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Deadline: January 1st, 2020 Payment: $10 and a contributors copy This is the sequel to the first anthology Fantasia Diviniy ever released. Like the first book, we are looking for steamy stories, perferably with a fantasy or paranormal twist. For erotica and erotic romance. No necrofilia please (vampires and werewolves in human form are fine). No poetry. SPECIAL SUBMISSION REQUIREMENT: For this anthology, there is a requirement to submit. In order to submit you must have either had a story accepted and published by us in 2019, or have featured in volume 1.  If we receive a submission that doesn't meet the requirement, it will be returned. You will be allowed to resubmit your story once the requirement has been met. ​​Word Count: 5,000-15,000 (Please ask us before submitting a story that is over this.) Submission Deadline: January 1st, 2020 Response Time:  30 days from close of submission deadline. Compensation: $10, 1 Print Copy, 1 ebook Copy, Discounted Hardcover Reprints: No Multiple: If your story is rejected you may submit another one before the deadline. Simultaneous Submissions: Yes, but you must inform us as soon as it is accepted elsewhere. Estimated Release: November 2020 THIS ANTHOLOGY HAS VERY LIMITED SPOTS! ONLY 10 WILL BE SELECTED FOR PUBLICATION. Submission Guidelines Submissions and questions about submissions are to be sent to: [email protected]​ The subject line of your email must read: EVER DREAM SUBMISSION: In the body of your email, please include: your name, pen name (if applicable), author bio (written in third person), and word count. You will receive an automated message when your email is received. We respond to every submission, even rejections, so if you don't receive a response by the end of the deadline, please email us again. Via: Fantasia Divinity Magazine.

Deadline: January 5th, 2020 Payment: $10 Current theme: Misfortuneget Deadline: January 5th, 2020 We welcome submissions from both emerging and established writers. All work should be submitted via email to [email protected]. Submissions should be in standard manuscript format and include word count. Haphazardly formatted manuscripts will not be considered. Fiction submissions Please read our full guidelines here. ​ Language: English ​ Genres: Horror, any variant ​ Compensation: We are a privately funded, small-press magazine. For now, flat rate upon acceptance is $10.00 US dollars ​ Rights: Novel Noctule is granted exclusive, first rights to the submitted work upon acceptance for a period of six months. Exceptions require written permission from the publisher. Rights include worldwide audio and printing. After the six month period, the author is free to distribute the work as they see fit. Archival and re-publishing rights are maintained  indefinitely by the magazine on a non-exclusive basis. ​ No unsolicited reprints. ​ Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please notify us upon acceptance elsewhere. Poetry & Art submissions Poetry and art submissions relating to the current theme are accepted on a rolling basis. Please be advised that these are compensated at the standard flat rate. Via: Novel Noctule

Deadline: January 6th, 2019 Payment: $0.02/word or $25/story, whichever is greater. Genre: Dark Fantasy, Supernatural, Eerie Horror Deadline: January 6, 2020 Release Date: March 19, 2020 Word Count: * Flash Fiction (500-1,500 words) * Short Stories (3,000-8,000 words) * Novella (12,000-25,000 words) Pay: $0.02/word or $25/story, whichever is greater. Wanted: Seeking stories that explore the darker side of speculative fiction. We want stories that are scary or disturbing or upsetting, or that wouldn’t be out of place in a collection of Gothic prose or Grimm folktales or dark contemporary fantasy or a dark forest as night comes on … While horror is the name of the game, this anthology is for those stories that might not hit all of the tropes, but still leave us unsettled when the night settles in. Submission Guidelines Send all submissions to: [email protected], addressed to the Editor, Rachel A. Brune. Follow submission guidelines and use the Crone Girls Press Style Guide to format your manuscript before submitting. Please. If you have any questions, a good place to get a feel for who we are is the Crone Girls Press Facebook Group. Come on in. We won’t bite. Most of us won’t, anyway. Each anthology will be anchored by one novella, with a mix of short stories and flash fiction. I am primarily looking for short stories to make up the bulk of each anthology, but don’t let that discourage you from submitting. Reprints and simultaneous submissions are absolutely welcome! If it is a reprint, please be prepared to let us know where it was previously published so we can include that correctly in the anthology. If it is accepted elsewhere, congrats! (But please, let us know.) One note about diverse protagonists (and characters in general): I find as a writer, sometimes it helps for the anthology call to...

