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Deadline: November 30th, 2020 Payment: Royalties Deadline – November 30th, 2020 Publication – February 2021 Word Count – 5,000-15,000 Theme – It is rare for soul mates to be discovered early on in life. These characters have begun creating their own fairytale happily ever afters. Whether it be the boy next door, a loyal princess, or a supernatural being, all of these stories have two things in common: everlasting love and * Introduction of yourself should be a short biography in 3rd Person between 100-200 words. Upon acceptance, this will be used within the anthology. Send a bio with every single anthology submission. We work with hundreds of authors and will not take time to retrieve yours from a previous anthology. * Poetry submissions: All poetry needs to be contained within a single e-mail. Each poem should be in a separate document. Haikus may be grouped together. * All e-mails should be addressed to “Dear Editor.” After receiving edits back, the author has two weeks to return the submission for formatting. All submissions will be reviewed within thirty (30) days of the anthology’s submission deadline. This ensures submission calls do not close early and gives everyone a chance to submit. You will know your submission has been received for consideration by receiving a generic response. Whether accepted or rejected, you will always receive a response. View our blog articles on how to submit to a publisher and how to write a proposal.   Failure to submit following all of the guidelines will result in an immediate refusal. You are able to submit again before the submission call deadline.   Rating – Check each anthologies‘ rating. Word count – Check each anthologies‘ word count requirements. E-mail address to submit to – [email protected]   NOTICE –  Failure to submit correctly will result in refusal of submission. Via: Dragon Soul Press.

Deadline: November 30th, 2020 Payment: Royalties Theme: Wolf shifters Wolf Night (Rated R) Deadline – November 30th, 2020 Publication – March 2021 Word Count – 5,000-15,000 Theme – Wolf shifters galore! We are looking for romantic tales of wolf shifters in any setting or genre. The spicier, the better. Publisher INFORMATION Company name:        Dragon Soul Press Anthology Submission Email: [email protected] Website:                    http://dragonsoulpress.com/ Facebook:                  http://www.facebook.com/dragonsoulpress/ Duotrope:                   https://duotrope.com/listing/26543/dragon-soul-press The Grinder:              https://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/Market/Index?id=9529   CHECKLIST Introduction of author                                                        This is not where the biography goes. Author Contact Information / Pen name MUST be included with real name. If real name is same as pen name, state so in email. Author Biography in Third Person in 100-200 words        Mandatory minimum of 100. Submission Word Count                                                   Also applies to poetry. Word count. Not line count.   Submission Formatted in Times New Roman 12 PT Font. One-inch margins. No indentations. No double-spacing. No extra spacing between paragraphs. No chapters. Only DOC and DOCX accepted.   Summary/Query Letter                                                      Summarized outline of all major events within the story. All emails should be addressed as “Dear Editor” Email subject and file name must be as follows – “Story Title by Author Name for (Name of) Anthology” All of the author’s social media links, including website if applicable Author must have an active social media account.   Important information Maximum of two submissions per anthology per author. Authors can submit to all anthologies simultaneously. Reprints from third party sources accepted IF author currently holds full rights. We will not publish duplicate stories within DSP. Authors get 30% Royalties for first year from date of publication. Afterwards, 30% of all proceeds go to a charity chosen by the Publisher. Story rights - The Publisher permanently reserves the right to publish the Work within the Anthology while the Author keeps ownership rights to the Work. Do not submit...

Deadline: November 30th, 2020 Payment: Royalties Theme: Steampunk Deadline – November 30th, 2020 Publication – March 2021 Word Count – 500-15,000 Theme – Steampunk! We’re looking for steampunk stories. Additional subgenres are accepted (ex. Dieselpunk, Valvepunk). * Introduction of yourself should be a short biography in 3rd Person between 100-200 words. Upon acceptance, this will be used within the anthology. Send a bio with every single anthology submission. We work with hundreds of authors and will not take time to retrieve yours from a previous anthology. * Poetry submissions: All poetry needs to be contained within a single e-mail. Each poem should be in a separate document. Haikus may be grouped together. * All e-mails should be addressed to “Dear Editor.” After receiving edits back, the author has two weeks to return the submission for formatting. All submissions will be reviewed within thirty (30) days of the anthology’s submission deadline. This ensures submission calls do not close early and gives everyone a chance to submit. You will know your submission has been received for consideration by receiving a generic response. Whether accepted or rejected, you will always receive a response. View our blog articles on how to submit to a publisher and how to write a proposal.   Failure to submit following all of the guidelines will result in an immediate refusal. You are able to submit again before the submission call deadline.   Rating – Check each anthologies‘ rating. Word count – Check each anthologies‘ word count requirements. E-mail address to submit to – [email protected]   NOTICE –  Failure to submit correctly will result in refusal of submission. Via: Dragon Soul Press.

