Call for Submission Phil Spec Fiction

8/8/2019 Call for Submission Phil Spec Fiction

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In all cases, these preferences can be easily overturned by

exceptionally well-written pieces. In the case of previously-published

workif accepted, the author will be expected to secure permission

to reprint, if necessary, from the original publishing entity, and to

provide relevant publication information.

Submission details:

1. No multiple or simultaneous submissionsi.e., submit only one

story, and do not submit that story to any other market until you

have received a letter of regret from us.

2. All submissions should be in Rich Text Format (saved under the

file extension .rtf), and emailed to [email protected], with the

subject line PSF6 submission.

3. The deadline for submissions is midnight, Manila time,

November 15, 2010. Letters of acceptance or regret will be sent

out no later than one month after the deadline.

Editors notes:

1. Please dont forget to indicate your real name in the submission

email! If you want to write under a pseudonym, thats fine, but this

can be discussed upon story acceptance. Initially, we just need to

know who were talking to.

2. If youd like to write a cover letter with your brief bio and

publishing history (if applicable), do feel free to introduce

yourselfbut not your story, please. If it needs to be explained, itsprobably not ready to be published.

3. We advise authors to avoid fancy formattingthis will just be a

waste of your time and ours, since we will, eventually, standardize

fonts and everything else to fit our established house style.

Compensation will be Php500 for selected stories. In

previous years, weve provided contributor copies of the book, as

well as small royalty shares, but we are strongly leaning toward

shiftingPhilippine Speculative Fiction to digital format, so were

shifting to outright financial payment as well.

Please help spread the word! Wed really appreciate it if youd

publish this invitation on your blog, e-group, etc.

Thanks,

Nikki Alfar & Kate Aton-Osias, co-editors

Dean Alfar, publisher

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LitCritters readings for July 17

Hey LitCritters!

Our next sessions is on July 17, 2010 at 2PM over at The Coffee

Bean & Tea Leaf, Robinsons Galleria. The stories we'll discuss are

the following (take note that the navigation for the MacDonald story is

a little tricky):

"The Queen of Spades" by Alexander Pushkin

http://home.freeuk.net/russica2/books/pushk/spads/spads.html

"The Light Princess" by George Macdonald

http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/George_MacDonald

/The_Light_Princess/1_What_No_Children_p1.html

"Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lamb.html

See you there.

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return of the litcrittters

LitCritters!

After a long hiatus, we are back! Read the stories below and meet up

with us on Saturday, June 26, 2PM at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf,

Robinsons Galleria.

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Here are the stories we'll discuss - just follow the links:

Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela by Saladin Ahmed

http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2009/09/special-

online-story-from-clockwork.html

Spar by Kij Johnson

http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/johnson_10_09/

Swan by Ellis O'Neal

http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/2007/11/story-swan-by-eilis-

oneal/st,

See you soon.


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book launch: philippine speculative fiction 5

Philippine Speculative Fictionhas become one of the countrys most consistent and highly-

anticipated y early anthology series, showcasing the continuing development of the ex citing field of

speculative fiction writing. T his fifth volume, edited by Nikki Alfar and V incent Michael Simbulan,

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collects a broad spectrum of short stories that define, ex plore, and sometimes blur the boundaries

of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and all things in betweenfeaturing the work of both literary

luminaries and very new voices, from across the archipelago and the globe. PSF 5 contains stories

by:

Angelo R. Sarge Lacuesta Dean Francis Alfar

Rica Bolipata-Santos Paolo Gabriel V. Chikiamco

Timothy James Dimacali Joseph F. Nacino

Charles Tan Dominique Gerald Cimafranca

Isabel Yap Christine V. Lao

Raymond G. Falgui Mia Tijam

Joseph Anthony Montecillo Ejay Domingo

Apol Lejano-Massebieau Veronica Montes

Alexander Osias Fidelis Angela C. Tan

Andrew Drilon Gabriela Lee

Aileen Familara Marla Cabanban

Eliza Victoria Kate Aton-Osias

Kenneth Yu

Join us at the book launch on April 24, 2010 at 3PM, U-View

Theater, Fully Booked Bonifacio High Street!


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health schmealth

Sadly, I can't go "health schmealth" anymore. As I grow older, parts

of me are just getting tired. This year, my litany of woes continued to

grow, and so I finallyfinally decided to do something about the

things I could do something about - bridgework for my teeth (yes, I

honestly prefer to chew instead of gumming my food to death)

despite my fear of the dentist (I take on the multiple injections, both

long and short, with a certain degree of quivering resignation), and

help for my eyes.

For around 25 years, I have been relying on my right eye for almost

all of my sight, as my poor near-sighted astigmatic left eye can barely

see jack shit. A decade or so ago, i had a brief dalliance with glasses

(smashed, lost, sat upon, bent) and contact lenses (or, more

properly, contact lens - since I wore only one) which did not work

out (swallowed it - a long and somewhat amusing story). But with

the onset of age and the incipient threat of farsightedness for my

working eye, a visit to the optha was in the cards.

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that permitted me to SEE, I was beside myself with joy. And a little

vertigo, which was not because of sublime emotion but due to the

fact that my brain was merging my suddenly-sighted lazy eye with

my right workhorse. I walked around with the tester, looking like a

poor imagining of a steampunk commoner, but I was really happy.

I prepared myself for the cost of my new progressive lenses and

frame and was a little shocked when it wasn't that astronomical(compared to my bridgework, which all my descendants will need to

work to pay for, long after I quit this mortal coil). Unlike our

parents' bifocals, the progressive lenses integrate near, middle and

far distance corrections in one miraculous curve. It will require

practice to shift my eyes around but that's fine.

