To celebrate the launch of Shades of Transition and Transformation on 3/6, our horror anthology will be FREE first 4 Mondays in Monday in March. In like a lion (Ho-roar) out like a lamb (transformed). Besides Mondays can be horrible. Mondays in March can be worse. Cheer up with some horror. Free horror Mondays in most of March! Click on the link to our Horror book: Get Shades of Horror Here

Write Volumes latest anthology: Shades of Transition and Transformation. 

  It is happening all around you.  It’s happening to you.  Do you even notice?

 Transitions and transformations are a part of life.  From childhood to adulthood, from day to seasons, from the new to experienced, transitions can be subtle or life altering.  Yet they are constant if we look.

The stories in this anthology are a celebration of transitions and transformations.  The situation or lesson which inspires, forces, conspires, or demands.  Basically, anything which inflicts or releases movement from within.  The causes may be universal, while the effects are personal.  These stories show the harbingers and potential aftermaths of these adventures in the various ways they color our perceptions… in their many shades.

 What comes next?  

                      You won’t know any of the shades until you transition to the book…

So take a leap on this day to Write Volumes Shades of Transition and Transformation.

Click on the link for the Transition book:  Get Shades of Transitions Here

Mondays can be scary so might as well read horror!
Thanks to everyone who agreed today and made Shades of Horror and Strangeness:

• #2 in Horror Anthologies (Kindle Store)
• #2 in Short Story Anthologies & Collections
• #1 in African American Horror Fiction (Kindle Store)

Write Volumes Anthology Launch Party: Meet + Mingle with the authors 

Saturday, October 26, 2019   3 – 5pm

Next Door Café blue + red room (659 W Diversey Pkwy, Chicago, IL 60657)

For more info: Launch Party

15 writers, 15 stories, 15 tales of terror – with some Live excerpt readings. Come if you dare…

Join Write Volumes in celebrating the launch of their debut anthology: Shades of Horror and Strangeness. On sale on Amazon NOW! Special: It will be FREE to "buy" and download from Amazon on launch party day (10/26).

A dab of fear, a dash of dread, mix with authors and readers then sprinkle some screams, and what you get is a scarily fun pre-Halloween treat.

The link for the book: Shades of Horror and Strangeness

Scary good news: thanks to all of you, Shades of Horror and Strangeness is the #1 new release in African American Horror!

Write Volumes Debut Anthology on sale on Amazon NOW!

15 writers, 15 stories, 15 tales of terror 

Read if you dare… 

She is overcome by a sensation in the pit of her stomach, an ominous and unnerving feeling brought about by the presence of the figure. She attempts to look away but finds that her eyes are unwillingly fixated. -  SEEN

The beam of the light reflected over scaly skin with a translucent glow. Round, black, lidless disks stared at me from eye sockets on a face without a nose. - SIREN

She wasn’t afraid of this stranger who appeared to be waiting for her.- SHADES OF LOVE

People pressed in on him from all sides. Before long, the crowd carried him about like a stranded raft helpless against the ocean wave. - NOT LIKE THEM 

But what troubled Yasmine was their silence. All of them, silent. - LUCKY

 Children are taught there is nothing to fear there, but adults recognize the lie, the white lie, about the dark: it is a mixture of the fear of the unknown with the fear of the known. - INTO THE DARK

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Our debut Anthology is almost ready.  This is no "trick", behind the scenes we have been preparing this special "treat" for you.  

ATTENTION WRITERS:

Write Volumes is currently accepting quality submissions for its three debut anthologies that will be published in late 2019. Seeking fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction between 500-6000 words.

1) Horror and Strange Tales

2) Chicago (reflect on the city, expats exploring)

3) Transition and Transformation (moving, college, job, Sci-Fi, makeover, masks, apocalypse, ocean in the sky)

All of our anthologies take place from an American identity perspective. How you view American identity is up to you. You can tell a story from your heritage, or some strange tale that happened to you in America based on your gender, ethnicity, something unique to you and how that conflicts, bridges, or harmonizes with American identity. 

Please provide a 2-3 sentence synopsis at the beginning of your piece.

No simultaneous submissions unless you retain the copyright.

Email as a Word document to: writevolumes@gmail.com

No entry fees

Payment: one contributor copy

Deadline July 15, 2019.