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Deadline: May 30th, 2019 Payment: $5, Equal share of 30% of the anthology profits ...no, don't panic, we are not looking for lavatory-themed tales of terror - although should your short story involve the smallest room in the house, we'd be more than delighted to read it! The theme for this anthology is short horror stories that will make an ideal sit-down read, just long enough for those extended stays at the convenience, and terrifying enough that they really are best read whilst over water.... This anthology will be compiled by the incomparable author and filmmaker Bret McCormick, so be sure to write to impress! We have based story length upon the average time spent upon the convenience (10-15 mins) and the average reading speed (200-250 words per minute), so that the stories within this exceptionally unique anthology will be the perfect 'per visit' length! NOTE: we will also accept a handful of shorter stories - 'flush fiction' - if the fit is right! To submit, email your polished story to [email protected] PLEASE read and adhere to our submission guidelines... * Word format saved in .doc, or .docx * 12 pt times new roman * Double spaced * Absolutely NO extra lines between paragraphs! * 2.5K-4K word count (although we are incredibly flexible for awesome stories!) * Write 'TOILET ZONE' along with your name and story title in the header of your email *The body of your submission email will be considered the cover letter. * The submission documents are to be separated and Word (.doc or .docx) documents are to be attached to your submission email. - Make sure that you check your mss for grammar and punctuation, use our guidelines to help you: DOWNLOAD YOUR HBB GUIDE TO GRAMMAR HERE (PDF) Deadline: MAY 30th 2019 (for publication June...

Deadline: May 31st, 2019 Payment: £10 and contributor copy. Time We Left, stories and poetry telling stories of humankind in space. Mass migration, one-man expeditions, strange new worlds, wondrous journeying through the gaseous landscapes of nebulae and star clusters, voyages through the oceans of gravitational waves, expeditions to the hauntingly beautiful surfaces of a thousand exoplanets, delicate and dangerous contact with whoever and whatever lives out there. ​I'm looking for longer tales, 3,000 to 5,000 words, let your stories breathe, let the strangeness unfold. No Star Wars, no conventional space opera. I want the alien, I want adventure, I want invention. Lets get the wonder back in science fiction. Payment £10 and contributor copy. Submission Deadline: 31st May 2019 Submission Address: [email protected] PLEASE READ FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS BELOW 12pt Times New Roman Double-Spaced 1cm indents for paragraphs Double comma speech marks Via: Wordland.

Deadline: May 31st, 2019 Payment: 2 Cents Per Word Minimum. TBD Note: Reprints ONLY Greetings from the Ether, We have been anxious to say these words, and alas, here we are. Gehenna & Hinnom Books is now officially open to submissions from publishers for our Year’s Best Cosmic Horror 2019 Anthology. What is Cosmic Horror? Cosmicism, or Lovecraftian Horror, is a subgenre which emphasizes the unknown or unknowable, the fear of things beyond our comprehension, and the insignificance of mankind in the grand scheme of the universe. Reality erodes in this genre, and often science or discovery are responsible for this corruption. We’re looking for the absolute best Cosmic Horror tales from 2018. Publishers are welcome to submit individual stories, anthologies, collections, etc., to our email in PDF format, though we will also accept other formats, such as Mobi. and ePub. Please send emailed submissions with “Year’s Best Cosmic Horror” in the title. If you wish to send print copies of selected works, please use the below address: GEHENNA & HINNOM BOOKS YEAR’S BEST COSMIC HORROR 2019 ANTHOLOGY 510 N 38TH AVE MB 11 HATTIESBURG, MS 39401 For writers who are unsure if their work has been submitted, or will be submitted, please forward all questions to the email address above. Make sure to contact your publishers before sending any queries. Specifics on submission qualifications: Stories to be considered for reprint should fall under 12,000 words. Stories that exceed this word count, novelettes, novels, collections etc., can and should be submitted, but will only be referenced in our “Overview” of 2018. The final cut-off date for submissions is May 31st, 2019. Any submissions sent after that date will not be considered. We are gunning for a summer release of this title, and it will likely move to print come June or July. Deadline...

Deadline: May 31st, 2019 Payment: $25 for flash fiction (up to 1,000 words) or 1 cent per word– maximum $40–for short stories (up to 5,000 words) Note: Authors submitting must live in Colorado Denver Horror Press is seeking the best in local horror fiction to publish in our upcoming anthology, Terror at 5280’. We’re looking for short stories related to or taking place in or around Denver, Colorado (bonus points for including local lore or haunts) written by authors currently living in Colorado(stories written by those outside of Colorado will not be considered). Submission Guidelines Submissions should follow standard manuscript format and shouldn’t exceed 5,000 words. Email submissions to Submissions AT DenverHorror DOT com and attach your document in PDF or Word Doc or DocX format (a submission pasted in the body of the email will not be considered) with subject: “Submission: ”. In the body of the email, please include a brief bio including current town/city of residence, relevant blog/website URLs, social media links, and publishing credits (if any). We will accept reprints provided you have retained all rights to the story, but priority will be given to previously unpublished submissions (put REPRINT in the subject line of your submission). Deadline for submissions is May 31, 2019. Usage Rights We will ask for exclusive rights for one year. After that, they will revert to continuing non-exclusive rights. Payment Upon publication, we pay $25 for flash fiction (up to 1,000 words) or 1 cent per word– maximum $40–for short stories (up to 5,000 words) for the anthology. If your story doesn’t make it into the anthology but we think it’s awesome, we may ask your permission to publish it on the Denver Horror Collective website (DenverHorror.com) and in the newsletter for $15. Response time Response times may vary depending on the number of submissions we...

Deadline: May 31st, 2019 Payment: $10 In anthropological terms, liminality is the midpoint of a ritual: the threshold where a person is no longer quite who they were, not yet who they might become. In between masks, what face might you have? What might you be in transit? Where will you go? Everything is possible in that moment; change is its own goal. Liminality is the space between. Liminality is an online quarterly magazine of speculative poetry edited by Shira Lipkin and Mattie Joiner. We are very pleased to meet you. We’re looking for speculative literary poems that touch the heart as much as the head; poems of the liminal, the fluid, and the fantastic. We’d love to see work that shifts shape, refuses to be to be easily pinned down or categorised. We actively welcome diversity; we want to hear new as well as established voices. Tell us tales we thought we knew, the way only you can tell them. Give us new myths. Liminality pays $10 per poem, for first worldwide publication rights and non-exclusive anthology rights. We will be open: April 1 – May 31 July 1 – August 31 October 1 – November 30 To submit, send up to five poems to liminalitypoetry AT gmail.com with the subject line “SUBMISSION – ”. Please include your poems in the body of the e-mail; if you have formatting that makes that untenable, you may attach the poem as an .rtf. You may send up to five poems per reading period. We do not accept reprints or simultaneous submissions. (If the poem has been publicly viewable online, yes, it would be a reprint.)  “Dear Editors”, “Dear Mattie and Shira”, and “Dear Shira and Mattie” are all fine as forms of address. Via: Liminality.

Deadline: May 31st, 2019 Payment: $500 and 25 contributors copies Submission Periods: January 15th - May 31st | September 3rd - November 14th What kinds of stories is One Story looking for? One Story is seeking literary fiction. Because of our format, we can only accept stories between 3,000 and 8,000 words. They can be any style and on any subject as long as they are good. We are looking for stories that leave readers feeling satisfied and are strong enough to stand alone. Does One Story pay? Yes. One Story pays $500 and 25 contributors copies for First Serial North American rights. All rights will revert to the author following publication. Does One Story accept previously published material? No. One Story is looking for previously unpublished material. However, if a story has been published in print outside of North America, it will be considered. Stories previously published online—on blogs, personal websites, online literary magazines, or forums—will not be accepted. Does One Story accept simultaneous submissions? Yes, but please notify us immediately if your submission is accepted for publication elsewhere. What file types can I submit? We accept PDF, RTF, and TXT files that are less than 500KB. Please include the story title and all writer contact info on the first page of the submitted file. Will you send me comments on my story? No. One Story receives close to 100 submissions each week. Please understand that we do not have time to comment on individual stories. Can I change the story I submitted with an updated draft? No. Do you consider translations? Yes. Please include the name of the original author and language, as well as the name of the translator on the first page of your submission. How do I submit to One Story? We have an automated...

