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Deadline: November 16th, 2018 Payment: $.05 per word for original fiction, $.02 per word for reprints. $10 per poem. Note: Reprints allowed Open for: Nothing’s Sacred Vol. 5 material. Projected Release Date: April 1, 2019 Nothing’s Sacred is Jack of No Trades Productions’ horror magazine. It is made up of original short fiction, poetry, articles, book reviews, two sentence short stories, and comics. As said in the magazines’ namesake, nothing is off limits. The horror within can range from subtle to grotesque, psychological to physical, dark to full out terror so long as it is character driven. Theme wise, Nothing’s Sacred is relatively open outside of distasteful stories of rape, the degradation and/or humiliation of women, and child content of any kind. What we’re looking for: Fiction – 3,000 word max. $.05 per word. Reprints – Allowing reprints into Nothing’s Sacred is relatively a new thing for us. Nothing’s Sacred Vol. 4 saw the first reprint we’ve every accepted into our layout. The situation was a special occasion, and made us wonder what else is out there. Therefore, we will accept reprint submissions but are limiting the number of spaces in our layout for reprints to 2 per magazine. 3,000 max words. $.02 per word. Authors – make sure that you own the rights to your reprints prior to submitting your work. We will be checking. Articles – Should be related to or about the horror genre. 2000 word max. Pay rate $.05 per word. Poetry – 3 poems max per submission. 250 words max per poem. Pay rate $10 per poem. Two Sentence Fiction – Just as implied, these stories are extremely short. We will consider up to three submissions per author. Pay rate $5 per story. Cartoons – We first introduced comics into Nothing’s Sacred in Vol. 3...

Deadline: November 20th, 2018 Payment: $10 SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN until November 20th for the December Issue OF FROST AND FIRELIGHT: A Winter's Rhapsody EC is celebrating the last month of the year with an issue of stories set during the season of winter. Work can either be re-tellings of established stories or use original characters set within the fairy tale, folktale, or mythic templates. Be bold, traditional, lyrical, or experimental in your storytelling and enchant us with your original stories set in a variety of locations around the world and time periods from ancient to modern. Please no Santa Claus or religious stories. WE'RE LOOKING FOR STORIES between 700-2000 words with our sweet spot being around 1,200 words. Payment flat rate: $10.00 U.S. dollars only The upper limit 2,000 word count is FIRM. Stories over 2,000 words will not be considered. SEQUENTIAL ART/COMICS: 1 to 5 pages in length. Payment flat rate $10.00 U.S. dollars only. PAYMENT WILL BE MADE THROUGH PAYPAL ONLY Absolutely none of the following: Sci-fi, dystopian, erotica, high fantasy, excessive world building, time-travel, futuristic or space travel. We are NOT ACCEPTING POETRY for this issue. We're accepting only previously unpublished work. Only one work per writer per submission period. Simultaneous submissions are fine. Enchanted Conversation is buying first electronic rights with the possibility of using the work in a future print compilation. Once the story is published on the site, authors and artists are free to shop it elsewhere. Copyright will always remain with the author or artist. HOW TO SUBMIT Email all submissions to [email protected] Subject line of the email should be: DECEMBER ISSUE 2018 - your last name - title of your work. Example: DECEMBER ISSUE 2018 - Jones - "Story Title" A brief cover letter with the approximate word count of the story....

