SUBMISSIONS
SHORT STORY  ANTHOLOGY 2020

What happens when the lights turn down, the pulse of the city goes silent, and the streets are desolate? Perhaps there's a murderous entity raging outside, or locked away, isolated, deep inside the darkness? A collection of fiction short stories, the Quarantine Files use  the idea of quarantine as a backdrop to tales drawn from fantasy, speculative fiction,  science fiction, mystery, or something else entirely.


Calafia press is currently reviewing submissions planned for The Quarantine Files release in October 2020. 


Please see the submission guidelines.


Submit short stories to anthology@calafiapressusa.com
Submission Guidelines

1. Short stories must be below 7,500 words. Digital art should be below a 25mb file size. Poetry is limited to two pages when using 1.5 spacing or greater. If single spaced, it would be limited to one page. 

2. All works should be unpublished and the original work of the author.

3.  Authors retain all credits and rights to their work. 

4. The selected anthology will always first be published digitally and if in greater demand, in print. 

6. Calafia Press reserves the right to republish chosen submissions under "Best of," anthology, or other future Calafia  collections digitally or in print. If republished, the author's name, bio, and/or web link will always be included with the republished submission. 

7. If selected, authors will be asked to sign an acknowledgement that they own the copyright to their submissions and photographers must acknowledge the consent of any parties in their photos.

8. Submit to anthology@calafiapressusa.com. In the subject line, include the name of the collection you are submitting to. You will receive a response within 1 week.




THE BLACK BOX
2021

In ​2021, the Black Box will open.



Unapologetically, The Black Box is a creative outlet defining what it means to be Black in America. Throughout history, African Americans used oratory, song, dance and visuals as a means of communicating the African American experience. Whether speaking to others or God, the Black voice sang of sorrow and rebellion from the fields. It gave us the blues. It traveled along the railroad keeping pace with the chain gangs. It rang from a harp at the World's Fair and flourished in Harlem as the beat quickened, the jive was jumpin' and yet we were invisible men.



The black voice rocked and rolled its way into the hearts of America, while being muffled by braided rope fibers bound to trees. It spoke of peace, dreams, defense and revolution as it laid down its soul before marching to that hip-hop beat. The black voice tells us that we matter as we struggle to breathe, to live, to exist. The black voice refuses to be locked away, contained, put in a box. That box opens again 2021.



Submissions must be related in some way to the interpretation of what it means to be Black in America. Historical, current, and afro-futurism is welcomed! Be that black voice no longer locked inside the box.



Submit short stories to anthology@calafiapressusa.com

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