Anthology Submission Rules

Tip! If you don’t grab us within the first paragraph, it's likely we won’t even read the rest.​ We get a high volume of submissions so do everything you can to wow us right out of the gate.

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​​Submission Guidelines (MUST READ):

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Not a requirement, but the most important thing to note: Please polish your entry as much as you can before submitting it. Get beta readers; have others read and critique it; get an editor if you can. If you don't love your entry, chances are, we won't either. Entries that require much developmental and major line editing are unlikely to be considered.

 

FAILURE TO FOLLOW THESE GUIDELINES WILL AUTOMATICALLY DISQUALIFY YOUR ENTRY FROM ACCEPTANCE. NON-COMPLIANT ENTRIES WILL NOT BE READ.

 

• The title of your submission must go in the name of the document, with the name you want to publish under (your name). For example: Story Title-Author Name

• In the document, put only the title of your story, the category it falls under (if the anthology has categories), genre, if it’s been previously published, and the word count. All five elements must be included. Do not put this in the document's header, so it shows up on every page. It should only appear once at the beginning of the document. 

• Times New Roman, Double Spaced, each new paragraph indented. (Poems don't need to be double spaced or indented.)

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• You may submit with either Google Docs or Word. Submitting through another format will not be accepted. All accepted entries will be edited on Google Docs only as this is the best format to allow our authors and editors to collaborate. 

• All entries need to be submitted with EDITOR turned on. PDFs cannot be accepted. We need to have access to edit the actual document, so we can adjust formatting if needed for reading. Entries sent as "view only," "comment only," or "suggest only" will not be accepted. (We will not change anything in your document, other than potentially formatting.)

• For anthologies with categories, your entry needs to fit into one of the categories clearly. Entries that border on more than one category will not be accepted. 

• All entries must be clean (see each anthology for more details on this.) Our general definition of clean: no sexual content. It may be implied, but do not show it on the page. Keep swearing minimal. (Minimal swearing is fine, especially if your character would swear, and we will address any swearing we think is too much in the editing process, so this won’t disqualify you.) Violence is fine as long as it’s not gratuitous or unnecessarily graphic.

• ​You can enter as many submissions as you want. No limit. ​

• Unless otherwise stated, stories/poems that have been previously published are fine to submit, although unpublished stories will be prioritized when deciding which stories get accepted. There will be a contract locking in your rights and our right to publish if you're accepted. Authors will retain full rights to their stories to publish again in the future.

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Accepted pieces will be thoroughly edited before publishing. Twenty Hills Publishing will not publish your work until we believe it is fully edited and up to our standards. Authors who are unwilling to have their work fully edited will not be published.

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Not all entries will be accepted, but send them all!!! We love reading your submissions, and we are so excited to see what you come up with.  

 

If you have any questions, please go back and read the guidelines again first. Chances are, the answer is here. If you still can’t find it, email any questions to twentyhillspublishing@gmail.com. Please do not contact us elsewhere to ask questions. Thank you.

 

​Thank you in advance for your stories and poems. It is you, the authors and poets, who make these anthologies possible and bring these projects to life!

 

Happy Writing!