author guidelines: short story anthologies
At Mirari Press, we celebrate bold voices and boundary-pushing tales. Our short story anthologies bring together exceptional speculative fiction, showcasing writers from around the world. Below, you'll find the key terms and conditions for authors who choose to publish with us—designed to be clear, fair, and respectful of your creative rights.
our anthology guidelines
Each selected author will receive a full publishing agreement. The items listed below are what we consider to be the couple of questions that any prospective author would want answered the most.
money
Let's get to it. We offer 15% royalty on all print sales, and 50% royalty on all eBook sales. This is split between all selected authors. So if an anthology has 5 authors, each author will receive 3% on print sales, and 10% on eBook sales. We calculate royalties on print books after tax (where applicable) and on eBooks after distribution costs.
rights
We acquire worldwide rights to publish your story in our anthology. We ask for exclusive rights to publish your story for one year. After that year, you can publish your story anywhere you like, and we can still include it in our anthology.
For short stories we do not seek any rights other than print and eBook publication in English.
the work
We do not consider submissions that have previously been published, even just as a blog post.
We do not consider fan fiction.
Each anthology has a specific theme and submission requirements - keep an eye out for announcements.