“For Glory and Honor” – Submission Call From Hemelein · 7:07pm April 17th
Hey readers, just a heads up that Hemelein Publishing has opened a submission call for their latest LUTE Benefit Anthology, For Glory and Honor!
Puzzled? Perplexed? Well, let me clear that up. For years now, Hemelein Publishing has organized an annual benefit anthology for LTUE, aka Life, The Universe, and Everything, aka the coolest writing con you’ll ever attend. The purpose of the benefit anthology is for all proceeds from the book to go toward the con to help keep the ticket cost for students and minors low. Like, a couple bucks for the whole con low. Because the con is all about educating writers and helping them become tomorrows greats of fiction, so the stories that are submitted to the anthology are done as a charity. In other words, no one gets paid for this anthology. Instead the proceeds help today’s aspiring writers become the sellers of tomorrow.
Each collection is also themed (because, you know, anthology), but takes it a step further by being dedicated to a particular individual of note in the Fantasy or Sci-Fi community. For example the 2024 installment, Troubadours and Space Princesses (which has a story by yours truly in it) was dedicated to the late and great Dave Farland, by collecting stories with some of his favorite themes.
In like fashion, the current submission call is in honor of Caroljean Hanson, a long-time supporter of Sci-Fi and Fantasy conventions. As one of her favorite genres, according to the submission call, was adventurous Space Opera and Military Sci-Fi, that is the theme of this year’s submission call.
The call is open until May 31st, 2024. If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, and want more details on what Hemelein is looking for, length, etc, then go check out the official submission call here.
Will you be submitting? Let us know on the Discord!
Hmm... I do have an original science fiction short I've always wanted to write. Alas, I don't think it really fits the theme for this year's LUTE anthology. I'll have to ponder things, although science fiction is in some ways my weakest genre IMHO.