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Deadline: June 30th, 2016 Payment: Contributor's Copy Submission Guidelines What are we looking for? We are looking for the macabre. We love horror, supernatural, paranormal, dark fantasy, and all things that go bump in the night. In addition to novel and novella length fiction, we also seek short fiction for horror anthologies. Short Fiction Submissions Guidelines: Our normal open submission period for short fiction varies on anthology and dark art genre. “The Dead Walk” Volume 3 – A collection of zombie tales to satisfy the hunger of any zombie (fan). DEADLINE: June 30th, 2016 Short Fiction submitted to be apart of our anthologies must be between 1,000 to 15,000 words. We pay in contributor copies. In the subject line of the email, please include the title of the anthology you would like to be included.  If not included in the subject, submissions may be lost or confused with other anthologies. Novel and Novella Submission Guidelines: Our annual open submission period is from October 1st to May 31st. We look for all types of dark art fiction. Works can be anywhere from 20,000 to 100,00 words (work under 80,000 words will be deemed novella and may become a part of an anthology for print publication)   We only accept email submissions. Please ensure that they are in .doc, .docx, .pdf, or .rtf formats. Submissions can be emailed [email protected]. Please when emailing a submission, to please include a short cover email with synopsis, and a brief bio (including previous publication credits, if any). Via: FOF Publishing.

Deadline: June 30, 2016 Payment: $10.00 ($5.00 per story) plus equal share of 50% of the anthology’s royalties. (you must submit 2 stories – with complete opposite narratives) In a world with ever increasing video surveillance and instant release of information it is easy to make snap judgements based on excerpts, sound-bites or some sort of attention grabbing headline. Without the full story it can be difficult to know the facts of a situation. As Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius is credited as saying: “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” Or as Obi Wan Kenobi said in Return of the Jedi: “…many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.” Authors – here’s your chance to tell BOTH sides of a story. What we are looking for are speculative fiction stories that tell a story that when told from one perspective come across in favor of one narrative and when told from another perspective comes across in favor of another narrative. Watching a video of police interaction with someone that erupts into violence and someone being injured or killed. That part can be easy (depending on the narrative you want to support) - Now the hard part. Retell that story from another perspective – but it has to take the reader in the complete opposite direction and it has to ring true to the facts that would be KNOWN by the viewpoint character. Using the ‘police’ video for example – write one story showing the officer used excessive force, was targeting specific individuals, etc. Now for the second one – write a story again using the video as the basis and write it so the officer is 100 percent justified in their actions....

Deadline: June 30th, 2016 Payment: $5 advance, percentage of the royalties, and a digital copy “I ain’t afraid to love a man. I ain’t afraid to shoot him either.” Quote is attributed to Annie Oakley and is the entire theme of anthology. The quote, NOT Annie Oakley. The famed western heroine is NOT required to be any of the stories. In fact, it would be better if she wasn’t. Writers have a lot of freedom to express the theme in any manner they want, and any variation on it. Does she love him and then shoot him? Does she shoot him and then love him? Does she love him and think about shooting him? Does she shoot him because she’ll never love him? Did she shoot him, he died, and then she falls in love with his ghost? Just some springboards to get everyone started. Genres: Supernatural, Paranormal, Dark Fantasy, Horror, Western, Weird Western, Science Fiction, Space Opera, Fantasy, Steampunk, Mystery, Romance or combinations thereof. Editor wants parents to be able to hand the anthology to their teenage children with no fear of the content. So  stories must be a PG13 rating, family friendly, no gore, no graphic violence, no sex or erotica, and limited cuss words, damn, hell are acceptable, but the F word is not. S word is borderline. NO fanfiction. Pieces expressing one’s faith, any belief system, are acceptable, as long it is part of the character or plot and not preachy. Submissions open 2/28/2016 and close 6/30/2016. In the subject line: Submissions : Love ‘em, Shoot ‘em. Title of your story and your name.  Include in your cover email the number of words, a one to three sentence synopsis of your story and a little about yourself. Times New Roman, 12 point font, double spaced, your...

