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Taking Submissions: At the Edge of Darkness (Early)

Submission Window: January 1st, 2024 – February 29th, 2024
Payment: $25 and a contributor’s copy
Theme: Stories on that dark, half-lit space where crime and horror simultaneously reside.

We are excited to announce At the Edge of Darkness, the sixth edition of our original Shotgun Honey Presents anthology series. At the Edge of Darkness will release October 1st, 2024 right in time for the Halloween Season, featuring stories on that dark, half-lit space where crime and horror simultaneously reside. That’s right, we’re dipping our toe into the dark pool of horror and we’re not doing it alone.

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Taking Submissions: Arithmophobia: An Anthology of Mathematical Horror

Deadline: December 31st, 2023
Payment: $0.01 per word and a contributors copy
Theme: horror stories with a mathematical theme

Polymath Press is pleased to announce a new anthology to be titled Arithmophobia: An Anthology of Mathematical Horror edited by Robert Lewis.  We are now open for submissions of original horror stories with a mathematical theme. Please read these guidelines carefully to maximize your chances of placing a story in our anthology.

About the anthology: Polymath Press founder and executive editor Robert Lewis has spent years looking for good horror stories with some kind of mathematical content.  As it turns out, they’re rather rare, so he’s decided to assemble a brand new anthology of such short stories.  The anthology is to be called Arithmophobia: An Anthology of Mathematical Horror and will be published by Polymath Press in early 2024.

What we’re looking for: We want your best horror stories with some kind of mathematical theme.  Of course, the story must come first, so don’t bog us down in technical details.  After all, we don’t want to limit our readership to only doctoral-level mathematicians.  However, make sure the mathematical ideas are clearly featured in the story.  What kind of mathematical ideas do we want? That’s for you to decide.  Think outside the box and give us something interesting.  Show us weird geometries, cursed numbers, mathematicians going crazy, you name it.  Most importantly of all, remember that we want math AND horror, so make it as scary as you can.

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Taking Submissions: The Cellar Door: Marshland Horror #5 (Early Listing)

Submission Window: December 1st, 2023 – January 31st, 2024
Payment: $25 and a contributor’s copy
Theme: Horror/suspense stories that take place in swamps, bayous, and marshlands

The Cellar Door – Issue #5: Marshland Horrors
Compiled & Edited by Aric Sundquist
Short Story Submission Call: Dec 1, 2023 – Jan 31, 2024
The Cellar Door is a biannual anthology of dark fiction. Each issue will contain 8 to 12 stories based around a specific theme and will include a brand new story from a featured author. The majority of the anthology will be filled from the open submissions.

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Ongoing Submissions: StoSo Times and StoSo Ink

Payment: Contributor’s Copy and $5
Theme: Speculative fiction – that is stories and poems and art in the genres of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, and any combination thereof.

StoSo Press is currently seeking submissions for our new publications StoSo Times and StoSo Ink.

StoSo Times is a monthly online publication that specializes in the genres of Fantasy, Sci-fi, and Horror. StoSo Times will be sent first as a newsletter edition, then shared on our website as part of StoSo Ink. Our goal is to publish at least one story and one poem per genre on our online editions. Every 12 months we will include the year’s publications in a print anthology.

Eventually we plan to expand into publishing novels and nonfiction as it relates to SFFH, such as thought-provoking essays, book reviews and recommendations, author interviews, excerpts from forthcoming books, and other noteworthy industry news. Additionally, we intend to release more SFFH anthologies, video and audio content to further explore the realms of speculative fiction.

If you’re interested in volunteering as a slush reader (or other role) please reach out.

Detailed instructions for submitting to StoSo Press follow.

 

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Taking Submissions: Essays On Writing Military-themed Sci-Fi & Other Genres

Deadline: December 1st, 2023
Payment: A contributor’s copy
Theme: A non-fiction guide that is looking for 300-word proposals for articles on writing military-themed genre stories
Note: This is a little different than usual but I felt it would be an interesting exercise for some of our non-fiction writing authors.

Middle West Press LLC, an independent micro-publisher of military-themed and -adjacent literary projects, has issued a call for 300-word proposals regarding craft essays on the writing of Military-themed Science-Fiction and Other Genres. Editors there write:

In 2019, we published “Why We Write: Craft Essays on Writing War,” a 250-page anthology featuring tips, techniques, and insights from more than 60 established and emerging authors, each of whom tell stories involving military themes and topics. With this newly proposed project, we are aiming at similar targets, but viewed through a specific scope: how military-writers write and publish creative, genre, and speculative fiction.

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Taking Submissions: The Devil You Know Best

Submission Window: November 1st, 2023 – January 31st, 2024
Payment: $25 and a contributors copy
Theme: Stories that involve an encounter with the literary/mythological/theological Devil

Reading from 1 November 2023 through 31 January 2024. Publishing target March 2024.

Critical Blast Publishing will be opening their reading period for the third volume in THE DEVIL YOU KNOW anthology collection, THE DEVIL YOU KNOW BEST. We are looking for stories that involve an encounter with the literary/mythological/theological Devil himself in situations that range from comedy to tragedy, via horror, comedy, fantasy, or science fiction. All genres welcome as long as the theme is met.

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Taking Submissions: Giant Robot Poems

Deadline: December 4th, 2023
Payment: Contributors Copy
Theme: War Poems about Emerging & Future Tech

Middle West Press LLC, an independent micro-publisher of military-themed and -adjacent literary projects, has issued a call for human-generated poems engaging with  “Giant Robot” technology themes. This is a “speculative poetry” market.

 

What is a “Giant Robot” theme? For this project, the term “Giant Robots” can include examples of technologies in timelines both real and imagined, and of any size or (even formless) form. Living Ships. Loitering Drones. Taxi-cab AI. Robot Tanks. Virtual Soldiers. Space Explorers. Mecha-suits. In short, any vessel for exploring themes of human-electro-mechanical-cyber interaction, connection, and competition.

The working title of this project is Giant Robot Poems: Poetry About Mecha-Human Science, Culture & War.

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Taking Submissions: The Black Beacon Book of Pirate Tales

Deadline: December 31st, 2023
Payment: $20 USD for original stories and $5 for reprints and a contributor’s copy
Theme: Pirate tales, preferably about pirates and buccaneers from the 16th to 18th centuries
Note: Reprints Welcome

For this anthology, we’re looking for pirate tales, prefereably about pirates and buccaneers from the 16th to 18th centuries. Stories set in completely fictional/fantasy worlds will be considered but are likely to be a hard sell. That said, we’re interested in stories belonging to various genres just so long as the central characters and setting are pirates or centred on the theme of piracy, even if the story is set in the present. For example, a ghost story featuring a legendary pirate or a mystery about a lost treasure. We’re not looking for sci-fi or futuristic stories. As usual, if you have any questions, just get in touch.
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