Category: Flash

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Taking Submissions: Carnage House Issue 3

Deadline: May 1, 2024
Payment: $5
Theme: Splatter/Gore-friendly horror

The Carnage House editors invite submissions for Issue 3, due out in summer 2024. We want solid, entertaining writing that evokes feelings. Carnage House is a splatter friendly web ’zine—so nothing against cozy, but cozy, we’re not. We’re looking for gore, extreme horror, splatterpunk, and horror with sexual elements to it. For a better understanding of what we’ll take, think of the Hot Blood book series or Love in Vein. Or, as a more practical proposition, read Issues 1 and 2 at carnagehouse.com.

We invite LGBTQIA and BIPOC themes, and we encourage authors from diverse backgrounds to submit to us.

Hard NOs: Nothing with children in an adult manner. If you’re writing a story about a child predator who gets what’s coming to him—great. But we don’t want to read about that predator violating his victims. We won’t publish anything supporting a racist, transphobic, or homophobic agenda, so don’t try it.

Our description includes the words “splatter” and “friendly” for a reason. We love splatter, and we’re super friendly. Carnage House is about supporting writers and entertaining readers, and we’re dedicated to both in equal measure.

Please review the guidelines (below and at our website) for more important details, including submission format and word count. We look forward to reading your work in all its splattertastic glory.

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Anthology / Events / Flash / Flat Amount / Reprints Allowed / Semipro

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Taking Submissions: In The Gallows Wake: A Pirate Horror Anthology

Deadline: August 1st, 2024
Payment: $0.01 per word for new stories or $25 for reprints.
Theme: Pirate Horror
Editor: Austrian Spencer
Note: Reprints Welcome
In conjunction with the successful Kickstarter campaign for DarkLit Sails and the editor that brought you The Sadeiest, comes a new collection of piratical horror stories that are certain to plunge readers into the heart of darkness on the high seas, where cursed pirates and spectral ships reign with terror and betrayal, promising no soul safe passage through their nightmarish waters.

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Anthology / Contributor's Copy / Events / Flash / Flat Amount

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Taking Submissions: SCREAM and CREAM: A Splatterphuck Collection

Deadline: April 30th, 2024
Payment: $10 + Contributor copy
Theme: Gorey and Whorey works that seamlessly blend the Splatterpunk and Smut or Erotica subgenres.

PsychoToxin X is seeking short stories and flash fiction for a new anthology,
SCREAM and CREAM: A Splatterphuck Collection.

Title: Scream and Cream: A Splatterphuck Collection
Publisher: X Imprint of PsychoToxin Press
Word Count: 2,000 – 8,000 words
Pay: $10 + Contributor copy
Format: .doc or .docx
Font: 12 pt Times New Roman
Spacing: Double spaced
Send To: [email protected]
Write “Scream and Cream” along with your name and story title in the subject of your email
(Subject: Scream and Cream: Name, STORY TITLE)
*The body of your submission email will be considered the cover letter.
* Submit Word (.doc or .docx) documents as attachments to your submission email.
Rights returned after six months of publishing date.

Submission Deadline: April 30, 2024
Publishing Date: Summer 2024
Edited by: Marie Lestrange

What We Want: Gorey and Whorey works that seamlessly blend the Splatterpunk and Smut or Erotica subgenres.

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Taking Submissions: Flashpoint Science Fiction 2024 Open Window #2

Deadline: July 31st, 2024
Payment: $0.02 per word
Theme: Science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, and everything in between

Story Guidelines

Flash Point Science Fiction wants speculative fiction stories from 100 to 1,000 words in length. Send us your science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, and everything in between, so long as it’s short. We here at FPSF are partial to flash fiction and want to see the flash market grow. So as much as it pains us, please take your 10,000 word tour de force elsewhere. We’re not looking for the next Brandon Sanderson. (Unless you are, in fact, Brandon Sanderson, in which case we’d be delighted!)

