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Deadline: July 31st, 2022 Payment: $5 Theme: Splatterpunk Another venture into new genre territory for HBB! We know just how much our readers just love their horror stories gushing with blood and spattered with buckets of gore, severed limbs, and disembodied viscera, so here's your opportunity to scare them rigid and knot their stomachs with your most horrifying tales of death and destruction. PLEASE read and adhere to our submission guidelines...  * Word format saved in .doc, or .docx * 12 pt times new roman * Double spaced * Absolutely NO extra lines between paragraphs! * 4K-10K word count * Write 'SPLATTERPUNK' along with your name and story title in the header of your email *The body of your submission email will be considered the cover letter. * The submission documents are to be separated and Word (.doc or .docx) documents are to be attached to your submission email. To submit, email your polished story to [email protected] - Make sure that you check your mss for grammar and punctuation, use our guidelines to help you: DOWNLOAD YOUR HBB GUIDE TO GRAMMAR HERE (PDF) Deadline: 31 July 2022 NO REPRINTS - ORIGINAL UNPUBLISHED WORKS ONLY Payment - $5.00 for first rights. Capped at 120K words in total. Via: Hellbound Books Publishing.

Deadline: July 31, 2022 Payment: $0.11 per word for original and $0.01 a word for reprints. (If the CAD/USD exchange rate dips below that which would match SFWA's 8¢/word pro rate,) Theme: Speculative fiction that examines humanity's possible futures living with anthropogenic climate change. We prefer fiction with a hopeful outlook. Note: Reprints Welcome Little Blue Marble is OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS as of January 3, 2022. Submissions will likely close on July 31, 2022. See below for how to submit. Please note that while we do pay for original content (see rates below), Little Blue Marble's current operating budget supports only one or two paid pieces per month. As we grow, we will be happy to increase that number. We welcome submissions from writers anywhere. We value inclusivity, no matter your race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, class, and physical or mental ability. No stone should remain unturned when discussing climate solutions, and we want our content to reflect that. Please note, however, that if you have had a story published in Little Blue Marble in the current calendar year, we ask you to not submit another story until the next calendar year's submission period. This is so we can keep our limited publishing slots open for diverse voices. FICTION What we're looking for: We publish speculative fiction that examines humanity's possible futures living with anthropogenic climate change. We prefer fiction with a hopeful outlook, but the occasional dystopia might fit too. While science is an important piece for solving the climate change puzzle, we challenge writers to also examine our existing social, cultural, political, and economic frameworks and envision new ones to help see us through to a better, more sustainable world. Please see this interview at Six Questions For ... if you'd like more details. What will be a harder sell: Yet another apocalyptic desert dystopia. Alien/god-like being...

Deadline: July 31st, 2022 Payment: $0.05 per word Theme: Body Horror Note: This anthology is only open to writers who identify as Transgender and Non-Binary. Bound in Flesh: An Anthology of Trans Body Horror edited by Lor Gislason. FROM THE EDITOR: Hello, my name is Lor Gislason (they/them) and I will be the editor of BOUND IN FLESH. Body horror has been a part of my life for many years, in one way or another; From cartoons that stretch and twist characters, to personal favourites like Hellraiser and Possessor that push the human form beyond what is imaginable. While being uncomfortable with your body is not the case for all trans and NB folks, it is very common–hence why I think the genre draws so many of us to it. The cathartic nature of horror is the connective tissue that brings us together. I want to give other trans and NB authors the chance to showcase their work in a genre that so often is cis-centric, to tell their own stories and reaffirm that trans writers belong in horror. This anthology is only open to writers who identify as Transgender and Non-Binary. We want to uplift Trans/NB voices. New writers are encouraged to submit! Submission must be BODY HORROR, however you define that. Stories relating body dysphoria to horror are fine, but get creative with it! We’d also like to see funny, silly, wacky body horror. Please include a small bio with your submission, along with any relevant info. Payment: $0.05 per word Deadline: July 31st Word count: 3k-5k Multiple submissions: No more than 2 stories per author Simultaneous submissions: Yes Reprints: No Please submit all stories to [email protected] with __ in the subject line. Subscribe to our newsletter The Ghoulish Times for future updates. Via: Perpetual Publishing.

