PulpCult by CultureCult is looking for original short stories for its upcoming anthology “JUVIE,” which hopes to explore the complex intersection of youth, crime and consequences. (Publication window: June 2025)
THE FINAL DATE OF SUBMISSION IS APRIL 18, 2025
We’re searching for stories about juvenile characters who commit major crimes, ranging from classic thefts and brutality to unusual offenses that question our notion of criminality itself. Stories may focus on rehabilitation, punishment, social problems or the psychological components of juvenile delinquency.
Submit your own story or feel free to get started with one of our WRITING PROMPTS:
- 16-year-old Kyra has been born and brought up in the cult. So when she gets her first recruiting assignment, she feels she must move heaven and hell, if that’s what it took to succeed.
- After the cops wrongfully implicate his father in a petty crime, Ronaldo stumbles upon a discarded weapons’ bag behind the football field in his Rio suburb. He begins to hatch a dangerous plan.
- Although Vlad and Mikhail are identical twins, Vlad has always felt that their parents loved Mikhail more for some reason. Vlad decides to do something about it.
- Leela could take rejection, but when Juliette starts dating the Indian exchange student Natasha, something snaps in Leela, barely a few days before prom.
- Kleptomania has never been an issue for Kim. She has been stealing from stores, people’s houses and her school for years. It is when she eventually steals a harmless trinket from the wrong person that all hell breaks loose.
- After Paul’s father takes his own life with his service gun, it is a short leap from blaming his mother for his father’s death, to planning something horrible with the gun at his school that’ll show everyone… something.
WE ARE ACCEPTING:
Fiction: (between 1500-8000 words) Send no more than ONE piece of fiction.
Flash Fiction: (between 100-1500 words) Send no more than TWO flash fictions
We are accepting TRANSLATED WORKS as well. Submission of translated works must be accompanied by a statement declaring that the translator has obtained the author’s permission and their publisher’s, if required.
Simultaneous Submissions are welcome but the author must inform us by e-mail as soon as the submitted piece is accepted elsewhere. Pieces cannot be withdrawn once CultureCult Press informs the author of its acceptance for publication.
We consider reprints but generally do not publish them unless they are absolutely exceptional.
At present, we are unable to pay our contributors.
Each contributor shall receive a COMPLIMENTARY DIGITAL COPY of the anthology as soon as it publishes.
Manuscripts should directly be sent to PulpCultSubs@gmail.com
Emails must have the subject line “Submission for JUVIE“
Each piece MUST be attached with a short bio (preferably within 100 words) and, if possible, a photograph of the author to go along with publication.
Please submit your files in the following formats: .doc /.docx /.txt. DO NOT submit PDFs.
CultureCult Press uses non exclusive rights to publish in its anthologies and website. Authors shall retain all rights and shall be free to republish/reuse their work anywhere else once it has been published.
Please submit only original pieces. CultureCult Press or the editor/s of the anthology shall not be responsible for any disputes arising out of plagiarism or copyright infringement.
NOTE: We typically reply within a month after receiving submissions. However, replies can be delayed under unforeseen circumstances.
