Great guidelines, David & Susan! One question, though -- do you really mean that the shorter the work is, the more you're paying for it? I mean, I really love that idea (rewarding the concise) but I wanted to make sure it's not a typo.

Hats off to this great idea!

Love the inversely proportional relation between story length and pay rate. Actually, maybe you could consider paying 250 dollars for one single flash-epic (although it would probably result in a deluge of one-page submissions).

Will try my damnedest.

Best. Guidelines. Ever!

Congratulations on your lively and inspiring description/guidelines! Beautifully done. That should bring in a lot of creative attempts to guess at what the antho is supposed to be, which will shape what it ends up being. Can't wait to find out.

(And do read the Henry IVs sometime, they're yummy.)

Thanks, all!

Yes, Heather, we’re serious. I mean, we’re frivolous, but we are paying those rates. Anyone can write an epic in over 10,000 words. :)

As Jim van Pelt noted at World Fantasy, it’s things like haiku that are going to get the best per-word rate.