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Deadline: May 26th, 2018 Payment: $30 Submit to Us We’re now accepting submission for Issue 03! Submit on our submittable HERE. Submission period is open from now until May 26th. Submission Guidelines What kind of writing do we want to see? We’re particularly interested in themes of healing and reclaiming, family and found family, communities and support systems, and quite plainly, love. We invite you to invent, reinvent, experiment, and bend or break the rules. Give us your big and your small, your subtle poetry and your speculative fiction, your political and your personal, your faith, identity, love, loss, and humanity. Our previous issues have featured works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that grapple with harsh realities of everything from social media to systemic oppression and inspire us to fight against these barriers. All writers with pieces accepted will be rewarded $30 and will retain rights to their works. Wizards in Space seeks writers from all backgrounds, and all writers are encouraged to submit. Voices of color, nonbinary genders, the LGBTQ+ community–we are a safe place for your work. If it’s your original writing, submit it! Even if you’re not sure which category it fits into, or if it’s our style, or if it’s any good at all, submit your work! We promise to read every submission with kindness and an open mind The best way to get a sense of what we’re looking for is to read through Issues 01 and 02, which you can order HERE. The nitty gritty: Please do not include your name or any identifying information in your submission or in the file name to help us comply with our anonymous submission process. No cover letters, please. You’ll have the chance to write a couple sentences about yourself when you submit. Previously published work is...

Deadline: May 26th, 2018 Payment: Contributor's Copy The Poet's Haven is seeking poetry and short stories that begin with the cliche line, "It was a dark and stormy night."  Pieces can be dramatic or humorous: we are seeking a variety for this anthology. (Despite publisher Vertigo's well-known cat obsession, there is one canine he adores: Snoopy. V's been on a kick watching "Peanuts" cartoons, and he's been reading the collections of Schulz's original strips when he has the time, so when it was time to pick the next Digest theme, this is the one he selected out of the dozens of ideas post-it noted all over his walls.) This call will close on May 26, 2018.  The anthology is targeted for printing in early or mid-summer. Publication in this series pays one copy per piece.  A maximum of two pieces will be selected from each contributor.  All contributors can purchase additional copies at a 50% discount. Poet’s Haven Digest titles are published as 4.25″ wide by 5.5″ tall pocket-sized books.  We are not seeking cover art for this anthology.  (The publisher has already decided what he wants on the cover and will either draw it himself or commission someone to do it after he decides his artwork is horrible.) Submit Work » Introduction (applies to all submissions): The Poet’s Haven is a place for artists across a wide and diverse spectrum to feel safe seeing their work published.  We are open to unsolicited submissions from both experienced, published creators and talent new to submitting work for publication.  We offer minimal restrictions on content and genre.  What little content that is disallowed is as follows: material that is obscene, excessively vulgar, adult content, racist, or in any way bigoted will not be published here.  The Poet’s Haven also does not accept religious...

Deadline: May 30th, 2018 Payment: $75, one print copy to US authors Note: Not straight up erotica as they want a solid plot as well so felt we could include it because... vampires. EDITOR: Cecilia Duvalle and Mary Trepanier PUBLISHER:  CWTCH Press DEADLINE: May 30, 2018 Release Date:  October 15, 2018 WORD COUNT: 2500 - 7000 PAYMENT: $75, one print copy to US authors, e-book to all SUBMIT TO: [email protected] We are seeking erotic vampire tales that go beyond the one-handed read. Your work needs to entertain us in multiple ways--we want to flip those pages while squirming in our seat. Make us cringe, make us hot, make us want to finish your story!   Ideally your story will contain some element of horror.  Go dark. Go scary. Go deep. Give us a new take on vampires. Got a science fiction or fantasy piece? Send it our way. How about something historical? Yes, please.  Make your story interesting and scorching hot--there must be explicit sex. Note: Do not start your tale with a thumping-loud bar or club scene. Actually, we never need to see another vampire in a club, ever again.  If you use this tired trope, you better do it in a way that blows our minds. If you are unfamiliar with the series, please familiarize yourself with what we are looking for. Here's a link to the Amazon store for ease. Rights: We would like new material only for this anthology. If your story is accepted, Cwtch gains nonexclusive right to publish your story in this anthology in print, ebook, and audiobook form. Authors will retain copyright to their stories, but we ask you to not republish until after January 2020. Guidelines  (please follow these closely): 1:  Submit only 2500-7000 word stories that are previously unpublished and not being considered elsewhere. 2:  Attach a Word .doc or .docx file ONLY...