Submission Window: July 1st-31st, 2022 Payment: $1 per accepted piece Theme: horrorku, horror themed tanka, haibun, see below for details The Submission may include any or all of the following: · Up to seven (7) horrorku or horror tanka  · Up to three (3) haibun · Up to five (5) pieces of cover art All submissions must be original, unpublished work that is not under consideration by a print or web-based journal. Posts in closed, critique-oriented groups and social media sites are acceptable for submission, but public posts on forums such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are not. By submitting a piece to us, you are guaranteeing that it is your original work and not under consideration or published anywhere else in the world. E-mail submission is required. Type poems into the body of the e-mail; no attachments of poetry will be opened. For art submissions, please include all five pieces in a .PDF file or send us a link to a private gallery. If we purchase an art piece for our cover, we will ask that you provide a 300 dpi version of said piece. E-mail: [email protected] Subject: Otoroshi Submission Please include a cover letter noting location in the world. Please include handles for Instagram and Twitter for promotional purposes. At this time, only one submission per issue will be considered unless the editors directly request a second submission. Submission periods are one month long: · January for the Spring Issue · April for the Summer Issue · July for the Fall Issue · October for the Winter Issue Acceptances will be sent shortly after the end of each period. Please note: Although most journals may publish your work as is, we are editors, too. This means we will make suggestions to your work as we see fit. This is to...

Submission Window: June 1st and July 31st of 2022 Payment: $20 Theme: Stories set in deep space and/or on alien planets, far far from Earth September 2022 Issue 23 To have your story considered for Issue 23 due out in September 2022, please submit it between June 1st and July 31st of 2022. I’ll read and reply in August 2022. Announcement Jan 2022! Since 2017, Alien Dimensions has been working hard to find its feet in the semiprozine world, while still covering costs. I’ve offered a token payment of $10 per story for stories accepted since then as, being a non-profit with no grants, that’s basically all Alien Dimensions can afford. Also, I volunteer my time to edit it. I’ve previously said that if sales increase, I’ll review that token payment. So, whether it was the double issue, covid, reduced number of issues being released, an increase in interest in space fiction worldwide, changing the release time limit from 1 year to 2 years, better advertising, a new algorithm from Amazon, more people interested in aliens, or more people reading via Kindle Unlimited, or, most likely, Issue #21-#22 being just so good, Alien Dimensions has not only been successful in 2021 it has started recovering losses for previous years. As a result, with huge thanks to all the readers and writers, from 2022, payments for accepted stories will rise to USD$20 each. I know that is still far away from professional payments but, I plan to review that every year and increase it when possible. There’s been some contract adjustments for this to happen, too. Future issues will remain available indefinitely, from issue #23, and from February 2022, the minimum story length for submission is now 5000 words. Also, Alien Dimensions issues will be 200+ pages rather than 100. Yes,...

Deadline: July 31st, 2022 Payment: $.06 a word Theme: Folk Horror from around the world Folk Horror continues to haunt the horror world with visions of terror bound up in twisted morality forged in isolation within unforgiving landscapes that summon forth great evils at the fervent hands of human beings held captive by forces they can neither entirely comprehend nor fully control. Nosetouch Press is pleased to conjure up FIENDS IN THE FURROWS III: FINAL HARVEST, a call for submissions for Folk Horror from around the world— from Britain and Ireland, to continental Europe, to North and South America, Africa, Australia, and Asia. We strongly encourage writers to continue to explore the wanton wilderness of Folk Horror, while honoring the elemental essence of this subgenre’s tangled, grasping roots. SEND YOUR BEST ORIGINAL FOLK HORROR STORIES OF 3,500 TO 7,000 WORDS. SUBMISSIONS THAT ARE CHOSEN WILL BE PAID $.06 A WORD. This is your last chance to be included in the much-read and well-loved unholy trilogy of original-fiction Folk Horror anthologies! NO POEMS OR REPRINTS, PLEASE. BEGINNING MAY 1, 2022, email entries to [email protected] .doc or .rtf format • Please state “FIENDS 3” in the subject line. Via: Nose Touch Press.

