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Deadline: May 15th, 2022 Payment: $50 Theme: Speculative fiction (horror, science fiction, fantasy) that takes place in Hawaii. Note: The author must have 'some' connection to Hawaii. Note: Reprints welcome, though might be a hard sell if enough quality original work comes in Theme: Short stories in the genres of fantasy, science fiction, horror, or any mixture thereof, taking place on the Hawaiian Islands. Authors may not currently live in Hawaiʻi but must have some significant connection to the islands. Bonus points if your story draws from traditional folklore, but more bonus points if your story reflects authentic experience. Word count: 2,000 – 5,000 (wiggle room allowed) Payment: Flat rate payment of $50 dollars per story. Reprints: May be considered. Multiple and/or simultaneous submissions: Allowed. Please contact us immediately if your story was accepted elsewhere. Formatting: We accept standard manuscript format, 12-point Times New Roman. (shunn.net/format/classic/) Submissions: Please submit your manuscript as a .docx attachment to [email protected] as well as a brief cover letter mentioning any relevant experiences or publication history and your connection to the Hawaiian Islands. Response Time: Please reach out if you haven’t heard a response within 90 days of submission. Established in 1974 with the publication of Hawaii Planner, A Travel Diary, Mutual Publishing is proud to offer one of the largest selections of Hawaiiana titles found in the Islands. We publish books about everything from Hawaiian, history, and natural sciences to fiction, and local arts and crafts. Mutual Publishing draws from a diverse group of dynamic authors, artists, photographers, and experts to be Hawaiʻi’s largest trade publishing house. Mutual Publishing also offers a full range of private label products and services. Although Mutual Publishing’s product lines have grown considerably, our goal has remained simple: “To be Hawaiʻi’s premier provider of Hawaiiana books and private label merchandise.” Via: Fletcher Stories.

Deadline: May 15th, 2022 Payment: 15GBP Theme: If you think you’ve got what it takes to terrify, scar and haunt our audience of 10,000 daily listeners, then we want your stories! If accepted, we'll get our fantastic narration team to lend their voices, our editor will sprinkle some magic pixie dust on the track, and you could have your story heard by thousands of listeners each week. (Vol 84.) Faeries; deadline 15th May 2022 !!!NEW SUBMISSION PROCESS!!! SUBMIT YOUR STORIES USING THIS FORM If, this form isn’t working, then please email your submission to [email protected] as a last resort. But please let us know why as we’re hoping to use the form going forward. Title your email with the following syntax: SUBMISSION | STORY TITLE | THEME | WORDCOUNT (e.g. SUBMISSION | THE MARTIAN | SPACE | 1,982) It is important that your story complies with our Submission Guidelines. Any stories found not to be in compliance will be immediately discarded. Click HERE for details If you think you’ve got what it takes to terrify, scar and haunt our audience of 10,000 daily listeners, then we want your stories! If accepted, we'll get our fantastic narration team to lend their voices, our editor will sprinkle some magic pixie dust on the track, and you could have your story heard by thousands of listeners each week. HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO DO: • Stories must be 2,000 (10% tolerance +/-) • Save stories in a Word document - Times New Roman font, size 12 • Include a 1-2 sentence log line for your story at the end of the document • Ensure that your name and an email address are somewhere on the document • Stories must fit an upcoming theme • By submitting your story to us, you are confirming...

Deadline: May 15th, 2022 Payment: £100 and a free contributor copy Theme: Writing that is a source of comfort, inspiration, learning and escape. Note: All genres are acceptable but keep the theme in mind, not overly looking for horror unless it really fits. Note: Apologies for the short window, this hit my inbox this morning. We are looking for prose and poetry to publish in our For a Friend anthology, a giftable collection of writing for oneself or a friend. We are open to a wide range of genres and styles that fit the theme. As a guide, we think we are looking for pieces that range from words of encouragement to life advice-styled poetry and prose, to love letters you might send to a friend, i.e. writing that is a source of comfort, inspiration, learning and escape. We are looking especially for work from writers of colour and working class writers living in the UK. The submission window for the anthology is open until May 15th. We encourage you to read our previous publications to get a feel for the style of writing we enjoy and give you the best chance. If you do not have access to a copy of Lucent Dreaming via your library, and have no or very low income, please email [email protected] to receive a free copy. Word Limit: 400-3,999 words for prose Line Limit: 72 lines for poetry Pay Rate: Fixed £100 and a free contributor copy. Language: English We enjoy beautifully written prose and poetry, especially writing that embraces and explores inner-lives.  We do not publish the following: Fan fiction based on copyright texts Gratuitous gore/torture and other violence for the sake of violence Erotica     Submissions Process: Please use our submission form to upload your submission. You may need to create a Gmail address....

