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Deadline: November 14th, 2019 Payment: $500 and 25 contributors copies What kinds of stories is One Story looking for? One Story is seeking literary fiction. Because of our format, we can only accept stories between 3,000 and 8,000 words. They can be any style and on any subject as long as they are good. We are looking for stories that leave readers feeling satisfied and are strong enough to stand alone. Does One Story pay? Yes. One Story pays $500 and 25 contributors copies for First Serial North American rights. All rights will revert to the author following publication. Does One Story accept previously published material? No. One Story is looking for previously unpublished material. However, if a story has been published in printoutside of North America, it will be considered. Stories previously published online—on blogs, personal websites, online literary magazines, or forums—will not be accepted. Does One Story accept simultaneous submissions? Yes, but please notify us immediately if your submission is accepted for publication elsewhere. What file types can I submit? We accept PDF, RTF, and TXT files that are less than 500KB. Please include the story title and all writer contact info on the first page of the submitted file. Will you send me comments on my story? No. One Story receives close to 100 submissions each week. Please understand that we do not have time to comment on individual stories. Can I change the story I submitted with an updated draft? No. Do you consider translations? Yes. Please include the name of the original author and language, as well as the name of the translator on the first page of your submission. How do I submit to One Story? We have an automated system for you to send us your work. It will securely send our editors your story and email you a confirmation that it has been received. To use the automated system,...

Deadline: November 15th, 2019 Payment: Contributor's Copy A Collection of Extraterrestrial Tales. Zimbell House is holding open submissions for short sci-fi stories about space exploration from the alien race's point of view. Let your imagination roam and put our readers in the middle of the action. We want complete stories from the POV of the alien race. We want to see his/her/its struggles to deal with other races. Why is Explorer One on this particular mission? What is Explorer One trying to find? How will Explorer One deal with the information gleaned from other worlds? Is Explorer One the ship, the mission, or the person? 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: November 15, 2019, with a targeted release date of mid-February 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 must be in...

Deadline: November 15th, 2019 Payment: 3¢ per word, $150.00 max, 1¢ per word for reprints Note: Reprints accepted We are a literary magazine of dark fiction, both short stories and flash fiction. We want your best. But then, doesn’t everyone? No specific sub-genres or themes, just good stories. For inspiration, we suggest “The Twilight Zone”, “The Outer Limits”, and LampLight, Vol1 Issue 1 which is free. We go for stories that are dark, literary; we are looking for the creepy, the weird and the unsettling. We do not accept stories with the following: vampires, zombies, werewolves, serial killers, hitmen, excessive gore or sex, excessive abuse against women, revenge fantasies, cannibals, high fantasy. Writers We have published writers of all backgrounds from all over the world in LampLight, but not everywhere, nor all shapes and sizes of writers. Help us to shine a light on greater diverse writing and keep LampLight a showcase of the best dark fiction out there by submitting and encouraging others to as well. Edition and Rights The quarterly is published as print and ebook, and at the end of the year all the quarterlies are bound together in an annual collection. We are asking for non-exclusive, worldwide, serial rights to your work for both electronic and print. We want to publish it, we don’t want to own it. We will take reprints, provided you have the rights we are asking for. We will not consider reprints that are currently available for free online. If you have already been in LampLight, we ask you wait until the next volume to submit again. Payment We accept originals and reprints up to 7,000 words (firm). Payment in USD. Unpublished Fiction: 3¢ per word, $150.00 max Reprints: 1¢ per word Please note: works published to a Patreon or similar site are considered reprints Simultaneous and...

All Submissions should meet this criteria: Works: short stories and flash fiction Genre and theme: Horror and dark fiction involving Werewolves on the prowl during the winter season. We welcome campy and extreme (violence and sexual content), but this isn’t an erotica collection. Deadline: November 15th, 2019 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. Reprints are 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]

Deadline: November 15th, 2019 Payment: $5 per thousand words for fiction and $.35 a line with a $5 minimum for poetry. Now that the eighth issue of The Audient Void: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy is out, we are opening submissions for issue #9. We are looking for quality works of poetry and short fiction. Poetry should be Weird or darkly fantastical with strong imagery. We pay $.35 a line with a $5 minimum, payable upon publication. For short fiction our tastes are broad and we will consider anything with Weird, horrific or fantastical elements. We will consider any length work but will be much less likely to publish stories over 5,000 words. Our rate is $5 per thousand words, payable upon publication. First time publication only, no reprints please. To submit please send your work as a .doc, .docx or .rtf file to [email protected] and be sure to include a header with your name and email address. We do not accept simultaneous submissions or reprints and ask that you wait for our response before submitting elsewhere. The submission deadline is November 15th, please do not inquire about your submission before that deadline and understand that it may take some time to follow up on all submissions after the deadline has passed. I very much look forward to reading everyone's work!

