Clockwork Oceans and Lunar Dreams:
A Vernean Odyssey
Accepting Stories
JayHenge invites writers to set sail for the extraordinary. Inspired by the adventurous spirit of Jules Verne, we’re seeking tales of ingenious inventions, daring journeys, scientific marvels, and unforgettable discoveries—stories that celebrate curiosity, exploration, and the thrill of the unknown.
From submarine voyages and aerial expeditions to hidden worlds and impossible machines, we want narratives filled with momentum, wonder, and imagination. Peril may lurk, but this anthology leans toward adventure rather than despair—awe over darkness, discovery over dread.
If your story captures the joy of venturing beyond the horizon and encountering the marvelous, we invite you aboard.
Submissions open until filled.
Submission Guidelines
The Midnight Menagerie at the Edge of Everywhen
Accepting Stories
JayHenge Publishing is looking for speculative fiction stories for The Midnight Menagerie at the Edge of Everywhen, an anthology centered on a mysterious traveling night circus, carnival, menagerie, fair, sideshow, theatre, or wandering collection of wonders. The Menagerie might arrive by moonlit caravan, phantom train, dimensional doorway, clockwork procession, dream-path, curse, invitation, or accident, and it may appear in sleepy villages, neon cities, ruined kingdoms, forgotten spaceports, haunted forests, distant planets, or worlds that were never meant to touch. We welcome fantasy, science fiction, horror, slipstream, steampunk, weird fiction, and anything in between, provided the story has atmosphere, wonder, strangeness, and a strong connection to the traveling spectacle at its heart.
For this anthology, we are specifically hoping for standalone stories that draw on characters, settings, worlds, species, magical systems, starships, cities, gods, monsters, or other elements that the author has already written about elsewhere, whether in published novels, short stories, series, or other larger projects. The story must still stand completely on its own, and readers should not need to know the author’s other work to enjoy it, but we want this anthology to serve as a lantern-lit doorway into each author’s wider body of writing: a place where familiar characters and established worlds can briefly step into the ring, wander among the tents, and be changed by one strange night at the edge of everywhere.
Send us your stories because the circus is in town.
Submissions open until filled.
Submission Guidelines
