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Penned in the City
Anthology Call for 
​Nightmare
with a Twist!

Theme: Nightmare with a Twist!
Genre: All but Romance and Smut
Who: Penned in the City: A Creative Writing Group for All Members on Facebook. (Not a member? Join
         today!)

What: Fiction, poetry, art, photography, or digital art. You can submit one per category, for a total of
           three submissions per contributor. 
Fiction Word Count: Fiction submissions must be 500 to 3,000 words in length.
Poetry Length: Poetry submissions must be 2 to 30 lines in length. (Short lines recommended for Kindle version.)
Art: 300 dpi, minimum

Deadline: Sunday, January 17, 2021, midnight Chicago Central, U.S. Time
Proceeds Going To: Barrio Blues Press for Unity Volume 2, scheduled to be published August 2021.

Reprints: Yes, if rights have reverted. Notify Jesú Estrada when and where it was previously published. 
Payment: Contributors are paid in digital copy.
Distributors: Ingram Spark (Paperback) and Amazon (Paperback, Kindle, and KU)
Email attachments to pennedinthecity@gmail.com. 
Read below for manuscript and art requirements. Email any questions to the Editor in Chief, Jesú Estrada.
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When you submit your work, you must do the following: 

Poetry and Short Story Contributors:
  • Submit poetry and short stories in Shunn Formatting. (See the following website for more information.)
  • Include a working address and phone number with the submission.
  • Send an emailed attachment in Microsoft Word or *.pdf format to barriobluespress@gmail.com. 
  • For Unity or Penned in the City anthology submissions, send an emailed attachment in Microsoft Word or *.pdf format to  pennedinthecity@gmail.com.

Graphics or Art Contributors:
  • Submit a graphic or image that is 300 dpi, minimum. (If the file is too large to attach, email the editor to give you Dropbox permission for the corresponding submission.) 
  • Include a working address and phone number with the submission.
  • Send an emailed attachment to barriobluespress@gmail.com. 
  • For Unity or Penned in the City anthology submissions, send an emailed attachment to pennedinthecity@gmail.com. (Call for submission to Unity will be posted every March, beginning with March 2020. See the Unity Anthology section for details.)
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Payment: Contributors are paid in digital and/or contributor copy. *Some restrictions apply based on shipping laws, rules, and regulations to international countries.* 
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Currently, Barrio Blues Press is not accepting unsolicited manuscripts. Authors are being published by invitation and call for submissions, only.

"Unity Volume 1: A Magical Realism Anthology is a collection of overtly varied short stories and poems from diverse voices. What unites them, however, is a deep visceral nature. Whether it be grief, horror, or romance, this body of work has led me a reader, enough to become an 'insider' to be able to smell the pungent air in the rain; to become the beloved; to feel the horror in the bones or to become enmeshed with the terrible pain. In my view, it's called powerful storytelling ability, where every tear, drops to tell a story, and every verse sings a poetry recital." -Mehreen Ahmed, Moirae
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