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Deadline: July 8th, 2019 Payment: $15 Volume 36/63 Submission Period: May 8, 2019 - July 8, 2019 Publication Date: November 1, 2019 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 we no longer accept "inline" submissions; that is, submissions...

Deadline: July 8th, 2019 Payment: $5 UPCOMING THEMES FOR CONSIDERATION: (Vol 43.) Cosmic Horror; deadline 8th July SUBMIT YOUR STORIES TO [email protected] Add subject line 'Story submission - The Other Stories' Write for The Other Stories! 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. 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.   HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO DO: Stories must be 2,000 (10% tolerance +/-) Save stories in a Word document - Times New Roman font, size 12 Please include a 1-2 sentence log line for your story. Ensure that your name and an email address are somewhere on the document Stories must fit an upcoming theme You must be the original creator of the story We will consider entrants whose work has been entered and published elsewhere, however please ensure you state where and when on the document You will be allowed to place one call-to-action for your own work at the end of the episode. Be sure to include this in your document. Payment per accepted story is 5USD to be paid on the 1st of the month following publication via Paypal. All rights remain with the author.   SUBMIT YOUR STORIES TO...

Deadline: July 13th, 2019 Payment: $15 and a contributor's copy The Texas Chainsaw Massacre famously asked viewers, “Who will survive, and what will be left of them?” The film itself focused much more on the first half of the question. With the anthology When the Sirens Have Faded, A Murder of Storytellers wants you to dig into the other: “What will be left of them?” When the sirens have faded, and the police are gone, where do the final girls go? What does the child do after they’ve been exorcised, when the demons have stopped bumping in the night? Is the past ever the past? Does horror and the trauma it brings with it ever actually die? We’re looking for short fiction (under 6,000 words) that dives into the lives of people who live through the horror movie. We want to see how it’s changed them. We want to see if the monsters are ever actually ever gone. We’re looking for the intergenerational effects it has. Think Halloween 2018, Scream 2. The horror should still be there, but we want to know if healing can take place alongside or beside it. All submissions should be in Shunn Manuscript formatting. All submissions should be previously unpublished. Submissions will be open until July 13th, 2019. Payment is $15 and a contributor copy upon publication. GO TO SUBMITTABLE Via: A Murder Of Storytellers.

Deadline: July 15th, 2019 Payment: Contributor's Copy Note: Reprints Allowed Deadline: July 15, 2019 Editor: Rayah James Word count: 2,500-8,000; a little above and a little below will be acceptable Unlike the other two regions of Dante’s famed Divine Comedy, the poem of Paradiso has received very little attention both culturally and critically. This anthology works to challenge that...even as it changes what heaven would be like for furry people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradiso_(Dante). This collection will be divided respectively into the ten parts. We expect stories to be framed to focus on people who will end up in a specific sphere. Most of a story should focus on what they did back on Earth in life. Showing how they died is not required but is pretty standard for this anthology series. We need to see their virtue that brought them there. However, here’s the challenge: we want to see anthro-animal characters who were strong and virtuous even in dark and trying circumstances, even if they ultimately failed. That’s right: like the previous two volumes, we are still wanting dark stories, be they horror, dark erotica, or similar. Easy ways to do this would be having a virtuous character be a victim to evil characters, or have a virtuous character be a witness, or perhaps most dastardly have a well-meaning character have to choose between the lesser of two evils...It is perfectly fine but not required if submissions are NSFW. All story submissions must be "furry" in nature. We will NOT accept: Racism, sexism, or discrimination presented in a positive light. If you are in doubt, ASK. Better to ask than to get a straight up rejection! If you are unsure, just shoot me an email at [email protected]. (restrictions borrowed from Voice: https://t.co/MWykJ6RY36) ​ You can submit up to three stories, but we will...

Deadline: July 15th, 2019 Payment: $50 plus a percentage of the Kickstarter project profits and a paperback copy of the anthology Description:  For the first time ever, a collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures connected to the Master of the Macabre.  Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of Edgar Allan Poe will have Holmes working within the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Some possibilities include Holmes solving the mystery of The Tell-Tale Heart or working to save Victorian London from the Masque of the Red Death. We can see Holmes work alongside Poe's great detective Auguste Dupin. There are many possibilities.   Submission guidelines:  A 5,000 - 10,000 word Sherlock Holmes story connected to the work of Edgar Allan Poe. You can play around with the time periods (i.e. put Holmes in the past or connect Poe to Victorian England); however, Holmes must stay traditional (for example, he can’t be married or in love).   Payment: Authors shall receive a payment of $50 plus a percentage of the Kickstarter project profits and a paperback copy of the anthology.   Rights: Authors shall retain rights to their work. We only retain the rights to the story within the publication.   Submission Deadline: July 15, 2019   Kickstarter will run in October 2019 and publication of book will occur in November 2019. Via: Balanger Books.

etDeadline: July 15th, 2019 Payment: $50 plus a percentage of the Kickstarter project profits and a contributor's copy Description: These adventures involve Holmes teaming up with another great detective such as Sexton Blake, Nick Carter, Monsieur Lecoq, or Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. There are plenty “public domain” detectives to choose from or you can create your own.   Submission guidelines:  A 5,000 - 10,000 word traditional story teaming Sherlock Holmes with another classic detective.  The other detective must be in the public domain or your own original character.   Payment: Authors shall receive a payment of $50 plus a percentage of the Kickstarter project profits and a paperback copy of the anthology.   Rights: Authors shall retain rights to their work. We only retain the rights to the story within the publication.   Submission Deadline: July 15, 2019   Kickstarter will run in November 2019 and publication of book will occur in December 2019. Via: Belanger Books.