Deadline: November 30th, 2020 Payment: Flash (700-1500 words, no more and no less*): $10 per piece Drabbles (up to 100 words for drabbles; 200 words for double drabbles*): $1-3 per piece up to triple drabbles (300 words). Poetry (up to 30 lines-no fancy formatting*): $5 per poem Theme: Retro Science Fiction Note: Female authors only Note: Reprints Accepted Women authors only (Transwomen authors accepted because transwomen are women). Retro Science Fiction. What is retro sci fi? It's also known as retro-futurism, and described as "the future that never was." Something like the science fiction stories of the 40s and 50s. John DeNardo wrote a nice article about it in Kirkus Review. Link: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/features/why-i-love-retro-science-fiction/ I want you to imagine me a future of women characters that shine and live in a world (that they created or helped to create) filled with impossible wonders. Flash and short stories only. Flash are (750 to 1500 words) Short stories are (1501 to 2500 words (no more) Reprints will be accepted on this one, just let me know where it was previously published. Deadline is November 30th at 11:59 pm. Further submission guidelines can be found here. Via: The Were Traveler.

Deadline: November 30th, 2020 Payment: 1-cent-per-word Theme: Pulpy dark fiction in the weird fiction and horror genres Welcome to the new pulp! Weird Horror magazine is a new venue for fiction, articles, reviews, and commentary. The best way to determine what we want is to pick up our inaugural issue, in print or eBook. FICTION GUIDELINES OPENS: October 1 CLOSES: November 30 Weird Horror Magazine is open to submissions of fiction only from October 1 through November 30. The submission period covers 2 issues - March and October. Fiction must be original and previously unpublished anywhere, in any format, on any platform. Please do not query about reprints. As we'll be reading for 2 issues, it may take the full submission period to respond. Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Please inform us if your story is accepted elsewhere. No multiple submissions. Please send 1 story. We anticipate buying 12 - 18 stories only for our 2021 issues, but they will all come from the slush pile. We are actively seeking new and underrepresented voices. We accept submissions from anyone, regardless of race, gender, or sexuality. As our title suggests, we are seeking pulpy dark fiction in the weird fiction and horror genres of 500 to 5,000 words. Monsters, ghosts, creatures, fiends, demons, etc. Dark crime. Suspense. Mutants. Killers. Ghouls. Golems. Witches. Pulpy goodness! We are hoping to bring some fun (and terror) to our readers. Payment is 1-cent-per-word (paid via PayPal) for first worldwide English-language rights, for use in the print and eBook editions. We ask for a 6-month exclusivity. Copyright remains with the author, and a contract will be provided. Submit stories in Standard Manuscript Format as a Word document or PDF, and e-mail as an attachment to: WeirdHorrorMag gmail com Please format the subject line of your e-mail thusly:...

Deadline: November 30th, 2020 Payment: $75 Theme: The horrors of capitalism Note: This market does not open until November 1st and will not take submissions prior to that. ProleSCARYet: Tales of Horror and Class Warfare will be a print and e-book anthology about the horrors of capitalism. We want monstrous bosses, jobs from literal Hell, working class folks fighting back against great cosmic evils, and any other wild idea you can come up with. As long as it’s anti-capitalist and horror, it’s good. We also welcome dark weird fiction and horror-adjacent sci-fi. The anthology is open to all writers, but we would especially like submissions from anti-capitalist writers of marginalized groups. Stories should be between 1,000 and 4,500 words. Multiple submissions are not allowed. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but withdraw your submission immediately if it gets accepted elsewhere. No reprints. Open for submissions November 1st, 2020 – November 30th, 2020. We will announce accepted submissions by January 15th, 2020. Anthology will be published in spring 2021. OTHER SUBMISSION CONSIDERATIONS If you’re retreading old ground and well-established tropes, make it fresh. We’re fine with horror that has erotic elements, but emphasis should be on the horror. Yes, make it anti-capitalist, but don’t be moralizing. We want nuance. Stories that deal with bigotry are fine, but bigoted stories are not. Splatterpunk is fine, but gore and extreme elements should serve story, character, and theme. FORMAT Use standard manuscript format. Send a doc/docx attachment. Do not copy-paste your story into the body of the email or submit it in any other format — we won’t read it if you do. Please send submission to [email protected]. Include your name, story title, and word count in the subject heading (e.g., Karl Marx — “Capitalism Bad” — 3,500 Words”). Include an author bio of under 100 words and...

Deadline: November 30th, 2020 Payment: 5 cents per word and a contributor's copy Theme: Silence Note: This anthology is open to those from any oppressed group: examples include Women, People of Color, LGTBQ+, Persons with a Disability. Guidelines: This anthology is open to those from any oppressed group: examples include Women, People of Color, LGTBQ+, Persons with a Disability. If you do not fall into this category, please refrain from submitting. There are plenty of other opportunities for you out there. The theme of this anthology is Silence. How you interpret that is up to you, so long as it’s clearly a significant part of the story. Do not send a story with Silence tacked on as an afterthought. You will waste my time and yours. Stories should be horror. We are open to most types of horror though prefer, for this anthology, to shy away from the more extreme: no splatter. Sex and gore are acceptable, provided they are not gratuitous. It should go without saying, but I’ll say it anyway, just so we’re absolutely clear: no stories that glorify the oppression of any of the Silenced groups listed above (or any we may have left out). This is an automatic rejection and we will probably never speak to you again either. Standard Manuscript Formatting, please: Times New Roman (or something equivalent) preferred, 12-point font, double spaced. First page, upper left, should contain your contact information and approximate word count (round to the nearest hundred). Word count is between 3,000 and 5.000. There is some wiggle room at both ends but please try to keep it close to that. Your subject line should read Submission: (story title), (your name). Failure to follow this may result in your story getting lost in the shuffle. We are only looking for original...

