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Deadline: September 15th, 2020 Payment: $130, and 2 contributors copies Theme: Well mannered criminals! (to be published by Mango Publishing Group, USA) What I’m looking for: Good manners and polite behavior don’t usually spring to mind when we think of criminals. Yet some of the most beloved criminals in books and film have been the ones that broke the mold: the smooth-talking charmers, the underdogs, the rebels with a cause. Their polite manners, their adherence to a cause, their code of ethics that often makes sense only to themselves—this is what sets them apart from the rest. These are the types of criminals I’m interested in. Con artists, embezzlers, fraudsters, mobsters, burglars, garden-variety robbers and thieves, plus anything else that might fit the bill. For this third volume in my series, I’m aiming to provide a lighter and more entertaining read with less of an emphasis on violent crime and murder. Well-known, lesser-known, and obscure subjects are welcome. Add something new to the story, a different viewpoint or angle. First-person accounts are always welcome from writers with a connection to the cases. Stories can take place anywhere in the world and during any time frame. Material must be meticulously fact-checked before submission, including dates, names, locations, etc. This is a non-fiction book, so please make sure that everything is 100% correct. No reprints accepted. To get an idea of the quality and variety of material I accept, please refer to the previous books in this series, The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers and The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns. Word count: 4,000-7,000 words One-time payment per story: USD $130, and 2 print copies of the book. Contributor fees paid approximately 1 month after publication. (Preferred payment method: PayPal.) For: Non-exclusive rights with one-year’s exclusivity from date of publication. Deadline for submissions: Sept 15, 2020...

Deadline: September 15th, 2020 Payment: Royalties Theme: Horror We will be OPEN to submissions from JULY 15-SEPTEMBER 15 2020 ONLY.  Note: Manuscripts received outside the official  submission window will be deleted unread. Guidelines for all submissions: We want horror in all its forms—from literary to weird, Gothic to psychological, and (almost) everything in between. We’re looking for amazing stories from amazing authors, regardless of race, gender, religion—if you’ve got something good, we want it. (Please do not submit romance, erotica, or religious fiction.) Need a firm idea of what we’re looking for? Check out the JournalStone website. The title of your email subject line and file name should read: “--”. For example: King – Carrie – Novel. This should also be the title of your manuscript document. In the body of your email, please give us the word count, genre, and a brief synopsis (300-500 words) of the plot. Submissions without this information will be automatically deleted. Do not include your synopsis as an attachment. Submissions should be sent to [email protected]. Attach the full manuscript as a .doc, .docx or .rtf file (no PDFs). Do not paste your manuscript in the body of the email. For proper formatting of your manuscript, please follow the Shunn way. Minimum word count for novels and fiction collections: 50,000. Minimum word count for novellas: 20,000. We consider the quality of the editing in our review process. Please fully proofread and edit manuscripts prior to submission. Do not submit sample chapters or a work in progress. We accept only completed works. Allow six to eight months for a response to your submission. We may respond more quickly, but we cannot guarantee timing. Please do not send follow up e-mails. We will notify you when we place your work in the queue, and will contact you when we have completed our review. Submissions are free. We do not charge any...

Deadline: September 15th, 2020 Payment: 1 cent per word Theme: Modern folktales with a LGBTQ experience Correct manuscript format. 12 pt Times New Roman, Calibri, or Courier New font, double-spaced, First page has name, address and email address in the upper left corner and word count in the upper right corner. Reference the Shunn format at https://www.shunn.net/format/story/. NOT USING THE CORRECT FORMAT WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE REJECTION. 1000 to 5000 words ONLY. Shorter or longer pieces will result in immediate rejection. Document types: doc, docx, pdf, or rtf documents only. Include an author bio in your cover letter, including any social media links. All stories must contain some LGBTQ element. We prefer LGBTQ authors, however all stories that fit the submission criteria will be considered. Include the title and a 100-word description of the underlying folktale you are using for your story. A link to the story in addition to the requirements is acceptable, though not necessary. Correct grammar, syntax and punctuation. English language stories only. Stories translated into English by a professional translator are also allowed. Electronic submissions only, via the form on this website. No multiple submissions and no simultaneous submissions. WE WILL NOT ACCEPT extreme horror, fan fiction, erotica, graphic sex, manga-type stories, standard romance except in the context of the original folktale, overtly political pieces, or morals that are degrading to any person or persons of any type. Submissions will be read within three months from the date submitted. You will receive an acceptance or rejection email within that time. QUERIES ABOUT YOUR STORY WILL NOT BE ANSWERED. Due to volume of submissions, we won’t be able to explain to you why a story won’t work for our anthology other than basic issues such as wrong manuscript format or grammar problems. Payment will be 1 cent/word. Payment will be rendered before publication. Use the form on this website to submit your stories. Submissions open on...

