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Deadline: April 30th, 2016 Payment: 10 cents a word Ever spotted a semi-colon tattoo? Nope? Well, if you ever do, just know that the individual has likely survived suicide – or is perhaps wearing a permanent tribute to a loved one. They’re wearing a STORY. A story of survival, a symbolic punctuation of life. A portrait of struggle, a pause to think about mental illness. A life, not yet over, unready to be finished; a book, awaiting its next chapter. I know how depression feels. I know how events can spiral out of control, with one piece of shitty news after another. I know how smallstuff rapidly becomes bigthings. And I know just how easily a camel’s back breaks. This anthology, SEMI-COLONIC IRRIGATION, is in aid of as-yet-undetermined charities. We’re initially looking to raise funds for counselling services and those who offer support to survivors. As it’s a charity anthology, we shouldn’t be paying our contributors, right? Wrong. This is where we get to mess with tradition. Now, I am not suggesting that publishers of ALL charity anthologies *should* pay their writers, it’s just something I’m personally choosing to do because I believe writers are worth it. So get over it. The main charity aspect of this book, the donation we shall be making, is AWARENESS. We could help someone with this book. We could save a life – just the one. And that, my friends, is priceless. If we raise a tenner or even ten grand, that’s a bonus. We can’t give a greater gift than a part of ourselves. We’ve already been inundated with fabulous pieces – some of which we’ve accepted. Some guys and gals have refused payment, or offered reprints for free. In one case, I’m doing a full edit on a novel in exchange for...

Deadline: April 30, 2016 Payment: $0.06 / word Submission Guidelines Works between 3,000 and 12,0001 words that are unpublished in English. We publish literary genre fiction: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Westerns, Pulps, Thrillers, Horror, Romance, etc. We do not publish poetry, inspirational fiction, or young adult fiction. For the most part we aren't interested in publishing erotica and graphic violence. At this time we are not accepting unsolicited artwork. We accept simultaneous submissions, but not multiple submissions. Review is blind. Please do not include your name or identifying information in your submitted document. Submission is open to all writers, apart from residents of Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria.2  You must have a taxpayer identification number (TIN) for tax and compliance reasons. There are some additional requirements for authors outside of the US. Please e-mail the editor with questions. We'll post broadly applicable answers here. Publication and Payment Terms We acquire First North American Serial Rights and use the SFWA model contract. Our pay rate is $0.06 / word. How to Submit Our reading period is currently open. It closes on April 30, 2016. All submissions are by e-mail. You can either attach a single file or paste your story. We’ll use the subject of your e-mail as the title of your story. You can send any file that Google Docs can handle, including .docx, .odt, .rtf, .txt, and .pdf. Attachments are limited to 10 megabytes. You can test your document in Docs to see how it looks before sending it to us. If submitting via attachment, please include two (2) extra pages at the end of your document: a blank page, and a subsequent page containing your e-mail address. When sending an attachment, our robot will discard the rest of the e-mail message. When submitting via e-mail body,...

Deadline: April 30, 2016 Payment: $10 for original work and $5 for reprints Note: Reprints Allowed For an anthology Memento Mori Press will release in August 2016, we’re looking for several haunted house stories. The stories must involve a haunted house of some sort, but please be creative. The people can be haunted rather than the house, or the haunting can be in a character’s mind, and so on. Stories need to be between 2,000 and 5,000 words. Payment is $10 for original, unpublished stories, and $5 for reprints. We purchase exclusive eBook and print rights for two years, and non-exclusive print and eBook rights for five years after that. Please send your story to [email protected]. The deadline for this anthology is April 30, 2016. Via: Memento Mori Press.

Deadline: April 30, 2016 Payment: $10 Canadian per story MacKenzie Publishing is accepting fiction submissions for its first anthology, a horror/suspense anthology for teens, tentatively titled OUT OF THE CAVE. Please ensure stories are suitable for that age group. Stories should have a teen protagonist. Submission deadline: April 30, 2016 (or when anthology is full) Payment: $10 Canadian per story, paid via Paypal upon publication Word count: 2,000 to 5,000 words Publication date (print and e-books): on or before September 1, 2016 MacKenzie Publishing does not accept material which has been published previously, either online or in print. By submitting to MacKenzie Publishing, you are assuring that you hold the rights to the work and are granting MacKenzie Publishing the rights to edit and publish the submitted work. MacKenzie Publishing requires exclusive rights for 12 months from date of publication. To Submit: Paste info and document in the body of an email (no attachments) in this order: -Title of story, your name, email, word count -Story -Bio (up to 150 words) Email stories to MacKenzie Publishing at: [email protected]. Put the title of your submission in the subject line. Via: Writing Wicket.

