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Deadline: September 30th, 2015 Payment: $25 Submission Request for Visions III Submission Request Visions III: Inside the Kuiper Belt Anthology Editor: Carrol Fix Word Count: 3,000 – 8,000 Deadlines: Art: 8/30/15 Stories: 9/30/15  Authors and Artists receive token payment of $25. Authors and Artists We are looking for original and exciting work that presents a futuristic representation of the Kuiper Belt and everything between it and the Sun. Book cover art must be wide enough to include a Front, Spine, and Back, with the main focus to the right for the front of the book.       Eris and Dysnomia An artist’s concept of the dwarf planet Eris and its moon Dysnomia. The sun is the small star in the distance. From NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: The Kuiper Belt is a disc-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune — billions of kilometers from our sun. Pluto and Eris are the best known of these icy worlds. There may be hundreds more of these ice dwarfs out there. The Kuiper Belt and even more distant Oort Cloud are believed to be the home of comets that orbit our sun. The best known resident of the Kuiper Belt is Pluto, but it also is home to Eris, Haumea, Makemake and countless comets. 10 Need-To-Know Things About the Regions Beyond Neptune The Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud are regions of space. The known icy worlds and comets in both regions are much smaller than Earth’s moon. The Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud surround our sun, a star. The Kuiper Belt is a doughnut-shaped ring, extending just beyond the orbit of Neptune from about 30 to 55 AU. The Oort Cloud is a spherical shell, occupying space at a distance between five and 100 thousand AU. Long-period comets (which...

Deadline: September 30th Payment: Contributor's Copy I am looking for work by Indiana writers or stories from other writers who set their work in Indiana. Payment: 1 (one) paper copy of the Anthology. Short fiction 2k – 5k No simultaneous submissions or reprints Authors may submit up to two short stories and five poems No headers / no footers Double space / 12 pt., Georgia font for prose, single space for poetry Submit as rtf or doc. File E-mail submissions to [email protected] In subject line of e-mail: Your name, Title, Submission type (story or poetry) Include a bio in the body of your email. Failure to do so may result in no recognition in the author bio section. Deadline will be September 30, 2015 or until filled. Via: JWK Fiction.

Deadline: October 1, 2015 Payment: Royalty Split and contributor copy Once again, Charon Coin Press and editor Jerry E. Benns hop on tour of the United States to bring the State of Horror Anthology to the next state, the Show-Me-State—Missouri. Missouri brings a deep well of potential with its history and folklore. As a river state, Missouri’s eclectic past has been told around the campfires as travelers shared different manifestations of tales discovered as they traversed the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. As the launching point of the Lewis and Clark expedition, it was one of the first areas traveled while the United States was expanding into what we know today, and earned the moniker, “The Gateway to the West.” The many rivers are not the only sources of stories Missouri has to offer.  Beneath the surface of Missouri’s rolling hilly landscape lurks another world, one cut out of the soft stone, it lays claim to some of the most intricate, and unexplored cave systems in existence.  Used by the beer brewing families to house their beer before the time of refrigeration, they brought wealth and industry making cities like St. Louis into turn-of-the-century boom towns—until the collapse after prohibition. Some of the legacies these families left behind have become legend while others are a shade darker. The border cities are not the only source of stories from the Show-Me-State. From the northern plains to the rolling hills of the Ozark Mountains, Missouri’s background is steeped in a rich history full of expectation, conflict, opportunity, struggle and success. The cultures of Missouri are born from industry and grown in the vast farmlands. The rivers and mountains feed into the heart of the United States and are the reason Missouri is our next stop in our exploration in the State of Horror...

Deadline: October 1, 2015 Payment: $100 and contributor's copy iPhones are magic. I mean, do you know how yours works? Could you take it apart and put it back together? We can’t go out without our smartphones. They organize our lives, find our locations, and sync with all our other tech. We sleep with them beside our pillows. Yet… their workings are a mystery. What does “magic iPhone” mean to you? Consider the supervillain who mind-controls a city’s populace, or the employee who stamps the runes that make your iPhone 8s so lightweight. This anthology is based on the success of anthology editor Janine A. Southard’s recent novel, Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story, which stars an explicitly magical iPhone (found by story gamers in modern-day Seattle). That iPhone comes pre-loaded with a romance finder app of dubious morality that not only sends its users on terrible dates, but also sucks their life forces. Editor’s Note: I’m looking for stories that cleverly incorporate the idea of a “magic iPhone” into any setting you like. I will, of course, be psyched to read variations on my crazy romance app, but I’m also excited to read something totally different. I’m accepting all genres except straight-up erotica or hard-core horror. (We’re aiming this anthology at general audiences, after all.) I think the idea lends itself well to comedy and dark fantasy, but… I guess that was obvious already. 😉   How to submit: Send your story in .doc, .docx, or .rtf format to Janine A. Southard [email protected].   Note about brands: In Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story the titular device was, clearly, an iPhone. Cantina Publishing acknowledges that not everyone rates an iPhone as their favorite device, but the concept of the magic iPhone is the element which will tie together stories in this...