Deadline: November 22nd, 2018 Payment: AU$5.00 Colp is our 'anything goes' anthology collection. Expect to see a little bit of this and a little bit of that within each issue, so feel free to submit stories from any genre. Current theme: A Little Bit of Nonsense If you're like us, you've likely got that one story tucked away somewhere, that one short tale that you're super proud of, but it's never seen the light of day. It was too weird, too pigeonholed or you figured it will never fit any publisher's theme. Well, now is the time to dig it out and dust it off as Colp is looking for nonsense stories. Stories that read like a dream (but don't feature dreams).Stories that don't fully make sense, are open to interpretation or are just so specialised that they could fit nowhere else. That being said, make sure your story is a complete package, with a definitive beginning and end. Colp is for everyone and therefore we are willing to read stories that fall into any genre. So, no matter whether your story is a horror, adventure, romance, sci-fi or historical fiction piece, please send it on through. Be original. We also encourage new and unpublished writers to take the leap and get in touch. Please ensure that you read through the general guidelines below and format your submission accordingly. If you have any specific questions please contact us using the form on the home page or via the listed social media accounts. To help make sure that your submission gets to the correct place, please include the following in the subject line of your email: Colp - Nonsense - *Story Title*'. Word count: 1000 - 2500 words Deadline: November 22 2018 Payment:  AU$5.00 General guidelines: Please no extremeerotica or stories that feature excessive violence or vulgarity (unless otherwise specified). All...

Deadline: November 24th, 2018 Payment: Short Fiction (<150CH) $3AUD per story, Long Fiction (>150CH/<200CH) $2AUD per story Note: THIS OPENS TOMORROW What is the Story Seed Vault? The Vault is an online periodical that adheres to the limitation of Twitter publishing. We consider all types of fiction with one condition – your story must be based on science. We’re looking for stories that act as story seeds – prompts for spin off plots and weird tangents. We want to think in new ways about how our world works and the possibilities for future worlds, expanding tangentially from what we know now. Who can submit to the Vault? The Vault will takes submissions from all sorts of writers, from established writers to new, science communicator, or people who have a personal passion for science. As long as you adhere to our guidelines, we will publish your work! In accordance with the ethics and values of our editorial team, the Vault is also a diversity-oriented publication. As such, we welcome and encourage submissions from a multiplicity of voices and perspectives, particularly those from marginalized and under-represented groups. Science communication is done by all sorts of people – and we want writers who reflect that diversity. Where can I find science to be inspired by? We suggest taking a look at science news websites and science magazines, such as the below: Ars Technica Technology news, provides breakdowns on the latest scientific advancements. Main focus is IT and ‘gadgets’. Science Daily Scientific research news. Does not report on general science news. Science Mag Reports on research and general science news. Almost always evidence-based reporting. Science Alert and Live Science Pop science news. An easily accessible form of science news that doesn’t use academic language. Prone to clickbait titles. If you’re still stuck on what...

Deadline: November 25th, 2018 Payment: $0.01 per word Calling all writers, from beginner to expert! Announcing a new call for submissions for an anthology to be published in the first quarter of 2019 (Sometime between January and March). The theme of the anthology is as follows: Moonlit Dreams/Moonlit Nightmares I am looking for short stories that explore the nature of the psyche, the world (or worlds) around us, and that speaks in some way to the theme presented. Stories should be well crafted and flushed out, having elements of a great story that could be told for generations to come. Including such things as romance, intrigue, comedy or drama are all par for the course as far as I’m concerned – the key is to write a story that lingers both in your heart and mind by the time the last page is turned. So here’s the specifics of the call: Submissions: • Submissions will be accepted through email. Please send submissions to [email protected] with the subject line “Anthology Moonlit Dreams/Moonlight Nightmare Submission – Your Name • Word count should be between 1,500 and 10,000 words. No exceptions • All entries must be written in English • Submissions are welcomed from people in all walks of life, including under-represented groups such as women, minorities, LGBTQIA writers. • Submissions will be accepted in .odt, docx, txt or RTF format only. • Submissions will be accepted in standard manuscript format. (See here if you need a refresher) • Please include the following with your submission: ◦ Cover letter with your full contact information including email and mailing address ◦ A short author biography that is written in the third person ◦ A style sheet if necessary (See here if you need a refresher on what that is). ◦ The best way to contact you. Payment: •...