Deadline: April 30th, 2016 Payment: 12.5 cents per word Fireside will open to submissions April 1-30 with guest editor Daniel José Older Fireside will be looking for original, unpublished flash fiction (1,000 words or less) and original, unpublished short stories up to 5,000 words. We do not ever accept unsolicited submissions of art, novels, novellas, novelettes, or anything else longer than 5,000 words. If you submit a novel or anything way over the word count limits, we’ll probably blacklist you. We are thrilled to have Daniel on board as a guest editor for this submissions period. Daniel will be selecting stories that will be spread out over a number of issues. Daniel is a fantastic fiction writer and essayist, and he is an essential voice on both writing and social justice. We are lucky to have that reflected in Fireside. Fireside is able to publish about 10,000 words a month and pay the writers well because of the generosity of our subscribers and Patreon backers. The more we raise each month, the more stories we can buy! (Note: Backers do not receive preferential consideration.) Please read ALL the guidelines before submitting a story. You can find instructions on how to submit at the end of this page. Payment, rules, etc. Fireside pays 12.5 cents per word, with payment on completion of edits. We buy first world publication rights and six-month exclusivity, as well as the right to reprint the story once, non-exclusively, in a Fireside anthology.   Please DO NOT resubmit stories that we have previously rejected by Fireside, even if you have revised them. They will be rejected unread.   Please DO NOT submit a story that you have already submitted elsewhere but have not heard back from. (Often called simultaneous submission.)   You can only submit ONE flash story (up...

image description Deadline: April 30th, 2016 Payment: $0.07 per word + contributor copy Note: I swear I had posted this one, sorry on the short deadline Please read the guidelines carefully before submitting your story! Unidentified Funny Objects is an annual anthology of humorous SF/F. UFO5 headliners include David Gerrold, Laura Resnick, Esther Friesner, Mike Resnick, Gini Koch, Tim Pratt, and Jody Lynn Nye. For UFO5 we’re seeking all style and sub-genres of speculative humor. SUBMISSION WINDOW: April 1 – April 30, 2016 LENGTH: 500-5000 words. Limit of 1 submission per author — even if you receive a response before the submission window closes please do not send more unless directly invited to do so.     PAYMENT: $0.07 per word + contributor copy. Payment will be made upon acceptance. Our preferred method of payment is via PayPal, but you may request a check. FORMAT: RTF or DOC. Standard Manuscript Format or something close to it (We won’t take points off if you prefer Courier over Times New Roman or some such). SEND TO: Upload your stories via this submissions link. Limit of 1 submission per author — even if you receive a response before the submission window closes please do not send more unless directly invited to do so. Please do not respond to rejections. The email address associated with submissions is not monitored directly. If you wish to query for any reason, please use thecontact form or e-mail us directly at ufopublishing at gmail dot com.     RIGHTS SOUGHT: First Worldwide print and electronic English Language rights. Exclusivity for 90 days from date of release. Non-exclusive rights to keep the anthology in print across different publishing platforms afterward. Preview sample contract. POLICIES & RESPONSE TIME: No reprints, multiple or simultaneous submissions please. Do not send any stories...

Deadline: May 1st, 2016 Payment: $25usd and a contributor's copy It's time to let the monsters loose! We're looking for stories of monsters, either classical or spawned from your own imagination, fighting other monsters. Make the scale as grand or as simple as you like, however there must be a clear winner at the end - one of your creatures must die! Nothing says you have to pit a single monster against another. Get creative, make this a fight for the ages! Go campy or serious; just make sure you're not infringing on the copyright or trademark of others. And please, no fan fiction that points directly to a specific pre-defined trope. A descendant of Van Helsing versus a werewolf or a vampire won't make the cut for this one. It's time to get your game face on and craft a tale worthy of a Monster Brawl! Deadline: May 1, 2016 Word Count: 4,000 - 8,000 words All submissions MUST be submitted to: [email protected] Reading & Evaluation Period: Two to three months after close of the deadline NO REPRINTS WILL BE CONSIDERED Payment: Each story selected for inclusion will receive a one-time payment of $25US plus one print copy of the book. As per our standard guidelines, there will be no stories containing pedophilia, or graphic rape accepted. Anthology Submission guidelines:Submission Deadline - May 1, 2016Word Count: 4,000 - 8,000 words. Payment: $25US per story selected for inclusion, plus one print copy of the book. Copyright: First time worldwide copyright for a period of one year after publication. Reprints will NOT be considered. Graphic gore should be kept to a minimum unless it is integral to the story; absolutely no pedophilia, overtly descriptive and graphic rape scenes will be considered. Only previously unpublished stories may be submitted. Upon acceptance into...