Deadline: June 30th, 2016 Payment: Pay rates for original stories: $25.00 for reprinted stories: $7.00. And a contributor's copy. Note: Reprints Allowed Guidelines Potter’s Field 6 Potter’s Field 6 An anthology of tales from unmarked graves Open to submission as of 1 March until 30 June 2016. Writers and Artists Guidelines Alban Lake Publishing is looking for stories and illustrations for Potter’s Field 6, a print anthology of tales from the graveyard. This volume will be the sixth in the Potter’s Field series. This anthology is scheduled to be published on 1 October 2016 in trade paperback format with a color cover, and black and white interior illustrations. Potter’s Field 6 is edited by Robert J. Krog. Potter’s Field 6 is not open to poetry. Please note that horror fiction written in the third person stands the best chance for acceptance. “They” say that there are no new plots or stories anywhere. “They” may be right, but you are the only you there is, so send us a story as only you can tell it, one that’s atmospheric and highly entertaining, has fascinating characters, one that takes place in a unique location or time period. A potter’s field is the burial place for the indigent and the unidentified. Just about every city has one. There’s a potter’s field in the Michael Douglas movie, Don’t Say a Word. Obviously, we’re looking for works that are themed to graveyards in some way. However, it does not have to be a conventional graveyard. Let me give you one example: back during the days of the Black Death, bodies were crammed–yes, literally crammed–into mass graves underneath churches. Even today, in St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, you can take a walking tour deep under the church and see walls of skeletons and dirt. Such a...

Deadline: June 30th, 2016 Payment: $25.00 In Arkham, Massachusetts, stands a university steeped in mystery and legend. After its human students have left for their dormitories, its haunted halls often host phantasms of things unspeakable. Its classrooms are never truly empty. Its auditorium reverberates to ghosts of words chanted in other planes. Its library guards tomes not written by human hand. Tell us about those times when no human foot strides the halls of nighted Miskatonic University. Reveal to us the truth behind the unexplained sounds from the science wing, the murmuring from the rooms dedicated to music and art. Uncover to us the meaning of those words drawn in blood there in the basement. Show us the actual workings of the late night denizens who brave those passageways. We welcome tales of supernatural and psychological horror, but remember there are still limits. • Sexual content not inherent to the storyline. • Explicit description of torture or sacrifice, human or otherwise. • Violence or abuse against a minor, infant to teenager. • Overuse of profane language. • Hate language against a race, creed, or gender. • Quoting previously published material not in the public domain. HOW TO SUBMIT Please be advised, any stories that do not meet these guidelines will be deleted unread. ABSOLUTELY NO EXCEPTIONS. • 3,000 to 10,000 words. • Double-spaced, 12 pt Times New Roman font. • First page of manuscript must contain name, mailing address, and word count. • Email must contain a short biography (no more than 200 words), previous publications if any, word count and contact information. • No reprints, simultaneous or multiple submissions. • No poetry. • Email submissions in RTF or DOC format only. Absolutely no DOCX files. Email all submissions to [email protected] with manuscript as an attachment. Do not include the...

Deadline: June 30th 2016 Payment: Aus 5 cents/word (GST inc., maximum payment AUD$500) and 2 contributor's copies. Edited by Liz Grzyb and Cat Sparks To be published by Ticonderoga Publications in 2017 Human activity has forced the Earth into a new geological epoch. By 2050 the world’s population is expected to rise from the current seven billion to around 9.5 billion. The worst impacts will be felt by the world’s poorest people, victims of the developed world’s excesses. The Earth must brace itself for enormous changes in patterns of global temperature and rainfall, significant sea level rise, with huge effects on water and food security. Engineers and industrialists are currently faced with the challenge of inventing new sustainable technologies and the means of implementing them: technologies that may well improve our lives in ways we cannot yet anticipate. We are looking for optimistic stories envisioning the future of our world as we are impacted by and adapt to climate change. New narratives of radical transformation and sustainability. Stories exploring the end of carbon-capitalism, combatting inertia in our political systems, interrogating the technical and organisational challenges of clean energy generation, storage and distribution. Stories investigating nascent technologies and fossil fuel divestment, imagining pathways to the low-carbon world. Encouraging the belief that we will survive not only as a species, but as a civilisation by proposing alternatives to how we live. Stories showing how humanity can survive and flourish, despite looming uncertainty. We are not looking for post-apocalyptic stories of dystopia and wretchedness, but of confidence in our ability to meet the challenges our future will bring us. Guidelines Stories should be between 2000-10,000 words. Original stories only: no reprints, multiple, or simultaneous submissions. Stories should be emailed to [email protected] in .doc or .rtf format. The submissions period for unsolicited submissions is...

Deadline: June 30th Payment: An advance against royalties Over the course of our unsolicited submissions open periods, we at Tor.com Publishing have found a wonderful variety of novellas to acquire and publish. Slush brought us such novellas as The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, Runtime, The Drowning Eyes, and more. To date Tor.com has purchased half a dozen novellas from slush, and we’d like to keep up that good work. As such, Tor.com Publishing will soon be reopening to unsolicited novella submissions! Starting June 5th, Lee Harris and Carl Engle-Laird will be reading and evaluating original novellas submitted by hopeful authors to http://submissions.tor.com/tornovellas/. You can find full guidelines here, and we highly recommend you read the guidelines, because we’re doing things a little differently this time. Until the end of June, Tor.com will only be considering novellas of between 20,000 and 40,000 words that fit one of the following science fiction subgenres: Time Travel Space Opera Near Future Thriller Cyberpunk If you have a novella you want to submit that doesn’t fit these parameters, don’t give up hope. Our plan is to rotate which genre we’re soliciting periodically, so check back here and on our submissions guideline page regularly. Once we’ve worked our way through these submissions, we’ll re-open for a different genre. Please don’t ask us what genre we’ll be moving to—we’ll be deciding that closer to the time. As always, both Lee Harris and Carl Engle-Laird actively request submissions from writers from underrepresented populations. This includes, but is not limited to, writers of any race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, class and physical or mental ability. We believe that good science fiction and fantasy reflects the incredible diversity and potential of the human species, and hope our catalog will reflect that. Via: Tor.

