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Deadline: June 15th, 2018 Payment: $10-20 and a contributor's copy DEADLINE: 15 JUNE 2018 AIR surrounds us. Invisible but everywhere, AIR can be gentle and playful spirit, or an aggressive and destructive force. Winds lift and move water, driving the storms and waves that irrigate crops and shape shorelines. The breeze can transport seeds, fertilizing the earth and spreading life in its wake. AIR feeds fire, gives life to its burning creativity. Our words and music vibrate within AIR; its gusts allow our species to communicate and sing with one and other. AIR fills the spaces within our lives, it is the element that whispers dreams and lets the world dance. TRANSMUNDANE PRESS is searching for stories centered on and about AIR for the next anthology in our series focusing on the classic alchemic elements, EARTH, AIR, FIRE, and WATER. We enjoy reading well-crafted fantasy, horror, erotic, and science fiction tales, and we're looking for authors with clean, heavily-edited writing to showcase alongside our established contributors. Let your imagination squall and launch you IN THE AIR. We’re only accepting 30-40 stories for this anthology. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Send stories that are heavily edited and ready for us to read. These must be original pieces for first-time publication. Limit of two submissions per person, if you have more, make a note of it in your email, and we’ll ask if we’re interested. WORD COUNT:  between 3,000 and 7,000 words. FORMATTING: Your submissions must be in 12 point, Times New Roman font, double-spaced with page numbers. We like headers in the top right corner with your last name and page numbers so that your work can't get jumbled up. A title page with author information: address, e-mail, phone number, word count, a brief author bio, and your platform links. SUBMITTING THE FILE: word...

Deadline: June 15th, 2018 Payment: $60 USD for fiction and $30 USD for poetry Our reading periods are as follows: February 1–March 15 for our Spring (April) issue; May 1–June 15 for our Summer (July) issue; August 1–September 15 for our Autumn (October) issue; and November 1–December 15 for our Winter (January) issue. Feel free to record your submissions at Duotrope and/or the Submissions Grinder. We are also listed on Ralan. Fiction and Poetry Guidelines Arsenika is looking for previously unpublished original fiction and poetry up to 1,000 words long. Payment is $60 USD for fiction and $30 USD for poetry for first world electronic rights and non-exclusive audio rights. We hope to raise the poetry rate to $60 as well in the future—please support us on Patreon if you’d like to help us reach our goal. Submit no more than two flash fiction pieces and five poems at a time, and please make sure you fill out the form again for each piece you send, unless the pieces are meant to be read together (e.g. a triptych of poems). All work should be in Standard Manuscript Format (fiction format/poetry format). Format poetry exactly as you would like to see it online—use italics for italics, underlines for underlines, boldface for boldface, etc. Send only TXT, RTF, DOC, and DOCX files. Please do not send simultaneous submissions (pieces that are submitted to Arsenika and another market at the same time). Multiple submissions are accepted, but please have no more than two flash fiction pieces and five poems in the submissions queue at a time. We try to respond to all submissions within 14 days. If you haven’t heard from us in 30 days, please send us a query at [email protected]. Remember: Don’t self-reject. Submissions are currently CLOSED. We will reopen for...

Deadline: June 15, 2018 Payment: $5 Canadian Time-travelling bank heists! Prison breakouts from the fortresses of immortal wizards! Train robberies by steam-powered automatons! Intergalactic spies! Battles of wits between cyborg hackers and AI detectives! Swashbuckling! Fisticuffs! Ridiculously complicated schemes! People gathered around a diorama of a bank vault making wisecracks! Things not going according to plan! We're looking for fast-paced, dramatic stories up to 7,000 words, with protagonists we can admire for their intricate planning, improvisation, and general adroitness (whether they succeed or fail in the end). Think "Topkapi", "Inside Man", that episode of Firefly where they rob the train, that sort of thing. We want to see elaborate heists and impressive schemes, in a science-fictional or fantasy setting (any subgenre). We welcome and encourage submissions from authors of traditionally underrepresented backgrounds, and we'd love to see stories that subvert or play with genre tropes. We will be open to submissions from May 1 to June 15, 2018. As stated, the word limit is 7,000 words; if you have a longer story that you think would be a particularly good fit for our theme, please query us before sending. Please send your submissions as either a .doc or .rtf (no .docx) to [email protected]. What we don't want: Stories with no speculative fiction element. This isn't a market for true crime stories or modern-day thrillers. Horror stories, or stories with gratuitous or unnecessary violence or gore. We enjoy a good fight scene and we're not averse to violence that's necessary to the story, but we don't want a straight-up murder spree. We much prefer protagonists who get out of a jam with quick thinking, fancy footwork, clever dialogue and razzle-dazzle. If your story is further along the horror spectrum than "creepily atmospheric," we're probably the wrong place for it. Likewise, we're fine...

