Deadline: July 22nd, 2023
Payment: 15GBP
Theme: Rituals
If accepted, we’ll get our fantastic narration team to lend their voices, our editor will sprinkle some magic pixie dust on the track, and you could have your story heard by thousands of listeners each week.
Submission Window: April 1st-30th, 2023
Payment: $1 per accepted piece
Theme: horrorku, horror themed tanka, haibun, see below for details
The Submission may include any or all of the following:
· Up to seven (7) horrorku or horror tanka [we will rarely publish 5/7/5(7/7)]
· Up to three (3) haibun [title + prose + haiku/tanka — no more than 100 words]
· Up to five (5) pieces of cover art
All submissions must be original, unpublished work that is not under consideration by a print or web-based journal. Posts in closed, critique-oriented groups and social media sites are acceptable for submission, but public posts on forums such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are not. By submitting a piece to us, you are guaranteeing that it is your original work and not under consideration or published anywhere else in the world.
E-mail submission is required. Type poems into the body of the e-mail; no attachments of poetry will be opened. For art submissions, please include all five pieces in a .PDF file or send us a link to a private gallery. If we purchase an art piece for our cover, we will ask that you provide a 300 dpi version of said piece.
Deadline: March 31st, 2023
Payment: $15 USD and a contributors copy
Theme: sub-dermal body horror about terrors lurking under the skin
SUBMISSION PERIOD: January 9 – March 31st
PUBLICATION: July 2023
Submissions open Jan 9. for our debut short story collection: CRAWLING. We’re looking for sub-dermal body horror about terrors lurking under the skin: infestations and transformations with an emphasis on the embodied experience.
Body horror short stories (3,500-6,500 words)
FRESH perspectives on the body horror genre from othered voices (women, non-binary, trans, and queer perspectives).
Themes: sub-dermal horror, infestations, body horror, possessions, and transformations.
Deadline: May 1st, 2023
Payment: $25
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.
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.
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 $25 upon publication. Hopefully, with time it will be more.
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.
Deadline: April 1st, 2023
First Prize: Audio version created and $50. Up to 4 runner ups for audio conversion as well.
Theme: Horror elements and relate to the theme of changing seasons
Our 2023 flash fiction contest is nearly here. This year, the theme is “Changing Seasons.” The contest is open from February 15th until midnight CST, April 1st.
Deadline: July 1st, 2023
Payment: short story, $25; short-short piece (up to 1000 words), $10; poem, $10, artwork, $25 for cover, $10 for interior page display.
Theme: The Magic of Light and Shadow
The Magic of Light and Shadow (July 1, 2023)
ALL SHORT STORIES, ESSAYS, POEMS, PHOTOGRAPHS and ART MUST RELATE TO ONE OF THE PREMISES SPECIFIED ABOVE.
NOTE: Previously published pieces are welcome, provided that the submission fits the theme and that the author owns the copyright.
The premise (target theme) must be an integral part of the plot, not necessarily the central theme but not merely incidental. NOTE: Fewer than 20 double-spaced typewritten pages preferred. 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.
Deadline: June 24th, 2023
Payment: 15GBP
Theme: Artificial intelligence
If accepted, we’ll get our fantastic narration team to lend their voices, our editor will sprinkle some magic pixie dust on the track, and you could have your story heard by thousands of listeners each week.
Deadline: April 1st, 2023
Payment: $30 and a Contributors Copy
Theme: Video Game Horror
Subject – Video Game Horror
Word Count – 5,000 minimum, 7,500 maximum
Submission Date – December 1st marks the opening, April 1st marks the deadline
Payment $30 and a Contributors Copy
Author Copies available upon request
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