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Deadline: June 30th, 2018 Payment: $25 There are very few places left in this world that haven’t been explored, mapped, and inhabited. The majority of the surface of the earth is known down to the millimeter. However, a few mysteries do remain. The depths of the oceans evade discovery simply because of their inaccessibility. Likewise, the icy stretches of the last great continent that continues to resist human knowledge: Antarctica. Recent archeological finds confirm that Antarctica was once at least temperate if not subtropical millennia ago. Various authors have recounted, through their fictions, stories relayed to them by survivors of the few successful forays into the icy continent’s heart. In 1819, the San Telmo, a Spanish ship of the line, was lost off the coast of Antarctica with all 644 aboard. Since then, tales have surfaced in rumor, fiction, and legend about the terrors haunting the vast wasteland surrounding the nether pole of the world. The place was one of singular wildness, and its aspect brought to my mind the descriptions given by travellers of those dreary regions marking the site of degraded Babylon. Not to speak of the ruins of the disruptured cliff, which formed a chaotic barrier in the vista to the northward, the surface of the ground in every other direction was strewn with huge tumuli, apparently the wreck of some gigantic structures of art; although, in detail, no semblance of art could be detected. Scoria were abundant, and large shapeless blocks of the black granite, intermingled with others of marl, and both granulated with metal. Of vegetation there were no traces whatsoever throughout the whole of the desolate area within sight. Several immense scorpions were seen, and various reptiles not elsewhere to be found in the high latitudes. from The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of...

Deadline: June 30th, 2018 Payment: AU$5.00 for stories under 2000 words / AU$10.00 for anything above 2000 words Thuggish Itch is our horror and sci-fi anthology collection. This is the place to submit your horror, sci-fi and speculative fiction stories. Current theme: Viva Las Vegas For Thuggish Itch's first collection we are looking for stories that fit the theme 'Viva Las Vegas' and are feature the iconic city in one way or another. Las Vegas is one of our favourite cities and we're keen to see how you can mess with the status quo. Slot machines that will rob you of more than just a nickel or dime? Back alley negotiations that go horribly wrong? A flesh-eating virus that runs riot through each and every casino on the strip. Think outside the box and give us something spectacular. Thuggish Itch is our horror, sci-fi and speculative fiction collection. Please ensure that your story falls within one of these genres. Please ensure that you read through the general guidelines below and if there are specific questions please contact us using the form on the home page or via the listed social media accounts. To help ensure your submission gets to the correct place, please include the following in the subject line of your email: 'Thuggish Itch - Story Title'. Word count: 1000 - 6000 words (we're willing to consider longer or shorter if the story is good) Deadline: June 30 2018 Payment:  AU$5.00 for stories under 2000 words / AU$10.00 for anything above 2000 words Via: Gypsum Sound Tales.

Deadline: June 30th, 2018 Payment: Royalty arrangement for both print and digital is 50% of net revenue. ERASERHEAD PRESS IS OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: April 1- June 30, 2018 All submissions received by the end of June will receive a response by July 31, 2018. What we are looking for: Eraserhead Press is seeking original novellas and novels of 20,000 to 100,000 words in length that fit into the Bizarro Fiction category. We want surprising, unique, well-crafted weird stories with compelling plots, eccentric characters, and never-before-seen concepts. We want a balance of both plot and character – we love weird characters with weird problems in weird places. We are looking for exciting concepts that make people say “I have to read that!” and well-developed characters they can fall in love with along the way. We’re most drawn to darkly absurd tales that are addictive to read and contain a strong emotional core. We love fiction that is both heart-rending and fun. While it may or may not be funny, we are interested in more than just a joke. If you can make us both laugh and cry or creep us out and draw us in, we will love your book. We are looking for entertaining and accessible stories that speak to a specific audience. Will your book appeal to vegan punks? Riot grrls? Overworked airline pilots? Cos-players? Fans of 80s New Wave? If you’ve identified the audience for your work, please tell us in your book description. Multiple submissions are okay – during our open submission period we are open to reading as many manuscripts as you feel would meet our criteria but we are only interested in your best work. Bring it on! We have high standards – we have been the leading publisher of Bizarro Fiction since 1999...

Deadline: June 30th, 2018 Payment: $15 Volume 34/61 Submission Period: May 1, 2018 - June 30, 2018 Publication Date: November 1, 2018 FORMATTING GUIDELINES This is proving to be a recurring problem, so we're putting it up front. Please, for all our sakes, read this next part carefully. All submissions should be sent by e-mail (no letters or telephone calls please) to [email protected]. Below are some formatting rules to help us process your submission more quickly. Email and Cover Letters Email is accepted in both text and HTML formats. When submitting, please put this in the subject line: Submission: (Title) - (First and Last name) Include the following in the body of the email and in the attached submission: Your name Name to use on the story (byline), if different Your preferred email address Your mailing address The story's title The story's word count You may also include a cover letter in the body of the email. We get a lot of strange stuff in cover letters, so if you're unsure of what goes in them (and especially what doesn't) please refer to these cover letter tips: How to write a cover letter | What not to put in a cover letter by Jed Hartman Submission Formatting We ONLY accept submissions as attachments! All stories submitted as an attachment must follow standard manuscript formatting. We will no longer read any story not properly formatted. (And we much prefer Courier New to Times New Roman) For explanations and tips on what SMF is and how to do it with word processing programs, please see this article. Please send your submission as an attachment in Microsoft Word (DOC, DOCX) or Rich Test Format (RTF) only. Other formats, such as Works, WordPerfect, Open Office, etc., have proven difficult to open. Please note that...

Deadline: June 30th, 2018 Payment: Royalty split Note: Reprints Allowed Title: Children of the Sky Reading Period: May 1 – June 30 Publication Date: August 1 Word Count: 3,000 – 12,000 loose Theme: Classic Alien Science Fiction Here at Schreyer Ink Publishing we’re big fans of old films and books. So we’re looking for classic-inspired alien stories for this anthology. We’re looking for stories of 1st contact, alien invasions, 1st steps on alien worlds. We want stories where the aliens come in peace, and stories where aliens come to destroy. We’re looking for stories of lost star explorers, both human and alien, and what they find. Some of our favourites are the old pulp science fiction novellas, Flash Gordon, and the old drive-in movies of the 1950s and 1960s. If you have any questions please use the contact form. Because the contact form strips formatting we are now accepting story submissions in the body of an email sent to schreyer _ ink _ publishing (at) outlook dot com (remove the spaces between the underscores and insert correct symbols). We will not open any attachments that we have not requested. As always, the anthologies pay on a royalty split, every 6 months, and we request exclusive print and e-book rights for 1 year. Via: Schreyer Ink Publishing.

Deadline: June 30th, 2018 Payment: 3 cents per word for original work, 1 cent for reprints. Note: Reprints Allowed Short version: -We buy original (3cents/word) and reprint (penny/word) short stories -Length up to 7500 words. -Anonymize your manuscript before sending it via email as a doc, docx, or rtf. -If accepted, your story will be published in ebook and print-on-demand formats. -If accepted, we will try to produce your story on a podcast, but this does not always pan out. It’s complicated. The way is fraught with bear traps and wolves. Long version: Curiosities is a paying speculative fiction anthology podcast and magazine. What makes us different from other SF/F/H markets is that most of our stories have some sort of anachropunkish retro-vintage element, and the handful of others that don’t were the ones that grabbed us by the throat and demanded to be bought. Clear as mud? Good. About 2/3 of submissions are rejected for “Bad Fit.” What we’re looking for: As an audio venue, we want stories that entertain. We want to be taken on an adventure in a time that never was, be it steampunk, gaslamp, weird tales, dreadpunk, vintage horror, mad science, fantastic cities (please!), monsters, impossible machines, clockworks, alt-history adventures, surprises, weird westerns, and things that shouldn’t work. What we don’t want: Serialized novels. Novel excerpts. Stories longer than 7500 words. Fan fiction. Sherlockians. Vulgar language used as punctuation. Cutters. Horror stories that spend most of the word count telling us all the mundane little details of the contemporary protag’s lifestyle before getting to it. JFK theories. Anything that has been on a podcast within the past 18 months. What’s a hard sell: Slipstream. Excessive splatter. Horror based in domestic violence or sexual perversion. Stories that take place in outer space. Anything set after the...

