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Deadline: August 31st, 2019 Payment: $10 and a contributors copy Oddity Prodigy Productions is seeking submissions for a new anthology, “Scary Stuff”. This will be the first anthology published by OPP to accept submissions. There is a planned Kickstarter to cover publishing costs. Publishing date and distribution is as yet undecided.  The deadline for Submissions is August 31st, 2019 What we are looking for: In the ’40s and ’50s EC comics published such classic titles such as ‘Tales from the Crypt’ and Vault of Horror’. These were tales of horror that featured classic stories filled with ghosts, and goblins, twist endings and the classic idea of reaping what you sow. The style of story continued into the ’60s and ’70s with Creepy and Eerie magazines. Published outside the comics code the latter had the same campy style filled with over-the-top monsters and gore. We are looking for stories that channel these classic horror tropes and styles. We’re looking for old haunted houses, swamp monsters, mad scientists, shocking discoveries in the weird neighbor's basement. Pick up an old issue of Creepy, watch Tales from the Darkside, or take a look at some EC comics for inspiration. What we’re not looking for: We are not looking for stories featuring over the top depictions of rape, child molestation, or torture. This should be fun and campy. Sexual content is ok, but nothing too graphic or excessive. Think Fright Night or Evil Dead, not Hostel or Se7en. SUBMISSION PROCESS We are looking for stories between 2000 and 5000 words. Exceptions can be made but anything longer or shorter will need to WOW us. Original stories only, we are not looking for reprints at this time. Submissions should be in standard manuscript format. Be sure to include your name, address, email address, and phone number....

Deadline: August 31st, 2019 Payment: $5 BMR Promotions are open to submissions for our new horror anthology - Stuff of Nightmares! Deadline: August 31st 2019 Genre: Horror Word Count: Up to 5k Release Date: Fall 2019 (Approx Oct 1st) Brief: The Stuff of Nightmares will feature 13 short stories focusing on Nightmares. We want stories that will keep you awake at night. All stories must center around nightmares - dreams that become reality, nightmare worlds, creatures that prey on us when we sleep. We will be accepting ten stories for the anthology, as we will be featuring a story each in the anthology. If your submission is accepted, you will be paid $5 via Paypal. No royalties will be paid out on this anthology. A contract will be sent upon acceptance and we will retain all rights until Nov 30th 2019, at which point, all rights will revert to the author. Authors will be contacted within two weeks of the closing date, if they are accepted. The book will go up for pre-order in late September for one week. Submissions can be sent to [email protected]. All stories must be edited before being submitted. Stories cannot be previously published.

Deadline: August 31st, 2019 Payment: Prose: $10 per page ($250 maximum), Poetry: $25 per page CONSEQUENCE is an independent, international literary magazine. Annually in the spring we publish a print edition that includes short fiction, poetry, non-fiction, interviews, visual art, and reviews focused on the culture and consequences of war. WRITERS whose work has appeared in the magazine include Peter Balakian, Bob Shacochis, Fanny Howe, Phil Klay, Afaa Michael Weaver, Askold Melnyczuk, Tom Sleigh, Anne Germanacos, Yusef Komunyakaa, Dan O'Brien, Martha Collins, Sven Birkerts, Margaret Luongo, David Abrams,  Ed Ochester, Jill McDonough, Christopher Lydon, Bruce Weigl, Lee Hancock, Fred Marchant, Brian Turner, Homero Aridjis, Martha Cooley, George Kalogeris, and Richard Hoffman. SUBMISSIONS are welcome during the reading period between May 1st and  August 31st. We do not consider work previously published in English.  All unsolicited work must be submitted through our website's submissions portal: www.Consequencemagazine.org/submit.  We do not accept mailed or e-mailed submissions. For fiction and non-fiction: please submit one piece of no more than 5,000 words. For poetry: please submit up to three poems of any length. Translations are considered when permissions have been obtained. Simultaneous submissions are welcome and encouraged, but if your work is accepted elsewhere, please let us know immediately. Each submission may be accepted for publication in the print edition of CONSEQUENCE  and CONSEQUENCE Online. CONSEQUENCE is an independent, non-profi magazine, and a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. We pay $10 per page for prose work, $25 per page for poetry, and $15 per page for translations that we commission. For the print magazine, we offer a contributor’s copy and a gift copy of the issue. Address: CONSEQUENCE Magazine P. O. Box 323 Cohasset, MA 02025-0323 Reading period: May 1 – August 31, 2019. CONSEQUENCE is an independent, non-profit literary magazine published annually. We publish short fiction, poetry, non-fiction, interviews, visual art, and reviews primarily focused on the...

