Disabled People Destroy Fantasy Submissions Open

[davidgillon]

Details here.

I think I'll probably submit the first chapter of Graveyard Shift, which was always intended to work as a standalone short story, but rewritten to be from Laura, my wheelchair using forensic sorceress's perspective, rather than that of Aleks, my neurodivergent werewolf cop. Aleks would be technically legit, but it's really not obvious in the first chapter that she's disabled. Submissions are up to 6000 words, chapter one is currently 6800 words, switching to Laura's perspective may well get me down to an acceptable word count on its own, and I definitely think it's doable.

Comments

[capri0mni]

oooh! Fantasy is my wheelhouse, as they say!

(so is poetry and essays, as well as fiction)

Thanks for the link -- though there's only ten days left in the submission period (eep!)

[davidgillon]

though there's only ten days left in the submission period (eep!)

I read it as until the end of the month:
"Reading period: January 15th, 2019 to February 28th 2019. Please do not submit anything until January 15th."

[capri0mni]

Oh, right. My brain swapped a month and day...

(Whew!) Still... not a lot of time to come up with an idea and write and polish it.

[yhlee]

Good luck!

[alatefeline]

Sounds awesome!