Deadline: January 7th, 2020 Payment: .04 per word Folk Horror continues to stalk sunlit fields and shadowed groves with its grafting of the mundane and the sublime. The pervasive themes of isolation, paranoia, depravity, loss of individuality, and rustic madness captivate and terrify audiences. Nosetouch Press is pleased to conjure up FIENDS IN THE FURROWS II: More Tales of Folk Horror, a call for submissions for Folk Horror from around the world—from Britain and Ireland, to continental Europe, to North and South America, Africa, and Asia. We encourage writers to continue to explore the wilderness of Folk Horror, while honoring the elemental essence of this subgenre’s tangled, grasping roots. SEND YOUR BEST ORIGINAL FOLK HORROR STORIES OF 4,000 TO 8,000 WORDS. SUBMISSIONS THAT ARE CHOSEN WILL BE PAID $.04 A WORD. NO POEMS OR REPRINTS, PLEASE. Email entries to [email protected] .doc or .rtf format • Please state “FIENDS 2” in the subject line. SUBMISSION PERIOD: NOVEMBER 1, 2019–JANUARY 7, 2020 Via: Nose Touch Press.

Deadline: January 10th, 2020 Payment: 2 cents per word Horror Magazine Breaking Rules Publishing's Online And Hard Copy Magazine Comes Out Monthly. The submission level has been high - the next submission deadline date for the Horror Magazine is January 10, 2020. Send your submissions to [email protected]. The Scribe, Triangle Writers and Horror - are 100 - 125 page magazines that feature articles and tools to assist in the success of the writers and readers that subscribe. It also offers writers, published authors and young writers the opportunity to share their work, promote their novels, short stories or poetry. To submit your short story or poems to The Scribe - please email us at [email protected]. The submission deadline for ALL Magazines will always be the 10th of the prior month. Send all of your submissions to [email protected]. Submission Guidelines can be found under the "Guidelines" tab. *If your short story is accepted for publication in any issue of any of our magazines, you may be asked for an Author Byline and a piece of artwork such as a picture that compliments your story. Authors Submitting Articles -  Articles submitted by writers for our magazines will be unpaid. Writers submitting articles will however be given a full page authors promo package for their compensation. Please see the packages below. Via: Breaking Rules Publishing.

Deadline: January 10th, 2020 Payment: Contributor's Copy Thurston Howl Publications is now accepting submissions for its furry anthology, BENEATH THE SUIT. Deadline: Jan 10, 2020 Editor: Cedric G! Bacon Word count: 2,500-8,000; a little above and a little below will be acceptable What makes characters like Michael Myers, Jason, and Jigsaw terrifying? They all wear these uncanny masks. We rarely see the face beneath the mask. When they stand still, and their face follows you, it's creepy in ways that Freddy or the Werewolf can't pull off. Imagine ways that fursuiters and pup-players can do the same thing. This is a horror collection all about fursuits and pup hoods. It is perfectly fine but not required if submissions are NSFW. We are honestly expecting horror here, gritty, gory, and maybe even a little sexy. However, again, adult stories are by no means required for acceptance. Stories do not have to be set in a world that is "furry," but it's fine if they are! 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 then 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 only accept one per author (if any). Reprints are fine, but you have to own full permission of the work in order for us to consider it. We will not accept simultaneous submissions. Payment: Authors will receive a free copy of the print book. Send submissions in .doc or .docx...