Deadline: August 31st, 2019 Payment: 1 cent a word, to a maximum of $20., poetry $5 Note: NZ and Australian authors only We publish SF, horror and dark fantasy short fiction from NZ and Australian authors. Submissions for the zine are OPEN. Deadline for Breach #11 is August 31. ​ ​ In the Zine All work must be original and previously unpublished. We pay for first worldwide publication rights for six months and nonexclusive reprint rights. Copyright belongs to the author or artist. We simply ask for you to credit Breach as the site of first publication if your work is then subsequently reprinted elsewhere (after the six month exclusive period). Stories between 500 and 2000 words, in doc format. Poetry of a page length, doc format. Cover art in A4, 600dpi, RGB. ​ Payment Short stories: 1 cent a word, to a maximum of $20. Poetry: $5 per piece. Cover art: $20 per piece. ​ We're also after submissions of longer works of novella (17,000 to 40,000 words) and novelette (7,500 to 17,000 words) length. Our short stories lean toward horror and the darker side of science fiction and we'd like to carry that over to novellas and novelettes. If you're interested in publishing with us, please send the first chapter and a single-page synopsis as a Word doc using the form below. All work must be original and previously unpublished. Breach pays 60% of royalties from all print and ebook sales - we don't offer advances. We pay for exclusive worldwide publication rights for one year and non-exclusive reprint rights. Copyright belongs to the author. Via: Breach Ezine.

Deadline: August 31st, 2019 Payment: $10 In anthropological terms, liminality is the midpoint of a ritual: the threshold where a person is no longer quite who they were, not yet who they might become. In between masks, what face might you have? What might you be in transit? Where will you go? Everything is possible in that moment; change is its own goal. Liminality is the space between. Liminality is an online quarterly magazine of speculative poetry edited by Shira Lipkin (co-founded and co-edited through our third year by Mattie Joiner). We are very pleased to meet you. We’re looking for speculative literary poems that touch the heart as much as the head; poems of the liminal, the fluid, and the fantastic. We’d love to see work that shifts shape, refuses to be to be easily pinned down or categorised. We actively welcome diversity; we want to hear new as well as established voices. Tell us tales we thought we knew, the way only you can tell them. Give us new myths. Liminality pays $10 per poem, for first worldwide publication rights and non-exclusive anthology rights. We will be open: April 1 – May 31 July 1 – August 31 October 1 – November 30 To submit, send up to five poems to liminalitypoetry AT gmail.com with the subject line “SUBMISSION – ”. Please include your poems in the body of the e-mail; if you have formatting that makes that untenable, you may attach the poem as an .rtf. You may send up to five poems per reading period. We do not accept reprints or simultaneous submissions. (If the poem has been publicly viewable online, yes, it would be a reprint.) “Dear Editor”, “Dear Shira”, and “Dear Mx. Lipkin” are all fine as forms of address. Via: Liminality.

Deadline: August 31st, 2019 Payment: 5 cents per word What happens when we make monsters? What happens when we confront the monsters inside ourselves? These are the grotesque things that should never have been. These are the beasts that stalk our twisted pasts. These are the ghosts of our own making that haunt our regrets. They’re the blood on our hands. They’re the obsessions in our heads. They’re the vengeance in our hearts. These are Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors. Bram Stoker Award-winning editors Doug Murano and Michael Bailey welcome you to submit your best work for consideration in this anthology, which will launch in early 2020. We've already announced two of our contributors--Ramsey Campbell and Usman T. Malik--and will be making more announcements in the coming weeks! Pay: 5c/word U.S. Length: 2-5,000 words. FIRM. Reprints? No thanks. Anything you should avoid? Graphic, gratuitous depictions of child abuse, sexual abuse and animal abuse are generally unwelcome. Where to send it: [email protected] Deadline: Aug. 31 Via: Miscreations Facebook.

Deadline: August 31st, 2019 Payment: $25 for fiction, $5 per poem WHAT WE WANT:   1) Dark, literary fiction between 3,000 and 7,000 words. Think Jackson, Ligotti, Barker, think the films of Polanski (especially the Apartment Trilogy), think of Cronenberg. For inspiration purposes, not imitation. Give us something new, but with the haunting flavor of the artists listed above. Submit as an .docx or .doc only.  Pay: $25 via Paypal for each accepted story.   2) Twisted Poetry. POEMS SHOULD WALK ON THE DARK SIDE. Submit only 3 poems at a time, in a single document, either .docx or .doc  Pay: $5 via Paypal per accepted poem.    3) Chilling Art. Surprise us with your depravity. Submit no more than 1 piece at a time, either as an .jpg, or .png.  Pay: $10 via Paypal per accepted piece.    BASIC GUIDELINES   -With each submission, please submit a cover letter with the title of your piece(s) and word count (if fiction), as well as a third person bio of no more than four sentences.  –Simultaneous submissions are fine, but please let me know right away if your work is accepted elsewhere.  –No multiple submissions (except poetry, in a single email – see above).  –Please allow 45 days for a decision to be made. After that, feel free to query about your work. Does not apply to $5 Tier Patreon supporters. Those submissions will be put into a priority queue and decided on within 14 days (be sure to mention your Patreon support in the submission email). -Subject line of submission email should read: SUBMISSION / category of submission (fiction, poetry, art) / Last name, First Name. – Fiction and poetry should be single-spaced. No odd formatting unless absolutely essential to presentation of work.  -All submission should be emailed to [email protected] – Please wait until a decision...