Submission Window: May 1st-15th, 2022 Payment: 02 per word, .01 per word for reprints Theme: Cyberpunk Note: Reprints Welcome This anthology is open May 1st-15th. Pease do not submit beforehand. Wordcount: Up to 2,000 words. Genre: Cyberpunk Formats: eBook and Print on Demand Rights: Nonexclusive with no exclusivity outlined in a contract. Compensation: .02 per word, .01 per word for reprints, and an eBook copy of finished product. Reprints: Yes! Just let us know where it was pubbed so we can credit original publication. Multiple Subs: Yes! Just no more than three at a given time. Simultaneous subs: Yes! Please let us know if it gets accepted elsewhere. Submit each story with the subject line “The Mods Submission: Story Title by Author Name” to [email protected]. Send stories attached as a .doc, .docx, or .rtf. If submitting more than one story send each in a separate email. Please include a bio in third person of no more than 20 words. Via: Shacklebound Books.

Deadline: May 20th, 2022 Payment: USD $0.08 cents per word for the first 5000 words. $10 per poem. Theme: Hopeful science fiction and fantasy (see below!) Mithila Review is inviting submissions for a special global Hopepunk issue of science fiction (and fantasy) devoted to positive and powerful character-driven stories that imagine an open and inclusive tech-empowered democratic future for all people, species and countries on Earth. Who we are Mithila Review is a readers-supported international journal of science fiction and fantasy established in 2015. We have published the best of speculative fiction, poetry, non-fiction and conversations with new, emerging, and Hugo-winning authors over the years. You can read all our issues for free here on our website or on your favorite reading device. Why Hopepunk? With funding support from the National Democratic Institute (NDI), a US-based NGO that works to strengthen democracy, we are collaborating with our sci-fi friends at Mafagafo + A Taverna (Brazil) and Omenana (Nigeria) to re-imagine positive visions for a high-tech democracy that can out-inspire and out-govern digital tyranny, censorship, surveillance, and authoritarianism.  The final stories from all three journals will be collected and published in a global anthology edited by Dr. Amy Johnson (editor: Drones & Dreams, 2019) in 2022. What do we want? For this special issue of Mithila Review, we want excellent, hopeful and memorable stories. Your story and characters should make us think, turn us into believers, and make us want to fight for and be part of a truly democratic future. What positive interventions do you think could bring us closer to the future you want for all of us? Here are a few questions to help you get started: Governance: What does a high-tech democracy look like? What does it mean for you, your family, community, or our planet? How can we reform elections, their mechanisms and instruments, for equal...

Deadline: May 20th, 2022 Payment: $3 Theme: Mischief, trouble, and challenging the status quo in LGBTQ+ science fiction, fantasy, paranormal, and dark fantasy Thank you for your interest in submitting work to our gay fantasy arts & literary journal! ​ No entry fee is required, and all rights in the story remain the property of the author or artist. All types of science fiction, fantasy, paranormal, and dark fantasy are welcome. ​ We accept submissions on a rolling basis. We are a quarterly publication publishing 4 times a year; Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. For our summer publication, please submit your works by May 20th, 2022. The theme for our summer issue will be mischief, trouble, and challenging the status quo. ​ Before submitting to us please keep in mind that we are devoted to LGBTQ+ fantasy. Your work should strongly reflect that. We are interested in work that elevates dreams and fairy tales in the gay community and its supporters. We're looking for original works of magic and fantasy. Even in darkness, hope can exist. We want to be transported to new worlds or fascinating new versions of our own! When considering submitting to us please ensure the work meets the above criteria. ​ All entries must be in English and original works. Plagiarism, which includes the use of third-party poetry, song lyrics, characters or another person’s universe, without written permission, will not be accepted. Submissions may not have been previously published in professional media or anywhere accessible online without a friend request or password. This includes personal blogs. ​ Fiction: We welcome fiction, 5,000 words or less. If you have a longer piece and your interested in publishing the work in separate issues, you can send those along as well. Submit as a Word document only. No PDFs. For flash fiction...

Deadline: May 20th, 2022 Payment: 5 cents per word Theme: character-focused, weird sword-and-sorcery: stories of a dark and transgressive nature, set in a secondary or historical-paranormal world What We Are Looking For: Old Moon publishes character-focused, weird sword-and-sorcery: stories of a dark and transgressive nature, set in a secondary or historical-paranormal (“our” reality, but with a twist, if you will) world, with a focus on rounded characters undergoing some sort of conflict, resolved (though not always successfully!) by the might of their main or mind. ​ We love stories that combine that sense of action and adventure with well-rounded characters who make us question our own realities and perceptions. We love to see the gothic, the baroque, the eldritch, and we love to see it hit with an axe. Weird fiction and sword-and-sorcery can both be slippery terms. That is part of the fun! But, for our purposes we know it may help prospective writers if we list a series of authors and their stories we feel encompass (at least in part) what we love about the borderland of sword/sorcery and weird fiction: Laird Barron ("Oblivion Mode," "Ode to Jode the Toad") E.R. Eddison (The Worm Ouroboros) John R. Fultz ("Chivaine") Robert E. Howard ("The Shadow Kingdom," "Worms of the Earth") Caitlin R. Kiernan ("The Sea Troll's Daughter") John Langan ("The Savage Angela in: The Beast in the Tunnels") Tanith Lee (Birthgrave, "Southern Lights") C.L. Moore ("The Black God's Kiss") Silvia Moreno-Garcia (The Return of the Sorcereress) Michael Shea (Nifft the Lean) Clark Ashton Smith ("The Charnel God," "Necromancy in Naat") E. Catherine Tobler ("The Living, Vengeant Stars, "And After the Fire, A Still Small Voice") Gene Wolfe ("Bloodsport") ​ The list could go on and on, of course, but we feel those provide a representative sample of the work...

