Submission Guidelines
At this time, we are no longer accepting submissions for Borderlands 6. Please continue to watch this space for upcoming announcements about future volumes in this series.
"Borderlands is a non-themed anthology
which carries on the tradition and high standards established by the
first four volumes in this series. It is the intention of the editors
to publish new, original, short fiction which pushes the limits of what
is being done in darkly imaginative fiction. If you are published in
Borderlands you will be part of the expedition to open the gates to new
literary territory, and you will help scorch a path through the jagged
landscape of the imagination unbound … and
all those other neat metaphors.
You don’t need to read a Borderlands story
on a stormy dark night, with glowing embers banked in the fire place, and a dark
wind howling across the moors. The stories we want can be read under the clear
light of day and pure reason and they will still knock you around and put a new
rhythm in your head. Which means: we are not looking for any of the traditional
bug-bears and boogeymen. No ghosts or vampires need apply. No zombies, no werewolves,
no mummies, succubi, or Hitchcockian spouses with plans to do in their mates.
In other words we don’t want stories employing
any of the tired old symbols which have defined the genre for far too long.
Having said all that, it would probably be a good
idea to sample some previous volumes before submitting your fiction to us.
We receive an absurd number of submissions
from writers who have obviously not read any previous
of the Borderlands Anthology series, or even the few lines of our market
report and guidelines.
We do NOT want any stories of high, heroic,
or classic fantasy, serial killers, ghost stories, serial killers, vampires,
serial killers, or serial killers.
Writers who send us stories which have obviously been making the rounds are insulting us and demeaning themselves. Please refrain from doing this.
