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Deadline: August 10 2017 Payment: 0.01 cent a word and a contributor's copy Note: Reprints allowed A Science Fiction anthology looking at the future well after the current presidents of the USA have moved on. The projected science fiction date is 2030 and can examine American Politics in a new era, or look at world politics changed by the actions of USA policies and people. While war stories can be popular in this collection only 2 will be purchased. Political shenanigans would be interesting, as well as romance, spooks, robots and evil overlords. While the initial inspiration is based after the Presidency of Donald Trump it has been advised not to slander or denigrate him or anyone with anything that is not already well known and shared in open media sources (not rumour or innuendo – facts are okay, mistruths are not) Deadline – August 10  2017 Word Counts – 4000 to 7500 words Pay 0.01 cent a word paid on acceptance. Reprints 1/2 a cent per word.  I buy very few reprints. / Return times 6 weeks/ submissions to - [email protected] (subject line - TRUMPETER) Publication Date. – October/November 2017 The rights purchased are first international right in e-book/reader/pdf/POD/Print. All rights return 6 months after publication, though the anthology will remain in print for an indefinite period. As well as payment authors also get a copy of the anthology in print form and access to all forms of download systems. For Advertisers – a complete ad for the opposite page of a short story and which is in keeping with the futuristic style of the collection will need to be set at 5"x 8" with 5mm bleed all round. To help support this product ads are kept at a low rate of $150 per ad. All payments for ads...

Deadline: August 10th, 2017 Payment: Payment will be one half-cent per word, with a minimum payment of $5.00 and a maximum of $15.00. Reprints are the same but with a max of $10. Note: Reprints Allowed Estimated to come out in time for Halloween.   Word Count:    500-10,500 Theme:    For this anthology, we want glimpses into the world of those we love to hate. Monsters, demons, murderers, etc. Are they as evil as they seem? What made them do those horrible things? What was their breaking point? Were they good once or has their heart always been black? A broader take on the fairy tale villains anthology. Any time period and sub-genre are accepted, however there must be a villain/bad guy as the focus of your story.  Villains may be taken from fairy tales, mythology, folklore, monster legends, history, or entirely original. ALWAYS READ THE FULL THEMES AND GUIDELINES WHEN SUBMITTING. Due to a large number of submissions for the new anthology that fail to meet the theme and/or guidelines, we have decided to give some extra clarification for what we are looking for. This is NOT just a horror anthology about villains/evil people. Get us into the heart of the villains. Make us question if they are really that bad. Help us understand why they do what they do. Show us that underneath their actions, there is something there that could make us empathize with their plight. Go beyond the darkness and evil and help us wonder what's under the surface of those we love to hate. PIECES THAT FAIL TO MEET THE GUIDELINES/THEME WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY REJECTED.   Response Time:  Please allow up to one month. After that, if you don't hear from us then feel free to give us a little nudge.   Payment: Payment will be one half-cent per...

Deadline: August 15th, 2017 Payment: Royalties Season Two Holiday Horror. Mix it up. Give us a story about Easter, 4th of July, Yom Kippur. The big three are acceptable too…but fall last in line. Season Two Submission Deadline: August 15th, 2017 How to submit: At the moment, we are accepting submissions through our Online Submission Form. Only submissions through the online submission form will be accepted. What we’re looking for: We will be publishing 3 SEASONS of genre anthologies each year. Each Season will have its own theme. See the SEASONS page to see what seasons we are currently looking for and what seasons have past. We will also be publishing other anthologies, so feel free to send us work at anytime. We will post if and when we have themes for other anthologies. We publish anthologies with Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror themes. Please note that we do not consider novel excerpts, or anything with illustrations or photographs. Our anthologies will be available in paperback and ebook formats exclusively through Amazon. What’s the deadline? Check the SEASONS page for each seasons deadline. Otherwise, please feel to send us other work that may be great for another anthology as we will be publishing others. International submissions: We’re based in the US but we accept submissions from authors all over the English-speaking world. Rights We ask for first serial rights on any story we publish. This means that the story should not have appeared anywhere else, either in print or online. (This includes publication on an author’s own website.) When we publish a story, we ask for a brief period of exclusivity (roughly 18 to 24 months), and the right to keep the story in print. We do not place any limits on what you can do with your story after the exclusivity...

