Version 1.2 · Effective October 19, 2026
These terms are the agreement you sign on the submission form. If anything else on this page conflicts with them, these terms control.
1. The agreement
These terms are a binding agreement between you and Miscreant Media LLC, an Arizona limited liability company (“Miscreant”). You accept them by checking the agreement box and signing the submission form.
The version of these terms in effect on the day you submit is the version that governs your submission. Miscreant may update these terms for future submissions. Updates never apply to work already submitted.
Everything else on Miscreant web pages, social media, emails, and promotional materials is general information. If anything there conflicts with these terms, these terms control.
2. Who can submit
You must be 18 or older. Submissions are open worldwide.
You may submit up to 3 works total for this call. You may send them together on one submission form or separately on more than one form before the deadline. Each submission is final. Works beyond the 3-work limit may be disqualified.
3. An open call, not a contest
This is a call for submissions. There are no prizes, awards, or rankings. Selection is made at Miscreant’s sole editorial discretion, and decisions are final.
At its discretion, Miscreant may accept and publicly announce some work before the deadline, individually or in batches. Work that has not been accepted stays under consideration until final selections are announced. An early acceptance of other work says nothing about yours.
Submission does not guarantee acceptance or publication. Decisions do not include individual feedback, judging notes, or scores.
4. Content
- Any subject is open, including politics, religion, sex, violence, and history.
- Work may depict, criticize, or satirize anything. Depicting something is different from endorsing it.
- Whether a work offends anyone has no bearing on these terms.
- Miscreant will not publish:
- Work made to incite hatred or violence
- Threats against, or harassment of, real people
- Sexualized depictions of minors
- Plagiarized or AI-generated work
- Anything illegal to publish
- Miscreant alone decides whether a work crosses these lines.
- Miscreant may also decline any work, or withdraw an acceptance before publication, for any reason, without explanation.
- Each work is judged on its own. No decision sets a precedent or counts as a finding that a work broke these terms.
5. Views and endorsement
- Every work speaks for its creator alone. Publishing it never means Miscreant, the Review Crew, or any other contributor endorses its views.
- By submitting, you accept that your work may appear alongside work you disagree with or find offensive.
6. Reader fee
The reader fee is $5 per submission form, covering up to 3 works. It pays for the reading and review of your submission. It does not buy acceptance, publication, or any product.
You may choose to pay more than $5. Any amount you pay is part of the reader fee and is treated the same way.
Reader fees, less payment processing fees, are divided equally among the members of the Review Crew.
A hardship waiver is available on the form, no questions asked.
The fee is non-refundable, including when work is not selected or is disqualified under these terms, or when the deadline or schedule changes. The one exception: if Miscreant cancels this call before your submission is reviewed, your fee will be refunded.
Payments are processed by third-party services. A chargeback on a fee you agreed to pay may result in removal of your submission.
7. Your work and your promises
By submitting, you confirm that:
- you created the work, or you control all rights needed to grant the permissions in these terms;
- the work is human-created and contains no generative AI text or imagery;
- the work does not infringe anyone’s copyright, trademark, privacy, or publicity rights, and does not defame anyone;
- you have permission from any credited collaborator and from any recognizable person shown in a photograph or artwork;
- if the work was published before, you still hold the rights to grant these permissions, and you have disclosed where it appeared.
If any of these promises turns out to be untrue, Miscreant may remove the work at any time, including after publication, with no refund. You agree to cover any losses, costs, or legal fees Miscreant incurs from claims caused by the broken promise.
8. Rights if your work is selected
You keep the copyright and ownership of your work.
You grant Miscreant a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, publish, manufacture, distribute, sell, display, and archive the accepted work as part of Miscreant Anthology, Volume 2, in any format, including print and digital editions, reprints, and new editions of Volume 2. This includes crowdfunding campaigns, retail and distribution listings, and the use of reasonable excerpts, images, thumbnails, and previews to promote the anthology and Miscreant Media.
Once Volume 2 is published, this license continues for as long as any edition of Volume 2 is published or sold.