Deadline: June 30th, 2018 Payment: $50 and a contributor's copy On a recent camping trip with my family, the stillness of the night seemed to amplify each sound. Every rustle of a branch or scrape of a twig seemed louder than a gunshot. I froze in fear and barely slept a wink all night. I felt exposed and vulnerable, and it terrified me. Knowing that bears often visited this park didn’t help matters either. How could I sleep when an attack could come from any direction? This frightful anticipation reminded me of a scene from one of my favorite TV shows, Lost. Survivors from a plane crash hear the metallic scream of an unknown beast that sounds like a dinosaur in the jungle as it draws closer to their safe position on the beach. Palm trees are knocked sideways at an alarming rate as a terror in the night inches closer to their vulnerable location. Not being able to see the beast heightens the suspense. What is that thing? When will it strike? How can they survive? I wonder how our early ancestors slept outside in the open air. Did they ever feel secure enough to fall into a deep sleep? I think it would be impossible for me. I find security in our houses, towns, and cities. So many horrors lurk in dark alleyways and shelter in deserted corners of the world. Very quickly, my mind pictures vampires hungry for blood or monsters creeping through abandoned buildings on the outside of town. A fire burning bright in the darkness seems like a beacon of hope. Light seems to drive the fear away and offer a bit of safety, while the dark unknown teems with danger. But adding the lure of a full moon to a night already fraught with...

Deadline: June 30th, 2018 Payment: 1 cent/word and a contributor copy The Rabbit Dies First FurPlanet is pleased to invite writers of anthropomorphic fiction to submit to its upcoming anthology, The Rabbit Dies First. We are looking for stories of all genres: scifi, fantasy, horror, mystery, crime, romance, or slice of life -- to name a few -- all centered around two concepts: the rabbit is going to die, and someone else is next. But I don't want to kill a rabbit! Then don't! Maybe the rabbit knows the rabbit is supposed to die first. Maybe everyone only expects the rabbit to die. Maybe death isn't what it seems. We encourage you to play with the concept, rebel against it, or adhere to it--whatever makes a great story. Seriously, what genre? Is erotic fiction okay? Erotic fiction is okay as long as it contributes to a good story. We're looking for a balanced anthology with many different genre types, so give us the type of story you love to write the most, or take this opportunity to try a genre you've always wanted to write in. We want to put out a book full of stories that are fun, gripping, heartbreaking, suspenseful, sweet, sexy, terrifying, and any combination. Want to write a prison drama or a high seas adventure? Send it to us! Just remember: The Rabbit Dies First. Is there anything you don't want? We also do not want stories with only humans and no anthropomorphic animals. We do welcome and will be looking for diverse voices. Submission Guidelines Submissions should be in standard manuscript format and attached in .doc, .docx., or .rtf format in an email to [email protected] with the subject STORY SUBMISSION: In the message body, please include a brief cover letter introducing yourself and your story....

Deadline: June 30th, 2018 Payment: Varies, 1 cent per word for the first 2000-3000 words and changes above that (see below.) Submissions for Issue No.3, the “Coexistence” issue, are NOW OPEN through June 30th, 2018! What We’re Looking For WCP is looking for stories to publish in Issue No.3 (theme: “Coexistence”) of its magazine, Weird City. These stories should: Fit the Issue No.3 theme of “Coexistence”. Click here for theme details. Be well-written and carefully proofread. Stories with obvious or gratuitous typos or grammatical errors will be disregarded. Be formatted according to the William Shunn Manuscript Format, including the following: Font: Courier New or Courier, 12pt. Spacing: Double-spaced. Margins: At least 1″ on each side. Italicized Words: Underline italicized words and remove italics. File Format: *.doc, *.docx, or equivalent format. Be original works — no copied works, fanfics, or reinterpretations. We also discourage incorporating distinct elements from other works into yours (e.g. We don’t want to see Cthulhu stories). Be self-contained, standalone stories. No chapter excerpts please. Be between 2000 and 10000 words. In case you’re wondering: YES, we do accept simultaneous submissions. What We’re NOT Looking For Multiple submissions. Submit one story at a time, please. Reprints. We’re buying first publication rights only. First drafts. Rough stories or those with obvious or gratuitous typos or grammatical errors will be disregarded. Cliches. We agree that it’s all been done, but we are not looking for stories that rely on cliches or tropes. Smut. We at WCP have nothing against erotica, smut, or dirty writing, but we’re not looking to publish it. Offensive material. That includes everything you think it does: racism, bigotry, sexism, etc. Yes, a character in a story may be a racist (for example) but know the difference between this and ideology pushing. That one story you just...

Deadline: June 30th, 2018 Payment: Royalties Two years ago, The Geeky Press released Bad Jobs & Bullshit: It's Unlikely That We'll Be Missed. We loved the experience (and the writing) so much that we decided to continue the series. We're pleased to announce a call seeking nonfiction and narrative essays, poetry, fiction, and short scripts for an anthology collection titled Bad Jobs & Bullshit: Summer Jobs. As you can surmise, this collection is about the sometimes sweaty, sometimes sentimental, and always entertaining hours we’ve spent at the shittiest summer jobs imaginable. Whether it’s staffing third shift at a rural gas station or hunching under the soul-sucking fluorescent lights of a corporate desk farm, everyone has a story of that job. And the bullshit that went along with it. DEADLINE Open Call: January 1 - June 30 General Submission Guidelines LENGTH Essays and Creative Nonfiction: Submit completed work no more than 5,000 words Fiction + Short Stories: Submit completed work between 1,000 and 5,000 words Scripts: no more than 15 pages Poetry: Submit completed work; no more than 5 pages. You must submit each poem individually! Photo Essay: No more than 5 black-and-white pictures and 100 words per picture STYLE AND SUBJECT We publish fiction, nonfiction (creative nonfiction, essays), screenplays, scripts, black-and-white photography, and poetry. There are standards. We can't articulate them. COVER LETTER Please keep yours brief, though we do like to hear from people who like the magazine. We’re not concerned about writing degrees or past publications, so don’t be daunted if you don’t have an MFA or much in the way of previously published work. FORMATTING Please don't use colors or weird fonts. (We strip both out before we start the design process.) Visual poetry is not accepted. SCRIPT FORMATTING Must be a Word doc or docx, 2010...

Deadline: June 30th, 2018 Payment: $25 and 2 contributor's copies. We were so pleased with how our 2018 WhimsyCon Anthology (Wit & Whimsy) came out, we want to do it again! Do you want to submit your work to be included? See the details below! WhimsyCon 2019 Anthology Submission Guidelines Shiny Garden is seeking short fiction for its 2019 WhimsyCon Anthology. Steampunk, science fiction, fantasy, and other speculative fiction preferred. Submissions should be: Written in English. Written for a PG-13 audience (no explicit sex or violence). Between 5,000 – 15,000 words. Typed and double-spaced. Include the author’s name, address, phone number, and approximate word count at the top of the first page. Print ready (already edited for grammar, continuity, etc.). Saved as a .doc or .docx file. Note: Paragraph indentations must be created using document formatting features, not tabs. If your submission is selected for the anthology, you will receive: $25 in payment. Two (2) complimentary copies of the printed anthology. Option to purchase additional copies at 50% of the cover price. Submission Process Submissions should be sent by email (as an attachment) to [email protected]. Submissions will be accepted May1, 2018 – June 30, 2018. Authors will be notified that their submissions were received within seven (7) business days of receipt. Authors will be notified of acceptance status by July 31, 2018. WhimsyCon 2019 Anthology Guest Editor We are pleased to announce Andy Burns will be our guest editor for the 2019 WhimsyCon Anthology! A.M. Burns has been writing since high school but got serious about things while working in corporate America in his thirties. Since that time, he has authored over 150 works of various lengths and helped numerous authors with their editing. As a member, and previous president of Colorado Springs Fiction Writers Group, he’s worked with authors...

