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Deadline: March 31st, 2019 Payment: $5 Note: Female-identifying writers only Under Sapphire Stars, our first LGBTQ anthology is calling for female-identifying writers to step up and deliver their own amazing horror in that LGBTQ space. Stories can range from themes of horror, insanity, and murder to eroticisms played out within the ranks of an eldritch cult. Editor Desiree LeAnn is looking for only the best of the best, but we invite you to surprise us, scare us and to move us. We will not accept any stories about rape. Racism/Sexism/Bigotry of any form will never be accepted here. Stories between 1500-5000 words preferred. Double check your grammar and spelling. Format your story correctly. Please submit all stories in DOC/RTF format. We prefer stories that have not been published before. We prefer to avoid multiple and simultaneous submissions. We retain exclusive publishing rights for 12 months. We pay $5.00 for stories Submission Date: 4.1-5-31 Via: Madness Heart Press.

Deadline: May 31st, 2019 Payment: $0.06USD per word, $50 for poetry, reprint prices below Note: Reprints Allowed Selene Quarterly Magazine is a quarterly periodical of speculative romance, mystery, and alternate history published in May, August, November, and February. We accept unsolicited submissions from MAY 1-31 11:59 EST every year. Anything submitted outside of this window will be deleted unread. SUBMIT Format using Shunn’s manuscript style. Track your submission using Duotrope, The Submission Grinder, and Ralan. Submit via HeyPublisher. A short cover letter is required. It should be submitted alongside the text of your submission or inside of the summary field. Please include your legal name, pen name (if relevant), contact information, PayPal email address (if different), recent publications/awards (if any), preferred contributor’s copy (.epub or .mobi for Kindle™), and a third person bio of 50-150 words. A photo is optional. We take 2-3 weeks to respond to submissions. If you haven’t received a response by then, please query. Email submissions are deleted unread. Please note that a blank response through HeyPublisher means your piece was rejected. If you have any questions, email subs selenequarterly.com. POETRY: Any length paid $50USD per poem. FICTION: 100-7500 words paid $0.06USD per word. REPRINTS: Any length of poetry paid $15USD and 100-7500 words of fiction paid $0.01USD per word. RULES Translations are accepted Only submit one submission in each category Simultaneous submissions to other markets are accepted RIGHTS Copyright remains with the author and poet at all times Non-exclusive archival rights as long as the website(s) hosting the work are online First world electronic and print rights in English with exclusivity for 6 months from the date of publication If selected to be republished in an anthology in the future, payment in royalties is $0.01USD per word If selected for a podcast or audiobook, payment is $0.01USD per word for non-exclusive electronic audio rights HARD...

Deadline: May 31st, 2019 Payment: $10 EconoClash Review (Quality Cheap Thrills) is a biannual print journal of Genre Fiction. We accept only the best contemporary pulp submissions. Which includes quality Crime, Noir, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Weird, Humor and Other Words for Uplifting Gormandizers.  EconoClash Review believes in free speech and wants to provide our readers with a much needed escape into other worlds. We like stories about Weirdos, Criminals and Pregnant Prom Queens going to great lengths to destroy or keep the status quo. HOWEVER, we don't want erotica, or adult content, or torture between characters of any age, race, species both real or fictional. Nothing gratuitous. Avoid the tropes best you can. Just because we want GENRE doesn't mean we want STALE. Above all else--EconoClash Review wants fiction full of energy that feels real.  We encourage our writers to submit short fiction between 1,500 and 4,500 words. That word limit is FIRM and STRICTLY ENFORCED. We will open again for subs May 1st to May 31st 2019. Any manuscripts sent outside the open submission window will be deleted unread. Follow us on Twitter @econoclashrevue for updates. EconoClash Review claims the following publishing rights: First English Language Rights, English Language Periodical Rights, World Periodical Rights, First Audio Distribution Rights, Subsidiary Rights and Electronic Distribution Rights. All Rights revert back to the writer six months after initial publication. Should EconoClash Review choose to create an anthology of previously published work, new rights will be negotiated. Bear in mind that most publications will not publish pieces that have been published in print, eBook, or on the web, so for all intents and purposes after your work is published by us it can only be marketed as a reprint, which severely limits the number of markets that will accept it, and drastically reduces the pay rate it can receive. It is up to you, the author, to decide if giving up your First Publishing Right for our token payment, is really...

