Deadline: April 15th, 2025
Payment: 2 cents per word
Theme: Anything witch-related! Modern day, fairy-tale, and anywhere inbetween!

Graveside Press’s next themed anthology will be WITCHCRAFT!

Open for Submissions: March 1, 2025 through April 15, 2025
Expected Publication: December 2025
What Are We Looking For?
WITCHES! Obviously. Whether you’re going with modern-day witchcraft practices or the fairy-tale evil witch, we’re ready for you.

Submissions Requirements

Your story:

• should be approximately 2,000 – 6,000 words in length.
• central focus: witchcraft of some sort.
• any character involved in adult activities must be 18+.
• NO: non-consensual, rape, or other sexual assault

STANDARD PAY RATES

• Standalone works (novels, novellas, short stories “Tiny Terrors”) – 50% royalties of net earnings paid quarterly
• Anthology submissions – 2¢ per word to be paid 90 business days after publication
• Illustrations – $75

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

When submitting, please do not send your manuscript already formatted as a book with fancy chapter headers, fonts, margins, etc. We would greatly appreciate if you can follow the formatting guidelines below:

• file type: *.doc or *.docx
• 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!

Via: Graveside Press.