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Submission Window: April 1st - 7th, 2025. Extended window for LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and Palestinian authors: April 1, 2025 – April 14, 2025 Payment: Flash (400-1500 word) $10, Shorts (1,501-8,000) $20, Black and white Artwork: $10 Theme: Horror stories involving Growth Fraidy Cat Press is proud to present Fraidy Cat Quarterly, published four times annually in print and ebook formats. We are currently closed to submissions of flash fiction and short stories. We are always open to submissions of black and white art. Any fiction submissions sent outside of our open call period will be deleted unread. Volume 6: Growth General submissions: April 1,2025 – April 7, 2025 Extended window for LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and Palestinian authors: April 1, 2025 – April 14, 2025 Publishing in June 2025 What To Submit Fraidy Cat Press loves all things horror – from the eerie, creeping terror of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”’s systematic violence to the unhinged tilt of Laird Barron’s “The Imago Sequence” and everything in between. We want your stories that go bump in the night, your stories that creak like an intruding foot on the staircase, your best writing that screeches through the calm darkness. Put simply, Fraidy Cat Press is interested in: Horror (and its related genre mashups and sub-genres) Wordcount Fraidy Cat Press is seeking: Flash fiction (400-1,500 words long, $10 per accepted piece) Short stories (1,501-8,000 words long, $20 per accepted piece) Black and white artwork ($10 per accepted piece) When To Submit We open for a limited weeklong period four times annually. Space in our quarterlies are limited. We reserve the right to close to submissions early if we are flooded. Submit early to be sure your story will be considered. How To Submit Your submission should be in Shunn format, but we prefer you NOT include your...

Submission Window: April 1st - 14th, 2025 Payment: Fiction: 1500-7500 words ($.08 per word, $100 minimum), Poetry: One poem of up to three pages ($40 per poem), Nonfiction: 1000-2000 words ($75 per essay or article), Cover Art: $100 for reprints, $200 for original unpublished, Interior Art: $50 for reprints, $100 for original unpublished Theme: Fantasy and Science Fiction that falls into the category of Solarpunk that ideally include themes of defiance, change, and achievement. Note: Our nonfiction is no longer always open for submissions. It will now open and close on the same schedule as our other submission portals. All submissions to Solarpunk Magazine are done via Moksha. Any submissions received via email will be deleted without a response. Please don’t email us to describe your story and ask if it’s something we’d be interested in before submitting. We appreciate the consideration, but its easier if you just submit the story through Moksha. In 2024, we are particularly looking for stories between 1,500 and 3,000 words. While our word limit remains 7,500, stories that fall between 1,500 and 3,000 will have a better chance of being selected for at least the first few submission periods in 2024. Please read the full submission guidelines on down below or on our Moksha page before submitting your work. All submission periods end at 11:59 pm PST on the 14th of their given month. 2025 Submission Window Schedule: January 1-14 April 1-14 July 1-14 October 1-14 2025 Issue Release Schedule: Issue #19 – January 14 Issue #20 – March 11 Issue #21 – May 13 Issue #22 – July 8 (Colorful Roots)* Issue #23 – September 9 Issue #24 – November 11 The Basics: If your work is accepted, please wait two full submission windows before submitting again. For example, if a story you receive word in April that your...