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Deadline: May 3rd, 2021 Payment: $5 Theme: Space II 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. (Vol 69.) Space II; deadline 3rd May !!!NEW SUBMISSION PROCESS!!! SUBMIT YOUR STORIES USING THIS FORM If, this form isn’t working, then please email your submission to [email protected] as a last resort. But please let us know why as we’re hoping to use the form going forward. Title your email with the following syntax: SUBMISSION | STORY TITLE | THEME | WORDCOUNT (e.g. SUBMISSION | THE MARTIAN | SPACE | 1,982) It is important that your story complies with our Submission Guidelines. Any stories found not to be in compliance will be immediately discarded. Click HERE for details 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 • Include a 1-2 sentence log line for your story at the end of the document • Title your email with the following syntax: SUBMISSION | STORY TITLE | THEME | WORDCOUNT (e.g. SUBMISSION | THE MARTIAN | SPACE | 1,982). Failure to do this...

Submission Window: May 1st-3rd 2021 Payment: $50 Theme: Healers, Midwives and Cunning Folk. Hi there! We’ll no doubt write more about this later in the next year, but for now, what follows below will tell you all you need to know. And the theme? It’s “Healers, Midwives and Cunning Folk.” (No more submissions are being accepted for publication in December of 2020–but we will be publishing stories that have already been accepted.) The following is relevant to all submissions for 2021, and the first submission window opens Jan. 1. More below.   Writing opportunities for 2021 include:   New Fairy Tales: Fairy tales that are almost or entirely new or are just new takes on old tales are all welcome. Mashups of existing fairy tales are welcome as well. Submissions must follow the theme below to be considered.   Essays: Nonfiction articles about any aspect fairy tales and folklore are being sought. The term “essay” just means you’ll be writing about fairy-tale related matters in a nonfiction article.  Creative nonfiction is welcome. You do not have to stick to the theme, but you can.   Poetry: Poetry inspired by fairy tales and that follows the theme is also welcome.   Please read the following in its entirety before submitting.   Want to know what is likely to get published here? There are well over 10 years of stories, essays and art on this current site. It’s the best place to start if you want to be published here.   HERE IS HOW YOU SUBMIT AND FORMAT   Only the kind of submissions outlined below will be accepted at EC in 2021.   * Writers will have a chance to submit fairy-tale inspired stories/essays/poems 11 times this year. Since we will be choosing four works per publishing month, there are 44...

Submission Window: May 1st-7th, 2021 Payment: 8 cents per word Theme: Original fantasy and dark fantasy stories. All types of fantasy and dark fantasy are welcome. Note: This is an early listing to give you some time to plan ahead for next month or to remember to finish revising your story for the upcoming month! Note: We are trusting that the submission windows listed in the ongoing call are valid for this publisher. If they are not, please let us know and we'll look into revising accordingly. Instructions for submitting to Fantasy Magazine follow. Please read everything on this page and read the magazine before submitting. SUBMISSION PROCEDURES Submission Periods: Fantasy is open to submissions the first week of every month (1st-7th). Please do not query about submitting outside our open submission periods. Anonymous Submissions: Fantasy only accepts anonymous submissions. Do not include your name, address, phone number, or other similar identifiers on the manuscript. All original short fiction, flash fiction, and poetry submissions will be read anonymously on first read: moving out of slush depends on the merits of the story alone. Please make sure the title is on the manuscript. Simultaneous and Multiple Submissions: We do not accept simultaneous submissions or multiple submissions. Please do not submit more than one set of poems at a time, more than one piece of flash fiction at a time, or more than one story at a time. You may, however, submit a single entry in each category at the same time: you can submit one batch of poems, one flash fiction piece, and one short story all at the same (or overlapping) time, and each category will be considered a separate submission. If we are already considering work in any given category, please wait until you have received an acceptance or rejection before submitting again in that same category. Instructions: All fiction must be...

