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Atomic Carnival Books
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Publisher of weird speculative fiction. | Disabled-owned. | Editor, @egumeny.bsky.social | EAT THE RICH, August 2024

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And that's it: submissions for EAT THE RICH are closed. We appreciate everyone who took the time and effort to send something our way, and we look forward to reading your stories!
Cartoon skull with monocle, and fork and knife behind it like crossbones, over stacked text repeating the phrase "Eat the Rich"
May 16, 2024 at 4:15 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
Final day of our extended deadline for underrepresented voices! The portal closes tonight at midnight, Mountain Time. Feed your grievances to something with teeth and send the results our way!

Full guidelines and submissions link: atomiccarnivalbooks.moksha.io/publication/...
ALT TEXT: Stylized text over distressed gold background, reading: EAT THE RICH General Submissions Deadline: April 30 Extended Deadline for Writers from Historically Marginalized Groups: May 15 *speculative fiction *100 - 8,000 words *$.05 per word and a paperback of the anthology *a rich person MUST be eaten Full Guidelines on Moksha Portal Meme. Text, top, reads "Why does the working class, the larger of the two classes, not simply eat the rich?" Image at bottom is Lrrr from Futurama gesturing toward a TV screen, while his wife, Ndnd, looks at him.
May 15, 2024 at 3:32 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
3 days left for subs from underrepresented voices and then EAT THE RICH is closed FOREVER!

Full guidelines and submissions link: atomiccarnivalbooks.moksha.io/publication/...
ALT TEXT: Stylized text over distressed gold background, reading: EAT THE RICH General Submissions Deadline: April 30 Extended Deadline for Writers from Historically Marginalized Groups: May 15 *speculative fiction *100 - 8,000 words *$.05 per word and a paperback of the anthology *a rich person MUST be eaten Full Guidelines on Moksha Portal
May 13, 2024 at 3:13 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
ONE WEEK LEFT for #submissions from underrepresented voices! We want to hear from you!

Feed a billionaire to pigs! Go full Titus Andronicus and feed a billionaire to another billionaire! The world is your oyster! So long as that oyster is ten-stories tall, atomic, and craving the flesh of the 1%.
Stylized text over distressed gold background, reading: EAT THE RICH General Submissions Deadline: April 30 Extended Deadline for Writers from Historically Marginalized Groups: May 15 *speculative fiction *100 - 8,000 words *$.05 per word and a paperback of the anthology *a rich person MUST be eaten Full Guidelines on Moksha Portal
May 7, 2024 at 3:28 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
General subs are CLOSED. Extended deadline for writers from historically underrepresented groups is May 15th. [insert clever thing about eating the rich here {make it good}]

Full Guidelines and Submissions Link: atomiccarnivalbooks.moksha.io/publication/...
Stylized text over distressed gold background, reading: EAT THE RICH General Submissions Deadline: April 30 Extended Deadline for Writers from Historically Marginalized Groups: May 15 *speculative fiction *100 - 8,000 words *$.05 per word and a paperback of the anthology *a rich person MUST be eaten Full Guidelines on Moksha Portal
May 1, 2024 at 3:28 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
Final day for general subs! Two more weeks for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, chronically ill/disabled, and other underrepresented voices!

Vengeance is a dish best served.

Guidelines and submissions link: atomiccarnivalbooks.moksha.io/publication/...
Stylized text over distressed gold background, reading: EAT THE RICH General Submissions Deadline: April 30 Extended Deadline for Writers from Historically Marginalized Groups: May 15 *speculative fiction *100 - 8,000 words *$.05 per word and a paperback of the anthology *a rich person MUST be eaten Full Guidelines on Moksha Portal
April 30, 2024 at 3:39 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
36ish hours left for general subs! A little over two weeks for underrepresented voices! We're working on the honor system here, so please don't be a butthole about this. I'm looking at you, white guys.

