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Deadline: August 31, 2015 Payment: $0.01 per word, rounded up to nearest $5.00 US Local Hero Press is pleased to announce we are now accepting submissions for an anthology of original superhero fiction short stories, called Caped. Here is what we’re seeking: Original superhero fiction stories that get into more depth about being a superhero than basic secret origin tales or superhero-versus-supervillain. Who are these people who have strange and wonderful powers and choose to use them for great justice? What makes them tick? Your characters should be original creations. We cannot consider work utilizing licensed characters. Genre: Superhero Style: Open to all/most styles Subjects: Open to all/most subjects Length: Up to 5000 words Payment: $0.01 per word, rounded up to nearest $5.00 USD, paid via PayPal upon final acceptance of the contract by all parties. Type of submissions accepted: Electronic only, see below for precise requirements Reprints? No Multiple Submissions? No Simultaneous Submissions? Yes Submissions close: August 31, 2015. This may be extended if required. Response time: 4 weeks or sooner. Publication date: December 1, 2015 or later if submissions period is extended. Potential Authors: You are submitting your work to Local Hero Press for publication in ebook and print format. We request exclusive worldwide rights for a period of six months from date of publication, followed by non-exclusive worldwide rights for a period of five years that renews every year afterward automatically unless cancelled by you or Local Hero Press. We will make no major alterations to your work, although we reserve the right to make minor copy-editing changes, subject to your approval prior to publication. If we determine we want to publish your work, a conditional offer will be made and you will receive a contract. Submission Requirements: Failure to follow these requirements pretty much guarantees we...

Deadline: August 31st, 2015 Payment: One cent per manuscript word. Max payment of $50.00 (USD) per story - for those submissions that may exceed the alloted word count. Another payment option we are offering is: One-time payment of $25.00 for publication of your story + a physical contributor copy / including cost of shipping / to be mailed out 90 days from date of publication. Scarlet Galleon Publications would like to ask,  HOW DEEP DOES YOUR FEAR GO? Scarlet Galleon Publications is proud to announce our next project, FEARFUL FATHOMS: Collected Tales of Aquatic Terror. This anthology is targeted to launch Memorial Day Weekend 2016, just in time for next year's summer beach reading season! We will be opening a call for submissions on August 1, 2015, which will run through August 31, 2015. We are looking for terrifying tales to comprise this new horror collection that will be the well-anticipated follow up to our acclaimed inaugural publication,DEAD HARVEST: A Collection of Dark Tales, which we are proud to announce debuted at #1 on Amazon's Hot New Releases in Horror and Bestselling Anthologies in Horror. It has remained in the Top 100 since its publication in November, 2014.  For fans of tales such as MOBY DICK, JAWS, THE DEEP, BEAST, MEG, THE ABYSS, BELOW, THE FOG, OPEN WATER, THE LOCH(and far too many other titles to mention here), this new anthology should be right in your wheelhouse! Whatever kind of aquatic tale causes your breath to turn sporadic, and makes the blood in your veins go ice-cold, should be the kind of story you'll want to write. Thematic note: While Lovecraftian tales are certainly welcome, this is not a project soley centered on the Lovecraft mythos.  What we are looking for - Stories set in or around water, which is to say: the beach, the ocean, islands, lakes,...

