Story reveal for Troubadours and Space Princesses

After much deliberation and consideration, editors Jaleta Clegg and Joe Monson and pleased to announce the stories that will be included in Troubadours and Space Princesses, the sixth volume in the LTUE Benefit Anthology series published by Hemelein Publications and LTUE Press. We appreciate everyone who submitted stories. There were so many good stories submitted, and it was hard to whittle them down to the word count we needed. The stories selected are: “Luck, Life, Light, and Other Frivolous Pursuits” by Jenny Perry Carr “The Song to Save a Cursed Kingdom” by Kate Dane “Freedom’s Song” by Cray Dimensional “A…

Submission period closed for Troubadours and Space Princesses

Thank you to everyone who submitted to the call for submissions for Troubadours and Space Princesses, the sixth volume in the LTUE Benefit Anthologies series. The number of unpublished stories submitted reached 80%, which is significantly higher than in the past (previous ones have gotten into the low 40% range, so huge jump there). We appreciate so many of you sending in stories that David Farland would have loved. Now we begin the process of reviewing all the submissions and winnowing them down to those we think will work best for the anthology. As mentioned in the call for submissions,…

Troubadours and Space Princesses Call for Submissions

Edit: The submission deadline has been extended to April 30, 2022. Since its beginnings in the early 1980s, the Life, the Universe, & Everything 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…

A Hero of a Different Stripe responses done

We have now sent out all of the acceptance and rejection notifications for submissions to the A Hero of a Different Stripe anthology, and less than a week after we wanted to get them out! If you submitted a story, please check your email (and check the trash or spam folders if you don’t see it right away). We appreciate all of the story submissions. As with our previous LTUE Benefit Anthologies, we had fun reading them, and the diversity of stories was amazing. Once we receive all of the signed contracts, we’ll be sharing the list of stories and…

A Universe of Stories release event

We will be having a release event for A Universe of Stories this Saturday, August 14, from 11am to 1pm in the American Fork Library Community Room. Come meet the authors, pick up a copy of the anthology, and get it signed! You can see more about it here. We hope to see you there!

A Universe of Stories release!

A Universe of Stories, our collection of winners from the American Fork Library 2019 science fiction short story contest, is up for preorder! A regularly-updated list of links to stores where it’s available is on the anthology page. Pick up your copy today!

Call for submissions: A Hero of a Different Stripe

Since its beginnings in the early 1980s, the Life, the Universe, & Everything 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…

Twilight Tales releases on Thursday!

Twilight Tales will be released on Thursday, February 11, 2021 at Life, the Universe, & Everything 39. This year, it will be all online, so we’ll see how that works out. You can register for LTUE here. The launch event will be on Friday, February 12, at 1:00pm (Mountain Time) in the Douglas Adams Channel of the LTUE Discord server. Once you’re registered as an attendee, you will receive a link to join it. We’ll have as many of the contributors participating as possible. We hope to see you there! Here’s a list of the contents: “Behind the Bookshelf, in…

Parliament of Wizards submissions processed!

All of the submissions to the Parliament of Wizards benefit anthology have been reviewed, and acceptances and rejections have been sent out. The emails will be from editor at this domain. Thank you to everyone who submitted! Keep an out out here and on our Facebook page for updates about future anthologies (benefit and paid). We appreciate your support!