Submission Guidelines

We are looking for fiction of any length, and short “non-fiction” articles that explain an aspect of the society, history or world of New Ceres. We anticipate that the contents of the first several issues will be a combination of solicited and unsolicited works.

Submissions will be open to writers in any genre. The only proviso here is that your work must exist within the context and reality of the world. We are equally happy to see swords at sunset, romance, space opera, humour, social comedy, horror …there are as many variants as there are writers.

You can pick up characters already within or create new ones. You can have entire storylines within a corner of this world that is your own. You can write in any genre (almost - we do not pay for anything that cannot be viewed by a general audience).

No erotica or excessive violence. You can use themes that have already partly been explored, just as long as your story is well told and does not copy what is already there. Just make your story your own - we do not want stories that simply copy the life histories of characters already in our world. Given the recent history of New Ceres, there is a high likelihood that lots of people from Earth would end up there, out of necessity. And not only from Earth. New Ceres has *so* many possibilities. Explore them.

If you are submitting an unsolicited work, please take the time to read Issue 1 of New Ceres in great detail. Also explore the worldbuilding details available from the New Ceres website. Substantial aspects of New Ceres will be left unfixed to allow our writers to add their own original touches, but it’s important that your story not contradict anything that has already been set in stone.

We are currently closed to submissions but will re-open in mid-2009.

Unsolicited stories during the reading period should be formatted to standard manuscript guidelines and sent as an .rtf to ceressubs@gmail.com . All unsolicited stories received outside the reading period will be deleted unread.

1. The shared world of New Ceres (and surrounding system) [hereafter referred to as SWNC] is copyrighted under Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia, some rights reserved.

2. SWNC includes all “canon” information about the world, characters and history of New Ceres (and surrounding system) contained within the New Ceres webzine and New Ceres wikipedia (designated areas of website, specifically excluding discussion forum)

3. The writers and artists who contribute their works to New Ceres retain the copyrights to their individual works of art or writing, and must be approached individually for permission to reprint or otherwise use these works.

4. The standard contract for the New Ceres webzine requires all writers to release the original characters, worldbuilding details and history contained within their individual works into the SWNC, for common use.

5. Anyone may set their own artistic creations in SWNC (including but not exclusive to writing, visual artwork, games, merchandise, webpages, films) and distribute these in any way they wish, provided that they are not distributed for profit, under the Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia licence.

6. Anyone who wishes to set their own artistic creations in SWNC (including but not exclusive to writing, visual artwork, games, merchandise, webpages, films) that will be distributed for commercial purposes, must first gain permission from the New Ceres Executive Board (query email address provided). Depending on the nature of the proposed project and the intent behind its intended distribution, the New Ceres Executive Board may require a licensing fee, royalty agreement or other condition before providing their permission.

7. Full details of Creative Commons license Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia available here:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/

New Ceres by Twelfth Planet Press is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License.
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