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Submission Window: March 17th - April 16th, 2025 Payment: 1 cent per word Theme: NSFW jungle adventure Jungle Scandals is the second entry in The Scandal Anthology Series and the follow-up to the smash hit Sword & Scandal. But where Sword & Scandal featured NSFW heroic fantasy, Jungle Scandals is all about NSFW jungle adventure. That’s right! This time around, we're touring the jungles of the world, taking stops in Africa, Indonesia, and the Amazon, and we'll be taking our inspiration from the likes of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jospeh Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, and H. Rider Haggard. But, while those writers all had more or less Victorian sensibilities, we'll be filling the pages of our book with more gratuitous nudity, sex, and gore than you can possibly imagine! Some today find the old writers problematic. We think they're not nearly problematic enough! These stories will retain the sense of fun and wonder from the jungle adventures of old. But they will be absolutely insane with all the sex! If you read Sword & Scandal, then you know we don't hold anything back. We are looking for experimental stories that take big risks. Unlike other publishers who tend to play it safe with their selections, we are seeking the wild, strange, and outrageous. So, if you have an off-beat or off-the-wall jungle adventure rattling around in your head, but which you’ve been afraid to write because you don't think you can place it, now is the time! We believe that literature should be dangerous, and we want to provide you with a safe space to write unsafe fiction. Humor is also a big part of what we do. We are actively looking for stories that incorporate a similar sense of humor as ours: dry, sardonic, and satirical. But any type of humor is...

Submission Window: April 2nd - 16th, 2025 Payment: $15.00 CAD and a contributors copy Theme: Ghosts in Canada Note: Canadian authors only Submissions open April 02 - 16 Canadians! We want your strange, unsettling, spooky tales featuring a ghost of one kind or another  - open to your interpretation. From the Atlantic to the Pacific and anywhere in between...from our southern border up to the Arctic Ocean - from coast, to coast to coast, bring us your ghosts.   Original stories only - written by you, not previously published. Set in Canada, written by Canadian authors. 500 - 1500 words. (The submission portal will show 2 categories: flash fiction 500-1000 words, and short stories 1000-1500 words)   Please only submit one story Simultaneous submissions are fine, please withdraw your story if accepted elsewhere.     NO AI: we do not want to publish work written in whole, in part, or assisted by artificial intelligence. We want to publish your words, not machine-genterated words, which, by the way, are taken from other authors' work - that is how these 'programs' are trained. So no, no thank you. Even though we are fans of a wide range of dark fiction and horror, this is not the place for extreme horror, ultra-violence or erotica. We also will not publish work that contains animal cruelty, child abuse, sexual assault, graphic or explicit sexual content, extreme horror, anything pro-ageism, pro-bigotry, hatred or prejudice toward any group or demographic, or country.   COMPENSATION: $15.00 (fifteen) CAD + print copy Payment is in Canadian dollars, paid via eTransfer. Contributors will also receive a print copy, understanding that final page count will determine if this will be a Zine; low-fi, saddle-stitched (stapled), or a perfect bound thin book. In either case, the size is planned to be 5.5" x 8.5".   RIGHTS: If your story is selected,...