by Ken MacGregor | Aug 19, 2019 | Anthology, Events, Flat Amount, Poetry, Semipro
Deadline: December 31st, 2019
Payment: $.02 per word or $10 per poem
2020 will see the release of four quarterly anthologies of original fiction, poetry, and art from Carrion Blue 555 collectively titled Seasons of Rot. These volumes hope to explore seasonal themes in unique, surreal, festering ways.
Spring is cancer blossoming in new growth, a single breath of moist soil. Summer begets overripe fruit in Persephone’s withered right hand. True decay is beautiful and clashing in the cordyceptic autumn. All of winter flinches beneath the Wicker King’s gaze, intimidating even the light of day.
Interpretations of seasons are purposefully elastic for your artistic benefit. A season’s atmosphere is just as gripping as its setting. Less is more. We seek horror, fantasy, scifi, experimental, bizarro work.
The first volume, Seasons of Rot: A Scourge of Storms, will be released March 20, 2020. The following volumes will be released on their respective equinox/solstice, with subtitles to be determined.
Deadline: December 31, 2019.
Fiction:
No word limit, but we are only offering payment up to 5,000 words.
$0.02USD per word. $5 minimum, $100 maximum.
Poetry:
We are open to single poems or multi-poem cycles.
$10USD per poem, longer cycles will be negotiated.
Art:
Black-and-white only.
$10USD per piece.
All accepted authors and artists will receive one contributor copy of the volume(s) they appear in. We are asking for six month exclusivity for accepted works from time of the respective volume’s release. Important: due to payment issues in the past, we will only make payments via Paypal.
Attach word document (doc or docx) or image files as an email to carrionblue555 [at] gmail [dot] com. In your subject, please include the season you are submitting to and your name. We aren’t picky, but something like this will work:
AUTUMN SUBMISSION: three poems by Oswald Hullad
In the body of the email, please include your legal name, your name as it appears in print (if different), the title(s) of your submission(s), and a short bio that will be included in the anthology. We endeavor to respond to submissions within a couple weeks of receipt, but may ask to shortlist work until the end of the submission period.
No simultaneous submissions please. Multiple submissions are allowed, including for different volumes. Please attach all submissions to a single email. No reprints.
We have worked hard to make Carrion Blue 555 a home for diversity, and eagerly invite creators of all racial, sexual, and neurological bearings to submit.
By submitting, you are agreeing to all of the above, and acknowledge that the work is wholly yours to submit.
Via: Carion Blue 555.
by Stuart Conover | Aug 19, 2019 | Anthology, Events, Royalties
Deadline: November 25th, 2019
Payment: 65% split between authors PER STORY
I’m looking for horror stories about… insects! I will be selecting only a select pre-posted stories (reddit, personal author sites, etc. The majority chosen will be exclusive to this project so we can make the most of the Amazon KDP program.
Name: Death and Butterflies
Word Count: 1000-3500 words
Pay: 35% publisher/project manager 65% split between authors PER STORY
Format: 12 pt. Times New Roman, double spaced, proper indentation, word document. Left hand corner: author name, title, email, and word count. I will be choosing approximately 5 posted stories and 25-35 Exclusive stories.
Meaning they cannot be posted ANYWHERE else.
Its my intention to enroll this book into the KDP program with Amazon so we can all gain more $$$. I plan on keeping it in the program for four months. After that time, you are free to do with your story what you wish.
Email for submission: [email protected]
DEADLINE: November 25th, 2019
Publication date: January 1st, 2020
Via: Death and Butterflies Facebook Page.
by Stuart Conover | Aug 16, 2019 | Events, Flat Amount, Online
Deadline: November 30th, 2019
Payment: $10
Please read the entire guidelines before submitting. No, really. Please do. It will help you, and it will help us.
We accept and publish web edition submissions on a rolling basis. We don’t read new submissions in December, January, June and July.
Vestal Review is a magazine for new flash (short-shorts) fiction, 500 words or fewer. We don’t accept reprints.
We love to hear new voices, especially from immigrants, but we don’t discriminate against anyone.
We love magic realism. High fantasy, science fiction, romance and kids stories? Not so much.
No fees. The honorarium is $10. All payments will be made only through PayPal.
For Web edition, we consider only one story per author. We accept simultaneous submissions.
We assume that every writer is also a reader, so please read the guidelines before submitting and not the other way around.