Deadline: November 15th, 2019 Payment: 6 cents per word for fiction, reprints and flash rates below. Note: Reprints welcome PodCastle is currently OPEN to submissions. Visit our Submittable page to submit! Please see our schedule for this year’s open periods.  PodCastle is looking for quality fantasy fiction. If you’re a writer with a speculative short story that you’d like to hear narrated by one of our performers, we’d like to see it. Submit online via our submissions portal using Standard Manuscript Format. We accept files in .odt, .rtf, .docx or .doc format. Word count: up to 6,000 words. Occasionally, we run reprints in the novelette range (up to 17,000 words), although they are a harder sell. Query to [email protected] before submitting longer works. No multiple submissions within a submissions period. If your story is being held by us from a previous period or special call, you are free to submit another story this period. If you receive a rejection this period and submissions are still open, you can send another story as well. Simultaneous submissions are permitted; just mention it in your cover letter up front that you’ve submitted it elsewhere, and let us know if you sell it elsewhere first. Reprints are welcome and strongly encouraged. We are happy to consider stories previously released on Patreon as reprints. Payment and Rights We pay $.06/word USD for original fiction 6,000 words or less, $100 flat rate for reprints over 1,500 words, and $20 flat rate for flash fiction reprints (stories below 1,500 words). As of January 2016, PodCastle publishes in both text and audio. You are offering us both when you submit your story. We ask for 4 months exclusivity for text and audio for original stories, and 4 months audio exclusivity for reprints. We are happy to receive previously-podcasted stories; this just means don’t re-pod the story until 4 months after publication with PodCastle. We distribute...

Deadline: November 15th, 2019 Payment: 30% profits shared equally among the contributors. Deadline: 15th November, 2019Don’t wait till the deadline. Submit early. Call will be closed once the anthology reaches its max word count. No requests for deadline extension will be entertained.Genre: Speculative Fiction. Mix of genres is okay as long as the speculative element remains the main element.Word Count: 4k-15kResponse Time: Within Two Weeks from the date of submission. Please allow up to four weeks for follow-up.Multiple Submission: AllowedSimultaneous Submission: AllowedReprint: Not previously published work is preferred. However, reprints will be considered. If you think the story has been viewed several thousand times (that is, if it is published several times, or in publications that do really well in terms of views or reads) please don’t submit. You may contact me if you have this doubt.Formatting: Follow Shunn Manuscript Guidelines.Cover Letter: Do not submit without a cover letter. Write about the story, yourself and your works in brief.Subject Line: Anthology Title – Story Title – Author NamePayment: 30% profits shared equally among the contributors.Submit to: [email protected]: Early 2020That’s all the key details. Contact me if you want to know more. Thank you so much for submitting! Via: The Great Void.

Deadline: November 17th, 2019 Payment: £25 per story and £5 per poem and a contributor's copy Writers: Please submit work appropriate to the theme in Word or Pages format, 1.5 or double spaced, with word count indicated at the end of the piece. Literary fiction, creative non-fiction and narrative journalism should fall between 2,000 and 7,500 words. Any non-fiction or journalistic work selected for publication will be fact-checked. Please submit only one story and/or up to three poems per issue. Simultaneous submissions are welcome but let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere. All work must be previously unpublished either in print or online. Submissions for Issue #11 should relate to the theme Supernatural. Send us stories, essays, reported narratives, memoirs and poetry on anything to do with the occult. Psychological spookiness, eerie suspense, weird mysteries and unexplained phenomena are welcome elements, as well as the more obvious demons, angels, witches and ghosts. Religious themes are also relevant. Writing must be of a literary standard, not genre fare trading on shocks or gore. As always, the theme is open to wide interpretation. Please include a brief 2-3 sentence biography in the cover letter, noting any prior publishing experience, and email work to [email protected] by November 17th, 2019. Successful writers will hear from us within a few weeks of the deadline, if not before. If you do not hear from us after that time, please assume that we will not be publishing your work. Due to the volume of submissions we no longer send rejection emails. Artists: Shooter commissions original artwork for its covers. Artists should email examples of their work or a link to their online portfolio to [email protected]. We take note of promising illustrators on a rolling basis but, if you have work or a style you feel is particularly relevant to an upcoming theme, please draw our attention to it. We will contact suitable artists to discuss commissioning the cover. Artwork...

Deadline: November 20th, 2019 Payment: $10 Submissions now OPEN for STORIES and COMICS for the DECEMBER Issue UNTIL November 20th THEME - Winter Enchanted Conversation is looking for fairy tales, folktales, or myths for the December issue using the season of WINTER somehow in the narrative. 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. SEQUENTIAL ART/COMICS: 1 to 5 pages in length. THEME: WINTER Dimensions of comic: 6.62" x 10.125" READ A PAST ISSUE HERE PAYMENT FLAT RATE $10.00 USD through PayPal only. We are accepting only previously unpublished work. Black and white OR color comics are accepted. Simultaneous submissions...

Deadline: November 20th, 2019 Payment: $10 Submissions now OPEN for STORIES and COMICS for the DECEMBER Issue UNTIL November 20th THEME - Winter Enchanted Conversation is looking for fairy tales, folktales, or myths for the December issue using the season of WINTER somehow in the narrative. 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. SEQUENTIAL ART/COMICS: 1 to 5 pages in length. THEME: WINTER Dimensions of comic: 6.62" x 10.125" READ A PAST ISSUE HERE PAYMENT FLAT RATE $10.00 USD through PayPal only. We are accepting only previously unpublished work. Black and white OR color comics are accepted. Simultaneous submissions...