Gentlefolk, start your submissions.

Flytrap, the little zine with teeth will be open to submissions for issue #6 (which should appear in November 2006) from March 15 through April 30.

Fiction: I will consider work up to 5,000 words (query for longer, but don't let it hurt your feelings if I say no). Any form, any style, any genre welcome; cross-genre and experimental work especially appreciated. I consider vignettes, fantasias, and hallucinagenia in addition to more traditional narrative approaches. Surprise me, or delight me, or both. Straightforward porn and conventional horror are unlikely to find a home here, but otherwise, I'm happy to consider pretty much anything. Send stories to Tim Pratt at tim@tropismpress.com. If you can't submit by e-mail, drop me a note (by, um, e-mail, so I don't expect this to be a common problem), and we'll work something out. (We're currently between PO Boxes.)

Non-Fiction: 5,000 words maximum, shorter is better. We like memoirs, rants, essays, creative nonfiction, and etc. Send to Heather Shaw at heather@tropismpress.com.

Poetry: We are not open to poetry submissions for issue #6. We're having a featured poet instead. But you might be able to slip a prose poem past the fiction editor.

Multiple submissions are okay, within reason (that is, sending two pieces won't annoy us too much, but sending three probably will). No simultaneous submissions.

Deadline: We open March 15, 2006, and close April 30, 2006.

Payment: We pay $10 per piece, on publication, and a couple of copies. It's a small-press world out there; we just live in it.

Response times: Query if you haven't heard from us by the end of June.

Address correspondence to Tim Pratt at tim@tropismpress.com or Heather Shaw at heather@tropismpress.com.