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Submission Window: December 15th, 2023 - March 15th, 2024 Payment: $10 Theme: Stories that constitutes the ever-moving edge of its kind, as a place between light and dark, consciousness and un, today and tomorrow; work exhibiting the strange, the bizarre, that which is not of the world we know, but more of a twilight realm or even altogether alien place. Submission window: We are always open for submissions of art, animation, and music! We are currently closed for fiction and poetry submissions. We are open for fiction and poetry submissions from 15 June to 15 September and from 15 December to 15 March each year. I would love to see submissions representing not only multiple cultures but subcultures, exploring issues of race, ethnicity, gender, orientation, and many things I haven't thought of. Does this mean you have to represent everybody and everything in 1000 words? Of course not. But be aware that we are creating a magazine that overall reaches and represents the true diversity of the world we live in. In terms of genre, I am looking for work that constitutes the ever-moving edge of its kind, as a place between light and dark, consciousness and un, today and tomorrow; work exhibiting the strange, the bizarre, that which is not of the world we know, but more of a twilight realm or even altogether alien place. Not necessarily science fiction, not necessarily fantasy, not necessarily horror, and not necessarily not these things. In short, ideally edgy. Maybe even idealistically edgy. I am NOT looking for porn. Penumbric generally accepts submissions in the following categories: fiction, poetry, illustration, graphic narrative, animation, music, or combinations of these (e.g., a spoken-word version of a poem). If you have something that fits some other category that can be displayed to advantage on the web, try me; I'll take a...

Deadline: March 15th, 2024 Payment: US 4¢/word rounded up to nearest dollar; minimum US $4, maximum $25 Theme: Dragons Eye to the Telescope 52, Dragons, will be edited by J. D. Harlock. Even though no one can agree on what exactly dragons are, nearly every culture has mythologized them in some way. From their size to their design to their abilities to their origins, tales of dragons are as diverse as humanity itself, with some of the earliest poetry in the English language revolving around them, reinventing what dragons were perceived as for the time. In this dragon-themed call, we want your take on dragons. Feel free to draw from traditions outside the predominant Western narrative to develop an original take on these fearsome creatures or introduce under-appreciated interpretations from your own cultures. Not only can you twist the idea of what dragons are as you see fit, but you can place them in genres outside of traditional fantasy, where they have often been underutilized or absent. Poetry that rhymes is more than welcome, and I'm open to a genre approach to submissions as much as I am to a literary one! Submission Guidelines SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Use the form at  to submit. Please submit 1–3 unpublished poems in English (ideally, attached as .docx or .txt) and include a short bio. Translations from other languages are acceptable with the permission of the original poet (unless public domain). Inquiries only to [email protected] with “ETTT” in the subject line. Deadline: March 15. The issue will appear on April 15, 2024. Payment and rights Accepted poems will be paid for at the following rate: US 4¢/word rounded up to nearest dollar; minimum US $4, maximum $25. Payment is on publication. The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association normally uses PayPal to pay poets, but can also send checks. Eye to the Telescope is an...

Submission Window: March 2nd - March 15th, 2024 Payment: 2¢ (2-cents) per word , with a $25 minimum and $100 maximum and 2 contributor's copies Theme: Horror and weird fiction from 500 to 5,000 words, firm. OPENS: March 2, 2024 CLOSES: March 15, 2024 We are seeking horror and weird fiction from 500 to 5,000 words, firm. Query first if your story is over 5,000 words. We are a home for the strange, the macabre, the eerie, the esoteric, the fabulist, and the gothic. The darkly numinous. The odd. We are not interested in extreme horror. Do not send science fiction or fantasy. We’ve published established professional authors Brian Evenson, John Langan, M. Rickert, Steve Rasnic Tem, and more. But we are also very supportive of emerging writers, and have twice published first-time authors. Please send 1 story only per reading period. NOTE - We are not considering stories written, co-written, created, or assisted by AI and machine-learning languages such as ChatGPT. Please do not send them. We are seeking first English-language publication rights. Fiction must be in English, and previously unpublished in English anywhere, in any format (including audio), on any platform, including your blog, website, newsletter, Patreon, etc. Please do not query about reprints. We will consider works translated to English, as long as you are offering first English-language publication rights. Simultaneous submissions are welcome. Please inform us if your story is accepted elsewhere. No multiple submissions. Please send 1 story only per reading period. The magazine is free to read online here: Read Weird Horror We encourage you to read some of the stories to familiarize yourself with our aesthetic. We receive about 1,000 manuscripts each period, and accept less than 2% of submissions. Do not be discouraged by a form rejection. Payment is U.S. 2¢ (2-cents)...

