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Taking Submissions: Untitled Cosmic Horror Anthology

Deadline: October 31st, 2024
Payment: 2 cents per word
Theme: Cosmic Horror

Calling all cosmic horror authors!

Open for Submissions: October 1, 2024 through October 31, 2024
Expected Publication: June 2025
What is cosmic horror?

“Cosmic horror, also known as Lovecraftian horror, is a subgenre of horror that emphasizes the terror of the unknowable and incomprehensible. It favors these psychological horrors more than gore or other elements of shock and awe. … The core of all cosmic horror is the protagonist being absolutely terrified of the unknown or the future and what’s going to happen to them. … There should also be a contemplation of the human experience and the humanness of the struggle. They usually don’t have a lot of blood and gore, and instead thrive on the ideas that are scary.”

– nofilmschool.com

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Taking Submissions: Inner Worlds, Final 2024 Window

Submission Window: October 1 – 14 Members of marginalised groups only, October 15 – 31 General submissions.
Payment: £0.02 per word for each piece accepted, with a minimum £20 payment. £50 for selected artwork
Theme: Speculative stories about our inner lives; our thoughts, our emotions, our perceptions, our dreams.

Inner Worlds is a quarterly digital zine of speculative stories about our inner lives; our thoughts, our emotions, our perceptions, our dreams.

We aim to publish works which use elements from science fiction, fantasy, or horror to illuminate the different ways that we experience our selves and our world.

That might mean finding a metaphor to express a feeling, or a setting which reflects how your brain works sometimes, or turning a trope on its head to explore a different perspective.

We have a specific interest in sharing:

  • stories of neurodiversity
  • experiences of psychological struggle or distress, madness, and extreme states
  • the voices and perspectives of marginalised groups.

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Taking Submissions: Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy: Volume Four

Deadline: October 31st, 2024
Payment: 5 cents per word
Theme: Science Fiction and fantasy

*** SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN FROM OCTOBER 1st, 2024 – OCTOBER 31st, 2024 ***

We ask for the following:

1) We are looking for great Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Don’t overthink it! Just write an incredible story and you will find yourself in this anthology.

2) Submit your work in the Shunn Standard Manuscript Format. We only accept documents in DOC, DOCX and RTF formats.

3) We accept work in the range of 1500-7500 words. Anything outside this range will be automatically rejected.

4) Payment for original fiction is currently $0.005/word up to 7500 words. Minimum of $15.

Reprints paid at full rate. We retain no rights to your work.

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Taking Submissions: Once Upon a Moonless Night

Deadline: December 16th, 2024
Payment: 5 cents per word
Theme: Suspenseful stories about what goes bump in the night

It’s the fear—not of the dark—but rather what lurks in the dark.

The terror that the mind can feel, but cannot see.

The whisper on the wind, heard but not understood.

The ephemeral mist that curls around your legs and sends chills deep into your bones.

You know that you shouldn’t go out in the night, shouldn’t heed its seductive call.

Night after night the darkness beckons. You know that one day soon you’ll lose your resolve, give in, and become the darkness. There’ll be no going back once you do.

These are the tales whispered in dark corners. Of good people pushed too far. Stories of revenge and redemption for past wrongdoings. Stories that excite the mind where what seems to be true isn’t always the case.

Dark, foreboding, full of suspense, can you weave the story of what happens during the moonless night?

 

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Taking Submissions: Hexagon November 2024 Window

Submission Window: November 1st – 7th, 2024
Payment: 0.01$ CAD/ word for all short stories up to 10,000 words, and $100 CAD/page for comics.
Theme: All forms of speculative fiction

We are now open for submissions for the first 7 days of every second month.

Open Months: January, March, May, July, September, November

Our submission response times are typically between 20-60 days.

Hexagon SF Magazine wants to ensure that the submission process is easy for creators. We try to respond to all comments, queries, and concerns within a few days. Please do not query regarding the status of a submission until 8 weeks have passed. If for any reason the submission form does not work correctly, please feel free to send us your submission via email.

