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Deadline: July 31st 2013 Payment: Authors will receive three hardback copies of the published book. We are now accepting submissions for Strange Tales IV, to be published Christmas 2013. Subject matter and style : We would like to receive previously unpublished literary strange tales. Word count: Stories should be between 2,000 and 10,000 words. Closing date for submissions: 31st July, 2013. Payment: Authors will receive three hardback copies of the published book. Electronic submissions should be sent to [email protected]. We would prefer to receive your work as an rtf attachment. To get a feel of what they are looking for check out the the description of the first Strange Tales.

Deadline: July 31st 2013 Payment: $10 Our payment for stories is $10. Our general rules are: (1) We hew to a PG standard and (2) nothing that makes our editors sick. (3)Please put in your "subject" line the title of the antho for which you intend your story. Please read our Style Book before you send us a story. The link to it is next to this Writers' Guidelines link at the top of the opening screen. NOTE FOR 2013 ANTHOLOGIES: Since so many people are at least a bit superstitious about the number "13," and we're going to be stuck with it for a whole year, let's have some fun with it. By adding the word "Lucky" to our 2013 titles, our writers can add an element of "luck" into their stories. Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows? Associate Editor, Sandi Reed-Chan Send stories to her at [email protected] THEME: It's Halloween and it's lucky -- bad or good? -- and it's sf/f/h. Have fun! Maximum word length, 4000 words. Deadline July 31, 2013 (or when book is filled, meaning 20 stories accepted.) Reading period Aug. 1 to Aug. 31, 2012 Formatting period Sept. 1-15 2013 Publication date Sept. 15, 2013 We are totally serious about this Style Book thing. We are so serious that if you won't read our Style Book, we won't read your story. How do we know that you read our Style Book? Because there is a SECRET WORD -- actually, two of themm -- in the Style Book. Put the Secret Word(s) in your submission letter and we will read your story with intent interest. Before submitting make sure to read the Guidelines!

Deadline: July 31st 2013 Payment: his is an anthology for charity. Contributors will receive a Digital copy (mobi, epub, or pdf) of the anthology. Print copies will be available to the contributors on request, but given the nature of this project, we would hope you would be willing to purchase a print copy. Slay bells ring, are you screaming, In the lane, there’s a body A horrible sight,T hey'll slaughter tonight, Killing in a winter wonderland. We are pleased to announce a Christmas-themed anthology for charity benefiting the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. What are we looking for? It's simple. Horror stories with a Christmas theme. That's the only requirement. Zombies, werewolves, ghosts, ghouls, possessed elves, demonic Santas...whatever your twisted minds can conjure up--so long at it takes place on or around Christmas. So let's see what you got, folks. Tis the season and all that. DEADLINE: July 31, 2013 (or until filled) WORD COUNT: 3,000-5,000 words (query for longer/shorter submissions) PAYMENT: This is an anthology for charity. Contributors will receive a Digital copy (mobi, epub, or pdf) of the anthology. Print copies will be available to the contributors on request, but given the nature of this project, we would hope you would be willing to purchase a print copy. REPRINTS: No MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS: No SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: No FORMAT: Left-justify only FONT: 12 pt Times New Roman SPACING: Double spaced, no extra spacing between paragraphs TAB INDENT: ¼ inch PAGE NUMBERING/HEADERS: None First page should include your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, word count, and pseudonym (if writing under one). Send submissions as a word attachment to [email protected] or [email protected]. Include CHRISTMAS ANTHO and submission title in the subject line.

Deadline: July 31, 2013 Payment: 5¢/word Story submissions Below are guidelines for submitting stories to Long Hidden, and the submission form. Please read the guidelines carefully before submitting. Direct all queries to [email protected]. Do not send story submissions via email, and do not send queries through the submission form. Who can submit We welcome stories by authors from all walks of life. We especially encourage submissions from members of marginalized groups within the speculative fiction community, including (but not limited to) people of color; people who are not from or living in the U.S.A.; QUILTBAG and GSM people; people with disabilities, chronic illness, or mental illness; and atheists, agnostics, and members of religious minorities. The protagonists of your story do not have to mirror your own heritage, identities, beliefs, or experiences. We also especially encourage short story submissions from people who don’t usually write in this format, including poets, playwrights, essayists and authors of historical fiction and historical romance. Submission deadline and publication schedule All submissions are due July 31, 2013. If it’s still July 31 in your time zone, you’re good. Acceptance notices will be sent by October 1. The anthology is tentatively slated for a February 2014 release. Pay and rights We pay USD 5¢/word for global English first publication rights in print and digital format. The author retains copyright. Payment is upon publication. Story criteria Length: 3000-7000 words (FIRM) Your story must be set between the years 1400 and 1920 C.E., and take place primarily in our world or an alternate historical version of our world. (Travel to other worlds, other dimensions, Fairyland, the afterlife, etc. is fine but should not be the focus.) Your protagonists must be people who were marginalized in their time and place. By “marginalized” we mean that they belong to one or...

