-the-end-of-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Happiness at the End of the World<\/a>? If you don&#8217;t, it&#8217;s the science fiction anthology we came out with next year. This time we&#8217;re opening submissions for steampunk short stories!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the short details:<\/p>\n<p><em>Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy (an    imprint of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twotrees.com.sg\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Two Trees<\/span><\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.singapore-novelists.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Happy Smiley Writers Group<\/a> are calling for    submissions for the second in their sci-fi short story anthology series.    Following on the success of their first anthology, Happiness at the end of the    World, Happy Smiley and Friends are going Steampunk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Steampunk Short    Story Guidelines:<br \/>\n1) Theme is science fiction steampunk with a happy    ending.<br \/>\n2) Word length between 2000 and a firm 6000 words.<br \/>\n3) Deadline    for submissions is 31st October.<br \/>\n4) Open to any age, any nationality but    must be resident in Singapore. (Singaporeans studying overseas are    eligible.)<br \/>\n5) Mail submissions to <a href=\"mailto:steampunk@twotrees.com.sg\" target=\"_blank\">steampunk@twotrees.com.sg<\/a><br \/>\n6)    For more details go to <a href=\"http:\/\/twotrees.com.sg\/steampunk.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/twotrees.com.sg\/steampunk.html<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Right. Check out the website link and make sure you conform to the style guide! It&#8217;s for us to edit things easier if your story gets accepted into the anthology. Not sure what steampunk is? Well, go wiki it or check out steampunk fashion sites. Or you know, read some steampunk stories! I like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/04\/im-not-blameless\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gail Carriger&#8217;s Parasol Protectorate<\/a> series.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, people have been asking does it <em>have<\/em> to be set in Singapore? No. What you <em>do<\/em> have to have is a non-depressive or happy ending!<\/p>\n<p>Obviously it has to be a steampunk short story too since that&#8217;s the anthology name.<\/p>\n<p>Anywho, go forth and check out the main details!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! Remember Happiness at the End of the World? If you don&#8217;t, it&#8217;s the science fiction anthology we came out with next year. This time we&#8217;re opening submissions for steampunk short stories! Here&#8217;s the short details: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy (an imprint of Two Trees) and The Happy Smiley Writers Group are calling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/10\/submission-call-for-steampunk-short-stories\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Submission call for Steampunk short stories!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[39,36,147,16,97],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-singapore","tag-story","tag-two-trees","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf5tJ-zA","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions\/2208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}