Year’s Best Lesbian Fiction 2009
Year’s Best Lesbian Fiction, 2009 Edition
We are now accepting nominations and submissions for the 2009 edition of Year’s Best Lesbian Fiction. Anyone can nominate their favorite lesbian short story published in 2009.
Have a look at Year’s Best Lesbian Fiction 2008 (buy the ebook edition here) to get some idea of the quality, style, and content the editors and judges feel a story should possess to merit inclusion in a Year’s Best volume.
Editor: Fran Walker
Submission period: August 20, 2009 to January 31, 2010
Eligibility: Short stories with a lesbian character or theme, FIRST PUBLISHED IN AN EDITED MARKET IN 2009, including stories from e-presses, print presses, journals, and zines. No unpublished submissions or submissions published outside of 2009.
Restrictions: No fan-fic. No unpublished, self-published, or vanity-published fiction. No stories that are strictly romance or erotica. Stories with erotic or romantic components are acceptable, but this collection is intended to complement rather than overlap with the Year’s Best Lesbian Erotica and Year’s Best Lesbian Romance anthologies.
Payment: $25 + one contributor’s copy.
Purchasing: reprint rights (trade paperback) for 18 months.
Scheduled publication date: June 2010
Fill out the form below to nominate your favorite story. You can nominate more than one story if you have several favorites published in 2009.
Authors and Publishers: Fill out the nomination form and send the story to yearsbestlesfic@gmail.com in one of the following formats:
- link to the published story
- jpg scans of the printed pages [nameofstory1.jpg], [nameofstory2.jpg]
- scans of the printed pages compiled in a pdf file [namesofstory.pdf]
- pdf of the typeset [namesofstory.pdf]
- rtf document of the final edited version of the story [namesofstory.rtf]
Contact Fran Walker if you have any questions or comments.
