by Stuart Conover | Nov 13, 2019 | Flash, Magazine, Ongoing Submissions, Poetry, Reprints Allowed, Semipro
Payment: CAD 1.5c/word. CAD .4c/word for reprints.
Note: Reprints Welcome
Via: tdotSpec Magazine.
by Stuart Conover | Nov 12, 2019 | Events, Magazine, Semipro
Deadline: January 30th, 2020
Payment: 2 cents a word, up to 1500 words ($30 max) for prose stories
For the first time, Murder Park is open to submissions from the world at large. While we started as a small zine showcasing the work of L.A.-area authors, we have decided to expand the scope to consider work from anywhere, so long as it’s spooky! Submissions will be open through January 30, 2020, or until we have enough acceptances to fill the volume.
What we want: Original horror or dark fantasy stories of no more than 2000 words. Sci-fi is also welcome so long as it’s scary. We don’t have a strong preference for any particular style or subgenre, but we do prefer writing that is more literary than pulp, that achieves its scares from impacts to fully realized characters as opposed to splatter, gore, or shock value. We would rather be unsettled than grossed out.
We will happily consider formats outside of traditional prose. Comics, email chains, tweet threads, and other methods of spooky storytelling are welcome. Don’t be afraid to surprise us. But please, no poetry.
We are open to authors of all backgrounds and publication histories. Preference will be given to authors based in Southern California (we are an L.A. zine, after all) and to authors of underrepresented backgrounds. However, the strength of the writing and impact of the story is by far the biggest consideration.
Hard sells: Parody/horror-comedy. Zombies. Clowns. Serial killer protagonists. Stories featuring gratuitous violence and gore at the expense of plot or character arcs. Anything with an explicit or implicit message of racism, sexism, queerphobia, or other bigotries is a definite no.
Compensation: 2 cents a word, up to 1500 words ($30 max) for prose stories, and $30 flat for comics or other visual stories. Payment will be through Venmo or PayPal.
Submission guidelines: Submit your stories in an email to [email protected]. Please use the format “SUBMISSION: [Story Title] by [Author Name]” for the subject line. Include a cover letter with your author name, story title, genre, word count, and a brief topical bio (i.e., we’re more interested in your greatest fear than your prior publications). Attach your manuscript as a Word document in Shunn or a similar format, with author info and word count up top. If submitting something visual, feel free to attach an image file or Drive link or whatever works best; just don’t paste manuscripts into the body of your email.
Please allow up to six weeks for a response before sending a follow-up.
Stay spooky!
Via: Genre Hustle
by Stuart Conover | Nov 6, 2019 | Anthology, Events, Semipro
Deadline: January 15, 2020
Payment: .01 a word up to 7000 words
We want the unreliable narrators, the psychological breakdowns, the dangerous fixations, but leave the fantasy elements at the door: vampires, ghosts, zombies, and magic are on hiatus for this one; we are looking for realistic dark fiction.
Think Poe’s “Cask of Amontillado,” O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” Jackson’s “The Lottery,” Oates’ “The Corn Maiden,” and King’s “Apt Pupil.” We want to hear your Session 9. We can’t wait to see your Audition.
Word count: 2000-7000 words, a little under or over is fine (but payment is capped at 7000)
Response time: Decisions will be emailed before March 15
Don’t sit on your submission until the deadline. Submit early. Call may be closed early if the anthology reaches its maximum word count.
Multiple submissions: No, thank you. Please send your one best story.
Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere, and if we select your tale, we ask that you remove it from consideration elsewhere immediately. No reprints; work must not have been printed elsewhere, including a blog or personal webpage.
Publication date: Fall 2020
Submission guidelines:
• Please use traditional Shunn manuscript format
• Include a biography of 50-150 words on the same document as your story. Previous publication is not a requirement for acceptance; we just want to know about you!
• Email as a .doc or .docx attachment to [email protected]
• Please note that while we want the darkest of fiction and appreciate gore, we will not publish stories that depict pedophilia, animal abuse, or sexual assault in a positive light. If you’re unsure about your content, please email us!
Via: Dark Ink Books (hyperlink: https://aminkpublishing.com/dark-ink)
by Stuart Conover | Nov 4, 2019 | Anthology, Events, Semipro
Deadline: January 7th, 2020
Payment: .04 per word
Folk Horror continues to stalk sunlit fields and shadowed groves with its grafting of the mundane and the sublime. The pervasive themes of isolation, paranoia, depravity, loss of individuality, and rustic madness captivate and terrify audiences.
Nosetouch Press is pleased to conjure up FIENDS IN THE FURROWS II: More Tales of Folk Horror, a call for submissions for Folk Horror from around the world—from Britain and Ireland, to continental Europe, to North and South America, Africa, and Asia.
We encourage writers to continue to explore the wilderness of Folk Horror, while honoring the elemental essence of this subgenre’s tangled, grasping roots.