Deadline: May 7th, 2021 Payment: 3 pence per word for fiction and £30 per poem Theme: A broad spectrum of stories from every Science Fiction subgenre Issue #1 Submissions As we ready our Kickstarter campaign, we are seeking stories to feature in the very first issue. There is a tight deadline for issue #1 submissions as we want to have stories and writers in place for when the Kickstarter goes live. If you have a story ready or can get one ready or finished pretty swiftly, we have a deadline of 7th of May. Please ensure you read all the details on this page before submitting using the form below. What we want: We are looking for original works of fiction from 300 to 5000 words to feature in our magazine. We want to offer a broad spectrum of stories from every Science Fiction subgenre. So send us your robots and space cowboys. Send us your dystopian-alien-invasion-post-apocalyptic-cyberpunk tales. We like weird. We like adventure. We LOVE SCIFI!! We are also looking for Science Fiction poetry of up to 40 lines and articles on or about Science Fiction of up to 2500 words. Like all lit mags, we have high standards. In saying that, we know that writers often do not always appreciate their own work, so put your doubt aside and send us your most polished short story masterpiece. If your work is accepted for publishing, we may request certain edits. The occasional typo is perfectly normal, but we don’t want a story littered with them. If we require structural edits or a slight changes in the story itself, we will message you with our suggestions and leave the edits in your capable hands. All payments will be based on the final word count after edits.   Payment rates and schedule With a successful Kickstarter campaign, we will be able...

Deadline: May 15th, 2021 Payment: $125 and a contributors copy Theme: Crime stories with Femmes Fatales/Dangerous Women From Maxim Jakubowski: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Mango Publishing in the USA (who were recently highlighted in Publishers Weekly as the fastest growing publisher in America) have commissioned a sixth volume in my series of thematic crime anthologies. Previous ones have been Historical, Private Eyes, Impossible Crimes and two new Holmes stories collections. I am now seeking brand new stories on the theme of Femmes Fatales/Dangerous Women; stories to range between 4,500 and 7.500 words; delivery by 15 May 2021 for February 2022 publication; rights sought: non-exclusive World English language anthology rights only; payment £100/$125 on publication, plus a copy of the book. Please send your submissions to [email protected] Feel free to share and disseminate this call, the more the merrier...

Deadline: May 15th, 2021 Payment: $20 for original fiction, $5 for reprints Theme: Horror stories that take place in the height of summer Note: Reprints Welcome Days of Summer For our next anthology, we're looking for horror stories that take place in the height of summer, when the days are stifling and the full moon brings out the terrors of the night. When the afternoon sun beats you down and the brief night provides little relief. Give us stories of summer break and the monsters lurking in the woods or the psychopath living next door. Give us stories about summer love, heartbreak, and death. We want stories about the summer where everything changed. Deadline: 5/15/21 (We will close early if we reach the word count for the anthology before the deadline) Payment: $20 plus electronic contributor copy. $5 plus electronic contributor copy for reprints. Word count: 2,000 - 12,000 (A little over or under is fine)   Important Bits · Include a bio or greeting with your email. We don't need a lot, but at least let us know who you are. · Please send all submissions as a .docx or .rtf attachment with the subject line of your email as: DBND - Days of Summer - Story Title.  · Stories sent after the submission deadline will be rejected unread. · Multiple submissions welcome. · Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let us know if your submission is picked up elsewhere. · Reprints will be considered.   Send submissions to: [email protected] Via: DBND Publishing.

Deadline: May 15th, 2021 Payment: 3¢ per word, $150.00 max, Reprints: 1¢ per word Theme: Dark speculative fiction, read below for specifics. 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...