Deadline: August 15th, 2017 Payment: $0.06 per word The inevitable breakdown of a long-term relationship; losing your home due to gentrification; struggling with the deportation of a loved one; navigating the crumbling healthcare situation in Trump’s America. How do you define loss and grief? Radix Media presents AFTERMATH: Explorations of Loss & Grief, an anthology that will examine what it means to face the consequences after tragedy strikes. The theme is left intentionally open, giving contributors the freedom to tell their story as it is most relevant to their experiences. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We prefer previously unpublished pieces (though previously published pieces will b considered on a case-by-case basis), and they can be fiction, personal essays, or poetry, between 500 and 3,000 words. We will also accept comics, illustration, and photography that will retain its integrity in black and white. Accepted works will be collected into either a zine or paperback book, depending on the volume and length of accepted works. Visual submissions should be able to fit a print size of 5” x 8”. CONTRIBUTORS & PAYMENT Contributed pieces will be paid for at the following rates: Fiction & Non-Fiction: $0.06 per word Poetry: $35 per work Comics, Photos, & Illustration: $10 per page or $50 per work, whichever is greater We strongly encourage typically underrepresented voices to submit. If you are a person of color, queer, trans, disabled, or any combination of these, we would especially love to hear from you. DEADLINE Pieces should be submitted via e-mail to [email protected] by August 15, 2017. Please include your name,  e-mail address, and telephone number. Also let us know if the work has been previously published or not, or whether it is currently being considered for publication by another publisher. For written works, please paste the text directly into the body of...

Deadline: August 15th, 2017 Payment: Contributor's copy and 5% net profit royalties with a £10 token payment Note: Female authors only Submission Call: Her Dark Voice Volume Two Editor: Theresa Derwin Deadline date: 15th Aug 2017 Publisher: Quantum Corsets Genre: Horror/Dark Fantasy Attach as: Word doc or doc x Release Date: Late 2017/Early 2018 Following on from the publication of Her Dark Voice edited by Theresa Derwin, a couple of years ago, Quantum Corsets is calling for genre stories written by women for a second volume of this anthology, which will raise funds for Breast Cancer Research. This collection of short stories will continue raising awareness of female authors in SF, Fantasy & Horror, whilst raising funds and awareness for Breast Cancer Now. The book will feature 12 dark stories (the darker the better) written by female authors in the industry. We will consider; Horror, SF, Dark Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Bizzaro, and similar genres. We will not consider; Zombies, Steampunk or Erotica The book release will be at a recognised convention with a limited hardback, paperback and eBook. We can offer 5% net profit royalties with a £10 token payment and a copy of those three editions mentioned. 15% of profits will go to Breast Cancer research. I hope you would be interested in producing a story for this cause. I am looking for stories from 4,000 to 6,000 words. Please follow the submission guidelines on our website. Follow the link below for further guidance http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html Email submissions to [email protected] as a Word doc only. Name your doc as follows; HDV2/Name/Story title Email subject as follows; Name/HDV2/Word count Via: Terror Tree.