Deadline: May 31st, 2019 Payment: $5AU-$20AU depending on length. Note: Only Australian and NZ authors. A Demonic Compendium of the Wicked, Fallen and Accursed Submissions will be open to all Australian and NZ based authors starting Jan 1st 2019 and will continue to May 31st 2019 (to be released October 2019). We are looking for original flash fiction and short stories 500 - 15000 words featuring demonic hellspawn. Think tales of demonic possesion, faustian deals, crossroad bargains and plain old demonic chaos... Our preference will be for a wide array of demonic entities, from a range of cultures, we're not really looking for 15 different versions of Lucifer's biblical fall. Token payments for accepted works are as follows: Flash fiction 500-1000 words: $5AU Short story 1000 - 5000 words: $10AU Short story 5000 - 10000 words: $15AU Short story 10000 - 15000 words: $20AU No fanfiction or stories based on existing franchises. No reprints. No erotica and, as always, no sparkly vampires. SUBMIT HERE Via: Cobblestone Scribe.

Deadline: June 1st, 2019 Payment: all prose 501 to 3,000 words = $0.01/word with a $20 minimum, microflash (up to 150 words) = $5, flash (up to 500 words) = $10 - Longer work will be considered. Regardless of length, all payments are capped at $30. - 1 poem = $7 - Quips, limericks and other short poems = $5 each Page & Spine is a paying site.  Because of the large number of submissions, we will no longer accept submissions that do not comply with our submissions requirements.  Emails containing attachments will be deleted unopened. Requirements and rates: Short Stories up to 3,000 words. Flash Fiction to 1,000 words.  Format:  Single space.  Indent paragraphs. Do not skip a line between paragraphs. Considered between October 1st and June 1st only. Up to 3 Poems of not more than a total of three typewritten pages.  Considered between October 1st and June 1st only. The Writers' Table writing-related essays, book reviews, favorite author profiles of not more than 2,000 words. The Reading Lamp  topical essays, non-fiction, fiction to 3,000 words, poems   Crumbs short, witty Poetry, Quips and thought-provoking Flash Fiction (to 150 words) End Notes essays, poems, book reviews on any subject Payscale:  all prose 501 to 3,000 words = $0.01/word with a $20 minimum,  microflash (up to 150 words) = $5, flash (up to 500 words) = $10                     Longer work will be considered.  Regardless of length, all payments are capped at $30. 1 poem = $7 quips, limericks and other short poems = $5 each                     Because we have bulging pending files in our short story, reading lamp and poems categories, submissions will be accepted only between October 1 and June 1 in these categories.  Please plan your submissions accordingly. Due to a happy surfeit of unpublished submissions, reprints will not be accepted until further notice. "Published" is...

Deadline: June 1st, 2019 Payment: $20 “Turning words into art is unnatural. It begins with a contrary attitude. It says, I am unhappy with the way things are and desire to make things different. Rather than represent the world, I will make something wildly and savagely new. I will defy logic. I will invest in new perceptions. I will combine and recombine and fabricate and juggle until something that I have never experienced is experienced. The process is alchemical. The process is violent. It goes to the heart of creativity. It disrupts and shatters. It is splendid with provocation. It is an aggression against banality. It is sharp and loud like a janitor scraping frost from a window. The hectic bounce of steam on a street after a truck roars by. The anarchy of waters, the comedy of the face, dangerous feelings vented from a cage of skin.” ~ John Olson Poetry — We believe poetry is contrary by nature, always defying, always tonguing the tang of novelty. We look especially for plurality of meaning, for dual reverberation of beauty and concern. Contrary’s poetry in particular often mimics the effects of fiction or commentary. We find ourselves enamored of prose poems because they are naturally contrary toward form – they tug on the forces of exposition or narrative – but prose poems remain the minority of all the poetic forms we publish. Please consider that Contrary receives vast amounts of poetry and that we can publish only a small percentage of that work. Please submit no more than three poems per issue. Our poetry editor is Shaindel Beers. Fiction — We ask our fiction writers to imagine their readers navigating a story with one finger poised over a mouse button. Can your story stay that finger to the end? We...

Deadline: June 1st, 2019 Payment: 5 dollars and 5 contributor copies or 25 dollars and 0 contributor copies. SINCERELY, S.O.V.: a tribute to s.o.v. horror films Woefully inept? Unbearably trashy? Unwatchable? Badly written? Over-acted? Hammy? Boring? Cheaply made? Redundant? Ridiculous? Goofy? Or...something more? Since professional studios did not back these films, they didn’t have to pass through any conventional filters. The desire to make these films surpassed the limitations and obstacles, which rear their terrible serpent heads in: the seams. The seams. Perhaps it’s THE SEAMS which is most interesting about these films. How, barely passably, did they achieve creature effects or kill sequences given their limitations in budget, actors, writing, and directing? What can we learn about the times, the creator’s lives, and forgotten class-struggles from bygone eras? What is the magical element present in these films which draws new audiences back to them despite their horrendously low ratings on IMDB? The best of these films have something in common: sincerity—a sincerity to scare and shock and to create some simulacrum of believability in an artificial pulp world gone mad. We are especially attracted to horror stories, novels, and films with grim settings. Think the lonely frozen outpost of The Thing, the terrible working conditions of King’s “Graveyard Shift,” the struggling writer of Ligotti’s “Alice’s Last Adventure,” or the jaded demiglaze over James Woods’ eyes in VIDEODROME. Comic artists and writers are encouraged to submit. Experimentation and non-traditional approaches to storytelling are encouraged. Deadline: June 1st, 2019. Token payment: 5 dollars and 5 contributor copies or 25 dollars and 0 contributor copies. Submit to: psychedelichorrorpress at gmail dot com Writer Length: 2k-4kish Comic Artist Length: 5-20 pages of black and white sequential art

