Each year, during the Inked anthology open call, we also host a contest, run by our judges. Our judges read every story, grading it on a multitude of different criteria such as style, hook, theme, and pacing. Together, the judges decide the best fit for our collection. All entries are anonymous, meaning the judges are […]
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2022 Anthology Open Call This new open call is one that is very special to us here at Inked. The past 10 months have felt like 30 years, and it seems in many ways we are going backwards instead of making progress. So this time, we’re going to grab a spot on the stage, demand
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Sometimes you read a story that resonates so much with your experiences that you wonder when the author was in your head writing your thoughts on their pages for you to read. Trey Stone’s At The Gate, was something I read in a single sitting that, upon finishing, immediately had to go back and read
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This debut novel by author Heather Levy, is chock full of gray areas that authors can tend to shy from for teen protags such as abuse, sexual awakenings, and crime. It tells the story of Sam Mayfair, a young woman struggling to cope with trauma and the murder of her abuser. The death of the
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The concept of allowing readers to achieve catharsis by sharing in the intense emotions of characters goes back at least to ancient Greece. If you’ve ever cried with a character in a work of fiction, you know how powerful and healing it can be. It’s one of the most effective ways to bond a reader
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Inked is proud to announce that we’ve acquired Frank L Tybush V’s sci fi punk novel One Night Only! Live at the Inter-Universe Space Station! It’s Planet Claire! and their epic fantasy novel Dawn of the Betrayers. One Night Only! tells the tale of how Gabriel stumbles (literally) over an illegal punk concert and an
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There are nights when I shoot up suddenly, jolted awake by searing nerve pain. In those late hours, I lie still envisioning a slasher breaking into my house wielding a knife or chainsaw or machete (think Robert Rodriguez or Rob Zombie grade of cinematic gore) only to have me beg them to take the left
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The realm of psychology is fascinating. It’s ever-changing and evolving as we discover more about ourselves as humans, delving further into everything from the psyche to DNA. What we’ve realized, with all this research, is that there is this loose framework of theories that seeks to explain why we are the way we are, but
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Embarrassingly, Rumaan Alam was not on my radar until I heard an interview with him on NPR. As he summarized this recent work for the listeners, I was shocked, as I’m sure you will be if you choose to read it, that it was written a good two years before the pandemic. Like some fiction
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As many of you may know, our founder is also one of the co-founders of the amazing organization known as WriteHive. Inked has hosted booths at their conference, workshops on their discord, and sponsored their most recent Horror Contest, which featured ten amazing authors who will be published in an anthology coming June 2021. But
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