Deadline: July 31st, 2022 Payment: Royalties on 4k+ stories Theme: Valkyries Title: Valkyries Opens: 4 February 2022 Closes: 31 July 2022, 11:59 EST Theme: This is your call to war. Tell us the stories of the choosers of the fallen. Valkyries ride into battle, choosing Odin’s favorites to come to Valhalla, or protecting those they deem worthy to fight another day. Perhaps sometimes they use their calling for more sinister deeds. Give us your story of these maidens of war, the agents of the gods. Word Limit: 100-word drabbles and/or 1k-8k Author Eligibility: Open to all Reprints: Allowed if rights belong to author, royalty paid at a lower percentage Simultaneous Submissions: Not allowed Multiple Submissions: Max of 2 drabbles and 2 short story acceptances Author Compensation: One digital copy and wordcount-based royalty split for stories 4k+ Send your story and up to a 100-word author bio with 2 (two) links as a Word doc attachment to: [email protected] Please include the Anthology Title, Story Title, and Author name in your email subject line, with your document file name as: Author Name - Story Title. Via: Black Ink Fiction.

Submission Window: July 1st - 31st, 2022 Payment: $25.00 and a contributor's copy Theme: Dark Highways The Cellar Door - Issue #3: Dark Highways Compiled & Edited by Aric Sundquist Short Story Submission Call: July 1 - 31, 2022 (EST) The Cellar Door is a biannual anthology of dark fiction. Each issue will contain 8 to 12 stories based around a specific theme and will include a brand new story from a featured author. The majority of the anthology (80%) will be filled from the open submissions. Title: The Cellar Door - Issue #3: Dark Highways Theme: Horror/suspense stories that take place on a highway, road, or inside a vehicle. Type: Suspense/thriller, creature feature, supernatural horror, grindhouse/exploitation. Word Count: 2,000 - 7,500 words. Payment: $25.00 + digital/paperback copy. Accepted Authors (so far): Darren Todd Rights: We are seeking first time rights for 1 year after publication. After that time all rights revert back to the author. The publication will appear in both print and digital formats and will eventually be reissued in The Cellar Door Compendium. Reprints: None. Previously unpublished only. Multiple Submissions: None. Simultaneous Submissions: Yes, but state in your email that it is a simultaneous submission, and please email us immediately if the story is sold elsewhere. File Format: Include your story as an attachment in MS Word, LibreOffice, or Rich Text Format. Manuscript Format: Use the Modern Shunn Format. Include a short bio in the body of your email. Your subject line should read, DH Submission: ("Title") by (Author's Name). For Example, DH Submission: "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" by Stephen King. Attach the story as a separate document. Response Time: Two weeks after submissions close, if not sooner. Submission Period: July 1 - 31, 2022 EST. Stories sent before or after will be deleted unread. Send Submissions to: darkpenpress (at) gmail (dot) com Influential Movies/TV: The Hitcher, Joyride, Breakdown, Blue Ruin, The Wraith, Splinter, Maximum...

Deadline: July 31st, 2022 Payment: $20 CAD Theme: Speculative poetry, short fiction, and visual art Submissions are open from March 30th to July 31st, 2022 The Sprawl Mag accepts submissions of speculative poetry, short fiction, and visual art. Whether it is utopic, dystopic, magical, or sci-fi, we look forward to seeing your work. We pay contributors $20 CAD per published piece. ​ We encourage submissions from QTBIPOC, women, nonbinary, queer, and disabled writers. ​ We accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if your piece is picked up elsewhere so we can congratulate you :) ​ We do not accept work that has been previously published. ​ Please include a brief, third-person, 100-word biography with your submission. ​ Poetry submissions should be in a legible, size 12-14pt serif font (for example, Times New Roman or Georgia) Poetry submissions should not exceed 40 lines per piece Poetry submissions may contain 1-4 poems Please submit your work as a DOC, DOCX, or ODT file Short Fiction Short fiction submissions should be in a legible, size 12-14pt serif font (for example, Times New Roman or Georgia) Short fiction submissions should not exceed 1000 words per piece Short fiction submissions may contain 1-2 pieces Please submit your work as a DOC, DOCX, or ODT file Visual Art Please submit visual art pieces (including photography and digital art) as a JPG or PDF file Include a short description (under 500 words) on the inspiration behind your piece, the procress of creating it and/or any themes you wish to highlight SUBMIT Please submit all work to [email protected]. Submissions for Volume 1.1 are due by July 31st, 2022. Via: The Sprawl Magazine.