Deadline: July 31st 2013 (don't submit before July 1st.) Payment: 1 cent a word US, plus one contributor's copy. Dark Opus Press is proud to present Tell Me a Fable, our third annual anthology. We will be looking for stroies base on one of Grimm's Fariy Tales. We're sorry, but for the concept we're going for here we are not accepting poetry, reprints or artwork for this anthology. Our guidelines are simple. All stories MUST be based on a Grimm's Fariy Tale and NOT the Disney version. All stories must have a dark bent to them and be between 2,000 and 4,000 words. This word count is firm and stroies outside this word range will not be considered. MUST be in proper manuscript format. This means: Courier New or Times New Roman fonts, doubled spaced, no extra space between paragraphs, indent paragraphs. Words meant to be italicised or bolded in the final print, please make sure it is that way in your manuscript. Please read our magazine guidelines to see what we do not want. If you don't review our magazine guidelines, we will know. Send your submissions to: [email protected] In the subject line please put: submission - Your story title/title of Grimm's tale For example: Submission - Stewie's Melancholy/Sloth Payment for accepted works will be a 1 cent a word US, plus one copy. The reading period for this anthology will start July 1st and end July 31st or until filled. Stories sent before July 1st will be deleted unread. All submissions must be in either .doc, .docx, or .rtf Please be advised: If you require a form to be filled out by us in order for you to get our emails, we will NOT fill them out. We are too busy to take the time to do this....

Deadline: July 31st 2013 Payment: 5 cents per word Behind every great movie is a great story. Alfred Hitchcock ranks as one of the top storytellers of the twentieth century. We're looking for suspenseful stories of psychological horror—Hitchcock with a spec fic twist. Cause let's be honest—who doesn't feel a bit creepy crawly when they see a huge flock of blackbirds or seagulls overhead? So whether Hitchcock has his signature cameo in your story or not, the best tribute to a man considered to be the most influential filmmaker of the 20th century is a story he would have loved to put on the big screen. CALL BEGINS ON MAY 1, 2013 CALL ENDS ON JULY 31, 2013 Penumbra is looking for original, unpublished stories of 3500 words or less. We prefer that writers use Standard Manuscript Format for submissions. (You can read this article by Chuck Rothman on the SFWA site on preparing a manuscript for submission if you are unfamiliar with SMF.) Please send your stories as file attachments in .rtf or .doc formats only. Please include a cover letter in the body of your email, with the manuscript title, you pen name if applicable, the exact word count of the story not including title and byline, and a publication history if applicable. Penumbra is a professional rates paying publisher, paying 5 cents per word. We will evaluate poetry submissions for each issue. We will also consider previously published stories with rights reverted to the author. Penumbra has multiple issue calls open at the same time, therefore it is imperative that you include the issue theme in the subject line of your email. Submissions that do not include this information risk getting lost in our queue and not read before the deadline. Penumbra uses Musa Publishing's house style...

Deadline: July 31st 2013 Payment: 5 cents per word The Wily Writers site publishes two short stories per month in both audio and text formats. We host a celebrity editor for each of them, and they choose the stories along with the producer (Angel Leigh McCoy). We publish only short fiction that falls under the genre umbrella of speculative fiction: horror, fantasy, science fiction, and paranormal romance / mystery / adventure. We have specific themes that we’re asking you to follow. See below: Themes are trickling in. More coming soon! Theme listed here: Horror which is due by March 31, 2013 Submission Requirements Submissions need to follow the guidelines listed below. IMPORTANT: Name your file so that it makes sense. An impressive filename for a fiction submission is: (lastname)-(word from title).RTF Word count: 1000 – 4000 (Firm. Do not query). Use standard manuscript formatting. (more info) No simultaneous submissions to other publishers. Multiple submissions okay, but only one story per theme. Story must have a speculative fiction element. Gore, sex, and adult language okay, but make sure it improves the story. We do not edit, so make sure you use good grammar, have double-checked the punctuation, and have done a spell-check. We prefer Chicago Manual of Style rules, and we will reject it if it’s a mess, even if it’s an amazing story. We may request revisions, so if you’re not open to the idea, then let us know in your cover letter. It will save us all some time by communicating that up-front. We will accept reprints. Make double sure that the rights have reverted to you. By submitting it to us, you affirm that it has been freed from all other commitments that conflict with the rights you give us. We reserve the right to change these guidelines...

