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Deadline: March 1st, 2023 Payment: Royalty split on 2000-7000 word stories, half split for flash fiction under that Theme: Spoopy (spooky but mostly fun) stories you can share with grandma and the kids We are looking for spoopy (spooky but mostly fun) stories you can share with grandma and the kids. (Doesn’t have to be Halloween themed, but the Halloween holiday is the general aim of this anthology.) Submissions open now until March 1st, 2023. Anthology expected to be published in or around October, 2023. **If you don’t have the patience to wait a year for your story to be published, DON’T SUBMIT.** **If you are not willing to obtain a Draft2Digital account in order to receive royalty shares as payment, then DON’T SUBMIT.** For this anthology, please no horror or anything more than kissing or implied sex. Please keep content and language limited to the equivalent of a “PG” rated movie. We want to be able to share this with our mothers and children. There are no genre restrictions on this anthology, as long as the story fits the theme. Please remember, Knight Writing Press will not accept a story that glorifies, supports, encourages, or gratuitously includes hate, hate crimes, rape, sex, sex crimes, or any other forms of inhumanity. Please make sure you read and follow all submission guidelines and look over the sample contract before you submit. The sample contract will not exactly match what you will receive, should your story be accepted, but it will give you a good idea of what to expect. In the text of your query letter, include confirmation that you understand we are using Draft2Digital and that you must have an account there in order to receive royalties for your story. Failure to do this may result in an immediate rejection for failing to follow submission...

Deadline: March 1st, 2023 Payment: 5 contributors' copies and $30 Theme: Horror that includes Vampires, Werewolves, or Both Campfire Publishing is excited to announce that we are currently accepting submisisons for “After Dark” Volume One, our first collection of horror stories! Please read below to ensure that your story will be a good fit, and feel free to reach out to us–via the form located on our main page or by sending an email to [email protected]–if you have any questions. “After Dark” Volume One is the first volume in a horror collection dedicated to vampires and werewolves. Campfire Publishing aspires to publish multiple volumes in the “After Dark” collection along with collections specific to a variety of themes in the horror genre. What are we looking for? We are looking for WELL-EDITED stories in the range of 20,000-35,000 words that insert themselves in the world of vampires, werewolves, or BOTH! Campfire Publishing is keeping its eye out for a wide range of chilling voices that offer unique perspectives into these spooky characters. We want twists and turns, thrills and chills; make us want to sleep with the lights turned on at night. Show us excitement, culture, and blood-curdling screams! What are we NOT looking for? We don’t want works that promote hate speech; and while a romantic note or two is fine and dandy in our humble opinions, we are not looking to publish erotica. Last but absolutely not least, check your glittery creatures at the door. We don’t want vampires who sparkle and shine or werewolves that get all up in their feels about fluffy bunnies. General Submission Guidelines: Genre: Horror Characters: Vampires, Werewolves, Both Word Count: 20,000-35,000 words Submission File Format: Please Label Your Files “After_Dark” “last name” (example: After_Dark_Smith) Formatting: 12-point font, Arial, Courier (New), Times New Roman File Type: .doc .docx .pdf **.txt files...

Deadline: March 1st, 2023 Payment: Royalties Theme: PG-13, stories of long winter nights, pale winter suns, and people with cold hands and colder hearts. The winter can be long, cold, and hard. Even the holidays can be terrible. Send us your stories of long winter nights, pale winter suns, and people with cold hands and colder hearts. Submissions open now until March 1st, 2023. Anthology expected to be published in or around January, 2024. **If you don’t have the patience to wait a year for your story to be published, DON’T SUBMIT.** **If you are not willing to obtain a Draft2Digital account in order to receive royalty shares as payment, then DON’T SUBMIT.** For this anthology, please no extreme horror or graphic sex. Though we want dark stories and even horror,  we are not interested in the extremes of the genre. Please keep content and language limited to the equivalent of a “PG-13” rated movie. There are no genre restrictions on this anthology, as long as the story fits the theme. Please remember, Knight Writing Press will not accept a story that glorifies, supports, encourages, or gratuitously includes hate, hate crimes, rape, sex, sex crimes, or any other forms of inhumanity. Please make sure you read and follow all submission guidelines and look over the sample contract before you submit. The sample contract will not exactly match what you will receive, should your story be accepted, but it will give you a good idea of what to expect. In the text of your query letter, include confirmation that you understand we are using Draft2Digital and that you must have an account there in order to receive royalties for your story. Failure to do this may result in an immediate rejection for failing to follow submission guidelines. No reprints. (The reason for this is explained on...