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Taking Submissions: Archive of the Odd #6

Deadline: November 15th, 2024
Payment: 1.5 cents per word
Theme: Speculative fiction of any kind

Open Submissions

  • Query for
    • Serializing
    • Audio/video
    • Finished chapbooks/booklets
    • Pieces you would like us to help promote

Closed Submissions

  • Issue #1 (Closed Dec 1, 2021)
  • Issue #2 (Closed June 15, 2022)
  • Issue #3 (Closed Feb 1, 2023)
  • Issue #4 (Closed Dec 15, 2023)
  • Issue #5 (Closed May 15, 2024)
  • Issue #6 (Opens Sept 15, 2024)

Rules

Archive of the Odd is a biannual magazine of found fiction—stories told in the style of found footage, also known epistolary, neo-epistolary, found file, or found document fiction. Essentially, stories told in the form of other documents.

All submissions must be found fiction. We realize this is oddly specific, so if you’re not sure what we’re looking for, the best way will be to look at the stories on our website, or buy an issue to see the full zine treatment (in fact, if you email us or DM us on Twitter we’ll give you a coupon code for being a savvy author… just saying). Alternately, think about all the things you read on a daily basis that aren’t fiction. Newspapers? Emails? Product support guides? …Submissions calls?

If you read all of this and still have questions, please refer to our FAQ, or query!

Alright, let’s dive in!

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Taking Submissions: Cozy Mysteries from the Rock

Deadline: October 31st, 2024
Payment: $0.01 CAD per word
Theme: tories should include an unlikely, but likeable, amateur sleuth pursuing a mystery in a cozy setting.
Note: Will firstly feature authors from writers Newfoundland and Labrador, however, they are open to writers across Canada and international authors

Engen Books is now accepting submissions to the latest From the Rock anthology, for release in 2025.

Editors Ellen Curtis and Erin Vance are accepting submissions for short fiction under 10,000 words that fit into the cozy mystery genre.

​Appropriate stories should include an unlikely, but likeable, amateur sleuth pursuing a mystery in a cozy setting. Some settings popularized by the genre include bakeries, craft shops, cafés, bookstores, libraries, and small towns. Some cozy mysteries also include an element of the supernatural, with characters like witches, vampires, werewolves, and ghosts rounding out the cast of characters. Authors may also wish to include an element of romance in their story, however this is not necessary. Authors should note that any violence or sexual content should appear off-screen.

As always, the From the Rock collections are intended to highlight the fantastic, varied writers Newfoundland and Labrador has fostered. When submitting, we request that authors indicate if they are current or former residents of the province, and if their story is linked to the province in any way (though it need not be). While we will accept submissions from across Canada and internationally, authors with a connection to the province are given preference for this series, and this information will be given to editors during the jurying process.
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Taking Submissions: Eye to the Telescope #55

Deadline: December 15th, 2024
Payment: US 4¢/word rounded up to nearest dollar; minimum US $4, maximum $25
Theme: Speculative poems that utilize, interrogate, re-enchant, and abandon binary systems of all kinds

Eye to the Telescope 55, (Non)Binaries, will be edited by Haley Bossé.

Binary systems—be they of astronomical bodies, numerical values, or sociological categories like gender—exist to simplify the expression of complex ideas and existences. While sociological binary pairings like man and woman, human and animal, artificial and natural, forcibly categorize beings into absolute and unchanging opposites, binary pairings among astrological bodies mark the relationship between two bodies without insisting on their utter difference. Further, the Binary Number System seeks to represent the spectrum of non-infinite numbers using the least characters possible. How do these systems of categorization limit us? How does their rigid structure lead to new forms of expression and being

For this issue, we seek speculative poems that utilize, interrogate, re-enchant, and abandon binary systems of all kinds. What cannot be binaried? What can be non-binaried? How can a binary representational system speak? How can binaries in science and beyond speak to our human experiences of existence? Show me lines of numbers and letters with surprising keys. Show me a binary that is true. Show me what leaks and flows from the broken sociological binary containers. Show me your (non)binaries.

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