Deadline: July 31st 2013 Payment: 5 cents per word The Wily Writers site publishes two short stories per month in both audio and text formats. We host a celebrity editor for each of them, and they choose the stories along with the producer (Angel Leigh McCoy). We publish only short fiction that falls under the genre umbrella of speculative fiction: horror, fantasy, science fiction, and paranormal romance / mystery / adventure. We have specific themes that we’re asking you to follow. See below: Themes are trickling in. More coming soon! Theme listed here: Horror which is due by March 31, 2013 Submission Requirements Submissions need to follow the guidelines listed below. IMPORTANT: Name your file so that it makes sense. An impressive filename for a fiction submission is: (lastname)-(word from title).RTF Word count: 1000 – 4000 (Firm. Do not query). Use standard manuscript formatting. (more info) No simultaneous submissions to other publishers. Multiple submissions okay, but only one story per theme. Story must have a speculative fiction element. Gore, sex, and adult language okay, but make sure it improves the story. We do not edit, so make sure you use good grammar, have double-checked the punctuation, and have done a spell-check. We prefer Chicago Manual of Style rules, and we will reject it if it’s a mess, even if it’s an amazing story. We may request revisions, so if you’re not open to the idea, then let us know in your cover letter. It will save us all some time by communicating that up-front. We will accept reprints. Make double sure that the rights have reverted to you. By submitting it to us, you affirm that it has been freed from all other commitments that conflict with the rights you give us. We reserve the right to change these guidelines...

Deadline: July 31st, 2013 Payment: 5 cents per word for the winning story. Bram Stoker award-nominated author Jeremy C. Shipp will guest judge NOTLP’s first Flash Horror Contest. The winner will be paid a professional rate of 5 cents per word for First Worldwide Electronic rights. The winning story will be published on the NOTLP blog. All entries will be considered for publication. Submission guidelines: Word Count: 1000 words or less. Reading Period: July 1 through July 31, 2013 Genre: Horror. The guest judge particularly enjoys character-based tales, vivid imagery, dark humor, unique monsters. Reprints: No Multiple Submissions: No Simultaneous Submissions: No Payment: 5 cents per word for the winning story. Please include your contact information (name, address, email) and approximate word count on the title page. Send submissions to [email protected]. Please write “NOTLP FLASH CONTEST: Title of Story” in the subject line of the email. Attach your story as an rtf or doc file. We look forward to reading your stories. Judging process: After reading through all the submissions, Jeremy will choose the top 5 flash stories. These 5 stories will be voted on by Jeremy as well as the NOTLP staff. The winning story will be decided based on these votes. About the guest judge: Jeremy C. Shipp is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Cursed, Vacation, and Attic Clowns. His shorter tales have appeared or are forthcoming in over 60 publications, the likes of Cemetery Dance, ChiZine, Apex Magazine, Withersin, and Shroud Magazine. His online home at jeremycshipp.com.

Deadline: July 31st 2013 Payment: Exposure Only Lions and tigers and bears – oh my! Not even close… MONSTERS! That’s right; we want your best creature story. But no copyright infringement; make sure they are your own creations. Scare us! Freak us out! Make us wet our drawers! The theme for the August issue of The Sirens Call eZine is Monsters and fear! Full guidelines at www.SirensCallPublications.com! Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, July 31st, 2013 Sirens Call Publications is open to everyone: pre-published works, online serials, Indie authors, authors of note - if you have a tale to tell, we want to read it. We are an edgy/dark Fiction Publisher interested in stories of Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Mystery and Suspense. If your work falls outside one of those genres and you believe that Sirens Call Publications is a good fit for you, feel free to give us a try. We are a co-operative of writers with many varied tastes and styles, and while your piece may not fall into one of our main categories, it doesn't mean that we won't consider working with you on it. We will not publish stories containing sexual content involving minors in any way, or stories containing ; other than that, the only boundaries are your imagination! Sexual content unnecessary to the storyline is discouraged unless you are submitting an erotic story for consideration. Gore for the sake of gore or simply included for shock value in a piece is discouraged as well, and will most likely not garner our attention unless it is necessary to support the storyline. eZine Specific Guidelines (that overrule General guidelines if applicable): Previously published works will be considered for inclusion. Please refer to the guidelines attributed to each individual eZine. Please submit stories, flash fiction or poetry that is...

