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Deadline: January 16th, 2021 Payment: $20 Theme: Fantasy Note: My apologies for the short submission period, just ran across this. Flash Fiction Wanted! After closing open submissions for longer stories and novellas, EXTERUS is looking to round out our magazine with some flash! We’ve got a few blank pages that could be used for advertising space, but we would prefer to see them go to authors instead. If you have a piece or two of fantasy themed flash fiction burning a hole in your computer please send it on over. We will pay a flat fee of $20 for each story of 500 to 2,000 words. The story MUST be fantasy related. It can be funny, grimdark, or anything in between. As far as content is concerned, anything up to R rating is fine, just so long as the ‘adult’ material serves a purpose and is not gratuitous. No animal cruelty or torture, if you please. If you submitted a story that we turned down before, please feel free to submit another one. Just because we declined to print one of your pieces doesn’t mean we don’t like you. Sometimes all it takes is the right story at the right time. Submissions will be open until January the 16th. Please send all submission to [email protected] as an attachment plus a brief summary in the body of the email. We will accept DOC, DOCX, RTF, and PDF files. Payment will be made via Paypal. Via: Exterus Magazine's Facebook.

Deadline: January 17th 2021 Payment: AU$5.00 for stories under 2500 words / AU$10.00 for anything above 2500 words Theme: Underground Colp is our 'anything goes' genre-free anthology collection. Expect to see a little bit of this and a little bit of that.   Current theme: UNDERGROUND Beneath the earth, beneath all the hustle and bustle of the big city, there are endless possibilities. Stories waiting to be told about mysterious creatures or forgotten cultures. Tunnels that shouldn't be followed and doors that should probably remain shut. For this collection, we would like stories in which a large proportion of the narrative takes place under the ground. 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 We also encourage new and unpublished writers to take the leap and get in touch.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 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 - Underground - Story Title. Word count: 1000 - 5500 words Deadline: January 17 2021 Payment: AU$5.00 for stories under 2500 words / AU$10.00 for anything above 2500 words Via: Gypsum Sound Tales.

Deadline: January 18th, 2021 Payment: $.10 per word Theme: Intricate, experimental stories and poems with gorgeous prose, verve, and imagination that elicit strong emotions and challenge beliefs. Uncanny Magazine will be open to poetry submissions from January 4 to January 18. Please follow us on social media or sign up for our newsletter to get all submission updates.  Editors-in-Chief: Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas Uncanny Magazine is seeking passionate, diverse SF/F fiction and poetry from writers from every conceivable background.  We want  intricate, experimental stories and poems with gorgeous prose, verve, and imagination that elicit strong emotions and challenge beliefs. Uncanny believes there’s still plenty of room in the genre for tales that make you feel. Uncanny Magazine is a Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) Qualifying Professional Market. Fiction Guidelines Uncanny is looking for original, unpublished speculative fiction stories between 750-6000 words. Payment is $.10 per word (including audio rights). We will reject any story that doesn’t follow our guidelines and procedures. You may not resubmit a rejected story. If you aren’t sure if your story counts as unpublished, please query us. Submission procedures: 1- NEW! Please submit your story via Uncanny‘s Moksha submission system. 2- All stories should be in Modern Manuscript Format and attached in .RTF, .DOC, or .DOCX formats. Please feel free to include your pronouns (optional) along with your name and email address in the upper left corner of your manuscript. Note, you do not need to add your mailing address or legal name to your manuscript. We will only ask for that information if your story is chosen for publication. 3- Your cover letter should contain the length of your story, your significant publishing history and awards, and information that might be relevant to that specific submission. 4- Please do not send multiple submissions at once. 5- We try to respond to all submissions in 30 days. Please feel free to query uncannymagazine gmail...

