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Deadline: July 31st, 2021 Payment: Royalties Deadline – July 31st, 2021 Publication – October 2021 Word Count – 5,000-15,000 Theme – In a world where so many dark things go bump in the night, terror awaits around every corner as these authors take horror stories to the next level. IMPORTANT INFORMATION Maximum of two submissions per anthology per author. Authors can submit to all anthologies simultaneously. Reprints from third party sources accepted IF author currently holds full rights. We will not publish duplicate stories within DSP. Royalties are paid quarterly. Anthology story rights revert back to the author after one year from publication date. Do not submit anthology stories with chapters. All submissions will be reviewed within thirty (30) days of the anthology’s deadline. After receiving edits back, the author has two weeks to return the submission for formatting. POETRY SUBMISSIONS: All poetry needs to be contained within a single email. Each poem should be in a separate document. Haikus may be grouped together. Via: Dragon Soul Press.

Deadline: July 31st, 2021 Payment: Flash fiction 500-1000 words: $5AU, Short story 1000 - 5000 words: $10AU, Short story 5000 - 10000 words: $15AU, Short story 10000 - 15000 words: $20AU Theme: Stories featuring haunted places, people and objects Note: Australian and NZ based authors only Note: Reprints Welcome Haunted: A Ghostly Anthology We are looking for original poetry, flash fiction and short stories 500 - 15000 words featuring haunted places, people and objects with an anticipated December 2021 release date. Reprints are welcome, but the author must own relevant rights. SUBMISSIONS OPEN TO AUSTRALIAN AND NZ BASED AUTHORS SUBMISSIONS OPEN FEB 1 2021 TO JULY 31 2021 Token payments for accepted works are as follows: Poetry: $5AU per poem, up to 4 poems allowed Flash fiction 500-1000 words: $5AU Short story 1000 - 5000 words: $10AU Short story 5000 - 10000 words: $15AU Short story 10000 - 15000 words: $20AU TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS: Every page of the manuscript must include a header with the following information: STORY TITLE justified left, Author’s first initial and full last name justified right Every page of the manuscript must include a footer with a centered page number. One-inch (1″) margins all around Use only .doc or .docx formats. No other formats will be accepted. All manuscripts must be double-spaced. Indent the first line of each paragraph by .5 inches. Use Calibri 12 pt font. Do not manipulate the font or formatting, other than italics for emphasis. Do NOT use tabs, instead use paragraph format settings for first line indents. Submit Now Via: Specul8.

Deadline: July 31st, 2021 Payment: £15 and a contributors copy Theme: Horror-focussed stories inspired and influenced by the transgressive fiction genre We have a very exciting announcement to make today; we are now officially open for submissions to our debut anthology, titled Ceci n’est pas une histoire d’horreur (This is Not a Horror Story). The title is inspired by artist René Magritte’s The Treachery of Images, and we are seeking short stories of surrealist, transgressive fiction with a horror twist. Our cover art will be finalised and uploaded to this page in the near future. If this has piqued your interest, please scroll down for the full details! What are We Looking For? First and foremost, we are looking for the unusual and the provocative. We are seeking horror-focussed stories inspired and influenced by the transgressive fiction genre. Short fiction in a similar vein to authors such as Kathy Acker, J. G. Ballard, Poppy Z. Brite, William S. Burroughs, Brett Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, and Hubert Selby Jr.. In terms of setting and theme, we are open to anything, so long as the narrative bears the hallmarks of transgressive fiction; protagonists that rebel against society and its norms, themes of struggling with one’s own identity, disillusionment and frustration. How those concepts are interpreted and presented is up to you. We are also open to the experimental and the abstract. Stories that play around with standard form and convention. Think short fiction similar to that found in Paul Tremblay’s Growing Things and Other Stories. The more bizarre, the better. We are not the squeamish sort, so be as wild and grotesque as you wish. Erotic content is fine too and will be considered, so long as it exists to serve the narrative. More or less anything goes, though if your story is blatantly racist or homophobic it will be instantly rejected. We encourage...

