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Deadline: December 15th, 2019 Payment: Royalties This is a horror anthology for children. Recommended ages are between 7-12, please keep that in mind when submitting! Information: Name: Mother Ghost’s Grim - Creepy Stories For Children Word Count: ~ Under 1500 words Pay: 20% royalty for project managers split, 20% publisher, 60% split between authors PER STORY What we are looking for: Scary stories you heard as a child, or would have enjoyed. No graphic scenes, no rated R content; children will be reading it. If you have kids or young family members, what would you like them to read? Format: 12 pt. Times New Roman, double spaced, proper indentation, word document. Left hand corner: author name, title, email, and word count. *submission will be rejected if not in this format* Kickstarter: N/A. Project managers will be funding this project. We will be choosing approximately ~60 EXCLUSIVE stories. Meaning they cannot be posted ANYWHERE else. We would like to enroll this book into the KDP program with Amazon so we can all gain more $$$. We plan on keeping it in the program for 4 months. After that time, you are free to do with your story what you wish. Email for submission: [email protected] DEADLINE: December 15, 2019. Publication date: Easter 2020 NBH will be publishing the anthology! We look forward to your submissions! 😈 Via: Mother Ghost Grim's Facebook Group.

Deadline: December 15th, 2019 Payment: Equal splits of 45% royalty among all authors Tangled Tree Publishing is inviting submissions for our first anthology: A Dark Spring. We are seeking gripping novellas from new and established authors keen to grow their exposure and reader base. Set for publication spring 2020. Genre: thriller / suspense / mystery – contemporary. (Adult) Themes: Tangled. The only limit is your imagination, but it must contain “tangled” and the “season spring” as concepts somewhere within the novella. Word Count: 15,000 words Remuneration: Equal splits of 45% royalty among all authors – paid quarterly via PayPal. Requirements: Tangled Tree Publishing does not accept material that has been published previously, either online or in print. By submitting to Tangled Tree Publishing, you are assuring you hold the rights to the work and grant Tangled Tree Publishing the right to publish the submitted work. Tangled Tree Publishing will require exclusive rights to the stories for one publication year. ·       New and established authors welcome to submit. ·       Submitted manuscripts need to be of high quality and self-edited. ·       Tangled Tree Publishing will fund and provide all levels of editing for all contracted novellas, as well as original cover art. You agree to work with us on any reasonable amendments arising from the editing process. (There are no out-of-pocket costs for contracted authors.) Regular self-promotion of the anthology required. ·       Participation in a closed Facebook group to assist the production and launch of the anthology is necessary. ·       Please note that Tangled Tree Publishing reserves the right to exclude any stories or authors at any time. Timing: Final Submission Date – 15 December 2019 Contracts Offered – 6 Jan 2020 Contracts Signed & Filed – 10 Jan 2020 Target Cover Reveal – 28 Jan 2020 Target Publication Date – 28 March 2020 Marketing: All authors will promote the anthology to their...

Deadline: December 15th, 2019 Payment: Contributor's Copy Dare. Risk. Dream. Share. Ruminate. Clockhouse accepts works of poetry, fiction, memoir, creative nonfiction, and dramatic works for stage or screen. We encourage submissions from both established and emerging writers. (Current students of Goddard College are ineligible to submit to Clockhouse, but we look forward to reading your work after you graduate.) Submit to CLOCKHOUSE All submissions must: Be original, unpublished work written by the author. Follow the industry-standard formatting guidelines appropriate for the genre as well as the applicable guidelines below: Fiction: Short stories and self-contained novel excerpts in a literary style. Genre fiction will be considered only if it sustains literary merit (Up to 5,000 words) Poetry: All poetry in traditional and experimental styles including prose poetry (Up to 250 lines of poetry, total. Only one poem per submission. Poets may submit up to three times per reading period.) Memoir and Creative Nonfiction: All memoir and creative nonfiction in traditional and experimental literary styles. No academic or scientific essays (Up to 5,000 words) Dramatic Work for Stage or Screen: Short dramatic works in traditional and experimental styles, either a standalone piece or an excerpt from a one-act or full length play or screenplay (Up to 15 pages) Include a short bio of approximately 100 words or less. Include a brief artist statement: a few sentences about your work as an artist (i.e., not a “pitch” for this submission, but rather a statement about what you’re interested in writing about now, what drives your writing, or how your writing is reflecting or influencing the world at large, etc.). Be submitted only through our online submission manager (see link at bottom of page). No email submissions will be accepted. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines will be discarded unread. The submission period for the Volume Eight 2020 will begin on...

Deadline: Decembre 15th, 2019 Payment: 3¢ per word, $150.00 max, 1 cent per word for reprints Note: Reprints allowed 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...

Deadline: December 15th, 2019 Payment: AUD$50 Issues of the Underground Writers zine released in 2020 – that’s issues 29, 30, 31 and 32 – will not be themed. Instead we will be exploring genre writing. The first issue for 2020 will be in the genre of Romance, released to our Patreon supporters 1st February, released generally 5th February – just in time for Valentine’s Day! Also, from November 2019 all submissions to the zine must be sent using the Submissions form – do not send your submission in an email. Romance Romance can use any number of settings, styles and themes, but must have two central elements at its forefront: a love story centring around individuals falling in love and struggling to make their relationship work; and an emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending in which the individuals are rewarded for their struggles with emotional justice and unconditional love. Romance does not necessarily need to be explicit (as in erotica) and while the ending must be emotionally satisfying it does not necessarily mean the lovers must remain together. It is a highly emotional genre that often deals just as much with the self as with the other. Modern romance is more likely to engage with diverse sexual orientations rather than the traditional male/female relationship and is less likely to feature traditional archetypes such as the ‘virginal heroine’. Some romance novels may also have strong political or social commentary underlying them. While romance can work in a variety of subgenres including erotic, historical, paranormal, suspense or YA, remember that the love story must be front and centre. Some examples of recent Australian romance include: Lost Without You by Rachael Johns, The Art of Persuasion by Susan Midalia, Miss Cheswick’s Charm by Bree Verity, Grave Robber for Hire by Cassandra L. Shaw, and Le Chateau by Sarah Ridout. Please note that the usual length and formatting guidelines...

