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Deadline: January 19th, 2025 Payment: Royalties Theme: Retro-future adventures Plasma Pulp! Edited by LawDog Ultronic supersonic tales of retro-future adventure! We’re looking for science fiction pulpy goodness that hearken back to Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. Evil intergalactic warlords face off against ray gun-slinging heroes! You can call it raypunk, if you like—we’re calling it Plasma Pulp! Your homework for this anthology. Opens: 11/17/24 Closes: 01/19/25 Contracts: 02/08/25 Publication: 03/07/25 Guidelines for all our anthologies (psst! this is important!): 5,000 to 8,000 words. Length and genre are negotiable, as long as the story fits the concept and is entertaining. Any submission must be in Times New Roman (preferred, but you can use Georgian or other readable font), 12PT, double-spaced, with your name, title of the story, and your email on it. Name the file as -—. Send it in a .docx format as an attachment—no links. Refer to the submission guideline graphic below for how to format your story—It has all the information you need! Feel free to download it for reference. Raconteur Press will hold the rights for one year after publication; after one year, the rights will revert to the author, but we continue to pay you as long as the anthology is selling. Authors receive an equal percentage share of the proceeds from the anthology, along with the Press, our editors, and administration. Yes, you read that right. We don’t take 80% off the top and split the 20% left over between all the authors. We’re all in this together. This is why our anthologies are limited to ten stories. IMPORTANT: PLEASE do NOT submit stories until the date the call opens. We don’t want to hang on to your piece for longer than necessary. You might find another market for it, or it decides to grow into a novel,...

Deadline: January 20th, 2025 Payment: 2 cents per word, 1 cent per word for reprints Theme: Stories that center around a craft, recipe, or ritual AND each author will provide a set of instructions to make/enact the craft, recipe, or ritual that was featured in their story Note: This is a vegan magazine. They will not generally publish mentions of leather/animal-products, meat/animal consumption, etc. and will request that they be changed to a vegan alternative during the edit process Note: Reprints welcome Reading periods/When to send Submissions are currently open. They will close on January 20th, 2025 @ 10pm PST. About the Anthology Welcome to the Hearth Stories Springtime Fair! In this anthology we will be featuring stories that center around a craft, recipe, or ritual (see below for specifics). In addition to the story, each author will provide a set of instructions to make/enact the craft, recipe, or ritual that was featured in their story. The idea is that this will let readers enjoy a great story while also learning something and engaging with the story in an interesting way. The story and the instructions should be firmly related (not just a random thing to make, paired with a random story). So, what are we talking about when we talk about crafts, recipes, and rituals? Here are some examples, but you are by no means limited to these: Crafts Crochet, Knitting, Sewing, Weaving, Macrame Basketry Woodworking Smithing Jewelry Making Recipes (Vegan Only) Baking (bread, pastry, etc) Cooking (soups, sides, mains) Remedies, Medicines, Tinctures Rituals Magic or Spellcraft Meditation Yoga, Qi-Gong, Tai-Chi, etc. Ceremonies When using the above suggestions keep in mind that you can be very specific—a specific knitting pattern, for example—or you can be fairly general—an introduction to knitting, for example. Either is fine. For the most part we are...

Deadline: January 20th, 2025 Payment: Contributors Copy Theme: Longing Have you ever eaten cold waffle fries in your underwear at like, 2am? No? Well, you should. Leftovers you’ve convinced yourself you’ll heat up later and eat but then just eat them by the light of the fridge – though it’s unclear why you’re in your underwear. It’s a wonderfully strange experience and that’s kind of what we’re aiming for. A wonderfully strange experience but in words and art. Got a piece that doesn’t quite fit elsewhere? We want to read it. Experimenting with format or style? Love it; send it our way. We want your abandoned words, your collection of phrases tucked away in your Notes app, that strangely-written but oddly elegant poem that doesn’t play well with others. We’re looking for hybrids, lyrics, prose, poetry; whatever you’ve got, we’ll read (within reason).   Issue #1 longing noun a yearning desire   Waffle Fried is currently accepting unpublished creative non-fiction, poetry, short fiction, journalism, and visual art that explores the theme of longing – whether it be for something or someone once had or never found, the tale of the one who got away, or even an overwhelming craving (for waffle fries, perhaps?). However you interpret the theme is what we’d like to see, so long as it obviously fits. Published authors and artists will receive a print copy of Issue #1, which may or may not be available for purchase. Submissions can only be sent via Duosuma. Any submission sent by email will be deleted without being read. Word count limit for fiction and creative non-fiction is 2,000 words.  Poetry line limit is 30. General Guidelines While we’re open to basically anything, we do have some things we won’t tolerate or consider. Artificial Intelligence If you include AI as part of your...

