Jersey Devil Press

We’re temporarily closing submissions until August 1st.

Between the Anthology pre-orders, the picnic and our own lives, Monica and I are going to be more than a little swamped for the next few weeks. As such, we’re just not going to have the time to read through submissions the way we normally do. Rather than amass a backlog and make you wait weeks and weeks, we figured this was the more responsible way to do this. Plus it means we’ll be in a better mood when we do get to your story.

The handful of subs currently in our inbox should be rocked out by the end of tomorrow. Anything that comes in between now and August is just gonna sit there. While we’re not going to immediately reject it, we are gonna go in a little annoyed, so it’s probably in your best interests not to do that.

Thanks for your understanding in these hot, busy, hot, trying times. We look forward to being inundated with your best work on August 1st.

Anticipation for the 2010 Jersey Devil Press Anthology is crazy, I know. What with the discounted bundles and the fact that it’s pure fiction fury and all. We’ve got a metric crap-ton of awesome authors in it, and at least twice that many we sadly could not include. And, believe me, we tried to fit them all in. With crowbars and hammers and shit.

But, hey, you can still find all those awesome authors here on the website! Just click that Authors! Authors! link over on your right. Or, you know, the one I just inserted into the post. Either way! Click it. It’s a sexy list, right?

Want to be part of it?

Then take a look at our submission guidelines. And check out our editor interviews here and — most recently, at Six Questions For… — here.

Study them, memorize them. Print them out and sleep with them under your pillows. Then send us what you’ve got. And maybe you too can be one of our sexy, awesome, wonderful authors and end up in the next anthology.

Print Only submissions will be closing as of May 1st. Submissions to the online magazine will continue without interruption.

If you’ve already submitted a Print Only story and not yet heard back, don’t fret. We’ll treat your submission with the same love and respect we always do.

This closing will most likely be permanent. We’ve received, and accepted, some great stories submitted solely for the print anthology, but, next year, we’re thinking all potential contributors will have to go through the website first. There’ll still be some never-before-published stories, but we’re going to try and request new contributions from authors we like. But that’s getting ahead of ourselves. We’ve still gotta get this year’s anthology banged out.

Selections of already-published pieces for the print anthology will begin in earnest in May. We’ve got a rough idea of which stories we’ll pick, and those lucky authors can expect an e-mail formally requesting their OK then. We’ll announce the line-up in June and hopefully get the book out in July. ‘Til then, you’ll have to sit tight, tear through the archives and the current issue, and make your best guesses.