Deadline: August 1st 2013 Payment: Winners will split the profits of the collection evenly. Calling all writers: Announcing the start of Dark Hall's first short story competition! Now through August 1st (2013) we will be accepting short Ghost stories for possible inclusion in a late summer anthology. Ten slots are available, and the contest will be highly competitive. The base concept for these stories is ghostly happenings, but this is open for broad interpretation, and there are no rules for where you take your story. Submissions should be no longer than 4,000 words, submitted in PDF format, and include a brief author bio and contact information. Please include the word GHOST in the e-mail heading. We cannot accept previously published material. Winners will split the profits of the collection evenly. Winners will be contacted after August 1st. In submitting work for consideration we ask that writers include the first chapter/section of their project, a brief (one page) synopsis of the overall work, and some background information on themselves. PDF format preferred. Note that we will not entertain simultaneous submissions. Response time is generally one week. Direct all submissions to: [email protected]

Deadline: August 1st, 2013 Payment: $10 from Enchanted Conversation and paperback copy of the anthology from World Weaver Press Anthologist: Kate Wolford You know the Jolly Old Elf of Christmas, right? Of course you do. You can’t avoid him. Yet, Santa Claus isn’t just a kindly old expert at breaking and entering and leaving gifts he didn’t actually buy for the children of a house. At least he isn’t in Austria and many other parts of Europe. In these ancient places, where, perhaps, the old, old gods still add a touch of mischief, Krampus is the angry, punishing sidekick of St. Nicholas (Santa’s counterpart in much of Europe). Known for his willingness to punish rotten children, Krampus might even be considered Santa’s dark side or evil twin. Krampus is the sort of guy more and more North Americans want to explore. He’s definitely having a moment this side of the Atlantic. To that end, World Weaver Press and Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine are pleased to announce a joint venture: An anthology of Krampus short stories. Although the book is yet to be named, we hope you’ll explore every possible Krampus angle via short stories. He’s a nasty old dude, and we hope your imaginations will get the better of you. Rights and compensation: Payment: $10 from Enchanted Conversation and paperback copy of the anthology from World Weaver Press. We are looking for previously unpublished works in English. We are seeking first world rights in English and exclusive right to publish in print and electronic format for six months after publication date, after which publisher retains nonexclusive right to continue to publish for life of the anthology. Open submission period: June 15 – August 1, 2013. Length: Under 10,000 words. Submission method: Email cover letter and story to enchantedconversation...

Deadline: August 1st 2013 Payment: Winners will split the profits of the collection evenly Calling all writers: Announcing the start of Dark Hall's first short story competition! Now through August 1st (2013) we will be accepting short Ghost stories for possible inclusion in a late summer anthology. Ten slots are available, and the contest will be highly competitive. The base concept for these stories is ghostly happenings, but this is open for broad interpretation, and there are no rules for where you take your story. Submissions should be no longer than 4,000 words, submitted in PDF format, and include a brief author bio and contact information. Please include the word GHOST in the e-mail heading. We cannot accept previously published material. Winners will split the profits of the collection evenly. Winners will be contacted after August 1st. PDF format preferred. Note that we will not entertain simultaneous submissions. Response time is generally one week. Direct all submissions to: [email protected]

Deadline: August 1st 2013 Payment: 20% of the total profit will be paid for each accepted story (at quarterly intervals; if more than five stories are accepted, they will be placed in another anthology in this series. We’d dislike reducing your pay) Read the giant quote. It’s required. “Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold. . . .The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords. In that realm a man may, perhaps, count himself fortunate to have wandered, but its very richness and strangeness tie the tongue of a traveller who would report them. And while he is there it is dangerous for him to ask too many questions, lest the gates should be shut and the keys lost.”— J.R.R. Tolkein, “On Fairy-Stories” See that quote? I could go on for a dozen pages, pussy-footing ‘round what we want; but there, in Tolkien’s seven lines of text, is exactly what we want in every way—the adventure, the fantastic, the allencompassing sehnsucht. The tone and style. Everything we wish is hidden there. We aren’t looking for a Tolkien rehash, mind. We want stories that comfortably fit into the subgenre made up of Silverlock, Stardust, Watership Down, Wind in the Willows, Labyrinth, G. K. Chesterton's entire output from The Innocence of Father Brown to Orthodoxy, Gaiman’s The Sandman, The Hobbit, The Silver Chair, the first few chapters of The Last Unicorn (before everything descends into fairy tale questioning madness—for when fairy tales are questioned, there is nothing left but barbarities), Tangled, and Anastasia,...