Deadline: July 1st, 2018 Payment: $150.00 CAD Dark, deadly and noirish tales of holiday havoc and yuletide woe. Featuring stories by  S.A. Cosby (Thuglit; Fast Women and Neon Lights), M. Darusha Wehm (Beautiful Red; The Andersson Dexter series), BPAA and Aurora Award-winner E.C. Bell (Stalking the Dead; Dying on Second), Arthur Ellis Award nominee Axel Howerton (Hot Sinatra; Wolf & Devil: Demon Days), Bony Pete Award winners Therese Greenwood(EQMM; Kill As You Go) and Rob Brunet (Noir Nation 3; Stinking Rich), and a double-shot of Vancouver’s own Unhanged Arthur Award winner Sam Wiebe (Invisible Dead; Last of the Independents). Edited by Robert Bose Projected launch date is November 2018. We will be accepting open submissions for 2-3 stories (of up to 5,000 words) to be featured alongside the invited authors. Submissions are open NOW and close on July 1, 2018. We are looking for holiday (I.E. Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, etc.) themed CRIME stories ONLY. No Sci-Fi, no Fantasy Payment currently listed at $150.00 CAD/story Please send in .doc or .docx format, in standard formatting. See our STYLE GUIDE for more information. ***ANY SUBMISSIONS NOT FOLLOWING THE PRESCRIBED FORMATTING MAY BE SUMMARILY DISMISSED WITHOUT REPLY*** DUOTROPE LISTING Via: Coffin Hop Press.

Deadline: July 1st, 2018 Payment: $0.03/word CAD Tales of dimwitted criminals and unlucky twits on the wrong side of the law. Nimrods, numbskulls and rejects. Bumbling sidekicks and idiots-gone-wrong. Elmore Leonard and Charles Willeford ain’t got nothin’ on these dipshits. Edited by Robert Bose Projected launch date is November 2018.  We will be accepting open submissions for 3-5 stories (of up to 5,000 words) to be featured alongside 6-8 stories from some well-known and extremely talented authors. Submissions will are open NOW and close on July 1, 2018. We are specifically looking for darkly humorous CRIME stories. No Sci-fi, no Fantasy. Payment currently listed at $0.03/word CAD Please send in .doc or .docx format, in standard formatting. See our STYLE GUIDE for more information. ***ANY SUBMISSIONS NOT FOLLOWING THE PRESCRIBED FORMATTING MAY BE SUMMARILY DISMISSED WITHOUT REPLY*** Via: Coffin Hop.

Deadline: July 1st, 2018 Payment: $10, a contributor's copy, and a potential royalty bonus if sales quotes are met "Fall Into Fantasy" will contain stories from Epic to Urban, High to Paranormal and everything in between. We are seeking fresh faces as well as seasoned fantasy pros for this yearly anthology to be released every September/October. All submitted stories will be reviewed by a small committee here at Cloaked Press.   What we are seeking for this collection: Original, short stories created by the author submitting the story. We do not want reprints as part of our goal is to bring fresh stories to readers. We are purchasing first, exclusive rights to both print and digital publishing of this work in the world. This is for a period of one year from date of publication. During this time we ask that the author not republish or sell any secondary rights to another publisher. All other rights are retained by author. Story ranges from 2000-7500 words. All sub genres of Fantasy are acceptable, please include the sub genre you feel the story falls into. This is more for informational to the readers as it will be included with the listing in the anthology. All voices are encouraged and acceptable, diversity is a wonderful thing. This extends to the characters in the stories as well. Delight and entertain us with your unique characters and the worlds they live in. Please submit your story in .DOC or .DOCX format. This will make it easier to compile the accepted submissions. What we would like to avoid: Novels or Novellas. These are too long for this collection. No multiple submissions. We are looking for the ONE story you want in this collection. No simultaneous submissions. If you have submitted this story to another anthology/publishing company,...

Deadline: July 1st, 2018 Payment: 8 cents per word We are now open to original short stories of urban weird fiction (so stories about cities and dealing with the complexity that is other people) for the upcoming Nowhereville: Weird is Other People. These are modern weird tales (give or take a few decades) that could only be told of the weirdness of the urban experience and our interactions with one another. REQUIREMENTS  We want diverse stories with modern sensibilities from many different voices that show the immense and diverging possibilities for weird fiction, fearlessly exploring the new and the strange. We are actively seeking 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 abledness.) Original, previously unpublished weird fiction short stories of 3,000-7,500 words (you can read more of what we're looking for with regard to weird fiction briefly below and in more detail at Eyedolon magazine in the Overview under the title "Toward a Weirder Tomorrow") Pay rate of 8 c/w for first rights to digital, audio, and print formats in English. Simultaneous submissions are welcome, but please, let us know as soon as possible if your submission has become unavailable before you hear back from us. No Cthulhu Mythos for this one. Only one submission per author. We seek both rich characters and grandiose ideas. We seek diverse characters. Submit your story in standard manuscript format as an attachment to submissions(at)brokeneyebooks(dot)com with a subject line of the following:  "Your Story Title". Submission window open from May 1, 2018 to July 1, 2018. (We cannot confirm receipt of your manuscript, so please don't ask. We will accept or reject as quickly as we can.) The published anthology will be a mix of stories both from invited authors...

Deadline: July 1st, 2018 Payment: $0.01 per word and a contributor's copy Details: Stories can be 1,000 words to 10,000 words. The anthology will be published in ebook and paperback formats. We pay upfront $0.01 / word. Authors will receive the e-book and one print copy of the anthology, plus wholesale pricing for additional print copies. Previously unpublished submissions strongly preferred. We are seeking twelve months of exclusive worldwide print and electronic distribution rights and non-exclusive worldwide print and electronic distribution rights in perpetuity. Multiple submissions are fine, but simultaneous submissions are discouraged. Please don’t re-submit a rejected story unless we request revisions. We hope to have responded to everyone within one month of the submission window’s closing. Feel free to query if it’s been longer than two months. Stories must be double spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman font (or something similar). Do not submit in Courier. The story title, your byline, a word count, and contact information should appear on the first page, and your last name, story title, and page number should appear in the header information of all other pages. We’re not particular about whether you use italics or underlining for emphasis, how many spaces are after the period, or whether you use straight or smart quotes. Submissions may be sent to the email address: Submit your stories via email as an attachment in .doc, .docx, or .rtf format. The subject of your email should be SUBMISSION: <story title> by <byline>. The email body should contain a short list of your publishing credits and any pertinent biographical details. The submission period begins April 1, 2018, and ends July 1, 2018. Theme guidelines The story must have a fantasy/speculative element. Science fantasy is ok, but we’re aiming for fantasy rather than straight science fiction. We prefer “clean” stories and strongly prefer noblebright stories. For more on noblebright, please see noblebright.org....

