WE SALUTE YOU!
Hello! Are you a writer with a great story to submit? If so, then S.A.V.A. Press wants to hear from you. Read the following submission guidelines very closely, then decide if S.A.V.A. Press would be a good fit for your work. Be sure to check our blog to see when our submission windows will be. Anything submitted outside of those windows will not be accepted.
What We’re Looking For
S.A.V.A. Press is a multi-genre publisher. We like
literary, character-driven stories that are rich in both context and subtext,
and stick with the reader long afterwards. We like experimental work—especially
work that straddles more than one genre—and we believe that the best art tends
to be a bit dark and disturbing. Basically, if it’s well-written, and it’s
within our parameters of acceptable work, you have a shot at getting published
with us.
Read on for more specific information, and check out this video:
Genres we publish include:
-Literature (No speculative elements; the classic
“extraordinary people in ordinary situations” story.)
-Horror (Psychological, supernatural, ghosts, monsters,
etc.)
-Science Fiction (Hard, soft…and if you’re not
familiar with those distinctions, you probably shouldn’t be writing SF.)
-Speculative Fiction (Twilight Zone-style tales of
strangeness and wonder, or anything weird that can’t be described as strictly
horror or science fiction.)
-Mystery/Suspense (Detective, noir, modern, hi-tech…as
long as it’s tense and/or chilling.)
-Crime Fiction (Get down and dirty.)
-Humor (Whatever it is, it better make us LOL.)
S.A.V.A. Press doesn’t accept the
following genres:
-Poetry (Nothing wrong with it, but there’s plenty of poetry
journals out there.)
-Historical Fiction (Seriously, we don’t care about
someone’s idea of what Napoleon was up to in his spare time.)
-Teen Fiction (There can be teenagers and/or children
protagonists in your story, but the writing has to be more challenging than
young adult level. Basically, we’re more into The Shining than The
Hunger Games.)
-Romance (We’re not savages. There can be romance in
your story, but there’d better be some interesting characters and/or situations
to go with it.)
-Erotica (We’re not prudes. There can be sex in your
story, there just has to be a plot, too.)
-Propaganda (Any work where the “message” trumps the
actual story. Good writers can make their point without beating their readers
over the head with it.)
-Fan Fiction (That’s what Archive Of Our Own is for.)
Word Count? Reprints? Anything Else?
Any work up to 10K words within the preceding
parameters is acceptable. Please make sure that it’s polished and as typo-free
as possible. Excessive typos will disqualify your work. We do accept reprints,
just be sure to mention where the story was originally published in your cover
letter.
Please only submit one story per quarter.
Simultaneous submissions are fine. Just let us know in your cover letter that the story has also been submitted elsewhere.
How To Submit
Email your story to S.A.V.A. Press at editor.savapress@gmail.com
Please follow these instructions:
-The subject line should be Story Title/Genre(s)/Author
Name (Ex. The Black Cat/Horror-Mystery/Edgar Allan Poe.)
-Include a brief cover letter introducing yourself and
describing the plot of your story. No need to get too creative here; just tell
us what your story’s about, how it ends, and the word count. Tell us where it’s
been published before in the case of reprints. Your cover letter can begin
“Hello,” for brevity.
-Copy/paste your story into the body of the email. No attachments,
please. Thank you.
-Times-New Roman, 12 pt. font, single-spaced paragraphs, double-spaced between paragraphs.
Then What?
After you’ve submitted your story, there will
naturally be a wait time. We will try to make it as short as possible. If your
story is accepted, we will email you with further instructions. Rather than
sending out those dreaded rejection emails, we will instead post an
announcement on our blog with the accepted authors/stories for that submission
period.
In certain circumstances, we may contact you with a
rejection email that encourages you to keep submitting, or maybe even with a
suggestion for a more appropriate site for you to submit your story to. We
believe in helping authors and fellow publishers along, and not just being out
for ourselves.
We may also contact you with an acceptance email that
suggests edits or changes to your story. We will keep this to a minimum, but we
believe that publishing should be a collaborative process.
And Then…?
Unfortunately, S.A.V.A. Press is unable to offer
payment for work at this time—BUT WE SINCERELY HOPE TO BE ABLE TO IN THE
FUTURE. We truly believe that authors should get paid for their work, not
only when it’s first published, but every time it’s published thereafter.
Okay, so since we can’t pay you, what do you get
besides being published on our site? Well, we offer a very aggressive
promotional package for our writers. Links to your story will be shared on all
of our social media sites. Our Editor-In-Chief, Jesse, will introduce your
story via video, and if you like, we’ll feature you in an “author spotlight”
video in which Jesse will introduce you to the S.A.V.A. Press audience and
promote your author sites, blogs, and/or other works. All promotional links
will be emailed to you so that you can share them far and wide.
Here at S.A.V.A. Press, we truly want our authors to
be successful, and we’ll work hard to help them along. Our goal is to create a
bond of loyalty with our writers, who will in turn promote us and direct other
authors our way.
Remember: we’re all in this together!
That’s all for now. Be sure to check back for any
updates to the above information.
Thanks for reading, and good luck.