Category: Anthology

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Taking Submissions: Satan Rides Out Again

Deadline: August 30th, 2024
Payment: $5
Theme: Satan or devilish stories

Following on from the resounding success of HellBound’s satanic anthology “Satan Rides Your Daughter,” our loving homage to the late, great British author Dennis Wheatley, we decided another outing for stories concerning Beelzebub and his denizens of Hell was in order!

We want your very best devilish and demonic tales – horrify us with your depictions of the darest, deepest pits of Hades or Hell on Earth…
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Taking Submissions: Hellbound Books’ Anthology of Horror

Deadline: June 1st, 2024
Payment: $5
Theme: General horror

No set theme or subjects for this anthology – just good, well-told horror and tales of terror! You can be classical, traditional, contemporary, or anywhere in between – just scare the pants off our compiling editors!
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Taking Submissions: Shivering Timbers!

Deadline: June 1st, 2024
Payment: £20 and a contributor’s copy
Theme: Original short horror stories, from 2K words to 7K words max, with a pirate theme.

Shivering Timbers! An anthology of pirate themed horror fiction.
Title: Shivering Timbers!
Story Length: 2K words – 7K words
Pay: £20 regardless of story length plus a paperback and digital (pdf. & Epub.) copy.
Deadline: 1st June 2024
Expected Release Date: 3rd July 2024
What we want:
For our anthology, ‘Shivering Timbers!, we are looking for original short horror stories, from 2K words to 7K words max, with a pirate theme. Stories must be fictional and set in ‘The Golden Age of Piracy’ (1650s – 1730s) or before.
Works slightly under 2K words or slightly over 7K words may still be considered.
Reprints may be considered as long as the story rights have reverted to the author.
We ask for five months exclusive print and digital rights, ongoing non-exclusive rights thereafter. You will retain copyright ownership of your work.

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Taking Submissions: Bikes in Space #13: Queer Halloween

Deadline: April 15th, 2024
Payment: Split Payment from Kickstarter (Minimum of $50) and a contributor’s copy
Theme: Queer Halloween from authors who are queer/part of the queer/LGBTQIA+ community, in some way, shape or form.

It’s that time of year—we’re carving pumpkins, installing ghosts in the front yard, and putting out the next Bikes in Space call for submissions. This time around, it’s for volume 13, which needed an appropriate theme. Fortunately, guest editor Summer Jewel Keown came up with one for the ages: Queer Halloween! Here’s the info:

Please submit your original queer Halloween short fiction (in written or comics form) about bicycling from a feminist perspective. We’re looking for stories that give us a shiver or make us leave the hallway light on at night. Raise our hair and make our spines tingle. We’ll also consider Halloween-themed stories that aren’t as frightful, but they should still be infused with all things spooky season.

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Taking Submissions: Inanimate Things: Volume Two

Deadline: May 1st, 2024
Payment: $10 and a contributor’s copy
Theme: Horror stories about inanimate things that are living

Inanimate Things: Volume Two. With the success of Volume One, we decided to do it again!

We are looking for horror short stories between 1500 and 6,000 words in length (can go over a little bit, we aren’t too particular. Just not shorter than 1500 words) about inanimate things that are living. It could be a doll, the dead flesh of zombies, or your Ford F-150. The story needs to involve this subject in some way…and be scary too.

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Taking Submissions: Writer’s Retreat: Tales of Writing and Madness

Deadline: December 31st, 2023
Payment: $10
Theme: Stories that peel back the layers of the literary process to reveal the psychological horrors writers face daily.

Scott McGregor and Harriet Everend are teaming up to compile a new anthology, Writer’s Retreat: Tales of Writing and Madness under January Embers Press.
Beneath the polished pages of every story lies a world shrouded in shadows—a world where the act of creation transforms into psychological madness fraught with terror. “Writers Retreat: Tales of Writing and Madness” is an anthology seeking to peel back the layers of the literary process to reveal the psychological horrors writers face daily. From the dreaded writer’s block to the malevolent spirits of rejection, this collection delves into the darkest corners of the creative mind, where the lines between reality and imagination blur.

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Ongoing Submissions: StoSo Times and StoSo Ink

Payment: Contributor’s Copy and $5
Theme: Speculative fiction – that is stories and poems and art in the genres of Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, and any combination thereof.

StoSo Press is currently seeking submissions for our new publications StoSo Times and StoSo Ink.

StoSo Times is a monthly online publication that specializes in the genres of Fantasy, Sci-fi, and Horror. StoSo Times will be sent first as a newsletter edition, then shared on our website as part of StoSo Ink. Our goal is to publish at least one story and one poem per genre on our online editions. Every 12 months we will include the year’s publications in a print anthology.

Eventually we plan to expand into publishing novels and nonfiction as it relates to SFFH, such as thought-provoking essays, book reviews and recommendations, author interviews, excerpts from forthcoming books, and other noteworthy industry news. Additionally, we intend to release more SFFH anthologies, video and audio content to further explore the realms of speculative fiction.

If you’re interested in volunteering as a slush reader (or other role) please reach out.

Detailed instructions for submitting to StoSo Press follow.

 

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Taking Submissions: Grumpy Old Sherwood

Deadline: May 1st, 2024
Payment: Royalties
Theme: Stories related to Robin Hood or Sherwood Forest with at least one grumpy character that are amusing and speculative fiction

Hear ye!  Hear ye!! 

It’s time for another Grumpy Anthology and this time we’re heading to those forests of yore to revamp tales of Robin Hood and his Merry Men. That’s right, we’re off to the land of leather jerkins and longbows for another chance for a Grumpy twist on a classic mythos.  

Why Robin Hood you ask?

We’re so glad you asked.

Authors are readers, and for many of us, this group of stories are a cherished childhood memory.  Robin Hood wandered in and out of English Literature leaving a trail of tales (looking at you Ivanhoe), despite being the original rebel bad boy.

He literally robs from people who are in power.

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