Deadline: July 1st, 2018 Payment: $100 Test Patterns : Creature Features (a follow up to 2017’s Test Patterns) Seeking: Original stories of 2500-7000 words (no reprints or poetry currently, thank you) and no bio / biblio info attached, please. Payment is $100 for an accepted story. Multiple subs are fine, but we will only select at most one story per author. We are currently estimating a need for about 25 stories for the book total, depending on length The Theme: We're looking for stories that involve monsters! Our loose theme is based on the SF/F TV programs of the late 50s/early 60s, (Twilight Zone, Outer Limits; but think of the vibe, not literal pastiche; i.e. twist endings, weird situational reveals, moral / allegorical messages told through a spec-fic lens) but we will consider any well-written speculative tale The Details: File format should be MS Word compatible, exact file type and / or formatting doesn’t matter much to us, we will handle most of that on the back end to fit the aesthetics of the final book. We are projecting our window to stay open June 1st through July 1st, but will make an announcement if we fill up before then, again, we are projecting about 25 stories for this volume Submissions should be directed to our editor; Duane Pesice at: moderan(at)hotmail(dot)com Use “creature features” as the subject line to help us keep them sorted and separated, please We tried to cover all the details above, but any questions can be asked here or we’re always open for PM’s, thanks Via: Test Patterns' Facebook.

Deadline: July 1st, 2018 Payment: $5 FICTION SUBMISSION GUIDELINES DEADLINE FOR ISSUE 1 IS JULY 1st! We accept all genres of fiction (ie: horror, crime, romance, sci-fi, fantasy) as long as the element of horror, supernatural, macabre, gothic, and/or occult are present within the overall plot of the story. We are currently looking for Short Fiction 5,000 words or less. Fiction must be submitted in MLA format as an .ODT or .DOC file! COMIC SUBMISSIONS Submission must be sent in PDF format. ART SUBMISSIONS All art must be sent in PDF format ALL ACCEPTED WORD WILL RECEIVE A PAYMENT OF $5.00 USD PLUS A COPY OF THE PUBLICATION! THERE ARE NO LIMITATIONS TO WHAT WE REVIEW FOR SUBMISSION SO FEEL FREE TO MAKE IT AS UNUSUAL AS POSSIBLE! ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE SENT TO [email protected] Via: Gravely Unusual.

Deadline: July 4th 2018 Payment: 50% Royalty split – print/digital release Extreme & Bizarro Submission Call – (30-80K words) Our final submission call… well, until we reach our Patreon goal, that is. However, since no one knows when we’ll reach the ‘year-round submissions’ benchmark, we want to give authors one last chance to show us their best work for 2018—we’re only looking for bizarro and extreme manuscripts for this round though. As long as the work can be categorized as extreme and/or bizzaro, no other limits apply. All sub-genres of horror are welcomed, we’ll even look at classic monster tales—provided it’s bizarre enough to stand out among the generic books of werewolves and zombies. Just remember: Blood, Guts, and Story.  Blood Bound Books is all about the story and how it’s told. We don’t want poorly written torture and rape fantasies. If you’re not familiar with our vision of extreme, controversial novels, check out this link, especially BODY ART, THE CITY, & MONSTER Details: Manuscripts must be previously unpublished in any form Email: [email protected] Email Subject: “Novel/Novella Submission” Without this heading, your manuscript will not be read. Length: 30K words up to 80K. Do NOT ask if you can send in longer or shorter works. If you think your story is good enough to be an exception, just send it in and wow us with the email message. Sell us! Deadline: July 4th 2018 Multiple Submissions: Yes–two max–but please attach them in one email Simultaneous Submissions: Yes–please inform us at time of submission as well as if you are accepted elsewhere Payment: 50% Royalty split – print/digital release – worldwide in English language Via: Blood Bound Books.

Deadline: July 4th, 2018 Payment: $10 ECR wants quality cheap thrills featuring the 45th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump, as a fictional character. Repeat: we want fictional portrayals involving the most litigious man to ever win an election for the highest office in the free world. (or his Administration) While POTUS 45 has created multiple wonderful story lines since taking the oath of office in 2017. We do not want rehashes of his current trials and tribulations. WE WANT FICTION! They can range from parodies to straight examinations of Trump's or his Base's fragile humanity. As long as it stays in the realm of Pulp and FICTION. Examples: Does Trump get struck by lightening playing golf at Mar-A-Lago and develop superpowers? If so what would he do with them? Does trump win a pie eating contest against Russian mobsters? Does the Stormy Daniels affair really involve watching thirty hours of The Apprentice while Trump eats Big Mac's? Does Trump discover a transceiver in his MAGA hat that is sending his thoughts to the DEEP STATE? Does Trump build a wall so high it stops the second coming of Jesus? How does the secret service agent that goes on the president's Mickey D runs make it through the day? Does Melania fly her brunch crew into the White House? How does Trump's attorney make it through the day? How does a Trump supporter make ends meet while Trump Makes America Great Again? What happens when Trump paints the White House Gold? What makes Trump or his supporters think a beautiful land is a Shithole Country? Where's the beef? Ask yourselves questions like these and send us some well written fiction. All Submissions should follow the current EconoClash Review Guidelines. (accept the stories involve a fictionalized version...

Deadline: July 5, 2018 Payment: 5 cents per word and 2 contributor's copies We will be accepting submissions from June 5, 2018 until July 5, 2018 from authors who have never sold a story to the magazine before. If you've already had a story accepted for publication in the magazine, please wait for the next reading period. Thank you for your understanding. PLEASE only send your very best original work. No trunk stories, no rejects from theme anthologies, no reprints of any kind. ONE SUBMISSION PER AUTHOR—make it count! Guidelines: Well written horror, dark mystery, and suspense short stories up to 5,000 words. Originals, no reprints. We want tales that are powerful and emotional—creepy, chilling, disturbing, and moody. Suspense/mystery/crime tales with a horror element are always welcome. Both supernatural and psychological stories are fine. Most common reasons for rejection: Lack of power, lack of originality, slow pacing, poor writing, boring themes, all gore and no heart. Read the magazine, see what type of fiction we are publishing—please don’t submit with a blind eye! Multiple Submissions? Please only send ONE story. Payment: Professional rates, minimum of five cents per word, plus two contributor copies. Payable within 30 days of publication. Up to 5,000 words; maximum payment of $250. Response Time: Up to four months. Submission Window: June 5, 2018 until July 5, 2018 Via: Cemetery Dance's Submittable.

Deadline: July 6th, 2018 Payment: Royalties Dark Rainbow Vol. 1 is the first book of an LGBT dark erotica series edited by Andrew Robertson. The anthology will be released by award-winning New York publisher Riverdale Avenue Books. Dark Rainbow will explore a wicked hunger within the LGBT sphere with exciting short stories that thrill the reader and all of their senses, but also send shivers down their spine. Send us the type of horrific treats that can only come with a queer protagonist, and tricks that have a lasting effect on the reader…a werebear who longs for more than a full moon can offer, a polyamorous necromancer, a witch who has plans for a different type of coven, a vampire who can’t let go of their favorite same-sex snack, a voodoo tale of zombies with a hunger for bisexual brains… We are looking for stories that cover all sexualities and have an exciting, horrific edge. Blood and guts should be served with a sexy side course. There are several authors confirmed, so we are looking to complete the anthology with some stimulating new voices. We welcome anything in the horror-erotica realm but no incest, no underage sex, no dubious consent, and be careful with age play. Horror should be relevant to the plot. Splatterpunk and extreme gore won’t be considered for this anthology. Payment is a pro rata share of epub and print royalties, a pdf and a print copy of the book. All authors will receive an acknowledgement and response within four weeks. Please inquire about reprints. Original, unpublished work is highly preferred. All submissions should; · Be submitted as a Word doc · Be between 2500-8000 words · Be proofread · Follow the Shunn Manuscript format · Use Times New Roman 12 point and underline italics · Use...