Guidelines & submissions link: atomiccarnivalbooks.moksha.io/publication/...
Stylized text over distressed gold background, reading: EAT THE RICH General Submissions Deadline: April 30 Extended Deadline for Writers from Historically Marginalized Groups: May 15 *speculative fiction *100 - 8,000 words *$.05 per word and a paperback of the anthology *a rich person MUST be eaten Full Guidelines on Moksha Portal
April 29, 2024 at 4:12 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
General #submissions for EAT THE RICH close in 5 days! If you've got some weird vengeance rumbling inside of you, if you've ever wondered if spit-roasted former president has a citrus tang, we want to hear from you!

Full guidelines here: atomiccarnivalbooks.moksha.io/publication/...
Stylized text over distressed gold background, reading: EAT THE RICH General Submissions Deadline: April 30 Extended Deadline for Writers from Historically Marginalized Groups: May 15 *speculative fiction *100 - 8,000 words *$.05 per word and a paperback of the anthology *a rich person MUST be eaten Full Guidelines on Moksha Portal
April 25, 2024 at 3:45 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
ONE WEEK LEFT for general #submissions for EAT THE RICH! Get angry. Get weird with it. Need some inspiration? How about *gestures desperately at fucking everything right now*

Full guidelines: atomiccarnivalbooks.moksha.io/publication/...

#WritingCommunity #SFFH
Stylized text over distressed gold background, reading: EAT THE RICH General Submissions Deadline: April 30 Extended Deadline for Writers from Historically Marginalized Groups: May 15 *speculative fiction *100 - 8,000 words *$.05 per word and a paperback of the anthology *a rich person MUST be eaten Full Guidelines on Moksha Portal Political cartoon from 1894. Railroad robber baron George M. Pullman is tightening a vice on a screaming employee. On the vice are the words "low wages," "high rent," "plutocracy," "wage slavery," "monopoly," and "capitalism."
April 23, 2024 at 3:26 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
EAT THE RICH is an anthology about rich people being literally eaten. We are looking for stories featuring rich people being eaten. Please only send stories about rich people being eaten.

Full guidelines here: atomiccarnivalbooks.moksha.io/publication/...
Cartoon illustration of skull and crossbones, where the crossbones are a knife and fork, and the skull has a monocle. Text reading EAT THE RICH is stacked in the background.
April 21, 2024 at 5:21 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
Two weeks left for general submissions! Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to eat the meat of the billionaire class. Also, monsters. We like monsters.

Full guidelines here: atomiccarnivalbooks.moksha.io/publication/...
Stylized text over distressed gold background, reading: EAT THE RICH General Submissions Deadline: April 30 Extended Deadline for Writers from Historically Marginalized Groups: May 15 *speculative fiction *100 - 8,000 words *$.05 per word and a paperback of the anthology *a rich person must be eaten Full Guidelines on Moksha Portal Foreground: cartoon skull with monocle with fork and knife crossed behind it over a blood splatter. Background: the phrase EAT THE RICH stacked and repeated five times, filling the image.
April 16, 2024 at 4:08 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
Time is running out to exact your literary vengeance and send in your story for EAT THE RICH! Give us monsters, maniacs, and ... muffins? As long as a millionaire gets munched, we're here for it! #SFFH #Writers

Full guidelines and submission link here: atomiccarnivalbooks.moksha.io/publication/...
Stylized text over distressed gold background, reading: EAT THE RICH General Submissions Deadline: April 30 Extended Deadline for Writers from Historically Marginalized Groups: May 15 *speculative fiction *100 - 8,000 words *$.05 per word and a paperback of the anthology *a rich person must be eaten Full Guidelines on Moksha Portal
April 11, 2024 at 3:39 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
Once upon a time, Heracles killed a king and fed his corpse to a bunch of man-eating horses. Now, did he have to? Or was he just projecting because *another* king was making him do all kinds of ridiculous shit?