Deadline: July 31st, 2022 Payment: 20€ for original stories and 5€ for reprints Theme: Tales of survival in a post-apocalyptic world. Note: Reprints Welcome We are currently OPEN to submissions for "Tales from the Ruins: A Post-Apocalyptic Anthology". We're looking for tales of survival in a post-apocalyptic world. There are no specific thematic guidelines and we're open to submissions featuring sci-fi elements, but at the heart of your story must be a human struggle. Action and adventure is great, but more importantly, we want to feel for the protagonists. Make us walk in their tattered shoes and go through their struggles with them. Lean towards mystery rather than information overload. The nature of the apocalypse is secondary. The key is your story. Drop us straight in and leave hints so the reader can put the pieces of the puzzle together while the adventure progresses. 20€ for original stories and 5€ for reprints regardless of length, plus one print copy. Preferred word count between 5,000 and 10,000 words. The preliminary deadline is the 31st of July, 2022. Rates: Please note the rates quoted are not inclusive of transfer fees. The amount received may be slightly lower; typically 3%. We use PayPal to pay our contributors. If your submission is successful, you'll need an account. Alternatively, we can pay with an electronic Amazon gift coupon. Payment is made upon publication. 20€ for original stories and 5€ for reprints regardless of length, plus one print copy. Preferred word count between 5,000 and 10,000 words. Please read the full guidelines below before submitting. # ANTHOLOGY GUIDELINES AND DETAILS Please only submit one story per publication. No simultaneous submissions for original fiction. The best way to get a feel for the kind of fiction we're likely to publish is to buy our previously published titles. This provides you with examples of accepted...

Submission Window: July 1st-31st, 2022 Payment: 0.01 USD per word for Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Book Reviews. 5.00 USD per Poem. Theme: Short stories of any genre as long as they are dark, sinister, or eerie in tone. Submission Period: JULY 1, 2022 – JULY 31, 2022 Any stories submitted BEFORE or AFTER the submission window (without prior consent from someone on the Aphotic Realm Team) will be deleted unread. Submissions Fiction We will accept unpublished short stories of any genre as long as they are dark, sinister, or eerie in tone. No gratuitous sex or violence for the sake of shock—the use must be integral to the story. Stories must contain a minimum of 1,000 words and not surpass 5,000 words.  Please submit all stories to [email protected]. In the subject line please write, “MAGAZINE FICTION: Title of your story”. In the body of the email, please include a 50-100 word bio about yourself and your contact information. All stories must be submitted as a .DOC or .DOCX file. All other file types will be deleted without being read. All stories must be formatted properly in the William Shunn format. 12pt Times New Roman font Double-spaced  Do not use TAB for indents (Please… We beg of you) No multiple submissions. Simultaneous submissions are okay but please inform us as soon as possible if your story is picked up elsewhere. Poetry We will accept unpublished Poetry. It should be macabre; grotesquely fantastical. Horror meshed with sci-fi sensibilities, supernatural, gothic, fantasy heavy on imagery, theme, but no gratuitous sex for the sake of shock. Anything deemed dark and full of dimension. Form can be any kind, but if sending rhyming poetry, be sure to follow the rules for any structure chosen. No more than 60 lines, but longer poems will be considered if they warrant...

Submission Window: July 1st-31st, 2022 Payment: 8 cents per word and $500 for custom cover art and $100 for cover art drawn from an artist’s existing portfolio. Theme: Fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and any genre in between or around it, as long as there’s a speculative element. Note: You must identify as an immigrant or member of a diaspora in the broadest definitions of the terms. This includes, but is not limited to, first- and second-generation immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, persons who identify with one or more diaspora communities, persons who have been displaced or whose heritage has been erased due to colonialism/imperialism, and anyone whose heritage and history includes ‘here and elsewhere’. khōréō is a quarterly publication of stories, essays, and art: fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and any genre in between or around it, as long as there’s a speculative element. We’re especially interested in writing and art that explore some aspect of migration, whether explicitly (themes of immigration, colonialism, etc.), metaphorically, or with a sly nod and a wink. Most importantly, we’re a new magazine and we’re still finding our identity: therefore, please don’t self-reject because you’re not sure if your work is a good fit. We won’t know until we see it, so please give us a chance to look! See submission requirements & how to submit at the following pages: Fiction Non-fiction Art Voice actors Who can submit? khōréō is dedicated to diversity and amplifying the voices of immigrant and diaspora authors and artists. We welcome, but do not require, a brief description of the author’s/artist’s identity in their cover letter. We invite you to submit if you identify as an immigrant or member of a diaspora in the broadest definitions of the terms. This includes, but is not limited to, first- and second-generation immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented...

