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Artwork / Events / Flash / Flat Amount / Magazine

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Taking Submissions: Fraidy Cat Quarterly Volume 6

Submission Window: April 1st – 7th, 2025. Extended window for LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and Palestinian authors: April 1, 2025 – April 14, 2025
Payment: Flash (400-1500 word) $10, Shorts (1,501-8,000) $20, Black and white Artwork: $10
Theme: Horror stories involving Growth

Fraidy Cat Press is proud to present Fraidy Cat Quarterly, published four times annually in print and ebook formats.

We are currently closed to submissions of flash fiction and short stories. We are always open to submissions of black and white art. Any fiction submissions sent outside of our open call period will be deleted unread.

Volume 6: Growth

  • General submissions: April 1,2025 – April 7, 2025
  • Extended window for LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and Palestinian authors: April 1, 2025 – April 14, 2025
  • Publishing in June 2025

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Events / Novel / Novella / Royalties

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Eerie River is open to Novels and Novellas from Canadian Authors

Submission Window: April 15th – June 1st, 2025
Payment: 40% royalties for net eBook sales with a chance to increase to 50% should a specific threshold of sales be met.
Theme: Novels and novellas in dark fiction, horror, dark romance, and horror romance.

Publishing Opportunities for 2026

We are happy to announce that our focus for 2026 is to highlight the voices of underrepresented Canadian authors.

We are seeking submissions from Canadian authors who identify as BIPOC, 2SLGBTQIA+, or are from marginalized communities.

We are seeking two novels or novellas in the genres of dark fiction, dark romance, horror romance, or horror, to be published in the latter half of 2026.

If you are a Canadian author with a unique story to tell, we encourage you to submit your work for consideration. Let’s bring your voices to the forefront of the literary world.

Our submission window will be from April 15 – June 1.

We are seeking completed manuscripts.

Eerie River Publishing only publishes a handful of novels a year. Regrettably, this means we will have to pass on some fantastic writing. We wish we could publish them all but the truth is we wouldn’t be able to put the resources needed behind each project to make them a success. And that is what we are here to do.

We are an inclusive company that accepts submission from anyone regardless of race, gender or sexuality. We accept agented and non-agented submissions during our submission window.

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Anthology / Contributor's Copy / Events / Flat Amount

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Taking Submissions: The Necronomicon of Sherlock Holmes

Deadline: June 15th, 2025
Payment: $125 and a contributor’s copy
Theme: Insert Sherlock Holmes into the realm of Lovecraftian Horror

Edited by Derrick Belanger & Brian Belanger

Description: Imagine Holmes investigating the disappearance of a college student in the mysterious town of Innsmouth, matching wits with a man who can reanimate the dead, or using his deductive skills to help fight creatures from beyond the realm of time and space. These are just some of the stories which could be included in the new anthology The Necronomicon of Sherlock Holmes. The anthology will feature traditional Sherlock Holmes stories blended with one or more of Lovecraft’s tales.
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Anthology / Contributor's Copy / Events / Flat Amount

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Taking Submissions: Dark Canadiana: An Anthology of Canadian Horror

Deadline: April 5th, 2025
Payment: $40 CAD and a contributors copy
Theme: Horror stories by Canadian authors set in Canada

Calling all Canadian authors!
Dark Canadiana: An Anthology of Canadian Horror is accepting submissions until April 5, 2025.
We want your Horrifying/spooky/unsettling short stories that showcase the people, places, and things of Canada. Stories set in Canada. Stories staring Canadians. Stories full of Canadiana.
Give us your serial killer at a Provincial Park. Give us a haunted landmark. Give us a monster in the forests of BC. Give us all the Canadian chills and thrills.
Canadian authors only!
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Anthology / Events / Flat Amount / Token Payment

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Taking Submissions: Hellbound Books’ Anthology of Extreme Horror

Deadline: June 30th, 2025
Payment: $5
Theme: Extreme horror, brutal, splatterpunk, etc

We are looking for your most brutal, bloodied,horrific stories – no holds barred; we challenge you to disturb our most seasoned, desensitized curators with your tales of extreme horror and mind-bending terror…

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Anthology / Contributor's Copy / Events / Flat Amount

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Taking Submissions: Where Legends Walk!

Deadline: April 30th, 2025
Payment: $10 and a contributors copy
Theme: Stories about superheroes performing daring feats in the face of true evil

Oddity Prodigy Productions is proud to announce that we are open for submissions on our latest anthology: Where Legends Walk!

These superhero stories will be an exciting tribute to extraordinary feats in the day-to-day. There is a planned Kickstarter to cover publishing costs. Publishing date and distribution is as yet undecided.

The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2025.

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Events / Flat Amount / Magazine / Semipro

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Taking Submissions: Tales from the Crosstimbers Summer 2025 Issue

Deadline: April 15th, 2025
Payment: $10 per story or 1 cent/word rounded to the nearest 100 words, up to a maximum of $25.
Theme: Speculative Fiction up to 2500 words

We are current open to submissions.

We will be open for admissions for the Summer, 2025 issue until April 15, 2025.

Please do not query prior to March 3.

Our general guidlines for submission remain unchanged. Our primary mission is to provide readers with speculative fiction, broadly defined. We like character-driven stories that take us to the boundary where imagination and reality collide. If in doubt, please submit your story. We will enjoy reading it, even if it doesn’t quite fit with our mission.

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Events / Flash / Flat Amount / Magazine / Non-fiction / Semipro

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Taking Submissions: Last Girls Club Summer Issue 2025 (Early)

Submission Window: April 1st – 15th, 2025
Payment: Short Story-2,500 words or less. $0.015 USD per word/$37.50 USD max, Poems-less than 200 words $10, Flash Fiction-less than a 1,000 words $0.015 USD per word/$15 USD max
Theme: A pro-feminist story with the idea of “For Your Own Good”

The Last Girls Club Magazine is a quarterly feminist horror magazine that publishes international short stories and poems from the female gaze. It is an homage to the scary comics and zines of the late 20th century.

This season’s theme is For Your Own Good. This phrase should make your skin crawl. Anything done for your own good means your self autonomy has been compromised. Is it the government The church? Your family? What have they done or taken away. Make us wince in sympathy.

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