Deadline: June 15th, 2018 Payment: 10,000 words – $100 / 7,500 words – $75 / 5,000 words – $50 / 2,500 words – $25 / 1,500 words – $15 Note: Writers must be from Texas and the story must take place in Texas. Hello, E.R. Bills here. I am the editor of Vol 3 of the upcoming horror title, Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers, from Hellbound Books Publishing. Due to the popularity of the Road Kill anthology, I’m “scaring” up stories from Texas writers again. I’m looking for original horror stories, 1,500–10,000 words, give or take. If I receive a 14,000-word story that really blows my hair back, I will consider it. And the same for an 800-word tale. I prefer not to receive stories that have already appeared elsewhere. Submissions should be sent to [email protected] The primary objective of Road Kill is to promote new and up-and-coming horror writers in Texas, but the collection will include some works from established writers (previous contributors to Road Kill are invited to submit as well). The stories must be written and submitted by Texas writers and they must take place in Texas—hence the title. No one will be making a fortune, but we will be paying one-time fees (based on word count) and if the anthology sells over 5,000 copies, royalty percentages—1% per writer—will kick in. Every writer will receive two free copies and enjoy discounted wholesale pricing on any copies of the book that he or she purchases to carry and sell on their own. The scale for writer stipends is as follows: 10,000 words – $100 / 7,500 words – $75 / 5,000 words – $50 / 2,500 words – $25 / 1,500 words – $15 All payments will be made upon official acceptance and when acceptance is communicated,...

Deadline: June 15th, 2018. Payment: $0.0025 per word. Note: Reprints Allowed ’Horror Bites Magazine,’ is looking for authors for our 2018, August to December run. We’re all about broadening the platform of small name horror authors and exposing new authors to the up-and-coming writers of the horror world. We can't do that without your submissions though! Deadline: June 15th, 2018. Payment: $0.0025 per word, plus a digital copy of the issue to appear in. Due for publication: in August 2018. Word Count: 2,000-4,000 Reprints are allowed. Response Time:  If we don't get back to you by the end of July, shoot us a quick email to get us going. Payment: $0.0025 per word (that's $5-10 depending on length) 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 attached to separate emails. Guidelines for Submissions: At this time the Horror Bites Magazine is open to all short, horror fiction, including particularly scary or thought-provoking dark fantasy. Note, however, that there are some things that we don’t publish: Nonfiction. Poetry. Anything too 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, .odt, etc. Just use your better judgment. Only .PDF is unacceptable.  Accepted stories will appear in the last three issues of 'Horror Bites Magazine's, 2018 season (issues will appear on Amazon, iBooks, Gumroad, and anywhere else E-zines are sold). Once you have a story accepted for publication,...

Deadline: June 22nd, 2018 Payment: $22 and a contributor's copy Twice-Told: A Collection of Doubles will feature 22 fictions, all of which will examine the theme of the doppelgänger. Open Reading Period: June 1st through the 22nd, 2018 Publication Date: 2/22/2019 Authors are encourage to submit their original (i.e. unpublished) tales of 2,000-7,000 words via the email provided below and should allow 2 to 8 weeks for a response. Submit .doc files to: [email protected] Payment is $22 and includes one contributor’s copy. Thank you kindly for your interest. C.M. Muller, editor & publisher Please consider following the Twice-Told Facebook page. Cover art is by Yaroslav Gerzhedovich (Shutterstock). Via: C.M. Muller.

Deadline: June 30th, 2018 Payment: $25 There are very few places left in this world that haven’t been explored, mapped, and inhabited. The majority of the surface of the earth is known down to the millimeter. However, a few mysteries do remain. The depths of the oceans evade discovery simply because of their inaccessibility. Likewise, the icy stretches of the last great continent that continues to resist human knowledge: Antarctica. Recent archeological finds confirm that Antarctica was once at least temperate if not subtropical millennia ago. Various authors have recounted, through their fictions, stories relayed to them by survivors of the few successful forays into the icy continent’s heart. In 1819, the San Telmo, a Spanish ship of the line, was lost off the coast of Antarctica with all 644 aboard. Since then, tales have surfaced in rumor, fiction, and legend about the terrors haunting the vast wasteland surrounding the nether pole of the world. The place was one of singular wildness, and its aspect brought to my mind the descriptions given by travellers of those dreary regions marking the site of degraded Babylon. Not to speak of the ruins of the disruptured cliff, which formed a chaotic barrier in the vista to the northward, the surface of the ground in every other direction was strewn with huge tumuli, apparently the wreck of some gigantic structures of art; although, in detail, no semblance of art could be detected. Scoria were abundant, and large shapeless blocks of the black granite, intermingled with others of marl, and both granulated with metal. Of vegetation there were no traces whatsoever throughout the whole of the desolate area within sight. Several immense scorpions were seen, and various reptiles not elsewhere to be found in the high latitudes. from The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of...

