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Deadline: November 1st, 2024 Payment: 2 contributors copies if released in print, 5 cents CAD per word, .25 CAD per word for poetry up to 200 words with .10 CAD per word after Theme: The conflicts related to the hopeful and optimistic nature of Solarpunk (see below.) Note: Stories will also be discussed academically as a part of the editor's PhD dissertation. Solarpunk is optimistic. Solarpunk is hopeful. Solarpunk is about change and unity. Solarpunks seem to agree on these points. But what are the points of conflict within solarpunk? When do solarpunks disagree, and why? Is solarpunk a monolith, is it fractured and disparate, or is it somewhere in between? What spaces of tension exist within both genre and community that can flare to sudden flame at the right (or wrong) provocation? And, what do these conflicts look like in a solarpunk world? This anthology is about these conflicts. Stories should explore a solarpunk conflict, either one manufactured entirely for the story, or one based in a real-world point of contention you feel currently divides solarpunks, or that has done so in the past. Conflicts can be as small or as grand as you would like, though the story as a whole should be legibly solarpunk and should not champion a non-solarpunk ethos. I also invite stories that speak to perceived gaps in the solarpunk canon - for example, there has been commentary before on how solarpunk is close to afrofuturism in aspect and some goals, but has very little overlap. While there are some stories that do address that missing overlap, there is, of course, room for more. Some example points of conflict are listed below, though please do not feel restricted to these possibilities! • Is techno-solutionism the way forwards, or do we need to eschew modern...

Deadline: November 1st, 2024 Payment: Royalties Theme: Forest Fae Genre: Fantasy Theme: Forest Fae Concept: Change comes for all. Come, dance through the Wyld places. Bear witness to a world that fights against the encroachment of civilization. Wyld Magick, the latest offering from Three Ravens Publishing, peels back the veil, giving you a taste of a world full of dryads, elementals, and strange beasts unseen by any who now walk the earth. Word Count: 5,000 – 10,000 (standard word count) Edited by: Philip K. Booker / William Joseph Roberts Opening Essay: TBD Anchor Author: Faith Hunter Due Date: November 1, 2024 Email Submissions to: [email protected] with “Wyld Magick” in the subject line Payment: Stories selected for publication in the upcoming Anthology(ies), will receive a percentage of sales divided equally between the contributing authors. We are looking for amazing stories from any genre that are fun to read and will take us on an adventure of epic proportions. Please download our standards template by clicking here ***NOTE*** We publish genre fiction with aspects of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. If your work does not include one of these aspects, we are less likely to pick up the title unless it is of exceptional quality.   What we are NOT currently accepting: Poetry Single-author collections of short stories. Hard and fast rules of what not to send: Fan-fiction: Just simply don’t. It will be immediately deleted or tossed into the recycle bin. Gratuitous Sexuality: (i.e. smut, softcore porn) (Please, we know that there is a market out there for stories in this genre, but it’s not for us. Contact our affiliate, Tanglewood press for submissions in this genre at tanglewoodromance (at) gmail.com Gratuitous Abuse/Violence: While we at Three Ravens Publishing understand that graphic situations can alter or otherwise move the plot forward in ways that the reader may not expect when properly used, these elements...

Deadline: November 1st, 2024 Payment: $25.00 - $50.00 for fiction, $5.00 - $10.00 for poetry Theme: Story must begin with: The parking lot was empty. Winter: The parking lot was empty. Due date: November 1, 2024 We love that writers around the world are inspired by our first lines, and we know that not every story will be sent to us. However, we ask that you do not submit stories starting with our first lines to other journals (or post them online on public sites) until we've notified you as to our decision (usually four weeks after the deadline). When the entire premise of the publication revolves around one sentence, we don't want it to look as if we stole that sentence from another writer. If you have questions, feel free to drop us a line. Also, we understand that writers may add our first line to a story they are currently working on or have already completed, and that's cool. But please do not add our first line to a previously published story and submit it to us. We do not accept previously published stories, even if they have been repurposed for our first lines. And, just to be clear, we do not accept simultaneous submissions. One more thing while I've got you here: Writers compete against one another for magazine space, so, technically, every literary magazine is running a contest. There are, however, literary magazines that run traditional contests, where they charge entry fees and rank the winners. We do not - nor will we ever - charge a submission fee, nor do we rank our stories in order of importance. Occasionally, we run contests to help come up with new first lines, or we run fun, gimmicky competitions for free stuff, but the actual journal is not a...