Deadline: March 31st, 2019 Payment: $5 Note: Female-identifying writers only Under Sapphire Stars, our first LGBTQ anthology is calling for female-identifying writers to step up and deliver their own amazing horror in that LGBTQ space. Stories can range from themes of horror, insanity, and murder to eroticisms played out within the ranks of an eldritch cult. Editor Desiree LeAnn is looking for only the best of the best, but we invite you to surprise us, scare us and to move us. We will not accept any stories about rape. Racism/Sexism/Bigotry of any form will never be accepted here. Stories between 1500-5000 words preferred. Double check your grammar and spelling. Format your story correctly. Please submit all stories in DOC/RTF format. We prefer stories that have not been published before. We prefer to avoid multiple and simultaneous submissions. We retain exclusive publishing rights for 12 months. We pay $5.00 for stories Submission Date: 4.1-5-31 Via: Madness Heart Press.

Deadline: May 31st, 2019 Payment: $25 Accursed items. Some people believe in them, some people don’t. With a truly cursed item, belief doesn’t matter. It’s gonna do its best to get you anyway. You might survive, with the worst luck ever. Or you might not. Maybe you'll be compelled to do things you never would without its influence. Maybe you thought it would help you at the casino. Maybe it did. But there’s always a price to pay, one you aren’t ready for. That little lucky charm you have in your pocket may be doing more damage than good. But you think its helping. It's cursed, and does not have your best interests in mind. Sometimes it’s not even an item, it’s a person. Be careful what you pick up. Be careful who you friend. You never know. It, or they, might be accursed. Your story must prominently feature some kind of cursed item. Jolly Horror Press LOVES horror/comedy, but we will publish pure horror as well. We give humorous stories a slight edge however, when considering whether to include them. Diversity and Inclusiveness: Yes, we want stories from all sectors, from all kinds of people! We encourage submissions from women, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community. We seek to include writers from all walks of life who have a scary/funny story to tell. The Details: Please see our generic submission guidelines page for how to submit. Submission Period: April 1, 2019 to June 30, 2019 Reading Period: July 1, 2019 to September 30, 2019 Expected Publication Date: December 2019 We reserve the right to close early, but no earlier than May 31, 2019 Payment: $25 per accepted story (via Paypal) Note: These guidelines are generic and apply to all Jolly Horror Anthologies unless otherwise noted. Please see the actual call for submissions for each...

Deadline: May 31st, 2019 Payment: $5AU-$20AU depending on length. Note: Only Australian and NZ authors. A Demonic Compendium of the Wicked, Fallen and Accursed Submissions will be open to all Australian and NZ based authors starting Jan 1st 2019 and will continue to May 31st 2019 (to be released October 2019). We are looking for original flash fiction and short stories 500 - 15000 words featuring demonic hellspawn. Think tales of demonic possesion, faustian deals, crossroad bargains and plain old demonic chaos... Our preference will be for a wide array of demonic entities, from a range of cultures, we're not really looking for 15 different versions of Lucifer's biblical fall. Token payments for accepted works are as follows: Flash fiction 500-1000 words: $5AU Short story 1000 - 5000 words: $10AU Short story 5000 - 10000 words: $15AU Short story 10000 - 15000 words: $20AU No fanfiction or stories based on existing franchises. No reprints. No erotica and, as always, no sparkly vampires. SUBMIT HERE Via: Cobblestone Scribe.

Deadline: May 31st, 2019 (From Submittable.) Payment: 5 cents per word, reprints: 3 cents per word Note: Reprints allowed To submit or check the status of a previous submission, click here. In addition to the guidelines below, please read the submission requirements on our Submittable page prior to uploading your submission. WHAT WE WANT: We consider original, unpublished work within the confines of dark fantasy and horror—mystery, suspense, supernatural, morbid humor, fantasy, etc. WHAT WE DO NOT WANT: We’re not interested in hard science fiction, epic fantasy (swords and sorcery), splatter (blood and guts and little more), or clichéd plots. Clichéd themes are okay. We won’t turn our noses up at the sight of zombies or serial killers or vampires, but there needs to be something that sets it apart from the norm for us to seriously consider it. No fan fiction. WHAT WE WILL CONSIDER: Reprints. Unpublished work will always get first consideration. Any submitted reprint must be out of print and the author must retain all applicable rights. All previous publication information (for the submitted work only) must be disclosed. FORMAT: All submissions must be sent via our Submissions Manager (see link at the top and bottom of this page). Please use 12pt Times New Roman font, double-spaced lines, and indented paragraphs. Use italics (do not underline for italicized words). Please include your full name, contact info, and word count in the document. No simultaneous/multiple submissions. READING PERIOD: Unless otherwise noted, we’re open from February through May, and August through November. RESPONSE TIME: 90 days or less.* PAYMENT: We pay 5 cents a word for original, unpublished fiction, and 3 cents a word for reprints, up to 5,000 words. RIGHTS: For previously unpublished work we claim First North American Serial Rights and First Electronic World Rights (not to include Internet use)...

Deadline: May 31st, 2019 Payment: $10 per printed (or printed-out) page for accepted prose, and $20 per page for accepted poetry, up to a maximum of $150., 2 copies of print magazine if accepted into a print copy We look for writing that catches experience before the crusts of habit form—poetry and prose that resist ideas about what a certain kind of writing “should do.” We seek out writers who tell their truths in their own words and convince us as we read that we’ve found something no one else could have written. When to submit AGNI welcomes manuscripts between September 1st and May 31st. Submissions mailed in June, July, or August will be returned unread, provided sufficient return postage is included. Things to know when submitting Nearly everything we publish is unsolicited. We encourage submissions from writers of all identities, living anywhere, published and unpublished. We will not consider writing that has already been published in English, whether in a book, magazine, newspaper, or on an app, a website, a social media feed, or a publicly accessible online community. We consider only work written in English or translated into English. We have no word limits, though space is at a premium and length sometimes affects our decisions. We do not publish genre romance, horror, mystery, or science fiction; however, we are open to writing that borrows elements from any of these. We will consider excerpts if they read as if they were meant to stand alone. We are interested in personal essays, think-pieces, memoir, prose poems, formal poems, blank verse, free verse, short stories, and short shorts; we do not publish academic essays or purely journalistic writing. Though we rely on student interns for many things, they are not involved in considering submissions. All manuscripts are read by masthead...

Deadline: May 31st, 2019 Payment: $5 and a contributor's copy I've been inspired to create a thought-provoking book of short quotations and really short stories. I'm titling it Beer-Battered Shrimp for the Soul. What? You were expecting it to be a NORMAL book filled with NORMAL stories? Nope. Silliness and weirdness will abound. All I ask is that submissions be happy and silly and hopeful. Not dark or scary or disturbing. Well, maybe a little disturbing. Details: What I want:Strange little stories or silly inspirational quotes of up to 125 words (this is not a firm count, but if it's longer, your piece had better be exactly what I'm looking for). I want something that will fit on a single page in a large and funky font. Here's an example (used by permission from Michaelbrent Collings) - I wish all rabbits were named Barry. That way, when you were out walking with your friend and you saw a rabbit and your friend said, "I wonder what that rabbit's name is?" you could say, "It's Barry," and you'd look very smart. Forgot to add: Please keep it G or PG. No profanity or explicit sex or violence, please. What you get: Right now, token payment of up to $5 per story/quote and one copy of the collection when it's finished. You can also have space for a bio and a website if you want it. Basically it would be a charity collection. Any proceeds the book earns will go towards this fundraiser - https://www.heifer.org/gift-catalog/animals-nutrition/honeybees-donation.html or one of their other animal gifts. Why am I doing this:Because it sounds like fun. And I like silly books of uplifting quotations, inspirational stories, and weird things. The world needs more happiness. How do I submit? Write something, edit it, make it shine, then email it to...

