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Deadline: November 1st, 2024 Payment: $25 and a contributors copy Theme: Weird works published between the 31st of October 2023 and the 31st of October 2024 Note: Reprints Only REMINDER: THIS IS FOR ELIGIBLE REPRINTS ONLY Tenebrous Press presents the Third Annual Brave New Weird Awards—to reward and promote this unique blend of genres—and its accompanying anthology, Brave New Weird: the Best New Weird Horror of the Year, Vol. 3. We define New Weird Horror as a subgenre focused on progress, creatively capturing themes and questions that bleed into fiction straight from the modern reader's life and future. It acts as a challenge to break new ground in terms of form and content and to engage with the unknown. Beyond that, New Weird Horror will be defined by the winning pieces themselves. Buzzwords: speculative; eclectic; horror-centric but genre-blended; progressive and innovative in terms of content, social themes, form, or voice; concept-driven. Does this sound like your writing? Submit your previously published work to the New Weird Horror Awards today! Eligibility Any previously published piece of short fiction under 7.499 words originally published in the English language within the eligibility period. You may submit NARRATIVE poems only; poems will be judged on their storytelling. Stories published in other languages are welcome if there is an English translation available, and the English translation falls under the eligibility period. Any work published through Tenebrous Press is not eligible INCLUDING THE SKULL & LAUREL MAGAZINE. We already think you're awesome, regardless. Tenebrous staff are also not eligible. Previous WINNERS are NOT eligible; please do not submit. NOMINEES from previous years ARE eligible. Eligibility period Works published between the 31st of October 2023 and the 31st of October 2024 will be considered for BNW Vol. 3. Simply: If it's published before Halloween this year, it...

Submission Window: November 1st-2nd, 2024 Payment: 8 cents per word for original, 2 cents for reprints, For artwork: $10 for the non-exclusive right to use each image, for as long as the site is online.  If we publish a print collection we will pay a pro-rata share for each image used. Theme: Well written original work in science fiction, fantasy, myth, legend, fairy tales, and eldritch, in written, podcast, video, and/or graphic story form, and from around the world. Note: Reprints welcome     Submissions Schedule The first and second day of every month, 12 am of the 1st to 12 am of the 3rd, E.S.T. For reading impaired individuals, our submissions manager and ‘forget password’ have a captcha compatible with screen readers. We pay 8¢ per word for new fiction, 2¢ per word for fiction reprints, 2 – 8¢ per word for new fact-based work, 1- 4¢ per word for reprinted fact articles. For new poetry, we pay $1 per line, and for reprints we pay 50¢ a line  We’re looking for poems up to 40 lines. We’ll consider longer poems but that would be a hard sell, and words over 40 lines would be paid at 8¢ per word. We sponsor The Kepler Award to recognize and encourage writers of excellent science fiction and fantasy stories that creatively extrapolate on known science in constructive and exciting ways. You can learn aboutThe Kepler Award here. You can read a copy of our standard contract here.   It can be varied as needed to include the rights of translators, voice actors, etc. Writers Guidelines We accept new work as well as reprints, prose and poetry, from a minimum of 1000 words on up.   All else being equal, shorter pieces will be favored, and we have yet to find a story over about 9-10,000 words we have even...

