Category: 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 / Events / Flash / Royalties

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Taking Submissions: Supernatural Parables: Myth versus Reality

Deadline: April 1st, 2025
Payment: Royalties
Theme: Two stories that, together, give us supernatural parables, stories filled with polarities conflicting with each other at their core.

The title for the fourth Dead Birds Publishing anthology is Supernatural Parables: Myth versus Reality.

What happens when opposing supernatural forces collide? Yang and Yin. Death versus life. Villain against hero. Vampire hunting priest. Senses versus truth.

Parables are stories with life lessons woven into the pages. Lessons your characters must confront, lessons they must overcome to survive.

We are looking for supernatural parables, stories filled with polarities conflicting with each other at their core.

Tell us the morbid of your story.

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Taking Submissions: Avalon

Deadline: April 7th, 2025
Payment: Royalties
Theme: Darker tales of King Arthur, Camelot, Avalon, and related characters

Deadline – 7th April 2025 Midnight Perth Western

Publication – 18th May 2025

Word Count – 2,500 words to 7,000

Theme – The legends of King Arthur, Camelot, and Avalon have been told for centuries—tales of noble knights, powerful sorcerers, and the tragic fall of a golden age. But history is written by the victors, and beneath the well-known stories lie secrets long buried, whispers of magic untamed, betrayals forgotten, and horrors unseen.

Explore the darker, stranger, and more speculative sides of Arthurian mythos. What if Excalibur was more than just a sword—what if it had a will of its own? What lurks in the mists of Avalon when the priestesses are not watching? What pacts were made in the shadows of Camelot, and which knights never returned from their quests—not because they failed, but because they uncovered something they were never meant to see?
Submissions should reimagine, expand, or twist Arthurian tales through the lenses of speculative fiction, fantasy, or horror. Think eerie fae bargains, haunted battlegrounds, eldritch relics, or even the lost voices of those history ignored—Morgana, Mordred, Nimue, or the knights who never became legends.

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Anthology / Events / Flash / Non-fiction / Poetry / Royalties

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Taking Submissions: When Vampires Save the (Day) Night

Deadline: March 31st, 2025
Payment: Royalties
Theme: Vampires that are doing good in unique and interesting ways (see below for more!)

Submission Period: 1 January to 31 March 2025

Maximum Word Count: 8000

Submission Email: [email protected]

“When Vampires Save the Day Night: Heroes, Anti-Heroes, and Not-So-Reformed Villains” is seeking nontraditional vampire stories for an anthology to be edited and released by Rebecca Buchanan.

What do we mean by “nontraditional”? We want stories of vampires as beings of order, continuity, preservation, and conservation; beings concerned with their legacy, with their connection to humanity and the world at large. For example,

— a vampire who guards a hidden library of banned and forgotten books;

— a vampire with gardens of extinct plants and secret seed vaults scattered around the world;

— a vampire linguist leading an expedition into the wilds of northern Canada to record a dying language;

— a vampire who has dedicated their fortune to bringing back extinct animal species through genetic research;

— a vampire archaeologist who tires of misinformation about their ancient birth civilization, and leads a dig to uncover it;

— a vampire guarding an isolated wilderness from those who would exploit it;

— a vampire anthropologist arranging for an endangered culture to be transported safely off-planet;

— a vampire hematologist working to cure a blood-borne illness;

— a vampire who offers shelter to the restless souls of suicide victims;

— and more.

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Taking Submissions: Moggie Noir – Dames, Derringers, & Detectives

Deadline: March 23rd, 2025
Payment: Royalties
Theme: Noir! Not SF, not Horror, but classic Noir

Moggie Noir – Dames, Derringers, & Detectives
Edited by Rita Beeman

Fabulous tails. Do it again. Remember—Noir! Not SF, not Horror, but classic Noir. Here’s your homework.

Opens: 01/18/25
Closes: 03/23/25
Contracts: 04/05/25
Publication: 05/02/25

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Taking Submissions: Short Story Substack March 2025 Window

Submission Window: March 1st – 31st, 2025
Payment: $100 for the chosen story + 50% of subscription revenue
Theme: Any genre, short story

Mission = Revive the art of the short story, support artists, and produce something wonderful.

Payout = Base Pay of $100 for the chosen story + 50% of subscription revenue to be sent by Paypal, Zelle, or check.

Wait, you mean if this substack gets thousands of subscribers, the winner would get thousands of dollars?

Yes! The New Yorker pays roughly $7,500 per story and I sincerely hope to go way past that.

What does the timeline look like?

Submit stories by the end of the month, winner to be announced on the 15th. There is ONE story that wins and receives the full payout.

Where do I send submissions?
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Events / Flat Amount / Novella / Royalties

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Sobello Books March Call For Cosmic Horror Novellas from BIPOC Authors

Submission Window: March 1st – 31st, 2025
Payment: $500 advance and royalties
Theme: Cosmic horror novellas by BIPOC authors

Sobelo Books announces a cosmic horror novella call for BIPOC authors.

BIPOC is generally intended to reflect people whose ethnicities or racial groups include: Black, Indigenous or Native American, Latino/a, Asian & Pacific Islander. If your ethnicity or racial group is not the majority in the country in which this novella will be published, the United States, this means you!

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