Category: Anthology

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Taking Submissions: The First Line – Fall 2022

Deadline: August 1st, 2022
Payment: $25.00 – $50.00 for fiction, $5.00 – $10.00 for poetry
Theme: Story must begin with: Lily unlocked the back door of the thrift store using a key that didn’t belong to her.

Fall: Lily unlocked the back door of the thrift store using a key that didn’t belong to her.
Due date: August 1, 2022

We love that writers around the world are inspired by our first lines, and we know that not every story will be sent to us. However, we ask that you do not submit stories starting with our first lines to other journals (or post them online on public sites) until we’ve notified you as to our decision (usually four weeks after the deadline). When the entire premise of the publication revolves around one sentence, we don’t want it to look as if we stole that sentence from another writer. If you have questions, feel free to drop us a line.

Also, we understand that writers may add our first line to a story they are currently working on or have already completed, and that’s cool. But please do not add our first line to a previously published story and submit it to us. We do not accept previously published stories, even if they have been repurposed for our first lines. And, just to be clear, we do not accept simultaneous submissions.

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Taking Submissions: Campfire Macabre: Volume 2 (Early Listing)

Submission Window: June 1st to August 15th, 2022
Payment: $.08/word
Theme: When We Were Getting High, My Last Trick ‘r Treat, Body Grotesquerie, Ominous Visitors From Deep Space, and Out in the Fields, Forests, and Lakes

From June 1st until Aug 15th we’ll accept original 500-1500 word flash horror fiction for the second installment in our Campfire Macabre series. No reprints. Paying $.08/word. Send stories to [email protected] attached in doc or rtf.

There will be four to five themes. Please only write one story per theme. You may submit stories for more than one theme, but please submit all your stories at one time in the same email.

In the subject line of your email please put your story title, theme, wordcount. If you sub more than one story put the wordcount, theme, and titles of the other stories in the body of your email.

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Anthology / Events / Flat Amount / Reprints Allowed

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Taking Submissions: Exhaustion: Limited Reserves

Deadline: May 31st, 2022
Payment: $15 CAD upon publication ($10 for reprints)
Theme: Exhaustion: Limited Reserves
Note: Reprints Welcome

“Exhaustion: Limited Reserves”

Chapbook – Poetry and Flash Fiction

Deadline: May 31, 2022

A common human experience is exhaustion in its many guises. Feeling used up or worn out. Reaching the limits of our personal and collective resources. Tapping out. Laying waste to the planet. Burning fuel until there’s nothing left but fumes. Covering a topic in its entirety, until everything that could be said has been said.

This chapbook will engage these and other notions of exhaustion.
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Anthology / Events / Semipro

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Taking Submissions: Bound in Flesh: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror

Deadline: July 31st, 2022
Payment: $0.05 per word
Theme: Body Horror
Note: This anthology is only open to writers who identify as Transgender and Non-Binary.

Bound in Flesh: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror edited by Lor Gislason.

FROM THE EDITOR:

Hello, my name is Lor Gislason (they/them) and I will be the editor of BOUND IN FLESH. Body horror has been a part of my life for many years, in one way or another; From cartoons that stretch and twist characters, to personal favourites like Hellraiser and Possessor that push the human form beyond what is imaginable. While being uncomfortable with your body is not the case for all trans and NB folks, it is very common–hence why I think the genre draws so many of us to it. The cathartic nature of horror is the connective tissue that brings us together. I want to give other trans and NB authors the chance to showcase their work in a genre that so often is cis-centric, to tell their own stories and reaffirm that trans writers belong in horror.

This anthology is only open to writers who identify as Transgender and Non-Binary.

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Anthology / Events / Flat Amount / Reprints Allowed

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Taking Submissions: “Home: What Is It and How Do I Get There?”

Deadline: April 30th, 2022
Payment: $15 CAD upon publication ($10 for reprints)
Theme: This chapbook will speak to various experiences of home, with an emphasis on those that are complex or challenging.
Note: Reprints Welcome
Note: I suspect horror would be a hard sell on this unless it really nailed the topic, read on!

“Home: What Is It and How Do I Get There?”

Chapbook – Poetry and Flash Fiction

Deadline: April 30, 2022

What is home? Is it a place? A feeling? A person? Does it shift and change? Can you point towards it but never quite attain it?

This chapbook will speak to various experiences of home, with an emphasis on those that are complex or challenging.
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Anthology / Contributor's Copy / Events / Semipro

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Taking Submissions: Corporate Catharsis: The Work From Home Edition

Deadline: July 30th, 2022
Payment: $0.02 per word + two (2) contributor copies
Theme: The impact of the COVID pandemic on your personal and professional life through your speculative fiction.

The pandemic came and the world changed. Lives have changed; work has changed. The boundaries between reality and fantasy have become as blurred as those between life and work.

Corporate Catharsis: The Work From Home Edition gives you the opportunity to explore the impact of the COVID pandemic on your personal and professional life through your speculative fiction.

We’re certain that you can, far too easily, find inspiration from your real or virtual workplace. Magic, mayhem, revenge — and, yes, perhaps even redemption — can all be found there.
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Taking Submissions: Science Write Now #7 (AU Only)

Deadline: April 29th, 2022
Payment: $0.30/word up to $390 for new writing, $70 for a single poem or $180 for three poems, $40 for reprint stories or essays, and $20 for reprint poems.
Theme: Science, Humour and the Absurd
Note: Australian writers or by writers living in Australia Only *At This Time*
Note: Reprints Welcome

We welcome submissions anytime!

Please submit your new or previously published poems, short stories, book reviews, or literary or personal essays related to science, technology, engineering, or maths.

Current call for submissions: Our seventh issue is based on the theme ‘Science, Humour and the Absurd’.
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