Deadline: August 15th, 2017 Payment: $50 CAD and a contributor's copy The ability for people to control (to some extent at least) fire has long been held as one of the major events that contributed to human evolution, but when fire eludes or escapes our control it is also one of the most destructive forces on earth. Associated with passion, power, transformation and purification, fire is a ferocious element with an unquenchable appetite. We want to explore the many facets of this beautifully furious element and the creatures associated with it so Fire: Demons, Dragons and Djinns will be filled with stories about every kind of fiery creature you can imagine, not only those listed in the subtitle. We’re looking for phoenixes, ifrits, salamanders, lava monsters and fiery beasts no one has ever heard of before. And of course this anthology will not be complete without at least one demon, dragon and djinn! Rights and compensation: Payment: $50 CAD flat fee and a paperback copy of the anthology. In exchange we are seeking first world rights in English and exclusive right to publish in print and electronic format for six months after publication date, after which publisher retains nonexclusive right to continue to publish for the life of the anthology. Open submission period: June 1, 2017 - August 15, 2017 Length: Under 7,500 words   No simultaneous or multiple submissions. Via: Niteblade's Submittable.

Deadline: August 15th, 2017 Payment: Contributor's Copy Note: Reprints Accepted The first anthology of Gehenna & Hinnom will be published in late-September of 2017. It will feature only the most disturbing and horrifying body horror tales readers have ever read. The challenge is up to you, the authors. How strange is your narrative capable of being? How morose is your prose? How in touch are you with the macabre? WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR: We are seeking stories for this anthology that are of a Cronenberg-style theme. If you don’t know who David Cronenberg is, we suggest watching clips or the entire length of films such as Videodrome, The Fly, and Scanners. Genres can meld together. Science fiction, horror, weird fiction, cosmic horror, fantasy, all of these are acceptable as long as the stories don’t deviate from the body horror nature of the anthology. As defined by Wikipedia, BODY HORROR, BIOLOGICAL HORROR, ORGANIC HORROR OR VISCERAL HORROR IS HORROR FICTION IN WHICH THE HORROR IS PRINCIPALLY DERIVED FROM THE GRAPHIC DESTRUCTION OR DEGENERATION OF THE BODY. SUCH WORKS MAY DEAL WITH DECAY, DISEASE, PARASITISM, MUTATION, OR MUTILATION. WHAT WE’RE NOT LOOKING FOR: Absolutely no erotica. This is non-negotiable. Nothing political, unless it is satire. Uses of rape, necrophilia, etc., are allowed though be very careful with these themes. If it is not integral to the plot, or if it is clearly gratuitous, your story will be rejected. We want to provide a certain amount of quality for our readers. This is an adult-aged anthology, but please be professional and technical with your writing. Stories that are not proofread and have mistakes that would be avoidable with a single read-through WILL be rejected. DEADLINE: AUGUST 15TH, 2017 PAYMENT: UNFORTUNATELY, WE ARE UNABLE TO PAY OUR AUTHORS AT THIS TIME SINCE WE ARE A NEW, EVOLVING COMPANY. HOWEVER,...

Deadline: August 15th, 2017 Payment: .003 Cents per Word. $5 minimum and $25 maximum payments and contributor's copy GREETINGS FROM THE ETHER, The second anthology of Gehenna & Hinnom will be published in late-November of 2017. It will feature only the most speculative, intriguing, and mind-enhancing science fiction stories readers have ever read. The challenge is up to you, the authors. How in depth is your grasp of the rapidly evolving technological advances? How well could you portray the eventual cybernetic destiny of humanity? How engaging and mind-blowing can your depictions of Utopian and Dystopian worlds be? WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR We are seeking stories for this anthology that properly portray the technological evolution of humans, be it cybernetics, immortality granted through means of science, transcendence of AI into consciousness, the AI singularity and its impact on humanity, the assimilation of human and machine, and anything else you could think of that would fall into Transhumanism. For reference, think of films like, Elyisum (2013), Ghost in the Shell (1995), The Matrix (1999), Gattaca (1997), Ex Machina (2014), Avatar (2009), and Blade Runner (1982). Genres can meld together. Science fiction, horror, weird fiction, cosmic horror, fantasy, space opera, slipstream, etc. All of these are acceptable as long as the piece does not deviate from the transhuman theme of the anthology. Transhumanism as defined by Wikipedia, TRANSHUMANISM (ABBREVIATED AS H+ OR H+) IS AN INTERNATIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL MOVEMENT THAT AIMS TO TRANSFORM THE HUMAN CONDITION BY DEVELOPING AND MAKING WIDELY AVAILABLE SOPHISTICATED TECHNOLOGIES TO GREATLY ENHANCE HUMAN INTELLECT AND PHYSIOLOGY. Transhuman as defined by Wikipedia, TRANSHUMAN OR TRANS-HUMAN IS THE CONCEPT OF AN INTERMEDIARY FORM BETWEEN HUMAN AND POSTHUMAN. IN OTHER WORDS, A TRANSHUMAN IS A BEING THAT RESEMBLES A HUMAN IN MOST RESPECTS BUT WHO HAS POWERS AND ABILITIES BEYOND THOSE OF STANDARD HUMANS. THESE ABILITIES MIGHT INCLUDE IMPROVED INTELLIGENCE, AWARENESS, STRENGTH, OR DURABILITY. TRANSHUMANS SOMETIMES...