Deadline: June 30th, 2018 Payment: AU$5.00 for stories under 2000 words / AU$10.00 for anything above 2000 words Thuggish Itch is our horror and sci-fi anthology collection. This is the place to submit your horror, sci-fi and speculative fiction stories. Current theme: Viva Las Vegas For Thuggish Itch's first collection we are looking for stories that fit the theme 'Viva Las Vegas' and are feature the iconic city in one way or another. Las Vegas is one of our favourite cities and we're keen to see how you can mess with the status quo. Slot machines that will rob you of more than just a nickel or dime? Back alley negotiations that go horribly wrong? A flesh-eating virus that runs riot through each and every casino on the strip. Think outside the box and give us something spectacular. Thuggish Itch is our horror, sci-fi and speculative fiction collection. Please ensure that your story falls within one of these genres. Please ensure that you read through the general guidelines below and if there are specific questions please contact us using the form on the home page or via the listed social media accounts. To help ensure your submission gets to the correct place, please include the following in the subject line of your email: 'Thuggish Itch - Story Title'. Word count: 1000 - 6000 words (we're willing to consider longer or shorter if the story is good) Deadline: June 30 2018 Payment:  AU$5.00 for stories under 2000 words / AU$10.00 for anything above 2000 words Via: Gypsum Sound Tales.

Deadline: June 30th, 2018 Payment: Royalty arrangement for both print and digital is 50% of net revenue. ERASERHEAD PRESS IS OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: April 1- June 30, 2018 All submissions received by the end of June will receive a response by July 31, 2018. What we are looking for: Eraserhead Press is seeking original novellas and novels of 20,000 to 100,000 words in length that fit into the Bizarro Fiction category. We want surprising, unique, well-crafted weird stories with compelling plots, eccentric characters, and never-before-seen concepts. We want a balance of both plot and character – we love weird characters with weird problems in weird places. We are looking for exciting concepts that make people say “I have to read that!” and well-developed characters they can fall in love with along the way. We’re most drawn to darkly absurd tales that are addictive to read and contain a strong emotional core. We love fiction that is both heart-rending and fun. While it may or may not be funny, we are interested in more than just a joke. If you can make us both laugh and cry or creep us out and draw us in, we will love your book. We are looking for entertaining and accessible stories that speak to a specific audience. Will your book appeal to vegan punks? Riot grrls? Overworked airline pilots? Cos-players? Fans of 80s New Wave? If you’ve identified the audience for your work, please tell us in your book description. Multiple submissions are okay – during our open submission period we are open to reading as many manuscripts as you feel would meet our criteria but we are only interested in your best work. Bring it on! We have high standards – we have been the leading publisher of Bizarro Fiction since 1999...

Deadline: June 30th, 2018 Payment: $15 Volume 34/61 Submission Period: May 1, 2018 - June 30, 2018 Publication Date: November 1, 2018 FORMATTING GUIDELINES This is proving to be a recurring problem, so we're putting it up front. Please, for all our sakes, read this next part carefully. All submissions should be sent by e-mail (no letters or telephone calls please) to [email protected]. Below are some formatting rules to help us process your submission more quickly. Email and Cover Letters Email is accepted in both text and HTML formats. When submitting, please put this in the subject line: Submission: (Title) - (First and Last name) Include the following in the body of the email and in the attached submission: Your name Name to use on the story (byline), if different Your preferred email address Your mailing address The story's title The story's word count You may also include a cover letter in the body of the email. We get a lot of strange stuff in cover letters, so if you're unsure of what goes in them (and especially what doesn't) please refer to these cover letter tips: How to write a cover letter | What not to put in a cover letter by Jed Hartman Submission Formatting We ONLY accept submissions as attachments! All stories submitted as an attachment must follow standard manuscript formatting. We will no longer read any story not properly formatted. (And we much prefer Courier New to Times New Roman) For explanations and tips on what SMF is and how to do it with word processing programs, please see this article. Please send your submission as an attachment in Microsoft Word (DOC, DOCX) or Rich Test Format (RTF) only. Other formats, such as Works, WordPerfect, Open Office, etc., have proven difficult to open. Please note that...