Deadline: November 30th, 2020 Payment: Flash: $25 plus 2 comp copies.. Short Fiction pays $.04/word plus 4 comp copies. Theme: Weird Horror, atmosphere, dread, and slimy things. Thanks for your interest in Green Inferno! What We Are: A quarterly 120-page trade paperback anthology of original short comics and fiction centered around Terrestrial Horror: stories that take place on or involving our planet, often (but not always) with an environmental or ecological bent. That is to say: not every story has to be Man v. Nature-- that would get old pretty quick!-- but Man v. Nature is a good germination point for what Green Inferno seeks to be, and it definitely falls under the umbrella. Here are some stories that, in our opinion, fall under the umbrella of Terrestrial Horror: The Fog - John Carpenter The Low Low Woods - Carmen Maria Machado & Dani Swamp Thing - Alan Moore & others Threshold - Caitlin R. Kiernan The Godzilla franchise The Southern Reach Trilogy - Jeff VanderMeer The Birds - Alfred Hitchcock *Even Cosmic Horror like The Color out of Space, though extraterrestrial in origin, explores the horror wrought on Earth. We’d say that falls well within our purview. So, yeah, it’s a big umbrella, but we do think the title sums it up quite nicely: Green Inferno. The World Celebrates Your Demise. What We’re Looking For: Short Stories (8000 words or less) and Flash Fiction (1000 words or less). How Do We Want to Scare You Today…? -We love Weird Horror, atmosphere, dread, and slimy things. -Splatterpunk or moody Gothic creepiness are both super keen. -Throwback-y and uber-contemporary are equally great. -Sci-Fi and Fantasy angles welcome, but please keep it Earthbound (terrestrial) for now. -We like Horror comedy… sometimes. Everyone’s “funny” is different, but give it a shot! For Fiction Submissions: We are seeking Short Stories (8000 words or less) and Flash Fiction (1000 words or less). Flash Fiction pays $25 plus 2 comp copies. Short Fiction pays $.04/word...

Deadline: November 30th, 2020 Payment: 5 cents per word Theme: movie/monsters ruin the holidays horror anthology Note: Sorry for the short window. The amazing Gabino Iglesias took this from rough idea to Cemetery Gates Media funding it yesterday afternoon. 2-5k words Deadline: November 30 (tight, I know, but it'll be out December 2020, so non-negotiable) Payment: $.05/word No reprints/poetry/romance/nonfiction I'm editing, so you know everyone is encouraged to submit. Looking at you, new writers, LGBTQ+ writers, writers of color, etc. This is a horror anthology, so make it dark, creepy, scary, gory, and horrific while using the smalltown/holidays/crappy movie aesthetic. No Hallmark tribute stories, please. Send submissions to [email protected] You're awesome Via: Gabino Inglesias's Twitter.

Deadline: November 30th, 2020 Payment: $0.005 per word. Theme: Blending spells/rituals/magic with sex Note: This anthology is seeking authors who identify as LGBTQ+. Dancing with Devils is an anthology looking to blend spells/rituals/magic with sex. Published under Red Ferret Press Payment: $0.005 per word. Word Count: up to 8000 words. It's rare that I look at anything over. If we're talking 100 words over that's ok, but not much more than that. And I typically don't include your title in your word counts. Deadline:   November 30, 2020. This anthology will be released Summer or Fall 2021 This anthology is seeking authors who identify as LGBTQ+. Please note that this is not a space for allies. We are seeking queer authors. Additionally, we would love to see queer authors of color, authors with disabilities submit to this anthology.   This submission call is for stories containing anthropomorphic characters otherwise known as Furry. I'm not really looking for human characters here, and if they do exist I would prefer they remain in the background of the story.   Here's what I don't want Straight Narratives. This is something you can find anywhere and has been boring to sit through. Most media you see incorporates a heternormative take on things like relationships, family, societal structure, and honestly I'm tired of it. I'm tired of straight people being the focus. Send me works that go against this; that say "f*ck all straight people." Fiction that contains racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, non-consensual/rape. Just because a character is queer, does not mean you have to stereotype them. Oh and white people who think it's ok to incorporate AAVE (African-American Vernacular English) into their white coded characters? F*ck off, I ain't here for that either. Cultural appropriation has no place in this anthology. If you need...