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Deadline: September 13th, 2019 Payment: $0.05 U.S. per word Note: Looking for Latinx and AfroLatinx writers People scream when they're afraid. They scream when they are in the heat of battle. They scream in the wake of victory. This is a place to scream our pain, fears, worry, frustrations, nightmares and dreams. - Co-editor V. Castro. Latinx Screams is looking for stories by Latinx and AfroLatinx writers with protagonists facing overwhelming fears and rising to fight horrifying foes. Some will thrive, some with survive, and some will die. Give us your vanquished, and your victors. The project will be co-edited by V. Castro and Brian Lindenmuth. Horror is the parent genre; speculative fiction horror, sci-fi horror, or pure horror, including real-world horror, will all be considered. Whether your horror story takes place on a spaceship, in an alternate dimension, or in the real world, it qualifies. Payment: $0.05 U.S. per word for previously unpublished stories Story length: Stories up to 3,500 are preferred, but stories up to 5,000 words in length will be considered. Submission deadline: September 13, 2019 Multiple submissions are accepted. Each writer may submit up to 3 stories for consideration. This applies to all stories by the same person, whether they use a pseudonym for some of them or not. While we would prefer a short exclusive window of consideration, simultaneous submissions are allowed. Please indicate your submission is a simultaneous submission in the email. Reprints may be considered; payment rate to be determined. Please indicate it is a reprint in your email. Submissions: Please include your story as an attached word doc and email to [email protected] (We do not review PDF documents or RTF documents. Please send .doc or .docx only.) Your email should have the name of the project and story in the subject line. For...

Deadline: September 13th, 2019 Payment: Contributor's Copy Your story should be between 500 and 3,000 words and edited to the best of your ability. Stories must have a supernatural theme (ghosts, spirits, demons, hauntings, anything that goes bump in the night.) Submissions are open now until 11:59 p.m. September 13, 2019 EST. (We are looking for an October publication date.) We will accept only one submission per author. Simultaneous submissions will not be accepted. Previously published submissions will not be accepted. Submissions should not be available for viewing online during the submission/publication process or for 6 months after publication. Submissions should only have mild, non-graphic violence, no explicitly sexual/erotic scenes, and “bad” language should not be used excessively but may be used in limited capacity. To avoid rights issues, no living public figures should be used as characters, no fan-fiction involving proprietary characters, and no song lyrics. However, passing references to these are fine. All submitting authors will be notified of our decision within 2 weeks of closing date. If your submission is chosen, you will receive a full publishing contract outlining the details of our agreement. Upon signing, Stormy Island Publishing retains exclusive rights until six months after publication. As payment, each author will receive a paperback copy of the anthology after publication. For details on how to submit, visit our SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Via: Stormy Island Publishing.

Deadline: September 15th, 2019 Payment: 40% of all Publisher’s Net Receipts to the author as royalties. Note: They're willing to send sample contracts in advance so you can look them over before deciding. Call for Novellas Interstellar Flight Press will be open for submissions of speculative novellas from May 15-September 15. We are looking for: ​ Fiction Novellas 17,500–40,000 words. Speculative genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Supernatural, Weird, Mystery/Thrillers or any combination of the above. Hybrids or difficult to categorize novellas are welcome. Young Adult novellas are okay as long as they are speculative in some way. We will consider both standalone novellas and series (Please submit the first book in a series only). Guidelines: Please send complete manuscripts (your entire novella) in .doc or .docx formats, formatted in Standard Manuscript Format. Please include a synopsis on the first page of your manuscript, max 500 words. We require a cover letter with bio. Be sure to include links to your website and social media so we can get to know you. Simultaneous and multiple submissions are fine, just let us know if you need to withdraw. Novellas should be previously unpublished. Agented submissions are welcome. If you’re an agent, please send us an email or submit via the submission form. ​ We are keen to publish new authors as well as to hear from more established authors. As always, we love hearing from authors from underrepresented backgrounds and marginalized communities. All of our books receive a full marketing plan and are printed in hardcover and paperback formats, as well as distribution as eBook and audiobook. We consider publishing a collaboration and pay 40% of all Publisher’s Net Receipts to the author as royalties. Depending on the project, we may also offer an advance. We ask for exclusive world English rights, audio rights, and some subsidiary rights. We...