The license is non-exclusive. You may publish your work anywhere else, at any time. Miscreant will use your work only in Volume 2 and its promotion. Use in any other book, anthology, product, or merchandise requires your separate written permission.
If Volume 2 has not been published by December 31, 2028, this license ends automatically and all rights stay with you.
9. Editing and production
You authorize Miscreant to copyedit, proofread, format, resize, crop, reposition, convert imagery to black-and-white or grayscale, adjust typography and layout, and make reasonable editorial and production changes needed to publish and promote the accepted work.
Contributor proofs are not provided. Miscreant may decline or remove work that cannot be published to its editorial or technical standards from the files supplied.
10. Payment and contributor copies
Participation is unpaid. There are no fees, royalties, or revenue sharing for contributors.
Selected contributors receive publication credit, promotion connected with the anthology, and one digital PDF contributor edition of the finished book. Physical editions are available to purchase through the anthology’s normal crowdfunding and sales channels.
11. Credit
Selected work is credited under the public name you provide on the form. If a credit is printed incorrectly, Miscreant will correct it in future printings and digital editions. That correction is the full remedy for a credit error.
12. Publicity
If your work is selected, you authorize Miscreant to use your public name, bio, creator photo, website and social links, work titles, credits, and reasonable excerpts or images from your accepted work to promote Miscreant Anthology, Volume 2 and Miscreant Media, for as long as any edition of Volume 2 is promoted or sold. Bios and photos may be shortened, cropped, resized, or color-adjusted for layout.
13. Final submissions
Submissions are final once submitted. Work cannot be withdrawn, and Miscreant will not accept revised, corrected, replacement, or alternate files.
If you send a simultaneous submission, you are responsible for making sure any other agreement you sign leaves you able to grant the permissions in these terms.
14. Work that is not selected
Miscreant claims no rights to work that is not selected and will never publish or promote it.
Within 90 days after final selections are announced, files, creator photos, and publicity materials from submissions that were not selected are deleted from Miscreant’s working files. Miscreant keeps basic records of each submission (name, contact details, work titles, fee or waiver status, and the signed agreement) for business and legal purposes.
15. Review and confidentiality
Submissions are shared only with Miscreant and the Review Crew, and only to evaluate them for Volume 2. Review Crew members are volunteers who review work in confidence.
Review Crew scores, votes, and notes are advisory. Miscreant makes every selection decision. Review Crew members speak only for themselves, never for Miscreant.
16. Schedule and changes to the call
The deadline is December 31, 2026 at 11:59 PM Arizona time. Decision and publication timelines, including final selections in early 2027 and publication in 2027, are targets, not guarantees.
Miscreant may close submissions early, at any time, with or without notice. Miscreant may also extend the deadline, change the schedule, the size of the Review Crew, or the formats and editions of Volume 2, or cancel the anthology. If the anthology is cancelled after selection, the license in these terms ends and neither side owes the other anything further.
17. Communication
The email address on your form is the official contact for your submission. Miscreant does not provide individual status updates during review.
If Miscreant needs information to resolve a technical, legal, or rights issue and you do not respond within 14 days, the affected work may be removed from consideration or publication.
18. Conduct
Miscreant may disqualify any submission, or remove published credit and work from future editions, if the submitter harasses or threatens Miscreant, the Review Crew, or other contributors, or tries to influence the judging.
19. Your information
Your personal information is used only to run this call, publish and promote selected work as described above, and contact you about Miscreant Anthology. It is never sold. Payments are handled by third-party processors, and Miscreant never sees your full card details.
20. Limits of responsibility
Miscreant is not responsible for lost, late, corrupted, or incomplete submissions, or for outages and errors of third-party services such as the form, payment, or email providers.
To the fullest extent allowed by law, Miscreant’s total liability to you under these terms is limited to the reader fee you paid.
21. General
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Arizona. Any dispute will be handled in the state or federal courts located in Maricopa County, Arizona.
Your checkbox and electronic signature on the form are a valid signature. If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. These terms are the entire agreement about your submission and replace anything said elsewhere. Miscreant may transfer its rights under these terms to a successor that takes over the publication of Volume 2.