Deadline: March 1st, 2023 Payment: Fiction: 10¢/word USD, Poetry: $50 per poem, Non-Fiction: $50 for a column, $40 for a reprinted essay, $150 for an original essay, $45 to an interviewer, and $45 to an interviewee, $20 to a roundtable moderator, and $20 to each other contributor Theme: Stories that fit in wuxia and xianxia fiction Imagine yourself as a sword fighter, a vigilante hero and upholder of justice. Imagine you are a xia in the world of jianghu—whether a solitary traveller on a mission, an outlaw on the run, or a member of a powerful sect or dying clan. Or imagine you are a Daoist cultivator, soaring across the sky atop swords and clouds, with a story that stretches across realms and even lifetimes. Welcome to the Wuxia & Xianxia Special, fellow walkers of the jianghu. Many of us have become fans of wuxia and xianxia fiction ever since we first encountered eminent wuxia and xianxia authors like Jin Yong, Gu Long, and Huan Zhu Lou Zhu. Others among us fell in love with these genres through films from the Shaw Brothers Studio, Pili puppet shows, drama adaptations, RPGs, manhua, and other kinds of popular media. Over the past decade, there has also been a new and revived interest in the xianxia genre with the rise of web novels, and more recently, through the lens of danmei, as shown by the popularity of dramas like The Untamed. For this special issue, we are interested in: Traditional and new approaches to wuxia and xianxia fiction Stories full of action, conflict, drama, and intrigue Rich, diverse, colourful, and nuanced worldbuilding, whether featuring the jianghu, a xianxia world, the imperial court, or other kinds of setting Unique approaches to classic wuxia themes like honour, free love, good versus evil, and individual choice versus...

Deadline: March 1st, 2023 Payment: £100 per article, interview or short story and £50 for poetry and rituals Theme: The Vampire We are open to non-fiction pitches and short fiction and poetry submissions for issue 6 until 1 March 2023. The theme is THE VAMPIRE. “Vampires are so nearly human that they are excellent to think with.” –Professor Nick Groom, author of The Vampire: A New History Vampires charm and terrify us. We fear them, envy them, and pity them, eternal witnesses to the passage of time, conquerors of impermanence, and creatures of the night. The vampire is a symbol of the shadow side, of the old world meeting modernity, and of the 19th-century preoccupation with mesmerism and blood; the vampire eludes, too, to the pitfalls of aestheticism, for behind this creature’s seductive glamour lies a ruthless – often narcissistic and nihilistic – consumer. Of course, the vampire also has roots in older, Eastern European folk beliefs, such as the Romanian strigoi – which had much in common with the witch of the witch trials – and this supernatural being converges with many other cultural beliefs around the undead. The modern vampire continues to haunt our collective imagination, from Count Dracula and Carmilla to Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles and True Blood, exposing our basest impulses and thoughts, and forcing us to confront the personal and collective shadow. Why does this monster appear to us in dreams and sleep paralysis? Why are we scared of – and fascinated by – the liminal space between life and death? What even is death? What is it to live forever? And what does the vampire’s infinite quest for blood tell us of our own lives? Are we, too, a little vampiric? How can we fend off the vampires exterior and interior to ourselves? We...

Deadline: March 1st, 2023 Prizes: $50 to the and $10 to honorable mentions Theme: Poetry with a theme of: Seasick the theme for this year's contest is seasick. with global greenhouse gas emissions climbing, we want poetry that examines the way human activity is affecting the ocean. we want your drowning islands, your melting glaciers, your bleached coral. we want your hurricanes, your flooding, your erosion. we want your seasick. ​ contest submissions will remain open from november 1 to march 1. winners will receive a $50 prize and publication. honorable mentions will also be published and receive a $10 prize. all decisions will be announced in early april and made by our editing staff. to get a feel for what we publish, we'd encourage you to scroll through our archives. do beware that our publishing software doesn't handle formatting very well, so think twice before you submit a work heavily dependent on visual presentation. for an example of what the display would look like, we'd encourage you to look at the page of "ghost ship" by charlotte oliver. (thetiderises.org/read/ghost-ship) reprints are welcome, as long as you own the right to do so. simultaneous submissions are allowed as well, and if you need to withdraw your piece for any reason, please email us immediately. there is no entry fee, but we accept a maximum of three submissions per poet. you can always submit any of your other ocean poems to the regular literary magazine as you wait to hear back from us. ​ if you do not receive a response from us by april 20, please notify us via email: [email protected] Submission link is at the bottom fo the page:   submitters should know... we will not publish hate speech of any kind, and we reserve the right to rescind an acceptance if we...

Submission Window: March 1st - 3rd, 2023 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 We have a new submissions schedule as of June 1, 2020: The first and second day of every month, 12 am of the 1st to 12 am of the 3rd, E.S.T. Only one submission per person. 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 – 6¢ per word for new fact-based work, 1- 4¢ per word for reprinted fact articles. For new poetry, we pay $1 a line, reprints would be 50¢ a line, up to 40 lines. We’ll look at longer poems but that would be a hard sell, and words over 40 lines would be paid at 6¢ per word. We began 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 about The 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, anywhere from 1000 word flash fiction on up, but all else being equal,...

