Use this template for sending in your entry for the Speed City Sisters in Crime Anthology #8.

Enter your name and contact info on this page. Copy the text for you short story and go to the second page then do a paste special with no formatting. This will make sure your story will have the proper formatting. Save as an MS Word document and email to the blind-submissions handler Elizabeth SanMiguel: sc.sinc.esm@gmail.com.

Anthology guidelines:

Theme: Seasonal theme: Halloween, set in Indiana, mystery but not necessarily murder related

Number of stories in book will depend on the length of those accepted, but the editors anticipate they will be able to accept 15 to 17 stories

Timeline:

December 31, 2020: Submission deadline, (midnight New Year’s Eve!)

February 28, 2021: Editors select stories, send notes for revisions

March 31, 2021: All revisions due back to editors

September 15, 2021: Publication Date

All stories must have made at least 1 pass through a critique group

Must be an original story, not previously published ​

Stories must be submitted as clean copy with final edits

Formatting Your Manuscript: All manuscripts should be between 3,000 and 6,000 words, double spaced, 12-point font, Times New Roman, with one-inch page margins, and Microsoft Word format. Fiction and nonfiction should be double-spaced.

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