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Taking Submissions: Gauges and Ghouls

Deadline: May 31st, 2025
Payment: Royalties
Theme: Haunted workplace stories

What I’m Looking For: Haunted workplace stories, modern day or historical, it’s completely up to you. Just write a great character-driven story that hooks the reader fast and reels them in hard. There do NOT need to be ghosts. You don’t need to have a truly haunted workplace. You can have spooky vibes, vampires, werewolves, the whole nine.

Story length will be between 5,000 and 10,000 words.

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Events / Flash / Flat Amount / Magazine / Poetry / Token Payment

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Taking Submissions: Eternal Haunted Summer: Summer Solstice 2025

Submission Window: May 1st – June 1st, 2025
Payment: $5
Theme: Poetry or short fiction about the Gods and Goddesses and heroes of the world’s many Pagan/polytheist traditions that somehow features Music

Summer Solstice 2025: Music. Submission Period: 1 May through 1 June 2025. Jazz and blues. Rock and opera. Ballads and filk songs. Music has been an integral element of human creativity and culture since we first learned to carve holes into bones. Send us your best poems, short stories, and essays about music — in all its forms — from a Pagan/polytheist, witchy, and mythological point of view. Send us poems about the duel between Apollo and Marsyas, Bragi wooing Idun, and Pan stalking a poacher with madness-inducing pipe music. Send us short stories about a desperate musician making a crossroads deal with Dionysus, a composer praying to Hymen for inspiration, an archaeologist uncovering a temple and sacred instruments of Kothar-wa-Khasis. Send us essays about Väinämöinen as archetypal musician, Mozart’s opera Apollo et Hyacinthus, and the rise of the modern Pagan music scene.

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Events / Novel / Royalties

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Terrorcore is looking For YA-ish Horror Novels

Query Deadline: April 2nd, 2025
Payment: 50/50 profit split of books sold
Theme: YA Horror (Think Point Horror, Christopher Pike, and R.L. Stine (Fear Street))

Are you a fan of Point Horror, Christopher Pike, and R.L. Stine (Fear Street) from the ’80s and ’90s? Terrorcore Publishing LLC is thrilled to announce an all-new subline—Terrorcore Rewind—dedicated to capturing the chilling nostalgia of that era.
We’re seeking original horror stories that feel they could have come straight from that time period. Stories should be set between 1985-1995, with young adult protagonists (ages 15-19). While we expect YA-aged characters, these stories are not strictly YA, allowing for slightly more mature themes than the original Point Horror books.

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Anthology / Contributor's Copy / Events / Flat Amount

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Taking Submissions: Untitled Science Fiction Anthology

Deadline: August 1st, 2025
Payment: $10 and a contributors copy
Theme: Pure science fiction stories between 2,000 and 8,000 words

What we Want: Good science fiction stories between 2,000 and 8,000 words for our upcoming anthology. No fantasy or horror. We will read any science fiction stories.

What we Don’t Want: We don’t want porn. No poetry. We don’t want pure romance stories, but of course you can have romance in the story (You know what we mean). If you don’t have a clue then just send it anyway, I reckon.

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

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Taking Submissions: Saturday Mourning Television

Deadline: June 30th, 2025
Payment: $35 and a contributors copy
Theme: Short horror fiction inspired by early morning kids TV

Send us your best short horror fiction inspired by early morning kids TV for our next anthology, Saturday Mourning Television. Tune us in to something scary based on any decade you like: the educational/bizarre 1960’s & 70’s, the advert-packed 80’s, the radical 90’s, the wayward & wacky 2000’s or anything beyond. Even web-based entertainment is fair game. And don’t limit yourself to tales involving kids, what about parents, or performers & hosts, workers behind the scenes, even animated creations. Let your imagination go wild, and remember not to sit too close to the screen!

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Anthology / Events / Flat Amount / Token Payment

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Taking Submissions: HellBound Books’ anthology of Campfire Stories

Deadline: June 30th, 2025
Payment: $5
Theme: Terrifying Tales to be told around a campfire!

Send us your creepiest, most spine-chilling tales of terror best told around the campfire or a late-night sleepover! We’re looking for mysterious strangers calling from inside the house, weird, inhuman beings lurking in the woods, inexplicable behaviours from once-trusted friends and relatives that may be madness, a brain-altering disease, demonic posession, or something much, much worse…

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Anthology / Events / Flat Amount

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Taking Submissions: Scary Stories to Tell in October

Submission Window: April 1st – 15th, 2025
Extended Window (Disabled, Neurodiverse, BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+, and other underrepresented voices): April 16th – 30th, 2025
Payment: $13
Theme: Halloween

Death by TBR Books is a woman/disability owned indie online bookshop and indie press. We will be opening submissions for our upcoming Halloween horror anthology set to be released in August 2026!

If you don’t know the owner of Death by TBR Books then you may not be aware of her obsession for all things fall and Halloween. THIS anthology will be all about Halloween. This could be a nostalgic memory from your childhood or a more recent Halloween experience.

We strongly encourage lovers of Halloween to apply even if you don’t have prior publishing experience. From folk horror and vampires to psychological and werewolves and beyond. Think of nostalgic media that you watch every year. We want those who miss Halloween and October every year to have a way to stop and savor it every day of the month.

Submissions

Scary Stories to Tell in October
A Halloween Horror Anthology

Open call submission window: April 1st – April 15th
Extended submission window: April 16th – April 30th
(Exclusively for Disabled, Neurodiverse, BIPOC, 2SLGBTQ+, and other underrepresented voices.)
We are looking for 31 flash fiction/short stories so people can spend every day of October reading a very short story.

Payment
Royalties are $13 for the story and one electronic copy of the anthology.

Word Count
Between 2,000 and 4,000 words.

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

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Taking Submissions: Ghost to Ghost to Ghost

Submission Window: April 2nd – 16th, 2025
Payment: $15.00 CAD and a contributors copy
Theme: Ghosts in Canada
Note: Canadian authors only

Submissions open April 02 – 16

Canadians! We want your strange, unsettling, spooky tales featuring a ghost of one kind or another  – open to your interpretation.

From the Atlantic to the Pacific and anywhere in between…from our southern border up to the Arctic Ocean – from coast, to coast to coast, bring us your ghosts.

 

Original stories only – written by you, not previously published.

Set in Canada, written by Canadian authors.

500 – 1500 words.

(The submission portal will show 2 categories: flash fiction 500-1000 words, and short stories 1000-1500 words)

 

Please only submit one story

Simultaneous submissions are fine, please withdraw your story if accepted elsewhere.

 

 

NO AI: we do not want to publish work written in whole, in part, or assisted by artificial intelligence.

We want to publish your words, not machine-genterated words, which, by the way, are taken from other authors’ work – that is how these ‘programs’ are trained. So no, no thank you.

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