Submission Window: March 1st 15th, 2024 Payment: 6 cents per word for flash, 3 cents per word for nonfiction Theme: Horror Dealing With Time Travel We’re looking for content for MONSTROUS #2, our horror comic magazine. FLASH FICTION WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR: A horror story dealing with time travel. No Morlock stories. Sorry. Submission Period: March 1, 2024 - March 15, 2024 Payment: 6 cents a word Length: 1000 to 1500 words Simultaneous submissions are okay. Just let us know if you were accepted elsewhere. No multiple subs or reprints. Email full stories to jamesmonstrousbookscom and use this format for the subject heading: Monstrous 2 Flash - Title - Author Name. (If this isn’t correct, we may delete without reading. With the number of submissions we get, things get confusing without the proper heading.) Include a short bio in your email. Use Classic Shunn formatting. ARTICLES WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR: Pitches for articles about time travel. It could be about the history of time travel in fiction or you can get more creative with it. Don't send finished articles. The pitches need to be only a short paragraph long. Payment: 3 cents a word Submission Period: Open now until further notice. Email pitches to jamesmonstrousbookscom and use this format for the subject heading: Monstrous 2 Articles - Title - Author Name. Include a short bio in your email. SHORT COMICS WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR: Finished black-and-white horror comics from 1 to 4 pages. We are NOT looking for scripts. Comics should deal with time travel in some way and lean toward horror. Size: Digest magazine, 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Email submissions to jamesmonstrousbookscom and use this format for the subject heading: Monstrous Comics - Title - Author Name. Include a short bio in your email. Check out our Kickstarter to familiarize yourself...

Deadline: March 20th, 2024 Payment: Does not say in this call, previous payments were: £100 per article, interview or short story and £50 for poetry and rituals Theme: Sound and Vision Note: Not open to fiction submissions from North America at this time We are open to print magazine submissions. Our next theme is Sound and Vision. Artists have long spoken of the mysterious nature of creation – where do their great works come from? Tell us about found stories, the automatic process, of pictures and songs invoked in séances, of musicians and poets who found magic by unorthodox means, and occult-derived art. Some songs and paintings are like spells, speaking to our unconscious and activating something within us, from war cries to the songs with revolutionary spirit to the secret chords that please gods and the folk songs that invoke lives lead outside the mainstream. Tell us about subliminal messages in advertising and how the aesthetic and auricular world influence us. A pioneering artwork might predict the future, or change the course of history. It might show us a piece of the world and mind we never knew before. Sight is a privileged sense – what is it to see clearly, or to not see at all? Visual aids such as spectacles changed our ways of seeing – so too did the emergence of various -mancies and scrying mirrors that offered an alternative perspective; there is seeing with our eyes and then there is seeing with our other senses. For this issue, we draw inspiration from Hilma af Klint, David Bowie, William Burroughs, Ithell Colquhoun, Leonora Carrington, WB Yeats, William Blake and a whole host of other artists, musicians and writers who had visions. We are looking for interviews with musicians and artists, personal essays, articles, rituals, poetry and...

Deadline: March 23rd, 2024 Payment: 10 cents per word Theme: Speculative poetry and fiction that is uplifting, happy, and/or hopeful. Worlds of Possibility is a project I've been working on since the beginning of 2021. My patrons and subscribers' pledges help sponsor original creative Science Fiction and Fantasy works, which I release early in ebook format to subscribers and then a bit later to the general public online and in audio on the OMG Julia Podcast. Worlds of Possibility celebrates human creativity and is not interested in AI assisted work. Submissions for Worlds of Possibility. Speculative poetry and fiction that is uplifting, happy, and/or hopeful. Poetry: Payment of $50.00USD for right to display the poem online with six months of exclusivity, and eventually (within two years of online publication) publish in an anthology. Fiction: 5,000 word maximum, no minimum. Worlds of Possibility loves flash and drabbles and other short short forms as well as short stories! Payment of $0.10USD / word for right to display the story online with six months of exclusivity, and eventually (within two years of online publication) publish in an anthology. Current window open until March 23rd. View the full guidelines for examples of what I have published in the past for this project. Currently Open to Submissions  New Submission Closes to Submissions on Friday, March 22, 2024 11:00 PM (America/Chicago) Via: Worlds of Possibility Moksha.

Deadline: March 29th, 2024 Payment: $15 USD and 4% royalties for 4 years Theme: Halloween themed horror story that takes place around a carnival Note: Female identifying authors only. This INCLUDES trans women and non-binary/gender fluid. The Sisterhood of the Black Pen is back at it again! Submissions are open for our next spicy Halloween horror anthology! This time, a carnival is home to our nightmares. Female identifying authors only. This INCLUDES trans women and non-binary/gender fluid. Submissions due by March 29th, 2024. Story Requirements -7k-10k words roughly. Give or take. -Majority of setting must take place in or around a carnival. -Carnival must be Halloween themed, or story must take place on Halloween day, or a Halloween world, or any variation of these things. -Must contain at least one spicy scene. Why submit a short horror story to us? -We pay $15 USD to each author chosen PLUS around 4% royalties (depending on our final story count) for 4 years. -Rights returned after 6 months of publication date. -We are NOT a publishing house. We are two indie authors who are women who want to help other women. (trans women and non-binary/gender fluid included) succeed in the indie author world. -Our second anthology Twisted Tales of Halloween Horror sold over 4,000 copies. It was voted Best Indie Horror Book 2023 (hosted by @catiereadsandwrites on IG) Hosted by readers, nominated by readers, voted on by readers! It holds over 4 stars on Goodreads and Amazon. -We handle everything from cover design to marketing and everything in between. BUT we communicate with authors during design and help create something we all love. Simultaneously, we walk authors through what we are doing and how we are doing it so that newer authors can learn the steps of indie publication. -Authors finalize their...

