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ANTHOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES

Idea generation

Independent US speculative fiction publisher Air and Nothingness Press are seeking stories for an anthology to be titled Moving Across the Landscape in Search of an Idea, writes Gary Dalkin.

Stories should be a maximum length of 1,500 words, but most unusually, these words should be divided as follows: An ‘obnoxiously’ long title, of a minimum of 250 words, a concise narrative between 250-800 words, and copious footnotes, endnotes, marginalia, indices or glossaries (minimum 250 words, maximum 800 words). For

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