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Taking Submissions: Planet Black Joy

Deadline: January 1st, 2025
Payment: 8 cents per word for original work, 2 cents per word for reprints
Theme: Stories that express black joy written by women and non-binary folk who identify as Black, African, or of Afro-descendent heritage
Note: Reprints welcome

You are cordially invited to contribute to an anthology of speculative fiction that’s being published through Rosarium Publishing titled Planet Black Joy in Fall 2025. The collection will feature about 20 to 25 short stories by women and non-binary folk who identify as Black, African, or of Afro-descendent heritage exploring and celebrating Black joy and pleasure.

What are we looking for?

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Taking Submissions: What If… Skunk Wurks Edition

Deadline: January 1st, 2025
Payment: Royalties
Theme: Top secret government projects

Who doesn’t know the black projects that rolled out of the Skunk Works like the famous SR-71, U-2, or F-117 stealth fighter? What do you think they aren’t telling us about? This anthology dives into the concept of other black projects, their uses, and outcomes. Maybe the crazies are right. What If… the UFO’s are actually ours… Anything from discovery and design to use in application of the Aircraft, Heavy Weapons, Power Armor, Sea Vessels, and more are welcome.

We’re looking for new, previously unpublished stories that take us on an adventure and leave us wanting more.

  • Genre: Speculative Fiction
  • Word Count: 5,000 – 10,000
  • Opening Essay by: TBD
  • Edited by: William Joseph Roberts
  • Anchor Author: TBD
  • Due Date: January 1, 2025

Email submissions to: threeravenspublishing @ gmail dot com with “Skunk Wurks” in the subject line

Payment: Stories selected for publication in the upcoming Anthology(ies), will receive a percentage of sales divided equally between the contributing authors.

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Anthology / Events / Flat Amount / Reprints Allowed

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Taking Submissions: Tales of Winter Shadows

Submission Window: July 4 – September 6th, 2024
Payment: $20.00 for original fiction, $10.00 for poems , $5.00 for reprints
Theme: As cold and silence envelopes the earth, and all things lie dormant, we all move inward and lean toward hibernation, shadow work and self-reflection.
Note: Reprints Welcome

Opens for Submissions July 4

The next edition to our popular YULE anthology will be opening this summer for submissions.

Submissions open July 4 – September 6

Send manuscripts to [email protected]

Subject EVERGREEN SUBMISSION

Word Count: 2,000 to 7,000 for stories

Up to 4 pages for poetry

$20.00 for original fiction

$10.00 for poems

$5.00 for reprints

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Contributor's Copy / Events / Magazine

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Taking Submissions: Chthonic Matter June/July 2024 Window

Deadline: July 31st, 2024
Payment: 2 Contributors Copies
Theme: Tales from the darkside. Its contents range in tone from the quiet horror of Shirley Jackson to the bleak stylings of Thomas Ligotti — and everything in between.

Note: Chthonic Matter Quarterly is open to submissions. Close date is July 31st, 2024.

Chthonic Matter is a quarterly offering of tales from the darkside. Its contents range in tone from the quiet horror of Shirley Jackson to the bleak stylings of Thomas Ligotti — and everything in between.

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Taking Submissions: Twisted Laughs An Anthology of Dark Humor

Deadline: July 15th, 2024
Payment: $15 and a contributors copy
Theme: Dark Humor

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We’re summoning the darkest, most devilishly witty scribes for our upcoming anthology of dark humor. Unleash your ink and submit your darkest chuckles. We’re searching for tales that tickle the funny bone while sending shivers down the spine. Dare to delve into the abyss of laughter with us? Submit your morbidly hilarious masterpieces today!

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Taking Submissions: The Other Stories #102

Deadline: August 1st, 2024
Payment: 15GBP
Theme: Tarot

(Vol 102) THE TAROT, 1st August 2024
Pull a card; tell a story.

If you think you’ve got what it takes to terrify, scar and haunt our audience of 10,000 daily listeners, then we want your stories!

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.

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WHEN WILL I HEAR IF MY STORY HAS BEEN ACCEPTED OR NOT?

We carefully review every single submission that comes through our door. If you’ve submitted a story to us, please be patient. We WILL let you know if your submission has or hasn’t been successful. Having said that, if you haven’t heard anything up to twelve weeks after the deadline has passed, feel free to ping us an email to check in on it.

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Events / Flat Amount / Novella / Royalties

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Violet Lichen Books Will Soon Be Open To Novellas

Submission Window: July 1st – 14th, 2024
Payment: Advance and Royalties
Theme: Atmospheric and thought-provoking novellas that intertwine a fascination of the natural world with horror and dread, and those that explore how we, as individual humans, interconnect with our communities, other species, and whole ecosystems

Violet Lichen Books seeks to work with authors who have a strong attachment to the themes, people, or places they’re writing about, and who sling their dark tales straight from the heart. We are especially interested in works by marginalized and under-represented authors.

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Taking Submissions: Madness by Firelight

Deadline: July 31, 2024
Payment: Royalties and Digital Copy
Theme: Scary Campfire Stories

You’re sitting around the campfire; it’s dark, the moon is high in the sky, the wind is whistling through the trees, and the sense of isolation is pervasive. You hear a twig snap in the darkness, everyone is tense. What’s the story you tell your friends to terrify them? What’s in the dark, stalking the camp: an axe murderer, a werewolf, or something so far beyond our mortal understanding that just the sight of it will drive each of us insane? Tell me a ghost story, I want to be afraid and I want everyone reading to be afraid of what they’ll read yet feel brave enough to turn the page.

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