Deadline: August 15th, 2017. Payment: $5 per submission, plus digital copy of issue to appear in. The 'Biweekly Bite' -the horror newsletter that gives you a short, a flick, and a surprise- is announcing the ’Horror Bites Magazine.’ We’re all about finding creative people doing interesting work and throwing views at them, and the magazine will be our next step in bringing small name horror authors to the people's attention. We can't do that without your submissions though! Deadline: August 15th, 2017. Payment: $5 per submission, plus digital copy of issue to appear in. Due for publication: in October. Word Count: 1,500-5,000 Reprints are allowed. Response Time:  If we don't get back to you by the end of September, shoot us a quick email. Payment: $5 per story paid via PayPal, plus a digital copy of the issue you will appear in. Payment will be distributed once we agree on the terms of using your story. Please send separate submissions attatched to separate emails. Guidelines for Submissions: At this time the Horror Bites Magazine is open to all short, horror fiction. Note that there are some things that we don’t publish: Nonfiction (for now). Poetry. Anything to close to ‘the classics.' Violence that doesn’t contribute to the story. Gore for the sake of gore. Torture and rape. Erotic horror.  All submissions are to be sent to [email protected] Please format your subject line as "Horror Bites Magazine: ." In the body of your email, please include your name (or pseudonym) and word count. If the story is under 2,000 words, please paste the text in the body of the email, otherwise please attach it as a .doc, .docx, etc. Just use your better judgement. Only .PDF is unacceptable.  Accepted stories will appear in the first three issues (October, November, and December) of the 'Horror Bites Magazine,' to appear on...

Deadline: August 22, 2017 Payment: $10 usd and contributor's copy WE ARE SEEKING: Dark, vicious explorations of the terrifying thoughts lingering in the backs of our heads. Fictionalized accounts of real-life nightmares. The desires you'd never disclose to a partner. Those thoughts at 3 a.m. when the pain in your side won't go away. We want you at your worst. We want honesty. We want hate. We want solace. AGAINST SURVIVAL is an outlet. A place to voice otherwise unspeakable things. A violent reassurance that you could, in fact, be worse. This anthology welcomes essays and stories exploring these concepts and themes. Fact, fiction, and everything between. 1,500 to 5,000 words. Form and structure are up to you. Pseudonyms welcome. Email submissions as a .doc file attachment to [email protected] with author name and "AGAINST SURVIVAL" in the subject line. New, original work only. No simultaneous submissions. Multiple submissions are welcome, but understand we reserve the right to accept only one submitted work. Payment: $10USD and one contributor copy. Deadline: August 22, 2017. 50% of all proceeds for this project are being donated to Planned Parenthood. "Red Slur Forsaken" by Arthur Welles is our urtext example and is available to download here for your creative inspiration and emotional repulsion. Via: Carion Blue 555.