Deadline: May 31st, 2019 Payment: $10 EconoClash Review (Quality Cheap Thrills) is a biannual print journal of Genre Fiction. We accept only the best contemporary pulp submissions. Which includes quality Crime, Noir, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Weird, Humor and Other Words for Uplifting Gormandizers.  EconoClash Review believes in free speech and wants to provide our readers with a much needed escape into other worlds. We like stories about Weirdos, Criminals and Pregnant Prom Queens going to great lengths to destroy or keep the status quo. HOWEVER, we don't want erotica, or adult content, or torture between characters of any age, race, species both real or fictional. Nothing gratuitous. Avoid the tropes best you can. Just because we want GENRE doesn't mean we want STALE. Above all else--EconoClash Review wants fiction full of energy that feels real.  We encourage our writers to submit short fiction between 1,500 and 4,500 words. That word limit is FIRM and STRICTLY ENFORCED. We will open again for subs May 1st to May 31st 2019. Any manuscripts sent outside the open submission window will be deleted unread. Follow us on Twitter @econoclashrevue for updates. EconoClash Review claims the following publishing rights: First English Language Rights, English Language Periodical Rights, World Periodical Rights, First Audio Distribution Rights, Subsidiary Rights and Electronic Distribution Rights. All Rights revert back to the writer six months after initial publication. Should EconoClash Review choose to create an anthology of previously published work, new rights will be negotiated. Bear in mind that most publications will not publish pieces that have been published in print, eBook, or on the web, so for all intents and purposes after your work is published by us it can only be marketed as a reprint, which severely limits the number of markets that will accept it, and drastically reduces the pay rate it can receive. It is up to you, the author, to decide if giving up your First Publishing Right for our token payment, is really...

Deadline: May 31st, 2019 Payment: $0.06USD per word, $50 for poetry, reprint prices below Note: Reprints Allowed Selene Quarterly Magazine is a quarterly periodical of speculative romance, mystery, and alternate history published in May, August, November, and February. We accept unsolicited submissions from MAY 1-31 11:59 EST every year. Anything submitted outside of this window will be deleted unread. SUBMIT Format using Shunn’s manuscript style. Track your submission using Duotrope, The Submission Grinder, and Ralan. Submit via HeyPublisher. A short cover letter is required. It should be submitted alongside the text of your submission or inside of the summary field. Please include your legal name, pen name (if relevant), contact information, PayPal email address (if different), recent publications/awards (if any), preferred contributor’s copy (.epub or .mobi for Kindle™), and a third person bio of 50-150 words. A photo is optional. We take 2-3 weeks to respond to submissions. If you haven’t received a response by then, please query. Email submissions are deleted unread. Please note that a blank response through HeyPublisher means your piece was rejected. If you have any questions, email subs selenequarterly.com. POETRY: Any length paid $50USD per poem. FICTION: 100-7500 words paid $0.06USD per word. REPRINTS: Any length of poetry paid $15USD and 100-7500 words of fiction paid $0.01USD per word. RULES Translations are accepted Only submit one submission in each category Simultaneous submissions to other markets are accepted RIGHTS Copyright remains with the author and poet at all times Non-exclusive archival rights as long as the website(s) hosting the work are online First world electronic and print rights in English with exclusivity for 6 months from the date of publication If selected to be republished in an anthology in the future, payment in royalties is $0.01USD per word If selected for a podcast or audiobook, payment is $0.01USD per word for non-exclusive electronic audio rights HARD...

Deadline: June 1st, 2019 Payment: Contributor's Copy Note: Reprints Allowed Deadline: June 1, 2019 Editors: Tarl Hoch and Thurston Howl Word count: 2,500-8,000; a little above and a little below will be acceptable We want your campfire ghost stories...with furry characters. I am going to forgo my usual long description for the anthology because I want to leave it open to you what kind of mythos you bring into your story. But keep in mind while this is an adult anthology, your story does not have to be NSFW. First and foremost, your story should be horror. Scare us! All story submissions must be "furry" in nature. We will NOT accept: Racism, sexism, or discrimination presented in a positive light. Pedophilia or sex with characters under the age of 18 presented in a positive light. Rape, torture, dubious consent, forced seduction presented in a positive light. Snuff or Necrophilia presented in a positive light If you are in doubt, ASK. Better to ask than to get a straight up rejection! If you are unsure, just shoot me an email at [email protected]. (restrictions borrowed from Voice: https://t.co/MWykJ6RY36) You can submit up to three stories, but we will only accept one per author (if any). Reprints are fine, but you have to own full permission of the work in order for us to consider it. We will not accept simultaneous submissions. Payment: Authors will receive a free copy of the print book. Send submissions in .doc or .docx format to [email protected]. Title your email with the subject in all caps, e.g. "GHOSTS." If you are sending more than one submission, send multiple emails instead of putting them all in one. We will inform all authors regarding decisions within a week or two after the deadline. Book will likely be released October in plenty...

Deadline: June 1st, 2019 Payment: Royalties Attention authors! Hollow Hills will begin accepting submissions for a new anthology in April, 2019. As a publisher, our goal is to put out one anthology a year, giving readers exposure to a variety of authors from all over the world. This anthology is loosely titled "Tales of the Siblings Not-So-Grim" and will contain short stories and poetry based on fairy tales or taking place in a fantasy/fairy tale-esque setting. You can rewrite a fairy tale or even write your own. (No, it doesn't have to be a Grimm fairy tale.) Magic, dragons, elves, witches, we want it all! We are going for a more lighthearted vibe for this anthology, so romance and comedy are welcome, though not required. We are looking for new or seasoned authors for this anthology. This is NOT a charity anthology, meaning that authors will be paid a portion of royalties. Submission requirements: Stories should be between 8,000 and 15,000 words long. No erotica or excessive swearing. Please do not send us a first draft. Our editors are here to clean up your story, but we will not accept works with "more problems than you can shake a stick at" so please read over your manuscript more than twice. Submit your stories between April 1st and June 1st. Email submissions to hollowhillsbooks(at)gmail(dot)com with  Anthology Submission and your author name in the subject. We will accept submissions as email attachments in .doc, .docx, or .rtf file formats. Happy writing! Via: Hollow Hills Books.

Deadline: June 1st, 2019 Payment: $20 and a contributor's copy OPEN CALL for a new anthology from Anubis Press! HANDBOOK FOR THE DEAD will be open for submissions until June 1st. What we are looking for are stories about real life paranormal experiences (ghosts only) with some factoids about the paranormal, such as beliefs, theories, popular explanations, evidence from cases similar to yours, and investigation methods, included with the story, much in the way information is listed in handbooks. The objective of this anthology is to offer readers some paranormal stories as well as insight into the entire paranormal phenomena. GUIDELINES: 1) Do not send fiction stories. These are stories alleged to be true. 2) Stories about ghosts and hauntings only. These are to be personal experiences, family stories, or tales of local haunts (local to you). 3) Stories should be no less than 1000 words. 4) Make sure to list the factoids. They are a required part of the submission. 5) List factoids separately from the story. Do not include them in the tale. List them in the same document, just make sure they are separated from the story. 6) Factoids can be from another source, or they can be your own theories or investigation methods. If they are your own, explain why you believe what you believe and/or why you investigate the way you do. If the information is from another source, list the source and explain thoroughly. 7) No more than two submissions per person. 8) All stories must be attached as word.doc or docx only. Do not send any other file types and do not paste stories in the body of the email. 9) Email submissions to [email protected] and include the following in the subject line: HANDBOOK <story title> <your name>. If the guidelines are not...

Deadline: June 1st, 2019 Payment: 5 dollars and 5 contributor copies or 25 dollars and 0 contributor copies. SINCERELY, S.O.V.: a tribute to s.o.v. horror films Woefully inept? Unbearably trashy? Unwatchable? Badly written? Over-acted? Hammy? Boring? Cheaply made? Redundant? Ridiculous? Goofy? Or...something more? Since professional studios did not back these films, they didn’t have to pass through any conventional filters. The desire to make these films surpassed the limitations and obstacles, which rear their terrible serpent heads in: the seams. The seams. Perhaps it’s THE SEAMS which is most interesting about these films. How, barely passably, did they achieve creature effects or kill sequences given their limitations in budget, actors, writing, and directing? What can we learn about the times, the creator’s lives, and forgotten class-struggles from bygone eras? What is the magical element present in these films which draws new audiences back to them despite their horrendously low ratings on IMDB? The best of these films have something in common: sincerity—a sincerity to scare and shock and to create some simulacrum of believability in an artificial pulp world gone mad. We are especially attracted to horror stories, novels, and films with grim settings. Think the lonely frozen outpost of The Thing, the terrible working conditions of King’s “Graveyard Shift,” the struggling writer of Ligotti’s “Alice’s Last Adventure,” or the jaded demiglaze over James Woods’ eyes in VIDEODROME. Comic artists and writers are encouraged to submit. Experimentation and non-traditional approaches to storytelling are encouraged. Deadline: June 1st, 2019. Token payment: 5 dollars and 5 contributor copies or 25 dollars and 0 contributor copies. Submit to: psychedelichorrorpress at gmail dot com Writer Length: 2k-4kish Comic Artist Length: 5-20 pages of black and white sequential art

