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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...

Deadline: July 15th, 2019 Payment: 6 cents per word, 1 cent per word for reprints Note: Reprints accepted Frozen Wavelets is an e-zine of speculative flash fiction and poetry, offspring of The Earthian Hivemind. This means that some of the accepted pieces will appear on a dedicated section of this blog, before being included in one of the e-zine issues (published quarterly). Issue #1 is set for publication in November 2019. When: the first submission period will run between 1 – 15 July 2019. Anything sent before or after will be deleted unread. I’ll communicate future dates as soon as I can. Where: submissions have to be sent to: submissions AT frozenwavelets DOT com. Please submit your piece indicating the typology in the subject line. For instance: SUBMISSION: . What: Original flash fiction of 750 words or less. No minimum. If you can write a (convincing) story in six words (and Hemingway showed it’s possible), go for it. Twitterfiction, Drabbles, 50 words, all welcome. I love haiku, tanka, senryu, and short poetry in general, but no more than 10 lines anyway. Rights asked: First Worldwide exclusive electronic/print rights for 6 months from the first appearance, be it on the blog or in the ezine; non-exclusive electronic rights afterwards (archival and for possible inclusion in thematic / Best of anthologies). All other rights remain with you. Payment: I pay pro-rate (0.06 $ as for SFWA rates until September 2019, 0.08 $ afterwards) with fix amounts for microfiction & poetry (I don’t want headaches. Just to be clear, the amount is equal or higher than pro-rate in word count terms). I pay on acceptance. Reprints: While I prefer original fiction, I do accept reprints for fiction pieces between 500-1500 words, paid at semi-pro rate (0.01 $), provided you own the rights and...

Deadline: September 15th, 2019 Payment: $20 Ian Randal Strock’s Fantastic Books has contracted with James D. Macdonald, Judith K. Dial, and Tom Easton for an anthology of 40 Horror stories under 2,000 words (minimum: 500 words) to be called: HORROR FOR THE THRONE ONE-SITTING READS We will open for submissions on August 8, 2019. Submissions will close September 15, 2019. The stories should be reprints--because the budget permits us to pay only $20 per story.  The stories should NOT involve bathroom horror. Send submissions (and questions) to Tom at [email protected]. We also need blurbs.  Anyone dare to call the book “A moving experience!”? The book will join SCIENCE FICTION FOR THE THRONE and FANTASY FOR THE THRONE on Ian’s dealer table at numerous conventions (as well as on his website at fantasticbooks.biz and on Amazon etc.). With luck, everyone will decide they just have to have the whole set.

Deadline: July 15th, 2019 Payment: Contributor's Copy Deadline: July 15, 2019 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. Pedophilia or sex with characters under the age of 18 presented in a positive light. Rape, torture, dubious consent, forced seduction presented in a positive light. Snuff or Necrophilia presented in a positive light If you are in doubt, ASK. Better to ask than to get a straight...

Deadline: July 20th, 2019 Payment: $10.USD NO THEME - Anything Goes Enchanted Conversation is looking for stories and sequential art (aka comics) - no theme this time around - Your work can be anything you can dream up as long as it's a fairy tale, folktale, or myth. Work can either be re-tellings of established stories or use original characters as long as they are 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.   WE'RE LOOKING FOR   STORIES between 700-2000 words with our sweet spot being around 1,200 words. PAYMENT FOR STORIES: $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. CHECK OUT THE FIRST ISSUE HERE PAYMENT WILL BE MADE THROUGH PAYPAL ONLY. At the time of contract, authors will have the option of donating the token payment back to the magazine to help keep us running. 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. AUTHORS who were published in previous issues are asked to wait 4 months (from the date of their issue) before they submit again. COMIC ARTISTS are asked to wait 2 months (from the date of their issue) before submitting again. BEFORE SUBMITTING READ THE TERMS BELOW Enchanted Conversation is buying first electronic rights with the possibility of using the work...

Deadline: July 22nd, 2019 Payment: $5 UPCOMING THEMES FOR CONSIDERATION: (Vol 44.) Cults; deadline 22nd 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 [email protected]...