Current theme: BLACK & GREY All of us here at GST like tattoos; we have many. There is something about the process, the pain, the permanency that appeals to us (and many others I'm sure). For this collection, we would like your stories to do with tattoos or tattooing. Does your main character have them? Are they a tattooist? Is there something about a particular tattoo that is so unusual, special or strange that it just must be written about? 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 - B&G - Story Title. Word count: 1000 - 2500 words Deadline: January 11 2020 Payment: AU$5.00

Deadline: January 12th, 2020 Payment: CAD $0.01/word (i.e. CAD $50 for a 5000 word story), with a minimum payment of CAD $5 for accepted work. Theme: Fiction and poetry, with an emphasis on science fiction and works related to science Submissions are currently OPEN. The deadline for this submission period is January 12th, 2020. Thinking of submitting to Trouble Among The Stars? Please read these guidelines first: We publish speculative short fiction and poetry, with an emphasis on science fiction and works related to science.  We do not publish novel excerpts, non-fiction or serialized anything. For fiction, we will review anything between 300-6000 words, and for poetry we will review anything under 1000 words.  We do accept simultaneous submissions, but you must notify us immediately if your submitted work is accepted elsewhere. We do not accept previously published work. We do our best to be very welcoming towards new writers – if you have little or no previous publishing credentials, please feel comfortable submitting to us regardless. We are meant to be by the weirdos and for the weirdos, and we would love to read your newest and strangest work. We pay CAD $0.01/word (i.e. CAD $50 for a 5000 word story), with a minimum payment of CAD $5 for accepted work. Payments are made via paypal upon publication. We ask for one-time non-exclusive rights to publish your work. To submit, please send an email to [email protected] with your work as an attached document. Please include a brief cover letter in the body of the email. Please send a total of one (1) short story or up to two (2) poems (exceptions will sometimes be made for suites of poems). Size 12 Times New Roman font is preferred for submissions, with fiction submissions being double-spaced. Please submit only once per reading period. Please allow us up to three weeks to respond to your submission (though in most cases it should...

Deadline: January 15th, 2020 Payment: Contributor's Copy A Collection of Horrors Zimbell House is holding open submissions for short suspense-thriller horror stories about deadly games. Let your imagination roam and put our readers in the middle of the action. We want complete stories from the POV of the person that ends up dead. Start at the death, and work your way backward. What was the game? Why did the person agree to play? Who instigated the game? Was death really the stakes or just a terrible accident? Our readers want horror, but not gruesome details. The horror should come from the suspense, not the deeds. 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: January 15, 2020, with a targeted release date of mid-April 2020. 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: January 15th, 2020 Payment: Contributor's Copy All manuscripts should be in 12-point type, preferably Times Roman. All poems should be submitted in a single document. Fiction must be double-spaced, poetry single-spaced. Please send us your work as a .doc, .docx, .pdf, or .rtf file via the Submittable portal below. We do not accept submissions by post. After submission, please do not resubmit until after we have responded with a decision. Our reporting time is three months; if you have not heard from us by then, feel free to query us at [email protected]. The author's name, address, telephone number, email address, and approximate word count should be typed at the top of the first page; all other pages should include the page number and the author's last name in the header. Please include a third-person bio of seventy-five words or less for all fiction, poetry, and art and photography submissions. FictionWe are looking for excellently written fiction between 100 and 5,000 words in length. It should be surprising, relentlessly engaging, fun, and humming with vibrancy. Include compelling characters, lively but minimal dialogue, and plots charting the unexpected. Poetry The poetry that we prefer is alive and idiosyncratic and that opens new vistas to the reader. We stay away from rhyming poetry, conventional forms, and love poetry unless brilliantly revisited. Three poems may be submitted (as a single document) at a time, with a total maximum of twenty pages. Art and Photography Good visuals show what is little seen or never imagined. Re-vision the mundane. Surrealism, wit, or a combination thereof is especially appreciated. General Guidelines- We are interested only in work that has not appeared previously in either electronic or print format. - Submit only one story or three poems at one time. If you have material under consideration with THAT,...