Deadline: June 1st, 2019 Payment: $20 “Turning words into art is unnatural. It begins with a contrary attitude. It says, I am unhappy with the way things are and desire to make things different. Rather than represent the world, I will make something wildly and savagely new. I will defy logic. I will invest in new perceptions. I will combine and recombine and fabricate and juggle until something that I have never experienced is experienced. The process is alchemical. The process is violent. It goes to the heart of creativity. It disrupts and shatters. It is splendid with provocation. It is an aggression against banality. It is sharp and loud like a janitor scraping frost from a window. The hectic bounce of steam on a street after a truck roars by. The anarchy of waters, the comedy of the face, dangerous feelings vented from a cage of skin.” ~ John Olson Poetry — We believe poetry is contrary by nature, always defying, always tonguing the tang of novelty. We look especially for plurality of meaning, for dual reverberation of beauty and concern. Contrary’s poetry in particular often mimics the effects of fiction or commentary. We find ourselves enamored of prose poems because they are naturally contrary toward form – they tug on the forces of exposition or narrative – but prose poems remain the minority of all the poetic forms we publish. Please consider that Contrary receives vast amounts of poetry and that we can publish only a small percentage of that work. Please submit no more than three poems per issue. Our poetry editor is Shaindel Beers. Fiction — We ask our fiction writers to imagine their readers navigating a story with one finger poised over a mouse button. Can your story stay that finger to the end? We...

Deadline: June 1st, 2019 Payment: all prose 501 to 3,000 words = $0.01/word with a $20 minimum, microflash (up to 150 words) = $5, flash (up to 500 words) = $10 - Longer work will be considered. Regardless of length, all payments are capped at $30. - 1 poem = $7 - Quips, limericks and other short poems = $5 each Page & Spine is a paying site.  Because of the large number of submissions, we will no longer accept submissions that do not comply with our submissions requirements.  Emails containing attachments will be deleted unopened. Requirements and rates: Short Stories up to 3,000 words. Flash Fiction to 1,000 words.  Format:  Single space.  Indent paragraphs. Do not skip a line between paragraphs. Considered between October 1st and June 1st only. Up to 3 Poems of not more than a total of three typewritten pages.  Considered between October 1st and June 1st only. The Writers' Table writing-related essays, book reviews, favorite author profiles of not more than 2,000 words. The Reading Lamp  topical essays, non-fiction, fiction to 3,000 words, poems   Crumbs short, witty Poetry, Quips and thought-provoking Flash Fiction (to 150 words) End Notes essays, poems, book reviews on any subject Payscale:  all prose 501 to 3,000 words = $0.01/word with a $20 minimum,  microflash (up to 150 words) = $5, flash (up to 500 words) = $10                     Longer work will be considered.  Regardless of length, all payments are capped at $30. 1 poem = $7 quips, limericks and other short poems = $5 each                     Because we have bulging pending files in our short story, reading lamp and poems categories, submissions will be accepted only between October 1 and June 1 in these categories.  Please plan your submissions accordingly. Due to a happy surfeit of unpublished submissions, reprints will not be accepted until further notice. "Published" is...

Deadline: June 3rd, 2019 Payment: $0.08 per word and a contributor's copy Submission form is located at Submissions are now open for our second micro-anthology, Recognize Fascism! Submissions will close on June 3rd, 2019. There will be a short crowdfunding project, and assuming it’s successful, we will publish Recognize Fascism in fall of 2019. FICTION SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We’re looking for personal stories of the moment when people see the fascism in front of them for what it is, accept it as real, and make the choice to fight it. Who are the canaries in the coal mine? When can the long-hidden voice no longer be ignored? Word Count: 250-5000 .doc, .docx or .rtf files only Times New Roman or Arial font preferred Name, contact information and submission word count on the first page No simultaneous submissions. No reprints. PAY RATE & RIGHTS Pay will be $0.08 per word (possibly more, depending on crowdfunded stretch goals). Authors will also receive a gratis print and ebook copy of the anthology. Crossed Genres takes first worldwide English-language ebook and print rights, exclusively for one (1) year, and non-exclusively for an additional four (4) years. There will be an option to extend the non-exclusive rights for additional compensation. QUESTIONS Please email [email protected] with any questions regarding the anthology or your submission. Submission form can be found here: Crossed Genres.

Deadline: June 6th, 2019 Payment: $25 USD Please familiarize yourself with our About page to get an idea of what Claw & Blossom are about. For PROSE, send up to 1,000 words. This can be one piece of flash fiction or CNF, or linked micros. For POEMS, send one poem per submission. We do not consider previously-published work. This includes work posted on personal blogs and social media accounts. We accept and encourage simultaneous submissions. Should your work be accepted elsewhere while under consideration with Claw & Blossom, please withdraw the piece from us as soon as possible by using the Withdraw option in Submittable. We do not consider multiple submissions. Please submit to either the Poetry category or the Prose category and wait for our response before submitting another piece. There is no submission fee. We pay $25 USD per acceptance upon publication via PayPal. (Linked micros are considered one acceptance.) WHEN We publish in March, June, September, and December. We read nearly year-round (the exception being for a two-week period just before each issue is released, so that we can have a little moment to make sure all of our duck-rows are properly quacking, and maybe to drink some hooch). WHITHER By submitting your work to Claw & Blossom for consideration, you agree that you understand and accept the following terms: That you have actually read our About page, so that you are not sending us work that is wholly incompatible with our stated goals and thereby making our hair fall out in clumps. That the work you send Claw & Blossom is of your own making and has not been plagiarized in whole or in part. That Claw & Blossom are purchasing the rights to publish your work on our website and to archive that work in our Issues archive. If your work published with...

Deadline: June 7th, 2019 Payment: Fiction - $5 per thousand words. Poetry - $.35 a line with a $5 minimum Now that the seventh issue of The Audient Void: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy is out, we are opening submissions for issue #8. We are looking for quality works of poetry and short fiction. Poetry should be Weird or darkly fantastical with strong imagery. We pay $.35 a line with a $5 minimum, payable upon publication. For short fiction our tastes are broad and we will consider anything with Weird, horrific or fantastical elements. We will consider any length work but will be much less likely to publish stories over 5,000 words. Our rate is $5 per thousand words, payable upon publication. First time publication only, no reprints please. To submit please send your work as a .doc, .docx or .rtf file to [email protected] and be sure to include a header with your name and email address. We do not accept simultaneous submissions or reprints and ask that you wait for our response before submitting elsewhere. The submission deadline is June seventh, please do not inquire about your submission before that deadline and understand that it may take some time to follow up on all submissions after the deadline has passed. Via: Taking Submissions: The Audient Void's Facebook.

Deadline: June 14th, 2019 Payment: $200 a story Book Theme The theme of the anthology is “The Beatles – What if?”  What if Brian Epstein hadn’t managed the band? What if George Harrison hated sitar music? What if Ringo had been the true star of the band all along? What if the Beatles had been aliens? Or magic users? Or zombies? Or American? Story Concepts: What to Avoid The confirmed authors have already begun their stories, so please avoid the following ideas: ·         Beatles as zombies ·         Beatles as medieval fantasy adventurers ·         Beatles as super heroes ·         Beatles as time travelers ·         Beatles as “the Scooby Doo gang” ·         Beatles as Tetrad wizards representing the elements ·        Beatles as animatronic robots This is not to say that you cannot do a variation on these, but keep in mind that if we get more than one story with the same theme, your chance of having your story accepted is reduced. That said, do not contact us with your idea first. After all, two authors can take the same basic idea and produce completely different stories. Story Length The story should be no more than 4,000 words. This should be sufficient for what should most likely be a somewhat humorous tale. Payment is $200 a story, so there is no advantage to padding your story. Take as many words as you need to make a great story, but if it is too long, it had better be so great that we can’t refuse it. A good but padded story may get rejected over a concise, fast-moving one, because we want to fit in as many stories as possible. Reprints, Simultaneous Submissions, etc. No to reprints. (We do have one already, and that’s it.) Yes to Simultaneous Submissions but you are obligated to let us...