Deadline: May 1, 2016, Payment: 3 cents / word In this SF/F anthology, we’re looking for stories of everyday trauma survival -- from a barmaid on an intergalactic space station who was abandoned by her parents, to a farmer’s son bullied by his peers, who withstands and resists their abuse. We also welcome stories with a war setting, such as stories about veterans and refugees. The key component for all of these stories is how relatively ordinary characters survive and thrive, given the traumatic experiences they’ve had. Note: we aren’t necessarily looking for happily ever after. Trauma survival rarely ends in happily ever after, though it can, and hopefully will, end in closure and a coming to terms. We’re soliciting speculative fiction up to 10,000 words, though we prefer 4000 – 8000. Payment is 3 cents / word for print and electronic rights, to be published by Lethe Press. You need not be a trauma survivor yourself to submit. Simultaneous submissions are fine. Send up to 3 submissions as attached files (.doc, .docx, or .rtf format) to [email protected] with the subject line: SURVIVOR SUB . Questions should also go to JJ Pionke at that address. Submissions close May 1, 2016, but will be considered on a rolling basis. *** About the Editors: JJ Pionke is a librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who focuses his research on disability, including mental health, in the library. He is a long time reader of science fiction and fantasy as it has been a safety net in which to emotionally shelter. He has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder stemming from severe bullying in many forms throughout his life. Mary Anne Mohanraj is the author of Bodies in Motion and The Stars Change, founder of Strange Horizons and director of The Speculative Literature Foundation....

sunset view with palms in Santa monica, California. concept about traveling and usa Deadline: May 1st, 2016 Payment: $0.06 per word Take a journey up Highway 99. Stop off just north of Bakersfield where a young woman stands on the edge of Woollomes Avenue, looking apprehensive, debating if she should cross. She’s been dead for decades but the residents see her often enough that she’s become a stable fixture of the scenery, as normal as the billboards that line the Highway. Follow that Highway further and you’ll encounter another roadside obscurity. John Muir’s conservationist efforts have inspired people across the world. Commemorating him via celebration wasn’t enough for the small town of Lemon Cove. To honor the champion of the wilderness, some Californians have constructed a massive wooden sculpture of his head that sits just the road, staring to the horizon, to the vastness of Yosemite. Time for one more stop on your trek up 99? How about visiting the underground city below Old Sacramento buried when the town decided to simply raise the roads and start fresh. The storefronts still stand and some swear that the dead have migrated to roam the alleyways of a town that’s been forgotten by the tourists walking above. You have a choice, from here. On up 99, to the brutally-sharp rubble and claustrophobic caves of the Lava Beds National Monument, to the silent, deserted ghost towns and high-mountain deserts of Modoc, the extinct volcanoes and wildlands around Lassen. Head back around to 80, through the Donner Pass–be sure to go in winter, and take some friends with you. Or you can leave 99 and take 50. 50, the notorious mountain highway. Blocked in winter by snow, in spring by mudslides, in summer and autumn by wildfires. Stop off in Placerville, where an effigy...

Deadline: May 21st, 2016 Payment: $55 in advance and royalties We’re excited to open this anthology for submissions, and we can’t wait to see what dark goodness you’ve cooked up. Submissions to this anthology must contain monsters being monsters, meaning no sparkly vampires or monsters with hearts of gold. Your monsters should be terrorizing and keep us up at night. Acceptable submissions for consideration include both short stories (2,500–5,000 words) and novellas (10,000–49,000 words). Raven International Publishing will receive submissions until May 21st. Please submit using the online form below. Additional details: No writer’s fee for submissions The author will receive $55 in advance, plus royals quarterly, for his or her accepted short story/novella Only submissions with first rights available can be accepted Publisher has first year exclusive rights for accepted submissions The story you submit must be your own work for which you hold the rights When you submit your work you will receive an email, asking to confirm that you submitted. When you confirm you will be taken to a thank you page, this is how you will know your work has been received How to submit your work: Fill in your name (on this page) Fill in your best email address In the subject put your story title Write a short cover letter with a paragraph about your story, and a paragraph about you Copy and paste the cover letter and your story into the box labeled Your Message Hit send Check your email for a response from us  with the subject: Please Confirm your Submission to Raven International Publishing When you receive the email click the link to confirm Your story will not be submitted until you click confirm in the email Email [email protected] with any additional questions Via: Raven International Publishing.