Submission Window: November 1st - 3rd, 2024 Payment: $35 Themes: The Southern Gothic, Tales to Terrify, System Solis 2300 WHAT WE WANT: Stories, poems, and artwork for one of three collections for our Patreon subscribers. WHAT WE DON'T WANT: Hate speech, stories set in established IP's or fan fiction, previously published work, stories that haven't seen an editor or a revision, or anything generated by AI.  ​ ABOUT PATREON STORIES: After being featured on our Patreon, each selected piece will be published in our annual anthology, Tales of Sley House. COLLECTION 1- THE SOUTHERN GOTHIC:  Think William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Carson McCullers, Cormac McCarthy, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah, Ellen Gilchrist, or even Edgar Allan Poe.  COLLECTION 2 - TALES TO TERRIFY: This collection is our home for all things supernatural and horror. Bring us your scariest, dirtiest, bloodiest, and spookiest tales. COLLECTION 3 -  SYSTEM SOLIS 2300: The year is 2324. Humanity has spread throughout the solar system, but has yet to to reach further. From mining operations on asteroids and gas giants, terraforming Mars and small moons, and exploring the subterranean oceans of bodies like Europa, we are reaching new worlds even as we continue to battle our inner demons.  ​ COMPENSATION: Authors will be paid $35 for each selected piece. ROLLING SUBMISSIONS: Submissions are open the 1st-3rd of every month, unless otherwise indicated. To submit a piece, please click the button below. In your email, make sure to indicate under which of the three categories your work falls. DISCLAIMER: Stories can be funny, serious, or somewhere in-between; we just want well-written pieces. Genre bending or blending is okay! Fantasies, mysteries, and thrillers can all find a home on our Patreon, as long as they fit within one of the above categories. SUBMIT FOR PATREON...

Deadline: November 5th, 2024 Payment: $5 USD per 1000 words Theme: Speculative Fiction tales that take place under water! This planet (and surely others like it) are mostly covered in water, and while we know a bit about life there, what mysteries might still lie far down within its depths? From gripping narratives that explore the ocean, the discovery of lost civilizations, or the dangers of creating underwater colonies, we are seeking stories that examine those worlds, and transport readers to a place that is both familiar and fantastical. Send us your speculative fiction (SFF+) tales of the underwater! Deadline: November 5, 2024 Release: Soon after. GENERAL BUT IMPORTANT INFORMATION Please read prior to submitting! NOTE: We are currently only accepting short stories for the anthologies and cannot accept full-length novel manuscripts at this time. ** Please put the anthology you're submitting to, and the word count of the story in the subject line of the email.** Payment for accepted stories will be $5 USD per 1000 words for all current anthologies. Payments occur via PayPal, so please have a PayPal account into which we can pay you. We will also provide you with a digital copy (epub and pdf) of the finished manuscript. (Paperback and hard cover editions will be available via Amazon.) We're looking for speculative fiction across all anthologies (unless otherwise specified). That includes everything from high fantasy to hard scifi and anything in between. We do accept reprints, simultaneous submissions, and multiple submissions, though these will slow down our response time. Story lengths should be anywhere from flash-length to about 12k words, but we have at times made exceptions. We know a story is complete when it's complete, and arbitrary word count requirements are not always helpful. If you have an amazing story that exceeds 12k words,...

Submission Window: November 1st - 7th, 2024 Payment: 0.01$ CAD/ word for all short stories up to 10,000 words, and $100 CAD/page for comics. Theme: All forms of speculative fiction We are now open for submissions for the first 7 days of every second month. Open Months: January, March, May, July, September, November Our submission response times are typically between 20-60 days. Hexagon SF Magazine wants to ensure that the submission process is easy for creators. We try to respond to all comments, queries, and concerns within a few days. Please do not query regarding the status of a submission until 8 weeks have passed. If for any reason the submission form does not work correctly, please feel free to send us your submission via email. #BlackVoicesMatter #BlackLivesMatter What we are looking for -We accept only previously unpublished short stories, flash fiction, and comics, in English. -We are looking for narratives no longer than 10,000 words, and comics of 1-5 pages. -We currently publish only speculative fiction. This includes science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, cyberpunk, sword and sorcery, magical realism, paranormal horror, dystopian epics, eldritch horror, superhero, space opera, afrofuturism, weird west, etc. -Deeper than genre, we are looking for pieces with engaging characters, fresh conflicts, and exciting narratives, not just concept pieces. We recommend that you read some of our published work before submitting. You can read all Issues for free. -For extra guidance on what kinds of genres and subjects we’re looking for, visit our Wish List and Hard Sells. For guidance on how to pitch a short comic to Hexagon, check out our Short Comic Pitches. -Please include a Content Warning for any stories involving suicide. Thank you in advance from the editor! -We accept only original work, no fan-fiction. Reprints are not accepted at this time. We accept translated works, as long...