Deadline: June 15th, 2019 Payment: Royalty Split Note: Reprints Welcome An anthology of short stories in a Lovecraftian / Steam Punk / Diesel Punk vein. Where is Fearrington Road? It is that road just outside town, the one that leads in a direction travelers rarely take these days. Submission Period: December 1st, 2018 – June 15th, 2019 [email protected] Please put “Fearrington Road” and the name of your story in the subject line. Length: 2500 to 6000 words. Stories outside that range will be considered, but their length will work against inclusion. We admit to a preference for slightly longer work, with four to five thousand words in the sweet spot. We expect the anthology to have approximately seventy-five thousand words. Payment: Royalty Fifty percent of the gross royalties per calendar quarter will be distributed equally among the contributors. Contributor copies will not be offered. A limited number of review copies will be available. Previously Published: Reprints are fine, provided: You have the right to authorize us to publish your story The story has not been published more recently than 2018. We ask for the exclusive right to publish your story for one calendar year following contract signing, excluding publications of those previously published. Title subject to change. For additional information, please contact [email protected] or visit our website at http://www.darkhousebooks.com. Via: Dark House Books.

Deadline: June 15th, 2019 Payment: $.05 USD Story Submissions Many of you have shown interest in submitting a story to the anthology. Good. Here are our guidelines and all of that: Grifty Shades of Fey Anthology Guidelines Like the title says, this is a collection of stories about fairies, pixies, gnomes, elves, and all of the hidden folk--specifically how they con and trick and manipulate humans. There is no restriction of cultural origin of the Fey you use in your story. The lil' buggers are everywhere. Genre The stories can be horror, satire, humor, allegory, etc, but must have that fantastical element that comes inherently with the Fey. Length Flash fiction up to around 4500 words. Content In true Fiction Vortex fashion, the content is meant for a wide audience. Content must be PG-13 or lower. Limit profanity, and definitely no F-bombs. Additionally, this is not a platform for preaching social or political agendas. Leave your political or social trends behind. We aren't your soapbox. All stories are subject to the review of Fiction Vortex. We reserve the right to reject any story for any reason. Compensation and Rights Payment is $.05 USD per word. No royalties. Payment will be received upon finalized proof of the completed anthology. Fiction Vortex has first digital, print, and audio rights. The work is free to be published elsewhere after a year (12 months), but the author must attribute  Fiction Vortex and/or the anthology as the first place of publishing. There will be a contract with full details. All work must be original. We are not accepting republished works. Deadline The book is to be published in September. We will accept stories until June 15, but would prefer them before that if possible. Notifications of acceptance and rejection will be sent as the stories...

Deadline: June 15th, 2019 Payment: 2.5 cents (Canadian) per word, to a maximum of $125.00 and a contributors copy Story: Neo-opsis will consider material submitted by any writer, professional or amateur. It is our intention to not set down a lot of ground rules for these stories. We don’t want to miss something that we would really like just because it doesn’t fit our rules, but we are more likely to publish stories that are less than 6000 words and fit a science fiction or fantasy theme. We tend not to publish horror. Poem: The kind of poem that is more likely to be accepted, for publication in Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, is the kind of poem that will appeal to a wide range of people. Format: If emailed: Each submission should be sent separately (including poems), attached to the email as a MS Word .doc file, .docx file, or .rtf file, but we will not refuse a story that is included within the body of an email. An easy to read format is best, font size 12 or 14, and double-spaced. Submissions should be sent to [email protected]. (If you have a SPAM filter, be sure that our response can make it back to you.) The subject line of your email should include the word Submission, the title of your submission, and if possible the approximate word count. Be sure to include your email address in your contact information at the top of your manuscript. (Your contact information will be kept in the strictest confidence and not sold or spammed.) All emailed submissions will receive an auto reply email usually within two weeks of it being sent. The first stage of consideration may take up to eight weeks. No simultaneous submissions please, and no previously published works. If mailed: (we actually prefer emailed, but if you must) manuscripts must be...

Deadline: June 15th, 2019 Payment: $5-20, depending on the length and a contributor's copy Untitled TIME anthology DEADLINE: 15 June 2019 …tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock-tick-tock… Does time really exist? In Fragments, Heraclitus wrote that “Time is a game played beautifully by children.”  If we take the ancient Greek philosopher at his word, then time is an illusion, and we are not resigned to its callous whims. What would you do if time was not a factor? Now, let's say that time is a very real and unyielding construct, that we are slaves to the clock, trapped within the second hand's constraints.  Can we unlock the power to change the course of its flow, or must we always remain its servants? TRANSMUNDANE PRESS is now accepting submissions for an upcoming anthology focused on the nature of time.  We are searching for unique takes on the subject: unusual stories that feature extraordinary, well-drawn characters in compelling, interesting situations. We want the weird, the stirring, stories that will challenge readers' perceptions and stick with them long after the book is closed. Make your tale worth our time. Remember: time travel is low-hanging fruit, so if you plan on popping your characters in a DeLorean or a phone booth, make sure that you really bring it. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: DEADLINE: 15 JUNE 2019 ​ Send stories that are heavily edited and ready for us to read. These must be original pieces for first-time publication. Limit of two submissions per person, if you have more, make a note of it in your email, and we’ll ask if we’re interested. WORD COUNT:  No longer than 5,000 words. FORMATTING: Your submissions must be in 12-point, Times New Roman font, double-spaced with page numbers. We like headers in the top right corner with your last name and page numbers so that your work can't get jumbled...

Deadline: June 15th, 2019 Payment: $50 plus a percentage of the Kickstarter project profits and a paperback copy of the anthology. The Early Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (edited by David Marcum) Description: In “The Five Orange Pips” Dr. Watson writes that he is faced with so many interesting cases between 1882 and 1890 that it is no easy matter to choose which ones to set down on paper. Despite this claim of many cases, Chronologists agree that the only story which occurs between A Study in Scarlet (March 1881) and “The Speckled Band” (April 1883) is “The Resident Patient”. What happened during this early time in the career of Holmes and Watson? What are some of these early cases? This book aims to answer that question with a series of adventures occurring between 1881 and 1883.   Submission guidelines: A traditional Holmes and Watson story occurring in the above mentioned time frame at a length of 5,000 - 10,000 words (okay to go over or under some). Payment: Authors shall receive a payment of $50 plus a percentage of the Kickstarter project profits and a paperback copy of the anthology.   Rights: Authors shall retain rights to their work. We only retain the rights to the story within the publication.   Submission Deadline: June 15, 2019   Kickstarter will run in August 2019 and publication of book will occur in October 2019. Please send entries to [email protected] or to [email protected]. Make sure to include your name (first and last), title of your story, story length, and attach your story as a word document. Via: Belanger Books.

Deadline: June 15th, 2019 Payment: $50 The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts is looking for, as you might guess, “compressed creative arts.” We accept fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, mixed media, visual arts, and even kitchen sinks, if they are compressed in some way. Work is published weekly, without labels, and the labels here only exist to help us determine its best readers. Our response time is generally 1-3 days. Also, our acceptance rate is currently about 1% of submissions. We pay writers $50 per accepted piece and signed contract. We are open for compressed poetry, compressed prose fiction (including prose poetry), and compressed creative nonfiction during two reading periods: September 15 – December 15 & March 15 – June 15. The reader for your submission is, during this current round of submissions, the managing editor. Please be sure to submit in the correct category; we’ve been receiving several fiction submissions in the creative nonfiction category. For all submitters, we aren’t as concerned with labels—hint fiction, prose poetry, micro fiction, flash fiction, and so on—as we are with what compression means to you. In other words, what form “compression” takes in each artist’s work will be up to each individual. However, we don’t publish erotica or work with strong, graphic sexual content. In short, we want to fall in love with your work. That might happen in the way we’ve fallen in love with work we’ve previously published, or it might happen in a way we have yet to experience. Maybe reading that other work will help in knowing whether you should send your work to us, but in truth, such a thing might not be discoverable. Here are things that matter: Please do not include any contact information, including your name, in the manuscript. Do not include a cover letter as part of the manuscript document. Please include, as part of your cover letter, a brief bio. Please no more than one...

