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Deadline: April 1st, 2022 Payment: $10 or a contributor's copy Theme: Vampire stories based on traditional folklore from around the world. Title: They Come by Night: Original Vampire Stories Based on Traditional Lore   Deadline: April 1st 2022 or until filled.   Payment: 10 USD via PayPal upon acceptance or contributor’s copy in printed form upon publication. (We know this is an insult to your talent and hard work, but it is all we can offer at this time.  We hope to offer more on future projects.)   Theme: Vampire stories based on traditional folklore from around the world.   3000-10000 words, double spaced, Times New Roman font, 12pt. Original stories, no reprints.  We ask for 6 months exclusive worldwide rights from date of publication after which all rights revert to author.   Email submissions to [email protected] with Submission: Title in subject line.  Send story as an attachment in .doc. .docx or .pages format.  In body of email, include a brief bio.   Shining Autumn Press is a new publishing house based in Cluj-Napoca, Romania conceived with the desire to promote quality fiction with supernatural themes.  This collection is indeed our first project and we are excited to receive submissions from talented writers.  Our projected date of publication for both ebook and print form is June 1st 2022.   At Shining Autumn Press we are avid lovers of vampire fiction but in recent years, decades really, we have been disappointed with the quality of vampire stories and novels and have decided to compile this anthology for readers who crave a more traditional portrayal of the children of the night.   We want vampires who are repelled by crosses, garlic, silver, wild roses and holy water and retreat to their graves at the first sign of dawn and the sound of...

Deadline: April 1st, 2022 Payment: 4 cents per word Theme: sapphic horror - short fiction by a diverse group of authors Moonflowers and Nightshade is an anthology of sapphic horror short fiction by a diverse group of authors. Chilling horror stories ranging from psychological character studies to terrifying tales of body horror, from supernatural nightmares to Gothic ghost stories--and everything in between, but all with prominent sapphic themes and content.  There is currently so much room and need for more sapphic content in the horror literary genre. Moonflowers and Nightshade will include a diverse group of stories, including but not limited to stories involving genderqueer, non-binary, BIPOC, genderfluid, lesbian, trans, bisexual, and pansexual characters.   ​ Submission Specs:  ~ 2,000 - 5,000 words ~ MS Word or Google Docs file  ~ Times New Roman, pt. 12 font, double-spaced ~ Please include your name, your story title, word count, and a brief bio in your email cover letter.  ~ Stories must prominently include sapphic themes, characters, and/or content, and be in the horror genre. All subgenres of horror welcome.  ~ Submission deadline: April 1st, 2022 ~ Simultaneous submissions welcome. ​ Payment:  Payment will be $0.04/word upon publication, via Paypal. Contract will be for 6 months exclusive ebook and paperback English language rights, non-exclusive thereafter.  ​ Please send submissions to [email protected].  ​ Notifications will be sent by June 1st, 2022 at the latest.  ​ Tentative publication date is October, 2022.  ​ Please note: This submission call is running concurrently with a Kickstarter campaign for the anthology to offset publication costs. Donating and/or contributing to the Kickstarter will NOT influence or hold any bearing on submission status.    Support on Kickstarter Via: Samantha Kolesnik.

