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Winter Splinter. ​Each day through the end of the year, we'll publish season-themed works by writers from around the world:

November 28 Jill Hand

November 29 Tulip Chowdbury

November 30 Peter Newall

December 1 Bill Nevins

December 2 Priscelle Nyeck

December 3 Martha Ellen

December 4 Sara Etgen-Baker

December 5 Olivia Arieti

December 6 E.C. Traganas

December 7 Nicki Nance

December 8 Rosemary McCauley

December 9 Christine Law

December 10 Kristen Roedell

December 11 Gabriela Vannier

December 12 Han Chau

December 13 Duane Anderson

December 14 Annie Huckabee

December 15 Gabrielle Vasquez

December 16 Christian Garduno

December 17 Patricia McCue

December 18 Dustin Hackfield

December 19 R.A. Daunton

December 20 Carol Mays

December 21 William Mays

December 22 Matt Rosas

December 23 David Carpenter

December 24 Tom Murphy

December 25 Faith Rosas

December 26 Joseph Wilson

December 27 Michael Magistro

December 28 Cary Tucker

December 29 Rebecca De La Garza

Speculative Fiction Event

Winter Splinter

Spring Fling Guidelines Available January 1, 2025

Mystery Twistery Guidelines Available April 1, 2025

Speculative Fiction Event - 2 Guidelines Available August 1, 2025

Corpus Christi Writers series

Winter Splinter

 

Call for Submissions

We've received an overwhelming response from people all over the world. To be considered for inclusion in the book versions of Winter Splinter, please submit by December 10, 2024 via email to MaysPublishing@Yahoo.com. Send submission as an attached Word document and put "Winter Splinter" in the subject line. We will honor our the original deadline of December 31 and consider those submissions for inclusion on our website.

Winter Splinter is open to anyone, anywhere in the world. This web-based anthology will feature poems and stories about winter. There are numerous cultural and religious holidays during winter. These include Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanza. We welcome human stories and poems set against the background of ANY tradition.

We also welcome stories about the weather: cold in the northern hemisphere and hot in the southern hemisphere. A short story about going to beach in Sydney, Australia on Christmas Day would be interesting.

Additionally, we welcome stories that have nothing to do with weather or holidays but occur during winter.

We love edgy short fiction or poetry.

 

Also, we have room in the book for original art and photography.

Length

We want short pieces  from 1 - 5 pages in length. We have received longer submissions and may include them in the book versions, but at this stage, it's challenging to find room for them. 

 

Web-based

This is a web-based anthology. The works will appear on MaysPublishing.com starting on Thanksgiving Day, November 28. Contributors to the book will receive a complimentary e-book copy.

Art and Video

We welcome original art and photography that fits with the theme. At this moment, we are looking for winter cityscapes, but are open to suggestions. We welcome writers recording videos of themselves reading. Any videos would be included in the Kindle versions and may be included in the print version via QR code. Videos are time-consuming to deal with, so please get those to us by early December. Please contact us for instructions on video before submitting them.

How to Submit

We switched web platforms and are having email issues. Please send submissions to MaysPublishing@Yahoo.com as attached Word documents. Alternately, use the contact form on the bottom of the page for more information​.

Submission Deadline

​The submission deadline is December 31 to be considered for publishing on MaysPublishing.com. To be considered for the print and e-book versions, please submit by December 10.

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Speculative Fiction "Event"

Speculative Fiction "Event," THE BOOK, is now available. It includes writers from Shanghai, Australia, and Scotland as well as from around the USA. Who's in the book?

 Lou Ella Hickman

Jimmy Willden

Cary Tucker

Daniel Muniz

Juan Perez

Michael Latella

David Carpenter

Mandy Ashcraft

H.L. Dowless

Kristopher Cisneros

Gale Acuff

John Grey

Alisa Hope Wagner 

William Mays

Carol Mays

Ricky Ginsburg

R.A. Daunton

Joel Ortiz

Kenneth Moore

Philip Hsu

Miguel Rodriguez

Charles Etheridge

Jeffrey Janko

John Adcock

Vaughn Westheimer

Annie Huckabee


 

The Speculative Fiction "Event" is (was) a web-based event. New writing (poetry and prose) was posted every day during the month of October on  MaysPublishing.com. 

On October 17, 2024, there was an OPEN MIC at the Art Museum of South Texas. 

The e-book version contains bonus content, including links to videos.

Partial list of contributors:

Event Day 1  Philip Hsu

Event Day 2 Annie Huckabee

Event Day 3 Juan Perez

Event Day 4 Michael Latella

Event Day 5 Sister Lou Ella Hickman

Event Day 6 John Grey

Event Day 7 Jon Adcock

Event Day 8 Carol Mays

Event Day 9 William Mays

Event Day 10 Vaughn Westheimer

Event Day 11 Miguel Rodriguez

Event Dy 12 Cary Tucker

Event Day 13 Jimmy Willden

Event Day 14 H.L. Dowless

Event Day 15 Charles Etheridge

Event Day 16 Joel Ortiz

Event Day 17 Mandy Ashcraft

Event Day 18 David Carpenter

Event Day 19 Kristopher Cisneros

Event Day 20 Gale Acuff

Event Day 21 R. A. Daunton

Event Day 22 Kenneth Moore

Event Day 23 Matthew Spence

Event Day 24 Ricky Ginsburg

Event Day 25 Alisa Hope Wagner

Event Day 26 D, Weiss

Event Day 27 Abrar Ahmad

Event Day 28 William Mays

Event Day 29 Video excerpts

Event Day 30 Creepy

Event Day 31 Cameron Hoormann

See the Videos

We received submissions from people around the world. While they couldn't attend the "Event," many of them sent videos. Here they are (including those from Corpus Christi):

R.A. Daunton from Scotland

Philip Hsu from Shangai

John Grey from Australia

Michael Latella from Ohio

Juan Perez

Mandy Ashcraft

Carol Mays

William Mays

Chris Ambriz

More on the "Event"

The "Event" WAS OPEN for submissions until September 30. We received submissions from all over the world. Email inquiries to books@mayspublishing.com.

Chris Ambriz

We were excited to screen "Nosebleed" by local filmmaker, Chris Ambriz, at the Art Museum of South Texas on October 17. He directs horror movies.  While "Nosebleed" is not a horror movie, it's about the horrors that sometimes await us at the movie theater.

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The Corpus Christi Writers Series series was published from 2018 - 2023

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