Deadline: May 24th, 2022 Payment: $10 and a contributor's copy Theme: Tell us what really happened during the dancing plague of 1518 (full details below) The Dancing Plague: Our 4th Collection of Utter Speculation Tentative Deadline: May 24, 2022 October 2022 Release Pay: $10 payment and a contributors copy 10k words or less (less words will have a better chance of being included) In the summer of 1518, in the free city of Strasbourg, Frau Troffea stepped into the street and started to dance. Unable to stop, she danced until she collapsed from exhaustion. Then she got up and danced some more. Soon other citizens of Strasbourg joined her. At the peak of this bizarre mania, up to four hundred people danced, against their will, for months on end, until, just as mysteriously as it began, the dancing plague began to taper down. What happened in Strasbourg was not the only case of the dancing plague, but it was the most carefully documented. So, what happened? Wizards? Ergot? Brainwashing? That is what we want you to tell us. Send us your stories of utter speculation on the cause of the dancing plague, for our fourth collection. 10k words or less (less is more) How to submit: Name your file: Title – Dancing sub Include your title in both your submission email and on your piece. No cover letter necessary. Do not include your name on the work. All files will be downloaded into a folder and read blind to ensure fairness. Again, make sure you include the title of your piece in your email so that we can match them up later. Email submissions to: [email protected] Some tips for what we’re looking for First of all, we want stories that speculate, not speculations that are forced into a story. If...

Deadline: July 31st, 2022 Payment: $0.03 CAD per word, higher if crowdfunding is more successful. Theme: You - we are looking for your stories. Whether that's a deeply personal memoir, a fantastic tale close to your heart, or just something as ridiculous and silly as you are, we want to hear, share, and celebrate you, however you define it. Poetry will also be considered. Reprints are allowed if they have only been published in non-paying markets (e.g. personal blog, school newspaper, Wattpad, etc.). Note: Stories by trans youth It is rather inadequate to say times are tough for trans people right now. We want to show our support and spread awareness and understanding of transgender folks by assembling an anthology of stories by trans youths and recently transitioned people. The theme for this anthology is you - we are looking for your stories. Whether that's a deeply personal memoir, a fantastic tale close to your heart, or just something as ridiculous and silly as you are, we want to hear, share, and celebrate you, however you define it. Poetry will also be considered. Reprints are allowed if they have only been published in non-paying markets (e.g. personal blog, school newspaper, Wattpad, etc.). Brain Lag is a speculative fiction publisher, therefore priority will be given to new science fiction/fantasy short stories by trans youths (21 or younger). However, please don't self-reject! If you have an amazing literary, crime, or other genre piece you want to submit, we want to read it. Length: Up to 6,000 words. Restrictions: We are only looking for stories/poetry written by transgender youths (25 years old or younger) or recently transitioned/transitioning people of any age (2018 or later). Genre: No fanfiction. Erotica and/or gore will be a hard sell, but otherwise anything goes. Payment: A minimum of $0.03 CAD per word, to be...

Deadline: May 30th, 2022 Payment: 3 cents per word Theme: Shared world science fiction anthology based on the short story at the end of this post A Shared World Anthology based on an existing short story contained at the end of the this description. 500 to 5000 words. Obviously no repritns. Poetry considered. Pays 3 cents a word upon publication. Closes May 30, 2022.  Anticipated Pub Date, February 2023. This is the short simple story the world is set in. Use your imagination.  This is not the only settlement.  These are not the only characters.  I'm looking to fill a world here. Scott's Planet I set my gear on the shelf outside the back door and wiped my feet.  There was a downside to free range chickens. Lois spoke from the kitchen. “So it’s happened.”  She said the words matter-of-factly. “Yup.”  I answered.  I began shedding my boots--even cleaned, they didn’t enter the house. She continued. “I downloaded the details.  They say we have three weeks to be ready for transport. There’ll only be one ship.  A one-way trip to almost anywhere.” We had known this was coming.  Now it was final. Scott’s Planet, once in the first wave of colonization planets, was now determined by the Union to no longer be economically viable. “We don’t have to go.” I said. “Don’t be silly.  You know we’ve always talked about leaving.” She was right.  She often spoke of leaving. I let the silence speak for me. All sounds from the kitchen stopped.  There were footsteps.  Lois appeared in the doorway.  “You don’t want to go.” The bottom fell out of my stomach.  All the make-believe conversations I’d held in my head dropped with it. “I thought we might could talk about it.” “Talk about what?  Living in caves and eating...