The OZ Network in cooperation with the community of Belarusian fiction “Shuflyadka writer” announced the request for authors for an upcoming collection of stories about mystical Belarus. The theme will be myths and legends, the events which occur in recognizable locations of our country. Submit your work to anyone who wants it. The book will be published already spring or summer of this year.
The collection will collect tales about mysterious places of our country and mythical beings. Works are taken in genres urban fantasy, magical realism and mysticism. The main condition is the story must take place in recognizable locations on the territory of Belarus. The place of action may be a specific populated point or significant historical object. The basis of the story may be popular myths and legends, and a completely invented by the author history. Also the story must be appropriate for the age rating of 16+.
To share your creativity, it is not necessary to be a professional writer.
Stories can be sent from 8 January to 28 February 2025 year to e-mail: [email protected]. The text is requested to be sent as an attachment in format docx, with font Times Times New Roman 12 size with semi-spacing between lines intervals. Volume: from 20,000 to 80,000 characters. The file with text should be titled in the template: “author_title of the>story, and the letter should be accompanied by annotation and information about the author.be specified: “Belarusian Mysticism 2025”.
Society “Shuflyadka writer” also plans to conduct online meeting for authors, where they will tell more about their expectations, share successful cases from the past selection and answer their questions.
The new collection will become the continuation of the project “(Not)clean Minsk”. It is so titled the book, which was released in November November 2024 year. It was consisting of 15 mystical stories, the actions which occur on the streets of the Belarusian stolitsa. Readers were expected to meet with mermaids in the waters of Svisloch, speaking cats, midnight invisible taxi, and also representatives of Belorussian traditional mythology: padnor, gayevki, apivn and badzulyi. The collection quickly became a bestseller and even entered the top of the most sought books in OZ OZ in 2024 year.
“It is possible that the new collection will even exceed the popularity of “(Not)Clean Minsk.” Because on this time as the geography of the stories of the book is not limited to only onecity,awillcoverthe wholecountry.Andandauthorslivingintheregions,itwillbeeasiertotellabouttheirnativeplaces,iftheyhavetheirwish.”In general, modernbookloverslikemysticalstories,inwhichmiraclesandmagicarecommon,” theOZnetworknoted.
The beststorieswillbedeterminedon17March2025year.Theywillbepublishedinabook,whichwillbereleasedinthespringorthesummer.