Deadline: June 30, 2016 Payment: .10/word for the first 1,000 words, .05/word for the next 5,000 words and .03/word after that Theme: I Regret Nothing Too many characters spend their time brooding about the past, whether it’s missed opportunities or mistakes that led to misfortune down the line. For our first anthology, we want your stories with at least one character who has no regrets – either for a specific moment, or in general. Your story must feature a predominantly POC cast to be considered. Genres: Sci-fi, Fantasy, or Horror (no poetry, please) Story Length: For this anthology, we’re looking for original, short fiction up to 10,000 words. While we’ll read a piece that’s slightly longer, we will absolutely not consider any story over 12,000 words. Your story must be complete within the stated word count – no serials or other multi-part pieces. Pay: We pay .10/word for the first 1,000 words, .05/word for the next 5,000 words and .03/word after that. Contract Overview: Our contract covers the right to publish your story within our digital and print anthology, as well as online at Sanguine Press for paying members. We ask for exclusive rights for one year, and non-exclusive after that. A full contract will be provided upon acceptance into the anthology. No multiple submissions: Please only send us one story at a time, and wait for a response before sending another. We’re excited to get to read your work, but as a two-person team we have to do all we can to give as many authors as possible a fair chance to be read. No simultaneous submissions: If you decide to submit to another publisher, please send us a note and withdraw your submission here, first. We ask this only because of time constraints, and this policy may change in...

Deadline: June 30th, 2016 Prize: $25 and chance at publication as audio podcast on REDSHIFT. Prompts: 1) Why does this book have two page 34's? 2) The maid screamed when she saw my face. 3) The smoke in the room turned from black to blue,filling my lungs. Current Contest Rules:   a) Word Count Limit: 2,500 words. b) At least one of the listed prompts             must be used in the story  as either         narrative or dialogue. c) Contest CLOSES June 30th, 2016 at 12 a.m. EST.  d) Winner/honorable mentions  will be announced on July 15th, 2016. e) No entry fee required. f) Winner receives $25 and chance at        publication as audio podcast on                REDSHIFT. Contest Rules And Prizes: 1) Entries must follow theme and genre listed under "Current Contest." 2) Participants may enter only one entry per contest. 3) The contest is open to all original, unpublished work by any English-language writers. 4) Winners and honorable mentions are considered published. Buzz & Roar Publishing LLC has the right to submit your published story to REDSHIFT for transfer to audio medium. 5) Entries must be submitted by the end date listed in "Current Contest" section. Late entries will not be considered. 6) Winner and Honorable Mentions will be notified by email.   To Enter Go Here: Buzz And Roar Publishing.

Deadline: $10 per story Payment: July 1st, 2016 Artist: Druscilla Morgan Compiler: Brian Woods Looking for 10 stories, 5,000 - 7,500 words Villains or killers (Dark and Evil) must be the main theme Not looking for romance or erotica Seeking fantasy based story (can not have minor love story) Payment: $10 per story Paypal ONLY Contract: First Electronic, First Print, and Anthology rights. Format: Font Size: 12 Font Style: Times New Roman Double Spaced No spaces before or after paragraphs Automatic indention of first sentence per paragraph (no tabs) .doc or .docx only Submission Dates: 3/1/16 - 7/1/16 Submit to [email protected] Set Subject to "Dark and Evil Submission" Please include Amazon Author page link and Facebook/Twitter link Follow ACA Books on Facebook! Via: ACA Books.