Our philosophy: Most stories are not rejected because they are not good, but because other stories are better.
Vestal Review now publishes its print issues twice a year in a perfect-bound edition. All content is available on the Web. We welcome your submissions, but please read our guidelines first.
We don’t read new submissions in December, January, June and July (except for special calls for submissions). All submissions sent during this time will be deleted. Don’t worry: the categories that we don’t temporarily consider will be hidden from view. Each submission is to be sent separately.
Our reading periods are:
1. February-May
2. August-November
Once in a while, we have special calls for submissions that change the above schedule and payments.
Effective immediately, all submissions should be done using our submission manager. We will not consider any other forms of submissions.
Use this e-mail to inquire about the status of your submission (please wait three months before sending it):
submissions[at]vestalreview.net
Please start the subject line with the word “Query.” Do not use this e-mail for anything else including submissions.
Vestal Review accepts only original material. No reprints, please. Even if it has been displayed on your own Web page, we consider it published. If the story has been posted and reviewed at a password-protected e-workshop with a controlled list of participants, we consider this a plus.
Vestal Review is a magazine for flash (short-shorts) fiction. We realize that there are different definitions of what a flash story is and all of them have merit. In our definition, a flash story is no longer than 500 words and it has a plot. If it’s longer than 500 words and/or has no plot, we are not interested. We are also not interested in porn, racial slurs, excessive gore, or obscenity. On the other end of the spectrum, no children’s or preachy stories either, please. Our target audience is people over 18, so R-rated content is OK, but not X-rated. Most genres, other than children’s, syrupy romance or hard science fiction, are accepted, and we love humor.
Don’t forget that the title is an important part of the story. Make it pertinent but don’t tell too much. We generally don’t favor one-word titles.
Via: Vestal Review.
by Stuart Conover | Aug 15, 2019 | Anthology, Contributor's Copy, Events
Deadline: September 13th, 2019
Payment: Contributor’s Copy
Your story should be between 500 and 3,000 words and edited to the best of your ability.
Stories must have a supernatural theme (ghosts, spirits, demons, hauntings, anything that goes bump in the night.)
Submissions are open now until 11:59 p.m. September 13, 2019 EST. (We are looking for an October publication date.)
We will accept only one submission per author.
Simultaneous submissions will not be accepted. Previously published submissions will not be accepted. Submissions should not be available for viewing online during the submission/publication process or for 6 months after publication.
Submissions should only have mild, non-graphic violence, no explicitly sexual/erotic scenes, and “bad” language should not be used excessively but may be used in limited capacity.
To avoid rights issues, no living public figures should be used as characters, no fan-fiction involving proprietary characters, and no song lyrics. However, passing references to these are fine.
All submitting authors will be notified of our decision within 2 weeks of closing date. If your submission is chosen, you will receive a full publishing contract outlining the details of our agreement. Upon signing, Stormy Island Publishing retains exclusive rights until six months after publication.
As payment, each author will receive a paperback copy of the anthology after publication.
For details on how to submit, visit our SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Via: Stormy Island Publishing.
by Stuart Conover | Aug 15, 2019 | Events, Magazine, Semipro
Deadline: August 31st, 2019
Payment: $0.03 per word
Apparition Lit is open for poetry and short story submissions four times a year.
- February 15-28
- May 15-31
- August 15-31
- November 15-30
Submissions received outside of posted open dates will be deleted unread.
Our themes for 2019 will be:
- Resistance (Submission period November 15-30, 2018 CLOSED, Published January 2019)
- Ambition (Submission period February 15-28, 2019, CLOSED Published April 2019)
- Retribution (Submission period May 15-31, 2019, CLOSED Publishing July 2019)
- Euphoria (Submission period August 15-31, 2019, CLOSED Publishing October 2019)
Our themes for 2018: Apparition (Published January 2018) – Delusion (PublishedApril 2018) – Vision (Published July 2018) – Diversion (Published October 2018)
Apparition Lit also holds monthly flash fiction contests. These stories will follow selected themes and be published online.
For more information on themes and submission guidelines, please see the flash fiction drop down below.
PAYMENT:
Apparition is a semi-pro rate magazine, paying $0.03 per word, minimum of 30.00 dollars (excluding flash contest. See details in the Flash Fiction dropdown for flash rates). If we accept your story, we are purchasing the right to publish the story online and in the quarterly edition. Rights will revert back to the artist after one year.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:
(Click on the sections to see detailed guidelines for each classification.)