Submission Window: July 1st-31st, 2022 Payment: 8 cents/word and 4 cents/word for reprints and $125 per piece of artwork Theme: Speculative stories--science fiction, fantasy, horror--with Christian themes, characters, or cosmology Note: Reprints Welcome Open to fiction submissions each year during the months of January and July. Open to art submissions year-round. We are looking for speculative stories--science fiction, fantasy, horror--with Christian themes, characters, or cosmology, and for artwork for this site.   Technical details Stories can be up to 9000 words (thanks, Patreon supporters!). This is a hard limit--our submission system will enforce it. We pay 8 cents/word for original stories (or original translations of stories that have not previously appeared in English), and 4 cents/word for reprints (thanks again, Patreon!). Authors are paid once we've agreed on edits and signed a contract, prior to earliest publication (generally on our Patreon page). We are seeking 6 months' exclusive worldwide publication rights for original works (with exceptions for established Best of the Year anthologies), and non-exclusive worldwide print and electronic rights thereafter for both original works and reprints. We want to publish your story online in our webzine and keep it there indefinitely. We're also acquiring the right to offer ebook versions of the stories we publish, as Patreon rewards or for purchase; and to publish a print and ebook anthology of all the stories that appeared in the webzine over a given 1- or 2-year period. For original fiction, we want to be the only place publishing it for the first 6 months; after that, you're welcome to publish it anywhere else in any format you like. No multiple or simultaneous submissions. If multiple writers co-write a story, we consider each distinct group of writers a different submitter. In other words, if two people co-write a story, and they submit the co-written story, and each...

Deadline: July 31st, 2022 Payment: 1.5 cents/word with a minimum payment of $30 for all submissions. Book reviews for $30. Art for $60. Theme: Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading past issues is the best way to know if your submission is a good fit for NewMyths.com. We like to balance each quarterly issue between science fiction and fantasy, dark and light, serious and humorous, hard and soft science fiction, and longer and shorter works. Our readers are not fixated on a single style or tone or genre, but prefer a quality sample of the field. Think tapas or dim sum. Submission Period New Myths considers submissions between January 1-February 28 and June 1-July 31. Artwork, requests for book reviews, and other correspondence can be submitted at any time. Payment Payment is upon publication. NewMyths.com currently pays 1.5 cents/word with a minimum payment of $30 for all submissions, fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction and poetry. We purchase book reviews for $30. We purchase art for $60. Rights NewMyths.com acquires first publication rights only (we are not interested in stories that have already been published elsewhere). Authors retain their copyright on all works after first publication on the NewMyths.com website. By submitting content to NewMyths.com you agree that, should the content be accepted, you grant NewMyths.com a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable right and license to digitally archive and display the content (aka Digital Archive Rights). In the case that we later desire to include your content in any other format (e.g. print, anthology, etc.), those rights will be separately negotiated at that time. Simultaneous Submissions: No problem. We ask that you please indicate in your submission that your story is a simultaneous submission, and notify us as soon as possible if it has been accepted by another publication. Response Responses to your submissions may...

Deadline: July 31st, 2022 Payment: $.01/word. Reprints will be paid a flat rate of $20/story. Theme: Stories that involve a museum Note: Reprints Welcome Museum Piece (anthology) 1 June to 31 July 2022 Brush and bramble fill the long-disused path, and ivy climbs the walls of the building’s cracked facade. Above the door and its intriguing mysteries, you can just make out part of a faded sign – Museum of … Bring your stories of intriguing museums old and new, original and reprint. Anything goes, so long as it’s an SFF story about an intriguing museum. The story must be about (and likely take place in) a museum with an interesting concept, which should be essential to the plot, not just background. Stories should be between 1,000 and 6,000 words in length. If you have a very strong case for a story that’s slightly longer, contact me before submitting, at www.metaphorosis.com/about/. Original stories will be paid at a rate of $.01/word. Reprints will be paid a flat rate of $20/story. The anthology will likely tend toward originals. Authors submitting originals should expect an extensive editorial process with several rounds of revision. Click the “Submit here” button below to see guidelines.   Via: Metaphorosis.