Deadline: August 1st 2013 Payment: $20 Our second new anthology is a book that originally started as a quick turnaround passion project for Kevin Strange. Well, after sitting on it for the better part of the year, Strange has decided to turn it into a full fledged anthology set for release on November 1st 2013! A VERY STRANGEHOUSE CHRISTMAS is a dark, twisted, bizarre vision of Strange’s favorite holiday. Write a story about a savage viking Santa Clause, write about the murderous rampage of Frosty the Snow man or ghastly child eating elves from the north pole. Make it dark, make it scary, and by all means make it STRANGE! -5,000 to 8,000 words. -.doc format ONLY! That means ONLY! -double spaced. -emailed as attachement to StrangeHouseSubmissions (At) Gmail.com. -In the body of the email, please put your contact information. -The subject of the email should read: submission title-your name-story title-word count. -NO TABS! Use your word processor’s paragraph settings to create paragraphs -No simultaneous submissions. That doesn’t mean submit it to 3 or 4 places and tap your foot while you impatiently wait for our response and then send us a really apologetic email when your story gets picked up by another publisher. it means NO simultaneous submissions. Sometimes we work slow, sometimes it takes 30-60 days AFTER the deadline for us to choose ALL of the stories for our anthologies. Just because you haven’t heard back from us yet, doesn’t mean we haven’t already selected your story for the book. Telling us it got picked up by someone else first does not a happy publisher make. Are we clear on that one? Good. Deadline is August 1st 2013. Payment is 20 dollars flat and one contributor copy of the anthology. Good luck, gang! Give us your STRANGEST!

Deadline: August 1st 2013 Payment: $20 Our first book is a sort of companion piece to our wildly popular short story collection from SHB’s own D.F. Noble, SCARY F*CKING STORIES. Only this time, we’re collecting THE strangest fiction from the most talented authors in weirdo underground horror fiction. This anthology is called STRANGE F*CKING STORIES. We are looking for stories that will leave the readers scratching their heads asking, wait, what the f*ck did I just read? And by that, we do NOT mean experimental, stream-of-consciousness, or surreal fiction. We’re looking for STRONG characters, STRONG plots and STRONG conflict, only the weirdest characters, plot and conflict you can dream up. Make em scary, funny, sexy, gross, haunting, whatever, as long as it leaves us questioning our sanity and yours! -5,000 to 8,000 words. -.doc format ONLY! That means ONLY! -double spaced. -emailed as attachement to StrangeHouseSubmissions (At) Gmail.com. -In the body of the email, please put your contact information. -The subject of the email should read: submission title-your name-story title-word count. -NO TABS! Use your word processor’s paragraph settings to create paragraphs -No simultaneous submissions. That doesn’t mean submit it to 3 or 4 places and tap your foot while you impatiently wait for our response and then send us a really apologetic email when your story gets picked up by another publisher. it means NO simultaneous submissions. Sometimes we work slow, sometimes it takes 30-60 days AFTER the deadline for us to choose ALL of the stories for our anthologies. Just because you haven’t heard back from us yet, doesn’t mean we haven’t already selected your story for the book. Telling us it got picked up by someone else first does not a happy publisher make. Are we clear on that one? Good. Deadline is August 1st 2013. Payment...

Deadline: August 15th 2013 Payment: $200 NOTE: This isn't a primarily horror anthology but if it fits in their guidelines it'd be worth a shot We’ve been talking about it forever but now it’s here. The submission process for the first Sword and Laser anthology. If you’re writer in either the sword and or laser genre or somewhere close to being related, this is your chance to be involved. OPEN SUBMISSIONS FOR WRITERS (STARTING MARCH 1ST) Anybody can submit a story to the first Sword and Laser Anthology. We have two eligibility requirements: your story must be written in English, and you (or your legal guardian, if you’re a minor) must be willing and able to sign a contract if the story is accepted. SUBMISSION PERIOD Submissions will be accepted from March 1 – May 15, 2013. We expect to make our final selections by August 15, 2013. PAYMENT We pay $200 (US) upon acceptance. LENGTH We recommend a length of 1,500 – 7,500 words. We may choose to print shorter or longer stories in some cases, but this should be your target word count. RIGHTS If your submission is accepted we will buy the following rights: • World anthology rights in English and translation • Audio and ebook anthology rights World anthology rights and audio/ebook anthology rights are specific to anthologies. These are non-exclusive licenses allowing us to use your story in an anthology only. Specifying “in translation” allows us to request that your work be included in any potential foreign editions as well. You retain all other print rights. So you’re free to also sell your story to magazines, or websites, or podcasts, or as an individual short story (say, on Kindle), or in a collection of your own work, or even sell it to another anthology after...