SHORT FICTION:
We will only accept stories between 1000-5000 words. If the story is complete with an extra hundred words, then it will still be considered. Any stories over 5,100 words, or incorrectly formatted, will automatically be rejected.
PAYMENT:
Apparition is a semi-pro magazine, paying $0.03 per word, minimum of 30.00 dollars (excluding flash contest). If we accept your story, we are purchasing the right to publish the story online and in the quarterly edition. Rights will revert back to the artist after one year.
HOW TO SUBMIT:
- Format the story using the Shunn manuscript
- Please only use Times New Roman or Arial font in your document
- Save as an RTF file and attach to an email
- In the text of the email, provide a brief cover letter that includes your name, the title of the short story, word count, and any relevant publications
- Edit the email’s subject line so it reads: SUBMISSION: Title of Your Story
- Email your formatted email and short story manuscript to [email protected]
- Add Apparition Lit to your Safe Senders list so you can receive our auto-response emails
RESPONSE TIME:
All acceptances and rejections will be emailed by the 15th day of the following month after submissions close.
If you have not heard back by the 15th, send a query to: [email protected] with the title of your submission. Before emailing, please check your spam folder.
To make sure you receive all emails from Apparition Lit, please add us to your Safe Senders list in your email client.
Apparition Lit is seeking original, unpublished speculative fiction that meet our quarterly theme. Speculative fiction is weird, almost unclassifiable. It’s fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and literary. We want it all. Send us your strange, misshapen stories.
Send us stories with enough emotional heft to break a heart, with prose that’s as clear and delicious as broth. We’re looking for proactive characters and beautiful language, all wrapped up in a complete story.
Diversity is as important in fiction as it is in real life. We want a mosaic of stories, from authors of all identities and walks of life.
WHAT WE DON’T ACCEPT:
While we love dark stories with macabre elements, we will not accept stories with gratuitous and graphic violence or rape, this includes any type of child abuse including sexual abuse. We also will not consider stories that have extreme, purposeless violence toward animals. Stories containing these elements will be automatically rejected.
We do not publish erotica or thinly-veiled fanfiction.
Please do not send graphic or image files with your submissions. They just bloat our email server and we will delete them immediately.
We do not accept multiple or simultaneous submissions. Please send only one submission per category during each reading period. Apparition Lit wants your best story that meets the current theme. At some point, if your story does not meet the theme, you’re just throwing spaghetti at the wall.
At this time, we do not accept nonfiction, reprints or resubmissions, or unsolicited interviews or reviews. We currently do not accept translations. We hope to in the future, but we’d prefer both the author and translator to be paid for their work, and for both versions to appear when published, so unfortunately, we just don’t have the budget for translations at right now.
Via: Apparition Lit.
by Stuart Conover | Aug 14, 2019 | Anthology, Contributor's Copy, Events, Flat Amount, Reprints Allowed
Deadline: October 18th, 2019
Payment: $20 and a contributor’s copy
Note: Reprints welcome
Note: This submission call is for authors who identify as LGBTQ+
The best definition of erotic horror that we have found is “literature that arouses the reader…and then makes them complicit in the horror that ensues because of that arousal.” From a submission call by Thurston Howl Publications.
Body & Blood is seeking erotic horror with a trashy aesthetic. We’re looking for cult, b-movie style fiction from authors who identify as LGBTQ+. Send us your satanic sex cult orgies, or tales of the abandoned house gone wrong. We want erotic horror at it’s trashiest.
This submission call is for authors who identify as LGBTQ+. It is encouraged that the characters in your story identify as LGBTQ+ however is not a strict requirement.
Although we have worked on anthologies in the furry community before, this submission call is not seeking furry submissions. Werewolf and monsters are fine, but we are not looking for submissions where anthropomorphic animals are the focus of your story.
Sinister Stoat Press will not accept/tolerate any art and/or written piece featuring children in sexual settings, pedophilia, copywritten characters, rape, gore, torture, forced consent, dubious consent, zoophilia, necrophilia, ableism, racism, transphobia, homophobia, sexism, depictions of abusive relationships in a positive light.
Up to 3 stories max.
5500 words max
Reprints are fine, however you must own the full rights to the story before submitting.
Simultaneous submissions accepted.
Payment: a flat payment of $20 and a complimentary copy of the print book.
Via: Weasel Press.