Deadline: June 15th, 2019 Payment: $50, kickstarter percentage, and a contributor's copy Description:  Solar Pons is noted for being the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street. But there was a connection to horror in Pons which separated him from his Baker Street mentor. It is noted that Solar Pons wrote An Examination of the Cthulhu Cult and Others. He acknowledged that Carnacki was a legitimate Ghostfinder, and he faced off against a vampire in “The Adventure of the Nosferatu”.  What other horrors did Solar Pons face? What unspeakable evil did he uncover when write his examination of the Cthulhu cults? This book intends to answer those questions with new stories which merge August Derleth’s great detective with Derleth’s Cthulhu mythos.  See Pons face off against vampires, demons, and the Great Old Ones! A new game is afoot!   Submission guidelines: A Solar Pons horror story at a length of 5,000 - 10,000 words (okay to go over or under some).   Payment: Authors shall receive a payment of $50 plus a percentage of the Kickstarter project profits and a paperback copy of the anthology.   Rights: Authors shall retain rights to their work. We only retain the rights to the story within the publication.   Submission Deadline: June 15, 2019   Kickstarter will run in September 2019 and publication of book will occur in November 2019. Please send entries to [email protected] or to [email protected]. Make sure to include your name (first and last), title of your story, story length, and attach your story as a word document. Via: Belanger Books.

Deadline: June 15th, 2019 Payment: $0.06USD per word for fiction, .01 per word fiction reprints, $50 for poetry, $15 for poetry reprints. SPECIAL CALL: Helios Quarterly turns 5 in 2020! Over the years, we’ve published less horror than science fiction & fantasy. And, we haven’t published as many BIPOC (Black, Indigenous & People of Color) as we would have liked. We want to change that. For our upcoming call for submissions, we’re especially interested in horror short stories and poetry by Black, Indigenous, and other poets and authors of color. Helios Quarterly Magazine is a quarterly periodical of horror, science fiction, and fantasy published in March, June, September, and December. We accept unsolicited submissions from JUNE 1-15 11:59 EST every year. Anything submitted outside of this window will be deleted unread. SUBMIT Format using Shunn’s manuscript style. Track your submission using Duotrope, The Submission Grinder, and Ralan. Submit via HeyPublisher. A short cover letter is required submitted alongside the text of your submission. Please include your legal name, pen name (if relevant), contact information, PayPal email address (if different), recent publications/awards (if any), preferred contributor’s copy (.epub or .mobi for Kindle™), and a third person bio of 50-150 words. A photo is optional. We take 2-3 weeks to respond to submissions. If you haven’t received a response by then, please query. Email submissions are deleted unread. If you have any questions, email subs heliosquarterly.com. POETRY: Any length paid $50USD per poem. FICTION: 100-17,500 words paid $0.06USD per word. REPRINTS: Any length of poetry paid $15USD and 100-17,500 words of fiction paid $0.01USD per word. RULES Translations are accepted Simultaneous submissions to other markets are accepted Only submit one submission in each category (one short story, one poem, one reprinted short story, and one reprinted poem per person) RIGHTS Copyright remains with the author and poet at all times Non-exclusive archival rights as long...

Deadline: June 20th, 2019 Payment: $10 Send us your yin/yang stories, your tales of good twin/bad twin, your thoughts about anything and everything twinnish, even the astrological sign of Gemini. Stories should contain strong plotlines or strong characters … and be creative. We want our readers to be immersed in each story and invested in each character. You needn’t stick solely to humans. Feel free to write a fairy tale and/or a dark tragedy—or anything in between. We want stories from 500 to 3,000 words in length, fiction or non-fiction. Uninvited are screenplays. Also uninvited are stories that are publicly available on any website, such as your Facebook page or Wattpad. We want YA readers to enjoy the published anthology without parental balking. Submissions will open on at 12:00:01 a.m. May 21, 2019 and will close at 23:59:59 EST on June 20, 2019. The judges will not read submissions as they arrive; they will begin to read submissions on June 21. You will receive a status notification (rejected or accepted) approximately three months after submissions close (around September 21). Judges will only offer an acceptance or rejection email, without feedback. Along with their thanks for submitting of course, either way. There Is No Reading Fee You may submit up to three stories, but we will accept a maximum of two stories per author. We will pay $10 USD via PayPal per story accepted. Contributors will receive one copy of the book electronically (even if two stories are accepted). We will plaster your name around the universe as best we can. In other words, wherever we market the book, publicize the book, or mention the book, the contributing authors’ names will be mentioned. We expect to publish paperbacks and eBooks, which will be available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and online....

Deadline: June 24th, 2019 Payment: (CA)$50 per poem $.10 per word (to a maximum of $500.) subTerrain publishes original fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, essays, and commentary three times a year. Submissions must be previously unpublished material. (Note maximum number of submissions per issue in General Guidelines below.) subTerrain welcomes submissions from both emerging and established authors. We are happy to consider work from all corners of the identity spectrum, including works by underrepresented writers, including but not limited to writers who are indigenous, of colour, immigrants, women, LGBTQI+, low-income, no-income, and writers with disabilities. Submitters are welcome to state demographics such as race, age, gender, etc. in their cover letter if they so choose. ______________________ TWENTY-NINETEEN ISSUES SPRING -- OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS! Shame (#82) — With our Spring issue we will once again delve into uncomfortable territory with an issue devoted to the exploration of shame. Shame as a cultural phenomenon, a personal crippler, and all of its associated sub-types: false shame, secret shame, toxic shame, vicarious shame. “… shame is important because no other affect is more disturbing to the self, none more central for the sense of identity. In the context of normal development, shame is the source of low self-esteem, diminished self-image, poor self-concept, and deficient body-image. Shame itself produces self-doubt and disrupts both security and confidence. It can become an impediment to the experience of belonging and to shared intimacy....It is the experiential ground from which conscience and identity inevitably evolve. In the context of pathological development, shame is central to the emergence of alienation, loneliness, inferiority and perfectionism. It plays a central role in many psychological disorders as well, including depression, paranoia, addiction, and borderline conditions. Sexual disorders and many eating disorders are largely disorders of shame. Both physical abuse and sexual abuse also significantly...

Deadline: June 29th, 2019 Payment: Royalty Split The Grumpy Gods are back for another round, and this time, we’re celebrating all those spooky myths! That’s right! Ancient cultures might not have celebrated Halloween exactly, but every mythology has stories that can be mined for great scary tales. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR: We’re looking for stories from 3000-4000 words in length, concerning ghosts, ghouls, underworlds, and just plain creepy critters that give you the heebie-jeebies. Ideally, this anthology will have a great mix of the wit and humor our readers crave and enough chills and thrills to make it a fun Halloween read. We want stories of cantankerous gods, aging heroes, and creepy critters that are about to get a whole barrel of well-earned karma. Ghosts that get the last laugh, curses gone awry. Just make sure there is an aging, waning, defunct, or otherwise AWOL god or goddess in the mix. Is that a tall order?  Sure.  You might even say it is a Herculean task. But we know you guys are up to it! SUBMISSION DEADLINE:  Submissions are due June 29th, 2019 with an eye to releasing the anthology mid-to-late September. Required: Must Have (Grumpy Old Gods 3 Submission) in the Subject Line of your Email to be read. **NOTE**If you just put Grumpy Old Gods (without the 3) we will assume it is a submission sent for the first two anthologies in this series. (Grumpy 1 and 2 submissions are both closed. ) This helps us sort through our emails and spot G3 among all the emails sent and other communication about other Grumpy anthologies. So PLEASE be specific to get noticed by labeling correctly. (Amendment added April 25th, 2019–applies to all emails after this date.) Genre: Speculative Fiction. What is Speculative Fiction? Well, Wikipedia says… “It encompasses the genres of...

June 30th, 2019 Payment: 50GBP (roughly $65usd) Electric Athenaeum is a Science Fiction and Fantasy magazine publishing short fiction, articles, poetry, and interviews. Each issue features an accompanying theme, and is available for free to readers. We are currently OPEN for submissions until 30 June 2019! Our current theme is: INHUMANITY What is it like inside the mind of a being that is not–and never has been–human? How might morality and conscience change with different biologies and non-human societies? How does the binary thought of Artificial Intelligence differ from our own? If a society of beings are obligate carnivores, what impact might that have on the morals developed by their culture? The Inhumanity issue of Electric Athenaeum seeks to explore these and other questions, and, in the process, question those aspects of the human experience that we may take for granted. Challenge the assumptions we hold about what it means to be human. This issue seeks to explore what it is to NOT be human, and, by extension and contrast, what that perspective can offer to our thoughts on what it means to be human. Show us alien societies grounded in truly different thought processes. Take us inside the dreams of an artificial intelligence. Explore the deepest implications of an immortal elvish society, or the courting rituals of a polyamorous orcish culture. Show us what it means to be (in)human. Fiction Guidelines Word Limit: 3,000 words minimum, 10,000 words maximum Pay Rate: 50GBP per story Genre: We are open to any genre of speculative fiction, so long as the story contains a strong imaginative thread. Theme: Inhumanity (more detail above) Language: English (translations are welcome, as are submissions from authors worldwide) Rights: We purchase first world electronic text rights. Next Theme: TBD Submissions Process: Please submit stories to us at [email protected], using the Subject Line: Fiction: . Please include a...