Deadline: July 1st, 2016 Payment: A set net percentage royalty. We’re looking for stories. Scary stories! Stories that get under the skin. Stories that stay with you and come back to haunt you once the lights go off. We’re looking for new horrors. 21st Century horrors that reflect the way we live now. We want you to reinvent the genre – reimagine the nightmare. And the modern world isn’t short of inspiration. …sorry, it’s hard not to get dramatic when thinking of horror fiction. Fun though! I’m sure you get it – horror, but make it new. Though we’re not afraid of you conjuring the old masters for a bit of help. Dead Ink will publish New Horrors as a series of subscription eBooks, so we want stories between 5,000 and 30,000 words in length. Short-to-long stories. Authors will be paid with a set net percentage royalty. We may also anthologise the series as a print book in the future. Submissions are open world-wide, but they must be in the English language and must not have been previously published. We encourage everyone to enter and we especially like to see submissions from individuals and communities who feel that they may be under-represented or marginalised. The series is also open to both emerging and established authors. To send your work simply attach it to an email to [email protected] and include “New Horrors” in the subject headline. Please include a short author bio with your entry too. Entries close on the 1st of July. Via:

Deadline: July 4th, 2016 Payment: £10 per 1000-word story or £20 per 2000-word story We are currently accepting short story submissions for the second edition of the new short fiction anthology, blÆkk. blÆkk is a hand-bound quarterly publication that strives to deliver quality writing accompanied by beautiful illustrations. The first edition will be out on June 23rd. Each edition of blÆkk is compiled around a general theme, the second of which will be FEAR. PLEASE FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES. WHERE TO SUBMIT? Email your submission to [email protected]. In addition to your piece, please add a short brief of who you are, approximately 100 words. WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? Short fiction of any genre. There are no limitations as to how you interpret the theme FEAR. We encourage you to think beyond the horror genre. Please note that we are currently not accepting poetry or essays. DEADLINE Monday the 4th of July, 2016. We will let you know when we have received your submission, and you will know whether you have been successful within two weeks after the deadline. If you haven’t heard anything from us, please consider your piece unsuccessful. RIGHTS We reserve the right to the work for six months after the issue is out. After six months the work can be published elsewhere with a note saying it already has been published with us. Resubmissions can be considered. WORDCOUNT Pieces must be either 1000 or 2000 words of length, with a 10% +/- margin. PAYMENT At Blyant we believe that all creatives should get paid for their work, so even though we are a brand new establishment we do offer a symbolic sum of £10 per 1000-word story £20 per 2000-word story In addition, we offer a 50% discount to contributors on all publications from Blyant Publishing as well as other items for sale. STYLE Your...

Deadline: July 15, 2016 Payment: $20 Please don't query us about your story submission. We don't have the manpower to answer such queries. An editor will email you back as soon as possible with the decision about your story. This can take a few days, or, up to three months. We make every effort to get back to authors in a timely manner but we get a lot of submissions so sometimes it's not possible. A note on our editorial policy: before publication we may edit the story for length or readability. However, we always remain true to the spirit of the story. Issues are published at the end of February, May, August, and November. Please do not submit the same story more than once, and please submit only one story at a time. We consider any story between 250 and 7000 words with speculative fiction elements. We prefer science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre, but we're willing to push the limits of traditional forms of these genres. We do not consider poetry, stories with over-the-top sex or violence, serials, novels, fan fiction, or non-fiction. We don't accept multiple submissions; in other words, only submit one story at a time and wait for a response before submitting another. We accept simultaneous submissions as long as you let us know up front and tell us as soon as it's accepted elsewhere. We do not publish reprints, including anything that has appeared on a website. We pay $20 for each story we publish. We buy first-printing world exclusive rights for four months. Payment will be made shortly after publication using PayPal. We encourage our authors to establish a PayPal account if they don't already have one. We prefer to read submissions in traditional manuscript format. This means indented paragraphs instead of left...

Deadline: July 15th, 2016 Payment: (1k to 3k words): $18, (3k to 7k words): $25 The submission window for the 2nd issue of Mantid Magazine will close on JULY 15th or when all slots have been filled. ------------------- Please review the submission guidelines below and email us at [email protected] with any questions. For the SUMMER 2016 issue we are only accepting submissions from WOMEN, WOMAN-IDENTIFYING and NONBINARY-IDENTIFYING contributors. LGBTQA, people of color, and/or the differently-abled are encouraged to submit. Those who do not align with these diverse identities must submit work that is considerate and inclusive. What we are looking for to fill our Summer 2016 issue: ARTICLES Articles should be between 1,500 and 5,000 words. We are seeking both opinion and academic/scholarly articles discussing subjects involving diversity in media. Some topics include film theory, art theory, gender equality/feminism, sociological/psychological perspectives on art trends, the impact of art on social change, etc. Topics centered around the horror, science fiction, fantasy, and/or magic realism genres are encouraged. SHORT FICTION/POETRY Stories should be between 1,500 and 7,000 words. Poetry should be under 1,000 words. Work should fall under one or more of the following genres: Horror Dark Fantasy Dark Science Fiction Dark Fairy Tales Magic Realism Surrealism Avant-garde Experimental Diverse characters are encouraged. PHOTOGRAPHY/ART WORK The strange and avant-garde will be given special priority over more commercial work. Some art movements that we appreciate include: German Expressionism Symbolism Surrealism Bauhaus Conceptual Art Works with thematic elements drawn from horror, fantasy, science fiction, and/or magic realism are preferred. Works that emphasize the beauty and power of diversity are highly encouraged. Make it weird! No submission fee. Submissions should be in .doc, .docx, or .pdf format. Names should be included on any manuscripts/images. PAYMENT SHORT FICTION (3k to 7k words): $25 SHORT FICTION (1k...

