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All Submissions should meet this criteria: Works: short stories and flash fiction Genre and theme: Horror and dark fiction involving Werewolves on the prowl during the winter season. We welcome campy and extreme (violence and sexual content), but this isn’t an erotica collection. Deadline: November 15th, 2019 Format: Attach the .RTF, .DOC, or .DOCX Word Count 5k – 7k words approx. for short stories, no limit for flash. Payment: $10 Token payment via Paypal and 60% of net earnings divided evenly among the authors. Multiple Submissions okay. Reprints are okay. Submit a brief bio, we don’t care if you have no work history, give us a brief bio of yourself. Send submission to [email protected]

Deadline: November 15th, 2019 Payment: $5 per thousand words for fiction and $.35 a line with a $5 minimum for poetry. Now that the eighth issue of The Audient Void: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy is out, we are opening submissions for issue #9. We are looking for quality works of poetry and short fiction. Poetry should be Weird or darkly fantastical with strong imagery. We pay $.35 a line with a $5 minimum, payable upon publication. For short fiction our tastes are broad and we will consider anything with Weird, horrific or fantastical elements. We will consider any length work but will be much less likely to publish stories over 5,000 words. Our rate is $5 per thousand words, payable upon publication. First time publication only, no reprints please. To submit please send your work as a .doc, .docx or .rtf file to [email protected] and be sure to include a header with your name and email address. We do not accept simultaneous submissions or reprints and ask that you wait for our response before submitting elsewhere. The submission deadline is November 15th, please do not inquire about your submission before that deadline and understand that it may take some time to follow up on all submissions after the deadline has passed. I very much look forward to reading everyone's work!

Deadline: November 15th, 2019 Payment: 6 cents per word for fiction, reprints and flash rates below. Note: Reprints welcome PodCastle is currently OPEN to submissions. Visit our Submittable page to submit! Please see our schedule for this year’s open periods.  PodCastle is looking for quality fantasy fiction. If you’re a writer with a speculative short story that you’d like to hear narrated by one of our performers, we’d like to see it. Submit online via our submissions portal using Standard Manuscript Format. We accept files in .odt, .rtf, .docx or .doc format. Word count: up to 6,000 words. Occasionally, we run reprints in the novelette range (up to 17,000 words), although they are a harder sell. Query to [email protected] before submitting longer works. No multiple submissions within a submissions period. If your story is being held by us from a previous period or special call, you are free to submit another story this period. If you receive a rejection this period and submissions are still open, you can send another story as well. Simultaneous submissions are permitted; just mention it in your cover letter up front that you’ve submitted it elsewhere, and let us know if you sell it elsewhere first. Reprints are welcome and strongly encouraged. We are happy to consider stories previously released on Patreon as reprints. Payment and Rights We pay $.06/word USD for original fiction 6,000 words or less, $100 flat rate for reprints over 1,500 words, and $20 flat rate for flash fiction reprints (stories below 1,500 words). As of January 2016, PodCastle publishes in both text and audio. You are offering us both when you submit your story. We ask for 4 months exclusivity for text and audio for original stories, and 4 months audio exclusivity for reprints. We are happy to receive previously-podcasted stories; this just means don’t re-pod the story until 4 months after publication with PodCastle. We distribute...

Deadline: November 15th, 2019 Payment: 30% profits shared equally among the contributors. Deadline: 15th November, 2019Don’t wait till the deadline. Submit early. Call will be closed once the anthology reaches its max word count. No requests for deadline extension will be entertained.Genre: Speculative Fiction. Mix of genres is okay as long as the speculative element remains the main element.Word Count: 4k-15kResponse Time: Within Two Weeks from the date of submission. Please allow up to four weeks for follow-up.Multiple Submission: AllowedSimultaneous Submission: AllowedReprint: Not previously published work is preferred. However, reprints will be considered. If you think the story has been viewed several thousand times (that is, if it is published several times, or in publications that do really well in terms of views or reads) please don’t submit. You may contact me if you have this doubt.Formatting: Follow Shunn Manuscript Guidelines.Cover Letter: Do not submit without a cover letter. Write about the story, yourself and your works in brief.Subject Line: Anthology Title – Story Title – Author NamePayment: 30% profits shared equally among the contributors.Submit to: [email protected]: Early 2020That’s all the key details. Contact me if you want to know more. Thank you so much for submitting! Via: The Great Void.