Deadline: July 31st, 2021 Payment: $10 and a contributor's copy Theme: A modern world overrun by fantasy, details below! Thank you for your interest in Oddity Prodigy Productions! We are thrilled to announce that we are now accepting submissions for our latest anthology "Beneath the Yellow Lights" a collection of stories featuring urban magic and fantasy. On the heels of our successful horror anthology "Scary Stuff" we decided to change gears and move into the realm of the mystical! The details are listed below in this email. We look forward to your submissions, Oddity Prodigy Productions Details: Oddity Prodigy Productions is proud to announce we are open for submissions on our latest anthology: Beneath the Yellow Lights! This will be the second anthology published by OPP to accept submissions, following the success of Scary Stuff, our previous anthology. There is a planned kickstarter to cover publishing costs. Publishing date and distribution is as yet undecided. The deadline for Submissions is July 31st, 2021 What We’re Looking For: Imagine your favorite coffee shop is run by elves, or the band playing speed metal at the club is made up entirely of orcs. That graffiti on the side of the building that seems too high for humans to have reached? Maybe it was painted by wizards? Beneath the Yellow Lights is the place to explore the urban fantasy landscape! Finding the places where magic and modern day meet is our goal. We are looking for urban fantasy stories that feature fantasy elements such as magic and mythical creatures in urban environments. Take a look at the Dresden Files novels by Jim Butcher, the works of Charles de Lindt, Carrie Vaughn’s Kitty series, or Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman. What We’re Not Looking For: We aren’t looking for science fiction, futurism, cyberpunk, high fantasy...

Deadline: July 31st, 2021 Payment: $5.00 Theme: ...Monsters!   We are looking for monsters, of course, be it werewolves, vampires, unspeakable creatures from the darkest depths of space or the innermost circles of hell, and any manner of earthly animals running amok. And, don't forget the most heinous monster of them all, who just may be the sweet, unassuming neighbor who lives in the house next to yours... 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! * 4K-10K word count * Write 'MONSTERS' 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. To submit, email your polished story to [email protected] - 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: 31 July 2021 NO REPRINTS - ORIGINAL UNPUBLISHED WORKS ONLY Payment - $5.00 for first rights. Capped at 120K words in total.   Via: Hellbound Books Publishing.

Deadline: July 31st, 2021 Payment: 1 cent per word for prose, $10 for poetry Theme: Prohibition NonBinary Review is a quarterly digital literary journal that joins poetry, fiction, essays, and art around each issue's theme. We invite  authors to explore each theme in any way that speaks to them: re-write a  familiar story from a new point of view, mash genres together, give us a personal essay about some aspect of our theme that has haunted you all  your life. We also invite art that will accompany the literature. All submissions must have a clear and obvious relationship to our theme. Submissions with no clear relationship to the theme will be rejected. Although you may submit more than once, we can only accept ONE piece per author/artist per issue. We are open to submissions which relate to the idea of PROHIBITION.   We know — the United States during Prohibition, which lasted from January 17, 1920 through December 5, 1933, was tough. We've heard all the stories about the bootleggers and the rum runners and the speakeasies. We've read all about Carrie Nation, the American Temperance Union, and Eliot Ness. We'd like to see what else you've got. Have you got a story about what life would look like if orange juice had been prohibited, rather than alcohol? How about a story of someone from another country coming to the US during Prohibition? How about a story about things that were invented during Prohibition specifically because alcohol wasn't available? We'd LOVE to see those! PROSE, WHICH INCLUDES FICTION, CREATIVE NON-FICTION, AND FLASH NonBinary Review accepts fiction and creative non-fiction of up to 3,000  words in length, although shorter is probably better. Fiction should be double spaced, 12-point type, in Times New Roman in a  Word document or text file. We do not accept .pdfs. Authors...

Submission Window: June 1st - July 31st, 2021 Payment: $0.08/word Theme: Stories that merge Science Fiction with Spiritualism and/or a dash of Steampunk. We are seeking stories that drift in alternate realities of Spirit Machine, an anthology that merges Science Fiction with Spiritualism and/or a dash of Steampunk. To be published in the Winter of 2021 by the Air and Nothingness Press. Theme Seance Fiction - A mashup of Spiritualism (seances, ouiji/spirit boards, kirlian auras, discarnated entities, ghost talking) and Science Fiction and/or Steampunk genres. Be wild, take chances, submit stories that are left of center. Show us your fireworks! Stories must combine elements of both Spiritualism and Science Fiction/Steampunk SF. No fantasy stories, no standalone ghost stories, no SF without aspects of Spiritualism. All stories are requested to be between 1500 and 3500 words in length. How to submit: Email your story to us. Submission Dates Submissions open: June 1, 2021 Submissions close: July 31, 2021 Reading/Review begins: August 1, 2021 Reading/Review ends: September 30th, 2021 All authors will be contacted by: October 15, 2021 Download the complete OC submission PDF here. General Submission Information We like to seek out new authors and book ideas ourselves rather than be contacted directly because we are a small, self-funded press, and only publish 4 books a year. We usually offer open call submissions on anthologies we decide to do, or we contact authors directly if we have particular needs. Ideal story lengths are between 1000-3000 words. We pay upon $0.08/word for the stories we publish. All of our books are limited editions of between 100 and 125 copies and we prefer to print physical books over creating ebooks. If, however, you are familiar with the sort of books we publish and you have a smashingly provocative collection of stories, a unique novella or...