Deadline: August 31st, 2015 Payment: $40/£24, plus 2 x copies of the anthology Note: Reprints Accepted ‘The Myriad Carnival‘ is an anthology of ‘queer, weird and dark’ stories themed around carnivals, featuring stories from writers including Paul Magrs (The Brenda and Effie Mysteries, Doctor Who), Hal Duncan (Vellum, Ink, Scruffians!), Roy Gill (The Parallelseries, Confessions of Dorian Gray), Evey Brett, Kate Harrad and others. Previously invitation only, we’re opening submissions for the remaining two slots in the table of contents. Pertinent details: –  The collection is nominally shared world; each story features a carnival named the ‘Myriad Carnival’ but other than this the genre, time, setting and peoples of the carnival are in the hands of the writer. –  This is also primarily an LGBT, or queer, themed anthology. Whilst it is not a hard-and-fast requirement that characters be explicitly gay, please not that the queer/weird sensibility is important, and that LGBT elements are likely a leg-up to inclusion. –  There are plenty of carnival archetypes currently unexplored, but steer clear of tarot readers, trick horse riders, tattooed men and electricity magicians. We’ve got those already. –  Payment is $40/£24, plus 2 x copies of the anthology. Reprints accepted. –  Word length: Flexible; average current story length between 2k and 6k. –  Deadline: August 31st. –  Submissions/queries to: [email protected] Via: Matthew Bright.

Deadline: September 1st, 2015 Payment: $25.00 and electronic copy The Monster Waiting in the Woods If An Emby Bestiary is the treat, The Monster Woods is definitely the trick! This is the scary side of that other coin and these stories should be too terrifying to tell children. And here’s the really tricky part: I will be looking for atmosphere above action and characters above carnage. What I’ve been reading for The Ghost Papers is proof that many of you are skilled in writing about bumps in the night instead of buckets of blood and that you can send chills racing up a spine without a single scream. Do that here. Scare the hell out of us with any monster you like, although I will be especially interested in original monsters. Then keep the tension screwed tight and the terror dial on high. Set the stories anywhere - the “woods” in the title are only a possibility. Don’t rely on violence, but don’t be shy with it either. Get psychological. Play with perception. Just make sure that a monster is featured in the story (no hunter required). Edited by: Miles Boothe Submission Period: 2/1/15 through 9/1/15 Reading Period: 9/2/15 through 11/2/15 Acceptances will be announced 11/2/15 Tentative Publication Date: Winter 2016 Payment: $25.00 and electronic copy of the book upon publication. Word Limits: 2000 to 8000 words. Please query if longer. Format: Submissions should be .doc (.docx is fine) or .rtf formats. The entire text will be reformatted, so no need to worry about margins, spacing, etc. Please use a standard font. Genres Accepted: Dark Fiction, Horror, sci-fi. Reprints Accepted: No Simultaneous Subs: (submitting to Emby and another press at the same time) can be avoided by requesting an early response. Multiple Subs: Each author may submit up to 2...

Deadline: September 1, 2015 Payment: $25 For our next anthology, we are offering an open call for stories that involve Witches, Warlocks, Demons, and other Evil Doers. We are looking for stories that tell of wrong doings perpetrated by someone or something with supernatural abilities. We are not looking for stories of werewolves or vampires who need to survive by causing harm. What we want are stories of choice; stories where the protagonist chooses to do harm for a specific reason through means of a power beyond that of a normal mortal. We would prefer that the stories appeal to a broad audience and that period or overly-stylized pieces be refrained from. Your story MUST include all of the following elements: A horror/evil intent based theme that is explained within the story; A protagonist with evil or malicious intent with a specific reason; A protagonist with abilities that an average mortal does not possess; A victim or victims being persecuted for a specific and explained reason. Beyond these specific inclusions, feel free to be as creative as you’d like provided you do not breach the three things we will not consider for publication: Stories containing pedophilia; Stories containing scenes of sexually descriptive rape. Submit a story containing any of the three above EXCLUSIONS, and it will immediately be disqualified. Deadline: September 1, 2015 Reading & Evaluation Period: Two to three months after close of the deadline Word Count: 4,000 – 8,000 words NO REPRINTS WILL BE CONSIDERED Payment: Each story selected for inclusion will receive a one-time payment of $25US For full guidelines, please visit our website at: www:SirensCallPublications.com Via: Sirens Call Publications.

