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Deadline: November 15th, 2019 Payment: Contributor's Copy A Collection of Extraterrestrial Tales. Zimbell House is holding open submissions for short sci-fi stories about space exploration from the alien race's point of view. Let your imagination roam and put our readers in the middle of the action. We want complete stories from the POV of the alien race. We want to see his/her/its struggles to deal with other races. Why is Explorer One on this particular mission? What is Explorer One trying to find? How will Explorer One deal with the information gleaned from other worlds? Is Explorer One the ship, the mission, or the person? Please keep foul language to a minimum-it loses its punch if over-used. Dialogue needs to be believable, and please keep dialects/slang to a bare minimum if you must use them. No head-hopping or POV changes. Pick one point of view and stick with it. Please show more of the action than just telling the reader what happens. Submissions of both short stories and novellas to this anthology are welcome, please keep in mind the minimum word count is 4,000 and the maximum word count is 20,000. This anthology is a great opportunity to showcase emerging writers and allow them to build their professional platforms. Submission Deadline: November 15, 2019, with a targeted release date of mid-February 2019. Submit your best work. Poorly formatted and unedited work will be turned down. Please use Americanized English spellings. We will be doing light editing as necessary to fit the standards we strive to maintain. Submission Guidelines: Any work under 4,000 words will be automatically disqualified for this anthology. The work must not have appeared in print or online anywhere before. All submissions must be in English. Each author may submit up to three (3) unique works—please submit them separately. Work must be in...

Deadline: November 15th, 2019 Payment: 3¢ per word, $150.00 max, 1¢ per word for reprints Note: Reprints accepted We are a literary magazine of dark fiction, both short stories and flash fiction. We want your best. But then, doesn’t everyone? No specific sub-genres or themes, just good stories. For inspiration, we suggest “The Twilight Zone”, “The Outer Limits”, and LampLight, Vol1 Issue 1 which is free. We go for stories that are dark, literary; we are looking for the creepy, the weird and the unsettling. We do not accept stories with the following: vampires, zombies, werewolves, serial killers, hitmen, excessive gore or sex, excessive abuse against women, revenge fantasies, cannibals, high fantasy. Writers We have published writers of all backgrounds from all over the world in LampLight, but not everywhere, nor all shapes and sizes of writers. Help us to shine a light on greater diverse writing and keep LampLight a showcase of the best dark fiction out there by submitting and encouraging others to as well. Edition and Rights The quarterly is published as print and ebook, and at the end of the year all the quarterlies are bound together in an annual collection. We are asking for non-exclusive, worldwide, serial rights to your work for both electronic and print. We want to publish it, we don’t want to own it. We will take reprints, provided you have the rights we are asking for. We will not consider reprints that are currently available for free online. If you have already been in LampLight, we ask you wait until the next volume to submit again. Payment We accept originals and reprints up to 7,000 words (firm). Payment in USD. Unpublished Fiction: 3¢ per word, $150.00 max Reprints: 1¢ per word Please note: works published to a Patreon or similar site are considered reprints Simultaneous and...

All Submissions should meet this criteria: Works: short stories and flash fiction Genre and theme: Horror and dark fiction involving Werewolves on the prowl during the winter season. We welcome campy and extreme (violence and sexual content), but this isn’t an erotica collection. Deadline: November 15th, 2019 Format: Attach the .RTF, .DOC, or .DOCX Word Count 5k – 7k words approx. for short stories, no limit for flash. Payment: $10 Token payment via Paypal and 60% of net earnings divided evenly among the authors. Multiple Submissions okay. Reprints are okay. Submit a brief bio, we don’t care if you have no work history, give us a brief bio of yourself. Send submission to [email protected]

Deadline: November 15th, 2019 Payment: $5 per thousand words for fiction and $.35 a line with a $5 minimum for poetry. Now that the eighth issue of The Audient Void: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy is out, we are opening submissions for issue #9. 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 November 15th, 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. I very much look forward to reading everyone's work!

Deadline: November 15th, 2019 Payment: 6 cents per word for fiction, reprints and flash rates below. Note: Reprints welcome PodCastle is currently OPEN to submissions. Visit our Submittable page to submit! Please see our schedule for this year’s open periods.  PodCastle is looking for quality fantasy fiction. If you’re a writer with a speculative short story that you’d like to hear narrated by one of our performers, we’d like to see it. Submit online via our submissions portal using Standard Manuscript Format. We accept files in .odt, .rtf, .docx or .doc format. Word count: up to 6,000 words. Occasionally, we run reprints in the novelette range (up to 17,000 words), although they are a harder sell. Query to [email protected] before submitting longer works. No multiple submissions within a submissions period. If your story is being held by us from a previous period or special call, you are free to submit another story this period. If you receive a rejection this period and submissions are still open, you can send another story as well. Simultaneous submissions are permitted; just mention it in your cover letter up front that you’ve submitted it elsewhere, and let us know if you sell it elsewhere first. Reprints are welcome and strongly encouraged. We are happy to consider stories previously released on Patreon as reprints. Payment and Rights We pay $.06/word USD for original fiction 6,000 words or less, $100 flat rate for reprints over 1,500 words, and $20 flat rate for flash fiction reprints (stories below 1,500 words). As of January 2016, PodCastle publishes in both text and audio. You are offering us both when you submit your story. We ask for 4 months exclusivity for text and audio for original stories, and 4 months audio exclusivity for reprints. We are happy to receive previously-podcasted stories; this just means don’t re-pod the story until 4 months after publication with PodCastle. We distribute...

Deadline: November 15th, 2019 Payment: 30% profits shared equally among the contributors. Deadline: 15th November, 2019Don’t wait till the deadline. Submit early. Call will be closed once the anthology reaches its max word count. No requests for deadline extension will be entertained.Genre: Speculative Fiction. Mix of genres is okay as long as the speculative element remains the main element.Word Count: 4k-15kResponse Time: Within Two Weeks from the date of submission. Please allow up to four weeks for follow-up.Multiple Submission: AllowedSimultaneous Submission: AllowedReprint: Not previously published work is preferred. However, reprints will be considered. If you think the story has been viewed several thousand times (that is, if it is published several times, or in publications that do really well in terms of views or reads) please don’t submit. You may contact me if you have this doubt.Formatting: Follow Shunn Manuscript Guidelines.Cover Letter: Do not submit without a cover letter. Write about the story, yourself and your works in brief.Subject Line: Anthology Title – Story Title – Author NamePayment: 30% profits shared equally among the contributors.Submit to: [email protected]: Early 2020That’s all the key details. Contact me if you want to know more. Thank you so much for submitting! Via: The Great Void.