Submission Window: February 9th – 23rd, 2025
Payment: 1p a word to a maximum of £50
Theme: Folk-horror short stories

Hiding Under the Leaves, to be published November 2025, will be an anthology of folk-horror short stories. Think curses and cunning folk; superstitions and the old ways; twisted rural landscapes and dark, creeping woodlands.

Submissions will open 9th February 2025 and will close in the witching hour (midnight again!) 23rd February 2025.

For both anthologies:

Stories should aim to be 2-9000 words, and will be paid at 1p a word to a maximum of £50. Longer or shorter stories may be considered but will be a harder sell.

FAQs:

Please use standard manuscript formatting. Font TNR, Arial, Calibri, Garamond, or Calibri, 12 points. Double line spacing. Single spaces between words/following punctuation. Include page numbers in footers and name and title in headers. Also include a first page with name, title, word count. Use double quotation marks for speech. British English spelling preferred.

Please send stories by email to donna at theslab dot press as an attachment. Include the word count, your name, and the title in the email too. Please include the anthology name and your name in the subject of the email. For example:

Vivid Worlds STORY TITLE Joe Bloggs

Reprints: No reprints from stories that have already been published in print in English, please, but stories translated into written English for the first time, or that have only been previously published in audio format are permitted.

Simultaneous submissions and multiple submissions permitted.

Via: The Slab Press.