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Deadline: March 29th, 2024 Payment: $15 USD and 4% royalties for 4 years Theme: Halloween themed horror story that takes place around a carnival Note: Female identifying authors only. This INCLUDES trans women and non-binary/gender fluid. The Sisterhood of the Black Pen is back at it again! Submissions are open for our next spicy Halloween horror anthology! This time, a carnival is home to our nightmares. Female identifying authors only. This INCLUDES trans women and non-binary/gender fluid. Submissions due by March 29th, 2024. Story Requirements -7k-10k words roughly. Give or take. -Majority of setting must take place in or around a carnival. -Carnival must be Halloween themed, or story must take place on Halloween day, or a Halloween world, or any variation of these things. -Must contain at least one spicy scene. Why submit a short horror story to us? -We pay $15 USD to each author chosen PLUS around 4% royalties (depending on our final story count) for 4 years. -Rights returned after 6 months of publication date. -We are NOT a publishing house. We are two indie authors who are women who want to help other women. (trans women and non-binary/gender fluid included) succeed in the indie author world. -Our second anthology Twisted Tales of Halloween Horror sold over 4,000 copies. It was voted Best Indie Horror Book 2023 (hosted by @catiereadsandwrites on IG) Hosted by readers, nominated by readers, voted on by readers! It holds over 4 stars on Goodreads and Amazon. -We handle everything from cover design to marketing and everything in between. BUT we communicate with authors during design and help create something we all love. Simultaneously, we walk authors through what we are doing and how we are doing it so that newer authors can learn the steps of indie publication. -Authors finalize their...

Deadline: March 29th, 2024 Payment: FICTION: £40 per story regardless of length, INTERVIEWS: £60 per interview regardless of length and including accompanying illustrations or photographs., NON-FICTION: £60 per article regardless of length and including accompanying illustrations or photographs. Theme: Mixture of two genres or non-extreme horror Midnight Street Press publishes a variety of fiction anthologies and collections, as print and ebooks, in the spirit of the magazine that inspired it. FICTION I’m looking for stories that have a mix of two or more of these genres:  horror, dark fantasy, sci-fi and slipstream, that explore original themes or traditional themes from an original perspective. There is no specific word limit. Strong language and appropriate sexual imagery is acceptable providing it is in context and important in developing character. Correct grammar, including spelling (English or American English), sentence and paragraph construction and punctuation is very important unless the nature of the piece or the author’s style requires a less grammatical approach, in which case this should be specified in the covering message. I find it very tedious to correct these things! JOURNEYS INTO DARKNESS – DEEP HORROR This will be a section within the magazine that will include two or three stories in this genre. What I’m looking for is any or all of these: fantastic, supernatural, psychological, very creepy and frightening. Please DO NOT send slasher or extremely gory, badly written and constructed stories with no character arc. I hate these! INTERVIEWS These can be in any style and must include contact details for the interviewee. There is no specific word limit. Where possible, include pictures (jpegs please) and author biographies. NON-FICTION This can be on any subject relevant to the content of the magazine. There is no specific word limit. Where possible, include pictures (jpegs please) ARTWORK Please submit a...

Deadline: March 29th, 2024 Payment: 10 cents per word Theme: Stories that are ghoulish or “fun horror that aims to celebrate all things spooky” Yesterday we revealed the table of contents and pre-order information for Ghoulish Tales Issue #2, so we thought today would be the perfect time to announce that we are officially considering submissions for issue #3, which we aim to publish later this summer. First, if you are not already familiar with the style & tone of the magazine, we highly encourage you to read one of our previous issues. What we are after: short stories that fit our personal definition of the word GHOULISH, which is “fun horror that aims to celebrate all things spooky.” Note that we said fun, not funny. Comedic stories are definitely allowed, but it’s not all we’re looking to receive. We want stories that remind us why we love the horror genre. We want to have a perverted little smile across our face while reading. Make us slobber like idiots. Turn us into the Sickos.jpeg meme. We are also interested in non-fiction about the horror genre. GUIDELINES Deadline: March 29, 2024 (11:59 PM CST) Word count: 5,000 max (short stories); 2,000 max (non-fiction) Payment: 10c per word Simultaneous Submissions: Yes Multiple Submissions: No (Please only submit one story per open call. If we reject you, do not resubmit until we reopen for the next issue.) Reprints: No AI Submissions: No. Please note if you are caught sending us an AI story, you will be blacklisted from ever publishing with us in the future. Don’t do it. How to submit: Send all stories & essays to ghoulishsubmissions @ gmail dot com with – – – in the subject line. Please do not copy/paste the story in the body of the email. We prefer Word doc...