Deadline: November 6th, 2024 Payment: 15 contributors copies and $200 for the initial press run of 100 copies with an increase for each additional run instead of royalties (details below.) This is a different payment structure than what we're used to seeing so absolutely read the details. It'll work for some authors but not all. Theme: All genres of speculative fiction MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS Full-length and chapbook manuscript submissions will open for 1 week starting on November 1, 2024 Thank you for your interest in Stanchion Books. Stanchion Book and Chapbook Submission GuidelinesStanchion will open submissions on November 1, 2024 for prose (short stories, flash fiction, essays, prose poems, poetry, hybrid) collections, novels, novellas, and chapbooks. Chapbook manuscripts should be between 40-90 A5-size pages. Full-length manuscripts should be between 100-240 A5-size pages (or thereabouts). Only full manuscripts will be accepted. Each author may submit only one manuscript per reading period. All manuscripts should be presented in Times New Roman, size 12 font, formatted as an A5 document, saved as a PDF, submitted via email, and titled: YOUR LAST NAME_TITLE OF BOOK.pdf Please include a brief bio with your submission and tell me something about the book you have submitted. We'll be working together so I'd love to get to know you, where you're from, what you love, etc.\ Your manuscript should include a title page with your name, genre, and page count, and a table of contents (for poetry and story collections). Please also include a dedication, about author,  and acknowledgments pages, if applicable. Individual pieces (poems, prose, etc) of a collection may have been previously published online and in print. Simultaneous submissions are a-okay. If selected for publication by Stanchion, please immediately pull your submission from other presses. Conversely, if your manuscript is selected by another publisher, please let me...

Submission Window November 1st - 14th, 2024 Payment: Poetry: flat rate $US50.00 per poem, Flash: flat rate $US80.00 per story (max 1000 words), Short fiction/non-fiction: $US0.08 per word (max 4000 words) Theme: Original works of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction that engage in a significant way with the long history of fairy tales “No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.” ~Catherynne M. Valente Upcoming submission windows Submission window for Issue #4: 1 to 14 November (closes midnight AEST on 14 November) We do not accept multiple submissions (one piece per submission window, please!), simultaneous submissions, or previously published work (reprints). Submitting your work All submissions must be emailed to [email protected] We’re in the process of setting up a submissions manager for The Orange & Bee at Duosoma. More information, including a link, will be made available before our next submission window opens. Word/line limits   Poetry: up to 50 lines (but we’re a little bit flexible!) Flash: up to 1000 words Short fiction/non-fiction: up to 4000 words Payment Poetry: flat rate $US50.00 per poem Flash: flat rate $US80.00 per story (max 1000 words) Short fiction/non-fiction: $US0.08 per word (max 4000 words) We typically pay via PayPal, and in your ‘home’ currency, but we will do our best to accommodate your preferred payment method. Please note, however, that we cannot pay by cheque. What we’re looking for I am all for putting new wine in old bottles, especially if the pressure of the new wine makes the bottles explode (Angela Carter, ‘Notes from the front line’). We are seeking original works of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction that engage in a significant way with the long history of fairy tales. We are interested in works that stretch, expand, test, subvert, and challenge the fairy-tale tradition. We are interested in works that are entertaining, but also...

