Theme this year: FLYING Deadline August 15, 2025
The theme is flying
(Or any iteration thereof, like fly or flight, flying by humans or birds, insects, or even UFOs.)
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Submission Guidelines for 2025 Bay Area Writers League Anthology
What to Submit: Submit your best unpublished and edited story, essay, flash fiction, or poem following the theme of flight or using the word fly (any meaning of fly, flight, or flying) somewhere in the work. You may submit more than one poem, story, or essay for your entry fee.
Deadline: August 15, 2025, at midnight.
Payment: $20 for Bay Area Writers League members, $40 for non-members. (Non-members receive a year’s membership as part of their payment. This is for brand new members only.)
How to Submit: Click Here to pay the fee. Then send your submissions, formatted as per the guidelines below, to BAWLanthology@gmail.com.
Formatting Guidelines for each item submitted:
You may submit up to four pieces of writing in any combination of flash fiction, essay, short story, or poems. Additional pieces require additional payment.)
Length: No more than 1,500 words for flash fiction. Stories or essays up to 4500 words, up to 50 lines per poem.
Two separate MS Word documents per submission:
1) Cover Page,
2) Item being Submitted (without your name)
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- One (1) inch margins all around
- Double-spaced
- Times New Roman (12-pt font)
- Page numbers, top
- Cover page with:
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- Author’s Name and contact information
- Titles of Work
- Types of Work (Poetry or short stories or essays or flash fiction)
- Word count (not including the title.)
Submissions that are extremely sexual or violent will be returned to you as unacceptable. All work will be edited and returned to you for your acceptance or rejection of changes. Submission entitles the Bay Area Writers League, Inc. to first-time publication rights only: online and in print.