Deadline: October 1st, 2015 Payment: $50 What we’re looking for WCP is looking for stories to publish in its magazine, Weird City. These stories should… Fit the general Weird City theme that can best be described as “strange things in dense places”. While we’re flexible with definitions of “strange” and “dense” (and we look forward to seeing your interpretation), please exercise some discretion. Be original works, both in concept and in execution. Please no fanfics or story rewrites and certainly no passing of another’s work as your own. Be self-contained, standalone stories. No chapter excerpts please. Be no less than 1500 words and no more than 7500. Be submitted according to our “How to Submit” process. Read this carefully before submitting. (For the inaugural issue) be submitted before October 1st, 2015. To answer a few common questions: YES, we do accept simultaneous submissions. NO, we don’t at the moment take multiple submissions. NO, we don’t accept reprints at the moment. Rights & Rates WCP purchases worldwide first publication rights in English, for publication in electronic formats, under a limited-use contract. Currently we are offering a flat payment of $50 per story, though we may offer additional compensation for exemplary stories (at our discretion). How to Submit All submissions must be sent electronically. Please attach your story to an email sent to our lovely submissions manager Amelia [email protected]. Make sure you: Include your name and story title in the subject line along with a submission tag, using this format: . This helps dramatically with sifting through our inbox. Save your story to a .doc, .docx, or .rtf format. No Google Drive, Dropbox, etc links. If we can’t open it, we won’t read it. Edit your story according to a common manuscript format. We strongly recommend William Shunn’s guide. At the very least each page should be numbered, with...

Deadline: October 1st, 2015 Payment: 2 Cents Per Word Mythic Delirium is an online and e-book venue for fiction and poetry that ranges through science fiction, fantasy, horror, interstitial and cross-genre territory— we love blurred boundaries and tropes turned on their heads. We are interested in work that demonstrates ambition, that defies traditional approaches to genre, that introduces readers to the legends of other cultures, that re-evaluates the myths of old from a modern perspective, that twists reality in unexpected ways. We are committed to diversity, and are open to and encourage submissions from people of every race, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, political affiliation and religious belief. We publish 12 short stories and 24 poems a year. Our quarterly ebooks in PDF, EPUB and MOBI format, published in July, October, January, and April, will each contain three stories and six poems. We will also publish one story and two poems on our website each month. The rights we purchase are First World Serial Rights and First World Electronic Rights in the English language. Short stories: We are seeking short stories of up to 4,000 words. Electronic submissions only. Word limit firm. No unsolicited reprints. No simultaneous submissions. No multiple submissions. Please use the words “fiction submission” in the e-mail subject line. Stories should be sent in standard manuscript format as .rtf or .doc attachments. Payment is 2 cents/word on publication. Poems: You may submit up to 6 poems at a time of any length. Electronic submissions only. No unsolicited reprints. No simultaneous submissions. Please use the words “poetry submission” in the e-mail subject line. Poems may be included in the e-mail or sent as .rtf or .doc attachments. Payment is a $5 flat fee on publication. All submissions should be sent to mythicdeliriumgmailcom. NOTE: We do not use an auto-responder system....

Deadline: October 1st, 2015 Payment: $25 and a contributor's copy “Walk Hand in Hand Into Extinction: Stories Inspired True Detective” anthology has found a home with ThatLitPress. We are opening up submissions for this fiction anthology inspired by True Detective. We want authors to take their favorite themes from either season and write a story inspired by them. We want stories that are artful and entertaining. Have fun with it! Send us a story between 2,000 to 3,000 words with your favorite themes of True Detective. ThatLitPress will pay $25 per story and a contributor’s copy and you will keep the rights. No previously published stories. Stories are due October 1st. Email the story in a word document to [email protected]. Please use a 12 point Georgia font and have it be double-spaced. Via: That Lit Site.