Deadline: August 15th 2013 Payment: $25.00, payable upon publication for First Worldwide Print and Electronic rights. Reading Period: 3/15/13 through 8/15/13 Tentative Publication Date: October 2013 Payment: $25.00, payable upon publication for First Worldwide Print and Electronic rights. Word Limits: 2000 to 6000 words. Submissions will only be accepted as DOC (Word) or RTF formats, submitted through our submissions link. Genres Accepted: Dark Fiction, Horror and Sci-Fi. No Fantasy or poetry accepted at this time. Original, unpublished work only. No reprints, please! No simultaneous subs (submitting to emby and another press at the same time). No multiple subs, please (keeping in mind that I will notify all authors as soon as possible if a story is declined so that they may submit that story to another market and hopefully submit another story to our book). Please read and follow our submission guidelines. Maybe 1,000 years ago, a poet wrote one of the most compelling tales of adventure that the world has ever known. That poem, Beowulf, is about a monster hunter. This particular hunter slew more than one monster and ultimately died from the wounds of a battle with a monster. In doing so, the pursuit was personal. The monsters had names. The pursuit was not some blind exercise in violence… Melville wrote of another hunter, as did Stoker. History and literature are filled with monster hunting stories. This is your chance to continue the tradition. We want to get to know the hunter and the hunted. We want to anguish in their pain, thrill in their victories and bow our heads to their defeat. MONSTER HUNTER – BLOOD TRAILS will explore these characters. Make us love or hate them; show us their strengths, their weaknesses and their idiosyncrasies. Make these characters come to life on the page and make...

Deadline: Aug 25th, 2013 Payment: Exposure and Royalties TALES OF THE UNDEAD SUFFER ETERNAL – Volume III Deadline: Aug 25th, 2013 Payment: Exposure and Royalties Flash fiction & Short Stories (1,000 – 6,000 words) Poetry accepted- Reprints too. Eternal life, what does it mean to live forever? What is the cost of such a prize, and is it worth the price? The scope of such a topic brings forth boundless notions for the budding author. Tales of the undead, and those who cheat the reaper give hope to a readership, or can just as easily take it away. I want stories of Eternal life. Give me deals with the devil, illegal experiments, and mysterious miracles. Zombies, Vampires, and Spirits are welcome. Make them dark, make them decadent, make them scary – these should be the kind of stories that wouldn’t usually see daylight. No taboos, just let your imagination run wild. Dark fairytales, bizarre, horror, surrealism, dark science-fiction are all cool here. Submission guidelines: Deadline for submissions – August 25th, 2013. Word Count: 1,000 – 6,000 words. Please submit your manuscript as a *.doc or *.docx file (all other formats will automatically be rejected. Contact me prior to submitting if this presents an issue for you.) Font and formatting: Please submit in Times New Roman, 12 point font; single line spacing. Please format the document to 1st line indentation of 1″. The page margin should be set to .2″ Please check grammar. Upon acceptance into the anthology, you agree that Horrified Press holds exclusive publishing rights for six months from the date of publication; after that date has passed, all intellectual property rights revert to the author with the proviso that Horrified Press retains distribution rights in the format of the contracted anthology. This title will be available as an...

Deadline: August 31st 2013 Payment: 5 cents per word Who needs machines to lend that steampunky feel to Victorian stories? We sure don't. That's why we're really excited about this Gaslight Fantasy issue of Penumbra. We love the foggy streets of London, the creature inching ever closer to the oblivious heroine, and, hopefully, her blood spraying all over the passed out prostitutes on the corner. But then, everyone knows we're a little bit sick. So send us your best gaslight fantasy—blood on the prostitutes is optional—so we can read this issue by the fire on a crisp, late autumn night. CALL BEGINS ON JUNE 1, 2013 CALL ENDS ON AUGUST 31, 2013 Penumbra is looking for original, unpublished stories of 3500 words or less. We prefer that writers use Standard Manuscript Format for submissions. (You can read this article by Chuck Rothman on the SFWA site on preparing a manuscript for submission if you are unfamiliar with SMF.) Please send your stories as file attachments in .rtf or .doc formats only. Please include a cover letter in the body of your email, with the manuscript title, you pen name if applicable, the exact word count of the story not including title and byline, and a publication history if applicable. Penumbra is a professional rates paying publisher, paying 5 cents per word. We will evaluate poetry submissions for each issue. We will also consider previously published stories with rights reverted to the author. Penumbra has multiple issue calls open at the same time, therefore it is imperative that you include the issue theme in the subject line of your email. Submissions that do not include this information risk getting lost in our queue and not read before the deadline. Penumbra uses Musa Publishing's house style guide, which relies upon the Chicago...

