Editor Paula Guran announces that she is now reading for the 2011 edition of her new year’s best anthology series, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror (which is being published by Prime Books). She’s looking for material published during the calendar year 2010.
Guran writes “I am looking for stories of dark fantasy—they might be simply unsettling or perhaps eerie. Dark fantasy can be revelatory or baffling. It can be simply a story or a small glimpse of life seen ‘through a glass, darkly.’ Or, in more literary terms (all of which are debatable) it might be any number of things: weird fiction (new or old), supernatural fiction, magical realism, surrealism, the fantastique, or the ever-ambiguous horror fiction (which need not have a supernatural element but can crossover into other genres).”
For a better idea of what makes her cut, see the contents list for the first volume in her series, which we published in this article.
She speaks specifically to writers, saying “Please ask the publisher of your collection or of periodicals and/or anthologies you appear in to send me copies of their publications. Please do not send me your individual stories unless I request such from you.”
To publishers, she notes that she prefers e-mail submissions of pdfs, rather than hard copies. Guran can be reached at darkecho at darkecho dot com.
Her deadline to receive stories published in 2010 is 1 April 2011.