Events

Deadline: June 1st, 2025 Payment: $5 for poetry sets (up to 5 pages), $10 for flash fiction (up to 1000 words), $25 for fiction stories up to 5000 words, +$2/1000 words for over 5000 for fictions stories up to 10,000 words Theme: Canadian authors telling stories about community: finding it, building it, maintaining it, being expelled from it. SF and F are called out as acceptable, no word on H so probably a hard sell This anthology’s theme is “It Takes a Village” – I’m looking for stories about community: finding it, building it, maintaining it, being expelled from it. How do we build our villages as adults? How do we grow connections with those around us? What do we do when we’ve lost them? We’ve heard the phrase “It takes a village to raise a child” but also “The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.” How do we tackle these emotions as adults? As this is a bit trickier of an anthology theme than the last one, the reading period is going to be much longer, and the final evolution of the anthology’s theme will come from what the overarching theme and tone from the submitted and accepted pieces create. What I am looking for: Poems, flash fiction, short stories, science fiction, fantasy, romance, literary, contemporary, and more. We want a wide variety of fictional stories! Works from Canadian writers/authors only, with some preference for writers from British Columbia. Special consideration/interest for writers who are Former Foster Youth or Adopted Flash Fiction up to 1000 words Short Stories up to 10000 words – very limited spots for over 5000-word stories Poetry sets of up to 5 pages Polished works – please don’t send your first draft. Make sure to...

Deadline: June 1st, 2025 Payment: $10k advance and 50% of net royalties Theme: Novel length horror written by women. (BIPOC especially encouraged to submit): haunted house, gothic, cults, social, grief, feral women, feminine rage, historical Boozhoo Books with Bindery Books has expanded and has an open call for novel length horror written by women. (BIPOC especially encouraged to submit): haunted house, gothic, cults, social, grief, feral women, feminine rage, historical Deadline: June 1. Thank you for your interest in Boozhoo Books! Boozhoo is seeking commercial fiction (YA or Adult) by Indigenous authors including horror, thriller, mystery, romance, fantasy, or dark academia that is plot focused with good characterization, well written descriptive detail, complicated plotlines, interesting character arcs, and centers Indigenous stories. **Before sending us your materials, please read our submission guidelines. Any submissions that do not follow the guidelines will be disqualified from consideration.** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:   1. Fill out all fields in the form below. We cannot accept submissions that do not include a complete manuscript as well as a pitch letter. 2. The tastemaker will be reviewing pitch letters in order to determine which manuscripts to read fully. Your pitch letter is incredibly important, so take your time with it! Pitch letters should include the following elements: The title and genre of your work and estimated word count A brief overview of your story, with a strong hook. This should read like your book's back cover copy. What leaves us wanting more? There is no need to give a full synopsis of your story. It is helpful if you can position your book in reference to any comparable titles that are similar, and call out themes the reader will encounter. Your bio and background. Since we're particularly seeking authors with diverse backgrounds, please indicate whether you identify with a marginalized group....

Deadline: June 1st, 2025 Payment: 1 cent per word or a flat $10 for reprints Theme: A story with a choice being made is central to the entire plot of the tale Note: Reprints welcome Behind the Revolving Door, an Anthology of Choices is the fifth anthology from Celestial Echo Press. The theme is the choices we make. Each of us makes a multitude of choices daily, some minor and some with major consequences. Do you or don’t you wear your lucky shirt to the sports event? What do you think the consequences would be if you didn’t wear your lucky shirt? This anthology will be a collection of stories that take the reader on a journey with the author’s protagonist as they go through a trial and are forced to take an action, to make a choice. For example, does the character find a wallet on the ground? Do they open it? Return it to the owner, or keep it? What are the consequences? Do they encounter a second choice, thus going back through the revolving door? Do they find classified information, implicating a family member in a coup? What do they do with it? Is the character hiking through the woods only to find a portal, not knowing where it will take them if they enter? What happens? Is it so bad that they try to return, hence going through the revolving door? There are many, many ways this theme can be interpreted. We believe authors can give us a great story by fleshing out the characters and plot. We’re asking for a minimum of 500 words, maximum 4,000 words. The revolving door on the cover will not be required in the story. If a door and/or a revolving door is in the story, that will be a...

Deadline for pitches: June 1st, 2025 Deadline for accepted pieces: July 1st, 2025 Payment: $10 + Contributor Copy Theme: Televangelism Horror Themes: Religious horror surrounding gospel of prosperity and televangelism Smitten Land is a queer religious horror literary magazine. Issue 3 revolves around themes of televangelism and gospel of prosperity. We are accepting pitches for fiction, poetry, and book reviews for books revolving around our theme. We are also accepting journalistic / nonfiction pitches from voices who have had experiences with real life churches who preached prosperity gospel. Please submit a 200 word pitch to [email protected] with the subject line TELEVANGELISM PITCH - - . In the body of the email, please include your projected wordcount. Please do not inquire about the status of your submission until the reading period has closed. Deadline for pitches: June 1st, 2025 Deadline for accepted pieces: July 1st, 2025 Payment: $10 + Contributor Copy Via: The Laughing Man House.

