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Deadline: April 10th, 2020 Payment: 50% to publisher and 50% split amongst contributors evenly Theme: Scary Stories of Workplace Terror Stuck in a dead end job? Wish you could get payback on that boss you don’t like? Or maybe it’s a coworker stalking you, or the coffee room rituals that is getting to you. Either way; we want these scary stories all about the workplace. Because Horror is for Hire! Read below the details of our newest anthology. Title: Horror for Hire Subtitle: Scary Stories of Workplace Terror Submissions guidelines: Word count: Max 5k words, minimum 2k words. Payment info: 50% to publisher and 50% split amongst contributors evenly. Email to: [email protected] We are looking for: stories of workplace woes, sticking it to the boss in the worst way. Think of the job you hate the most and add horror to it and make it 10 times worse. You can submit non-fiction but please change names if so. We prefer exclusive stories to allow for Kindle Unlimited release. Limit of 3 per author but please submit as many as possible and we will sort through them. Submissions open: January 13 2020 Deadline: April 10th 2020 Releasing: Spring 2020 We have a Facebook group which will be in the comment thread below. Via: Facebook.

UPDATE: CLOSED EARLY - APRIL 10TH 2020 Deadline: May 15th, 2020 NOTE: CLOSED EARLY Payment: $0.01/word + 1 print contributor copy Theme: Short stories about summer vacations gone wrong Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror Grindhouse Press seeks short stories about summer vacations gone wrong for its upcoming horror fiction anthology, Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror, edited by Samantha Kolesnik. Summer vacation is often romanticized as a time of joy, but sometimes even the best laid plans go awry. Send in your horrifying tales for consideration in Grindhouse Press’s first-ever horror anthology. Guidelines: ●All submissions must be in the horror genre. ●No simultaneous submissions. All submitters will be notified of acceptance or rejection by June 1, 2020 at the latest. ●Submissions must not have been previously published anywhere. This includes personal blogs and social media. ●Submissions must be in standard manuscript format and submitted as an attached MS Word document or Google doc. ●Only one submission per author allowed. ●We welcome fiction which is bold, risky and graphic if it’s in service of the story. Submissions should be emailed to [email protected] with the name of the author and the title of the story in the email subject line. Please include in the body of the email a brief author bio (2-4 sentences), and submission word count. Payment: $0.01/word + 1 print contributor copy Length: 2,000 – 6,000 words Deadline: May 15th, 2020 or until filled Via: Grind House Press.

Deadline: April 10th, 2020 Payment: 50% of the sales after printing costs will be split between each author of each particular book Theme: All Genres Accepted To submit your short story to the Breaking Rules Publishing Short Story Book Project, please send an email to [email protected]. ​ Please include your contact information, including location in the body of your email, as well as a "Word Doc" attachment of your work. We will confirm your submission within 24 hours, as well as get back to you within one week on the possibility for publishing options. All submissions must - Be sent in a "Word Doc" - 8.5 x 11 format - a clean, edited story with the authors name and title should be at the top of the page - please, no special margins - your story should be indented properly - single spaced - in a 12 font - no double spaces between paragraphs - and no headers or footers. Page limit are - 15 pages min and 30 max. Work that is sent incorrectly will be sent back. We sincerely appreciate your interest in Breaking Rules Publishing but also don't want to add additional work for our formatting team. Editing: By submitting you agree to allow Breaking Rules Publishing to provide a light edit, spell check, formatting, appropriate grammar, to all stories published. Copyrights: The author retains all copyrights to the submitted work. With your consent, BRP may publish of your work in future journals and publicity pieces, and other formats or contexts determined by, and at the discretion of, Breaking Rules Publishing. Please note that other publications may not accept your work as "unpublished" work. If you do subsequently publish your work in another publication, proper attribution must be given to Breaking Rules Publishing and/or Breaking Rules Publishing website. As a condition of submission, you will be required to agree to the...

Deadline: April 10th, 2020 Prizes: The top three winners will receive cash prizes of $75, $50, and $25 respectively Theme: Innovation Every year, QSF holds a flash fiction contest to create an amazing new anthology of queer speculative fiction stories. We ask authors to do the nearly-impossible – to submit a sci fi, fantasy, paranormal or horror LGBTIQA story that has no more than 300 words. Our 2020 contest launches on March 1st, and closes it April 10th, but we do accept early entries. The theme for 2020 is “Innovation”: 1) A new idea, method, or device. 2) The introduction of something new. 3) The action or process of innovating. We live in an age of innovation – new websites, apps, and disruption abound. Often this innovation has a dark side, destroying old industries, eroding privacy and enabling climate change. But innovation can have a bright side – solving problems instead of creating them. Look at how medicine has helped extend life and cure ailments that were once deadly scourges. The same social media sites that are causing such chaos have also brought people together on groups like ours, creating new communities. And innovation might just hold the key to saving the planet. Tell us about either side – how innovation will destroy us, or how it might save us. Whether your innovation is scientific, paranormal, horrific or magical, we want to see it. We’ll be accepting works from across the queer spectrum, and would love to see more entries including lesbian, trans, bi, intersex and ace protagonists, as well as gay men. We also welcome diversity in ability (physical and mental) and in race. We had our most diverse set of entries yet in 2019 – let’s keep up the trend! We always get tons of gay sci fi...

Deadline: April 10th, 2020 Payment: 50% of the sales will be split between each author of each particular book after printing costs Theme: Horror To submit your short story to the Bi-Monthly Breaking Rules Publishing Horror Anthology, starting in January 2020 - released by the end of the month - please send an email to [email protected] by the 10th of the book release month. ​ In your email - please include your contact information, including location in the body of your email, as well as a "Word Doc" attachment of your work. We will confirm your submission within 24 hours, as well as get back to you within one week on the possibility for publishing options. All submissions must - Be sent in a "Word Doc" - 8.5 x 11 format - a clean, edited story with the authors name and title at the top of the page - please, no special margins - your story should be indented properly - single spaced - in a 12 font - no double spaces between paragraphs - and no headers or footers. Page limit is 30 max  - 15 min - all submissions but be sent in by the 10th of the book release month. Publishing starts January 2020. Work that is sent incorrectly will be sent back. We sincerely appreciate your interest in Breaking Rules Publishing but also don't want to add additional work for our formatting team. ​Editing: By submitting you agree to allow Breaking Rules Publishing to provide a light edit, spell check, formatting, appropriate grammar, to all stories published. Copyrights: The author retains all copyrights to the submitted work. With your consent, BRP may publish of your work in future journals and publicity pieces, and other formats or contexts determined by, and at the discretion of, Breaking Rules Publishing. Please note that other publications may not accept...

Deadline: April 10th, 2020 Payment: Royalty Split Theme: Contemporary literary strange tales It’s Tartarus Press’s thirtieth year in 2020, and we are celebrating by publishing a volume of contemporary literary strange tales. If you would like to be considered for inclusion, then please send one story only to [email protected]. Your submission should  be entirely new, unpublished elsewhere, c.2,000 – 6,000 words, and on the literary strange/horror/supernatural spectrum. Payment will be by a share in profits. Deadline: 10th April 2020. We look forward to hearing from you! Via: Tartarus Press.