Deadline: June 30th, 2019 Payment: 4 cents/word, 1cent/word for reprints Note: Reprints Welcome Open 1-30 June 2019 — Special Session: WW2  Special session instructions: stories not set during the World War II era (rise of Nazi Germany to troop homecoming) will automatically be rejected without read. Previously rejected WW2 manuscripts may resubmitted. Hello! This project is a comfortable two-headed beast at play in the curious and often dark corners of retropunk fiction. That means steampunk, dieselpunk, dreadpunk, bronzepunk, others that haven’t even been invented yet punk … but not atompunk. Sorry, space fans, we draw our line at Sputnik. About 2/3 of rejections are for “bad fit.” We buy nonexclusive rights for fiction, cover & interior art, music & sound effects usage, and narration services. What we do: 1—Curiosities, a thrice annual themed short story publication, which is available in digital and print on demand formats, and 2—The Gallery of Curiosities, a twice monthly podcast which features stories from the publication. Not every story we buy will make it to an audio podcast release, but we do make good effort to get it there before our rights expire. We started out as a podcast, and went to print later.  Audio production is incredibly time intensive. Short version: -We buy original (4 cents/word) and reprint (penny/word) short stories. -Length up to 7500 words. -We read blind. Anonymize your manuscript before sending it to [email protected] as a doc, docx, or rtf. Remove headers and/or footers as they will mess up the manuscript. -Use the format SUBMISSION: Your Story Title in the title bar of your email or it gets lost. -Multiple? No more than 3 at a time. Send them in separate emails. -Simultaneous? Yes. Please be prompt with a withdrawal if sold. -If accepted, your story will be published in ebook and print-on-demand formats. -If accepted, we will make a...

Deadline: June 30th, 2019 Payment: $25 and a contributor's copy What darkness dwells in the realm of dreams . . . “There are so many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and proasic with the poison of life.” ― H.P. Lovecraft, Celephaïs ​ What We Want An integral part of the writings of H.P. Lovecraft dealt with forays into, and results from explorations of, a dream realm. A frequent traveler to that realm, Randolph Carter, brought back many tales of his experiences – of the fantastic cities, the exotic peoples, and the terrible dangers. We want you to tell us more about those realms, but we want the stories to be true to the Lovecraft ideas. If you haven't already, we suggest you read or become familiar with at least a few of the following stories: Celephais,Hypnos, Ex Oblivione, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The Silver Key, The White Ship, and Through the Gates of the Silver Key. These stories are all available to read for free at the H. P. Lovecraft Archive online (http://www.hplovecraft.com/). There are some things to consider, however. When relating your story, you will be walking a fine line between psychological and blatant horror. The following issues will cause your story to be instantly rejected: Sexual content not inherent to the story line, adult content, or erotic fiction. Explicit description of torture or sacrifice, human or otherwise. Violence or abuse against a minor, infant to teenager. Overuse of profane language. Hate language against a race, creed, or Quoting previously published material not in the public domain. ​ Publishing Details Lead editor for this...

Deadline: June 30th, 2019 Payment: $100 for stories and $25 for poems Heroic Fantasy Quarterly is OPEN for submissions of fiction and poetry in June, 2019.  Repeat!  We will not be open for submissions in December, 2018.  We hate to spring this on people with only two days notice, but we are actually a couple of issues ahead at this point and we need to all take a break for the holidays. We plan to re-open to submissions in March, 2019. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly is generally open to fiction and poetry submissions four months per year. The months you can submit are: March June September December (we are closed to submissions in December, 2018) If you submit fiction or poetry in any other month, you will receive an auto-response and your tale will not be reviewed.   * * * As its name suggests, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly is a quarterly ezine dedicated to publishing heroic fantasy — in both prose and poetry. We are unrepentant in our goal of elevating unapologetic sword and sorcery to a rightful high place. We pay $100 for stories and $25 for poems, upon publication.  (Scroll down for info on art submissions.) We purchase first world English language electronic rights, electronic rights for 90 days, archival rights for twelve months, and excerpt rights. Our fiction word limit is a soft 10,000 words, although we are willing to serialize at a maximum of 50,000 words over four issues. You may submit up to three poems, with a cumulative maximum of 30 pages. While we don’t have iron-clad rules regarding our fiction payment, we roughly pay $25 for stories under 1,000 words, $50 for stories between 1,000 and 5,000 words, $75 for stories between 5,000 and 7,500 words and $100, for stories of 7,500 words and over. Tolkienesque (as in really long) poetry...

Deadline: June 30th, 2019 Payment: $5 War is hell. Human monsters run amok, cruelty is the order of the day and if you can’t become a killer you will die. There are other things lurking in the fog of war, creatures that feed on misery and suffering. That drink the blood of man on morphine for the high and feast on spilled entrails. What sort of entity heightens the madness of war for it’s own gain? Is it PTSD or have the monsters really followed the soldier home to continue the hunt? How many wars has Vlad Tepes fought in through the years? This collection plans to bring together the best stories of monsters and boogeymen during wartime strife. Stories of soldiers and mercenaries dealing with supernatural and supranatural threats. We will not accept any stories about rape. Racism/Sexism/Bigotry of any form will never be accepted here. Stories over 1500 words preferred. Double check your grammar and spelling. Format your story correctly. Please submit all stories in DOC/RTF format. We prefer stories that have not been published before. We prefer to avoid multiple and simultaneous submissions. We retain exclusive publishing rights for 12 months. We pay $5.00 for stories We provide a digital contributor copy free and at cost+shipping physical copies Deadline is 6.30.19 Via: Madness Heart Press.

Deadline: June 30th, 2019 Payment: $25 The fire alarm clanged all around the building, sending thundering waves of pain through his skull. Slowly, carefully, he got up from the explosion. He was surprised he was alive, and though he felt like death warmed over he was still fully intact. As he looked around the smoke filled room he noticed that his fellows were similarly alive and intact, but they looked angry and strange in the smoke. Firefighters burst into the room and put out the raging inferno that was devouring Dimensional Communicator they’d spent so many years working on. When the smoke cleared, Henry Michaels sighed and slowly made his way over to the blackboard. A collection of angry moos followed him. He carefully erased one of the numbers in an equation with his muzzle and used an open marker in his mouth to carefully write the symbol for Pi. An angry, but vindicated moo from his rival, Sarah Douglas, indicated she was happy he finally saw her equation to be the most accurate. He wondered if it mattered at this point and how they were going to rebuild the Dimensional Communicator now that they were cows. ​ ​ What We Want Things are too serious around here. We have all sorts of absolutely amazing stories of dark terrors, shapeshifting monsters, and epic fantasies. We really need to lighten the mood. To that end we present Suddenly, Cows! We want silly stories of experimentation from all sorts of places; beit the 1950’s style “scientist” using their “radio tubes” to stop aliens, or a wizard trying to figure out how to create a better spell for conjuring demons, or even someone of today trying to do something as simple as wash a load of laundry and ending up in the 6...

Deadline: June 30th, 2019 Payment: AUD5c/word and one contributor copy AU5c/word / 2k-10k words Opens Apr 1st / Closes June 30th Fantasy, Horror, or Science Fiction Theme – Last stand military horror. What we want: Military action-based last-stand horror, and lots of it. Think 300, the Alamo, the Battle of Mirbat, the First Battle of Mogadishu, the Battle of Hel, or Custer’s Last Stand (but with unnatural monsters)… anything that can be called a high-action potentially-last stand monster story. For level of unnatural creature we will give priority to, think Dog Soldiers or Aliens. We want lots of monster goodness. We will also be looking for soldiers, mercs, police, private security/paramilitary. Hell, even a group of bodyguards protecting some arsehole druglord on his jungle property. Just ensure the last stand aspect is both overt and unique, and don’t forget monsters! This volume is like the previous volumes squared. All action. We want extreme action, and it has to be military or paramilitary action. And to say it again, full action. Nothing less. Hoo-rah! Introduction by Tim Miller (Deadpool, Terminator, Love, Death & Robots) Edited by Amanda J Spedding, Matthew Summers, and Geoff Brown Payment: AUD5c/word and one contributor copy in each format released. Wordcount range: 2,000 – 10,000 words (query for shorter or longer) Submissions open April 1 2019. Closing date is June 30th 2019 Anything submitted outside this period will be deleted without being read or replied to. No selections will be made until after the period closes. Projected publication date: Late 2019 Please follow these guidelines when submitting to us: Please put your full contact details and word count top left of the first page of the manuscript. Standard submission format, with minimal document formatting. Courier, Palatino Linotype, or Times New Roman set at 12pt. Italics as they will appear. No underlining....

