Category: Events

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

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Taking Submissions: Childbirth Horror Anthology

Deadline: December 23rd, 2024
Payment: $20 and a contributor’s copy
Theme: Horror that includes childbirth

Childbirth Horror Anthology
Open call for very short stories
Stories should be emotional, unexpected, incredibly well-written, and raw.
Must include a childbirth, all other elements open.

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Anthology / Artwork / Events / Flat Amount / Poetry / Semipro

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Taking Submissions: Untitled Illustrated Poetry Anthology

Deadline: May 31st, 2024
Payment: Written work: .02c/word, Artwork: $75
Theme: Grim, gothic, morbidly funny, and terrifying works

Calling all poetry authors AND artists!

We’re stepping outside of the box here and trying something new. We’re calling on poets and artists this time to help us craft an illustrated poetry anthology. Give us your limericks, sonnets, haiku, ballads, and free-verse! Have visual poetry? EVEN BETTER. We want grim, gothic, morbidly funny, terrifying works.

Your poetry submission:

  • should be 150 lines (not words) max
  • horror centric
  • any form of poetry is allowed
  • multiple submissions allowed

Your art submission:

  • color or black/white (a color edition is tentatively planned)
  • various sizes/dimensions considered
  • submit as jpg, tiff, png, or pdf
  • multiple submissions allowed
  • NO GENERATIVE AI ART OF ANY KIND.


Est. publication date: July 2025
Compensation (written work): .02c/word
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Anthology / Events / Royalties

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Taking Submissions: Lured Into The Deep

Deadline: February 28th, 2025
Payment: Authors get 30% Royalties for first year from date of publication. Afterwards, 30% of all
proceeds go to a charity chosen by the Publisher
Theme: All mermaids (and their kin), kraken (sea monsters), underwater civilizations, etc. stories are welcome. All genres are accepted.

LURED INTO THE DEEP
(Rated R)

Deadline – February 28th, 2025
Publication – May 2025
Word Count – 3,000-20,000
Theme – All mermaids (and their kin), kraken (sea monsters), underwater civilizations, etc. stories are welcome. All genres are accepted.

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

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Taking Submissions: The Best Trans Horror of the Year, Volume One

Deadline: January 1st, 2025
Payment: Fiction: 2c per word plus a paperback contributor copy, Poetry: $25 plus a paperback contributor copy
Theme: Reprints of horror stories published in 2024 by authors who identify as trans or nonbinary

Last week, just a few days after the election, I had a bit of a manic episode that ended with me dying my fading lavender hair black and posting the following on Bluesky:

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Anthology / Contributor's Copy / Events / Royalties

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Taking Submissions: Noncorporeal III: Nightfall

Deadline: January 31st, 2025
Payment: Royalties and if in the US a contributors copy
Theme: Spooky stories that aren’t horror which contain at least one paranormal entity and ideally will include a scene at night or take place at night

Submission Period: November 1, 2024 to January 31, 2025

We’re searching for the spooky stories. This is not horror, though there may be suspense and even a dash of horror. A spooky, haunting, incorporeal element is certainly expected. Humor and mystery beats are welcome.
Incorporeal – At least one paranormal entity must be not composed of matter; having no material existence.
Nightfall – Some stories selected will have a component of night to them, it is not required for submission
Express yourself as the theme moves you.
There is no restriction as to how you incorporate the theme into your story. However, we’ll be seriously impressed if you can work within Sci-Fi or Fantasy, but they might not be the bulk of the accepted submissions. We encourage you to weave the theme into an engaging story with well-developed characters and deep emotion. Suspense and thrillers are encouraged over horror for this anthology, but a great horror story may rise to the top.
Stories that contain infanticide, rape, or gratuitous gore will not be accepted.

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Taking Submissions: Silk and Foxglove

Deadline: December 31st, 2024
Payment: 1 cent USD per word
Theme: Eco-horror with a sexy or erotic spin
Note: Only open to BIPOC authors

Z. K. Abraham (she/her) is a writer and psychiatrist. She has been published in Clarkesworld, The Rumpus, Fantasy Magazine, FIYAH Magazine, JMWW, and more. She will be a Royal Literary Fund Reading Round lector for 2024-2025. She is represented by Carleen Geisler at ArtHouse Literary Agency.

Read Abraham’s interview here!

Eco-horror explores the idea of nature becoming the source of terror; in an article for MUBI, Danielle Burgos describes eco-horror as “nature becomes uncanny and maliciously turned against man.” In a Teen Vogue article “Ecosexuals are Queering Environmentalism,” musician Peaches describes Mother Earth as a lover. “Sex-ecologist” Annie Sprinkle amusingly reflects on how “all this wood here is very sensual.” Ecosexuality might include, “masturbating with water pressure, using eco-friendly lubricant, or literally having sex with a tree.”

Nature as setting or character contains so much possibility for the sensual and horrifying. Nature is inherently physical and erotic; we are stripped down to our most grounded, raw selves in nature. We can experience the tactile and sensual when we touch plants, bark, earth, when we smell flowers, when we feel the shift in temperature or moisture in the air. However, nature contains decay as well as growth. Shadows move between distant trees, while legends and folktales come to life in forests and valleys and deserts. In nature’s beauty, there is a sense of power beyond our grasp, an awe-inspiring terror, as well as a delicate intimacy.

With this anthology, we are looking for stories between 1500 to 4000 words (firm) that explore eco-horror with a sexy or erotic spin. Please note that for this call, we will only be considering submissions from BIPOC authors. Additionally, while a portion of the anthology will be from invited contributors, Hedone Books is dedicated to encouraging and elevating new voices in the community. For this reason, we are pledging that at least 70% of the anthology’s total word count come from unsolicited submissions.

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Events / Flat Amount / Novella / Royalties

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Little Ghosts Is Open To Novellas Submissions

Deadline: December 31st, 2024
Payment: An unannounced signing bonus (not to be deducted from royalties), and royalties are set at 40% to the author
Theme: Horror fiction between 17-40k words

LITTLE GHOSTS is open for Novella Submissions!

Little Ghosts Press will be open for novella submissions from Oct. 31- Dec. 31st.

Please submit with:

  •  your name or pseudonym
  • a short (50-100 word) author bio
  • a synopsis of the piece for submission, up to 1k words. Tell us about the characters, the setting, the plot and tone of the novella.

We are looking for horror fiction at a finished length of 17-40k words. Priority will be given to LGBTQA+ stories and BIPOC authors.
Little Ghosts Books will only be accepting TWO novellas for this call. As a result, please know that we will receive more exciting pitches than we can take on. A pass on your pitch is not reflective of the quality of the work, but rather the limitations of our submission call.

A chapter sample will be requested by January 15th if we are interested in your pitch! All acceptances and passes will be sent by Feb. 1st. Simultaneous submissions are welcome.

 

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