A great email landed in our inbox this morning—and it said it better than we could.

We’re looking for craft. Personal work. Stories that reimagine and expand origin.

Myth as process, not artifact.

Legends Reimagined Anthology opens today.

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We couldn't be more excited to kick off our first anthology. Bring your myths and legends reimagined. You can submit on
@duosuma.com for only $7 through the end of the year - our present to you!

We are looking forward to some great work and already received several promising entries!

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Opened to Submissions on Duosuma: Legends Reimagined by Basalt Sea Press @basaltseapress.bsky.social Legends Reimagined by Basalt Sea Press @basaltseapress.bsky.social is open to submissions for Legends Reimagined 2026 (fee-based). #CallforSubmissions

Legends Reimagined by Basalt Sea Press @basaltseapress.bsky.social is open to submissions for Legends Reimagined 2026 (fee-based). #CallforSubmissions

15.12.2025 08:09 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Honored to share that The Ballad of Charlie Fiester has been named a Finalist for the 2025 Princemere Poetry Prize.
A restorative narrative honoring a Native child taken to Chemawa Indian School.

Press announcement: bit.ly/4oLFfGw

@ict-news.bsky.social

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Narrative Structure Isn’t a Formula — It’s an Engine Plot is only the shadow. Real narratives live beneath the surface. This essay reveals how story engines, emotional pressure, and thematic architecture create the invisible systems that make fiction in...

Writers talk about plot like it’s structure.
It isn’t.

Structure is pressure.
Structure is inevitability.
Structure is the spine that holds the narrative up.

I broke down the architecture behind stories that actually work — engines, spines, and the three-axis model pros use.
bit.ly/3XDPvG1

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Congrats to Ian Hall, winner of the 2025 Princemere Prize, and to runners-up Carlos Gómez and Lisa Mullenneaux. Honored to celebrate H. L. Delaney’s “The Ballad of Charlie Fiester,” a finalist alongside Bauld, Buchinger, Davis, DeVilbiss, Faulkner, Haltmaier, Kulseth, Samore, Sinha, and Sweeney.

06.12.2025 15:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In 1872, 50 to 60 Modoc warriors held off a larger force of U.S. Army soldiers for half a year amid volcanic walls, boulders, and holes in northern California. Archaeologists have recently returned to the stronghold.

archaeology.org/issues/november-december-2018/letters-from/california-modoc-war/

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Submissions | Basalt Sea Press Submit your work to Basalt Sea Press. We publish mythic fiction, Indigenous storytelling, and literary works rooted in land, memory, and the American West.

We just received a memoir/novella submission that was absolute FIRE! Compelling, smart, heartbreaking and the writing is absolutely electric. So much good stuff out there! If you have something smart, grounded, literary we'd love to hear from you. bit.ly/3MF3Z60

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Basalt Sea Press Basalt Sea Press is an independent literary publishing house devoted to stories that rise from the land, memory, and mythic imagination of the American West.

Excited that we are officially verified and ready to rock and roll on Duotrope. We are now accepting novel and novella submissions. We also have some awesome open calls for upcoming projects hitting the calendar Dec. 15 - duotrope.com/publisher/ba...

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