Deadline: July 15th, 2019 Payment: $20 per story Please don't query us about your story submission. We don't have the manpower to answer such queries. An editor will email you back as soon as possible with the decision about your story. This can take a few days, or, up to three months. We make every effort to get back to authors in a timely manner but we get a lot of submissions so sometimes it's not possible. A note on our editorial policy: before publication we may edit the story for length or readability. However, we always remain true to the spirit of the story. Issues are published at the end of February, May, August, and November. We reserve the right to shift publication date slightly, as necessary. We have reading periods for each issue, though we never close to submissions. February closes January 15 May closes April 15 August closes July 15 November closes October 15 Please do not submit the same story more than once, and please submit only one story at a time. We consider any story between 250 and 7000 words with speculative fiction elements. We prefer science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre, but we're willing to push the limits of traditional forms of these genres. We do not consider poetry, stories with over-the-top sex or violence, serials, novels, fan fiction, or non-fiction. We don't accept multiple submissions; in other words, only submit one story at a time and wait for a response before submitting another. We accept simultaneous submissions as long as you let us know up front and tell us as soon as it's accepted elsewhere. We do not publish reprints, including anything that has appeared on a website. We pay $20 for each story we publish. We buy first-printing world exclusive rights for four months....

Deadline: July 15th, 2019 Payment: Contributor's copy Secrets in the Water Zimbell House is holding open submissions for short stories about secrets involving water. Is your tale about mermaids? A drowning? Magic? Superstition? Or is it about the healing powers found in water? Perhaps it involves a secret society or lost traditions. Let your imagination roam, and show our readers how you can capture their ripples of interest and give them waves of reading delight. Please keep foul language to a minimum-it loses its punch if over-used. Dialogue needs to be believable, and please keep dialects/slang to a bare minimum if you must use them. No head-hopping or POV changes. Pick one point of view and stick with it. Please show more of the action than just telling the reader what happens. Submissions of both short stories and novellas to this anthology are welcome, please keep in mind the minimum word count is 3,500 and the maximum word count is 15,000. This anthology is a great opportunity to showcase emerging writers and allow them to build their professional platforms. Submission Deadline: July 15, 2019, with a targeted release date of mid September 2019. Submit your best work. Poorly formatted and unedited work will be turned down. Please use Americanized English spellings. We will be doing light editing as necessary to fit the standards we strive to maintain. Submission Guidelines: Any work under 3,500 words will be automatically disqualified for this anthology. The work must not have appeared in print or online anywhere before. All submissions must be in English. Each author may submit up to three (3) unique works—please submit them separately. Work must be in Microsoft Word or RTF, double-spaced, 12-point font-no headers/footers. All contributing authors will receive a free copy of the book in softcover.  Authors that are chosen for the anthology will not...

Deadline: July 15th, 2019 Payment: $25 Forty-Two Books is pleased to announce the first call for submission for the upcoming fall poetry collection Putrescent Poems. Send us the scary, the fearful, the hardcore, and the most disturbing horrific works of fine poetry from your crypts. We are seeking to publish high quality yet terrifying words that will be remembered not just for their craft, but also their blood-curling affects. Expected publication date is October 2019. Works Accepted the horrific, the terrifying, the grind-house, the body gore, the scary, the psychological, the black comedic, the rotten, the exhibition, the mad science, the forbidden, the devilish, the blasphemous, and of course, the PUTRESCENT. Works Not Accepted ​We do not publish hate. Though we love the transgressive, we respect people and their ways of being. Those who are of the extreme/anti (Muslim, immigrant, black, LGBTQ, etc.) mindset will need to seek elsewhere to publish their works. Previously published works are not considered (unless you're Stephen King perhaps or a dead author in public domain). Works on blogs/author websites that are freely open to the internet without a password, subscription, or login credential are considered "published" in the industry, so sadly (as much as it stinks cause it's your own website right!?) we cannot publish. Guidelines Submit up to 5 original, unpublished poems of any form, format, style, type, and meter. Include all poems in one document. Editorial Policy If your submission requires revision before publishing, the editors will contact you and provide suggestions for revision. Forty-Two Books reserves the right to edit your work for publication, which may include clarity, grammatical correctness, typography, or cohesion. We will try to provide feedback and work with you rather than a flat reject if time permits and we aren't drowning in submissions. Copyright Policy The PUBLISHER, Forty-Two Books, will...

Deadline: July 15th, 2019. Payment: 50 – 75 dollars per story (CND, based on word count) We are seeking provocative works of speculative fiction and poetry for the inaugural edition of: The House of Zolo’s Journal of Speculative Literature. The HOZ Journal of Speculative Literature is a new literary magazine featuring quality works of speculative fiction and poetry. We are calling for new work in short story and poetry. We have two deadlines per year and produce two editions of the HOZ journal annually. Our first Deadline: July 15, 2019. Fiction HOZ are looking for literature that explores possibilities for the future. We want challenging short stories that are character driven, that reimagine the world and our place in it. We are looking for radical authors, feminist authors, LGBTQ2S authors, authors who experiment. Themes that thrill us: transhumanism, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, new systems, resistance, activism, queer perspectives, feminist perspectives, nature. We are not interested in stories that concern the reinvention of empire, rehashing of old narratives, or excessive violence. We entertain all genre based stories so long as they concern the future and especially if related to our favourite themes. That said, we are looking for the best speculative fiction stories, so if you think you have something we might want, please consider sending it. We accept stories from 1,000 to 7,500 words with a preferred word count of between 3,500 – 5,000 words. We pay 50 – 75 dollars per story (CND, based on word count). Please send only one story at a time. Simultaneous submissions are fine with us, just let us know if you are accepted for publication elsewhere. To submit: Please send your short story attached as a word or rtf document to: [email protected] with the subject line HOZ Journal – Fiction. If possible, please include a short bio in...