Note: The call for submissions has been extended to May 30, 2020 due to COVID-19 disruptions. The call is now closed. Thank you for your submissions!
Note 2: Due to COIVD-19 issues, we have slightly missed the September 1 deadline we set for ourselves for sending out acceptances and rejections for submissions. We should have those out by September 21. Thank you for your patience!.
Since its beginnings in the early 1980s, the Life, the Universe, & Everything academic symposium has been a staple of the Utah and Intermountain West author and artist community. Many authors, artists, and editors have found inspiration for their careers at the feet of scores of symposium guests. Influential professors and others have mentored those planning and running the symposium, but many of these mentors have passed on.
The symposium helps students of all ages by providing greatly discounted student memberships. Hemelein Publications—in conjunction with LTUE Press—created a series of memorial benefit/charity anthologies to help the symposium continue to help these aspiring creators learn about their crafts at a reasonable cost. Author, artist, and editor proceeds from the anthology go to LTUE to help students attend for a very low cost.
The fourth of these anthologies, Parliament of Wizards, is a fantasy and science fiction wizard anthology, created in honor of Jonathan Langford. He was one of the original founders of LTUE and The Leading Edge. This anthology will contain stories Jonathan would love.
In summary:
- Wizard stories of all types (science fiction or fantasy) any length up to 17,500 words
- Unpublished or reprint stories
- Up to two submissions per author
- This is a benefit/charity anthology, so stories are donated and author receives no monetary compensation
- Authors receive a print copy of the anthology and an electronic copy
- Meet the content guidelines described on the Submission Guidelines page
- Stories are due by
April 30, 2020May 30, 2020 at 11:59pm Mountain Time.
If you have stories that meet these criteria, please submit them using our online form.
Contracts will be sent by September 1, 2020 to those whose stories are accepted. The anthology will be released during the LTUE symposium in February 2022 in electronic and printed form.
As this is a benefit/charity anthology, author, artist, and editor proceeds from the anthology go to support the symposium’s mission of education, training, and inspiring authors, artists, and editors in producing the next generation of amazing speculative fiction works. The anthology will be jointly published by Hemelein Publications and LTUE Press. This anthology will be edited by Joe Monson and Jaleta Clegg, co-editors of Trace the Stars, A Dragon and Her Girl, and Twilight Tales.
Stories not accepted for this anthology may be submitted for consideration for future benefit anthologies for LTUE during each submission period. Additional benefit anthologies will be published in the future, under a variety of genres. Themes so far have been space opera, adventure fantasy, and light horror.
Please forward this call to anyone you think would be interested. If you have additional questions, feel free to contact us.
We appreciate your support of this cause, and we look forward to seeing your stories.