Deadline: November 17th, 2019 Payment: £25 per story and £5 per poem and a contributor's copy Writers: Please submit work appropriate to the theme in Word or Pages format, 1.5 or double spaced, with word count indicated at the end of the piece. Literary fiction, creative non-fiction and narrative journalism should fall between 2,000 and 7,500 words. Any non-fiction or journalistic work selected for publication will be fact-checked. Please submit only one story and/or up to three poems per issue. Simultaneous submissions are welcome but let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere. All work must be previously unpublished either in print or online. Submissions for Issue #11 should relate to the theme Supernatural. Send us stories, essays, reported narratives, memoirs and poetry on anything to do with the occult. Psychological spookiness, eerie suspense, weird mysteries and unexplained phenomena are welcome elements, as well as the more obvious demons, angels, witches and ghosts. Religious themes are also relevant. Writing must be of a literary standard, not genre fare trading on shocks or gore. As always, the theme is open to wide interpretation. Please include a brief 2-3 sentence biography in the cover letter, noting any prior publishing experience, and email work to [email protected] by November 17th, 2019. Successful writers will hear from us within a few weeks of the deadline, if not before. If you do not hear from us after that time, please assume that we will not be publishing your work. Due to the volume of submissions we no longer send rejection emails. Artists: Shooter commissions original artwork for its covers. Artists should email examples of their work or a link to their online portfolio to [email protected]. We take note of promising illustrators on a rolling basis but, if you have work or a style you feel is particularly relevant to an upcoming theme, please draw our attention to it. We will contact suitable artists to discuss commissioning the cover. Artwork...

Deadline: November 20th, 2019 Payment: $10 Submissions now OPEN for STORIES and COMICS for the DECEMBER Issue UNTIL November 20th THEME - Winter Enchanted Conversation is looking for fairy tales, folktales, or myths for the December issue using the season of WINTER somehow in the narrative. Check out last year's issue HERE. Work can either be re-tellings of established stories or use original characters as long as they are set within the fairy tale, folktale, or mythic templates. Be bold, traditional, lyrical, or experimental in your storytelling, and enchant us with your original stories set in a variety of locations around the world and time periods from ancient to modern.   WE'RE LOOKING FOR   STORIES between 700-2000 words with our sweet spot being around 1,200 words. PAYMENT FOR STORIES: $10.00 U.S. dollars only The upper limit 2,000 word count is FIRM. Stories over 2,000 words will not be considered. PAYMENT WILL BE MADE THROUGH PAYPAL ONLY. At the time of contract, authors will have the option of donating the token payment back to the magazine to help keep us running. Absolutely none of the following: Sci-fi, dystopian, erotica, excessive horror or gore, high fantasy, excessive world building, time-travel, futuristic or space travel. Also, DO NOT submit a story where the 1st person narrator dies at the end. That idea just doesn't work for us. If your character must die, please make it a 3rd person account. We're accepting only previously unpublished work. Only one work per writer per submission period. Simultaneous submissions are fine. SEQUENTIAL ART/COMICS: 1 to 5 pages in length. THEME: WINTER Dimensions of comic: 6.62" x 10.125" READ A PAST ISSUE HERE PAYMENT FLAT RATE $10.00 USD through PayPal only. We are accepting only previously unpublished work. Black and white OR color comics are accepted. Simultaneous submissions...

