Category: Flash

Flash Fiction

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Taking Submissions: Slugger Summer 2025 Window

Submission Window: June 15th – July 15th, 2025
Payment: $25
Theme: All subgenres of horror (dark fantasy, sci-fi, noir all accepted as long as horror plays a central role).

SLUGGER is the creative effort of two horror writer pals.

Send us: 

  • In general, we are open to all subgenres of horror (dark fantasy, sci-fi, noir all accepted as long as horror plays a central role).
  • Body horror tickles our fancy the most if we had to pick a subgenre, but SLUGGER will be open to all horror stories.
  • We love subversive and transgressive fiction. Anything that fits the punk ethos is likely to get our attention.
  • Stories can be speculative or not.
  • Our guidelines may change over time, but we are open to the full spectrum of genre to literary fiction, conventional storytelling to experimental, and plot driven to vibes only.

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Events / Flash / Flat Amount / Magazine / Non-fiction / Poetry / Pro

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Taking Submissions: Plott Hound Magazine June 2025 Window

Submission Window: June 1st – 15th, 2025
Payment: Fiction: 8 cents per word, Poetry: $50, Non-fiction: $100
Theme: Stories with anthropomorphized animals as protagonists in any realm of speculative fiction

Deeply animal, deeply human

We’re on the trail. We got our noses to the ground. In this den there are plott hounds sniffing out for quality animal-centric speculative fiction. Here at Plott Hound Magazine, we want stories that really dig deep into what it’s like to be an animal yet also teach us what it means to be human. Both deeply animal and deeply human. Humans have had enough stories to go around and more. It’s time to make some room for the ones with paws, claws, fangs, and tails. Let’s hear them howl, roar, growl, and hiss. Here, they run wild. Throw us a good bone to chew on. Help us fill this space to make it a dazzling menagerie.

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

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Taking Submissions: Dawn Woven Books’ First Anthology

Deadline: June 22nd, 2025
Payment: £10 and each contributor will receive one free contributor copy of the book.
Theme: Triumph, Love and Becoming.

We are honoured to open submissions for our debut anthology. This anthology is the first offering from Dawn Woven Books, a publishing space devoted to soulful and authentic storytelling. Rooted in love, truth and creative expression. This collection will gather stories that explore themes of triumph, love, healing and becoming.

This project is being developed as part of the Artist Incubator Programme with the Black South West Network, supporting creatives to bring powerful, purpose driven work into the world.

As a writer, storyteller and vessel of love. I believe that every voice holds wisdom and every story, when told with heart can bring healing. This anthology is a call to Griots, truth-tellers and heart led writers to share the lived experiences that shaped them. Together, we are weaving a tapestry of voices that honour the past, illuminate the present and make space for new light to rise.

If you have a true story that speaks to the power of perseverance, ancestral memory, self-love or the beauty of becoming, we would love to read it.

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Events / Flash / Flat Amount / Magazine / Non-fiction / Poetry

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Taking Submissions: Talk Vomit Summer 2025 Edition

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?

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Audio / Events / Flash / Flat Amount

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Taking Submissions: Creepy Corner Season 1

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:

  • PG-13 or below rating
  • Fall/Autumn and/or specific Halloween setting and themes
  • Reinterpretations of folklore or classic stories
  • Not overly dialogue-heavy

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.

 

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

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Taking Submissions: Smitten Land Issue 3

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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Events / Flash / Flat Amount / Magazine / Reprints Allowed

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Taking Submissions: parABnormal Magazine 2025 – Second Call

Submission Window: June 1st – July 31st, 2025
Payment: Fiction: $25.00 for original stories, $7.00 for reprints, $6.00 for each poem, $20.00 for original articles, $6.00 for reprints. $7.00 for reviews and interviews.
Theme: Paranormal – this includes ghosts, spectres, haunts, various whisperers, and so forth. It also includes shapeshifters and creatures from various folklores.

Submissions are accepted Feb 1 – Mar 31, Jun 1 – Jul 31, Oct 1 – Nov 30.

Anything submitted outside those periods will be deleted unread.

We no longer accept simultaneous or multiple submissions.

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No matter how far we move forward as humans, we are still bound by the instincts and ancestral memories of our animalistic past. None of these are so strong as the fight or flight response. However, there are times when we seem to be perfectly safe, completely at ease and comfortable, when that urge to run from something sneaks up on us. What causes these sensations? Is there something lurking in the darkness? Why is that man giving you the creeps, he’s not even looking at you? And yet, there is something odd. Something instinctual, something you know without fully understanding. We may have moved on, we may have forgotten and left behind those old stories and legends of beasts, voracious monsters, and dark spirits… But they have not forgotten or left us…

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

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Taking Submissions: Family, Fae, Fiend, Friend, and Foe

Submission Window: June 1st – July 31st, 2025
Payment: $10 or a contributors copy
Theme: Speculative stories featuring a family with at least one type of supernatural family member

THREE COUSINS PUBLISHING, an imprint of WEST MESA PRESS, will be accepting submissions for its fourth annual anthology with the working title, Family, Fae, Fiend, Friend, and Foe from June 1, 2025 until midnight July 31, 2025. Stories submitted before or after the submission period will not be considered.
This is a themed anthology and stories that don’t fit the theme will be rejected. Submissions must be speculative and feature a family with some type of supernatural family member or members. Vampires and fairies, gnomes and zombies, leprechauns, bigfeet, ghouls, and poltergeists are all welcome. Horror, humor, fantasy, science fiction, or even an entertaining, but bizarre mashup of genres that we haven’t considered. Your characters may be young or old and the time frame may be from the dawn of mankind to the far future. Here’s the short list of guidelines. Pay attention, please. These are important.

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