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World Wildlife Day — An Interview with Marissa van Uden
Today is World Wildlife Day, celebrated on March 3rd to raise awareness of the world’s wildlife and the importance of protecting it. In solidarity with this holiday, we at Apex have an interview with Marissa van Uden, the editor of Violet Lichen Books, about the upcoming anthology, ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction, coming this November. ____
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ECO24: Submissions Window Extended
The ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction submissions window has been extended! We’ve received more than 150 stories nominated by publishers, editors, and authors so far, and the range of stories, ideas, and perspectives has been so wonderful to read. As this is our first year of the anthology and our launch happened so quickly,
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Acquisition announcement
Violet Lichen Books is thrilled to announce the acquisition of The Cellar Below the Cellar by Ivy Grimes, a delightfully weird and surreal coming-of-age, folk-horror novella inspired by the legend of Alpine winter witch Frau Perchta and the Russian fairy tale “Vasilisa the Beautiful.” When Jane finds herself isolated in a small village in the
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ECO24: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction
Violet Lichen is proud to announce the launch of a new annual anthology, ECO: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction, edited by Marissa van Uden. This anthology showcases some of the most vivid, thought-provoking, and emotionally affecting ecofiction published in the previous calendar year. Speculative ecofiction is defined as stories that explore our place in the
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Violet Lichen open to novella queries
It has been a truly wonderful few months reading all of the delightfully weird, creepy, and imaginative queries we received this summer. Almost all queries from our initial opening have been responded to. If I requested a full manuscript from you and you still haven’t heard back, your novella is still in consideration! Our mid-winter
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First Query Window
Our very first query window opens from July 1 to July 14! If you have a novella of 20-40K words that might fit our guidelines, please do consider submitting it during this period. As a reminder, the sub-genres I am looking for are Weird Fiction, New Weird, Eco-Speculative Fiction, Folk Horror, Surreal Fiction, and Literary
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