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Magazine / Ongoing Submissions / Semipro

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Ongoing Submissions: Fusion Fragment

Payment: 4 cents CAD per word
Theme: All science fiction but lean towards slipstream, cyberpunk, post-apocalypse, and anything with a little taste of the bizarre

What We Want

  • Science fiction or SF-tinged literary fiction stories and novelettes ranging anywhere from 2,000 to 15,000 words.
  • Although any science fiction subgenre is fair game, our tastes lean towards slipstream, cyberpunk, post-apocalypse, and anything with a little taste of the bizarre. FF prefers character-driven stories, and often skews towards quiet, reflective pieces. If the primary tone of your story is one of high adventure or humour, it’s probably not the right fit for FF. That said, quality always outstrips genre preference in terms of importance, so feel free to send us anything that even vaguely resembles science fiction.
  • We’ll be publishing reprints, but no more than one per issue, so expect acceptance rates to be accordingly lower.
  • Work written by humans. We have no interest in AI-written stories.
  • We’re always interested in publishing work by marginalized voices. If that’s you, and you feel comfortable doing so, please call this out in your cover letter.

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Anthology / Contributor's Copy / Events / Flash

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Taking Submissions: Trash Tales

Deadline: December 31st, 2024
Payment: Contributor’s copy
Theme: The stories must be ‘trashy’ in some way (ideas below.)

Deadline for submissions: midnight, 31 December 2024

We are excited to invite submissions for a new anthology of trashy fiction – TRASH TALES – due to be published in August 2025!

All profits (after expenses) will be donated to literacy charities in the UK and US.

The full submission guidelines are available below.

The collection will be produced by me (CriminOlly) and Alex from micro press Kilter and Rammel. Check out Kilter and Rammel’s site here.

We’re looking for short story submissions, no longer than 5000 words and previously unpublished. It can be in any category or genre you like, as long as it’s what we might all consider of a trashy nature!

Some ideas (this list is non-exhaustive):

  • Naughty nurses and sexy shifters: spicy or sweet category romance
  • One man armies: men’s adventure
  • The Wild, and sometimes Weird West: westerns
  • Trashy Tales of Terror : cheesy horror fiction featuring creepy kids, killer animals, mutants and monsters, etc.
  • Science Fiction Shenanigans: Alien invaders, technology gone haywire
  • Crime, Pulp, That Sort of Thing: Gritty detective fiction, real world or with an added twist of the supernatural/paranormal/occult
  • Mystery-solving Moggies: Cosy crime involving animals, baked goods and such like
  • Level Up: LitRPG (Literary Roleplaying Game) stories.

So get thinking up those trashy stories, and we look forward to seeing what you’ve got for us to read!

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

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Taking Submissions: Book Worms Horror Zine Issue #7

Deadline: December 15th, 2024
Payment: 8 cents a word for fiction and essays (1500 words or less). $25 for short poems (ten lines or less), $50 for longer poems. Includes one contributor copy.
Theme: Space and Science Fiction Horror (must have horror elements, not just sci-fi.)

Seeking original short stories, essays, and poems for our Winter 2025 issue.

THEME: Space and Science Fiction Horror (must have horror elements, not just sci-fi.)

DEADLINE: December 15, 2024

PAYMENT: 8 cents a word for fiction and essays (1500 words or less). $25 for short poems (ten lines or less), $50 for longer poems. Includes one contributor copy.

No reprints or multiple submissions, please. Exclusive rights for six months after publication.

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Artwork / Flash / Flat Amount / Non-fiction / Ongoing Submissions / Online / Poetry

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Ongoing Submission: Sometimes Hilarious Horror Winter

Payment: Short horror stories of up to 15,000 words – Original:$25 Reprints: $10, 1-4 original horror-centric poems with a connecting theme – Original: $25 Reprints: $10, , Novel chapters w/a complete narrative: $10, Cover Art: $25, Regular Columns or featured articles: Pay negotiable.
Theme: Horror with humor

Featured Guest Author Submission Guidelines: Sometimes Hilarious Horror

Hi, and thanks for your interest in submitting to Sometimes Hilarious Horror. We’re really proud of our little mag and excited to check out your submission.

What exactly is a Guest Author? If selected, we’ll include your submission in an upcoming issue of Sometimes Hilarious Horror, offered exclusively to subscribers of the Sometimes Hilarious Horror Ko-Fi page. Payment for selected original short stories is $25. In addition to publication of your story, we’ll ask you to complete a short interview so our readers can get to know you. Guest authors are encouraged (though not required) to market their appearance on social media and to your existing readership, families, etc.

What are we looking for? Great Question!
–Original, unpublished short horror stories of up to 15,000 words (pay $25)
–Submissions of 1-4 original, unpublished horror-centric poems with a central or connecting theme (pay $25).
–Reprints (previously published work that you currently own the rights to) of the above categories. (pay $10)
–Novel chapters will be considered provided they are a complete narrative. (pay $10)
–Cover art (pay $25). Accepted artists are also invited to be interviewed for the issue in which their work appears.
–Have an idea for a feature article or a regular column? Tell us all about it. Pay negotiable.
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Ongoing Submissions / Online / Pro

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Ongoing Submissions: The Daily Tomorrow

Payment: 10 cents per word
Theme: 2500-3500 word newer takes on science fiction

Subscribers to The Daily Tomorrow receive 300-500 word daily installments of exciting SF stories by up-and-coming writers. All stories start on Sunday and end the following Saturday.

We publish stories which are high-concept without being gimmicky. Which are about science as well as about technology. Which are populated by familiar people living under unfamiliar conditions. We publish fun stories, thinky stories, sad stories, and hopeful stories. We publish stories we think you’ll love.
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Magazine / Ongoing Submissions / Semipro

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Ongoing Submissions: Phano

Payment: 2 cents per word
Theme: Wondrous, thought-provoking content about the future. Speculative stories about the future, Think Sci-fi, not fantasy or horror

These are guidelines for submitting your work to Phano. We buy rights to short stories and essays at two cents per word. We pay for reviews, interviews and art as work-for-hire.

We are currently open for new submissions! Read on to find out how to submit your work.

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Flat Amount / Ongoing Submissions / Online

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Ongoing Submissions: Horror Smith Horror and Thriller Shorts

Payment: $25
Theme: horror and thriller short stories to be included in Fear Forge’s newsletter and for monthly subscribers

HORROR AND THRILLER SHORT STORY CONTINUOUS OPEN CALL
We are accepting horror and thriller short stories for publication in our monthly subscriptions and newsletters.

– Word Count – 3,000-10,000 words
– Theme – Open
– Flat Payment of $25 currently, though we hope to increase this amount soon, eventually to pro-paying levels.
– Must not be a simultaneous submission. Must not be a reprint.
– Submit stories to [email protected].
– Format the subject of your submission email like: Short Story – Project Title – Word Count.
– Story must be submitted as a Word .docx.
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