Taking Submissions: Red Room: Extreme Horror Magazine #1
Deadline: July 1st, 2017 Payment: 3 cents per word, ($120 max). The first issue of Red Room Magazine will be published in late September/early October 2017 from Comet Press. The magazine will feature horror fiction and non-fiction; reviews, articles, interviews. The magazine will tentatively be published 2 or 3 times per year in digital and print. DEADLINE FOR ISSUE 1: JULY 1, 2017 FICTION & POETRY We are looking for dark, disturbing, extreme horror and dark crime stories. We want stories that are well plotted, and not just gore for gores sake, although we think gore is a good thing (and encouraged, along with blasphemy, subversive subject matter, graphic violence and language, etc). Anything goes except kiddie content, of course. Length: Up to 4000 words. Pay: 3 cents per word, ($120 max). Word count is flexible, but our maximum payment is $120.00. Reprints: At this time reprints are invite only. Multiple submissions: Up to two, send them in a separate email. Simultaneous Submissions: Yes, but please let us know in your email query, and let us know immediately if it is accepted elsewhere. NON FICTION: ARTICLES, BOOK REVIEWS, AUTHOR INTERVIEWS We are looking for original, high quality and well-written horror related articles, author interviews, and book reviews, of up to 1000 words. Book reviews should be between 400-600 words in length and follow standard book review format. Reprints: No reprints. Length: Up to 1000 words. Pay: 3 cents a word ($30 max). Longer works might be considered but $30 is the max payment. Multiple submissions: Up to two in each category, please send them in a separate email. Simultaneous submissions: Yes, but please let us know in your email query, and let us know immediately if it is accepted elsewhere. ARTWORK We offer $30 for reprint rights for preexisting cover...
Taking Submissions: Occupied: Stories from After the Invasion
Deadline: July 1st, 2017 Payment: $25 and a contributor's copy Rayor Books is accepting original science fiction short stories for our upcoming anthology, Occupied: Stories from After the Invasion. This anthology will be published as an eBook on Kindle, and as a POD paperback. Theme We are looking for stories set after Earth has lost an invasion, and the homeworld is now occupied. This could be a contemporary setting, where the invasion happens next week, or one 25,000 years from now, after Earth’s empire loses a war. It could be set right after the invasion, or generations later, when humanity doesn’t even remember its independence. The only rule is that the occupation must be important to the story. While military science fiction is the obvious route here (and we love military sci-fi), it certainly doesn’t have to be. We’re not going to put a hard word-count on this. It’s possible a flash piece or very long short story could bowl us over. We expect, however, most of the stories to be in the 4,000-8,000 range. Reading Period Now, until July 1st, 2017. Payment $25 on acceptance, through PayPal, plus 1 contributor copy of the paperback. Contributors will also be able to purchase additional copies of the paperback at a 45% discount. Rights First Print and First Electronic Rights, with a 1 year from publication date exclusive period. We further ask that the author not make the story available for free on their website or anywhere else while the anthology is in print. The exclusivity period would be waived if the author has the opportunity to be reprinted in a “Best of” anthology or single-author collection within the year. We just don’t want it competing in another small-press anthology or for sale for 25 cents on your website right away. Please bear in...
