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Deadline: February 1st, 2019 Payment: $75 Writers please share. Looking for fiction and non-fiction. Open call for fiction/non-fiction: The NecronomiCon 2019 Memento Book is accepting submissions for weird/HPL influenced stories of cosmic horror, essays, and non-fiction focusing on the theme of Lost in Time: Newly Discovered Cosmic Horror. This year’s theme will explore authors/essays/tales that have been re-discovered. For fiction we want lost gods, unearthed histories, new myths, and freshly exhumed horrors for our modern eyes. The theme has to do with things or people forgotten but now found. Be creative and have fun with it. For essays and non-fiction we want pieces that focus on authors or fiction/film that have been mostly lost to time and overlooked over the years. Submissions Open September 1st, 2018 through February 1st, 2019. Preferred length 2000-5000 with a flat rate of $75 paid per story. No reprints. Standard manuscript format, no reprints, doc/docx format. Email submissions with a brief synopsis/cover letter and author bio. To: [email protected] Please make clear in the subject line whether the piece is fiction/non-fiction. Editors: Justin Steele and Victoria Dalpe Via: Justin Steele's Facebook.

Deadline: February 1st, 2019 Payment: Unclear but has potential and looks to be an interesting market FORESHADOW: A Serial YA Anthology will be published monthly on this site for a single year starting in January 2019 and ending December 2019, and will feature stellar YA stories from established and emerging authors. Each issue will feature three stories, one of which will be from a new voice specially selected by a beloved author. NEXT DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 1, 2019.   WHAT WE’RE SEEKING: We are seeking original YA short stories. Please see our FAQ for what we mean by YA or young adult; stories that are not YA will not be passed along to our team of readers for consideration. Stories should be between 2,000 and 7,000 words. We accept submissions from both previously published authors and New Voices (see guidelines below). We especially encourage submissions from underrepresented voices, including people of color and Indigenous writers; LGBTQIA+ and gender diverse writers; writers with disabilities; and religious, ethnic, and cultural minorities. NEW VOICES: Every issue of FORESHADOW will feature a short story from a “new voice”—a writer who is very early in their career, and this story will be selected and introduced by a beloved, established author. New voices guidelines: Writers being considered as a new voice in our serial anthology cannot have a previously published: A young-adult, middle-grade, or adult book-length work of fiction. A full-length poetry collection. More than a few short stories, whether in print or online—we will look closely at the markets where they’ve been published to decide (e.g., someone with three stories in the New Yorker would not count as a “new voice”). Writers also, at the time of submission, cannot have a YA, middle-grade, or adult book of fiction under contract that will be published before January 2020. Writers who have written picture books...

Deadline: February 1st, 2019 Payment: $25.00 - $50.00 for fiction, $5.00 - $10.00 for poetry and a Contributor's Copy To celebrate twenty years of publication, we're going to revisit the past. There are no new first lines for 2019. Each issue will be comprised of original works based on past first lines. Were you inspired by the fall 2008 first line (Roy owned the only drive-thru funeral business in Maine.) but didn't see the sentence until 2015? Or maybe you started writing a story for the spring 2005 issue (Life would be so much easier if I were a cartoon character.) but you never got around to submitting it. Or maybe you sent us a story that just missed the cut and you reworked it and want to try us again. Well, now is your chance to make up for missed opportunities. The following is the schedule/list of first lines for the 2019 issues (click the season to see the entire list of first lines for each issue): Spring 2019 All submissions must begin with one first line from Volume 1, Issue 1 to Volume 5, Issue 4. Due date: February 1, 2019 All submissions must begin with one first line from Volume 1, Issue 1 to Volume 5, Issue 4: Vol. 1, Iss. 1: Just like his fifth grade teacher, Mr. Young, had always told him, Brian put on his thinking cap. Vol. 1, Iss. 2: The rules are clearly spelled out in the brochure. Vol. 1, Iss. 3: "Well, there's ten minutes of my life I'll never get back." Vol. 1, Iss. 4: As the curtain rose, the scenario began to play itself out. Vol. 2, Iss. 1: The picture told the entire story. Vol. 2, Iss. 2: The person on the train kept saying, "I believe," over and...