Deadline: November 25th, 2018 Payment: $3 November 2018 "Memoiral" submissions now open, close on the 25th Please consider the following work from my art project, the Anna Pierrepont Series for subject artwork for With Painted Words. I am attaching an images from 2018 from the series that have so far not been published, The project consists of plein air drawings and paintings of figurative public monuments and occasionally their absences, mostly in NYC, that are exhibited standing alone and incorporated into pictorial essays that explores the erasure of public and private memory. Recently, the project has been caught up in the current wave of iconoclasm and the related retaliatory violence that is sweeping the nation. My most recent pictorial essay 'Captain America on the Battlefields of Brooklyn' that has been published in May 2018 in Freezeray freezeraypoetry.com/15, May 2018. ArtIs On published a pictorial essay that I created in the aftermath of Charlottesville on the removal of portrait busts of Robert E. Lee and Thomas Stonewall Jackson from the Hall of Fame for Great Americans on the campus of CUNY-Bronx Community College in January 2018 http://artison.letras.ulisboa.pt/index.php/ao/article/view/141. The blog of Streetlight, a literary magazine out of Charlottesville, solicited my pictorial essay 'Teetering' before the violence of August overwhelmed their community. The essay was significantly revised in collaboration with the editors in Charlottesville in the aftermath of the violence and was finally published in late August 2017 https://streetlightmag.com/2017/08/27/teetering-drawings-by-howard-skrill/ and works from the series are scheduled for two significant thematic exhibitions on public art and political art in 2018 and 2019.  I am an artist/educator in Brooklyn, NY, where I teach art lecture and practice and live with my wife and one of my two adult sons. Thank you for your interest.  Howard Skrill 172 Fifth Ave. Brooklyn, NY, 11217 6462458345 [email protected] #skrillhoward on Instagram howardskrill.blogspot.com Submissions are currently open, the deadline is the 25th November 2018 at 23:59 GMT...

Deadline: November 31st, 2018 Payment: .03CAD per word and a contributor's copy “Their hand is at your throats, yet ye see Them not; and Their habitation is even one with your guarded threshold.” — H. P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror Monstrous Outlines will be an anthology of horror and weird fiction with a focus on the theme of camouflage: people, entities, monsters, gods, even concepts, that masquerade as things other than themselves. Predators in plain sight, deities on their down time, sublime extra-dimensional terrors slumming in 4D. We want to see stories of exceptionally well done camouflage, all the more baffling and frightening for its seamless nature. We want to see stories of seeming where the hidden thing is poorly hidden for a number of reasons: perhaps there are layers to its camouflage, or perhaps it doesn’t care how well it hides. Imagine the moment when the perfectly hidden thing reveals itself. When the poorly hidden thing reveals itself. We’re also interested in duplicates, doppelgangers, and shapeshifters. Think John W. Campbell’s Who Goes There? and its cinematic offspring, The Thing, for the latter. The seed story for this anthology will be Algernon Blackwood’s classic tale, The Willows, a story of two worlds touching, of men meeting the unnameable through the medium of the nearest natural analogue, the titular willow trees. Submission period closes 31 NOVEMBER 2018. The anthology will be released in trade paperback and electronic book formats in early March 2019. SUBMITTING Please use Standard Manuscript format when submitting. That’s double spaced, left justified, Times New Roman or Courier or something at least readable, a header on the first page (at least) with your author info and word count and… well, you know the drill. RTF or DOC files preferred, but DOCx and text files also accepted. Obviously, you could send us something that’s not in Standard Manuscript format, but it will lower your chances of it being looked...