SEND YOUR BEST ORIGINAL FOLK HORROR STORIES OF 4,000 TO 8,000 WORDS. SUBMISSIONS THAT ARE CHOSEN WILL BE PAID $.04 A WORD. NO POEMS OR REPRINTS, PLEASE.
Email entries to [email protected] .doc or .rtf format • Please state “FIENDS 2” in the subject line.
SUBMISSION PERIOD: NOVEMBER 1, 2019–JANUARY 7, 2020
Via: Nose Touch Press.
by Stuart Conover | Oct 30, 2019 | Ongoing Submissions, Online, Semipro
Payment: 1 cent per word
Short Story Submissions
We are always looking for quality fiction. If you’ve got a story that you think might fit, please read on.
Aggregate is an upcoming fiction anthology, and we’re looking for solid, creative short stories. We tend toward science fiction and horror, but prefer to think of genre as a loose categorization at best. Experimental fiction is welcomed, and even strongly encouraged. Strong consideration will be given to stories that explore the sociological and psychological. We’re not particularly concerned about the location or time in which the story takes place, or the use of supernatural or non-supernatural elements.
Not sure if your story fits? That’s okay! Feel free to submit, even if you’re not sure. However, to help give you an idea of what we’re looking for, here is a partial list of movies and books that get us excited.
- Movies: Get Out, The Babadook, Children of Men, 28 Days Later, The VVitch
- Books: The Haunting of Hill House (Jackson), The Handmaid’s Tale (Atwood), House of Leaves (Danielewski), The Library of Babel (Borges), The Road (McCarthy)
How to submit
All submissions should be sent by e-mail. Please ensure that you follow the formatting guidelines below. Submissions that are not correctly formatted, include stories as attachments, or are otherwise inappropriate, may be politely turned away without review.
We accept stories in plain text pasted into the body of an email, sent to the address [email protected] Please don’t attach your story as a Word document, PDF file, or any other marked-up format. If you’re sending an HTML formatted file, note that the story will be read as plain text, and that formatting will not be preserved. If you’re not sure what any of that means, don’t worry about it! Just copy and paste the story into the email message, and we’ll let you know if we can’t find your story.
Please be sure to include the word “Submission” AND the title of the story in the subject line of the message.
In the body of the message, we need to see the following:
Your real name.
Your pseudonym, optionally, if you would like to credit the story differently.
A brief cover letter giving us your biography and publication credits.
The word count of the story.
The title of the story.
The text of the story. Use single spacing, with blank lines between paragraphs and _underscores_ or *asterisks* (or whatever) for emphasis.
We prefer to see stories that are between 2,000 and 10,000 words in length. Please note that we do not consider novel excerpts.
There’s no deadline; when we’ve finished work on each short story anthology, we move straight on to the next. Just send us your work when you feel it’s ready.
Although we’re based in Canada, we accept English submissions from authors all over the world and pay in United States dollars.
It’s fine to send us more than one story at a time. However, please send them all separately, and not together in one email.
We understand if you want to submit to more than one venue at a time, and that’s alright. Please let us know if you’ve had the story accepted somewhere else.
And finally, thank you for considering us! We’ll do our best to respect your work, whether or not it ends up being a good fit for us. If we’re not meeting your expectations, please let us know, and we’ll try to do better. Authors are the reason that publishers exist. We won’t forget that.
Rights
We ask for first serial rights on any story we publish. This means that the story should not have appeared anywhere else, either in print or online. This includes publication on an author’s own website.
Payment
We pay at a rate of one US cent per word for stories we publish. Contributors receive a complimentary DRM-free copy of the anthology for personal use.
Response times
We aim to reply to all submissions within two weeks. If it’s been longer, and you’d like to double check that we received your submission, please email us at [email protected] with your name and story title.
Via: Writerfield.
by Stuart Conover | Oct 28, 2019 | Events, Magazine, Semipro
Deadline: January 10th, 2020
Payment: 2 cents per word
Horror Magazine
Breaking Rules Publishing’s Online And Hard Copy Magazine Comes Out Monthly.
The submission level has been high – the next submission deadline date for the Horror Magazine is January 10, 2020. Send your submissions to [email protected]
The Scribe, Triangle Writers and Horror – are 100 – 125 page magazines that feature articles and tools to assist in the success of the writers and readers that subscribe. It also offers writers, published authors and young writers the opportunity to share their work, promote their novels, short stories or poetry. To submit your short story or poems to The Scribe – please email us at [email protected]
The submission deadline for ALL Magazines will always be the 10th of the prior month.
Send all of your submissions to [email protected]
Submission Guidelines can be found under the “Guidelines” tab.
*If your short story is accepted for publication in any issue of any of our magazines, you may be asked for an Author Byline and a piece of artwork such as a picture that compliments your story.
Authors Submitting Articles –
Articles submitted by writers for our magazines will be unpaid. Writers submitting articles will however be given a full page authors promo package for their compensation. Please see the packages below.
Via: Breaking Rules Publishing.