September 15th, 2019 Payment: Contributor's Copy A Collection of tales of how he got his man. Zimbell House is holding open submissions for short stories about the old west and how the U.S. Marshall played a part in establishing the law of the land. Let your imagination roam and put our readers in the middle of the action. We want complete stories from the POV of the U.S. Marshall. We want to see his struggles to capture the outlaw. How does he do it? Who helps him? Why did he become a lawman? Is there a case that haunts him? Make him a complete character, flaws and all. 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 4,000 and the maximum word count is 20,000. This anthology is a great opportunity to showcase emerging writers and allow them to build their professional platforms. Submission Deadline: September 15, 2019, with a targeted release date of mid-November 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 4,000 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...

Deadline: September 15th, 2019 Payment: $10 Token payment via Paypal and 60% of net earnings divided evenly among the authors. Announcing call for submissions for Monster Party All Submissions should meet this criteria: Works: short stories and flash fiction Genre and theme: Horror, satire, and dark fiction involving and about the less popular monsters. Set Dracula and Frankenstein aside, and let’s bring out the Yeti, The Mud Man, Swamp Thing, The Lizard Man, Radioactive Ant, and so forth. Think B-Movie horror monster. You can even go international and pull from other cultural influences. Deadline: Sept 15th Format: Attach the .RTF, .DOC, or .DOCX Word Count 5k – 7k words approx. for short stories, no limit for flash. Payment: $10 Token payment via Paypal and 60% of net earnings divided evenly among the authors. Multiple Submissions okay. Submit a brief bio, we don’t care if you have no work history, give us a brief bio of yourself. Send submission to [email protected] Via: Deadman's Tome.

Deadline: September 28th, 2019 Payment: 6¢ per word for new fiction, 2¢ per word for fiction reprints Note: This is being listed a little early due to the short window. Submissions Schedule We have a regular submissions schedule, easy to remember and plan for: four times a year, one week each time, midnight E.S.T. to midnight E.S.T., at the beginning of each season of the year: March 21 - 28, June 21 - 28, September 21 - 28, December 21 - 28 We began The Kepler Award this spring.  The purpose of the award is to recognize and encourage writers of excellent science fiction and fantasy stories that creatively extrapolate on known science in constructive and exciting ways. You can learn about The Kepler Award here. We pay 6¢ per word for new fiction, 2¢ per word for fiction reprints, 2 - 6¢ per word for new fact-based work, 1- 4¢ per word for reprinted fact articles. Reprints must not have been published elsewhere within the past year or be available for sale online. For reading impaired individuals, our submissions manager and 'forget password' have a captcha compatible with screen readers.   Writers Guidelines We accept new work as well as reprints, anywhere from 1000 word flash fiction on up, but all else being equal, shorter pieces will be favored. We also accept poetry.  We have tough standards but only care about the quality of the writing, storytelling ability, characters, plot, and ideas, not whether you're new or established.  Submit only work you are proud of -- if you don't love it, neither will our readers!  If in doubt, edit it down further.  And further. For the many writers who valued our feedback on their stories, we have brought back a modified version of the feedback system which will not...

Deadline: September 20th, 2019 Payment: $10 Submissions now OPEN for the OCTOBER Issue UNTIL September 20th THEME - Spooky & Spellbinding Tales Enchanted Conversation is looking for spooky and spellbinding fairy tales, folktales, or myths for the October issue. Check out last year's issue HERE. 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. 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, excessive horror or gore, high fantasy, excessive world building, time-travel, futuristic or space travel. Also, DO NOT submit a story where the 1st person narrator dies at the end. That idea just doesn't work for us. If your character must die, please make it a 3rd person account. 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. BEFORE SUBMITTING READ THE TERMS BELOW Enchanted Conversation is buying first electronic rights with the possibility of using the work in a future print compilation. Authors will be informed if their...