Deadline: January 25th, 2021 Prize: 2 prizes. ¢.5 per word (half a cent), with a max of $15 plus a one-time royalty bonus and inclusion in a "Best Of" yearly anthology Theme: MONSTERS (or Creatures) MONTHLY HORROR OPEN CALL Submissions Open: 1st - 25th of the Month Responses will be completed by the 15th of the next month. Example: January theme opens January 1 and closes end of day Jan 25. You will have a response back by February 15th. Theme: HORROR - Although the monthly theme will change, the running theme for this year’s monthly contest will be MONSTERS (or Creatures)! January: Faeries February: Wendigos March: Djinn Word count: 1500 - 3000 with some wiggle room above the limit. Not under. Top Two Stories: Will be accepted into the "Best Of" Anthology released early 2022 Payment: Flat rate payment ¢.5 per word (half a cent), with a max of $15 plus a one-time royalty bonus payment after one year of sales. Runner Up: Will have their story and bio featured on our newsletter and blog. Payment: One time $5.00 (USD) payment Who can submit? Open to the public Reprints? No Multiple Submission? No  Only one submission per month per author Formatting: Put your name, email, and title on the top of the manuscript. Please use a standard font, either 11 or 12 pt, double spaced, and indent paragraphs. Title your manuscript "Title of Story - Theme and month" Example "The Ring of Death - Faeries January" How to submit? Submit via the FORM - Which will open on January 1, 2021 IF you have issues with the form, please email your manuscript to [email protected] Title your email the same as the manuscript Submit your manuscript via the Form on our submission section here: https://www.eerieriverpublishing.com/open-submission Although we are a horror publisher we are...

Deadline: January 25th, 2021 Payment: $5 Theme: Government Experiments 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 65.) Government Experiments; deadline 25th January !!!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...

Deadline: January 31st, 2021 Payment: Royalties Publication – May 2021 Word Count – 5,000-15,000 Theme – Female samurai are rarely written in books and are shrouded in mystery. With no limitation on genre, the only special requirement for this anthology is that a female samurai be the main character in each of these stories. * Introduction of yourself should be a short biography in 3rd Person between 100-200 words. Upon acceptance, this will be used within the anthology. Send a bio with every single anthology submission. We work with hundreds of authors and will not take time to retrieve yours from a previous anthology. * Poetry submissions: All poetry needs to be contained within a single e-mail. Each poem should be in a separate document. Haikus may be grouped together. * All e-mails should be addressed to “Dear Editor.” After receiving edits back, the author has two weeks to return the submission for formatting. All submissions will be reviewed within thirty (30) days of the anthology’s submission deadline. This ensures submission calls do not close early and gives everyone a chance to submit. You will know your submission has been received for consideration by receiving a generic response. Whether accepted or rejected, you will always receive a response. View our blog articles on how to submit to a publisher and how to write a proposal.   Failure to submit following all of the guidelines will result in an immediate refusal. You are able to submit again before the submission call deadline.   Rating – Check each anthologies‘ rating. Word count – Check each anthologies‘ word count requirements. E-mail address to submit to – [email protected]   NOTICE –  Failure to submit correctly will result in refusal of submission. Via: Dragon Soul Press.

Deadline: January 31st, 2021 Payment: $0.01 cent a word and a contributors copy, $20 for reprints and a contributors copy Theme: Diverse sci-fi and fantasy fiction. Note: Reprints accepted MYTHIC is seeking diverse sci-fi and fantasy fiction. We publish both new, original fiction and reprints. 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 For REPRINT FICTION, We are purchasing Reprint 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 $0.01 cent a word for NEW short fiction. At this time, we pay a flat rate of $20 for REPRINT 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 for NEW/UNPUBLISHED short stories. Put “Reprint Submission: Title of Your Story” in the subject line for REPRINT short stories. 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...