Deadline: October 15th 2015 Payment: $20 We are currently accepting submissions. A note on our editorial policy: before publication we may edit the story for length or readability. However, we always remain true to the spirit of the story. Issues are published at the end of February, May, August, and November. We have reading periods for each issue, though we never close to submissions. February closes January 15 May closes April 15 August closes July 15 November closes October 15 Please do not submit the same story more than once, and please submit only one story at a time. We consider any story between 250 and 7000 words with speculative fiction elements. We prefer science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre, but we're willing to push the limits of traditional forms of these genres. We do not consider poetry, stories with over-the-top sex or violence, serials, novels, fan fiction, or non-fiction. We don'taccept multiple submissions; in other words, only submit one story at a time and wait for a response before submitting another. We accept simultaneous submissions as long as you let us know up front and tell us as soon as it's accepted elsewhere. We do not publish reprints, including anything that has appeared on a website. We pay $20 for each story we publish. We buy first-printing world exclusive rights for four months. Payment will be made shortly after publication using PayPal. We encourage our authors to establish a PayPal account if they don't already have one. We prefer to read submissions in traditional manuscript format. This means indented paragraphs instead of left justification, and Courier or Times New Roman font in 12 pt, double-spaced. Also, please include the title, your name, address, and word length on the first page of your story. To submit your story to Electric...

Deadline: October 17th, 2015 Payment: $0.01/word) plus one contributor’s copy and one digital version in the format of the author’s choosing CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ELDRITCH EMBRACES, Putting the Love back in Lovecraft Our first anthology explored loneliness, isolation, and solitude.  This time around we are looking for love…in some seriously wrong places. For our new anthology, tentatively entitled Eldritch Embraces, we want to put the love back in Lovecraft.  In order to be considered for inclusion in this anthology, your story must focus on two things.  There must be an element of love or romance and the story must invoke the cosmic terror of H.P. Lovecraft. What We Want: Finely crafted works of Dark Speculative fiction which explore the connections between people or between elder gods or combinations thereof.  Obviously, this topic lends itself best to horror, which is our wheelhouse genre, but science fiction and fantasy are also welcome, provided there is some element of fear involved.  We have no restrictions on the setting of your work in time or space.  We look forward to exploring ancient deserts, Depression Era alleyways, modern cityscapes, and even far off worlds.  While we usually dwell in the shadows, we do enjoy laughter.  Humor is more than welcome. Bonus points for fiction which explores some of the more Lovecraftian themes like the how humanity is influenced by forces beyond its comprehension, the quest for forbidden knowledge, and apocalyptic threats to the world. What We Don’t Want: To be sued.  While the works of H.P. Lovecraft are in the public domain, the works of those who picked up the Mythos torch (like these fine authors) are not.  If you plan on using one of he established mythos creatures, make sure it is one of Howard Phillips’ and not invented by someone who came later. ...

Deadline: October 31st, 2015 Payment: $0.01/per word Perpetual Motion Machine presents a new anthology of horror transmissions titled Lost Signals, edited by Max Booth III and Lori Michelle, including a cover design by Matthew Revert. In the darkness, sound is your best friend and your worst nightmare. Radios are the conductors of noise. They are the radiation of electromagnetic signals. Their waves are invisible, yet they consume us. Forget about what’s hiding in the shadows, and start worrying about what’s hiding in the dead air. We are looking for short stories to publish in Lost Signals. That’s where you, the writer, come in. Send us your best horror fiction about radiotelegraphy. We want to be disturbed. Stories should somehow involve radios, radio stations, radars, cell phones, military broadcasts, distress signals, walkie talkies, podcasts, or anything similar. We aren’t necessaryonly after straightforward prose. It’s okay to get experimental on this project. Don’t just think outside the box on this one. Burn the box and eat the ashes.2 — Guidelines for Submissions: Deadline: October 31, 2015 Payment: $0.01/per word Word count: 1,000 – 20,000 Acceptable file types: doc. and docx. Simultaneous/multiple submissions: Yes Reprints: No - All submissions should be formatted 12 pt, any font. Please use your word processing software’s auto-indent for paragraphs, and do not insert a space between paragraphs. In your cover letter, include your contact information and a brief author bio. We are asking for six months exclusive rights for all accepted stories. All authors included in the anthology will receive two contributor copies. We may send out rejections/acceptances before the deadline, but please do not query about your story’s status until November 15, 2015. All submissions must be sent through our Submittable page. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to shoot us an email at [email protected]....