Deadline: December 15th, 2019 Payment: Contributor's Copy We are currently accepting submissions in all genres. Our standard open reading period runs August 15th - December 15th. GENERAL GUIDELINES Make all submissions through  our submission manager (Submittable). We do not accept submissions via email. We do not accept previously published work, including work self-published or published online via blog or social media. Simultaneous submissions are accepted if noted and withdrawn upon acceptance elsewhere. Please submit just once per genre, per reading period. You may submit in more than one genre with no penalty. If you do submit in multiple genres, please submit each separately. (i.e. You may include up to five poems in one submission, but use a separate submission for a work of nonfiction). We are currently able to provide one print copy as payment to authors and are pleased to provide a print on demand option for additional copies of each issue. Though we cannot take every piece sent to us, we will, at times, be compelled to provide feedback - in these cases, it will take a little longer to get back to you. PROSE GUIDELINES (FICTION AND NONFICTION) FLASH GLASS GUIDELINES Considering that craft is not genre specific, we welcome prose with a range of forms, subjects and aesthetics. We are open to hybrid prose - i.e. lyrical fiction, lyrical essays, braided essays, etc. However, we will not publish pure "genre" pieces that do not re-imagine their position as works of literature, nor are we interested in highly experimental or “literary” work that is not honest, accessible, or relatable. For creative nonfiction, submissions may include personal essays, memoir, or hybrid forms such as braided essays or hermit crab essays. Craft essays should have a personal and/or creative element. We are not interested in purely scholarly work or editorial nonfiction, nor are...

Deadline: December 15th, 2019 Payment: $50 USD and 10 complimentary copies Kissing Dynamite seeks poetry microchap manuscripts for print publication in April 2020.  We're happy to consider a diverse range of poetic styles and themes, so send us work that represents you!  We are committed to publishing two titles from this round of submissions and will publish up to four if finances at the time allow us to do so. Our Books: We are proud to use a local printing house—Lightning Press in Totowa, New Jersey—for all our books.  The microchap series will feature perfect-bound 4"x 6" books with bright, full color "fractal" covers. Manuscript Formatting: Manuscripts should employ 1" margin sizes, 8.5" x 11" page size, and 12 pt. font.  Visual images (300 minimum dpi) are acceptable (black/white and/or color)!  Previously published poems are acceptable as long as the collection as a whole has not appeared elsewhere (either digitally or in print).  If the manuscript contains more than one poem, begin successive poems on a new page.  Please include a title page, author's bio, table of contents, and acknowledgements page (if applicable).  Manuscripts must not exceed a maximum of 15 pages inclusive of all content (there is no minimum). Submission: Submissions are open from December 1-15, 2019.  We hope to respond to all submissions by the beginning of February 2020.  We operate on a "pay what you can, if you can" basis, so if you can drop a few bucks to help support the expenses of the press, please do so below (and we thank you!) or consider purchasing a copy of our first anthology ​Lift Every Voice.  That said, submissions do NOT need to be accompanied by a donation, and no manuscript gets preferential treatment.  Please send your manuscript as a PDF for us to consider via e-mail with the subject "MICROCHAP—" to [email protected]...

Deadline: December 15th, 2019 Payment: For fiction (US $ 0.08/ word) and US $ 1/ line per poetry. Note: Apologies for the short notice! SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN. PLEASE SUBMIT BY 15 DECEMBER 2019. Frozen Wavelets is an e-zine of speculative flash fiction and poetry, offspring of The Earthian Hivemind. This means that some of the accepted pieces will appear on the dedicated section of this blog, before being included in one of the e-zine issues (published quarterly). Where: we use Moksha to handle the submissions. All submissions sent to our email address will be deleted unread. SUBMIT HERE What: Original flash fiction of 750 words or less. No minimum. If you can write a (convincing) story in six words (and Hemingway showed it’s possible), go for it. Twitterfiction, Drabbles, 50 words, all welcome. We love haiku, tanka, senryu, and short poetry in general, but no more than 10 lines anyway. Rights asked: First worldwide exclusive rights for 6 months from the first appearance, be it on the blog or in the ezine; non-exclusive electronic/print rights afterwards (archival and for possible inclusion in thematic / Best of anthologies). All other rights remain with you. Payment: we pay pro-rate for fiction (US $ 0.08/ word) and US $ 1/ line per poetry. We pay on acceptance. Reprints: we do accept reprints for fiction pieces between 500-1500 words, paid at semi-pro rate (US $ 0.01/ word), provided you own the rights and let us know the publication history. Reprints for microfiction and poetry by invitation only. Simultaneous and multiple submissions: no simultaneous, please. We’ll get back to you with a hold or a pass within 30 days at the latest (but generally sooner than that). No multiple in the same category. One original and one reprint are allowed at the same time for fiction. Up to 5 poems/haiku can be submitted in...