Deadline: September 15th, 2020 Payment: $3 Theme: Cold weather horror short stories Shiver Anthology will be a collection of cold weather horror short stories. Give me your creature features, vampires, female villains, ghosts, killer yetis and whatever else you can conjure! As long as the story takes place in the cold, Iet your imagination run wild. For inspiration, think of The Thing, Let Me In, The Shining, 30 Days of Night, Blood Glacier, Infested. This anthology is open to all writers. Stories must be between 1,000 - 4,000 words. Please stick to these guidelines. Only one submission per author. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but please no re-prints. If your story is accepted elsewhere, please withdrawal it from consideration. Open for submissions August 15, 2020 - September 15, 2020 Decisions will be announced by October 15, 2020 Anthology will be published by early 2021 Please include an author bio up to 100 words and no more than two links that will accompany your story if published. I will not accept stories depicting rape, pedophilia, or views that promote bigotry, racism, sexism, or homophobia. FORMAT Please send a doc/docx attachment. Any stories sent within the body of the email or as any other format will not be considered. Please send submission to [email protected] Include your name and title in the subject heading. Please include your word count somewhere in the body of the email or on the submission. PAYMENT A one time payment of $3.00 for a short story after contract signing and final edits, and a free e-book copy of the anthology provided by the publisher. RIGHTS I ask for Exclusive First Worldwide Publication and Electronic Rights for three months, and non-exclusive rights thereafter. Via: Nico Bell.

Deadline: September 16th, 2020 Payment: $0.06/word or $15/page Theme: A new way to use the themes of dragons without actually using a dragon In fantasy, dragons are more common than trees—even crossing lines into other genres—and yet, they fall short of obligatory. As dragons grow in popularity, they’re falling in the dangerous zone between staple and soulless stereotype. Therefore, Mythulu’s October 2020 issue will be entirely dedicated to challenging use of dragons in literature. Please confront the following question: "What do dragons contribute to a story? Is there a way to accomplish the same thing without using dragons at all?" Short Stories WITHOUT DRAGONS. Use other storytelling and worldbuilding mechanics to fulfill the story needs usually filled by dragons. All genres welcome. Cartoons Any size from single panel up to two-pages of spread. Our magazine is produced in standard letter size (8.5 x 11" with 1" margin). Cartoons and graphic shorts pay at twice the normal per-page rate. Non-Fiction Articles Insightful discussion of the theme, extraordinary storycraft, or business topics for artistic entreprenuers. Art For this issue, we are especially interested in monsters that have one dragon-like quality and are otherwise unique. If your drawing was inspired by Mythulu Cards, let us know. Advertisements $80 for a full page. Subject to approval. We only publish ads that we believe are in the best interest of our audience, and we limit ads to 4 slots/issue. Letters to the Editor CURRENT EVENTS TOPIC: Because of Covid, all conventions are currently online-only. Normally, in-person encounters build deep, personal relationships between authors and fans. What ideas do you have for making online-conventions an opportunity instead of a barrier? RATES: For the October 2020 issue, Mythulu eMagazine will pay an average of $0.06/word or $15/page. Non-fiction pays $0.08/word. Creative works earn $0.04/word, with short stories...

Deadline: September 20th, 2020 Payment: 8 cents/6 pence for each word for new stories and 6 cents/4 pence for reprints Theme: Ghastly castles, haunted mansions, shadowy forests and long, dark corridors Note: Reprints allowed Gothic Fantasy Short Stories Terrifying Ghosts Anthology Ghastly castles, haunted mansions, shadowy forests and long, dark corridors... This new addition to the Gothic Fantasy series will be packed with tales of terror, bringing together the new and the familiar, the unusual and the unexpected. Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories will deliver a satisfying read for anyone fascinated by glimpses of the beyond: master storytellers featured include A.C. Benson, E.F. Benson, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, Marjorie Bowen, Francis Marion Crawford, Charles Dickens, Sheridan Le Fanu, William Hope Hodgson, Henry James, M.R. James, Bram Stoker and Edith Wharton. Formal Call for Submissions (2020) We are looking for new and recent short stories. We do not require exclusivity. You hold copyright, licensing us just for this publication. We don’t mind if your story has been previously published online or in print (though we do need to know publication and date). Simultaneous submissions are fine, but you must have the right to license your story in an anthology. Word length is most likely to be successful at 2000–4000, but we will still read stories slightly outside this range. Please submit in .doc, .docx or .rtf formats, double spaced, with your name and email address in the footer or header of each page. Submit stories by email to [email protected] Fees, Copyright and Other Terms We pay Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) rates of 8 cents/6 pence for each word for new stories and 6 cents/4 pence for reprints. We would prefer to pay via PAYPAL because bank charges to the US and Canada in particular can be crippling for all concerned. Payment for the...