Anyway, submit to EAT THE RICH today: atomiccarnivalbooks.moksha.io/publication/...
"Diomedes Devoured by Horses," Gustave Moreau, 1866. Painting of naked King Diomedes being bitten on arm and leg by man-eating horses, while another horse rears behind him. Stylized text on distressed gold background, reading: EAT THE RICH General Submissions Deadline: April 30 Extended Deadline for Writers From Historically Marginalized Groups: May 15 *speculative fiction *100 - 8,000 words *$.05 per word and a paperback of the anthology *a rich person MUST be EATEN Full Guidelines on Moksha Portal
April 8, 2024 at 4:19 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
What are you doing this weekend? How about penning your ultimate revenge fantasy against the rich and powerful? #Submissions for EAT THE RICH are open 'til the end of the month! #SFFH

Full guidelines & submission link here: atomiccarnivalbooks.moksha.io/publication/...
Stylized text on distressed gold background, reading: EAT THE RICH, April 1 - 30; 100 - 8,000 Words; $.05 Per Word and a Paperback of the Anthology; Full Guidelines on Moksha Portal
April 5, 2024 at 4:09 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
There's no need to fight: #submissions for EAT THE RICH are officially open!

Send us your angriest and your weirdest shit. So long as some obnoxiously wealthy fuck gets eaten -- somewhere, somewhen, somehow -- the sky's the limit.

SUBMIT: atomiccarnivalbooks.moksha.io/publication/...
Still from old Looney Tunes cartoon, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck fighting over hunting season sign, only instead of "duck" or "rabbit" the signs says "billionaire season." Stylized text over distressed gold background, reading: EAT THE RICH *April 1 - 30 *100 - 8,000 words *$.05 per word and a paperback of the anthology Full guidelines on Moksha portal.
April 1, 2024 at 3:07 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
ICYMI last night, we're fully funded! Confetti emoji!

There's still two days to go in the campaign, though, and the more we can raise, the more stories we can put in the book. Plus, Kickstarter backers get extra goodies! Don't miss out!

Back EAT THE RICH today: www.kickstarter.com/projects/egu...
On left, stylized text over distressed gold background, reading: EAT THE RICH, 100% Funded!, Atomic Carnival Books. On right, cover of EAT THE RICH: illustration of steak knife stabbed into two pieces of bloody meat.
March 19, 2024 at 3:44 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
75% funded! Thanks to your continued efforts, we are getting so, so close -- but, like the promise of an earth with breathable air, TIME IS RUNNING OUT.

Back EAT THE RICH now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/egu...
On left, stylized text reading: EAT THE RICH, 75% Funded, Atomic Carnival Books. On right, paperback of EAT THE RICH, cover of which is an illustration of a steak knife stabbed into two bloody pieces of meat.
March 16, 2024 at 3:53 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
Because one book isn't enough, we're giving away titles from

@alexebenstein.bsky.social
@lormaggot.bsky.social
@cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social
@egumeny.bsky.social
@mlopesdasilva.bsky.social
@avramargariti.bsky.social

Back EAT THE RICH today and win, maybe: www.kickstarter.com/projects/egu...
Text on red-gold background, reading: EAT THE RICH Giveaways Curse Corvus from Alex Ebenstein Melon Head Mayhem from Alex Ebenstein Reanimated Rex from Alex Ebenstein Sick! Stories from the Goop Troop from Lor Gislason Split Scream, Volume Two from Cynthia Gómez The Greatest Gatsby, or an American Werewolf in West Egg by Eirik Gumeny Infinity Mathing at the Shore & Other Disruptions from M. Lopes da Silva The Thirteen Scorned Wives of La Nuit [.pdf] by Avra Margariti
March 14, 2024 at 4:32 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
There are only SEVEN DAYS LEFT in our Kickstarter campaign! That is not a lot of time and we've still got quite a ways to go. DON'T LET THE BILLIONAIRES WIN!

Back EAT THE RICH now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/egu...
Illustration of kitchen knife stabbed into two pieces of bloody meat. Text behind image reads ONE WEEK LEFT
March 13, 2024 at 7:33 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
Well, hot damn! We're 50% funded! Thank you all for your continued support, and your continued desire to see the ultra-wealthy turned into appetizers.

Now, can we do it all over again in half the time? Only nine days to go!

Back EAT THE RICH today: www.kickstarter.com/projects/egu...
On left, stylized text reading: EAT THE RICH, 50% Funded. On right, paperback of EAT THE RICH, with illustration of knife stabbed into two pieces of meat on cover. Background: distressed gold.
March 11, 2024 at 5:08 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
And now say hello to our last, but certainly not least, first reader: Violet Schwegler (@vschwegler.bsky.social)! We can verify that the squirrel army is very real, so be careful.