Deadline: April 1st, 2022 Payment: $1,000 advance, with a royalty share at 60% to author Theme: Psychological, folk, quiet, supernatural, paranormal, body, found-footage, coming-of-age, spiritual, demonic, occult, cosmic, slasher horror. Hello, my name is Sadie Hartmann but I’m also known in certain circles as Mother Horror. My favorite thing is to find fresh, talented voices in the genre of horror. It’s difficult to get readers to notice you out there in the wild, so this is your opportunity to come into My Dark Library and share with me the strange, cold, dark well within you from which you draw your stories. I am editing and presenting a series of novellas through Cemetery Gates Media and will write an introduction for each selection, then we’ll promote your work to a hungry legion of horror fans. I am specifically interested in: Authors who have found themselves in a genre-trap and are looking for a way to showcase another storytelling voice for a different fanbase. In My Dark Library you will find psychological, folk, quiet, supernatural, paranormal, body, found-footage, coming-of-age, spiritual, demonic, occult, cosmic, slasher horror. I’m not currently interested in extreme, science-fiction, bizarro, erotic, apocalyptic, creature/cryptid, zombie, eco, comedy horror. I especially love cultural folklore and urban legends from BIPOC, Native American, and LGBTQ voices. This is an open call to anyone and everyone—not limited to new or unpublished voices. Even if I have read and admired your work one hundred times, I would still be over the moon to see a submission from you. From February 1st – April 1st we will accept submissions between 25,000-40,000 words. Please submit a complete, unpublished manuscript in DOC or RTF format and include a publishing bio and brief story synopsis in the email body. No reprints, please don’t ask. Simultaneous subs are fine. Send submissions to: [email protected] Cemetery Gates is paying a $1,000...

Deadline: April 1st, 2022 Payment: One cent U.S. per word ($2 minimum) Theme: Fantastic Fiction You really NEED to read the description below. The Cafe Irreal is a quarterly webzine that presents a kind of fantastic fiction infrequently published in English. This fiction, which we would describe as irreal, resembles the work of writers such as Franz Kafka, Kobo Abe, Clarice Lispector and Jorge Luis Borges. As a type of fiction it rejects the tendency to portray people and places realistically and the need for a full resolution to the story; instead, it shows us a reality constantly being undermined. Therefore, we're interested in stories by writers who write about what they don't know, take us places we couldn't possibly go, and don't try to make us care about the characters. We would also suggest you take a look at the current issue, archives, and theory (especially the essay, "What is irrealism?") pages on this web site. We accept unsolicited fiction up to 2,000 words in length. Translations are welcome. There is no minimum length. We accept only electronic submissions via e-mail at [email protected]. We cannot, due to the various computer viruses and worms, accept attachments anymore, so please paste your story into the body of the e-mail. Also include your name, address, e-mail address, and a short bio in the text of the submission; please put the word "submission" in the subject heading of the e-mail to ensure that your submission doesn't get lost among all the spam. We pay an honorarium of one cent U.S. per word ($2 minimum) to buy first-time internet rights (the story will then be archived). Payment is made upon publication. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE DON'T ACCEPT SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS and are only interested in reprints in unusual cases (e.g., the story has appeared in print but...

Deadline: April 1st, 2022 Payment: $50 and 3 contributor's copies Theme: Write a story about a historical war of any culture and any era and change one aspect of it to see how the war might change and explore from there! LBP is pleased to announce that we will be accepting short story submissions through April 1st, 2022. We will choose 8-12 submissions to be published in our 2022 fall anthology, Great Wars! Prompt: The prompt: Write a story about a historical war of any culture and any era and change one aspect of it to see how the war might change and explore from there! Examples: How would the Revolutionary War change if soldiers on all sides had access to advanced weapons, such as those which are laser-powered? Accepted stories will be published in the ‘Great Wars’ anthology! E-book and print! Parameters: Every genre qualifies. Works must be previously unpublished. Must be at least 3k but no more than 9k. Submissions must be in Times New Roman 12pt. No headers or footers, please. Name and title on top/left of the first page. The submissions deadline is before midnight April 1st, 2022. We encourage gender fluidity, gender-bending, LGBTQIA+ retellings, and whatever else feels appropriate to YOU for the story you want to tell. All submissions must be submitted to [email protected]. Add ‘Great Wars Submission’ in the subject line. Authors will be notified by email (acceptance or decline) no later than April 15th, 2021. Payment: If accepted, contributors will receive $50.00 as a flat fee for their story and receive (3) author copies of the printed anthology after publication. Contributors will be paid via PayPal. International Contributors:  Due to high postage rates (and/or postal accessibility) to some regions in the world, author copies may not be feasible and we’ll adjust the flat fee to accommodate. Author Rights: Authors will...