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Taking Submissions: The One Percent: Tales of the Super Wealthy and Depraved

Deadline: May 1st, 2023
Payment: $35 or $25 with a contributor copy.
Theme: Taking a look at the super Wealthy and Depraved

Issuing layoffs from their yachts. Making idiotic business decisions while others pay the price. Keeping their riches via tax loopholes for the super wealthy. Profiting from the hard work and suffering of others. Sending dick-shaped rockets into space. Evading punishment.

It goes on and on. The details range from the banal to the scandalous. The uber wealthy play an outsized role in our society — determining or demanding too much and contributing too little.

With The One Percent: Tales of the Super Wealthy and Depraved (our previous working title was Rich People Being Shitty, so that should give you a target to aim for), Rock and a Hard Place Press changes it up a little bit from their established pattern. Instead of stories about desperate protagonists in tough positions, we’ll explore the privileged and elite, and how they traffic in, revel in, and benefit from the desperation that they cause. Hopefully, some of these characters get the comeuppance they so richly deserve . . . but we wouldn’t count on it.

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Taking Submissions: Fairy Tale Magazine: 2023 Window 2 (Early)

Submission Window: May 1st, 2023 to June 2nd, 2023
Payment: $50
Theme: Love

We’ll be accepting new submissions for 2023, with the theme of LOVE in December of 2022.

​The following is relevant to all submissions for 2023 for The Fairy Tale Magazine.

Writing opportunities for 2023 include:

New Fairy Tales: Fairy tales that are almost or entirely new or are just new takes on old tales are all welcome. Mashups of existing fairy tales are welcome as well. Submissions must follow the theme below to be considered.

Poetry: Poetry inspired by fairy tales and that follows the theme is also welcome.

HERE IS HOW YOU SUBMIT AND FORMAT AND WHEN

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Taking Submissions: Apparition Lit May 2023 Window (Early)

Submission Window: May 15th – 31st, 2023
Payment: $0.05 per word for fiction, $50 per poem
Theme: Creature

Apparition Lit is a speculative fiction magazine that publishes themed issues four times a year.

We publish poems and stories between 1k-5k words in January, April, July, and October.

We also hold monthly flash fiction contests between the 1st and 15th of each month. Flash stories must be under 1000 words and be inspired or based on the chosen theme.

Read our submission guidelines and submit your work through our Moksha portal.

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Taking Submissions: Strange Machines: An Anthology of Dark User Manuals

Deadline: April 30th, 2023
Payment: $10
Theme: Your darkest, strangest microfiction in the form of user manuals, FAQs, and how-to guides for the use of (or by) robots!

We are looking for your darkest, strangest microfiction in the form of user manuals, FAQs, and how-to guides for the use of (or by) robots!

Tell us a story while guiding humans through the use of a strange machine, or guiding sentient robots through human activities they may not understand. Reveal deep yearnings and dark secrets between the lines, show us fascinating futures or weird horrors, and don’t be afraid to mix biology with machine. Let your imaginations go wild to create beautiful, surreal, and dark user-guides for strange machines!

Please no simultaneous submissions or multiple submissions. We will aim to have first responses back within 30 days of closing to submissions.

Word count: Up to 250 words

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Taking Submissions: Guest Author for Medical Horror Collection

Deadline: April 7th, 2023
Payment: $20
Theme: Medical Horror
Note: Apologies for the short notice; likely only if you have something sitting around or are a fast writer. This was only sent in today.

ISO: Guest Author for Medical Horror Collection by Ruth Anna Evans

Via: Ruth Anna Evans.

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Taking Submissions: Strange Aeon: 2023

Deadline: April 14th, 2023
Payment: US authors: $20 and a contributors copy, Non-US authors: $35
Theme: Wonder
Note: Reprints Allowed

Strange Aeon: 2023 (Wonder) is a continuation of the Strange Aeon anthology series. As always, I want good, solid stories in a cosmic horror/Lovecraftian vein.  I specifically say Lovecraftian rather than Cthulu because I’d like stories across the entire Mythos, including additions by the original group of Mythos authors like Robert Howard and Clark Ashton Smith. [1]. In fact, I’d like to use more stories that do not have specific Lovecraftian references and that move away from the traditional Lovecraft style and voice. Try to avoid pastiche and tell fresh new stories in your own settings. Style preference applies to gore and sex as well: think early Weird Tales, no excessive language or explicit sexual references. (You do not have to remove all profanity from your submission—I can read around it—but, if your story is accepted, you will be required to remove it from the final version.)

I am especially interested in stories of mad science, monster-based horror, weird western, and stories that “peel the onion.” Indeed, I cannot emphasize strongly enough the need for these categories. Victoriana and Lovecraft era period pieces will have a much harder time finding acceptance.

The theme of this year’s anthology is wonder and I am specifically looking for stories that have a sense of grandeur and discovery. That being said, please send anything you consider a good story. Feel free to query for any questions. If you are planning to write a story especially for this anthology, by all means query the idea first.
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Taking Submissions: If I Die Before I Wake Volume 8

Deadline: April 19th, 2023
Payment: 4k-6k word story – $30 (USD), 6k-8k word story – $40 (USD), 8k-10k word story – $50 (USD)
Theme: Tales of Halloween Horror

Volume 8 of the popular Better Off Dead series will be themed around Halloween Horror. Submissions open until the deadline listed above.

SUBMISSION INFO

  • Submissions must be between 4,000 and 10,000 words (Word counts are firm)

  • Title, submitter’s name, pen name (if different), story word count and author email address must be centered at the top of your submission

  • Submissions must be written using American English spelling and terminology

  • Submissions cannot be written by AI (Artificial Intelligence.) Any author that submits work that is not written by them will be disqualified from submitting to SSP in the future. Believe us when we say that we can spot an AI written story a mile away. Don’t waste our time or yours.

  • Submissions must be written in 12 pt. Times New Roman font, 1″ margins, double spaced with a special first line indention of 0.3″

  • Submissions must not contain headers, footers or page numbers

  • All scene breaks must be three asterisks, centered on the page, with no spaces in between (***)

  • Submissions must be in .Docx or .Doc format

  • Submissions should be clean and edited to the best of author’s ability

  • Submissions must contain elements of horror centered around the Halloween holiday.

  • The editors are looking for originality. Many tropes have been recreated over and over. We’d love to see stories that are fresh and jaw-dropping.

  • Extreme horror is okay for this publication, however submissions need not be extreme

  • Submissions must not have been published elsewhere before in any medium

  • Authors may submit as many stories as they want for review, however, there will be a limit of one published story per author

  • Simultaneous submissions are allowed, however we ask that you inform us immediately if another publisher picks up your story

  • If I Die Before I Wake Volume 8 will be released October 16th, 2023

  • Authors will be notified on whether or not their story was accepted by July 18th, 2023

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Taking Submissions: NonBinary Review #32

Deadline: May 1st, 2023
Payment: ¢ per word for prose, $10 for poetry, $25 for artwork
Theme: Epic Fail

NonBinary Review is open for submissions on the theme of “epic fail.” We’re not talking about everyday failures, like you didn’t pay the electric bill, so your lights are turned off. We’re talking about the cascades of calamity that end in death, destruction, disaster. Series of unfortunate choices that lead to plague, famine, and war. A train wreck that, once it’s been set in motion, you can neither stop nor look away from. There but for the grace of some spectacularly poor planning, bad decisions, and gross incompetence, go all of us. Let’s hear it all.

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