Submission Window: February 1st – March 8th, 2023 Payment: $25 Theme: The Cosmic and The Void Accepting: Short Stories up to 3000 Words Flash and Micro Fiction up to 1200 Words Narrative Poetry/Stories in Verse up to 1200 Words Author Compensation: $25.00 (USD) per piece Rights: We request first worldwide and digital rights for four months following publication. Thereafter all rights revert to the author. All copyright remains with the author. Issue Theme: “The Cosmic and The Void” Call Status: CLOSED Publication: Digital Format (PDF) Submission Period: February 01, 2023 – March 08, 2023 Decisions By: March 31, 2023 Release Date: April 27, 2023 What We’re Looking For: Quiet Horror and Dystopian genre works. You may be as creative with your interpretation of the theme as you like as long as your submission fits the genres we publish (see our FAQ page for more on how we define Quiet Horror and Intimate Dystopia). EMail Submissions To: [email protected] Continue below to read our submission rules and guidelines… ~ Submission Guidelines ~ For all open calls, submit your work by email to [email protected] with the subject line formatted as such: “ ” (ex.“April 2023 – The Sinkhole – Emily Young – Adult”). Please submit your work as an email attachment in .doc/.docx format. Authors may submit up to two pieces per issue. We request that each piece be submitted via its own individual email. You are welcomed to interpret each issue’s theme however you like but keep in mind that your interpretation should be within the realms of quiet horror and/or intimate dystopia. Ensure your document contains your story title, your name (or pen name), and an approximate word count. In the event that your story is selected for publication, we will need your legal name for the contract. Please include a header on each page of your document with your surname, title and page number. Your document should be formatted...

Deadline: March 12th, 2023 Payment: $25 and 2 contributors copies Theme: Dark fantasy fictional stories that give people with mental illness hope using metaphors Our first anthology, Living With Demons, is now accepting short story submissions. We are partnering with WriteHive on this project. All proceeds will go to WriteHive with none being retained by Tea With Coffee Media. We will choose 10-15 submissions to be published in our 2023 spring anthology, Living With Demons! Prompt: The prompt: We are looking for fictional stories that give people with mental illness hope using metaphors. We want to hear from more than just depression and anxiety, we want to reach other mental illnesses as well. Accepted stories will be published in both e-book and print copies of the Living With Demons anthology! Parameters: We are looking for dark fantasy genre. Works must be previously unpublished. Must be at least 3,000 words but no more than 7,500 words. Submissions must be in Times New Roman 12pt. Full name and/or pen name, and title go on the top-left of the first page. Please do not use any headers or footers. The submissions deadline is 11:59 pm est March 12, 2023. We want you to write what you want to tell your story appropriately. We encourage gender fluidity, gender-bending, LGBTQIA+ retellings, and . All submissions must be submitted using the form below. Authors will be notified by email (acceptance or decline) no later than April 15th, 2023. Payment: If accepted, contributors will receive $25.00 as a flat fee for their story and receive (2) author copies of the printed anthology after publication. Contributors will be paid via PayPal. International Contributors:  Due to high postage rates (and/or postal accessibility) to some regions in the world, author copies may not be feasible and we’ll adjust the flat fee to accommodate. Author Rights: Authors will retain the copyrights...

Submission Window: March 1st - 14th, 2023 Payment: Fiction: 1500-7500 words ($.08 per word, $100 minimum), Poetry: up to 5 poems or 5 pages of poems, whichever is shorter. ($40 per poem), Nonfiction: 1000-2000 words ($75 per essay or article), Cover Art: $100 for reprints, $200 for original unpublished, Interior Art: $50 for reprints, $100 for original unpublished Theme: Colorful Roots: works that stir readers with themes of defiance, change, and achievement Note: BIPOC authors only The Basics: If your work is accepted, please wait two full submission windows before submitting again. For example, if a story you receive word in April that your story is accepted, please do not submit during the May and July open windows, but feel free to do so once the September window opens. Simultaneous submissions: Yes, but please let us know immediately if your submission gets accepted elsewhere before you hear from us. Unsolicited reprints: No Translations: Yes Multiple Submissions: No, not within each category. But you can enter one submission per category per submission period. For example, you can submit one short story, poetry, and a nonfiction article all in the same submission window using each individual submission portal. 2023 Submission Window Schedule: January 1-14 March 1-14 (Colorful Roots: BIPOC authors only) April 1-14 May 1-14 July 1-14 September 1-14 2023 Issue Release Schedule: Issue #7 – January 10 Issue #8 – March 14 Issue #9 – May 9 Issue #10 – July 11 (Theme: Colorful Roots)* Issue #11 – September 12 (Theme: Solarpunk Myths)** Issue #12 – November 14 *Submissions for the Colorful Roots themed issue will be accepted during our March submission window. This is to accommodate our guest editor’s (TBA) schedule. **Submissions for the Solarpunk Myths themed issue will be accepted during any open submission window. Please include #SolarpunkMyths in...