Deadline: July 15th, 2016 Payment: $0.01USD per word Helios Quarterly Magazine aims to publish quality fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and art that illuminates the darkness. HQM wants stories and poems that grab a hold of reader from the opening lines all the way to the finish line. Works that push boundaries, are succinct, and well developed are smiled upon. READING PERIODS* January 1-15 11:59PM EST (March Issue) April 1-15 11:59PM EST (June Issue) July 1-15 11:59PM EST (September Issue) October 1-15 11:59PM EST (December Issue) Anything submitted outside of these windows will be deleted unread. Artists and photographers can submit year round. *Effective October 2016 CURRENT ISSUE Miscommunication is key to conflict. In the realm of science fiction there’s been the urge to gloss over language with universal translators, or the dominance of the English language far into the future. In horror, communication is largely an issue with supernatural entities and cellphones without service. In fantasy literature, where whole new languages take form, the topic of not being able to read and write let alone speak more than one is rare. In the midst of terror, war, and in critical situations, not being able to communicate can mean the difference between life and death. Center your work around how language (or the lack therefore) is central to an issue within the plot, etc. Open to submit between June 1-June 30th 11:59PM EST FICTION, POETRY & NON-FICTION IDEAS A mute bounty hunter discovers a parasitic monster that has shut down communication between the crew and outside world Ghost hunters must find a way to communicate with a spirit through signs and symbols in an abandoned house How does it feel to be the last being to speak your language in the whole universe? Two alien children discover an injured human being but, have not been fitted with...

Deadline: July 16, 2016 Payment: Pro Rata depending on the number of stories accepted – an equal percentage of royalties will be split Submission Period: May 16, 2016 – July 16, 2016 We will accept .doc and .docx submissions ONLY Only standard manuscript format accepted Payment: Pro Rata depending on the number of stories accepted – an equal percentage of royalties will be split Word Count: Anywhere between 500-10,000 words Poetry WILL be considered Send stories to [email protected] E-mail subject: SUBMISSIONS/Story Title Calling all writers! As of today, I am opening up submissions to a new anthology: “Tales of the Once and Future King”. This will be an anthology of juvenile stories about King Arthur and all things Arthurian related. Juvenile is a broad term that can mean anything from a “Chronicles of Narnia” reading level to the later Harry Potter books. The guidelines are very broad. Since it’s juvenile: No sex No unnecessary gore No nihilism HOWEVER – “juvenile” is not the same as “sanitized”. So: There CAN be romance There CAN be fighting Things CAN get dark We don’t want to see stories that talk down to children. Children are young, not morons. No stories that insult the Arthurian tradition. This means nothing like “And King Arthur was really a BAD King and later scribes changed it!” or “Chivalry is sexist and horrible and the knights were all misogynist pigs”. This is one that’s more on our end than yours – if you think it might work, submit it, and we’ll see what we think. Stories that insult Christianity probably won’t be accepted. I have no problem if you’re more interested in things like Druidic mysticism or Paganism than Christianity, it’s just flat-out insults I’m not really interested in. Once again, if you’re not sure, submit it and we’ll make...

Deadline: July 22nd, 2016 Payment: 6 cents per word Note: Usually I wouldn't double up but with these both coming from the same publisher and ending SOON I wanted to get a post up. UPDATE: SUBMISSIONS are now OPEN for Swords & Steam and Dystopia Utopia.  Following the great success of last year’s Gothic Fantasy, Deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts,Horror and Science Fiction, 2016 sees the publication of four new books. Submissions are now open and will close on 22nd July for the second two: Swords & Steam and Dystopia Utopia We need between twenty to thirty short stories by new writers to complement a selection of classic tales. Submit by email to [email protected] What’s the difference between the books? Swords & Steam covers any form of historical fantasy and steampunk flavoured mystery, horror, crime and sf. From Walter Scott to Dr Who, Legend to Prester John. Dystopia Utopia focuses on stories which offer perfect worlds gone wrong, or imperfect worlds with perfect people, Somewhere between Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, Mad Max and The Hunger Games gives you the taste and the breadth. Accentuating the Printed Form Last year’s titles speak for themselves (see here). Still available they work because their unusual mix of modern and classic writing, combined with the tactile deluxe presentation offers something beyond the sea of consumable digital fare. They’re books you can be proud of, you can leave on anyone’s table and guarantee they’ll be picked up, and loved. We make illustrated books, gorgeous notebooks and calendars with incredible fine and fantastic art, but we also devour fiction. The economics of publishing and selling new stories is pretty tough but we really enjoyed reading and selecting the stories last year, so settled on four new titles for 2016. Call for Submissions We are looking for new and recent short stories. We...