Check out what she's looking for below, and back EAT THE RICH here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/egu...
Header at top, reading: EAT THE RICH Center: Photo of Violet Schwegler Bottom, text: Violet Schwegler, First Reader Header at top, reading: EAT THE RICH Text, in center: "I'm not really looking for anything specific. I like weird, creepy, silly, and have an unhealthy obsession with people getting what they deserve. Take that how you will. If you're worried about anything being too "out there," stop. Your worries are unfounded. Just don't be a bigoted prick. My squirrel army is everywhere. MuahahahaHAHAHAHA!" Bottom, text: Violet Schwegler, First Reader
March 7, 2024 at 5:44 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
Our next reader is the magnificent Melissa Ren (@melisfluous.bsky.social)! She's an editor at Tales & Feathers, an audio producer for khōréō, and she'll be reading your submissions for EAT THE RICH.

Check out what she's looking for below, and back the book here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/egu...
Header at top, reading: EAT THE RICH Text, in center: "I'd love to read stories that subvert tropes or explore dualities or blend genres. The theme is so broad that writers can play around with tone in surprising ways. Feel free to go straight up classic, or if wild, wacky, heartwarming or raw is your thing, I'd love to read it. Give me metaphors, analogies or allegories." Bottom, text: Melissa Ren, First Reader
March 7, 2024 at 4:43 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
Say hello to our next reader, author, poet, and "Greek sea monster" Avra Margariti (@avramargariti.bsky.social)!

A developmental editor, too, you can find Avra's work in Strange Horizons, F&SF, and The Deadlands, among others.

EAT THE RICH: www.kickstarter.com/projects/egu...
Header at top, reading: EAT THE RICH Center: Photo of Avra Margariti Bottom, text: Avra Margariti, First Reader Header at top, reading: EAT THE RICH Text, in center: "I would love to read twisted tales of molecular gastronomy and how it intersects with class and privilege. Liminal space stories set inside stomachs, human or artificial. Explorations of the tourist industry and the chaos it wreaks on locals. Cannibalism as a form of love, of hate, and everything in-between." Bottom, text: Avra Margariti, First Reader
March 6, 2024 at 8:14 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
Our next reader is the incomparable M. Lopes da Silva (@mlopesdasilva.bsky.social)!

His horror collection Infinity Mathing at the Shore & Other Disruptions is out from Weirdpunk Books next week.

Support EAT THE RICH today: www.kickstarter.com/projects/egu...
Header at top, reading: EAT THE RICH Center: Photo of M. Lopes da Silva Bottom, text: M. Lopes da Silva, First Reader Header at top, reading: EAT THE RICH Text, in center: "I like a story that's willing to spit in the eye of capitalism, but simultaneously views people with compassion. Give me your heartbreaking, gut-punching, paradigm-shifting scribbles and screams, please. Perspectives grounded in authenticity and love will always shine through for me. Show me what you believe in." Bottom, text: M. Lopes da Silva, First Reader
March 6, 2024 at 5:01 PM
atomiccarnival.bsky.social
Our next reader is time-traveling Welsh Viking Jim Horlock! You may recognize him from the NoSleep Podcast, Shallow Waters, Vol. 9, or his upcoming collection, CHANGES, from Quill & Crow.

Support EAT THE RICH today: www.kickstarter.com/projects/egu...
Header at top, reading: EAT THE RICH Center: B&W photo of Jim Horlock Bottom: Jim Horlock, First Reader Header at top, reading: EAT THE RICH Text, in center: "I’d love something that really catches me off guard and ends up taking me somewhere I wasn’t at all expecting. Set me up and then sideline me with a cool trope subversion (I'm a sucker for those). It’d be great to see something from an unusual point of view, or written in an experimental style that still manages to really nail the brief. Most of all, I want fun!" Bottom: Ria Hill, First Reader
March 5, 2024 at 8:19 PM