Deadline: March 29th, 2024 Payment: FICTION: £40 per story regardless of length, INTERVIEWS: £60 per interview regardless of length and including accompanying illustrations or photographs., NON-FICTION: £60 per article regardless of length and including accompanying illustrations or photographs. Theme: Mixture of two genres or non-extreme horror Midnight Street Press publishes a variety of fiction anthologies and collections, as print and ebooks, in the spirit of the magazine that inspired it. FICTION I’m looking for stories that have a mix of two or more of these genres:  horror, dark fantasy, sci-fi and slipstream, that explore original themes or traditional themes from an original perspective. There is no specific word limit. Strong language and appropriate sexual imagery is acceptable providing it is in context and important in developing character. Correct grammar, including spelling (English or American English), sentence and paragraph construction and punctuation is very important unless the nature of the piece or the author’s style requires a less grammatical approach, in which case this should be specified in the covering message. I find it very tedious to correct these things! JOURNEYS INTO DARKNESS – DEEP HORROR This will be a section within the magazine that will include two or three stories in this genre. What I’m looking for is any or all of these: fantastic, supernatural, psychological, very creepy and frightening. Please DO NOT send slasher or extremely gory, badly written and constructed stories with no character arc. I hate these! INTERVIEWS These can be in any style and must include contact details for the interviewee. There is no specific word limit. Where possible, include pictures (jpegs please) and author biographies. NON-FICTION This can be on any subject relevant to the content of the magazine. There is no specific word limit. Where possible, include pictures (jpegs please) ARTWORK Please submit a...

Deadline: March 29th, 2024 Payment: 10 cents per word Theme: Stories that are ghoulish or “fun horror that aims to celebrate all things spooky” Yesterday we revealed the table of contents and pre-order information for Ghoulish Tales Issue #2, so we thought today would be the perfect time to announce that we are officially considering submissions for issue #3, which we aim to publish later this summer. First, if you are not already familiar with the style & tone of the magazine, we highly encourage you to read one of our previous issues. What we are after: short stories that fit our personal definition of the word GHOULISH, which is “fun horror that aims to celebrate all things spooky.” Note that we said fun, not funny. Comedic stories are definitely allowed, but it’s not all we’re looking to receive. We want stories that remind us why we love the horror genre. We want to have a perverted little smile across our face while reading. Make us slobber like idiots. Turn us into the Sickos.jpeg meme. We are also interested in non-fiction about the horror genre. GUIDELINES Deadline: March 29, 2024 (11:59 PM CST) Word count: 5,000 max (short stories); 2,000 max (non-fiction) Payment: 10c per word Simultaneous Submissions: Yes Multiple Submissions: No (Please only submit one story per open call. If we reject you, do not resubmit until we reopen for the next issue.) Reprints: No AI Submissions: No. Please note if you are caught sending us an AI story, you will be blacklisted from ever publishing with us in the future. Don’t do it. How to submit: Send all stories & essays to ghoulishsubmissions @ gmail dot com with – – – in the subject line. Please do not copy/paste the story in the body of the email. We prefer Word doc...

Deadline: March 31st, 2024 Payment: 10 cents per word Theme: Dark stories that take place in a city during the winter season Thank you for your interest in submitting your work to this anthology. We look forward to reading your short story. Please read the following information to help you to become familiar with the anthology and the submission guidelines. THE CITY Noisy, crowded, ever in motion, the City can be more than a setting—it can be a character, as nuanced and as fickle as a human being, with as many traits and quirks as the best mapped out characters. The City can be the ever-present and constant companion (or foe) to the protagonist and antagonist alike. Winter in the City: A Collection of Dark Urban Stories is an anthology that takes place in different cities around the world during the bleak—sometimes harsh—season of winter. Your story submission must conform to the guidelines listed below and feature the City—in fact, the title of each story will be the City of which you write. We are not looking for vampire/werewolf love trysts. We are looking for fantastical elements within the City itself. Because we all know—deep in our hearts—that nightmares and fairies, monsters and ghosts, and terrors of the real and imagined call the City their home. GUIDELINES: • Short stories (3000-7500 words) that feature something fantastical in a city during winter. Your story will be titled by the city name (i.e. “Boston” or “Sydney”). • In this case a “city” should be considered a large population center (over 200,000 permanent inhabitants. • The “city” should be a real place—no “Gotham City” or “Hogsmeade.” • PLEASE Confirm which city your story will take place in before starting to write. We prefer not want any duplicates. FORMATTING: • We read blind—so remove...