Deadline: July 25th, 2016 Payment: Contributor's copy Penny Dread Tales Volume 5 is a GO! This is a call for submissions for the next installment of the Penny Dread Tales series. The deadline for submissions is July 25th, 2016, and we’re shooting for a publication date of December, 2016. The theme for this volume of steampunk short fiction is heroism and heroes. The story length can be anything from 1,000 to 10,000 words. We’re still pretty small, so it’s a token payment proposition, with a free copy for each accepted story. Also, contributors can get author copies for 10% over cost plus shipping, which gives you a good option for selling copies at your own events and making some money. Send all submission to PDT5Submit (AT) RuneWright (DOT) com. (Yes, that’s an email. Fill in the stuff so SPAM web crawlers don’t bury me with bad submissions) Submissions must be in Standard Manuscript Format: Title On First Page By Line On First Page 1 Inch Margins Times Roman 12pt Double Spaced (No Tabs, Use Styles) Include on your first page header: Legal Name Pen Name EMail Mailing Address EMail Address Include on subsequent header: Last Name Of Legal Name Story Title Page Number Attach your RTF or DOCX file to your email, and feel free to include a very brief cover letter in your email including story genre, word count, and log line. Can’t wait to see your stories! Via: Rune Wright.

Deadline: July 31st, 2016 Payment: $25 We are having another open call for submissions! This one will be done EARLY because it will take some time to put together this project. Title: Gothic Betty Crocker Cookbook (And DIY Crafts) We are looking for your own original recipes and craft how-to’s. This will collection will be hardcover and released in October for Halloween. This is a fun book with recipes from everything from Meatloaf to Fake Blood. You must submit your own photos for a step-by-step process of making your recipe. We also invite you to make a video of you making it so we can post it here! We are not posting a word limit at this time because some projects are bigger than others. You will be asked to sign a release form for the pictures so do not scan the internet for these. Pay: Each accepted submission will be paid $25 This will be an annual project. Some entries will be kept for future published cookbooks, so when you submit please remember that we may hold onto it and reserve the right to publish it in another book (yes, you’ll still get paid for it). Categories (names subject to change): Dead Cow Recipes Dead Chicken Recipes Is This Dead? (Sushi, raw recipes) Something’s Fishy (Fish recipes) Carnivorous Cravings (all other meats: pork, lamb, etc) Rise from the Earth (Vegan) Betty’s Baubles (jewelry) Crafty Conjurings (all crafts) ***NOTES*** We’d love for authors and their wives, and/or family to participate in this who are already part of our family. It is open to anyone, though! Several copies will be donated to Authors Supporting Our Troops: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ASOT2014/ How to Submit: Please submit by emailing your edited recipe to [email protected] along with your high quality photo and step-by-step photos for completing your recipe! Deadline: July 31st, 2016...

Deadline: July 31st, 2016 Payment: $30USD plus a copy of print, electronic, and audiobook formats Expanses of water so vast they seem to go on forever…the silhouette of a dead ship on the horizon…stars filling the night that have never shone over our earth…nightmares made flesh, rippling just under the surface…a siren’s call no man can deny…this is what waits for you in CETO’S BRINE. CETO’S BRINE is open to ocean-themed horror – mermaids, selkies, doorways to other dimensions, ghost ships, curses, madness, mythical beasts from beyond, Lovecraftian horrors, and demonic forbidden love are just a few of the tales we’re looking for. Genres accepted: Horror Dark Fantasy Horror Erotica Adult-level fiction only (no children’s/preteen fiction). To be published in print, e-pub, and audiobook formats Pay is $30USD plus a copy of print, electronic, and audiobook formats Submit any questions to [email protected].   SUBMISSION INFORMATION SUBMISSION LENGTH: 5,000-12,000 words. Query for shorter/longer FILE FORMAT: Submit work in RTF, ODT, DOC, or DOCX formats as an attachment. Do not put your submission in the body of the e-mail. PAGE MARGINS: 1 inch margins. LINE SPACING: Double-spaced. SENTENCE SPACING: Single or double-space between sentences FONT: 12 point Times New Roman, Courier New, Arial, or equivalent font. PARAGRAPH INDENT: Auto-indent new paragraphs. Do not manually indent with spaces or tabs. CONTACT INFORMATION: Name, address, phone number, phone number, and e-mail address at the top-left of the cover/first page. HEADERS / FOOTERS / PAGE NUMBERS: Do not include any headers, footers, or page numbers. Submit your manuscript as an e-mail attachment to [email protected]. Via: Strigidae Publishing.

