A Motley Vision -- http://www.motleyvision.org -- and Peculiar Pages -- http://b10mediaworx.com/peculiarpages/ -- are pleased to announce a call for submissions for the Monsters & Mormons anthology. Theric Jepson and William Morris are co-editing the anthology, which focuses on mixing Mormon characters, settings and/or themes with classic genre and pulp settings and tropes in a way that interrogates, updates and celebrates Mormons and monsters and their role in pulp and genre fiction.

The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2010. The anthology will be published in October 2011. Submissions are welcome in the following art forms and should be e-mailed to monsters@motleyvision.org:

Fiction from 5 words up to 17,500 (novelette length)
Poetry from 3 lines up to 120
Plays and Dramatic Monologues of One Act
Illustration and Photography suitable for display on a standard book page
Graphic Novel (grayscale) of 1 to 20 pages (submit 2-4 completed pages + full script)

Text should be submitted in .rtf or .doc format (No WordPerfect or .docx please -- any word processor you use should be able to output in Rich Text Format [.rtf]). Images should be submitted as a .jpg or .png file (make sure you have a high-res file available should we accept the work).

Submit to: monsters@motleyvision.org.

Include in the body of the e-mail: your full name; the title of the work/works submitted; and, if available, a link to a blog, website, online resume/works published page -- anything that will provide some context to your work. Pseudonyms are discouraged, but we'll allow for special circumstances -- please include that consideration in your e-mail if you would like it.

Submissions should be broadly appropriate for a Mormon audience -- that is, not as strict as Deseret Book titles, but also not pushing the envelope too far. We're open to a variety approaches to the Monsters & Mormons concepts, but especially welcome those that show an understanding of genre and pulp stories. For a longer description of the project and more guidance on what we're looking for, see: http://www.motleyvision.org/2010/monsters-mormons-submissions

Thanks!

William Morris
A Motley Vision, founder

Theric Jepson
Peculiar Pages, founder and publisher
A Motley Vision, contributor

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