Submission Window: July 1st - July 31st, 2022 Payment: 8 cents per word for original pieces, 2 cents per word for reprints, and $100 flat fee for original art and comics. Theme: Horror for younger readers Note: Reprints Welcome The Maul seeks stories, comics, and art. Please see below for details on each. Overall Guidelines for Writers This is a magazine developed for people who are looking for horror, but either aren’t quite sure where to start, or haven’t found the right author. So let’s talk about how to write horror and other speculative fiction for younger readers and also writing it for those looking for something different: It has been said that if something looks like a swamp monster, walks like a swamp monster, and sounds like a swamp monster, it is indeed a swamp monster. And good writing can be a lot like a swamp monster. You know it when you see it, and it is often just misunderstood. Here at the Maul, even though our target audience skews younger, we’re really just looking for great writing. Our focus is on horror but we’ll take other genres. I n fact, the editors prefer stories that are a mix of genres. You’re more likely to be published if you give us fantasy or sci-fi mixed with horror. We’ll also take literary work, though please realize that, given our clientele and organizational goals, it can be a hard sell. We enjoy pulp fiction. That means we look for stories that pop. Exaggeration, melodrama, impossibly imaginative settings, and vivid imagery are encouraged. Bring us something that really jumps off the page. Be as over-the-top as you like. If you’re a more subtle writer, submit anyway. Sometimes one good twist or some relatable descriptions will still catch people’s eye, even the uninitiated....

Deadline: July 31st, 2022 Payment: $5 USD per 1000 words Theme: Speculative Fiction *punk stories Phantasmical Contraptions take 2! Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Decopunk, Biopunk, Steelpunk, Islandpunk, whatever your favorite flavor of punk, we want your punk stories! Deadline, July 31, 2022. NOTE: We are currently only accepting short stories for the anthologies and cannot accept full-length novel manuscripts at this time. ** Please put the anthology you're submitting to in the subject line of the email!** Payment for stories will be $5 USD per 1000 words for all current anthologies (excepting contests). Payments occur via PayPal, so please have a PayPal account into which we can pay you. We're looking for speculative fiction across all anthologies (unless otherwise specified). That includes everything from high fantasy to hard scifi and anything in between. We do accept reprints, simultaneous submissions, and multiple submissions, though these will slow down our response time. Story lengths should be anywhere from flash-length to about 15k words, but we have at times made exceptions. We know a story is complete when it's complete, and arbitrary word count requirements are not always helpful. If you have an amazing story that exceeds 15k words, let us know. We may be able to make special accommodations. :) With regard to copyright, we request the non-exclusive right to publish your story in the anthology to which it was accepted. You retain the rights to your individual story to do with as you wish. Please let us know if you have any questions. Note: We do have long lead times with our anthologies, because we want to ensure quality work gets included. Thanks for your understanding on this. Check here for open calls for stories.   FORMATTING INFORMATION Formatting a manuscript is always a pain. Every publication has its own rules--headers, spacing, font, file format,...

Submission Window: July 24th - 31st, 2022 Payment: 10 cents per word Theme: Telepathy July 24-31, 2022: Diabolical Thoughts  Submission Window (telepathy theme) (Note that there is 1 submission per author per window. But you don’t need to hear back from one window before submitting to another window.) David Steffen is the editor, who you may also know from reading The Long List Anthology series or from the Submission Grinder, which you can use to find markets for your writing and track your submissions.  Diabolical Plots is a SFWA-qualifying market, so if you have a personal goal to join SFWA, making a sale here would help you toward that goal. If you have already read our guidelines and are ready to submit, you can SUBMIT HERE. Diabolical Thoughts Theme   We are seeking telepathy stories of every shape and style. Stories might be as intimate as mind-readers in love, forever seeing themselves through their lover’s eyes; or as harrowing as a telepath on the battlefield, drowned in every iota of pain, fear and grief felt for miles. They might be as bizarre as telepathy tourism from alien planets, all cognitive connoisseurs who find humans to have a particularly piquant mindset; or as familiar as a job interview, which has simply gained a new mental level to spar upon.   Give us telepathic truck drivers; telepathic orchestra players; telepathic gladiators and magistrates and paramedics and revolutionaries. We cannot wait to see what you come up with.   For this themed issue, our assistant editor Ziv Wities will be taking the wheel and making final selections. Of course, your story should still be a good fit for Diabolical Plots—check out our general guidelines for an idea of what that means—but what might win you extra points with Ziv?   Well, Ziv would love to see:   Telepathy taking on odd,...