Deadline: November 20th, 2019 Payment: $10 Submissions now OPEN for STORIES and COMICS for the DECEMBER Issue UNTIL November 20th THEME - Winter Enchanted Conversation is looking for fairy tales, folktales, or myths for the December issue using the season of WINTER somehow in the narrative. Check out last year's issue HERE. Work can either be re-tellings of established stories or use original characters as long as they are set within the fairy tale, folktale, or mythic templates. Be bold, traditional, lyrical, or experimental in your storytelling, and enchant us with your original stories set in a variety of locations around the world and time periods from ancient to modern.   WE'RE LOOKING FOR   STORIES between 700-2000 words with our sweet spot being around 1,200 words. PAYMENT FOR STORIES: $10.00 U.S. dollars only The upper limit 2,000 word count is FIRM. Stories over 2,000 words will not be considered. PAYMENT WILL BE MADE THROUGH PAYPAL ONLY. At the time of contract, authors will have the option of donating the token payment back to the magazine to help keep us running. Absolutely none of the following: Sci-fi, dystopian, erotica, excessive horror or gore, high fantasy, excessive world building, time-travel, futuristic or space travel. Also, DO NOT submit a story where the 1st person narrator dies at the end. That idea just doesn't work for us. If your character must die, please make it a 3rd person account. We're accepting only previously unpublished work. Only one work per writer per submission period. Simultaneous submissions are fine. SEQUENTIAL ART/COMICS: 1 to 5 pages in length. THEME: WINTER Dimensions of comic: 6.62" x 10.125" READ A PAST ISSUE HERE PAYMENT FLAT RATE $10.00 USD through PayPal only. We are accepting only previously unpublished work. Black and white OR color comics are accepted. Simultaneous submissions...

Deadline: November 25th, 2019 Payment: 65% split between authors PER STORY I'm looking for horror stories about... insects! I will be selecting only a select pre-posted stories (reddit, personal author sites, etc. The majority chosen will be exclusive to this project so we can make the most of the Amazon KDP program. Name: Death and Butterflies Word Count: 1000-3500 words Pay: 35% publisher/project manager 65% split between authors PER STORY Format: 12 pt. Times New Roman, double spaced, proper indentation, word document. Left hand corner: author name, title, email, and word count. I will be choosing approximately 5 posted stories and 25-35 Exclusive stories. Meaning they cannot be posted ANYWHERE else. Its my intention to enroll this book into the KDP program with Amazon so we can all gain more $$$. I plan on keeping it in the program for four months. After that time, you are free to do with your story what you wish. Email for submission: [email protected] DEADLINE: November 25th, 2019 Publication date: January 1st, 2020 Via: Death and Butterflies Facebook Page.

Deadline: November 26th, 2019 Payment: $0.05 U.S. per word Bronzeville is now open to submissions for an anthology called Twisted Love. Twisted Love will feature stories with unsettling and unconventional relationships. Give us stories of toxic relationships or lovers bound by crime or fetish. Think Soldier and Angel from Hap and Leonard, season 1: Payment Policy We pay $0.05 U.S. per word for first Worldwide English publication rights for stories up to 3,000 words in length. We have no minimum length requirements for submissions; however, we will not consider submissions that exceed 3,150 words. Preferred Genres Preferred genres include crime, sci fi, fantasy, horror and YA. Simultaneous and Multiple Submissions Writers may submit one story to all open Bronzeville platforms. Those who submit a story to Twisted Love may also, for example, submit a story to Bronzeville Bee if it is open to submissions. Writers may not submit more than one story to Twisted Love. Writers may simultaneously submit to other venues. We ask that you notify us if the story is accepted elsewhere and withdraw the story from consideration.   Formatting Format your subject line as follows: Twisted Love Submission – Story Name – word count – genre Example: Twisted Love Submission – ‘This is My Story’s Title’ – 2725 words – horror Your story should be sent as an attached Word Document. We will not read PDFs, shared Google Doc files, RTF documents or any other type of document. Submissions that do not include an attached .doc or .docx file will not be processed. The text in your story should be black. The font should be a standard font, such as Times New Roman. The text should be 12 pt or 14 pt. The first line of every paragraph should either be flush left, with a blank line between paragraphs, or it should be indented half...

Deadline: November 30th, 2019 Payment: Royalties Lost Love (Rated R) Deadline – November 30th, 2019 Publication – February 2020 Word Count – 5,000-15,000 Theme – Nearly everyone has had a lost love. In other words, the one that got away  either due to another person, drifting apart, death, etc. Whether it be the boy next door, a loyal princess, or a supernatural being, all of these stories have two things in common: loss and heartbreak.   After receiving edits back, the author has two weeks to return the submission for formatting. View our blog post on the topic of how to submit to a publisher.   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</a..