Side Real Press – Call for Submissions
Hello Ghouls and Boils,
Today’s terrorific news is for all the writers who visit SNS… Side Real Press are looking for submissions based on the work of Hanns Heinz Ewers! If you are interested in participating in this limited edition anthology, all the information you need is below. Enjoy, my fiends!
Abstrusely,
Sarah L. Covert
Side Real Press are pleased to announce that they are currently taking submissions for an, as yet untitled, volume intended as a tribute to the life, work and themes of Hanns Heinz Ewers.
Ewers (1888-1943) was one of the major German writers of his day writing novels, poems, plays and screenplays for early cinema, His works are steeped in blood, deviance and occultism.
His real life was no less interesting; a bi-sexual, an incessant traveller, a German spy during WW1, drug (ab)user and friend of figures such as diverse Aleister Crowley, Magnus Hirshfeld, Karl Wegener and Adolf Hitler.
John Hirschhorn-Smiths’s introduction to Ewers life and work is online here and Side Reals’ translator Joe E. Bandel has posted his introduction and a sample from Ewers’s best known tale ‘The Spider’ here. Ewers’s tale ‘The Box of Counters’ can be found here, and William Wallace’s translation of Ewers’s tale ‘Fairyland’ can be found here.
For those wishing to submit works for possible inclusion, the criteria are as follows. Works should relate in some way to Ewers, be written in English and should be previously unpublished. Stories (no poetry please) can be any length. The deadline for submissions is October 31st 2010.
A payment of 1 penny per word up to 10,000 words (and capped at £100) will be made, plus two free copies of the finished book, which will be a high quality h/b in a limited edition of 350 copies and is scheduled for release in December 2010.