Submission Window: December 21st, 2024 to January 21, 2025 Payment: $50 upon publication Theme: Stories about how we seek out, discover, and grasp onto connection in all genres with a particular fondness for anything that moves beyond realism in form or content or spirit Please read below for details about our next submission window, guidelines, honorariums, and rights. At Astrolabe, we’re looking for work about how we seek out, discover, and grasp onto connection. Into the woods. Across a line. Beneath the ocean. Along a seam. Into the branches of an alternate present or the crevasse of an alternate future. Across the rifts between one another. And then, once we find one other, the myths we make. We’re excited to see as many interpretations of this broad theme as there are stars in the night sky. We’re open to work of all genres, with a particular fondness for anything that moves beyond realism in form or content or spirit. Read about Astrolabe for details on our mission and what we’re doing with the Universe. The details We pay a $50 honorarium upon publication of one or more pieces from your submission. We open for submissions on the day we publish new work and remain open for a month, or until we reach 150 submissions. Here are our next open submission periods: Here are the next free periods: December 21st to January 21, 2025 Some additional details: We currently accept three types of work: fiction, creative nonfiction, and photography & art. See below for genre-specific instructions. We’re not a market for lineated poetry at the moment. We do accept simultaneous submissions, but please let us know if your work was accepted for publication elsewhere—we’ll be thrilled for your good news! No multiple submissions—and if we don’t accept your work, please wait until our next submission period before trying...

Submission Window: January 15th - 21st, 2025 Payment: $25 Theme: Seeking Sleeping Beauty tales and poems for the first issue of 2025. Submission Guidelines    We changed our guidelines and updated our instructions on November 21, 2024 Please read thoroughly! ​​ The Fairy Tale Magazine is an online lit magazine that publishes twice per year. We seek fairy tale stories and poems from and about a wide range of backgrounds. Our issues are released online on April 15th and November 1st. ​ The Fairy Tale Magazine is NOT a children's publication. It is intended for those who are 15-years-of-age and older. We understand young children may see our publication, but it is intended for teens (age 15+) and adults.  ​ Themes for 2025 No submissions will be considered or acknowledged if received outside of the windows stated.​ ​ Spring/Summer Theme: Sleeping Beauty Seeking Sleeping Beauty tales and poems for the first issue of 2025. Submissions will be open January 15 at 12am EST through January 21 at 11:59pm EST. (no fee)  Prose & Poetry Guidelines ​ The Fairy Tale Magazine accepts only previously unpublished work. ​We accept unsolicited submissions. No more than one piece per submission period. Please submit only in one category. If you were published in our latest issue, please sit one submission period out before submitting again. Use the following word counts for submissions:  ​ Short Stories (between 900-2,000 words): Fairy tales inspired by any aspect of the above-listed themes. (1 piece per submission period)  Poetry (500 word limit): Poetry inspired by any aspect of the above-listed themes are welcome. (1 piece per submission period)  We are not seeking art or nonfiction. We are not hiring. No inquiries please. ​​​​​​ How to Format and Submit Your Work Only submissions that follow these guidelines will be accepted Submit by email only to this address: [email protected]. ​​The subject line of your email must...

Deadline: January 23rd, 2025 at the earliest, may run later Payment: 50/50 royalty split Theme: Horror of all kinds, huge fan of sci-fi and cosmic horror. Rabid Otter Horror is currently open to submissions in novella and novel form. If you have a story you would like to submit that is 30,000+ words, we would like to hear from you! To submit, please email [email protected] with the following: The first 20% of your manuscript (for under 50,000 words) or first three chapters (for over 50,000) in doc or docx format, Times New Roman and double spaced. A cover letter with your title, name, pen name, email address, full word count, and quick synopsis of your story. Please title the email “Rabid Horror Submission”. Feel free to include the title in the body of the email, but don’t forget it on the cover letter. Via: River Folk Books.

Deadline: January 26th, 2025 Payment: Royalties Themes: Stories that experiment with narrative, plot and structure. in darker genres Wild Hunt Books are open to unagented submissions from 13-26 January 2025. For this submission period we are looking for novels only (50K-90K words with a grace of 1000 words, over/under). We are only looking for standalone novels and are not acquiring series or duologies. We are not seeking short story collections or novellas this time. We are not a home for poetry, non-fiction, screenplays, translations, and children’s or YA fiction. If you'd like to read more about what the editor is looking for, please read her recent blog post about this. The editor has set up a #mswl which she will periodically update so best to head over there to get a good sense of what she’s looking for. The list is not meant to be exhaustive but to give writers an idea of the sorts of manuscripts we are looking for. The editor is seeking manuscripts that speak to the heart of the company: Our mission is to foster strong and distinct literary voices and those who experiment with narrative, plot and structure. We are also a home for authors dabbling in the darker genres and liminal spaces. She loves language that evokes place, voice and mood, and loves when this works as a visceral entry point for the reader into a story. Some of her favourite writers are: Shirley Jackson, Daisy Johnson, Charlotte Brontë, Margaret Atwood and Franz Kafka. I love books that have clear, engaging prose from the start, and don’t sacrifice on character or story. I’m looking for novels that are close to their characters and worlds. I also like a strong authorial voice. I tend to gravitate towards fiction rooted in reality even if it incorporates genre notes....