Submission Window: June 1st - 2nd, 2025 Payment: 8 cents per word for original, 2 cents for reprints, For artwork: $10 for the non-exclusive right to use each image, for as long as the site is online.  If we publish a print collection we will pay a pro-rata share for each image used. Theme: Well written original work in science fiction, fantasy, myth, legend, fairy tales, and eldritch, in written, podcast, video, and/or graphic story form, and from around the world. Note: Reprints welcome     Submissions Schedule The first and second day of every month, 12 am of the 1st to 12 am of the 3rd, E.S.T. For reading impaired individuals, our submissions manager and ‘forget password’ have a captcha compatible with screen readers. We pay 8¢ per word for new fiction, 2¢ per word for fiction reprints, 2 – 8¢ per word for new fact-based work, 1- 4¢ per word for reprinted fact articles. For new poetry, we pay $1 per line, and for reprints we pay 50¢ a line  We’re looking for poems up to 40 lines. We’ll consider longer poems but that would be a hard sell, and words over 40 lines would be paid at 8¢ per word. We sponsor The Kepler Award to recognize and encourage writers of excellent science fiction and fantasy stories that creatively extrapolate on known science in constructive and exciting ways. You can learn aboutThe Kepler Award here. You can read a copy of our standard contract here.   It can be varied as needed to include the rights of translators, voice actors, etc. Writers Guidelines We accept new work as well as reprints, prose and poetry, from a minimum of 1000 words on up.   All else being equal, shorter pieces will be favored, and we have yet to find a story over about 9-10,000 words we...

Deadline: June 6th, 2025 Payment: 1000-3000 words = $20, 3000-5000 words = $30, 5000-7000 words = $40 Theme: Horrifying holiday travel NEW publisher ROF Publishing House is seeking ooky and spooky, thrilling and chilling holiday travel nightmares for a themed short story collection: SEASON’S GRIEVINGS: Holiday Travel Stories Gone Wrong Missing your flight is scary. So is sleeping in your childhood bedroom with cousins you can’t remember. Are your old band posters talking to you, or is that the ghost of Chanukah’s past? Please send us your horror, thriller, and suspense stories (1,000-7,000 words) about holiday travel. We are interested in publishing stories set around a variety of cultural holidays and traditions. Take us into the mind of a sinister flight attendant on Christmas Eve. Show us the monsters who stalked ancient Winter Solstice festivalgoers. Place us in the middle of a serial killer’s game while on a seniors-only cruise. Give us psychological terror while frying latkes in Grandma’s kitchen. Dazzle us with bonfires and fireworks and arson on New Year’s Eve. Call is open May 6, 2025 to June 6, 2025 Submit stories by clicking this link: Submissions Link Submissions should be Word documents in Shunn Manuscript Format We are not interested in stories that perpetuate stereotypes of gender, race, religion, nationality, ability, or sexuality or that minimize or glorify abuse, violence, or colonialism, including Zionism. If you have questions or need to withdraw your story because another publisher has accepted it, please email [email protected]. Payment is tiered based on word count. 1000-3000 words = $20 3000-5000 words = $30 5000-7000 words = $40 ROF Publishing House requests First North American Serial Rights and First Electronic and Digital Rights. Via: ROF Publishing's Substack.

Submission Window: June 1st - 7th, 2025 Payment: Drabbles and Flash – £5, Short Stories 1001 to 4000 words – £10, Short Stories 4001 to 8000 words – £15 Theme: Stories you’ve poured your soul into but haven’t been able to find the right home for. We do not have set issue themes but feel free to be inspired by the season, seasonal occasions and events. Note: Only publishes creators from under represented and/or marginalized communities. WE ONLY PUBLISH CREATORS FROM UNDER REPRESENTED AND/OR MARGINALISED BACKGROUNDS AND/OR COMMUNITIES We don’t ask for any proof, we take this on trust with the expectation that anyone not from a marginalised background or underrepresented community wouldn’t take up the space of someone who is. We ask you to consider this before submitting. QUARTERLY ONLINE ANTHOLOGY: BRIEF We’re looking for stories you’ve poured your soul into but haven’t been able to find the right home for. We’re looking for stories that make us feel something. Warmth, love, melancholy, rage. We want it all. All genres, styles and themes will be considered and we especially love stories that are outside the box in their telling. Ambiguous endings? Non-linear storytelling? Antagonist’s point-of-view? A story told in just one scene? We love it all. PLEASE NOTE: We will close submissions early if our cut off point is reached Quarterly Online Anthology Submission Schedule: June 1st – 7th (Autumn Issue) or until we reach 70 submissions September 1st – 7th (Winter Issue) or until we reach 70 submissions December 1st – 7th (Spring Issue) or until we reach 70 submissions March 1st – 7th (Summer Issue) or until we reach 70 submissions ​We do not have set issue themes but feel free to be inspired by the season, seasonal occasions and events. We are unlikely to publish stories...

