Deadline: June 7th, 2025
Payment: Fiction and nonfiction run in the $10-30 range; poetry in the $5-15 range.
Theme: The Uncanny
Our summer edition theme is the uncanny, however you interpret that. What happens when settings look fine — happy, even — on the surface, only for a distortion to be lurking just out of sight? What can the uncanny help us understand about ourselves, our relationships, our communities?
Deadline: June 15th, 2025
Payment: $20 per 1000-5000 word story, or $10 for stories under 1000 words
Theme: Creepy stories, preferabbly with Fall/Autumn and/or specific Halloween setting and themes and not overly-dialogue heavy
The Creepy Corner is a new podcast format from Straight to the Point Productions, releasing new and classic spooky stories in the lead up to Halloween.
We are seeking original short horror to record and release in an audiobook/podcast format.
Deadline – June 15, 2025
Note – stories may be accepted on a rolling basis, and Straight to the Point Productions reserves the right to close submissions early.
All authors will be notified within 1 month from the close of submissions.
Fees & Compensation –
Selected Authors will receive $20 per 1000-5000 word story, or $10 for stories under 1000 words. Submission is free and there is no limit on number of submissions per author. Authors will be credited aloud in the audio of the episode, as well as in the show notes.
Content Guidelines –
We are accepting stories on any and all themes (with some limits), but with preference for:
To get a sense of the editorial team’s taste since this is our first edition, some writers we enjoy include Ray Bradbury, Karen Russell, Stephen King, Octavia Butler, China Mieville, Jeff Vandermeer, Shirley Jackson, Tananarive Due, Roald Dahl, Marisha Pessl, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, John Bellairs, and Daniel Handler.
As someone who grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and spent most of my ’20s living in the city, it’ll always have a special place in my heart. So, if you’re a fan of horror, you know that the right book can transport you into a world of suspense and terror. Chicago, with its rich history and eerie architecture, serves as the perfect backdrop for spine-chilling tales. In this article, you will discover ten horror novels set in the Windy City that promise to keep you on the edge of your seat. These stories not only entertain but also delve into the darker aspects of human nature, making them a worthwhile addition to your reading list.
Deadline: June 6th, 2025
Payment: 1000-3000 words = $20, 3000-5000 words = $30, 5000-7000 words = $40
Theme: Horrifying holiday travel
NEW publisher ROF Publishing House is seeking ooky and spooky, thrilling and chilling holiday travel nightmares for a themed short story collection:
SEASON’S GRIEVINGS: Holiday Travel Stories Gone Wrong
Missing your flight is scary. So is sleeping in your childhood bedroom with cousins you can’t remember. Are your old band posters talking to you, or is that the ghost of Chanukah’s past?
Please send us your horror, thriller, and suspense stories (1,000-7,000 words) about holiday travel. We are interested in publishing stories set around a variety of cultural holidays and traditions.
Take us into the mind of a sinister flight attendant on Christmas Eve. Show us the monsters who stalked ancient Winter Solstice festivalgoers. Place us in the middle of a serial killer’s game while on a seniors-only cruise. Give us psychological terror while frying latkes in Grandma’s kitchen. Dazzle us with bonfires and fireworks and arson on New Year’s Eve.
Deadline for pitches: June 1st, 2025
Deadline for accepted pieces: July 1st, 2025
Payment: $10 + Contributor Copy
Theme: Televangelism Horror
Themes: Religious horror surrounding gospel of prosperity and televangelism
Smitten Land is a queer religious horror literary magazine. Issue 3 revolves around themes of televangelism and gospel of prosperity. We are accepting pitches for fiction, poetry, and book reviews for books revolving around our theme. We are also accepting journalistic / nonfiction pitches from voices who have had experiences with real life churches who preached prosperity gospel.
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Denis Kitchen has always been the kind of creator who looks at a locked door and decides to install a new hinge. From the moment the self-described “hippie cartoonist” stapled together Mom’s Homemade Comics in 1969, through three decades steering Kitchen Sink Press, to the day he founded the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Kitchen has championed work that polite society kept trying to hide. Now his long, strange odyssey is the subject of Oddly Compelling, a feature-length documentary that is soon to land on Kickstarter.
Submission Window: November 1st – December 31st, 2025
Payment: 5 cents per word and contributor’s copies
Theme: Van Helsing
The one everybody has been waiting for. What adventures did he have before the novel? Where did he go after? Are more monster battles in store? Tell us your tale of the world’s most famous vampire hunter.
Submissions open November 1, 2025-December 31, 2025. Submissions received earlier will be read and considered but will not be responded to until the window opens
What do Alien, Resident Evil, Doctor Who, Grimm, Transformers, Supernatural, and Terrifier all have in common?
Aside from being beloved (and occasionally blood-soaked) cornerstones of genre fandom, they’ve all had stories brought to life by Tim Waggoner, an author who’s not just survived but thrived in the world of media tie-ins.
Now, for the first time, Waggoner is sharing exactly how he did it.
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