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Events / Flash / Flat Amount / Magazine / Poetry

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Taking Submissions: (s)crawl Fall 2025 Issue

Deadline: May 29th, 2025
Payment: $20 CAD
Theme: Diverse horror, showcasing short stories, poetry, and essays written by queer, neurodiverse, BIPOC, female, and disabled writers.

Thank you for your interest in submitting your work to (s)crawl magazine.

We are a Canadian-based magazine that publishes the best in diverse horror, showcasing short stories, poetry, and essays written by queer, neurodiverse, BIPOC, female, and disabled writers.

We accept submissions globally, however we currently only publish works in English. We welcome both seasoned and emerging writers to submit.

Please review our submission guidelines carefully before submitting your work.

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Events / Flash / Magazine / Pro

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Taking Submissions: Planet Scumm Fall 2025 Issue

Deadline: May 7th, 2025
Payment: 8 cents per word and a contributor’s copy
Theme: Speculative Fiction, ideally with sci-fi elements if not sci-fi itself

People of the World!
Planet Scumm accepts submissions from writers across the world. Our pages have hosted the imaginative work of authors from every contintent but Antartica. We want to hear from writers with as various experiences, identities, and points of view as possible.

Please do not busy our big-hearted slush readers with AI-generated tripe. Stories generated in part or whole by AI are in violation of our author contract.

Specs

WHAT TO SUBMIT

  • Hard sci-fi, soft sci-fi, sci-fi that melts in your mouth-brain not your hand-brain

  • Speculative fiction, weird fiction, slipstream

  • Basically anything that pleases Scummy, our megaphone-toting slime buddy, will be considered for entry to the interstellar archive aboard Scummy’s saucer

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Anthology / Events / Pro

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Taking Submissions: Other: The 2025 fantasy short story anthology

Art by Anwen O’Driscoll

Deadline: August 31st, 2025
Payment: $0.08 CAD per word
Theme: Fantasy short stories

OTHER: the 2025 fantasy short story anthology (Book 2 of the Other Anthology series)

We are seeking short stories by international writers. The story can be visually evocative or character/narrative focused as long as it leaves the reader thinking about the story long after closing the book. We don’t want a lesson, we want an experience that makes us come alive.

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Taking Submissions: Astrolabe First 2025 Window

Submission Window: March 20th – April 20th, 2025
Payment: $50 upon publication
Theme: Stories about how we seek out, discover, and grasp onto connection in all genres with a particular fondness for anything that moves beyond realism in form or content or spirit

Please read below for details about our next submission window, guidelines, honorariums, and rights.

At Astrolabe, we’re looking for work about how we seek out, discover, and grasp onto connection. Into the woods. Across a line. Beneath the ocean. Along a seam. Into the branches of an alternate present or the crevasse of an alternate future. Across the rifts between one another.

And then, once we find one other, the myths we make.

We’re excited to see as many interpretations of this broad theme as there are stars in the night sky.

We’re open to work of all genres, with a particular fondness for anything that moves beyond realism in form or content or spirit.

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Events / Flash / Flat Amount / Magazine / Poetry

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Taking Submissions: The First Line – Summer 2025

Deadline: May 1st, 2025
Payment: $25.00 – $50.00 for fiction, $5.00 – $10.00 for poetry
Theme: Story must begin with: No one really knows why restoration stopped on the abandoned St. Julian hotel, where commoners and kings once came to relax in luxury.

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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Events / Flat Amount / Novel / Royalties

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Taking Submissions: Medieval Horror Novel Proposals

Deadline: April 30th, 2025
Payment: $2,000 advance with 25% Royalties upon completion and final approval of the manuscript
Theme: Medieval Horror

Medieval Horror Novel Proposals

Sentinel Creatives is now accepting book proposals for 2025 in the genre of Medieval Horror.

Deadline for Submissions: 30 April 2025

Proposal Pagecount: 1–2 pages

Remuneration: $2,000 advance with 25% Royalties upon completion and final approval of the manuscript

Novel Length: 50,000–75,000 words

 

We do not expect the proposed novel to be completed or even started yet. This is an opportunity to pitch your idea and work with us to bring it to life. 

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for original weird tales set in the medieval period that explore the human (and inhuman) experience through the lens of horror.

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Taking Submissions: Sundog Literature 2025 Window #1

Deadline: March 1st – May 1st, 2025
Payment: $50
Theme: Writing that attempts to salvage something pure from the collision of warmth and cold, that says what it can about the world it finds itself in.

Schedule

We publish two issues a year, September 1 and March 1. We accept general submissions for poetry, nonfiction, and fiction between two reading periods, and the first 300 submissions to each are free. We also run a collaborative writing contest in August. We also accept visual art all year.

    • General Submissions: March 1 – May 1
    • General Submissions: October 1 – December 1
    • Collaboration Contest: July 15 –  August 31

Payment

We are thrilled to finally be able to say that, starting with issue 17, we will be able to offer our contributors a small payment of $50 upon publication.

A Note on Our Aesthetic

We believe there is beauty in scars on smooth skin, in the small fissures where things begin to break apart. Sundogs are not the sun itself but phantom stars appearing on the horizon, illusions produced by the play of the sun’s heat with crystals of ice. They shed their light all the same. Many are tinged with color.

We look for this same quality in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. We want writing that attempts to salvage something pure from the collision of warmth and cold, that says what it can about the world it finds itself in. We seek a diversity of voices speaking from visceral, lived experience. We like truth we can stare at until our eyes water, words so carefully chosen we want to reread them as soon as we have finished.

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Anthology / Contributor's Copy / Events / Flat Amount

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Taking Submissions: Where Legends Walk

Deadline: April 30th, 2025
Payment: $10.00 USD and a contributor copy
Theme: Superhero stories featuring heroic feats of derring-do in the face of immeasurable evil

Oddity Prodigy Productions is proud to announce that we are open for submissions on our latest anthology: Where Legends Walk!
These superhero stories will be an exciting tribute to extraordinary feats in the day-to-day. There is a planned Kickstarter to cover publishing costs. Publishing date and distribution is as yet undecided.
The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2025.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Look to the skies! Have you ever wondered what it would be like to leave the bonds of earth and soar through the clouds? Do you have a tale of glory, justice and honor waiting to be unleashed? In our follow up to the Utopian world of Bright Mirror, Oddity Prodigy is proud to announce our newest project, Where Legends Walk, An Anthology of Superhero Stories.
We are looking for your best stories featuring heroic feats of derring-do in the face of immeasurable evil. So channel your inner hero, lace up your boots, and join us in the fight for justice.
If you need direction or inspiration, we recommend delving into the world of comics of all genres. We will be looking at the full range of stories, from Golden Age of mystery men such as the Justice Society of America, Silver Age of heroes like the Fantastic Four, the Bronze Age wonders like the New Gods, the grime and grit of the Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, all the way through to the Modern Age.

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