Deadline: September 21st, 2020 Payment: 8 cents a word Theme: Original horror and dark fantasy stories. All types of horror and dark fantasy are welcome. Nightmare is a horror & dark fantasy magazine edited by John Joseph Adams (current editor) & Wendy N. Wagner (incoming editor, starting Issue 101). All submissions from Aug. 2020 onward will be considered by Wagner for Issue 101 & beyond. GENERAL PROCEDURES Instructions for submitting to Nightmare follow. Please read everything on this page and read the magazine before submitting. NOTE: If Nightmare is currently closed to submissions, please do not query asking when we'll be opening again. When we know when we're opening, we'll make that information available on this page and spread it widely. Simultaneous and Multiple Submissions: We do not accept simultaneous submissions or multiple submissions. You may make one submission to The Horror Lab category (or in the case of poetry, a batch of  up to 5 poems in one document) and one submission to our Short Story category every seven days (i.e., after submitting a short story you must wait seven days before you can submit another, but you can submit a piece of flash fiction to the Horror Lab before those seven days are up). Instructions:  All fiction must be submitted through our Moksha online submission system. Please do not email your submissions. If one of the Submission Type options is grayed out, that means we are currently closed to that Submission Type. Questions/Problems: Email [email protected] for all submission-related inquiries, or if you have any trouble using our online submission system. Please do not email your submissions to this address. All submissions must be submitted via our Moksha online submission system. Rejections/Response Times: Be aware that we expect to receive several hundred submissions during our submissions periods. As such, we cannot offer personalized feedback on each story. If we say “send more” it means we...

Deadline: September 22nd, 2020 Payment: eight cents a word for prose, thirty dollars a page for poetry Theme: Creative writing about environmental justice We’re currently reading for Reckoning 5! Please refer to the specific calls from poetry editor Leah Bobet and fiction/nonfiction editor Cécile Cristofari! To understand what we’re looking for, try reading Reckoning 3, Reckoning 2, Reckoning 1, the interviews, the Reckoning twitter, or LCRW 33. The short version: creative writing about environmental justice. Fiction preferably at least a tiny bit speculative, nonfiction preferably more creative than journalistic, poetry tending towards the narrative and preferably with some thematic heft, art leaning away from the pulpy heavily towards the political. But the heart of what we want is your searingly personal, visceral, idiosyncratic understanding of the world and the people in it as it has been, as it is, as it will be, as it could be, as a consequence of humanity’s relationship with the earth. We are actively seeking work from Indigenous writers and artists, writers and artists of color, queer and transgender writers and artists, and anyone who has suffered the consequences, intended or otherwise, of dominant society’s systemic disconnect with and mistreatment of the natural world. And we’re actively seeking new ways to reach all of the above. Seriously, if you know of a way we can do that, please share. We’d love to publish work in translation! We’re currently open to considering writing in Spanish, French or Swedish for potential translation, and work already translated into English, for which we pay the same rate to both author and translator. We don’t publish work we perceive to be prejudiced in any form, including sexism, racism, ableism, ageism. We reserve the right to point it out—respectfully—when we see it, though we’re as prone to mistakes and misunderstanding as anyone else. We’re no longer accepting submissions by email; queries are ok. Simultaneous submissions...

Deadline: September 25th, 2020 Payment: $3 Theme: Halloween Holiday Horror Book 5 - Halloween Well, we've done Christmas, Valentines, Summer Solstice and have Celebration in progress, so it's about time we had a Halloween to add to the awesome holiday horror collection ;) Short submission window, so don't miss out! - Word count is between 100-500 words - Submissions must be edited to the best of your ability - Limited to five acceptances per author, seven submissions allowed. - Google docs or Word, no weird fonts or formatting. - Include your real name, author name, and title on your submission - Pay is $2 per accepting story and authors may purchase paperback copies at cost All Submissions must be sent to [email protected] to be considered. Submissions close September 25th in anticipation of a very early October release. Cover reveal coming soon. xx The Macabre Ladies Eleanor Merry and Cassandra Angler

Deadline: September 28th, 2020 Payment: Short Fiction (4,001-8,000 Words) – $5 Theme: Horror, thriller, and science fiction SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FORMAT: All submissions should follow proper manuscript format. Please attach all submissions in .doc or .docx format. We will not accept submissions embedded in the body of an email. Please adhere to standard manuscript guidelines (12-point font, Times New Roman, double spaced, etc). EMAIL: Please send your submissions to [email protected] Include what book your submitting for, your name, and your story title. WHAT WE WANT: We are primarily interested in Flash Fiction or Short Fiction submissions but are open to novellas and novels. We currently want short fiction work for our upcoming digest series. PAYMENT: Please understand that LDB is a very small publishing brand but because of that we put greater consideration into the stories submitted. Flash Fiction (1,500-4,000 Words) – FREE DIGITAL COPY Short Fiction (4,001-8,000 Words) – $5 + FREE DIGITAL COPY Anything larger than the Short Fiction format will be handled on a case-by-case basis. All contributors will receive a free digital or physical copy of their choosing for the books their work is featured in. RIGHTS: Little Demon Books will retain first publishing rights to short stories but the original creative copyright will remain with the author. The author is allowed to reprint their original work six months after first printing. Via: Little Demon Books.