Category: Online

Ongoing Submissions: Calliope

Payment: $0.05 / word.
Theme: All forms of genre fiction

Calliope is an upcoming, publishing app dedicated to genre fiction — interactive, illustrated fiction.

Anything to do with high fantasy, operatic sci-fi, heart-stopping action, that’s our jam. Combine that with visually stunning imagery that responds to your touch, and you have our mission. We’re looking for short stories (2,000 – 4,000 words) and flash fictions (100 – 1,000 words) of any type of genre fiction (i.e., romance, horror, fantasy, etc.)

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Ongoing Submissions: 224-Verse

Payment: Royalties
Theme: Space Opera

Theme: Space Opera.

Submission Period: Ongoing.

Word Count: Anything from 2,000 words to novel length. Submission should be written in third person point of perspective, past tense.

Author Eligibility: Open to all.

Reprints: Not allowed.

Simultaneous Submissions: Not allowed.

Multiple Submissions: Allowed but please wait for a response on your previous submission before sending the next.

Publication: Each story will be a standalone publication, published in digital format, unless otherwise indicated. Sequels are always a possibility, as are print editions, especially for authors with multiple pieces accepted into the universe.

Author Compensation: Royalty split.

To find out more, about what content we are looking for, please visit our 224-Verse page.

Please make sure to read our Submission Guidelines before submitting. Thanks!

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Ongoing Submissions: Big Bearded Bookseller

Payment: £0.02 per word up to a maximum of £20
Theme: All forms of speculative fiction

Big Bearded Bookseller is looking for previously unpublished short stories (up to 7500 words), flash fiction (up to 500 words), and drabbles (100 word short fictions) of speculative fiction. Sci-fi, fantasy, horror and all their sub groupings are welcome.

 

All writing will be paid at £0.02 per word up to a maximum of £20, all payments will be made by PayPal, this will be paid on the date of publication. I’m looking to increase this rate as soon as I can, but that will be dependent on subscriptions and donations through Ko-Fi and Patreon.

I aim to have a response time of 6 days, if you don’t hear from me within 6 days of submitting please contact me at the email below.

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Ongoing Submissions: Galactic Treks

Payment: Royalties
Theme: Space Opera

Theme: Space Opera.

Submission Period: Ongoing.

Word Count: Anything from 2,000 words to novel length. Submission should be written in third person point of perspective, past tense.

Author Eligibility: Open to all.

Reprints: Not allowed.

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Taking Submissions: Short Story Substack February 2023 Window (Early Listing)

Submission Window: February 1st – 28th, 2023
Payment: $100 for the chosen story + 50% of subscription revenue
Theme: Any genre, short story

Mission = Revive the art of the short story, support artists, and produce something wonderful.

Payout = Base Pay of $100 for the chosen story + 50% of subscription revenue to be sent by Paypal, Zelle, or check.

Wait, you mean if this substack gets thousands of subscribers, the winner would get thousands of dollars?

Yes! The New Yorker pays roughly $7,500 per story and I sincerely hope to go way past that.

What does the timeline look like?

Submit stories by the end of the month, winner to be announced on the 15th. There is ONE story that wins and receives the full payout.

Where do I send submissions?

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Taking Submissions: NonBinary Review #31

Deadline: February 1st, 2023
Payment: Fiction: 1 cent per word, Poetry: $10 per poem, Art: $25 flat fee, Cover art: $50
Theme: Food

NonBinary Review is open for submissions on the theme of “food.” Food touches every single person on the planet, and can be one of the most fraught relationships a person can have. We’re not looking for recipes, or stories in which food is incidental. We want to read about how food joins people, divides people, shapes those with too much and those with not enough. Who grows food? Who hauls it around? Who cooks it? How is working professionally with food different than cooking at home? There are so many aspects of this necessity of life, and we want to hear them – especially the unexpected, the complicated, the life-changing.

All submissions must have a clear relationship to our theme, and be double-spaced in 12pt Times New Roman or they will be rejected. NonBinary Review  pays 1¢ per word for prose with a limit of 3000 words.

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Taking Submissions: Short Story Substack January 2023 Window (Early Listing)

Submission Window: January 1st-31st, 2022
Payment: $100 for the chosen story + 50% of subscription revenue
Theme: Any genre, short story

Mission = Revive the art of the short story, support artists, and produce something wonderful.

Payout = Base Pay of $100 for the chosen story + 50% of subscription revenue to be sent by Paypal, Zelle, or check.

Wait, you mean if this substack gets thousands of subscribers, the winner would get thousands of dollars?

Yes! The New Yorker pays roughly $7,500 per story and I sincerely hope to go way past that.

What does the timeline look like?

Submit stories by the end of the month, winner to be announced on the 15th. There is ONE story that wins and receives the full payout.
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Ongoing Submissions: Brilliant Flash Fiction

Payment: $20
Theme: Fiction story told in under 1000 words

Tell us a story in 1,000 words or less.

Email it to [email protected].

If we like it, we’ll publish it in the next available edition of Brilliant Flash Fiction.

Please send original, unpublished work.

We accept all fiction genres. No graphic violence or adult content, please.

Be sure to paste your story into the body of your email and also attach it as a .doc file. Do NOT send PDF files.

Please do not submit more than two stories quarterly (during a 3-month period).

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