Deadline: July 31st, 2022 Payment: $5 USD per 1000 words Theme: Speculative Fiction Flora and fauna From Other Worlds! This one's pretty self-explanatory. Flora and fauna from elsewhere. We want your spec-fic stories! Deadline, July 31, 2022. NOTE: We are currently only accepting short stories for the anthologies and cannot accept full-length novel manuscripts at this time. ** Please put the anthology you're submitting to in the subject line of the email!** Payment for stories will be $5 USD per 1000 words for all current anthologies (excepting contests). Payments occur via PayPal, so please have a PayPal account into which we can pay you. We're looking for speculative fiction across all anthologies (unless otherwise specified). That includes everything from high fantasy to hard scifi and anything in between. We do accept reprints, simultaneous submissions, and multiple submissions, though these will slow down our response time. Story lengths should be anywhere from flash-length to about 15k words, but we have at times made exceptions. We know a story is complete when it's complete, and arbitrary word count requirements are not always helpful. If you have an amazing story that exceeds 15k words, let us know. We may be able to make special accommodations. :) With regard to copyright, we request the non-exclusive right to publish your story in the anthology to which it was accepted. You retain the rights to your individual story to do with as you wish. Please let us know if you have any questions. Note: We do have long lead times with our anthologies, because we want to ensure quality work gets included. Thanks for your understanding on this. Check here for open calls for stories.   FORMATTING INFORMATION Formatting a manuscript is always a pain. Every publication has its own rules--headers, spacing, font, file format, required information,...

Deadline: July 31st, 2022 Payment: $0.11/word CAD. Theme: cozy slice-of-life fantasy short stories. Tales and Feathers is a home for cozy slice-of-life fantasy short stories. Our ideal submissions looks like this: Quiet character-driven storytelling Gentle moments Rich fantastical worldbuilding Everyday moments Stories that take place before or between or after the epic conflicts Stories that offer warmth, comfort, and possibility We welcome stories written in any fantasy genre or genres, including stories that blur genre lines. We are especially interested in high fantasy, fairy tales, and myth. We also welcome stories that have been translated into English and stories that engage with non-Western fantasy genre traditions. If you think you match our tone, give us a try. We recommend checking out our preview issue, free online, or grabbing an issue, to see what Augur has published before (especially 5.1, their joy issue). We accept multiple submissions and simultaneous submissions. Our goal is to respond to all submissions within eight weeks. Our submissions system, Moksha, should send you a verification email within 24 hours. If you do not receive one, resubmit and send us an email letting us know what happened. Text submissions should be formatted as follows: Standard manuscript format .doc Without your name (for anonymous reading) Preferably, in size 12 Times or Times New Roman font Finally: If you fit into our guidelines, don’t self-reject! Submit, submit, submit! PLEASE DON'T SEND... Pandemic stories Gratuitously violent pieces Horror that uses neurodivergence or mental health as the horror element Comedy that punches down Stories that are “speculative” because a non-marginalized group suddenly experiences what it’s like to be a marginalized group (e.g. a man “has to live with sexism”, a white woman is suddenly “treated like a woman of colour”) Anything that minimizes sexual trauma/any trauma as a plot device (eg. A woman is assaulted...

Deadline: July 31st, 2022 Payment: $30 and a contributor's copy Theme: Short stories & poetry that terrify without a single mention of blood or gore Sliced Up Press is looking for short stories & poetry that terrify without a single mention of blood or gore, for its latest horror fiction anthology, BLOODLESS, edited by Ben Walker. Terrify us with your best story or poem where no blood is mentioned, nor any associated gore, grue & guts. That doesn’t mean characters can’t die in horrific ways (if they die at all) – we just want you to challenge yourself to write something where blood & guts are suggested, happen “off-screen”, or are otherwise worked around creatively. Make it psychological, paranormal, or even extreme, just don’t show any blood! Any time period or setting is welcome, on Earth or not. What we’re looking for: All submissions must be in the horror genre which means we want scary. Bizarro, splatterpunk and extreme horror are welcome, but we don’t want anything involving rape, etc. Preference will be given to submissions from women, BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ authors. If you don’t like this, don’t submit. Don’t mention blood at all, not in your title or the story/poem itself! No synonyms/slang terms for blood either! All submissions must be original. We will not accept reprints, or stories/poetry published elsewhere, including on blogs, social media etc. Submit your best work in modern or classic manuscript format (as outlined on http://www.shunn.net/format), as an MS Word .doc or .docx attachment. Anything sent in a different file type will be rejected without reply. Poems may be submitted in whatever form best suits the piece. Authors may submit 1 (one) story and 1 (one) poem maximum for consideration – if you want to send both, please send them in separate emails. Do not send more than one story or poem...