Announcing Rhonda Parrish's Magical Menageries #5: Equus

So much big news about the Magical Menageries Anthology series:

1) We're announcing the newest installment, EQUUS, open for submissions in September 2016.

2) FAE, the first in the anthology series, is on sale for $0.99 at all major retailers (and that means $0.99 Canadian as well!) until May 19, 2016

3) SIRENS, the fourth in the anthology series, is available for pre-order now.

Anthology Title: Equus
Anthologist: Rhonda Parrish
Series: Rhonda Parrish's Magical Menageries
Open for Submissions: September 1 to November 30, 2016
Expected Publication: Summer 2017
Story Length: Under 7,500 words
Compensation: $10 + contributor copy

Horses are represented in mythology and folklore from Paleolithic right up to modern times. What is it about these magnificent creatures that fascinates us and captures our hearts? Is it their intelligence, their power, their beauty, or something else that draw us to them? That is just one of the questions we’re going to explore in Equus.

I will be looking for stories about every kind of horse from the earthly to the mythological and though I’ll be placing a special emphasis on horses, unicorns and pegasi, every kind of magical equine is welcome (and really, aren’t they all magical?). Stories with a strong sense of place will have an advantage, as will those which explore the connection (for better or for worse) between equines and humans.
 
Rights and compensation: Payment: $10 and a paperback copy of the anthology from World Weaver Press. We are looking for previously unpublished works in English. Seeking first world rights in English and exclusive right to publish in print and electronic format for six months after publication date, after which publisher retains nonexclusive right to continue to publish for the life of the anthology.
 
Publisher: World Weaver Press
 
Anthologist: Rhonda Parrish
 
Open submission period: September 1st - November 30, 2016
 
Length: Under 7,500 words
 
Submission method: Email story as a .doc or .rtf attachment to fae [at] worldweaverpress [dot] com. Subject line: Equus Submission: TITLE

Simultaneous submissions = okay. Multiple submissions = no.
 
Expected Publication Date: Summer 2017
 
About the Anthologist: Rhonda Parrish is driven by a desire to do All The Things. She founded and ran Niteblade Magazine, is an Assistant Editor at World Weaver Press and is the editor of several anthologies including, most recently, Sirens and C is for Chimera. In addition, Rhonda is a writer whose work has been in publications such as Tesseracts 17: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast, Imaginarium: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing (2012 & 2015) and Mythic Delirium. Her website, updated weekly, is at http://www.rhondaparrish.com

Check Out the Rest of the Magical Menageries

On sale for $0.99 from May 12 to May 19, 2016 through Amazon, Kobo, iTunes, Barnes and Noble, OmniLit, and World Weaver Press.

“Smart and dark like the corvids themselves, this excellent collection of stories and poems will bring you a murder of chills, a tiding of intrigue, a band of the fantastic, and—most of all—an unkindness of sleepy mornings after you've stayed up too late reading it!” — Karen Dudley, author of Kraken Bake

Available for pre-order now! Release date: July 12 Featuring stories by Kelly Sandoval, Amanda Kespohl, L.S. Johnson, Pat Flewwelling, Gabriel F. Cuellar, Randall G. Arnold, Michael Leonberger, V. F. LeSann, Tamsin Showbrook, Simon Kewin, Cat McDonald, Sandra Wickham, K.T. Ivanrest, Adam L. Bealby, Eliza Chan, and Tabitha Lord

“Rhonda Parrish has assembled a stellar collection that runs the gamut of Urban Fantasy to Weird Fiction. Easily the most consistently satisfying anthology I've read in years.” — K.L. Young, Executive Editor, Strange Aeons Magazine