Deadline: July 10th, 2018 Payment: $100 Independent Legions Publishing is seeking original horror stories in English for the new anthology MONSTERS OF ANY KIND, edited by Alessandro Manzetti and Daniele Bonfanti, to be published in October 2018 in print and digital editions. Cover art by Wendy Saber Core. We’re looking for horror stories containing at least one non-human monster/creature (and not vampires, ghosts, werewolves, zombies). Unusual creatures will be particularly appreciated. All subgenres and forms of speculative fiction are welcome. Word Count: We are open to stories of 3,500-5,000 words. Submissions Close: July 10, 2018 Pay Rate: We pay $100 for each original story. We buy first exclusive English-language rights for three years. We do not accept multiple or simultaneous submissions, nor do we accept unsolicited reprints. Submissions should follow standard manuscript format (12 pt Times New Roman or Courier fonts, 1” margins all around, line spacing 1½ or 2 spaces). It must be in .doc or .docx format or it will not be considered. Your name and contact information must be at the top of the first page of the story. Page numbers with author’s last name and/or partial story name on subsequent pages would be appreciated. Cover letter is optional, but if you do include one, please add a short bio (up to 200 words). Response time is currently within four weeks. After that, if you haven’t heard from us, please query. We will not be sending confirmations of receipt. To submit a story, go to our story submission form below. To submit your story via email, put “SUBMISSION – MONSTERS OF ANY KIND” in the subject line and send to:[email protected]  Via: Independent Legions.

Deadline: July 14th, 2018 Payment: 5 cents per word, minimum $50 STATUS: After 13 years, Shimmer will be closing at the end of 2018. We will be accepting submissions through July 14. After that, the doors are closed and not even ruby slippers will get you inside. Follow the guidelines, eh? We do not accept simultaneous submissions. If your story is at another market, do not send it to us.  Shimmer publishes speculative fiction — science fiction, fantasy, a dash of literary horror. Shimmer aspires to publish excellent fiction across lines of race, income, nationality, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, geography, and culture, and therefore encourages submissions of diverse stories from diverse authors. This includes, but is not limited to: people of color, LBGTQIA, women, the impoverished, the elderly, and those with disabilities. We are not interested in acquiring fiction that denigrates or perpetuates stereotypes of the above groups. We encourage authors of all backgrounds to write stories that include characters and settings as diverse and wondrous as the people and places of the world we live in. Every story sent to us should be well-researched, respectful, and conscientious. What to send us: Unusual and beautifully-written speculative fiction stories Full plots and strong characters Contemporary fantasy, sometimes SF Unusual stories with a fluid and distinctive voice Odd, unclassifiable stories Hard Sells: Mermaids Devils Vampires Stories about writers Stories that open with someone waking up Sword and sorcery Hard SF Holiday stories Space opera Paranormal romance Slasher/body-mod horror No: Stories featuring Nazis as heroes Rape Multiple submissions  (one story at a time) Simultaneous submissions (if your story is at another market, do not also send it to us) Reprints Poetry Unsolicited rewrites Stories that have been on your blog Stories that have been on your Patreon Fan fiction Novels Collections Length: Up to 7500 words If your story is longer...

Deadline: July 15th, 2018 Payment: 2 cents a word and royalties A new title in the B Cubed world of Alternatives: Announcing Alternative Theology for the Religious Right. Open call for the upcoming B Cubed Press anthology: “Alternative Theology for the Religious Right” A re-mastering of core biblical themes that will help justify, or perhaps even expose, modern evangelical theology. Humor and good will are key. A sharp wit and a sharper pen is the objective. We’re taking fiction, poems, essays. This is unabashedly critical look at the often Hypocritical deviation of the religious right from their biblical and moral base. This will be a disturbing read for some. 250 to 5000 words. Pays 2 cents a word and a share on publication. Queries encouraged. Edited by Bob Brown and Irene Radford. Submissions Accepted March 1, 2018 through July 15, 2018. This is not for the Faint of Heart. All submissions use “Alternative Theology” in the title. E Mail submissions to [email protected]. Up to three subs, use manuscript format, simultaneous okay. Via: B Cubed Press.

Deadline: July 15th, 2018 Payment: $20 per story 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. We reserve the right to shift publication date slightly, as necessary. We have reading periods for each issue, though we never close to submissions. February closes January 15 May closes April 15 August closes July 15 November closes October 15 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...

Deadline: July 15th, 2018 Payment: $20 and a contributor's copy Colors in Darkness Anthology: Deadly Bargain Open Submissions: April 15 – July 15, 2018 Theme: Our second horror/dark fantasy anthology will be based upon items purchased from a shady dealer. You may have seen him outside your office in the business district with a table stand or in your neighborhood selling items from inside his van. Perhaps he was just walking by and selling items retrieved from inside his coat. Jewelry, electronics, clothing, toiletries, cleaning supplies and even food—The man always has a bargain for his customers…a deadly bargain, as the salesman is not what he seems! Description of the Dealer: The dealer’s name can vary depending on which nationalities or environments he encounters; however, his appearance needs to be the same throughout the book. The dealer is about approximately five-foot eight, has olive skin and dreadlocks. He always looks overdressed, wearing several layers of mismatched clothing. He is handsome in an exotic way yet no one can place his nationality. He has almond shaped eyes that could appear Asian, but a broad nose and full lips that lean more toward African ancestry. The appearance of freckles dots his cheeks and he possesses coal black eyes. Submission Guidelines: What We Want For the second Colors in Darkness anthology, we are seeking, thirteen well-written, diverse tales of horror, paranormal and dark fantasy. Each story should mention some interaction with the ‘Dealer.’ Stories can range from subtle paranormal to terrifying horror and can take place at any point in history. Submissions ▪ Submit your work to ( [email protected] ) with ‘CID Dealer: Story Title_Your Last Name’ in the subject line. Attach your story as a DOC or DOCX file. Submissions sent in the body of the email will not be read. ▪ Include...

Deadline: July 15th, 2018 Payment: $5 At Sanitarium, we’re dedicated to bringing audiences the best in horror from around the world. We believe horror should be fresh, bold, and diverse. We aim to publish seasoned professionals alongside new voices, and we encourage authors to take creative risks with their work. Sanitarium is an inclusionary publishing space, and for this reason we ask that all authors submitting work adhere to our guidelines in order to facilitate our blind submission system. Due to the high volume of work we receive, submissions that don’t follow the respective guidelines will be rejected. Additionally, work that is sent outside the posted deadline, or set reading windows, will not be considered for publication. SANITARIUM MAGAZINE Sanitarium Magazine is now open for submissions! Offered in both print and digital editions, Sanitarium Magazine is a quarterly publication—released every September, December, March, and June—dedicated to bringing readers the best in short-form horror. We’re looking for work that chills readers to the bone, makes us think the impossible is all too possible, and leaves a lasting impression. We want characters we can relate to, care about, see ourselves in, and obsess over. Authors are encouraged to submit works which fall under any form of horror and supernatural fiction (including but not limited to body horror, psychological horror, stories of the paranormal, dystopian works, and “creature features”). Body horror, psychological horror, and pieces dealing with the supernatural or paranormal are all encouraged. While we encourage writers to take risks and push the limits of literary horror, we ask that creators be mindful while doing so. Work that’s homophobic, transphobic, racist, ableist, or discriminatory will not be considered for publication. Additionally, works depicting and/or glorifying child abuse, animal cruelty, explicit sex acts, sexual assault and rape, or excessive violence towards women will be rejected for publication. Sanitarium Magazine accepts submissions...

Deadline: July 15th, 2018 Payment: Royalties Announcing call for submissions for Real American Horror: Texas All Submissions should meet this criteria: Works: short stories and flash fiction Genre and theme: Horror and dark fiction based on true events in Texas from people in Texas or that have lived in Texas. Deadline: July 15th Format: Attach the .RTF, .DOC, or .DOCX Word Count 5k – 7k words approx. Payment: 60% of net earnings divided evenly among the authors. Multiple Submissions okay. Submit a brief bio, we don’t care if you have no work history, give us a brief bio of yourself. Send submission to [email protected] Via: Deadman's Tome.

