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Deadline: July 31st 2013 Payment: Authors will receive three hardback copies of the published book. We are now accepting submissions for Strange Tales IV, to be published Christmas 2013. Subject matter and style : We would like to receive previously unpublished literary strange tales. Word count: Stories should be between 2,000 and 10,000 words. Closing date for submissions: 31st July, 2013. Payment: Authors will receive three hardback copies of the published book. Electronic submissions should be sent to [email protected]. We would prefer to receive your work as an rtf attachment. To get a feel of what they are looking for check out the the description of the first Strange Tales.

Deadline: July 31st 2013 Payment: $10 Our payment for stories is $10. Our general rules are: (1) We hew to a PG standard and (2) nothing that makes our editors sick. (3)Please put in your "subject" line the title of the antho for which you intend your story. Please read our Style Book before you send us a story. The link to it is next to this Writers' Guidelines link at the top of the opening screen. NOTE FOR 2013 ANTHOLOGIES: Since so many people are at least a bit superstitious about the number "13," and we're going to be stuck with it for a whole year, let's have some fun with it. By adding the word "Lucky" to our 2013 titles, our writers can add an element of "luck" into their stories. Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows? Associate Editor, Sandi Reed-Chan Send stories to her at [email protected] THEME: It's Halloween and it's lucky -- bad or good? -- and it's sf/f/h. Have fun! Maximum word length, 4000 words. Deadline July 31, 2013 (or when book is filled, meaning 20 stories accepted.) Reading period Aug. 1 to Aug. 31, 2012 Formatting period Sept. 1-15 2013 Publication date Sept. 15, 2013 We are totally serious about this Style Book thing. We are so serious that if you won't read our Style Book, we won't read your story. How do we know that you read our Style Book? Because there is a SECRET WORD -- actually, two of themm -- in the Style Book. Put the Secret Word(s) in your submission letter and we will read your story with intent interest. Before submitting make sure to read the Guidelines!

Deadline: July 31st 2013 Payment: his is an anthology for charity. Contributors will receive a Digital copy (mobi, epub, or pdf) of the anthology. Print copies will be available to the contributors on request, but given the nature of this project, we would hope you would be willing to purchase a print copy. Slay bells ring, are you screaming, In the lane, there’s a body A horrible sight,T hey'll slaughter tonight, Killing in a winter wonderland. We are pleased to announce a Christmas-themed anthology for charity benefiting the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. What are we looking for? It's simple. Horror stories with a Christmas theme. That's the only requirement. Zombies, werewolves, ghosts, ghouls, possessed elves, demonic Santas...whatever your twisted minds can conjure up--so long at it takes place on or around Christmas. So let's see what you got, folks. Tis the season and all that. DEADLINE: July 31, 2013 (or until filled) WORD COUNT: 3,000-5,000 words (query for longer/shorter submissions) PAYMENT: This is an anthology for charity. Contributors will receive a Digital copy (mobi, epub, or pdf) of the anthology. Print copies will be available to the contributors on request, but given the nature of this project, we would hope you would be willing to purchase a print copy. REPRINTS: No MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS: No SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: No FORMAT: Left-justify only FONT: 12 pt Times New Roman SPACING: Double spaced, no extra spacing between paragraphs TAB INDENT: ¼ inch PAGE NUMBERING/HEADERS: None First page should include your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, word count, and pseudonym (if writing under one). Send submissions as a word attachment to [email protected] or [email protected]. Include CHRISTMAS ANTHO and submission title in the subject line.

Deadline: July 31, 2013 Payment: 5¢/word Story submissions Below are guidelines for submitting stories to Long Hidden, and the submission form. Please read the guidelines carefully before submitting. Direct all queries to [email protected]. Do not send story submissions via email, and do not send queries through the submission form. Who can submit We welcome stories by authors from all walks of life. We especially encourage submissions from members of marginalized groups within the speculative fiction community, including (but not limited to) people of color; people who are not from or living in the U.S.A.; QUILTBAG and GSM people; people with disabilities, chronic illness, or mental illness; and atheists, agnostics, and members of religious minorities. The protagonists of your story do not have to mirror your own heritage, identities, beliefs, or experiences. We also especially encourage short story submissions from people who don’t usually write in this format, including poets, playwrights, essayists and authors of historical fiction and historical romance. Submission deadline and publication schedule All submissions are due July 31, 2013. If it’s still July 31 in your time zone, you’re good. Acceptance notices will be sent by October 1. The anthology is tentatively slated for a February 2014 release. Pay and rights We pay USD 5¢/word for global English first publication rights in print and digital format. The author retains copyright. Payment is upon publication. Story criteria Length: 3000-7000 words (FIRM) Your story must be set between the years 1400 and 1920 C.E., and take place primarily in our world or an alternate historical version of our world. (Travel to other worlds, other dimensions, Fairyland, the afterlife, etc. is fine but should not be the focus.) Your protagonists must be people who were marginalized in their time and place. By “marginalized” we mean that they belong to one or...