Deadline: November 30th, 2018 Payment: Royalties Mickey Finn isn’t watered-down mysteries for dilettantes; it’s a crime-fiction cocktail that will knock readers into a literary stupor. An annual anthology of hardboiled and noir crime fiction to be released each fall beginning in 2020, Mickey Finnwill pick up where the three-volume Fedora anthology series left off, pushing hard against the boundaries of crime fiction. Contributors will be encouraged to push their work into places short crime fiction doesn’t often go, into a world where the mean streets seem gentrified by comparison and happy endings are the exception rather than the rule. The ideal submission will be approximately 5,000 words—less than 3,000 is likely too short, more than 8,000 is likely too long. Originals only. No reprints. The first Mickey Finn is scheduled for release fall 2020. Submissions: Use standard manuscript format. Include name, address, telephone number, and email address on the manuscript. Save as a Word document (.doc preferred) and send as an attachment to [email protected]. Deadline: Submissions open September 1–November 30, 2018. Though rejections may occur at any point during the process, do not expect acceptance and rejection decisions until February 2019. Payment: A pro-rata share of royalties. About the editor: Michael Bracken has edited six crime fiction anthologies, including the three-volume Fedoraseries and The Eyes of Texas (Down & Out Books, Fall 2019). Stories from his anthologies have been short-listed for Anthony, Derringer, Edgar, and Shamus awards, and have been named among the year’s best by the editors of The Best American Mystery Stories and the editors of The World’s Finest Mystery and Crime Stories. He is the author of eleven books and more than 1,200 short stories, including crime fiction in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Mystery Magazine, Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Down & Out: The Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Espionage Magazine, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, and The Best American Mystery Stories. In 2016 he...

Deadline: November 30th, 2018 Payment: $300 and royalties of 40% of all monies received by the publisher, paid twice yearly. We are looking to build a kickass series of novellas that defines and redefines the Twelfth Planet Press brand. We want gritty pieces that challenge the system and punch the patriarchy in the face. We want stories that resist and rebel… and maybe also books that comfort & inspire. For when things are bad out there in the world. We are looking for books that feed the angry soul. We’re interested in hearing from marginalised writers more generally: for example, people under the QUILTBAG umbrella, including intersex people; people of colour, including Indigenous and Native writers from around the world; and disabled people. That said, we also welcome stories from authors who aren’t marginalised. Please don’t self-reject – we want your stories! If you feel your intersections are relevant to your story, you may mention them in your cover letter, but this is not required. We respect your privacy. We’re looking for a diverse range of authors, story settings, time periods, cultural backgrounds and protagonists. Magic, history, fantasy, steampunk and science fiction are all welcome. We are also looking for fun, light crime novellas that fit within our Deadlines imprint. Your novella should be between 17 000 and 40 000 words. It should be considered fantasy, science fiction, horror, or crime and not published previously in any medium, including limited audience media such as Patreon. Publication is by ebook in the first instance. Payment is by way of an advance of US$300 and royalties of 40% of all monies received by the publisher, paid twice yearly. Submissions will open on 1 September 2018 and close on 30 November 2018 No multiple submissions or simultaneous submissions. We aim to respond to...

Deadline: November 30th, 2018 Payment: £15 and a contributor's copy Unexpected Heroines: Why is it always the teenage girl who is the heroine? These are the stories of female protagonists who are never cast in the feature films. The awkward, the old, the forgotten, the different. Their adventures were never meant to be. Their save-the-world expeditions shouldn’t have happened. They are the ones who stepped forward when no-one else would. Our unexpected heroines. Forgotten Sidekicks: We all know what happens when the hero saves the day, but what about their sidekicks? Too often the hero is held high and celebrated whilst their sidekicks and comrades are brushed to the side; their own battles forgotten, and their actions airbrushed to nothingness from the tales of victory. These are the stories of the ones who aren’t remembered; the ones who helped save the day, and got cast aside; the ones who don’t want the applause, and the ones who deserved the applause and never received it. These stories didn’t make the headlines – but they happened, and they’re glorious. Lost Gods: They have slept for centuries. Buried. Forgotten. Lost. Until they awake. Or are awoken. When the deities of old return, will they bring blessings or destruction to a time that no long remembers them? Should they be left to lie in peace, or used for our own ends? Are they gods, or monsters? What lies out there in the realms of the lost gods? Submission Guidelines: The submission window will run from 1st September until the 30th November inclusive. Submissions to be emailed to: Lost Gods – [email protected] Forgotten Sidekicks – [email protected] Unexpected Heroines – [email protected] All sub-genre and styles will be considered – comedic, epic, grimdark, noblebright etc. We are particularly keen on diversity – think older characters, LGBTQ, ethnic...