Deadline: May 15th, 2021 Payment: $5 USD Theme: "Most" Speculative fiction, read below for specifics. Note: Open only for women-identified authors.   Criteria Luna Station Quarterly publishes speculative fiction written by women-identified authors. We think women write awesome characters and really cool stories and we want to show it to the world. We will consider stories submitted by any woman writer, regardless of experience or writing resume. If you consider yourself on the woman end of the gender spectrum in any significant capacity, you’re welcome here! Stuff we want: Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera New Fairy Tales (not retellings) Some creepiness Stories that explore the nooks and crannies of an original world Big events from the everyman perspective Unique settings and storytelling forms Well written stories with strong characters Stuff we don’t want: Anything biased toward any religion, race or moral preference Extreme gore or sexual content, in particular no explicit rape or sexual assault. (everything in moderation) Bizarro fiction Poetry Fan Fiction (original stories only, please) Bad grammar/punctuation (please proofread and watch your sentence structure!) Plagiarism A further note about sex and violence in submissions. Science fiction has a long-standing tradition of pushing boundaries and asking difficult questions. It is meant to challenge us and ask us to look at ourselves and how we treat each other and the world around us. That said, LSQ is centered on uplift and so any story that contains explicit sexual situations or violence especially toward women will be considered more carefully than other stories and the content must be justified within the story’s plot. Format and Details Stories should be 500 to 7000 words in length. We may publish longer or shorter works, but the greater your story is above or below limit, the less likely we are to publish it. No poetry...

Deadline: May 15th, 2021 Payment: $10.00 Theme: Horror stories with depth Pixie Forest Publishing is seeking horror stories for our upcoming anthology. Give us twists, terror, and excitement. Chill us to the bone. Give us nightmares. Don’t just scare us, create a plot and let us see your characters. We are not looking for stories with graphic rape or paedophilia scenes. Violence and gore just for the sake of being violent and gory is not what we are wanting. If it is essential to the plot, include it. If not, leave it for a longer story. Submissions are open until 11:59 EST on May 15th, 2021. Stories should be between 1500 and 3000 words. All submissions must be written in Shunn Format. Please remember to include the title, author’s name, word count, and contact information at the top of the first page. This is so the publisher can easily find you to contact you. Not including your email will guarantee no response. You may submit up to two stories, but we will only accept one per-author. We are currently offering $10 for each accepted story. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know right away if your story is accepted elsewhere. We are accepting reprints, as long as the story hasn’t been published within the past two years. This is to prevent our readers from seeing the same story they may have just read in a different anthology. Please tell us when and where your story was previously published. The author must hold all rights to their stories before publishing with Pixie Forest. If your story is available online, we ask that you take it down before submitting. We are going to read each submission as quickly as possible and make a judgement in one of the following ways: The...

Deadline: May 15th, 2021 Payment: 5 cents per word Theme: Monsters adapting to the 31st century Weird Little Worlds Press is looking for contributors to its inaugural Kickstarter science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthology. Bring your weird and help us tell the best monster stories you’ve ever imagined. SUBMISSION DETAILS Monsters are losing their place in a world flooded with technology and false movie representation. Their hunting grounds are diminishing in an “always-on” world. These are the stories of how monsters are adapting to the 21st century and fighting back to regain their place of power. Bring us your tired tropes reimagined for the new world. Tell us the story that no one has told from the monster that we all think we know. Funny, smart, sad…but always scary. The Details: Deadline: May 15th Length: 1000 – 3500 words Pay: .05 per word (.06 if we can unlock our stretch goal) Rights: We retain full rights of the story for 12 months at which they revert back to you. This includes audio and reprint permissions. Note: This is a Kickstarter project, so everything in contingent on us reaching our goal of $6,547. Once we hit over $8,000, we’ll be able to pay everyone .06 per word and give all authors a cool swag packages. You can take a look at the page here: https://weirdlittleworlds.com/humans-are-the-problem-a-monsters-anthology/ What we want:  Something creative and fresh Monster tropes that are turned inside out and upside down Funny, scary, and/or plotty Big stories that are told in a small way Crisp writing with all the fat cut away Diverse voices of all backgrounds, nationalities, gender identifications, sexual orientations, races, religions, and cultures What we don’t want:  Anything that reminds us of “Bright” or “Onward” Fan fiction Previously published stories Boring monsters doing boring stuff Excessive gore, sex, or...