Deadline: November 14th, 2024 Payment: 8 cents/6 pence for each word for new stories Theme: This is an unthemed horror anthology, open to all sorts of horror content. We are very excited to announce a new call for submissions which is now open! Please read through the details for submissions carefully before submitting your stories and make sure to include your story title in the subject of your email. Fever Dreams A New Collection of Horror Stories We are very excited to open submissions for this new anthology, edited by Mark Morris ("...one of the finest horror writers at work today" – Clive Barker)! Elemental Forces is the sixth book in Mark Morris’s ABC of Horror, and follows Elemental Forces, which is out now! Mark has once again approached an impressive range of authors but we've reserved space for four new stories from the online submissions. This is a prestigious anthology and will be published worldwide in hardcover and paperback. The first book in the series, After Sundown, was nominated for both Shirley Jackson and British Fantasy awards, so we’re looking forward to finding more unthemed horror stories for this sixth collection. A note from editor Mark Morris: Halloween is upon us once more, which means it’s time for the submissions window for my 6th annual non-themed horror anthology from Flame Tree Press to be thrown wide open. Next year’s entry in the acclaimed ‘ABC of Horror’ series will be called Fever Dreams, and as ever I’m looking for stories that are as disturbing, strange and original as you can make them. I’m not averse to humour, and neither am I averse to horror tropes like zombies, vampires and serial killers. But if you are going to write stories with such familiar, tried-and-trusted elements, then you need to find a new and unique way of...

Deadline: November 15th, 2024 Payment: 0.12 CAD per word or 50 CAD per poem Theme: Stories and poems in FRENCH or ENGLISH with fantastical or speculative elements set on the island of Montréal. Story Requirements: We are looking for stories and poems in FRENCH or ENGLISH with fantastical or speculative elements set on the island of Montréal. Submissions may be science fiction, fantasy, horror or any adjacent genre. They may be set in the distant past, the distant future, or any time in between. They may feature Montréal as we know it today or an alternate Montréal that has never been. The island or city of Montréal must, however, be an essential element of the story. We want tales that wouldn’t make sense if they were transplanted to New York or Hong Kong or Copenhagen. Word Count: Between 1000 and 5000 words for stories. No minimum length for poems. How To Submit: All stories and poems should be submitted in plain text, using AE’s story submission platform. A cover letter is entirely optional, however, we strongly encourage you to share with us your connection to the city of Montréal. Who Can Submit: This call is open to published and unpublished authors of any nationality and from any community. We are particularly eager, however, to see work from Canadian writers (citizens or residents) and Indigenous writers. Payment: Payment will be made at SFWA professional rates of 0.12 CAD per word or 50 CAD per poem (longer poems will be bought at the per word rate if this would result in a larger payment). Payment will be made upon acceptance. Simultaneous/Multiple Submissions: You may submit a maximum of one story and/or five poems (please include all poems in a single submission). Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but please let us know when submitting, and please inform us promptly if the...

Submission Window: November 2nd - 15th, 2024 Payment: 2 cents per word with a $25 minimum Theme: Horror and weird fiction OPENS: November 2, 2024 CLOSES: November 15, 2024 We are seeking horror and weird fiction from 500 to 5,000 words, firm. Query first if your story is over 5,000 words. We are a home for the strange, the macabre, the eerie, the esoteric, the fabulist, and the gothic. The darkly numinous. The odd. We are not interested in extreme horror. Do not send science fiction or fantasy. We’ve published Brian Evenson, John Langan, M. Rickert, Steve Rasnic Tem, and more, and are very supportive of emerging writers, and have twice published first-time authors. Please send 1 story only per reading period. NOTE - We are not considering stories written, co-written, created, or assisted by AI and machine-learning languages such as ChatGPT. Please do not send them. We are seeking first English-language publication rights. Fiction must be in English, and previously unpublished in English anywhere, in any format (including audio), on any platform, including your blog, website, newsletter, Patreon, etc. Please do not query about reprints. We will consider works translated to English, as long as you are offering first English-language publication rights. Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Please inform us if your story is accepted elsewhere. No multiple submissions. Please send 1 story only per reading period. The magazine is free to read online here: Read Weird Horror We encourage you to read some of the stories to familiarize yourself with our aesthetic. We receive about 1,000 manuscripts each period, and accept less than 2% of submissions. Do not be discouraged by a form rejection. Payment is U.S. 2¢ (2-cents) per word , with a $25 minimum and $100 maximum (paid, preferably, via PayPal) for first worldwide English-language rights, for...