Taking Submissions: Unnerving Magazine #1
Deadline: November 15th Payment: 1¢/word Unnerving Magazine accepts short story submissions of horror, dark science fiction (light), dark fantasy and dark literary. Generally leaning strongly toward horror over other genres. Sex, gore and violence are welcome in moderation. The same goes for bizarro works, nothing too far gone (whatever that means). Please no hard science fiction, sword and sorcery fantasy, erotica, romance, humor that isn’t sinister or literary works that venture so far into experimental that it becomes nonsense. Unnerving Magazine will print quarterly starting with December 2016. Each issue will have different word count calls as we work through the kinks of layout. For Issue one, we seek seven stories (as the need is filled, the pertinent slot will be removed): Flash Slots 500 words or fewer 500 words or fewer 1000 words or fewer 1000 words or fewer Short Slots approximately 2000 words (within 15%) approximately 2000 words (within 15%) approximately 3500 words (within 15%) approximately 5000 words (within 20%) Payment is 1¢/word. Original fiction only. Reprints by invitation only. We ask for 3 months exclusivity from publication date and non-exclusive print-on-demand rights for 5 years. Submit only one story at a time and if a story is rejected, please do not submit again for 20 days. Submit in .docx, .doc or .rtf only. Double-spaced. Please use common sense when formatting. Everything hard on the eyes will be rejected automatically. Allow for up to 4 months before querying. Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Open to authors from any country. Payment by PayPal only within 30 days of publication. Submit stories to unnervingmagazine(at)gmail.com In the subject line specify intent, slot length and surname, ie. Submission: 500 Words: Brown. Anything aside from this will not be considered and will be rejected without notice. Currently we do not seek artwork, but will likely in the...
Taking Submissions: Dead of Winter
Deadline: November 15th, 2016 Payment: $10 and a contributor's copy Mighty Quill Books is accepting dark fiction submissions for the Dead of Winteranthology from now until Nov.15th, 2016. About the anthology: This is a non-themed anthology. Meaning that although the title of the anthology is Dead of Winter, your submission neither has to relate to death nor the dead nor to winter, the winter holidays, etc. Seeing as how our publishing focus is on dark fantasy and horror, however, we are looking for stories with a dark bent. What we are want: Non-themed, original short stories. We are not accepting reprints. We are purchasing the first print and electronic rights to your work. Minimum 1,000 words. Maximum 5,000 words. No more, no less. Stories can be set in any time period you choose and any genre you choose, except romance, erotica, hard science fiction, historical fiction, extreme horror/splatterpunk. Characters and plots that are three-dimensional. Neither are required to be likeable, however, they are required to be believable. Immerse us in your fictional world. Manuscripts must be in .DOC or .DOCX file format and formatted in standard manuscript format. Any stories NOT adhering to the standard manuscript format will be immediately rejected. Here is how to do standard manuscript format: http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html. What we don't want: No novels or novellas. No multiple submissions. No simultaneous submissions. No trunk (unfinished) stories. We only want your best work. We are happy to work with the right story to a degree, but typos, grammatical errors, and/or an underdeveloped plot/characters will get your story tossed. No explicit sex scenes or excessive violence/gore. Absolutely no explicit descriptions of abuse toward children or animals, and no sexual abuse of any kind. Abuse in a character's past is fine, but please include no more than subtle flashbacks as long...