Submission Window: July 1st, 2021 – July 31st, 2021 Payment: $100 Theme: Anti-fascist splatterpunk stories This summer, I’ll be editing ANTIFA SPLATTERPUNK, an anthology dedicated to–you guessed it–anti-fascist splatterpunk stories. In addition to pure splatterpunk, I’m also open to extreme horror with weird, bizarro, historical, or science fiction elements. Just keep it anti-fascist. The anthology is open to all writers, but I would especially like submissions from antifascist writers of marginalized groups. Note that some writers have specifically been invited to contribute. The anthology will be a mix of solicited stories and stories selected from the open call submission period. Stories should be between 2,000 and 4,500 words. Multiple submissions are not allowed. Simultaneous submissions are allowed, but withdraw your submission immediately if it gets accepted elsewhere. No reprints. Open for submissions July 1st, 2021 – July 31st, 2021. I will announce accepted submissions by August 31st, 2021. Anthology will be published as both an electronic and print book in winter 2021. OTHER SUBMISSION CONSIDERATIONS If you’re retreading old ground and well-established tropes, make it fresh. I’m fine with horror that has erotic elements, but emphasis should be on the horror. Yes, make it anti-fascist, but don’t be moralizing. I want nuance. Stories that deal with bigotry are fine, but bigoted stories are not. I don’t want stories with graphic depictions of sexual violence. This is a splatterpunk anthology, so gore and extreme elements are encouraged, but make sure they serve story, character, and theme. FORMAT Use standard manuscript format. Send a doc/docx attachment. Do not copy-paste your story into the body of the email or submit it in any other format. We won’t read it if you do. Please send submission to [email protected]. Include your name, story title, and word count in the subject heading (e.g., Firstname Lastname— “Fascism...

Deadline: July 31st, 2021 Payment: $0.04 cent a word and a contributors copy Theme: Diverse sci-fi and fantasy fiction. MYTHIC is seeking diverse sci-fi and fantasy fiction. We publish both new, original fiction. Authors are encouraged to submit their stories during the specific reading periods listed below. Reading Periods June 1 through July 31 December 1 through January 31 Guidelines Works should be between 2,000-6,000 words. (No wiggle room above or below.) 1.) Submit in Standard Manuscript Format We prefer Times New Roman or Courier and 12 point type. Double-spaced pages. Do not have tabs in your manuscript; please set first line indents. Please include your name and contact information at the beginning of the story. Submit in .doc, .docx, .rtf format. 2.) Please NO simultaneous or multiple submissions. Rights Purchased: For NEW/UNPUBLISHED FICTION, We are purchasing World English Rights Following an exclusivity period, all other rights revert to the author. MYTHIC retains a nonexclusive right to keep stories in the issue they appear for as long as the issue remains in print. Compensation: At this time, we PAY $0.04 CENTS A WORD for NEW short fiction. We provide authors with one free copy of the issue in which their story appears. Payment made upon publication via PayPal. (We are not responsible for any transaction fees). To submit fiction: Send all stories to [email protected]. Your story should be attached. Put “New Submission: Title of Your Story” in the subject line. Please include your name, title, word count, and contact information in the body of the email. Note on nonfiction: All articles and other content are chosen in-house. Please do not submit queries at this time. If you have further questions, use the contact form.   Thank you for your interest in MYTHIC. Via: Mythic Magazine.

Submission Window: July 1st - July 31st, 2021 Payment: $1 per accepted work Theme: Horror Poetry of specific types, details below What We're Looking For Otoroshi is looking for horrorku, horror tanka, and horror haibun. We also purchase cover art. We follow the modern, English understanding of these genres as they have been adapted to English since the middle of the 20th century. We expect people submitting to be familiar with these conventions. For horrorku, we are looking for clear, concise imagery with a strong juxtaposition. We prefer three-line poems, but single-line poems with clear juxtaposition will also be welcome. For horror tanka, we are looking for clear, concise imagery as well as an emotional element. For horror haibun, we are looking for pieces of no more than 100 words with a clear shift between the prose and the poetry section. For cover art, we are looking for pieces that are clearly within the horror genre. These images must be PG-13, so please no nudity, limited violence, and limited gore.   The Submission may include any or all of the following: · Up to seven (7) horrorku or horror tanka · Up to three (3) haibun · Up to five (5) pieces of cover art All submissions must be original, unpublished work that is not under consideration by a print or web-based journal. Posts in closed, critique-oriented groups and social media sites are acceptable for submission, but public posts on forums such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are not. By submitting a piece to us, you are guaranteeing that it is your original work and not under consideration or published anywhere else in the world. E-mail submission is required. Type poems into the body of the e-mail; no attachments of poetry will be opened. For art submissions, please include all...