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Taking Submissions: Stories We Tell After Midnight Vol. 3 (Early)

Submission Window: July 1st – 17th, 2021 Payment: $0.02/word or $25/story, whichever is greater. Theme: Horror (unthemed) Heads up, Horror Fans! Crone Girls Press will be opening soon for submissions for our third (and last!) volume of Stories We Tell After Midnight. The submission window will be July 1 – 17, 2021. (Please do not send any submissions until the window opens or we will regretfully delete them without response.) Here is what we’ll be looking for: Name: Stories We Tell After Midnight, Volume 3 Genre: Horror (unthemed) Deadline: Submissions open July 1 and close midnight, EDT, July 17, 2021. Release Date: October 7, 2021 Word Counts: * Flash Fiction (500-1,500 words) * Short Stories (3,000-6,000 words) * Novella (12,000-25,000 words) Pay: $0.02/word or $25/story, whichever is greater. Editor: Rachel A. Brune, she/her Send submissions to: [email protected]; Subject line: SWTAM3 “Title” Wanted: Send me your chilling horror, your stories that are set firmly in the genre, tagging the tropes and atmospherics of things that will cause you to have nightmares and not be able to escape the dark, even when you pull the covers over your head and sleep with the light on. Scroll down for the full list of submission guidelines. General Submission Guidelines Submit a .doc, .docx, or .rtf that adheres to Shunn manuscript format. No other formats, please. Follow submission guidelines and use the Crone Girls Press Style Guide if you have any additional formatting or style questions. If you have any questions, a good place to get a feel for who we are is the Crone Girls Press Facebook Group. Come on in. We won’t bite. Most of us won’t, anyway. Cover letters should include: a logline, story title, and word count. For Midnight Bites, include the theme or potential theme. We publish debut and established authors, so I prefer not to see...