Deadline: June 1st, 2019 Payment: $20 and a contributor's copy OPEN CALL for a new anthology from Anubis Press! HANDBOOK FOR THE DEAD will be open for submissions until June 1st. What we are looking for are stories about real life paranormal experiences (ghosts only) with some factoids about the paranormal, such as beliefs, theories, popular explanations, evidence from cases similar to yours, and investigation methods, included with the story, much in the way information is listed in handbooks. The objective of this anthology is to offer readers some paranormal stories as well as insight into the entire paranormal phenomena. GUIDELINES: 1) Do not send fiction stories. These are stories alleged to be true. 2) Stories about ghosts and hauntings only. These are to be personal experiences, family stories, or tales of local haunts (local to you). 3) Stories should be no less than 1000 words. 4) Make sure to list the factoids. They are a required part of the submission. 5) List factoids separately from the story. Do not include them in the tale. List them in the same document, just make sure they are separated from the story. 6) Factoids can be from another source, or they can be your own theories or investigation methods. If they are your own, explain why you believe what you believe and/or why you investigate the way you do. If the information is from another source, list the source and explain thoroughly. 7) No more than two submissions per person. 8) All stories must be attached as word.doc or docx only. Do not send any other file types and do not paste stories in the body of the email. 9) Email submissions to [email protected] and include the following in the subject line: HANDBOOK <story title> <your name>. If the guidelines are not...

Deadline: June 1st, 2019 Payment: Royalties Attention authors! Hollow Hills will begin accepting submissions for a new anthology in April, 2019. As a publisher, our goal is to put out one anthology a year, giving readers exposure to a variety of authors from all over the world. This anthology is loosely titled "Tales of the Siblings Not-So-Grim" and will contain short stories and poetry based on fairy tales or taking place in a fantasy/fairy tale-esque setting. You can rewrite a fairy tale or even write your own. (No, it doesn't have to be a Grimm fairy tale.) Magic, dragons, elves, witches, we want it all! We are going for a more lighthearted vibe for this anthology, so romance and comedy are welcome, though not required. We are looking for new or seasoned authors for this anthology. This is NOT a charity anthology, meaning that authors will be paid a portion of royalties. Submission requirements: Stories should be between 8,000 and 15,000 words long. No erotica or excessive swearing. Please do not send us a first draft. Our editors are here to clean up your story, but we will not accept works with "more problems than you can shake a stick at" so please read over your manuscript more than twice. Submit your stories between April 1st and June 1st. Email submissions to hollowhillsbooks(at)gmail(dot)com with  Anthology Submission and your author name in the subject. We will accept submissions as email attachments in .doc, .docx, or .rtf file formats. Happy writing! Via: Hollow Hills Books.

Deadline: June 1st, 2019 Payment: Contributor's Copy Note: Reprints Allowed Deadline: June 1, 2019 Editors: Tarl Hoch and Thurston Howl Word count: 2,500-8,000; a little above and a little below will be acceptable We want your campfire ghost stories...with furry characters. I am going to forgo my usual long description for the anthology because I want to leave it open to you what kind of mythos you bring into your story. But keep in mind while this is an adult anthology, your story does not have to be NSFW. First and foremost, your story should be horror. Scare us! All story submissions must be "furry" in nature. We will NOT accept: Racism, sexism, or discrimination presented in a positive light. Pedophilia or sex with characters under the age of 18 presented in a positive light. Rape, torture, dubious consent, forced seduction presented in a positive light. Snuff or Necrophilia presented in a positive light If you are in doubt, ASK. Better to ask than to get a straight up rejection! If you are unsure, just shoot me an email at [email protected]. (restrictions borrowed from Voice: https://t.co/MWykJ6RY36) You can submit up to three stories, but we will only accept one per author (if any). Reprints are fine, but you have to own full permission of the work in order for us to consider it. We will not accept simultaneous submissions. Payment: Authors will receive a free copy of the print book. Send submissions in .doc or .docx format to [email protected]. Title your email with the subject in all caps, e.g. "GHOSTS." If you are sending more than one submission, send multiple emails instead of putting them all in one. We will inform all authors regarding decisions within a week or two after the deadline. Book will likely be released October in plenty...