Deadline: September 1st, 2015 Payment: Contributor's Copy Note: Reprints Welcome FICTION We at the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers (GLAHW) are looking for stories that are well written and character driven, preferably with a Michigan or Great Lakes connection, but any well written story with a dark side has a chance with us. All stories need to be Horror, Dark Sci-Fi, Dark Fantasy, or Dark Humor, especially Dark Humor. If you can make us laugh and creep us out at the same time, you have a good chance of acceptance. Please don’t send us sword & sorcery or space opera stories. Tolkien and Lucas have their place, but not here. Also, we don’t and can’t accept “fan fiction” which includes anything based on a video game, book, movie or any other creator’s work or conception unless you have written permission from the creator. If you don’t own the copyright to the characters in your story, we cannot publish your work. By submitting to GLAHW you, as the author of the work, accept responsibility for any possible copyright infringement. Please don’t send us “Slash”, “Fem-Slash” or anything graphic sexual descriptions. Sex is okay as long as it’s integral to the story, but don’t overdo it. Please don’t use gore for gore’s sake. Again, gore is okay as long as it’s integral to the story. After all, we are horror writers. Though we cringe at the thought of violence toward children or pets, we understand that this type of violence does occur in real life, but please make sure it’s integral to your story. Any story that insinuates an act of sexual violence between an adult and a child will be automatically rejected. Please use spell check and proof your work before sending to us. As writers, we should be doing...

Deadline: September 9, 2015 Payment: Up to 25 cents per word Ages 14+, teens and adults alike We accept Witches submissions via Submittable. We are no longer accepting email submissions. Cicada YA lit/comics mag is looking for poetry, fic, nonfic, satire, and comics on WITCHES. We're on the lookout for folk and fairy tale retellings, investigations of the witch in history, works on the everyday spellcraft of fashion, beauty, makeup, and the domestic (the hearth, the cauldron, the kitchen) as well as the spell cast by the arts. Also of interest: the witch in nature: the garden, the dark wood, the night. Feminist and above all intersectionally feminist works: especially welcome! Submit via Submittable. Deadline: September 9, 2015. Via: Cicada Magazine.

Deadline: September 10th, 2015 Payment: $40 + 1 contributor’s copy This will be a paperback anthology of stories influenced by author Barry Malzberg. We are looking for stories in any genre but they must have an obvious Malzberg-influence. If you haven’t read Malzberg before, read at least three of these books before trying to write something for this anthology: THE FALLING ASTRONAUTS (1971) BEYOND APOLLO (1972) REVELATIONS (1972) HEROVIT’S WORLD (1973) THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE (1974) THE SODOM AND GOMORRAH BUSINESS (1974) GALAXIES (1975) SCOP (1976) WORD COUNT: 5k to 10k FORMAT: Singled-spaced Word .doc DEADLINE: September 10, 2015 PAYMENT: $40 + 1 contributor’s copy SUBMIT TO: filmynoir (at) live (dot) com with the words INSANITY OF ASTRONAUTSin the subject line. Via: Dynatox Ministries.

Note: This anthology has closed early due to the high volume of submissions and after its first release is being turned into an ongoing series which you can find out details of: right here.

Deadline: September 15th, 2015 Payment: 3% of sales. Twit Publishing is looking for submissions for our next anthology, “Twit Publishing Presents: Tales of Unseen Terror and Slumbering Horrors!” This collection will be based on Lovecraftian horror, which will not be based SOLELY on the Cthulhu mythos. The anthology will be based on the themes of Lovecraft for horror: anti-anthropocentrism, misanthropy in general, sanity’s fragility and vulnerability, preoccupation withviscerate texture, helplessness and hopelessness, and unanswered questions. Basically, anything that has the themes of Lovecraft’s works. Of course, all of the stories MUST be in the horror genre. The word count should be between 4000 and 9000 words. U.S. writers only, please. Please submit stories to [email protected]. Payment will be 3% of sales. Deadline for submissions: 9/15/15 Via: Twit Publishing.