Category: Anthology

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Taking Submissions: Cryptid Carnage (Early Listing)

Submission Window: December 1st, 2021 – January 15th, 2021
Payment: $25
Theme: Cryptids!

Sasquatch, Chupacabra, Jersey Devil.
All these things are deemed by Cryptozoologists as creatures that may exist out in the wild, but are dismissed by mainstream media science. Scientists will say it’s all just pseudoscience. Mumbo-jumbo, if you will. They’ll will even go as far as to say it’s all just claims based on fairytales, that there really is no actual scientific research to back up cryptozoology’s assertion that these creatures exist.
But what if mainstream scientists are wrong. What if these creatures are out there, lurking in the darkest reaches of our planet.
Prepare yourself for Cryptid Carnage!

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Taking Submissions: Camp Slasher Lake

Deadline: April 30th, 2022
Payment: $.01 per word
Theme: Unstoppable killers of the slasher variety.

Call for submissions!

Fedowar Press is opening submissions for a Horror/Slasher Anthology. This is a tribute to the glorious slasher movies of the 1980s. We want the unstoppable killers, the claustrophobic sense of no escape, and of course, the blood.

This anthology is expected to release in late 2022. Submissions will be accepted until April 30, 2022.

Details

  • Suggested Length: Between 7.5k and 15k words
  • Genre: Horror, but other speculative genres may be added. For example Horror/SciFi, Horror/Fantasy,
  • Region: Can take place anywhere in the world
  • Period: Any period, present, past, future

Qualifying submissions must have never been published.

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Taking Submissions: Hex on the Beach

Deadline: November 15th, 2021
Payment: $25 US
Theme: 80’s slasher heavy in nostalgia.

Please read carefully. Submissions that don’t meet the guidelines may be rejected.

Submissions will be accepted until November 15th, 2021. Please submit to [email protected], ensuring ’Hex on the Beach’ is in the subject line.

What we are looking for:
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Taking Submissions: Into the Forest (a women-in-horror anthology)

Deadline: December 31, 2021
Payment: 6 cents a word (USD)
Theme: Stories inspired by and featuring the BABA YAGA.
Note: Open to writers who identify as women

Deep in the dark forest, in a cottage that moves through the forest on birds’ legs behind a fence topped with human skulls, lives the baba yaga. A guardian of the water of life, she lives with her sisters and takes to the skies in a giant mortar and pestle, creating tempests as she goes. Those who come across the baba yaga may find help, or hinderance, or horror. She is wild, she is woman, she is witch—and these are her tales.

We are looking for stories inspired by and featuring the BABA YAGA.

INTO THE FOREST: Tales of the Baba Yaga is a women-in-horror anthology. All writers who identify as women are welcome to submit.
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Taking Submissions: Pirating Pups

Deadline: November 30th, 2021
Payment: $50 CAD and a contributor’s copy
Theme: Pirate dogs, yes my friends, pirate dogs

How do you follow up an anthology of swashbuckling cats? With pirating dogs, of course!

As with the first anthology in this series I am looking for adventure-loving dogs, puns, water and fun. I’m looking for sailors, submariners, explorers, Vikings and more. Fun stories filled with excitement, drama, treasure-seeking, sword fights, discovering new worlds and dogs, dogs, dogs!

All. The. Dogs.
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Taking Submissions: Space Treks – A Space Opera Anthology

Deadline: January 1st, 2022
Payment: Royalties
Theme: Starships and their crews, heroic captains, villainous alien armadas etc.

TRUE STORY: A few years ago at the back of every single Star Trek novel, there was a physical address for any aspiring writer to send off their own Star Trek manuscripts for publication consideration! As the years have gone on, the laws have tightened up and characters and names have been strictly copyrighted.

So what does this have to do with our space opera call, you wonder? Well simple – we’re going to put out an anthology for all of you who always wanted to write an episode inspired by Star Trek, Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers or The Orville but missed those days of golden opportunity.

If you enjoy the thinking man’s drama of the iterations of Trek or the pulpy exploration elements of say Flash Gordon or even the more comedic chops of something like The Orville, this is your time to shine.

We look forward to reading your tales inspired by the space opera greats (including Battlestar Galactica, Firefly etc.), just make sure your story is set in space and that the universe, setting, characters and names are original and completely your own creations.
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Taking Submissions: Beyond the Veil: Queer Tales of Supernatural Love

Deadline: October 31st, 2021
Payment: 1 cent per word
Theme: Queer tales of supernatural love

Beyond the Veil: Queer Tales of Supernatural Love

Submissions Open Until October 31st

We’re looking for queer tales of supernatural love for our next major anthology, slated for a February 2022 release to coincide with Valentines Day. Sweet, sexy, scary or tragic… We’d love to see your own interpretations on what queer love means to you. We only ask that your story has a supernatural / Gothic / dark element of some kind.
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Taking Submissions: Sea Stories from the Rock

Deadline: October 31st, 2021
Payment: $0.01 CAD
Theme: Stories from a variety of genres and styles focusing on the sea, life in and around the sea, and the stories we tell ourselves about the sea.
Note: Must be a Canadian author to submit

Open Call for Sea Story Short Fiction.

Over the last six years, the From the Rock series has become one of the preeminent anthology series’ in Atlantic Canada. We have been home to some amazing established talent and helped some new authors break through that have gone on to dominate their fields, becoming genre bestsellers in their own right. From the Rock is a title readers consistently ask for, review well, and is a great way for avid readers to get introduced to indie talent they might find interesting. Since 2018, each entry in the series has become a Canadian bestseller based on pre-orders alone!

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We are currently accepting submissions for the eighth entry in this series: Sea Stories from the Rock, to be available in Winter of 2022.

Editors Ellen Curtis and Erin Vance are scheduled to return to helm the project.

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