Category: Anthology

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Taking Submissions: The Cellar Door: Marshland Horror #5 (Early Listing)

Submission Window: December 1st, 2023 – January 31st, 2024
Payment: $25 and a contributor’s copy
Theme: Horror/suspense stories that take place in swamps, bayous, and marshlands

The Cellar Door – Issue #5: Marshland Horrors
Compiled & Edited by Aric Sundquist
Short Story Submission Call: Dec 1, 2023 – Jan 31, 2024
The Cellar Door is a biannual anthology of dark fiction. Each issue will contain 8 to 12 stories based around a specific theme and will include a brand new story from a featured author. The majority of the anthology will be filled from the open submissions.

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Ongoing Submissions: StoSo Times and StoSo Ink

Payment: Contributor’s Copy and $5
Theme: Speculative fiction – that is stories and poems and art in the genres of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, and any combination thereof.

StoSo Press is currently seeking submissions for our new publications StoSo Times and StoSo Ink.

StoSo Times is a monthly online publication that specializes in the genres of Fantasy, Sci-fi, and Horror. StoSo Times will be sent first as a newsletter edition, then shared on our website as part of StoSo Ink. Our goal is to publish at least one story and one poem per genre on our online editions. Every 12 months we will include the year’s publications in a print anthology.

Eventually we plan to expand into publishing novels and nonfiction as it relates to SFFH, such as thought-provoking essays, book reviews and recommendations, author interviews, excerpts from forthcoming books, and other noteworthy industry news. Additionally, we intend to release more SFFH anthologies, video and audio content to further explore the realms of speculative fiction.

If you’re interested in volunteering as a slush reader (or other role) please reach out.

Detailed instructions for submitting to StoSo Press follow.

 

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Taking Submissions: The Dragon’s Hoard 2

Submission Window: November 1st 2023 to March 31st, 2024
Payment: $15 and equal share of 50% of the anthology’s royalties
Theme: Stories about dragons—their hoard or lack thereof must factor into the story in some way.

At WolfSinger Publications, we love all kinds of creatures – especially DRAGONS. Dragons love…well…their hoard. Be it a hoard of gold, gems, books, virgins, whatever your dragon loves to collect and hoard. Or maybe your dragon doesn’t have a hoard—well then WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOUR DRAGON? —All dragons have a hoard—don’t they? If he doesn’t—then explain why not.

We’re looking for stories about dragons—their hoard or lack thereof must factor into the story in some way.

Since dragons are primarily a creature of fantasy I’m sure we’ll get plenty of fantasy stories; but we’ll take science fiction as well as any other speculative fiction genre, but you MUST be creative. A creative twist on the idea of dragons and their hoards is the most important part of the story.

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Taking Submissions: Grumpy Old Sherwood

Deadline: May 1st, 2024
Payment: Royalties
Theme: Stories related to Robin Hood or Sherwood Forest with at least one grumpy character that are amusing and speculative fiction

Hear ye!  Hear ye!! 

It’s time for another Grumpy Anthology and this time we’re heading to those forests of yore to revamp tales of Robin Hood and his Merry Men. That’s right, we’re off to the land of leather jerkins and longbows for another chance for a Grumpy twist on a classic mythos.  

Why Robin Hood you ask?

We’re so glad you asked.

Authors are readers, and for many of us, this group of stories are a cherished childhood memory.  Robin Hood wandered in and out of English Literature leaving a trail of tales (looking at you Ivanhoe), despite being the original rebel bad boy.

He literally robs from people who are in power.

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Taking Submissions: The Beast Hunt

Deadline: April 1st, 2024
Payment: Royalties
Theme: Monsters have feelings too, even if it’s used to rage against the machine.

Genre: Speculative Fiction

Theme: Monsters have feelings too, even if it’s used to rage against the machine.

Concept: Sometimes we’re all misunderstood… and this is doubly true when you are a monster living in a human’s world. We want you to tell the story of one creature’s struggle to survive in an uncaring world.

Word Count: 5,000 – 10,000 (standard word count)

Opening by: TBD

Edited by: JR Handley & Bayonet Books

Anchor Author: TBD

Due Date: April 1, 2024

Email Submissions to: an[email protected] with “Beast Hunt” in the subject line

Payment: Stories selected for publication in the upcoming Anthology(ies), will receive a percentage of sales divided equally between the contributing authors.

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Taking Submissions: Contested Landing

Deadline: February 1st, 2024
Payment: Royalties
Theme: Space soldiers during an assault

Genre: Military Science Fiction

Theme: Assault on the beachhead or LZ (landing zone)

Concept: We’re looking for the vibe of the ODST from HALO or the men and women from Starship Troopers. These are the soldiers who’re riding flying coffins to the ground so they can make a beachhead for the main assault.

Word Count: 5,000 – 10,000 (standard word count)

Opening Essay by: TBD

Edited by: JR Handley & Bayonet Books

Anchor Author: TBD

Due Date: February 1, 2024

Email Submissions to: anthologi[email protected] with “Contested Landing” in the subject line

Payment: Stories selected for publication in the upcoming Anthology(ies), will receive a percentage of sales divided equally between the contributing authors.

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Taking Submissions: Dragons & Heroes

Deadline: November 30th, 2023
Payment: 30% of royalties split between authors for the first year of sales. After the first year, these royalties go to charity
Theme: All dragon stories with a male main character. All genres accepted.
Note: I will say that I’m not a huge fan of this royalty structure. However, I’ve been asked multiple times recently on fantasy anthologies that were open to shorts so wanted to put a spotlight on this one for that reason.

DRAGONS & HEROES
(Rated R)

Deadline – October 31st, 2023 November 30th, 2023
Publication – January 2024
Word Count – 3,000-20,000
Theme – All dragon stories with a male main character. All genres accepted.

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Taking Submissions: Winter in the City: A Collection of Dark Urban Stories

Deadline: March 31st, 2024
Payment: 10 cents per word
Theme: Dark stories that take place in a city during the winter season

Thank you for your interest in submitting your work to this anthology. We look forward to reading your short story. Please read the following information to help you to become familiar with the anthology and the submission guidelines.

THE CITY

Noisy, crowded, ever in motion, the City can be more than a setting—it can be a character, as nuanced and as fickle as a human being, with as many traits and quirks as the best mapped out characters. The City can be the ever-present and constant companion (or foe) to the protagonist and antagonist alike.

Winter in the City: A Collection of Dark Urban Stories is an anthology that takes place in different cities around the world during the bleak—sometimes harsh—season of winter. Your story submission must conform to the guidelines listed below and feature the City—in fact, the title of each story will be the City of which you write.

We are not looking for vampire/werewolf love trysts. We are looking for fantastical elements within the City itself.

Because we all know—deep in our hearts—that nightmares and fairies, monsters and ghosts, and terrors of the real and imagined call the City their home.
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