Deadline: July 15th, 2018 Payment: $20 US and a contributor's copy Colors in Darkness Anthology: Deadly Bargain Open Submissions: April 15 – July 15, 2018 Theme: Our second horror/dark fantasy anthology will be based upon items purchased from a shady dealer. You may have seen him outside your office in the business district with a table stand or in your neighborhood selling items from inside his van. Perhaps he was just walking by and selling items retrieved from inside his coat. Jewelry, electronics, clothing, toiletries, cleaning supplies and even food—The man always has a bargain for his customers…a deadly bargain, as the salesman is not what he seems! Description of the Dealer: The dealer’s name can vary depending on which nationalities or environments he encounters; however, his appearance needs to be the same throughout the book. The dealer is about approximately five-foot eight, has olive skin and dreadlocks. He always looks overdressed, wearing several layers of mismatched clothing. He is handsome in an exotic way yet no one can place his nationality. He has almond shaped eyes that could appear Asian, but a broad nose and full lips that lean more toward African ancestry. The appearance of freckles dots his cheeks and he possesses coal black eyes. Submission Guidelines: What We Want For the second Colors in Darkness anthology, we are seeking, thirteen well-written, diverse tales of horror, paranormal and dark fantasy. Each story should mention some interaction with the ‘Dealer.’ Stories can range from subtle paranormal to terrifying horror and can take place at any point in history. Submissions ▪ Submit your work to ( [email protected] ) with ‘CID Dealer: Story Title_Your Last Name’ in the subject line. Attach your story as a DOC or DOCX file. Submissions sent in the body of the email will not be read. ▪...

Deadline: July 15th, 2018 Payment: 6 cents per word "Terra! Tara! Terror!" - SF, Fantasy, Horror. Whether the setting is a cabin in the woods (Terra), Fae (Tara), or spaceship Nostromo (Terror), take us there and spin your adventure. For a bit of mood whiplash, we'd like a mixture of dark and bright stories. Examples: Obsession with odd artifacts (like Roadside Picnic's golden sphere?), alternate histories, paranormal romance (no erotica, please, we're PG-13). (Image: The initial letter of the fairy tale "Guleesh" created by John D. Batten for Joseph Jacob's collection, Celtic Fairy Tales. 1892. commons.wikimedia.org) Reading Period: June 15 - July 15, 2018 Writer Deadline: July 15, 2018 Publication Date: September 20, 2018 Third Flatiron Publishing is based in Boulder, Colorado, and Ayr, Scotland. We are looking for submissions to our (approximately) quarterly themed anthologies. Our focus is on science fiction and fantasy and anthropological fiction. We want tightly plotted tales in out-of-the-ordinary scenarios. Light horror is acceptable, provided it fits the theme. Please send us short stories that revolve around age-old questions and have something illuminating to tell us as human beings. Fantastical situations and creatures, exciting dialog, irony, mild horror, and wry humor are all welcome. Stories should be between 1,500 and 3,000 words. Inquire if longer. Role models for the type of fiction we want include Kurt Vonnegut, Arthur C. Clarke, Dan Simmons, Connie Willis, Vernor Vinge, and Ken Kesey. We want to showcase some of the best new shorts available today. For each anthology, we will also accept a few very short humor pieces on the order of the "Shouts and Murmurs" feature in The New Yorker Magazine (600 words or so). These can be written from a first-person perspective or can be mini-essays that tell people what they ought to do, how to do...

Deadline: July 15, 2018 Payment: Advances of up to $1,000. Digital royalties start at 25% of sales and escalate up to 50%. We’re entering our third year of operations here at Parvus and growing steadily. We released one title in 2016, two in 2017, and have five on deck for 2018. Right now, we’re buying for our 2019 and 2020 catalogs. If you want to really get to know what we’re about, you may want to check out our publisher’s guest appearance on the Hybrid Author Podcast (Episode 19), where Colin talks about Parvus’ founding and some of our publishing philosophy. But if you just want a quick overview, here it is: Digital First We are a digital first publisher. This means that our growth strategy is built around starting as a digital press and transitioning, when the time is right, into a traditional distribution model. We give our books the same level of care and attention as any other publisher in the genre, and your books are available to readers through all of their favorite retailers. We market our books to the same industry blogs and reviewers. We advertise in the same trade magazines. We’re just smaller, faster, and you’re going to love working with us. Author Driven Our background is in building winning teams, and that’s the approach that governs us in the publishing process. You bring your talent as a storyteller and we bring together all of the designers, artists, editors, marketing, and production needed to help your book find the biggest audience it can. And we never lose sight of the fact that this is your book. We will communicate and consult with you every step of the way. Fair Pay Our contracts are written in the plainest language our lawyer would allow. Which is pretty...

Deadline: July 15th, 2018 Payment: $30 for stories under 3,000 words, $55 for those over 3,000 words Greetings from the Valley of Hinnom, With the amazing success of Hinnom Magazine during the year of 2017, we have decided to move onward with this publication and to make several big changes that will not only widen our reach to the darker side of literature, but will also benefit the authors. The issues will release bi-monthly, on the last day of every other month, starting in February 2018. We seek authors who have a unique voice, interesting writing styles, and unparalleled storytelling talents. We also encourage prospective authors to read one of our previous publications to get a feel of the atmosphere and themes we favor. We know a lot of publishers say this, but there is good reason for it. FICTION SUBMISSION DETAILS: Whereas last year’s issues of Hinnom Magazine were a bit more lenient, the 2018 volume is going to be much more specific in our themes since we have found our voice as a publication. Below, you will find the genres and subgenres that we adore. Again, if you read our previous releases, you will likely develop a solid understanding of what Hinnom Magazine represents in dark fiction. We are looking for stories that fit the themes of Weird Fiction and Cosmic Horror. Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy are all welcomed, as long as they fit in the realms of Weird and Cosmic. All stories must also be speculative in some way. What we mean by this is that we don’t want stories based in realism. While many great horror stories are plausible in modern reality, these stories are not for Hinnom Magazine. Thus, all horror MUST BE otherworldly or supernatural in some way. Science Fiction MUST BE dark and speculative. Fantasy MUST BE morally ambiguous and grim. Any combination of the above genres is fine. In fact, we encourage it. ...

Deadline: July 16th, 2018 Payment: Contributor's Copy Strange Stories publishes in both print and as a free E-Zine. The original design and purpose of the magazine was to fit it to the needs of new authors, however it has since grown to include all authors, regardless of experience. It’s a chance for you to show off your work, enjoy the publishing process, and collect a well-earned publishing credit. The magazine is published on our website as well as issuu.com (here: https://issuu.com/shotgunhorrorclips). And yes, it really is free to read! Strange Stories is accepting stories of suspense, including Horror, Science Fiction, and Mystery. The underlying theme here is stories that keep the reader in suspense and stories that are strange! Publish Date(s): 01 July 2018 (or 15 July 18, submission number depending) Submission Deadline: 16 July 2018 (Subject to change) If you’d like to submit to Strange Stories, please follow the guidelines below: Words: Between 500 and 4,500 words, firm. Payment: Contributor’s Copy (one print copy unless otherwise arranged). Content Restrictions: No rape, torture, erotica, or pure gross-out stories (in other words, we don’t want stories about the fierce struggle and conflict involved with the nasty business you completed in the bathroom this morning). No Fantasy or Romance (sorry!). Historical Fiction is okay, but remember that we’re not experts here. Tropes and Clichés are welcome as long as they are fun! Rights: We reserve the right to publish your story and maintain it for free on our website and on issuu.com (or another platform, should issuu become too expensive) – that said, the rights revert to you immediately upon publication. As a curtesy, we ask that you wait six weeks before publishing it elsewhere, but you are not bound by our ‘pretty-please’ request. Format: Please See Below! Email Guidelines: Include a brief bio (emphasis on brief) in the body of your email Attach Document –...

