Deadline: May 31st, 2024
Payment: Written work: .02c/word, Artwork: $75
Theme: Grim, gothic, morbidly funny, and terrifying works

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.

Your poetry submission:

• should be 150 lines (not words) max
• horror centric
• any form of poetry is allowed
• multiple submissions allowed

Your art submission:

• color or black/white (a color edition is tentatively planned)
• various sizes/dimensions considered
• submit as jpg, tiff, png, or pdf
• multiple submissions allowed
• NO GENERATIVE AI ART OF ANY KIND.

Est. publication date: July 2025
Compensation (written work): .02c/word
Compensation (artwork): $75

Poetry+art submissions from the same submitter are allowed. If the pieces are related, please upload them in the same submission.

Because of the rarity of horror poets, submissions will remain open until we feel we’ve received a good pool to select from.

Graveside Press is a new imprint focused on horror, managed by members of the publishing teams that brings you Paper Angel Press, Water Dragon Publishing, Unruly Voices, and Cupid’s Arrow Publishing.

We plan to bring you sleep-shattering tales of horror beginning October 2024.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

When submitting, we would greatly appreciate if you can follow the formatting guidelines below:

• file type: *.doc or *.docx
• Spelling: US and UK/AU-spelling and colloquialisms accepted
• Punctuation: US (modern, e.g. single space after periods)
• Font: Any legible serif, e.g., Times New Roman, Garamond
• Include author information at the top of page 1 (see sample below)
• Use formatted indents and not tabs to begin each paragraph
• Use hard returns to start new paragraphs
• Use page breaks to begin chapters on a new page

If you would like an example of what a properly formatted manuscript looks like or need help with any of the above, check here.

When in doubt, just remember we want your MS as clean and readable as possible!

More information can be found here on our website.

Have a question you can’t find an answer to?
Hannah Rebekah Graves (Aquisitions Manager) – [email protected]

Via: Graveside Press.