Deadline: November 1st, 2024 Payment: 15GBP Theme: Bleeding Hearts Write for the Podcast! If you think you’ve got what it takes to terrify, scar and haunt our audience of 150k+ monthly listeners, then we want your stories! If accepted, we’ll get our fantastic narration team to lend their voices, our editor will sprinkle some magic pixie dust on the track, and you could have your story heard by thousands of listeners each week. (Vol 104) BLEEDING HEARTS, 1st November 2024 Profound love, romance, sacrifice, and the most cutting of heartbreaks. If you think you’ve got what it takes to terrify, scar and haunt our audience of 10,000 daily listeners, then we want your stories! If accepted, we'll get our fantastic narration team to lend their voices, our editor will sprinkle some magic pixie dust on the track, and you could have your story heard by thousands of listeners each week. *** WHEN WILL I HEAR IF MY STORY HAS BEEN ACCEPTED OR NOT? We carefully review every single submission that comes through our door. If you’ve submitted a story to us, please be patient. We WILL let you know if your submission has or hasn’t been successful. Having said that, if you haven’t heard anything up to twelve weeks after the deadline has passed, feel free to ping us an email to check in on it. Submission Guidelines • Stories must be 2,000 (10% tolerance +/-) • Save stories in a Word document - Times New Roman font, size 12 • Include a 1-2 sentence log line for your story at the end of the document • Ensure that your name and an email address are somewhere on the document • Stories must fit an upcoming theme • By submitting your story to us, you are confirming that you are...

Deadline: November 1st, 2024 Payment: $0.01/word for short stories; $10.00/poem; $30.00/page for comics Theme: Outdoor Furry Erotica Deadline: November 1, 2024 Payment: $0.01/word for short stories; $10.00/poem; $30.00/page for comics Acquisitions Editor: Thurston Howl Expected Release: Fall 2025 Welcome to the second issue of Fenris Publishing’s furry erotic book series, PAW. Each volume features a combination of short stories, comics, illustrations, and poems. This annual book series celebrates the best of new furry erotica. Our second issue has a unique theme: the outdoors! So show us your midsummer nude hikes, your gay campgrounds, your werewolves romping in the woods, and your midnight skinny dipping. Just make sure it's furry, erotic, and well-written/drawn! We encourage any and all sexualities, including polyamorous, asexual, and aromantic representations. Kink and fetish are perfectly fine with submissions, and you are free to play around with genre here. Reprints are not accepted. Simultaneous submissions are fine! If your work is accepted elsewhere, it is your responsibility to let us know. Max of three subs per writer. Fenris Publishing asks for Non-Exclusive rights to your work in perpetuity. All are welcome to submit to us, and we would like to especially welcome BIPOC creators, LGBTQ+ creators, creators with disabilities, current and former sex workers, and as well as creators who have never been published before. Send all submissions via email to [email protected]. See below for submission specifics: Short stories: 2,000-6,000 words Attach as a .doc/.docx Format: Double spaced, TNR/Arial, use the Indent feature (not the Tab key) Tell us about yourself and your submission in the body of your email Title your email: “PAW 2 - - ” Poems: No more than 2,000 words Attach as a .doc/.docx Tell me about yourself and your submission in the body of your email Title your email: “PAW 2 - -...

Submission Window: October 1st - November 1st, 2024 Payment: Short Story-2,500 words or less. $0.015 USD per word/$37.50 USD max, Poems-less than 200 words $10, Flash Fiction-less than a 1,000 words $0.015 USD per word/$15 USD max Theme: Underground Winter Issue Opens on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 12:00 AM PDT Last Girls Club Winter Issue Theme is Underground. Whether you're hiding underground or what's underground is coming for you or both; scare the bejeezus out of us over it. Has humanity moved underground to survive nuclear winter or have the poor retreated to abandoned tunnels unable to afford housing topside anymore. Is there a revolution brewing to destroy the topsiders and emerge to claim the new unoccupied land? Or are the topsiders dropping poison smoke bombs down to kill the sub strata humans they consider to be vermin? You tell me. No more than two fiction or flash fiction stories per author per submission period. Fiction is limited to 2,500 words or less. Authors are paid $0.015 USD per word upon acceptance ($37.50 USD max). Flash fiction is limited to under 1,000 words. Authors are paid $0.015 USD per word upon acceptance ($15 USD max). No more than three poems per poet. Poems are limited to 200 words or less for each poem. Poets are paid $10 USD upon acceptance. I prefer to use PayPal to pay authors, but will work with authors where PayPal is not available. Nonfiction columns will must be pitched to editor in chief before submission. Email your idea to [email protected] The Last Girls Club Magazine is a quarterly feminist horror magazine that publishes international short stories and poems from the female gaze. It is an homage to the scary comics and zines of the late 20th century. Please check on the website for the theme in detail. Submissions will...

Deadline: November 1st, 2024 Payment: $25 and a contributors copy Theme: Weird works published between the 31st of October 2023 and the 31st of October 2024 Note: Reprints Only REMINDER: THIS IS FOR ELIGIBLE REPRINTS ONLY Tenebrous Press presents the Third Annual Brave New Weird Awards—to reward and promote this unique blend of genres—and its accompanying anthology, Brave New Weird: the Best New Weird Horror of the Year, Vol. 3. We define New Weird Horror as a subgenre focused on progress, creatively capturing themes and questions that bleed into fiction straight from the modern reader's life and future. It acts as a challenge to break new ground in terms of form and content and to engage with the unknown. Beyond that, New Weird Horror will be defined by the winning pieces themselves. Buzzwords: speculative; eclectic; horror-centric but genre-blended; progressive and innovative in terms of content, social themes, form, or voice; concept-driven. Does this sound like your writing? Submit your previously published work to the New Weird Horror Awards today! Eligibility Any previously published piece of short fiction under 7.499 words originally published in the English language within the eligibility period. You may submit NARRATIVE poems only; poems will be judged on their storytelling. Stories published in other languages are welcome if there is an English translation available, and the English translation falls under the eligibility period. Any work published through Tenebrous Press is not eligible INCLUDING THE SKULL & LAUREL MAGAZINE. We already think you're awesome, regardless. Tenebrous staff are also not eligible. Previous WINNERS are NOT eligible; please do not submit. NOMINEES from previous years ARE eligible. Eligibility period Works published between the 31st of October 2023 and the 31st of October 2024 will be considered for BNW Vol. 3. Simply: If it's published before Halloween this year, it...