Deadline: 31 August, 2013 Payment: Exposure Only Forgotten Tomb Press is proud to announce its first anthology, now open for submission. 100 Doors To Madness is a horror anthology of flash and micro fiction celebrating the diversity of the genre. 100 scares. 100 authors. 100 ways to creep into readers’ minds. We are looking for original stories that chill the soul and leave a lasting impression. All types of horror or dark fantasy are welcome, and we do not consider anything off-limits. Word Count: 250-1200 words. Closing Date: 31 August 2013. Reprints: Yes. Multiple Submissions: No. Simultaneous Submissions: Please do inform us if your story gets accepted elsewhere before the end of the reading period. Payment: This anthology is a for-the-love market. Rights: Forgotten Tomb Press request One Time Print and Electronic Publishing Rights for each story published. How To Submit: Submit it as a .doc or .rtf attachment to [email protected] with the subject line “100 Doors”. Include the word count and a brief biography in the body of the email.

Deadline: August 31st 2013 Payment: Writers will receive a pro rata share of royalties paid quarterly. Still Hungry for your Love! OK, as predicted, zombies never die. As we await season 4 of Walking Dead, and the opening of World War Z, it’s time for more zombie loving. So I am putting out the call for stories for Still Hungry for your Love, the second volume of my zombie romance anthology. Zombie love knows no boundaries. I’m looking for stories of love amongst the undead, between zombies and the living, and (we hope) many stories about the hot, alpha male and female zombie killers. These stories can take place in the zombie apocalypse, alternative reality, the future or on another planet. You can cross genres (zombie steampunk?) and even sexual proclivities (not sure I can even imagine zombie BDSM). But, hey, let's be creative. and rip that envelope! But seriously, folks. The zombie metaphor is rich. You know - we're all really zombies; our jobs make us zombies; zombies are a reflection of the mindless horde that is America, rotting on its own abundance. And the socio/political/scientific elements of the zombie mythos are still ripe for exploration. What's it like to be king of the Zombies? Would zombie TV be any different? What exactly would it be like to be a zombie in love? Or to love a zombie? So, hit me with your best shot. Short stories should run between 1500 and 5000 words, and novellas between 20,000 and 30,000 words. Deadline August 31. This will be an October title published by Riverdale Avenue Book in both ebook and print. Writers will receive a pro rata share of royalties paid quarterly. PLEASE NOTE: Because of the nature of this anthology, the emphasis in these stories should be on the...

Deadline: August 31st 2013 Payment: £10 token payment, a copy of the finished book and if it clears it’s costs profit share for the first two years sales. Ok foxy folk we have a new anthology call for Christmas Release. ‘Girl at the End of the World’. What we want: pre, during, post and not remotely related to apocalyptic stories, in the SF, Fantasy, Horror and Crime genres. Clearly female lead characters who pack a punch. Roughly speaking 5,000-10,000 words per story. It’ll be £10 token payment, a copy of the finished book and if it clears it’s costs profit share for the first two years sales. The closing date is 31st August 2013 so we can get it sorted in time for a Christmas release, because nothing says Merry Christmas like the end of the world. These details will be added to the submissions page, where you can already find details of house style etc for your story submission. When we do request submissions please read the guidelines below carefully as submissions not adhering to them will be rejected. Rights We ask for: First World English (for the print book), First World Electronic (for the eBook), and Anthology rights. We also require rights to special editions, omnibus editions or anthology editions where appropriate. For anthologies we require one year’s exclusivity from the submission deadline unless otherwise agreed. Submission Guidelines Email [email protected] Subject of your email must be ‘submission’ and the relevant call eg ‘novella open call’ or the title of an anthology. I may be receiving submissions for several projects at once and it needs to be clear what you are submitting for. The email must contain your real name, your writing name if different and the title and synopsis of your submission (no more than 100 words) In...