Submission Windows: Jan 22-25 BIPOC writers only, Jan 26-29 general submissions Payment: 10¢/word for original fiction and $50 for original poetry. Theme: All forms of speculative fiction that fall into the fantasy genre We plan to open January 22-29, 2025 Jan 22-25 BIPOC writers only, Jan 26-29 general submissions Fantasy only accepts anonymous submissions. Please do not include your name, address, phone number, or other similar identifiers in the manuscript itself. All original fiction and poetry submissions will be read anonymously on first read: moving on to further consideration will depend on the merit of the work alone. Please make sure the title is on the manuscript. For poetry, please ensure that the title of each poem is in the manuscript. Please note: Submissions and purchase decisions at Fantasy have no bearing on any decisions Arley makes as a literary agent, and vice versa. Please do not use Fantasy email addresses, submissions channels, social media, etc., to query or follow up with Arley for literary agent concerns. All opinions expressed by Arley are his own, and do not necessarily reflect ideas, opinions, or values of various organizations, including kt literary. Please see his website for more information on querying. Please read the FULL guidelines before submitting. Note that even if you have read through these guidelines once, we may update them from time to time, as our own perspectives on publishing can change over time and conversations. Definitions… and what we want! Fantasy means many things to different people. Often it means a shifting of perspective, which seems to imply that there is more, that wherever you are, the world or universe is bigger yet. Whoever you are and wherever you are, that location which seems mundane to you is also Fantastic to others. Fantasy is philosophical as well as experiential, it is thought provoking, and often insists on a sense...

Submission Window: January 23rd-30th, 2025 Payment: €0.01 per word, with a €20 minimum. Theme: Diverse sci-fi and fantasy fiction. We are open to submissions within the following periods: January 23rd-30th April 23rd-30th July 23rd-30th October 23rd-30th Submissions received outside of these dates will unfortunately be lost and therefore not responded to. When open, we seek and offer the following: Length: 1,000-5,000 words. These are firm limits. Shorter or longer works will be considered, but the further a story goes outside these bounds the more it will need to impress. Compensation: €0.01 per word, with a €20 minimum. Please be aware that payment is via PayPal only. If you do not receive an acknowledgment within 24 hours of submission, please get in touch. We aim to accept or reject within 14 days of acknowledgment, but rl (real life) and rl (reading load) can get in the way. If you do not hear from us after 30 days, feel free to query. REQUIREMENTS Mythaxis seeks speculative fiction (sf/f/h) of all stripes for our first three issues each year. We are also interested in submissions of crime fiction for our end-of-year “all crime” issue. All these genres are equally welcome in each submission window. We acquire First Print, Digital, and Audio rights with a six month period of exclusivity from the date of publication. We also ask permission to potentially include accepted pieces in future anthologies; in event of agreement, an additional compensation will be offered. All other rights remain entirely with the author. See here for an overview of our editorial process. Simultaneous submissions are not only accepted, they are encouraged. Please tell us if you sim-sub, and we merely ask that you notify us of acceptance at another market as soon as possible. In the event that we accept first, we expect a positive and timely confirmation. Therefore we recommend sim-subbing...

Deadline: January 30th, 2025 Payment: $1 per story accepted Theme: 100 word story about the Sun Submissions for the 100 Word Project from Manawaker Studio are open January thru May and July thru November. The 100 Word Project is an ongoing project focused on 100 word stories which will be published as a monthly, themed online journal and in a yearly print anthology. Each month (except for June and December) will bring a new prompt, and on the last weekday of the month nine of the submitted drabbles for that prompt will be posted in the public-facing section of the Manawaker Patreon alongside one drabble from Manawaker EiC, CB Droege. At the end of the year, the ten stories from each of the ten prompts will be assembled into the next volume of the 100 x 100 series. The project is curated and edited by CB Droege. 100 x 100 is published by Manawaker Studio as part of their regular line of anthologies. Current prompt The Prompt for January 2025  is ‘Sun‘. The stories The only restrictions are that the stories are 100 words long (granting small leeway for different methods of counting, and not including the title (you don’t have to have a title, but we do like them)), and previously unpublished. The idea is that each contributor is writing a brand new story for each prompt as they are announced, but if you happen to have an unpublished drabble that already fits the theme, that works too. There are no genre requirements, but please keep content family friendly (No gore, no explicit sex, use profanity sparingly. General guideline: Would you feel uncomfortabel reading the story to a group that includes at least one 12 year old child? If so, maybe it’s not right for us). If your work is accepted, you will grant Manawaker Studio the right to publish the work non-exclusively (we will ask nicely for exclusivity for one...