Deadline: July 18th, 2018 Payment: Contributor's Copy. Masquerade Anthology Call: Submission Period: May 18 - July 18​ Word Count:    500-10,500 (If over this, please ask before submitting). Theme:    For this anthology, we want stories centered around a masquerade. The stories themselves can feature any other elements, genres, or plots as long as a masquerade is featured as the main focus or setting. Is there a murder during the ball? Is a prince trying to discern the identity of that beautiful maiden across the room? Is there an evil plot to take over the kingdom or government while everyone is concealed behind a mask?  Response Time:  Please allow up to one month. After that, if you don't hear from us then feel free to give us a little nudge.   Payment: Contributor copy of the anthology.  Estimated Release Date:  Fall 2018  Reprints, Multiple & Simultaneous Submissions: Yes.  SEND A SEPARATE EMAIL FOR EACH SUBMISSION. MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS SENT IN ONE EMAIL MAY BE DISCARDED WITHOUT BEING READ. Guidelines for Submissions:   All submissions are to be sent to [email protected]. In the subject line please type MASQUERADE ANTHOLOGY SUBMISSION: . In the body of your email, please include your name, pen name and word count. If the story is under 2,000 words, please paste the text in the body of the email, otherwise please attach it.  We will list all published authors on our site. Once you have a story accepted for publication, we will post a little author bio up on our site with a list of all published pieces (published by FDM). Via: Fantasia Divinity.

Deadline: July 20th, 2018 Payment: $25 for shorts, $10 for poetry. READ EVERYTHING...TWICE Current Themes Being Accepted Until Midnight, 07/20/2018: Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer To the Victor go the Spoils History Repeats Itself Fight fire with fire We are all addicted to conflict, which is what makes our hands turn the page. We want you to start with a bang and end with the reader finally taking their next breath. We want your submission to have an impact. Take us away from the known world for a few minutes and make us forget what we are doing. The central idea for every submission should focus solely on one of the themes for that issue. Embrace the theme. Love the theme. Breathe the theme. Short Story/Fables (Pay is 25.00 for each piece accepted for publication): Gathering Storm Magazine (GSM) publishes fictional short stories of 2,000 words or less based on the themes for that issue; always an old saying, proverb, or maxim. If your story does not meet the theme for the respective issue, then it will be rejected. Most genres welcome (fantasy, horror, science fiction, steampunk, weird, Lovecraftian, sword & sorcery, etc.), the only rule being that it is new, original, weird, fun, scary, exciting, or another emotion that invokes something out of the reader. DO YOUR BEST TO CATCH OUR ATTENTION IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH. Poetry (Pay is 10.00 for each piece accepted for publication): Give us something good. Tell a story. Pull at our hearts. Make me turn the light on. Make us think. Poetry is a tough sell, so sell it well. Other Tidbits & Masterpieces: Everyone has something interesting hiding somewhere. If it doesn't match the guidelines above, but you still want the world to see it, we'd be happy to share...

Deadline: July 21st, 2018 Payment: Contributor's Copy. Greek Mythology Anthology Call: Submission Period: May 21 - July 21​ Word Count: 500-10,500 (If over this, please ask before submitting). Theme: For this anthology, we want stories based on tales from Greek myth. They can be inspired by stories of the gods or goddesses or of the great heroes. The stories can be imaginative retellings or an entirely new story featuring the gods or other characters from the myths. Response Time: Please allow up to one month. After that, if you don't hear from us then feel free to give us a little nudge. Payment: Contributor copy of the anthology. Estimated Release Date: Fall 2018 Reprints, Multiple & Simultaneous Submissions: Yes, although (unless otherwise stated), we generally will only accept one story per author for a given anthology. SEND A SEPARATE EMAIL FOR EACH SUBMISSION. MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS SENT IN ONE EMAIL MAY BE DISCARDED WITHOUT BEING READ. Guidelines for Submissions: All submissions are to be sent to [email protected]. In the subject line please type GREEK ANTHOLOGY SUBMISSION: . In the body of your email, please include your name, pen name and word count. If the story is under 2,000 words, please paste the text in the body of the email, otherwise please attach it. We will list all published authors on our site. Once you have a story accepted for publication, we will post a little author bio up on our site with a list of all published pieces (published by FDM). Via: Fantasia Divinity.

Deadline: July 25th, 2018 Payment: $5 and a contributor's copy Submissions now open! Looking for rock, metal, and punk-themed horror, sci-fi, pulp, and bizarro fiction submissions up to 2,500 words. Also interested in visual art submissions that are on theme, especially cover art. Accepted submissions receive $5 and a contributor copy. Email submissions to [email protected].

Deadline: July 27th, 2018 Payment: $0.02 per word via PayPal and a contributor's copy October: Skeletons, Slashers, and Succubi   Featured Author: TBA Submission Deadline: July 27, 2018 Sub-genres – Horror, suspense, supernatural We’re going back to the basics of classic Halloween horror stories. Monsters, witches, creepy crawlies, things that go bump in the night, and all things terrifying are what we’re seeking in this issue. Make our skin crawl with undead delight! Submission Guidelines Splickety fills gaps in the modern reader’s day with concise, poignant fiction under 1,000 words. We want stories that hit fast and strike hard––stories that, no matter the genre, can cut through the day’s troubles and grip readers with short attention spans. The most basic way to improve your chances of getting published with us is to adhere to the following submission guidelines: LENGTH: Your well-edited story should be between 300 and 1,000 words long and it should fit one of our scheduled Upcoming Themes. Each magazine will feature one Nano-fiction story of 100 words or less in our Nano Corner. If you can write a complete story in 100 or fewer words that fits with one of our magazine’s themes, send it to us. HINT: Due to design and layout restrictions, we can only publish a few stories longer than 700 words per issue. If you want to increase your chances of getting published with us, send us stories that are 700 words or less! In other words, we acquire for each issue approximately 12 stories, with the breakdown as follows: 701 – 1,000 word stories — 2-3 stories acquired 500 – 700 word stories — 8-10 stories acquired < 100 words — 1 story acquired FLASH FICTION RESOURCE & SAMPLE ISSUE: The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction is the...

Deadline: July 28th, 2018 Payment: Prose- $0.02/word, $0.01/word after 500 words., Poetry- $0.50/line, $0.25/line after 20 lines. Cross + Decay is now accepting work for Issue 2: (How To Survive In) The Woods. The deadline is May 28 2018. Submission Guidelines: Cross+Decay is a literary and art magazine, welcoming poetry, prose, and artwork. The work must adhere to the issue's theme, but it is up to the interpretation of the creator to decide what work best fits that theme and would be most relevant. Prose can be fiction or non-fiction, 500-1000 words (maximum 1000). Prose must be clearly formatted, and fully edited, including spell-checking and proper grammar. Previously published work is welcome, as long as rights have reverted back to the writer. Work exceeding 1000 words will automatically be rejected. Visual art can be of any medium, including photography and photographs of three-dimensional work. Work must be attached as .jpegs. Artists can submit their work with watermarks or as lower quality files, but the images must represent what the work would look like in print, and must be able to be sent as a high quality .jpeg if accepted (300 dpi, and at least 2000 pixels square). Creators are welcome to submit multiple works, but they must all be submitted at the same time, and within the same email. Payment: Accepted creators will be paid for their work. Prose- $0.02/word, $0.01/word after 500 words. Poetry- $0.50/line, $0.25/line after 20 lines. Artwork- $15/selected digital file. All creators will continue to have full rights to their work. Please email submissions to [email protected], with full name, a short bio, and information relevant to understanding the work (if needed). If you have any further questions, please send an email to the above address. Submissions close May 28 2018 at 11:59 PM MST. Late submissions...