 

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Events / Flash / Flat Amount / Magazine / Poetry

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Taking Submissions: Diet Milk Magazine Food Themed Issue Window

Submission Window: May 1st – May 15th, 2024
Payment: $10 per poem, $15 per short story
Theme: Food

From May 1st – May 15th, Diet Milk Magazine will be accepting submissions for its annual themed mini-issue. We will be open to poetry and prose. While the most detailed information can be found on our website, here’s a quick rundown of what potential contributors need to know!

2023 THEME: FOOD

GENERAL GUIDELINES:

  • All submissions must fall under the Gothic umbrella, but aren’t required to be a specific genre
  • All submissions must adhere to the current theme
  • No reprints or multiple submissions
  • Simultaneous submissions permitted, though we ask to be informed promptly if your work is accepted elsewhere!
  • Submissions should be .doc, .docx, or .pdf

P O E T R Y :

Poets may submit up to three poems at a time. No single poem should exceed one page in length.

P R O S E :

Authors may EITHER up to 3 stories of less than 999 words OR a single story of 1k—2k words. Stories exceeding 2025 words will be rejected automatically.

Responses, Rights, & Payment

  • Please allow up to six weeks for a response. After that, send a gentle nudge via email
  • Diet Milk Magazine asks for first serial rights. Upon publication, all rights revert back to the creator. A contract will be provided upon acceptance
  • All payments made via PayPal. For more information on pay scale, visit our website

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Taking Submissions: Terrific Tomorrows

Deadline: May 31st, 2024
Payment: Contributor’s copy and 3 cents per word for original work or 1 cent per word for reprints
Theme: Family friendly science fiction with positive visions of the future
Note: Reprints welcome

We’re looking for stories for our next family friendly anthology, Terrific Tomorrows! We’re looking for science fiction with positive visions of the future, stories that leave the reader excited about the possibilities ahead.
By “family friendly,” we mean stories an adult can enjoy, but also share with a 10-year-old. No gore, no cursing, and no stories where violence is a solution. We’re looking for tales where people think their way out of problems.

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Artwork / Events / Flash / Flat Amount / Magazine / Poetry / Reprints Allowed / Semipro

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Taking Submissions: Radon Journal September 2024 Issue

Submission Window: April 16th – Aug. 15th, 2024
Payment: Fiction: 2¢ per word for original, 1¢ per word for reprints. Poetry: $20 per original poem and $10 for reprints. $100 for issue cover art, $30 for back cover art, and $20 for art used on our site
Theme: Stories and poetry containing elements of science fiction, anarchism, transhumanism, or dystopia.
Note: Reprints Welcome

Radon welcomes short stories and poetry containing elements of science fiction, anarchism, transhumanism, or dystopia.

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We publish quality literature every mid-January, May, and September.

  • Submissions are accepted year-round.

  • Simultaneous submissions are welcome.

  • Reprints accepted if writer has the rights.

  • AI submissions are not allowed at Radon.

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Please click below to submit your work through our no-fee Submittable page:

We kindly request a third-person bio that is 100-words or shorter in your cover letter.

Author rights:

For original work, Radon asks for first English digital rights and non-exclusive, indefinite archival rights.

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Authors published in Radon cannot be accepted into the issue immediately following, but may submit after this period.

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Taking Submissions: Stories to Take To Your Grave, Mortuary Edition

Deadline: April 30th, 2024
Payment: $20
Theme: Horror stories that center around undertakers, funeral homes, mortuaries, cremations, and other aspects of the funeral trade

We are looking for 10 short stories that center around undertakers, funeral homes, mortuaries, cremations, and other aspects of the funeral trade for “Stories to Take To Your Grave”. We are open to all subgenres of horror, from suspense to splatterpunk!

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

-Complete stories with a beginning, middle, and end.

-Stories that leave us feeling satisfied yet also wanting more.

-Stories that make our reformed undertaker feel like he’s back in the business.

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