Deadline: July 31st 2013 Payment: 5 cents per word Behind every great movie is a great story. Alfred Hitchcock ranks as one of the top storytellers of the twentieth century. We're looking for suspenseful stories of psychological horror—Hitchcock with a spec fic twist. Cause let's be honest—who doesn't feel a bit creepy crawly when they see a huge flock of blackbirds or seagulls overhead? So whether Hitchcock has his signature cameo in your story or not, the best tribute to a man considered to be the most influential filmmaker of the 20th century is a story he would have loved to put on the big screen. CALL BEGINS ON MAY 1, 2013 CALL ENDS ON JULY 31, 2013 Penumbra is looking for original, unpublished stories of 3500 words or less. We prefer that writers use Standard Manuscript Format for submissions. (You can read this article by Chuck Rothman on the SFWA site on preparing a manuscript for submission if you are unfamiliar with SMF.) Please send your stories as file attachments in .rtf or .doc formats only. Please include a cover letter in the body of your email, with the manuscript title, you pen name if applicable, the exact word count of the story not including title and byline, and a publication history if applicable. Penumbra is a professional rates paying publisher, paying 5 cents per word. We will evaluate poetry submissions for each issue. We will also consider previously published stories with rights reverted to the author. Penumbra has multiple issue calls open at the same time, therefore it is imperative that you include the issue theme in the subject line of your email. Submissions that do not include this information risk getting lost in our queue and not read before the deadline. Penumbra uses Musa Publishing's house style...

Deadline: July 31st 2013 Payment: 5 cents per word The Wily Writers site publishes two short stories per month in both audio and text formats. We host a celebrity editor for each of them, and they choose the stories along with the producer (Angel Leigh McCoy). We publish only short fiction that falls under the genre umbrella of speculative fiction: horror, fantasy, science fiction, and paranormal romance / mystery / adventure. We have specific themes that we’re asking you to follow. See below: Themes are trickling in. More coming soon! Theme listed here: Horror which is due by March 31, 2013 Submission Requirements Submissions need to follow the guidelines listed below. IMPORTANT: Name your file so that it makes sense. An impressive filename for a fiction submission is: (lastname)-(word from title).RTF Word count: 1000 – 4000 (Firm. Do not query). Use standard manuscript formatting. (more info) No simultaneous submissions to other publishers. Multiple submissions okay, but only one story per theme. Story must have a speculative fiction element. Gore, sex, and adult language okay, but make sure it improves the story. We do not edit, so make sure you use good grammar, have double-checked the punctuation, and have done a spell-check. We prefer Chicago Manual of Style rules, and we will reject it if it’s a mess, even if it’s an amazing story. We may request revisions, so if you’re not open to the idea, then let us know in your cover letter. It will save us all some time by communicating that up-front. We will accept reprints. Make double sure that the rights have reverted to you. By submitting it to us, you affirm that it has been freed from all other commitments that conflict with the rights you give us. We reserve the right to change these guidelines...

Deadline: July 31st 2013 (don't submit before July 1st.) Payment: 1 cent a word US, plus one contributor's copy. Dark Opus Press is proud to present Tell Me a Fable, our third annual anthology. We will be looking for stroies base on one of Grimm's Fariy Tales. We're sorry, but for the concept we're going for here we are not accepting poetry, reprints or artwork for this anthology. Our guidelines are simple. All stories MUST be based on a Grimm's Fariy Tale and NOT the Disney version. All stories must have a dark bent to them and be between 2,000 and 4,000 words. This word count is firm and stroies outside this word range will not be considered. MUST be in proper manuscript format. This means: Courier New or Times New Roman fonts, doubled spaced, no extra space between paragraphs, indent paragraphs. Words meant to be italicised or bolded in the final print, please make sure it is that way in your manuscript. Please read our magazine guidelines to see what we do not want. If you don't review our magazine guidelines, we will know. Send your submissions to: [email protected] In the subject line please put: submission - Your story title/title of Grimm's tale For example: Submission - Stewie's Melancholy/Sloth Payment for accepted works will be a 1 cent a word US, plus one copy. The reading period for this anthology will start July 1st and end July 31st or until filled. Stories sent before July 1st will be deleted unread. All submissions must be in either .doc, .docx, or .rtf Please be advised: If you require a form to be filled out by us in order for you to get our emails, we will NOT fill them out. We are too busy to take the time to do this....