Deadline: May 31st, 2018 Payment: $50 and a contributor's copy Anthologies are a great way to get your stories noticed. Caffeinated Press sponsors an annual house anthology titled “Brewed Awakenings,” with a new volume released every autumn. The first volume, released on March 2, 2015, contains the work of eight invited authors from West Michigan who penned stories under the loose theme of “all goes dark.” The second volume shipped in September 2016; subsequent volumes will follow each October. The anthology ships in print format (vol. 1); print and ebook (vol. 2); print, ebook and audio book (vol. 3 and subsequent). We are currently in the reading window for vol. 4. The window closes 5/31/18. We recommend that you read the Q&A that follows, then visit our Query page to read our formal house editorial guidelines. The submission form for proposed Brewed Awakenings content is at the bottom of the Query page. It will be to your advantage to read both of these documents in their entirety before you consider whether you should submit to us. Q&A When can I submit stories? What’s the deadline? We accept stories year-round. The cutoff for each autumn’s volume is May 31. Submit before then, you’re in consideration for that year’s copy; submit after that, and you’re in the pile for the following year. You obtain neither benefit nor disability from submitting well in advance of the cutoff, but technical errors in the submission are more likely to be redirected to you for correction (instead of resulting in your manuscript being summarily excluded) if we have time to spot-check it before May 31. How much does it cost to submit? Nothing, silly. Reading fees are The Devil. Never, ever accept the premise that you must fork over some greenbacks to get a fair review of your manuscript. Who can submit? Anyone who is authorized to work in...

Deadline: May 31st, 2018 Payment: 5¢ – 8¢ per word On Thanksgiving weekend 2009, we opened to our first anthology. Ten years later we plan to celebrate this long strange—and wonderful—trip, with our biggest anthology yet! Our “Best Of” will feature your favorite Blood Bound stories from the last decade upgraded in a limited edition, illustrated hardcover. The hardcover will also be loaded with brand new stories to lead us into the next decade of horror. That’s where you come in: What we’re looking for: Genres: All sub-genres of horror accepted—extreme, bizzaro, erotic, new weird, splatterpunk—if it’s dark, we want it! Stories must be previously unpublished in any form Email: [email protected] Length: 500 words up to 6K—query for longer works Deadline: May 31st 2018 Payment: 5¢ – 8¢ per word (We’re shooting for 8¢ if we get a few more Patreon supporters before contracts go out, but it will NEVER be lower than 5¢) Patreon rewards Via: Blood Bound Books.

Deadline: May 31st, 2018 Payment: $50AUD A slight departure from the other anthologies, this one is calling out for dark Sci-Fi writers! Interpret that how you will, and read on… Submissions Deadline: End of May. Publication Date: July 2018 Website: www.ThingsInTheWell.webs.com/submissions Email: [email protected] when your story is complete, and as great as it can be! Theme: By all means draw inspiration from them, but I'm not looking Alien/Predator fan-fiction, or rehashes of old sci-fi classics. I want stories that areoutstanding, different, and memorable! I want something new and exciting! New psychological terrors involving time travel; new primal fears to threaten humanity, and new hopes that we may conquer them; new creatures that will make people want to go out and buy the Halloween mask; and new stories of the weird in the outer-reaches of time and space. If you need more ideas, take a look outside the typical Sci-Fi genre (perhaps read Clive Barker’s short story ‘The Skins of the Fathers’ or HPL’s ‘The Colour out of space,’ or go back further and look wider to William Hope Hodgson’s ‘The House on the Borderland’ or Brian Lumley’s ‘The House of Doors’ or ‘Necroscope’ series. So, something memorable, dark, and/or something that offers hope and/or despair for humanity… I envision the SciFi element as merely the stage for the story to unfold, cracking our world(s) open to reveal a truer story beyond the genre’s superfice. Gee, that sounds pompous, but you get my (space) drift. I anticipate a (star)fleet of top-notch submissions as usual, so I'm after memorable stories, a sense of dread, and some level of believability and internal consistency would be more important than a lengthy treatise or a quick shudder. Yes, space viruses and alien encounters can be believable if written well. Stop! Before putting fingers on keyboards (or pen to paper) you would do well to read...

Deadline: May 31st 2018 Payment: £10 per story and £5 per poem. Eibonvale Press will be open for submissions for a new anthology edited by Allen Ashley and Sarah Doyle. “Humanagerie” will showcase both poetry and short fiction on the theme of animals. The book will not be about animals as such, but will instead be inspired by the characteristics that animals possess, and the points at which these intersect with – and manifest in – humanity. It will also be based on the strange and beautiful adjectives used to describe such traits, such as: Aquiline – eagle Chelonian – tortoise or turtle Leporine – hare Ostracine – oyster Pieridine / Pierine – butterfly Vespine – wasp / hornet and many many more. You will find a much larger list in the guidelines. We are interested in shifting states, in scenarios that explore duality, hybridity, and liminality. We are asking writers to consider how animalistic attributes might manifest in the human psyche – or vice versa. We want hints of scales, tails, fur and fins… gills, claws, paws and spines… glimpses of horns, tusks, teeth and tongues… stalking, slinking, slithering and stomping… roars, whimpers, howls and song. We want breath, heat, musk. We want landscapes ranging from urban wastelands to frozen tundra, from bedsits to coastlines, from suburbia to savannah – and the imagined worlds between. We want water and we want fish out of water. We want the visceral and the vulnerable, the slippery and the synaesthetic, emergence and extinction. The submissions window will run from March 1st until May 31st 2018. The word limits are up to 60 lines for poetry and 4,000 words for fiction. Download the guidelines here. Via: Eibonvale Press.