Submission Window: November 1st-2nd, 2024 Payment: 8 cents per word for original, 2 cents for reprints, For artwork: $10 for the non-exclusive right to use each image, for as long as the site is online.  If we publish a print collection we will pay a pro-rata share for each image used. Theme: Well written original work in science fiction, fantasy, myth, legend, fairy tales, and eldritch, in written, podcast, video, and/or graphic story form, and from around the world. Note: Reprints welcome     Submissions Schedule The first and second day of every month, 12 am of the 1st to 12 am of the 3rd, E.S.T. For reading impaired individuals, our submissions manager and ‘forget password’ have a captcha compatible with screen readers. We pay 8¢ per word for new fiction, 2¢ per word for fiction reprints, 2 – 8¢ per word for new fact-based work, 1- 4¢ per word for reprinted fact articles. For new poetry, we pay $1 per line, and for reprints we pay 50¢ a line  We’re looking for poems up to 40 lines. We’ll consider longer poems but that would be a hard sell, and words over 40 lines would be paid at 8¢ per word. We sponsor The Kepler Award to recognize and encourage writers of excellent science fiction and fantasy stories that creatively extrapolate on known science in constructive and exciting ways. You can learn aboutThe Kepler Award here. You can read a copy of our standard contract here.   It can be varied as needed to include the rights of translators, voice actors, etc. Writers Guidelines We accept new work as well as reprints, prose and poetry, from a minimum of 1000 words on up.   All else being equal, shorter pieces will be favored, and we have yet to find a story over about 9-10,000 words we have even...

Submission Window: November 1st - 3rd, 2024 Payment: $35 Themes: The Southern Gothic, Tales to Terrify, System Solis 2300 WHAT WE WANT: Stories, poems, and artwork for one of three collections for our Patreon subscribers. WHAT WE DON'T WANT: Hate speech, stories set in established IP's or fan fiction, previously published work, stories that haven't seen an editor or a revision, or anything generated by AI.  ​ ABOUT PATREON STORIES: After being featured on our Patreon, each selected piece will be published in our annual anthology, Tales of Sley House. COLLECTION 1- THE SOUTHERN GOTHIC:  Think William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Carson McCullers, Cormac McCarthy, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah, Ellen Gilchrist, or even Edgar Allan Poe.  COLLECTION 2 - TALES TO TERRIFY: This collection is our home for all things supernatural and horror. Bring us your scariest, dirtiest, bloodiest, and spookiest tales. COLLECTION 3 -  SYSTEM SOLIS 2300: The year is 2324. Humanity has spread throughout the solar system, but has yet to to reach further. From mining operations on asteroids and gas giants, terraforming Mars and small moons, and exploring the subterranean oceans of bodies like Europa, we are reaching new worlds even as we continue to battle our inner demons.  ​ COMPENSATION: Authors will be paid $35 for each selected piece. ROLLING SUBMISSIONS: Submissions are open the 1st-3rd of every month, unless otherwise indicated. To submit a piece, please click the button below. In your email, make sure to indicate under which of the three categories your work falls. DISCLAIMER: Stories can be funny, serious, or somewhere in-between; we just want well-written pieces. Genre bending or blending is okay! Fantasies, mysteries, and thrillers can all find a home on our Patreon, as long as they fit within one of the above categories. SUBMIT FOR PATREON...

Deadline: November 5th, 2024 Payment: $5 USD per 1000 words Theme: Speculative Fiction tales that take place under water! This planet (and surely others like it) are mostly covered in water, and while we know a bit about life there, what mysteries might still lie far down within its depths? From gripping narratives that explore the ocean, the discovery of lost civilizations, or the dangers of creating underwater colonies, we are seeking stories that examine those worlds, and transport readers to a place that is both familiar and fantastical. Send us your speculative fiction (SFF+) tales of the underwater! Deadline: November 5, 2024 Release: Soon after. GENERAL BUT IMPORTANT INFORMATION Please read prior to submitting! 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, and the word count of the story in the subject line of the email.** Payment for accepted stories will be $5 USD per 1000 words for all current anthologies. Payments occur via PayPal, so please have a PayPal account into which we can pay you. We will also provide you with a digital copy (epub and pdf) of the finished manuscript. (Paperback and hard cover editions will be available via Amazon.) 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 12k 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 12k words,...