Deadline: July 31st, 2016 Payment: Five cents per word on fiction or five cents per word or a flat twenty bucks for poems, whichever is greater. For our fourth issue, Deep Black Sea, we want short stories, flash, and poetry hauled from the brine of oceans both real and fantastic: the shipwrecked rocket bobbing in the black ocean waves of a starless planet, its bloodied crew and their flashlights at the hatch that opens into the perfect dark, and the heavy thump against the hull; the work song of a dozen sailors, and the lilting mezzo-soprano that begins to harmonize from the empty crow's nest; the fleeing galleon's dreadful captive gnawing the last rivet from its iron box; the granddaughter that chucks a sharpened stick and spears a skull-sized opal blob galloping across the sand on its little wet fingers. We want your stories and poems. Descend by choice or let yourself be dragged under by those things that grasp upwards. Come back with the meanest, meatiest, most vigorous weird fiction you can wrestle to the surface. Watch them gasp and flop and promise you everything in ten languages. Once you're done with them, give them to us. Submission Guidelines: We will only be accepting work that fits with the set theme. Your work could be terrific, but if it's a bad thematic match we can't use it. For general questions, including our rates and rights acquired, see our FAQ Word limits as follows: Short stories and poetry to 2,500 words, flash stories to 1,000 words. With this in mind, here's how you format your email submission: 1. Subject Line: Submission, (your story title & approximate word count), (submission theme) 2. Email Body: Please summarize in a few lines how your story fits the theme. Any submission that doesn't include...

Deadline: July 31, 2016 Payment: $25 plus one contributor’s copy Many of the Christmas stories we hold dear in Western culture focus around male figures – Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas, the Krampus, Rudolph and Frosty. But if you look to the past, female figures were central to family and hearth celebrations occurring on or around the Winter Solstice. Do some research and tell us your own unique story about the feminine spirit in the Yuletide. Here’s some links to get you started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modranicht http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/yulethelongestnight/a/Winter_Sol_Gods.htm What we don’t want to see: Gratuitous anything – violence, sex, profanity, doesn’t matter. If it is not integral to the story and it’s not advancing the plot or character development, we don’t want to see blood, gore, or sex just for shock value’s sake (this goes for language too). We are not opposed to violence, sex, or profanity – as long as it belongs in the story and it’s not just there to shock and titillate. Some things would be a very hard sell for us, like rape or torture of any sort, and torture of children or animals will get an immediate rejection. Think of how far we’re willing to go based on the well known movie rating system – if it would qualify for a PG, PG-13, or R rating, we’ll look at it. If it would be NC-17 or up, we’ll have to pass, thank you. Word Count: We’re looking for stories that fall in the 3,000 to 10,000 word range. We will consider looking at stories outside this range, but they need to be just too good for us to pass up. You have a much better chance if you keep the word count within our range. Please query us before sending a story outside of the word count guidelines. Reprints:...

Deadline: July 31, 2016 Payment: $25 and contributor's copy SUBMISSION OPEN CALL! Anthology Deadline: July 31, 2016 Publishing date: October 30, 2016 Pay: $25 upon acceptance, plus one contributor copy Word Count: min| 3500, max| 5,000 Title: The Unleashed: Monsters Vs. Zombies Are you tired of the same old zombie stories? Have you had your fill of man vs. zombie? Stiched Smile Publications wants you to unleash your imagination and mash it up. We are looking for uncommon stories featuring a monster (dracula, big foot, frankenstein, etc) fighting the undead. Unleash your imagination and take us on a ride that we've never been on. Thank you Mark Deloy for the idea. It's why you're a part of SSP! How to submit: Please send your submission to [email protected] You must have your full name, pen name if applicable and mailing address include. Entries without all information will be disqualified. Via: Stitched Smile Publications.

Deadline: July 31st, 2016 Payment: $5.00 with an equal share of 50% of royalties. “Revenge is a dish best served cold..” Eugène Sue, Memoirs of Matilda, (1848) Indeed revenge is sweet! How about served with a big scoop of ice cream, with whipped cream, sprinkles, and a gleaming drop of blood red cherry on top? Just Desserts is all about vengeance. Whether your character is dishing it out or tasting the well-deserved (or not) fruits of their actions, we want to hear stories of revenge. We’ll accept most genres, including science fiction, fantasy, mystery, horror (but keep the PG-13 rating in mind), romance, steampunk, Weird Western, and poetry of various types. We are especially looking for DIVERSE protagonists and characters, all races, including aliens, sexual orientations, disabilities, etc. RESTRICTIONS:  No fan-fic or erotica. Keep the content PG-13, please.  Limit profanity, seriously gory violence, and erotic content. We want to make this book available to young adult readers as well as adults. If you have questions about content, please feel free to email:  [email protected] SUBMISSION EMAIL: [email protected] READING PERIOD:  June 1 2016 to July 31, 2016 (DO NOT SUBMIT PRIOR TO JUNE 1, 2016) RELEASE DATE:  October 2016 SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED: We do not accept simultaneous submissions. Make this your best work. If we see spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors, we’ll reject your story. We will accept reprints if you have the current rights to them. LENGTH:  Up to 7,000 words, but the “sweet” spot is between 3,000 and 5,000. FORMATTING:  Standard manuscript formatting, please. Margins should be 1” to 1.5” sides, top, bottom. Indent the first lines of each paragraph, double space, italics for thoughts, etc. Please, use italics for italics not underlining. (This makes unnecessary work for your editors) Font should be 12 point Times New Roman or Courier. File...

