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Taking Submissions: Afterlives: Year’s Best Death Stories, 2024

Deadline: January 31st, 2025
Payment: Contributor’s Copy and 1 cent per word
Theme: Death-related fiction that was published between January 1st 2024 through December 31st 2024

Afterlives: Year’s Best Death Stories, 2024

We want to read your death-related fiction!

Psychopomp will be publishing Afterlives: The Year’s Best Death Stories 2024, curated by Sheree Renée Thomas.

Please read the full guidelines before submitting so you can learn about:

  • what we’re looking for
  • how much we’re paying
  • what rights we are buying
  • and how to submit

Submission link below the guidelines.

What We’re Looking For:

We’re looking for stories specifically that have been published on and between January 1st 2024 through December 31st 2024, with a word count between 1,000 words and 19,000 words (so: short stories and novelettes) that are about death.

This could mean exploring what happens to us after we die, traveling to the Underworld, Death gods, Death personified, metaphors for death, grieving, funerals, graves, stories based on death myths from cultures across the world, death magic, ghosts, resurrection, and so on.

We specifically are not interested in stories that are centered around:

 

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Taking Submissions: Radon Journal May 2025 Issue

Deadline: April 15th, 2025
Payment: Fiction: 2¢ per word for original, 1¢ per word for reprints. Poetry: $20 per original poem and $10 for reprints. Artwork: $100 for issue cover art, $30 for back cover art, and $20 for art used on our site
Theme: Stories and poetry containing elements of science fiction, anarchism, transhumanism, or dystopia.
Note: Reprints Welcome

Radon welcomes short stories and poetry containing elements of science fiction, anarchism, transhumanism, or dystopia.

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We publish quality literature every mid-January, May, and September.

  • Submissions are accepted year-round.

  • Simultaneous submissions are welcome.

  • Reprints accepted if writer has the rights.

  • AI submissions are not allowed at Radon.

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Anthology / Artwork / Flat Amount / Poetry / Semipro

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Taking Submissions: Graveside Press: Illustrated Poetry Anthology

Deadline: May 31st, 2025
Payment: 2 cents per word for poetry, $75 for artwork
Theme: Grim, gothic, morbidly funny, terrifying works of poetry and artwork

Calling all poetry authors AND artists!

We’re stepping outside of the box here and trying something new. We’re calling on poets and artists this time to help us craft an illustrated poetry anthology. Give us your limericks, sonnets, haiku, ballads, and free-verse! Have visual poetry? EVEN BETTER. We want grim, gothic, morbidly funny, terrifying works.

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Taking Submissions: Inner Worlds, January 2025 Window

Submission Window: January 1 – 14 Members of marginalised groups only., January 15 – 31 General submissions.
Payment: £0.02 per word for each piece accepted, with a minimum £20 payment. £50 for artwork
Theme: Science fiction, fantasy, or supernatural horror prose with a strong emotional or psychological focus.
Note: Reprints Welcome

What to submit

  • Science fiction, fantasy, or supernatural horror prose with a strong emotional or psychological focus. We are mainly interested in fiction, but we’re open to speculative memoir or creative non fiction, as long as it has speculative elements. Please see ‘What We Like’ below for some examples.
  • Stories in English, between 500 and 2,500 words.
  • Please send only one story at a time.
  • Simultaneous submissions (when you send your story to more than one magazine at once) are welcome, please just let us know straight away by emailing us at ourinnerworlds[at]protonmail.com if your story is accepted elsewhere and you need to withdraw it.
  • Reprints are welcome, as long as they’re not already available somewhere free to read online.

 

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Taking Submissions: Flashpoint Science Fiction 2025 First Open Window

Submission Window: January 15th – March 31st, 2025
Payment: $0.02 per word
Theme: Science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, and everything in between
Note: Reprints Welcome

We are open to submissions:
Jan. 15 – Mar. 31
May 15 – Jul. 3
Oct. 15 – Oct. 31
Nov. 1 – Nov. 30 (Drabbles only)

Before submitting, please read the writer’s guidelines below.

Story Guidelines

Flash Point Science Fiction wants speculative fiction stories from 100 to 1,000 words in length. Send us your science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, and everything in between, so long as it’s short. We here at FPSF are partial to flash fiction and want to see the flash market grow. So as much as it pains us, please take your 10,000 word tour de force elsewhere. We’re not looking for the next Brandon Sanderson. (Unless you are, in fact, Brandon Sanderson, in which case we’d be delighted!)

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Taking Submissions: Tales from the Crosstimbers Spring 2025 Issue

Deadline: January 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

Effective December 1, 2024, we are open for submissions for our spring 2025 issue, planned for publication on or about March 15, 2025. We anticipate the issue will contain ten stories.

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Taking Submissions: New Myths First 2025 Window

Submission Window: January 1st -February 28th, 2025
Payment:3 cents/word with a minimum payment of $50, $50 for book reviews, $80 for artwork
Theme: Science Fiction and Fantasy

Reading past issues is the best way to know if your submission is a good fit for NewMyths.com. 

We like to balance each quarterly issue between science fiction and fantasy, dark and light, serious and humorous, hard and soft science fiction, and longer and shorter works.
Our readers are not fixated on a single style or tone or genre, but prefer a quality sample of the field. Think tapas or dim sum. Maximum length is 10,000 words. Please keep submissions PG or cleaner.

Submission Period
New Myths considers submissions between January 1-February 28 and June 1-July 31. 

Artwork, requests for book reviews, and other correspondence can be submitted at any time. 

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Taking Submissions: Mythaxis January 2025 Submission Period (Early Listing)

Submission Window: January 23rd-30th, 2025
Payment: €0.01 per word, with a €20 minimum.
Theme: Diverse sci-fi and fantasy fiction.

We are open to submissions within the following periods:

  • January 23rd-30th
  • April 23rd-30th
  • July 23rd-30th
  • October 23rd-30th

Submissions received outside of these dates will unfortunately be lost and therefore not responded to. When open, we seek and offer the following:

  • Length: 1,000-5,000 words. These are firm limits. Shorter or longer works will be considered, but the further a story goes outside these bounds the more it will need to impress.
  • Compensation: €0.01 per word, with a €20 minimum. Please be aware that payment is via PayPal only.

If you do not receive an acknowledgment within 24 hours of submission, please get in touch. We aim to accept or reject within 14 days of acknowledgment, but rl (real life) and rl (reading load) can get in the way. If you do not hear from us after 30 days, feel free to query.

REQUIREMENTS

Mythaxis seeks speculative fiction (sf/f/h) of all stripes for our first three issues each year. We are also interested in submissions of crime fiction for our end-of-year “all crime” issue. All these genres are equally welcome in each submission window.

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