Deadline: May 31st, 2018 Payment: $50AUD and a contributor's copy This will be the 5th anthology in the Things in the Well series, to be published in July 2018. Submissions Deadline: end of May Email: [email protected] when your story is complete, and as good as it can be! ~ Note By all means draw inspiration from them, but I'm not looking Alien/Predator fan-fiction, or rehashes of old sci-fi classics (I'm looking at you, Asimov-fans...) I want stories that are outstanding, different, and memorable! I want something new and exciting! New psychological terrors involving time travel; primal fears triggered by something new that threatens humanity, and new hopes that we may conquer them; new creatures that will make people want to go out and buy the Halloween mask; and new stories of the weird in the outer-reaches of time and space. If you need more ideas, take a look outside the typical Sci-Fi genre... Read Clive Barker’s short story ‘The Skins of the Fathers’ or HPL’s ‘The Colour out of space,’ or go back further and look wider to William Hope Hodgson’s ‘The House on the Borderland,’ or Brian Lumley’s ‘The House of Doors’ and ‘Necroscope’ series. So, something memorable, dark, and/or something that offers hope and/or despair for humanity… I envision the SciFi element as merely the stage for the story to unfold, cracking our world(s) open to reveal a truer story beyond the genre’s superfice. Gee, that sounds pompous, but you get my (space) drift. I anticipate a (star)fleet of top-notch submissions as usual, so I'm after memorable stories, a sense of dread, and some level of believability and internal consistency would be more important than a lengthy treatise or a quick shudder. And yes, alien viruses, space pirates and cosmic encounters can be believable if written well.  -Steve Dillon Stop! Before putting fingers on keyboards (or...

Deadline: May 31st, 2018 Payment: $50 Black Coffee & Vinyl Presents is seeking the following addressing the theme of "Ice Culture": Nonfiction -- Not to exceed 2,000 words Poetry -- Not to exceed three poems Fiction -- Not to exceed 2,000 words Visual Art -- Up to 3 works Photography -- Up to 3 works Music -- Up to 3 songs Artists, writers, scientists, travelers, and musicians are invited to submit work that explores ice-related themes. We are seeking work that features the physical and spiritual beauty of our world's ice, explores the life of the people and cultures that are connected to the ice from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica, and addresses important political issues related to ice. As climate change affects the weather and composition of our planet, our ice is melting. Black Coffee & Vinyl Presents wants to address the importance of ice; focus on its beauty; and learn from the people who study, live near, and love it. For literature, please submit only works in English. For other work (visual art or music), please submit an English translation. Artists with selected work will be provided with a $50 (U.S.) honorarium. All payments will be made by PayPal. Recipient must be able to receive payments via PayPal. Accepted works will be published online and in a print version of the publication. Artists will be asked to grant permission for publication with Black Coffee & Vinyl Presents (both online and in print), and will thereafter retain copyright of their work. Submission deadline: May 31, 2018. Submissions will be accepted using Submittable.  Via: Black Coffee & Vinyl.

Deadline: May 31st, 2018 Payment: $300-$400 (depending on length) signing bonus against royalties, which will be paid before publication., 35-40% (depending on length) net royalties, paid either monthly or bi-monthly. WHAT WE WANT We are seeking three novellas (15,000 to 40,000 Words FIRM). The genres we are looking for are in the realms of cosmic horror and weird fiction. We want novellas that surprise us, that haunt our dreams. Speculative fiction with elegant prose and original concepts. Stories that make us think, that catch our attention from the first page and keep us glued to the story all the way to the end. WHAT WE DON'T WANT Fiction that isn't speculative. We don't want any stories that could possibly be based in reality. All fiction must be otherworldly, supernatural, etc. Novellas that employ the second person narrative voice. Novellas that have been previously published. NO REPRINTS. Erotica, fan fiction, or stories with heavy sexual content. Fiction that is unoriginal or uses recycled themes. Surprise us! As always, the most taboo topics are fine, as long as they are used professionally and respectably. Anything with overuse of vulgarity or purposely gross language for the sake of being gross will not be considered. NO SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS. NO MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS UNLESS YOU QUERY FIRST. Stories with numerous errors. This should be a given. Always read through your work or have your editor or a friend read through it before sending it anywhere. Artwork submissions. We have already hired the artists for the covers. Anything that has been rejected previously for a separate submissions call. Submit fiction in proper manuscript format. If you need help regarding the formatting, follow this link. We cannot state how severely it will affect your chances if your story has poor formatting. We are expecting a massive volume of submissions for this call, and if...