Category: Opportunities

Events / Flash / Flat Amount / Magazine

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Taking Submissions: Fraidy Cat Quarterly Volume 7

Submission Window: July 1st – 7th, 2025
Payment: Flash (400-1500 word) $10, Shorts (1,501-8,000) $20, Black and white Artwork: $10
Theme: Rage

We are pro-simultaneous submissions for all categories. Get your work out there with publications you love, and withdraw at any time for any reason.

We try to respond as quickly as possible, but we do have lives, a family, and jobs outside of Fraidy Cat. We appreciate your understanding as we give our time, attention, and grace to all aspects to the best of our abilities.

Fraidy Cat Press is proud to present Fraidy Cat Quarterly, published four times annually in print and ebook formats.

Volume 7: Rage

  • General submissions: July 1,2025 – July 7, 2025
  • Extended window for LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and Palestinian authors: July 1, 2025 – July 14, 2025
  • Publishing in September 2025

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Events / Flat Amount / Magazine

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Taking Submissions: Brink Literary Magazine July 2025 Window

Submission Window: July 1st – 31st, 2025
Payment: Poem (per poem): $25, Work (less than 1500 words): $50, Art (1-3 Images) : $50, Art (4+ Images): $100, Work (more than 1501 words): $100
Theme: Hybrid fiction with the theme of Obsession

Brink has two reading periods per year: January and July.

July 1 – 31 we will open for submissions engaging the theme of Obsession.

Through Submittable, we accept a variety of creative work from Nonfiction to Fiction, from Poetry to Translation. But our hearts beat strongest for hybrid work.

We are interested in work that presses boundaries by using more than one medium to tell a story; work that looks and feels different on the page. Additionally, we look for submissions that engage the issue’s theme and the notion of being on the brink.
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Artwork / Events / Flash / Flat Amount / Magazine / Poetry

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Taking Submissions: Thema: Today’s Onerous Task

Deadline: November 1st, 2025
Payment: Short story, $25; nonfiction/essay, $25, short-short piece under 1000 words, $10; poem, $10; artwork/photography, $25 for cover, $10 for interior page display.
Theme: Today’s Onerous Task

The premise (target theme) must be an integral part of the story, not necessarily the central theme but not merely incidental. NOTE: Stories longer than 20 double-spaced typewritten pages will not be considered. Indicate premise (target theme) on title page. Be sure to Indicate target theme in cover letter or on first page of manuscript. Include self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) with each submission. Rejected manuscripts unaccompanied by an SASE will not be returned. Response time: 3 months after premise deadline. NO READER’S FEE.

Theme and deadline: Today’s Onerous Task (November 1, 2025)

ALL SHORT STORIES, ESSAYS, POEMS, PHOTOGRAPHS and ART MUST RELATE TO ONE OF THE PREMISES SPECIFIED ABOVE.
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Events / Flash / Magazine / Pro

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Taking Submissions: SmokeLong – Dark Fantasy and Psychological Thriller Call

Deadline: August 15th, 2025
Payment: $300
Theme: Dark Fantasy prose that explores our darkest fears

Beginning May 11th, SmokeLong will be searching for prose that is troubling, that explores our darkest fears. We’re not quite sure we’re ready for this to be honest, but that’s part of the appeal. We are looking for literary prose. We do not want to weather gratuitous violence or cruelty, but we do–or at least we think we do–want to feel fright, unease, a racing heart. If you are a writer of stories that do this, this call is for you. Think Shirley Jackson.

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Anthology / Events / Flat Amount

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Monstrous Books Is Looking for Comic Scripts for ‘Darkest Depths Volume 1’

Submission Window: June 13th – July 31st, 2025
Payment: $15 USD per page
Theme: Horror, no specific theme, but stories should be hard hitting

We’re looking for comic scripts for DARKEST DEPTHS VOL. 1, a new horror anthology series to be published by Monstrous Books and Crystal Lake Publishing.

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Anthology / Contributor's Copy / Events / Flat Amount

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Taking Submissions: More Monsters Next Door

 

Submission Window: June 1st – July 31st, 2025
Payment: $25 and a contributor’s copy
Theme: Stories about monsters living in a mundane setting

Announcing our latest horror/fantasy anthology, the follow-up to THE MONSTERS NEXT DOOR!

MORE MONSTERS NEXT DOOR will be accepting 20 short stories, each one focused on a monster living in a mundane setting. The Tudor house across from you may be Dracula’s summer home. That apartment down the hall may be Cthulhu’s downsizing goal. The hairy guy who just moved into the trailer court sure does make a lot of noise during the full moon.
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Anthology / Artwork / Events / Flash / Flat Amount

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Taking Submissions: America’s Slide Toward Authoritarianism

Deadline: July 1st, 2025
Payment: $50 for accepted story, $25 for accepted artwork
Theme: Stories/art about America’s slide toward authoritarianism – how you feel about it, what you think we can do, what form can and should resistance take, etc.

The International Human Rights Art Movement (IHRAM) issues a call for literary (poetry; short story and essay) and visual responses (submitted as hi-resolution jpegs) to this unique American moment – how you feel about it, what you think we can do, what form can and should resistance take, etc.
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Anthology / Events / Semipro

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Taking Submissions: Deep Anthology (Title TBD)

Deadline: July 31st, 2025
Payment: 5 cents per word
Theme: Stories for lovers of the unexplored depths of our planet and universe

💥OPEN CALL: DEEP ANTHOLOGY (Title TBD) with Death’s Head Press
Anticipated Release: Late Spring 2027💥

Death’s Head Press continues its exploration of dark horizons. This time we seek the abyss.

We’re putting together an anthology for lovers of the unexplored depths of our planet and the universe. We are looking for stories between 2,500 and 10,000 words that dive into the dark.
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