Deadline: June 30th, 2019 Payment: Royalty of 50% of net revenue WE ARE CURRENTLY OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS April 1- June 30, 2019 All submissions will receive a response by July 31, 2019. What we are looking for: Eraserhead Press is seeking original novellas and novels of 20,000 to 100,000 words in length that fit into the Bizarro Fiction category. We want surprising, unique, well-crafted weird stories with compelling plots, eccentric characters, and never-before-seen concepts. We want a balance of both plot and character – we love weird characters with weird problems in weird places. We are looking for exciting concepts that make people say “I have to read that!” and well-developed characters they can fall in love with along the way. We’re most drawn to darkly absurd tales that are addictive to read and contain a strong emotional core. We love fiction that is both heart-rending and fun. While it may or may not be funny, we are interested in more than just a joke. If you can make us both laugh and cry or creep us out and draw us in, we will love your book. We are looking for entertaining and accessible stories that speak to a specific audience. Will your book appeal to vegan punks? Riot grrls? Overworked airline pilots? Cos-players? Fans of 80s New Wave? If you’ve identified the audience for your work, please tell us in your book description. Multiple submissions are okay – during our open submission period we are open to reading as many manuscripts as you feel would meet our criteria but we are only interested in your best work. Bring it on! We have high standards – we have been the leading publisher of Bizarro Fiction since 1999 and have worked with everyone from brand new authors to established heavy hitters. We have gained a cult following for our high-quality boundary-pushing weird fiction and are looking for...

Deadline: June 30th, 2019 Payment: Between $0.04 and $0.08/word, depending on factors listed below Note: Reprints, poetry accepted Following our guidelines does not guarantee that we will accept your story, but ignoring them does guarantee that your submission may be returned without receiving the attention it deserves. An Overview At DreamForge, our goal is to publish positive science and fantasy fiction. (That’s about it, but if you want to know more, you can check out our Rules of Fiction page.) What Are We Looking For? Space opera, urban fantasy, military sf, magical realms, hard science fiction, sword & sorcery, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, hopepunk, and whatever else comes before punk. Parables, poetry, zombies, and vampires are also welcome. No horror please. Yes to communities and teams working together to overcome dire challenges. Yes to marginalized and under-represented characters as protagonists. Yes to science and magic that solve problems, alleviate suffering, and boldly explore new possibilities. No to corrupt, dystopian governments or evil corporations. No Horror, please Stories set before, during, or after an “apocalypse” are more likely than not to be rejected. Tone down the violence, profanity, and sex Story Length Shorter is better! If you submit a story over 5,000 words, it has to be amazing to get very far in the review process. We want variety in each issue, and longer your story, the less variety we can print. Overall, we will consider the following word counts: Flash Fiction & Poetry: 100 – 1500 words Short Stories: 2,000 – 7,500 words Novelettes: 7,500 – 12,000 words. Submission Formatting Your story must be submitted in Word or RTF format. Top of the Page Title of Story (centered) Your By Line (centered) Formatting: Font: Arial, Size 12 Double spaced Indented paragraphs No extra line break between paragraphs Section breaks, as needed, should be...

Deadline: June 30th, 2019 Payment: $10 and a contributor's copy Shut Down Strangers & Hot Rod Angels: an anthology inspired by the songs of Bruce Springsteen ​ Deadline: June 30, 2019 Bone & Ink Press is now accepting submissions for our first-ever anthology—Shut Down Strangers & Hot Rod Angels: an anthology inspired by the songs of Bruce Springsteen. This will be a cross-genre anthology, including poetry, flash fiction, and flash non-fiction. ​ What we want: ​ -Broadly, we want poetry, flash fiction, and flash CNF inspired by one or more Bruce Springsteen songs. ​ -Specifically: We’d love fictional or poetic looks at the characters from various Springsteen songs—      Who is Bobby Jean? What is Mary thinking as she dances across the porch to a Roy Orbison song? Tell us about the girl twirling her baton who became an outlaw in “Nebraska,” about Terry hiding on the “Backstreets” that one soft, infested summer.      We’d also love poetry or prose (fiction or CNF) related to the following themes:      Hard times—loss/grief, unemployment, trauma, illness, a breakup, anything—if there was a Springsteen song that you (or a persona/character) connected with during a dark time in your/their life, tell us that story.      The American Dream as presented in Springsteen songs, particularly the ways in which it fails or has failed you/a character or persona.      Identity—did a Springsteen song (or songs) help you/a character or persona realize or connect with your gender identity, sexual orientation, cultural identity, or any other aspect of identity? Write about it! ​ -We are all for “weird” submissions. By that I mean—hybrid forms like prose poems and lyric essays? Send them in! Have a horror, sci-fi, magical realist, or spec-fic flash or poem inspired by a Boss tune? Heck yes, we wanna read...

Deadline: June 30th 2019 Payment: 3 cents per word Everything that is living EATS!  Plants, animals, humans, aliens, monsters, sea creatures, they all eat in one form or another. For the Chew on This! anthology we are looking for food-related stories, but we need you to dig deeper and get creative when it comes to the substances that keep us alive. Food should be integral to the story in some way, but not the entire focus. The plots can revolve around a wide range of cultures and belief systems, science and superstition, settings in the future or past. Above all we want stories that are macabre, scary, unsettling, and even gross. There's room for every subgenre of horror from quiet and unsettling physiological tales to extreme and bizarro. Well written, imaginative, frightening, and unique perspectives that make readers afraid to visit restaurants, try cuisine in a foreign lands, attempt new cooking recipes, etc. Food Allergies: Cannibal stories- Sure they’re good enough to eat but not for this anthology. No zombies, werewolves, vampires, or other well-tread tropes. If it’s off the dollar menu we won’t be ordering. Pizza stories. We love a good pie but don’t want past anthology leftovers. Predator and prey without any substance. Reasoning is the seasoning! Fan fiction. Give us a fresh recipe! Ingredients: Email: [email protected] Subject: Chew on this: Story Title by Author Name Length: 3k - 7K Deadline: June 30th 2019 Multiple Submissions: No Simultaneous Submissions: No Reprints: No Format: Doc or Docx Payment: 3 cents per word Chef: Robert Essig Via: Blood Bound Books.

Deadline: June 30th, 2019 Payment: $5 per printed page LGBTQ+ Humor Are you queerly hilarious? Well, prove it! Seeking humorous original work by and/or about LGBTQ+ people and lives. This is a positive publication celebrating the LGBTQ+ community through the lens of humor. Only pieces supporting this mission will be considered. No homophobic, transphobic or hateful material will be considered. This premiere edition of our first LGBTQ+ humor anthology will be published in print & ebook. It will be made available in paperback on Amazon, the Barnes & Noble website, QommunicatePublishing.com and wherever books are sold (available to booksellers and libraries through Ingram.) Ebook versions will be compatible with the Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, Kobo, iOS, Android, MacOS, and Windows devices in addition to PDF and other downloadable formats and web-viewable formats. Submission Guidelines Please read the following submission guidelines carefully before submitting your work to Funny Queer. If you have any questions not answered below, please write us at [email protected] and we will be happy to answer. Theme Humor by and/or about LGBTQ+ people. The only criteria is it makes us laugh! Genres Anything meeting the theme, including: Fiction. Nonfiction. Jokes. Comics/graphic shorts (black and white only). Poems. Short scripts. We will NOT consider: Erotica Work written for children Length Prose: up to 3,500 words Poetry: Up to 3 pages Comics & Scripts: up to 10 pages These length recommendations are flexible. Formats All submissions must be typed. No handwritten submissions will be accepted. If you send your submission in, please do NOT mail us your only copy of your work. We can not be responsible for returning submissions. Multiple Submissions Multiple submissions (submissions of more than one work) are fine. Send us what you’ve got! Simultaneous Submissions Simultaneous submissions (submitting work you’ve already submitted–or are planning on submitting–elsewhere) are fine too. Please just be sure that...