Deadline: January 31st, 2020 Payment: 10 cents per word Theme: Science fiction, fantasy, horror (everything must have speculative element, even horror). Note: This does NOT open until January 1st, do not submit before this time. Diabolical Plots will be open for submissions for the entire month of January 2021. David Steffen is the editor, who you may also know from using the Submission Grinder writing tool or reading the Long List Anthology series.  Diabolical Plots is a SFWA-qualifying market, so if you have a personal goal to join SFWA, making a sale here would help you toward that goal. This year Ziv Wities will be in the role of assistant editor.  He will be handling much of the first round of the submission process, as well as helping to write personal rejections when we provide personal rejections. For the most part we expect the process will generally be the same–but the biggest difference is that in past years David read at least part of every submitted story, which is not expected to be true this year because of time constraints–thankfully Ziv is willing to step in and lend a hand! FICTION OVERVIEW Genres: science fiction, fantasy, horror (everything must have speculative element, even horror). Word count: 3500 words or less. This is a firm limit.  If you submit a longer story, it will be rejected unread and that will count as a submission. Do not query to ask permission to submit something longer–the answer will be no. Pay rate: 10 cents per word (more than the minimum professional rate as deemed by SFWA) Multiple submissions: A total of TWO submissions per author during this submission window.  You don’t have to wait for one response to send the second one–you can just send both whenever you want during the window. Simultaneous submissions: No.  We understand we are tying up...

Deadline: January, 31st, 2021 Payment: $50 Theme: Stories that are "scary, disturbing, unsettling, and sad" What We Publish At 34 Orchard, we like dark, intense pieces that speak to a deeper truth. We’re not genre-specific; we just like scary, disturbing, unsettling, and sad. We like things we can’t put down and things that make us go “wow” when we’ve finished. But our main goal here at 34 Orchard is to publish the stuff we like to read, and you’re not in our heads. So don’t over think it. Just submit. We are an international journal and welcome submissions from everyone, all over the world. Word Counts Short fiction from 1000 to 7500 words Poetry any style or length When We Publish We publish two issues per year, one in the spring (April) and one in the fall (November). Issues are hosted on this site as PDFs. Reading Period Our reading period for the Spring Issue is January 1-January 31. Our reading period for the Fall Issue is July 1-July 31. We only accept submissions, therefore, during January and July. Anything submitted to us outside those months will be deleted unread, and no response will be sent. Simultaneous Submissions Yes, we welcome and encourage them! Just notify us at [email protected] if it’s been accepted elsewhere as soon as you know. Multiple Submissions No. We only consider one piece of fiction per writer at a time. Poetry: you may send up to three at once as three separate documents attached to one email. Reprints No. We don’t accept anything from our open submissions call that has been previously published. How to Submit and Formatting The usual: Times New Roman 12 point font/Double spaced Send as a .doc only (no docx, rtf, pdf) attachment to [email protected] Please note that if you send us anything but a .doc, your story will be automatically rejected unread. We will not be reading...

Daedline: January 31st, 2021 Payment: 1p per word, plus a copy of the book Theme: Stories featuring monsters! Monsters are many things. They come in all forms, shapes and sizes: from to the tiny to the titanic; from amorphous blobs to many limbed (or tentacled) monstrosities; from supernatural demons to man-made terrors. They come from any place and time: from under the bed to the woodshed; from the icy wastes to the darkest jungles; from the depths of the ocean to outer space; from the past, the future, the now! Many things. Any things. We are looking for stories featuring monsters for The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 3: A Miscellany of Monsters to be edited by Peter Coleborn and Jan Edwards. To get a flavour of the type of writing we prefer, we suggest you check out volumes 1 and 2 of the series, available in print and eBook formats from Amazon and other sellers. This is a loosely themed anthology. Just use that word – monster – and run with it. Avoid gratuitous sex, violence and gore. No overt religious themes. We are not fans of zombie stories, psychopathic killers, and we rather not see too many vampire tales. Submit your story (3000-6000 words ) to [email protected] during the submission window (1st  January to 31st January 2021). Do not submit anything before 1st January 2021 unless there is a specific reason and you ask beforehand.  We are not after reprints in the first instance. No multiple submissions. If you submit but subsequently your story is accepted elsewhere let us know as soon as possible. Publication will be in the latter half of that year. We pay a one-off fee of 1p per word, plus a copy of the book. Ensure your manuscript is formatted to the usual standard style (we...