Deadline: September 20th, 2019 Payment: 1 cent per word Typewriter Emergencies is seeking works featuring furry characters. We're looking for stories, book reviews, articles, and any other form of furry material. The journal accepts work that is considered rated R or Less. You can throw in the word "f*ck" around a few times, but no excessive sex, blood, and guts pretty much. Typewriter Emergencies publishes under the philosophy of degenerate literature. We're not here to be proper, we're here to make art and celebrate great writing. We don't have a specific theme for our issues, therefore it's free reign. Themes may be implemented in the future. ​ We plan on publishing at least twice a year. If we feel we can take on a heavier load, we'll open up for more issues. Our Schedule is as follows: Payment is $0.01 per word. Payment for Poetry is $5 per All rights revert back to the author. We simply ask for the right to publish the story for the period this journal is active. Simultaneous submissions are fine. It is your responsibility to notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere. Story Guidelines: Max word count is 2500 words. Anything over this will not be accepted. Reprints will be reviewed, but we will prefer previously unpublished work. Each issue is expected to have a small amount of material, 3-5 stories at most. Articles & Reviews: Max word count 1000 words. Anything considered a book review or article that is over 1000 words will not be considered. Articles/Book reviews must be predominantly furry in nature. Reviews must not contain spoilers. We will not accept reviews that are overly negative. As for articles, familiarize yourself with  or Dogpatch Press, and related furry websites. We will not reprint articles or reviews. ​ We accept submissions through Submittable...

Deadline: September 30th, 2019 Payment: $10 ... a first for HellBound Books, an anthology dedicated to all things ghostly. We want your most spine chilling paranormal tales of ghosts, spririts and mysterious dwellers of the ethereal netherworld that lies between life and death. Scare us witless with your most creepy short stories, we challenge you to keep our most hardened horror readers awake in the wee hours, their cynical minds churning with unpleasant thoughts of what may - or may not - await us all once the final curtain descends on this earthy existence... To submit, email your polished story to [email protected] PLEASE read and adhere to our submission guidelines...  * Word format saved in .doc, or .docx * 12 pt times new roman * Double spaced * Absolutely NO extra lines between paragraphs! * 5K- 10K word count (although we are incredibly flexible for awesome stories!) * Write 'GHOSTS' along with your name and story title in the header of your email *The body of your submission email will be considered the cover letter. * The submission documents are to be separated and Word (.doc or .docx) documents are to be attached to your submission email. - Make sure that you check your mss for grammar and punctuation, use our guidelines to help you: DOWNLOAD YOUR HBB GUIDE TO GRAMMAR HERE (PDF) Deadline: SEPTEMBER 30th 2019 (publication in time for Halloween 2019) NO REPRINTS - ORIGINAL UNPUBLISHED WORKS ONLY Payment -$10 for first rights Capped at 150K words in total Via: Hellbound Books.

Deadline: September 30th, 2019 Payment: Contributor's Copy Spy Girl A Collection of Intrigue Chipper Press is looking for short stories that feature a female sleuth. We want these stories to be set in a middle-grade school. It can be a spy ring or a single amateur detective. Keep in mind these tales are intended for middle-graders. What's really in that school lunch special? What actually happened to the class pet? Is the teacher really an alien? Why does the school mascot seem so familiar? These are just some of the things that can be investigated by our Spy Girl. Submissions of both short stories and novellas to this anthology are welcome, please keep in mind the minimum word count is 4,500 and the maximum word count is 17,000. 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. This anthology is a great opportunity to showcase emerging writers and allow them to build their professional platforms. Submission Deadline: September 30, 2019, with a targeted release date of early November 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 4,500 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...