Submission Window: June 1st - 7th, 2025 Payment: 8 cents per word Theme: Dark and disruptive SF stories that have strong emotional resonance under 300 words in length We open from the 1st-7th of each month, beginning April 2025. What we want: Anomaly is interested in science fiction stories under 300 words in length, for publication on their Patreon, with the right to collect stories into a future anthology. We're looking for dark and disruptive stories that have strong emotional resonance. We like stories that stick with us after reading, that get us thinking about the twisted use of technologies, the way the world may be, or how characters might react to an evolving technological future. What we're asking for: First rights with 90 days of exclusivity after publication, and the nonexclusive right to republish the story in a future anthology that collects Anomaly stories, with permission from the authors. Compensation: .08 per word for original fiction and an electronic copy of any future anthology. Submission Guidelines: Please attach your file to this form in .doc/.docx format. Use Times New Roman 12 point font with Shunn standard manuscript format. Stories must be 300 words or less. No simultaneous submissions. No multiple submissions. No stories written with AI. No reprints at this time. If you need any further assistance, please email us at [email protected]. SUBMIT HERE Via: Anomaly's Patreon.

Deadline: June 7th, 2025 Payment: Fiction and nonfiction run in the $10-30 range; poetry in the $5-15 range. Theme: The Uncanny Our summer edition theme is the uncanny, however you interpret that. What happens when settings look fine — happy, even — on the surface, only for a distortion to be lurking just out of sight? What can the uncanny help us understand about ourselves, our relationships, our communities? Submissions may be sent using this Google Form. We manage submissions through Google Forms, linked above. The details: Non-fiction under 4,000 words, fiction under 2,000, and poetry just generally kept to a minimum Please submit one prose piece or two poems. Turnaround times vary. Expect a response within approximately one month of submissions closing. Talk Vomit believes wholeheartedly in simultaneous submissions and raises their eyebrows at places that don’t. BUT, if your piece is accepted elsewhere, please email [email protected] as soon as you can. If you don’t, it stands to be quite embarrassing for both of us. Talk Vomit asks for first serial rights. We aim to share most work on our website, our Substack, and in print, as space allows. Upon initial publication, all rights revert back to you, although we ask you credit Talk Vomit in the event of republication. Some stuff we particularly like: Gothic stories. Not high fantasy stuff, usually, but moody and atmospheric pieces that take a microscope to the underbelly of our communities and relationships Flash satire Essays that weave first-person with cultural criticism; essays with a fresh coming-of-age narrative (one can come of age at many times in their life, in many ways; Monica is currently particularly interested in coming-of-age stories related to motherhood, fwiw) Cultural criticism, in general Book reviews, especially those in the 300-600 word range — unless you’re baking in some first-person narrative and lengthier criticism....

Deadline: June 10th, 2025 Payment: Royalties Theme: Straightforward science fiction with great characters A Science Fiction Anthology Submission Period: March 10, 2025 to June 10, 2025 Theme: Beyond – Science Fiction. Editor likes: characters, emotion. Dislikes: difficult words to pronounce. Faves: Dune, Expanse, Fifth Element, Foundation Stories that contain infanticide, rape, or gratuitous gore will not be accepted. Submission Period: March 10, 2025 to June 10, 2025 Submissions: No AI, 1 per author; no reprints, no simultaneous submissions; Submission Cost: Free Word Limit: 2,000 to 8,000 words Submission Guidelines: Anonymous submission with no author name in document; 12 pt Times or Arial; .Doc or .Docx; double-space; first line indent; no tabs used. Genres: Science Fiction Anticipated Pay: Royalty share of D2D sales Each contributor will receive a share, as will the publisher, from the sales on the D2D platform. This does not include Kickstarter funds (unless the Stretch goals are met), wholesale to authors, or retail outlets. Timeline Projections: Submissions close: June 2025 Review: July 2025 Acceptance / Rejection: July 2025 Edits: July/August 2025 Production: August 2025 Published: October 2025 Upon acceptance, the author is expected to work with the editor on at least one round of revisions in MSWord. Our publication goal is dependent on the extensive time needed to review and edit submissions may vary depending upon the submitted works and author’s response times. Inkd Publishing LLC will hold first publication rights for four months after publication and the continuing non-exclusive right to reproduce the work in Beyond. Authors must provide assurance that their story submission is an original, previously unpublished work, is not currently under consideration elsewhere, and that it will not be submitted for publication elsewhere prior to receiving notification that it has not been accepted for inclusion in Beyond. For the D2D royalty sharing, you can expect ongoing financial compensation from Draft 2 Digital...