Deadline: July 31st 2013 Payment: 5 cents per word The Wily Writers site publishes two short stories per month in both audio and text formats. We host a celebrity editor for each of them, and they choose the stories along with the producer (Angel Leigh McCoy). We publish only short fiction that falls under the genre umbrella of speculative fiction: horror, fantasy, science fiction, and paranormal romance / mystery / adventure. We have specific themes that we’re asking you to follow. See below: Themes are trickling in. More coming soon! Theme listed here: Horror which is due by March 31, 2013 Submission Requirements Submissions need to follow the guidelines listed below. IMPORTANT: Name your file so that it makes sense. An impressive filename for a fiction submission is: (lastname)-(word from title).RTF Word count: 1000 – 4000 (Firm. Do not query). Use standard manuscript formatting. (more info) No simultaneous submissions to other publishers. Multiple submissions okay, but only one story per theme. Story must have a speculative fiction element. Gore, sex, and adult language okay, but make sure it improves the story. We do not edit, so make sure you use good grammar, have double-checked the punctuation, and have done a spell-check. We prefer Chicago Manual of Style rules, and we will reject it if it’s a mess, even if it’s an amazing story. We may request revisions, so if you’re not open to the idea, then let us know in your cover letter. It will save us all some time by communicating that up-front. We will accept reprints. Make double sure that the rights have reverted to you. By submitting it to us, you affirm that it has been freed from all other commitments that conflict with the rights you give us. We reserve the right to change these guidelines...

Deadline: July 31st, 2013 Payment: 5 cents per word for the winning story. Bram Stoker award-nominated author Jeremy C. Shipp will guest judge NOTLP’s first Flash Horror Contest. The winner will be paid a professional rate of 5 cents per word for First Worldwide Electronic rights. The winning story will be published on the NOTLP blog. All entries will be considered for publication. Submission guidelines: Word Count: 1000 words or less. Reading Period: July 1 through July 31, 2013 Genre: Horror. The guest judge particularly enjoys character-based tales, vivid imagery, dark humor, unique monsters. Reprints: No Multiple Submissions: No Simultaneous Submissions: No Payment: 5 cents per word for the winning story. Please include your contact information (name, address, email) and approximate word count on the title page. Send submissions to [email protected]. Please write “NOTLP FLASH CONTEST: Title of Story” in the subject line of the email. Attach your story as an rtf or doc file. We look forward to reading your stories. Judging process: After reading through all the submissions, Jeremy will choose the top 5 flash stories. These 5 stories will be voted on by Jeremy as well as the NOTLP staff. The winning story will be decided based on these votes. About the guest judge: Jeremy C. Shipp is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Cursed, Vacation, and Attic Clowns. His shorter tales have appeared or are forthcoming in over 60 publications, the likes of Cemetery Dance, ChiZine, Apex Magazine, Withersin, and Shroud Magazine. His online home at jeremycshipp.com.

Deadline: July 31st 2013 Payment: Exposure Only Lions and tigers and bears – oh my! Not even close… MONSTERS! That’s right; we want your best creature story. But no copyright infringement; make sure they are your own creations. Scare us! Freak us out! Make us wet our drawers! The theme for the August issue of The Sirens Call eZine is Monsters and fear! Full guidelines at www.SirensCallPublications.com! Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 Sirens Call Publications is open to everyone: pre-published works, online serials, Indie authors, authors of note - if you have a tale to tell, we want to read it. We are an edgy/dark Fiction Publisher interested in stories of Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Mystery and Suspense. If your work falls outside one of those genres and you believe that Sirens Call Publications is a good fit for you, feel free to give us a try. We are a co-operative of writers with many varied tastes and styles, and while your piece may not fall into one of our main categories, it doesn't mean that we won't consider working with you on it. We will not publish stories containing sexual content involving minors in any way, or stories containing ; other than that, the only boundaries are your imagination! Sexual content unnecessary to the storyline is discouraged unless you are submitting an erotic story for consideration. Gore for the sake of gore or simply included for shock value in a piece is discouraged as well, and will most likely not garner our attention unless it is necessary to support the storyline. eZine Specific Guidelines (that overrule General guidelines if applicable): Previously published works will be considered for inclusion. Please refer to the guidelines attributed to each individual eZine. Please submit stories, flash fiction or poetry that is...