Deadline: July 31st, 2016 Prize: £10 This month sees our one year anniversary and to mark it, along with our announcement that here on out, we will grace the winner with the mammoth sum of £10, we are looking for your best and most original monster stories. Big Foot, the Yeti. Loch Ness Monsters and Beast of Moors Bodmin and beyond. We want your creations to grace our pages for the next month. Lacking in inspiration? Fear not, here are a few images from tabloids and websites of unimpeachable repute. (www.dailystar.co.uk, http://www.dailymail.co.uk,http://www.express.co.uk and http://www.ancient-origins.net) 300 words is the max. Aim for Times New Roman and 12 points if you would be so kind. Either submit in the body of the email or as an attachment. If you do decide to grace us with your prose, there’s a good chance that at some point (probably a year down the line) we might use it in a ‘best of’ collection. So, be warned, by sending us your stuff, it will/might be published in an outmoded form called paper and as such, you accept this. Should this happen you will be offered the opportunity to buy the book at ‘cost’ price + delivery. Please send your stories to: [email protected] Via: Zero Flash.

Deadline: July 31st Payment: 8 cents per word NOTE: During the last submission window there were some problems with email notifications getting through to users.  If you think of it when submitting, write down the tracking number shown in your browser; you can use that to check the status at any time.(normally that would also be emailed in an auto-notification).  If you didn’t write that down, you can query as described below–just be careful not to mention your story title to disqualify, just say the email address you used to submit. David Steffen is the editor.  He will be reading all submissions himself, no slushreader.  Be sure you read the guidelines and pay close attention to the requirements around anonymity–since there is a staff of one, the requirements for anonymity are extra important to avoid disqualifying your submission.   FICTION OVERVIEW Genres: science fiction, fantasy, horror (everything must have speculative element, even horror). Word count: 3500 words or less. This is a firm limit.  If you submit a longer story, it will be rejected unread and that will count as a submission. Do not query to ask permission to submit something longer either–the answer will be no. Pay rate: 8 cents per word (more than the professional rate as deemed by SFWA) Multiple submissions: A total of TWO submissions per author during this submission window.  You don’t have to wait for one response to send the second one–you can just send both whenever you want during the window.  We’re aiming to publish a couple stories of complementary length per month–one very short with one longer or two middling length ones–so I suggest that it would be a good idea to submit a short and long yourself if you have them available. Simultaneous submissions: No. Reprint submissions: No. That means you should not submit anything...

Deadline: July 31st, 2016 Payment: 1 cent per word Note: Female authors only Reprints allowed 'Killing it Softly'—Women. The softer sex. Maybe, but trust me, the frightening tales from the women in this anthology will not be soft. Not in any way. This select group of female authors will take you for a ride into the darkest part of your psyche; to places you’ve been too afraid to go. And once you’ve been there—you’ll never be able to ‘unsee’ the horrors they’ll bring… Suzie Lockhart - Managing Editor Welcome to Digital Horror Fiction. We are excited to announce a new open call for reprint short stories in the horror fiction genre - dedicated to stories by female* authors. These stories will be published as part of an anthology (Killing it Softly) of short stories, flash fiction, and some poetry under the Digital Horror Fiction imprint, by the publisher, Digital Fiction Publishing Corp. (Note that flash fiction and poetry are by invitation only and will be solicited directly by the Editor, this open call is for horror reprint short stories of 3,000 to 7500 words in length only.) We are looking for reprint short stories that have appeared in professional or semi-professional books, magazines, collections, or anthologies, and that are available to be re-licensed by Digital Horror Fiction and published through Amazon and elsewhere in an anthology of stories. We are not looking for (and will not license) self published stories (in any format/venue), stories that have been published and are available to download on-line (free or paid) as stand-alone stories (in collections and anthologies is fine), or stories that are available free on-line in any form (magazine, archive, blog etc, but podcasts that have not been made available in print are fine). Basically, if we search for your story on-line and find it, in writing, by title or content, and it's free in any format we won't license it - no exceptions. Reprint short stories must have a...