Deadline: August 31st, 2019 Payment: Fiction: $0.02/word, $0.01/word after 500 words. Poetry: $0.50/line, $0.25/line after 20 lines. CROSS+DECAY is an independent art and literary magazine, connecting creators through dark and eerie themes. This magazine is edited and curated by CRUCIFIXVI. Purchase your copy of Issue 1: Ghosts here. SUBMIT WORK Cross + Decay is now accepting work for Issue 2: Witches. The deadline for submissions is August 31 2019. Submission Guidelines: Cross+Decay is a literary and art magazine, welcoming poetry, prose, and artwork. The work must adhere to the  issue's theme, but it is up to the interpretation of the creator to decide what work best fits that theme and would be most relevant. Prose can be fiction or non-fiction, 500-1000 words (maximum 1000). Prose must be clearly formatted, and fully edited, including spell-checking and proper grammar. Previously published work is welcome, as long as rights have reverted back to the writer. Work exceeding 1000 words will automatically be rejected. Visual art can be of any medium, including photography and photographs of three-dimensional work. Work must be attached as .jpegs. Artists can submit their work with watermarks or as lower quality files, but the images must represent what the work would look like in print, and must be able to be sent as a high quality .jpeg if accepted (300 dpi, and at least 2000 pixels square). Creators are welcome to submit multiple works, but they must all be submitted at the same time, and within the same email. Payment: Accepted creators will be paid for their work. Prose- $0.02/word, $0.01/word after 500 words. Poetry- $0.50/line, $0.25/line after 20 lines. Artwork- $15/selected digital file. All creators will continue to have full rights to their work. Please email submissions to [email protected], with full name, a short bio, and information relevant to understanding...

Deadline: August 31st, 2019 Payment: Flash fiction (up to 1,000 words) $20, Short stories (1k to 5k words) $50, Novelettes (5k to 15k words) $100, Novellas (15k to 25k words max.) $150 Note: Only accept unsolicited submissions from writers in (or originally from) Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and the Pacific Islands. Midnight Echo 14 is upon us and the AHWA is proud to announce that Deb Sheldon is onboard to guest edit this representative of all things good about Australasian horror writing. Deb’s themed issued of “Things are not as they seem“ will open to submissions from July 30 to August 31 and she is seeking only the best for this edition of Midnight Echo. To know more about the editor, we have a brief bio to introduce her and prepare you to make the most of the submissions window. Deborah Sheldon is an award-winning author from Melbourne, Australia. She writes short stories, novellas and novels across the darker spectrum. Her titles include the noir-horror novel Contrition, the bio-horror novella Thylacines, the collection Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories (Australian Shadows “Best Collected Work 2017”), and the creature-horror novel Devil Dragon. She has a novel, a collection, and a novella forthcoming in 2019. Her work has been shortlisted for numerous Aurealis Awards and Australian Shadows Awards, long-listed for a Bram Stoker, and included in “best of” anthologies. Other credits include TV scripts, feature articles, non-fiction books, and award-winning medical writing. Thank you for considering ME14 for your submission and thank you to all who download the edition when it becomes available at the end of the year. Submission Guidelines Midnight Echo is the magazine of the Australasian Horror Writers Association. We seek original, previously unpublished horror fiction and non-fiction on horror-related subjects. As the AHWA’s goal is to support the genre in...

Deadline: August 31st, 2019 Payment: Between $0.04 and $0.08/word Note: Reprints allowed We will be open August 1 though August 31st. Follow our Guidelines and you are more likely to receive a personalized response. Ignore our Guidelines and a standard rejection may quickly follow. What Are We Looking For? Positive stories demonstrating the triumph of the human spirit and the power of hope and humane values in overcoming the most daunting challenges. We are interested in all SF and Fantasy genres, but no horror please. In this reading period, we need more SF than Fantasy. Young Adult to the Literary. No to Pollyannish and Utopian simplicity. Yes to communities and teams working together to overcome dire challenges. Yes to marginalized and under-represented characters as protagonists. Yes to science and magic that solve problems, alleviate suffering, and boldly explore new possibilities. No to corrupt, dystopian governments or evil corporations. Tone down the violence, profanity, and sex. It’s only useful if the story demands it. Story Length Shorter is better! We need works 5,000 words and under. If you submit a story over 5,000 words, it has to be amazing to get very far in the review process. Overall, we will consider the following word counts: Flash Fiction & Poetry: 100 – 1500 words Short Stories: 2,000 – 7,500 words Novelettes: 7,500 – 10,000 words. Submission Formatting Your story must be submitted in Word or RTF format. Top of the First Page Title of Story (centered) Your By Line (centered) No Address or other Personal Info please. Formatting: Font: Arial, Size 12 Double spaced Indented paragraphs Single spacing between sentences. No extra line break between paragraphs Section breaks, as needed, should be three ### symbols, centered on the page. In the document Header, include Last Name/Title/Page # File Naming: When you SAVE your file, name...