My diet (do not blame the lovely liempo!) and smoking (gasp! can it

be?!) SHOULD be next, but the willingness is not there. Yet. I think I

can work out the diet thing, but smoking is... what? A quality of life

issue (hahaha)? Overwrought overextended teenage rebellion? A

writer's crutch? intellectually, I know it's horrible for me but part of

me says "too bad, then" even as my cells, perhaps inevitably, form

into the letter "C".

We'll see. (Or is it "Will C?")

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fully booked awards


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1st - "A Kind of Flotsam" - Christelle Rhodamae Mariano

2nd - "Filipina: The Super Maid" - Irene Carolina Sarmiento

3rd (tie) - "Cherry Clubbing" - Kenneth Yu

3rd (tie) - "Remembrance" - me :)

Video from Tania.


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the abyss that is pet society..

...is what has swallowed my writing time. Yup, I'm blaming Facebook

for not blogging haha.

But not all of my time is spent at the trading forums looking for new

furniture for my pet - I'm actually working on a couple of stories for

the new collection (he says, defensively).

On the publishing front, I have a number of stories available in

anthologies:

I have 3 stories in Growing Up Filipino II, edited by Cecilia


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Brainard (Palh). I'm delighted with the hardcover. I'm particularly

happy with "Something Like That", based on a sad news report of a

girl who burned to death in her bathroom.

"L'Aquilone" appears in The Apex Book of World SF, edited by

Lavie Tidhar (Apex). The response of readers and reviewers is

heartwarming.

I have "Brujita", in Exotic Gothic 3, edited by Danel Olson

(Ash-Tree Press), just hot off the presses. It's my version of a trad

ghost story, with a little politics. In a sad note, fellow contributor

Milorad Pavi passed away before the antho's release.

And "Ghosts of Wan Chai" appears in Connecting Flights, edited

by Ruey de Vera (Anvil). I tried a couple of different techniqueshere, focusing on mood and place. The book launch is this

Wednesday, National Bookstore Greenbelt at 6PM.


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For Benjie

For Benjie

I first met Benjie years ago, in Manila. He had recently arrived from

the States and had gangsta swagger around him that was

immediately interesting because beneath the tough guy was a

heart so vast in its capacity to give, a mind so powerful in its ability

to learn, and a spirit so enormous in ability to share.

We shared stories, he and I. He, about his difficult life and how he

wanted change, and how he knew it would have to be an act of will.

Together, we explored the vistas of imagination, playing characters

engaged in quests to make a difference, crafting together speculative

fiction with our other friends that provided outlets for our creative

energy.

For young people, time is of no consequence. It seems to be always

available, ever-present. And so we burned through time, racing

through the subsequent years, taking on the challenges of life with a

certain sense of glee, extending our personal geographies into literal

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had a family. And somehow, in manner of friends overconfident that

getting in touch was just a click or a cell phone call away, we

permitted the orbits of our lives to overlap less and less.

But from time to time, wed meet up. And I was amazed at how

Benjies talent had grown. He became a photographer, parlaying his

inborn visual aesthetics into captured images that moved people. He

took pictures of me that ended up in my books of fiction, in New

York newspapers, that I still use for my social networks on the

internet. His talent took him to new heights in Cebus artistic and

creative community, and he shared his abilities with many.

On the dwindling occasions that wed talk, we shared our lives

heartaches and sorrows, the challenges that older men husbands,

fathers and businessmen face. And wed be comforted by the fact

that we had each other to listen to.

And listen to him I did, for his wisdom and life experience was both

similar and dissimilar to mine. I only wish we had spoken more, that

I had gone out of my way to see him more. That I could just call him

up, right here, right now, and hear his voice, his stories, and

schedule a meet-up, a dinner. Anything, anything to see Benjie once

again.

A few days ago, Magene contacted me on Facebook and asked me to

write something for Benjie. Perturbed, I checked Benjies account

and found out that my friend, my tough-as-nails younger-than-me

friend, had a stroke and had fallen into a coma. I was shocked and

saddened, and angry and guilty, and found myself unable to write aword when I sat down to write. Part of me rebelled because I was

afraid it would sound like an eulogy, everything in past tense, like

things had ended, and I didnt want things to end.

Then I learned that he passed away.

I sat in my office and cried, uncaring about my employees looks of

surprise. Then the power went out for hours, leaving me alone with

my thoughts and memories and failed hopes. At home that night, I

started to write this when the electricity briefly returned, but after a

few words, the power died.

My friend was gone. My friend was gone.

As a writer, I often think about endings. In my discipline, endings

are constructed, fabricated to either bring closure to the story or

create a sense of lacuna, of open possibilities. Most readers prefer

happy endings, but the truth of the matter is this: pursue any story

to its ultimate end and there is only a goodbye. And we need to say

goodbye, I must say goodbye.


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The secret to a happy ending is in remembrance of a life well-lived.

It is in the recollection of joy and laughter and strength and will. It is

in the viewing of images well-planned and photographed, in

businesses well-managed and fought for, in a family much-loved and

protected and treasured.

This is the time to remember everything that Benjie achieved, in the

brief span of years he had, in lives he has touched, in the difference

that he made. These memories will soften his passage, because he

would not want sorrow but a celebration, never regret but always a

means to go forward, to fight, to find ways, to take time to appreciate

wonder and beauty. He was that kind of husband, that kind of father,

that kind of mentor, that kind of friend.

That kind of man.

Goodbye, my friend. Until we meet again.

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