Looking for Lurid Writers

Submissions are now closed until further notice.

From the beginning of this blog I’ve had hopes of featuring original fiction, so please consider this an open call for submissions. Submission guidelines pay scale, and general info are below so if interested keep reading.

What we want: As the name of this website implies, we are looking for lurid literature. This doesn’t mean hardcore pornography, although a scene or two isn’t a necessarily bad thing.

Subjects that will be consider: Sleaze, Hardcore Horror, Bikers, Women in Prison, Juvenile Delinquency, Drugs, Blaxploitation, and Grind House Lit.
Subjects like Crime and Comedy are fine as long as they contain exploitative elements.
Also looking for original Non Fiction on subjects like pulp fiction, sleazy paperbacks, horror comics, ect.

What we don’t want: Anything involving sex and minors, or animals for that matter!

Length and pay:
Flash Fiction, 300 to 1,000 words $5
Short Story, 1,000 to 4,000 words $20
Non Fiction, 1,000 to 4,000 words $20
All payments will be made through Paypal.

General info:
No Reprints please. No multiple submissions, if we turn one down then you can send in a new one for us to view. Please submit work in a 97-2000 word doc, do not copy and paste story in the body of the email. Not knowing sucks, that’s why I’ll personally respond to everyone’s submissions. Please allow up to six weeks to be notified yes or no. By submitting a piece to us you agree to let us display your story on this website, and release it in our new lit journal. Send all submissions to chris [at] luridlit.com

Update

Here are some questions and answers to better clarify the submission process.

1) In this statement: "By submitting a piece to us you agree to let us display your story on this website, and release it in our new lit journal." Does you mean by submitting a work, authors are giving you permission to use their work on the blog and in the journal? In other words, you have the right to use the work in two separate venues before contract and payment. Is that correct?
Answer: We will not post or publish anything unless a contract is signed first and payment is delivered. We reserve the right to use it for the webzine and/or the print journal (see #3).

2) Is your "new lit journal" a website or a print journal?
Answer: We will post smaller pieces on the website and collect longer pieces for a new printed literary journal. Again nothing will be posted or printed until a contract has been signed and money has been transferred.

3) Are fees stated for the blog, or for the journal, or for both? In other words, one fee for double use of the work?
Answer: All writers will be paid once for their work to be posted digitally and/or if chosen once for their work to be printed.

4) What rights do you require? i.e., digital rights for two years, or other rights.
Answer: We hold non exclusive digital rights to post/display/archive pieces for as long as we choose, the writer has the choice to publish or sale the piece to anyone they choose after the initial posting. We hold the non exclusive right to print publish the writing one time, if we want to publish the piece again a new contract will be drawn. The writer has the choice to publish or sale the piece to anyone they choose after the initial publishing.