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Upcoming Themes

While the Lucky Thirteen Newsletter is on hiatus, we will be updating the blog with news instead.

  • On April 1, 2023, Volume 6, Issue No. 2 – FAMILIARS – will go live. We are working through submissions for this issue now.

  • On October 1, 2023, Volume 6, Issue No. 4 – MALICIOUS EDITIONS – will go live. Submissions for this themed issue are currently open and will close on 6/30/2023.

  • On August 1, 2023, submissions will open for Volume 7, Issue No. 2 – MULTIVERSES. CFS: We are looking for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction on the theme of Multiverses. Send us your work with portals, gateways, wormholes, deep space, parallel dimensions, alternate realities, and abysses of time. Submission window for this theme opens 8/1/2023 and closes 12/31/2023.

  • General submissions will be closing June 1, 2023 and will remain closed until August 1, 2023 to allow us to catch up on the queue.
  • Feedback submissions will be reopening in late 2023 to early 2024, or as soon as we are caught up on general submissions. We will post an update when the feedback submission forms are live.

Dark Is the New Light: Thank You for Your Support!

Coffin Bell is thrilled to announce that our Kickstarter was successfully funded! We owe a debt of gratitude to all who chipped in to back us, shared our Kickstarter, and offered words of support.

Meeting our fundraising goal means that we will be publishing four online issues in 2022 and publishing the print anthology Coffin Bell THREE. It allowed us to pay our business web hosting expenses as well as our submissions manager expenses.

Stay tuned for updates as we begin selecting work for THREE, and stand by for an announcement about how we are re-imagining the print anthologies we publish in the future, from Coffin Bell FOUR and onward.

Thank you all for the overwhelming show of support, and for helping us keep the nightmares alive.

 

~ Tamara Burross Grisanti, Editor-in-Chief

 

General Submissions Closed Until 6/20/2021

General submissions will be closed from 4/20/2021 through 6/20/2021 in an attempt to allow us to catch up on non-themed submissions. The rate of submissions has outpaced our ability to read them, so until June 20th we will only be accepting themed submissions.

We apologize for the long response times, and hope that this closure will aid us in catching up and reducing our response times. We appreciate your understanding, and thank you for trusting us with your work.

~ Tamara Burross Grisanti, Editor-in-Chief

Submissions opening April 1st, 2021 for “Technophobia”

Announcing the theme for Volume 4, Issue No. 4: “Technophobia.” Give us your hashtag noir, your algorithms gone awry, your disinformation dystopias, your marketing monstrosities. Got a the-universe-is-a neuron-and-we-are-merely-synapses fantasia? Send it. We want your elegiac missives to the maverick bot you Twittercided. We crave your HTML sonnets coded in paranoia. From AI gone rogue, to parallel social media universes, we want your technologies of fear. Submissions opening April 1st, and closing July 4th, 2021. Submit your darkest digital delights!