Deadline: August 31st, 2013 Payment: five cents per word "No good moves," Bina says. "They call that Zugzwang," Landsman says. "'Forced to move.' It means Black would be better off if he could just pass." "But you aren't allowed to pass, are you? You have to do something, don't you?" "Yes, you do," Landsman says. "Even when you know it's only going to lead to you getting checkmated." - Michael Chabon, from The Yiddish Policeman's Union "Zugzwang is like getting trapped on a safety island in the middle of a highway when a thunderstorm starts. You don't want to move but you have to." - Arthur Bisquier, American chess Grandmaster Mutually Assured Destruction. The Mexican Standoff. The babysitter hiding in the bedroom closet as the maniac mounts the steps. For our inaugural issue, "Zugzwang", (tsoog-tsvung) we want work that drops protagonists into apparently impossible dilemmas and then shows us how their choices play out, for good or ill, and we're paying pro rates (five cents per word) for your work. We want short and flash fiction and poetry. We want horror, SF, fantasy, slipstream, adventure tales, noir exercises, bizarro experiments, boxing stories, and sea-yarns. We want well-written pulp fiction. Genre boundaries are unimportant. If your work attempts to astound, unsettle, thrill, baffle or completely terrify the reader, it probably qualifies. We want huge twists, epic journeys, two-fisted adventures, maximum drama, and we want it accomplished in under 3,000 words. We want writers unafraid to read their work before an audience, to record their stories for mass download, to be part of the process from typesetting to cover art to publication and beyond. This part is crucial; it takes more than a good story to be part of this, which is why we are strongly biased towards submissions from local writers....

Deadline: September 1st 2013 Payment: Contributor's Copy Note: YA Market The Repository of Imagination invite submissions for the anthology WEIRD LEGENDS Any work not adhering to the following guidelines will be rejected. Open for submissions from May 1st 2013 Closing date September 1st 2013 With the publication of ‘Alien Legends’ the Repository of Imagination, the YA imprint of Greyhart Press, set up a website to encourage young writers. At http://www.ataleforatale.com 11 to 15 year olds can send in their own myths and legends, have them published on the site and receive an unpublished story in return. To further encourage the fantasy and science fiction writers of the future the Repository is putting together an anthology of short stories and poems entitled ‘Weird Legends’. These can be in any speculative genre as long as they are suitable for ages 11 and up… no sex, violence or anything truly horrific as these will be rejected. We have no objection to previously published work as long as the author holds the rights. All submissions must be all your own work. Word Count: Max 10,000 words for shorts stories or 3 pages of double spaced for poetry. The stories in the previous book varied from a few lines up to stories divided up into sections due to length. I would like to do the same with this book so word count is just a guideline but we reserve the right to break up longer stories into ‘sections’ and distribute them throughout the book so that younger readers can read small sections at a time. Your submission should be a word doc. or rtf and in a clear 12pt font (Times New Roman or Ariel preferred), double spaced and with margins on both sides of the page. Your name and title should be at the...

Deadline: September 1, 2013 Payment: Creators of accepted items will receive a copy of the anthology, invitations to any events pertinent to the Anthology, and samples of promotional or marketing materials created for the Anthology. Anthology Theme: There are individuals known as survivalists, or now known by the recently coined term: preppers. These people are making preparations to ensure their safety and continued existence in the occurrence of a catastrophic disaster or event. But what happens when the SHTF? Really? You will have a population of have and have nots. Those who were ready and prepared and those who are caught unaware and panicked. The struggle for available resources will be another catastrophic event in and of itself as humans fight to either defend and retain what they have established or to take what others had the foresight to store and prepare. This is the end as we know it. For some, life and death hinges on acquiring basic human needs, while for others life is good, if not better in accordance with their due diligence. The Zombie Apocalypse has arrived. Will it be feast or famine? We are accepting short stories, poems, recipes, and artwork for this anthology. Written items should be edited to the best of your ability but they will be reviewed for any missed grammatical or sentence structure errors. In the case of glaring errors or obvious oversight, content change may be encouraged. Artwork should be submitted in a quality resolution jpg file no larger than 500×750 pixels. Written submission requirements: Must be a member of ZombieFans.com http://zombiefans.com/ All entries must be in a .doc or .rtf file. 12 pt., Times New Roman font Single spaced Indent paragraphs Approximately 5,000-10,000 words Author’s name and email, story title, and word count must be on first page. Only...