SUBMISSIONS: The 50 States Project

Ballyhoo Stories is accepting story submissions with the states of California, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, West Virginia, or Wisconsin as either the subject or the setting. Stories will be published online as part of our 50 States Project. The reading period ends December 31, 2006. For full guidelines please visit our Web site.

SUBMISSIONS: Particles and Galaxies

Ballyhoo Stories is currently accepting submissions for our "Particles and Galaxies" issue. The deadline is June 30, 2007. Please visit our Web site for full guidelines.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Crossroads & Weigh Stations Available

Ballyhoo Stories Volume 2 No 1, "Crossroads & Weigh Stations," has arrived.

In "Goldene Medene" Amy Gustine tells the story of three Polish immigrants and a doctor at Ellis Island whose lives collide at the entry to the new world; in Irina Reyn's story, "Baba Yaga," an unmarried woman becomes a thing of Russian myth; a worker on the Golden Gate Bridge tries to take on work he is unprepared and unable to handle in Andrea Worth's "Swimming the Gate, 1935"; the narrator in Felicia Sullivan's "The First Abandon," recounts her failed marriage to the tourists trapped on her tour bus; in Cass Cross's "Tracks" a family conflict leads to a long journey, while the young narrator in Cathy Barber's "No Way to Go" refuses to go anywhere; a family rebels against a mother's big career move in "Absconed"; and another family comes together after years apart to discover a hidden secret in Ginnah Howard's "Amends."

You can order "Crossroads and Weigh Stations" and our upcoming "Sin and Redemption Issue" at store.ballyhoostories.com.