Deadline: July 29th, 2018 Payment: 6 cents per word. We're excited to open for submissions to the first two of four anthologies set for publication in 2019: Haunted Houseand Cosy Crime. These will join a thriving list of Gothic Fantasy titles, including Supernatural Horror, Robots & Artificial Intelligence, Dystopia Utopia, and more. Again, we are looking for around twenty to thirty short stories by contemporary writers to complement a selection of classic tales in these anthologies. We are keen to encourage new writers, without prejudice to age, background or previous publication history. It’s the story that matters, and the quality of writing. Submit by email to [email protected] The New Volumes Haunted House: The creaking floorboards, the children hiding in the mirror, the spirits that rake across the flesh of the mind, tell us your stories of hauntings and mansions. Oh, what is that sound within the walls? Now accepting submissions for this anthology. Cosy Crime: The armchair detectives, the murder in the vicarage, the family secrets unravelling in gossipy ears, such are the ingredients of a genteel bloodbath in an otherwise delightful village. Do you have any stories that might fit? Now accepting submissions for this anthology. Formal Call for Submissions (2018) We are looking for new and recent short stories. We do not require exclusivity. You hold copyright, licensing us just for this publication. We don’t mind if your story has been previously published online or in print (though we do need to know publication and date). Simultaneous submissions are fine, but you must have the right to license your story in an anthology. Word length is most likely to be successful at 2000–4000, but we will still read stories slightly outside this range.  Submit stories for 'Haunted House' and 'Cosy Crime' by email to [email protected] Fees, Copyright and Other Terms We pay Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) rates of...

Deadline: July 30th, 2018. Payment: $5 for stories up to 1000 words, and $10 for any story 1001-2000 words. Note: Reprints allowed The 80s represented a time of commercial indulgence and general cultural insanity. It is the decade in which weird and gross became mainstream. Excess was the hallmark of Hollywood. Blockbusters, shoot-em-ups, futuristic dystopian wastelands, mutants and beastmen and cyborgs, and everything was covered in slime from gumball machines. It was a great time to be alive. It was an even greater time to be a kid. 80s in Blood aims destroy conventional nostalgia and publish fiction that takes the 80s beyond the 80s. We seek the 80s version of the 80s: how characters in an exaggerated 80s movie might have envisioned an idealized 80s. If you have seen The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, Brain Damage, Steel Dawn, Hard Ticket to Hawaii, The Sword and the Sorcerer, Hell Comes to Frogtown, Terror Vision, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Repo Man, Miami Connection, Howard the Duck, Big Trouble in Little China, and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and you thought, “These movies just weren’t ridiculous enough for me,” that’s what 80s in Blood is looking for. Stories that examine the day-glo New Wave experience, or the Satanic Panic heyday of Heavy Metal, or the robotic grooves of Electro, or universes built around idolizing Madonna and Prince. The Cold War. WWF Wrestling. The Drug War. Monster Trucks. Break Dancing. Saturday Morning Cartoons. Lawn Darts. Jelly Bracelets. Mr. T. Cabbage Patch Kids. Video Arcades. Skate Boarding. Anything 80s is totally fair game for these absurd, weird, and gonzo spoof-homages. DEADLINE: July 30, 2018. SUBMISSION Guidelines: We are seeking only the finest FLASH FICTION, PROSE-POEMS, or ABSURD ARTICLES 2000 words or less. If we receive a submission that is over 2000 words, we will not only delete the submission unread, we will also delete the author...

Deadline: July 30th, 2018 Payment: $5.00 Jersey Pines Ink is pleased to announce our first anthology, Crypt-Gnats: Horror you’ve been itching to read. It will be published as both a print and an e-book. Stories must be fiction and totally of your own creation. Stories should/could involve cemeteries or other forms of deceased placements including graveyards, mausoleums, cremations, mysterious disappearances, etc. Your imagination is the limit. Please heed these guidelines: Stories can be no longer than 3,000 words.  Flash is acceptable. Minimal graphic violence… very little gore… prefers suggested blood and guts to detailed.  No detailed rape scenes, or abuse to children. Standard manuscript format. We do not accept multiple, simultaneous or unsolicited reprint submissions. Submit doc, docx, and rtf only. Your name and contact information must be at the top of the first page of the story. Name, title, and page numbers should be in the top header on following pages. Manuscripts not following the guidelines will be deleted unread. Payment: $5.00 (PayPal). Submission window June 1 to July 30, 2018 Return time: Three months after the anthology closes, (October 31) Submit to: [email protected] This email address will become inactive July 31, 2018 Any changes or news will be listed at https://www.jerseypinesink.com Via: Jersey Pines Ink.

Deadline: July 31st, 2018 Payment: $1,000 for fiction or nonfiction. $250 for a poem, a group of short poems, or (the rare) short short. What We Publish LITMAG PRINT Fiction Short stories, novellas Nonfiction Creative nonfiction; essays on literature, art, culture, and music; biography, memoir Poetry No restrictions on style or form LITMAG ONLINE Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry Up to 4,000 words. LITMAG CONTESTS LitMag‘s Virginia Woolf Award for Short Fiction  First Prize: $3,500, publication, and agency review by Sobel Weber Associates (clients include: Viet Thanh Nguyen, Richard Russo, Laura Lee Smith). The contest is now closed. Winner and finalists will be announce on March 31, 2018.  Full contest guidelines will again be available again on Submittable when the next contest period opens. Full guidelines are also available on our blog. What We Look For  Work that moves and amazes us. We are drawn to big minds, large hearts, sharp pens Word Count Limits Print: 15,000 words Online: 4,000 words What to Send One story or essay at a time, up to five poems. Please wait until you have heard back from us before submitting again. Previously Unpublished We do not consider work that has previously been published either in print or online (including personal blogs etc.) What We Pay LitMag Print: Upon acceptance, we pay $1,000 for fiction or nonfiction; $250 for a poem, a group of short poems, or (the rare) short short LitMag Online: Upon acceptance, we pay $250 What We Acquire LitMag acquires First English-language print and electronic rights. Copyright reverts to the author upon publication. When to Submit Regular submissions: Fiction is open: 10/1/17 to 11/30/17; 2/1/18 to 7/31/18* Poetry is open:  9/1/17 to 11/30/17; 3/1/18 to 7/31/18 Nonfiction is open: 8/1/17 to 11/30/17; 1/1/18 to 5/31/18 LitMag Online is open: 9/1/17 to 11/30/17; 2/1/18 to 6/30/18 *There is a submission fee for fiction only. There will be a window of...

Deadline: July 31st, 2018 Payment: .03CAD per word and a contributor's copy There are folks for whom the question of whether Cthulhu has two eyes or six is a vitally important one. Individuals that believe, somehow, that a dinner of tinned spaghetti and ice cream with a reanimated H. P. Lovecraft would be the height of both culinary and intellectual pleasure. Scholars who feel that The Horror at Red Hook is a timely warning about, well, you know… those other people. Esteemed biographers of weird fiction luminaries who reveal their foaming insecurity at the changing of the guard, or the form of a literary award. Entities who dissolve with glee at the slapping of some tentacles on a meme, thus rendering it “Lovecraftian”. Yes, they’re out there, in their seeming thousands, trolling social media, fawning over the dead, podcasting their paranoia. Yes, they are slouching roughly towards Arkham and Providence and fabled Y’ha-nthlei, to dwell in fossilized canon and geeky glory, forever.   INNSMOUTHBREATHERS.   Martian Migraine Press announces an open call for submissions to our latest anthology project, INNSMOUTHBREATHERS: Cautionary Fables of Mythos Fandom! We are looking for humourous stories of a certain kind of Cthulhu Mythos fan: the rabid Lovecraft worshipper, the defender of the outmoded and outclassed, the pulp reader for whom Weird Fiction peaked somewhere in the middle of the last century. (The 20th, for those keeping track of such things!) We’re looking for tales that pit Innsmouthbreathers against all manner of real and imagined horrors: shoggoths with Social Justice agendas, politically active Deep Ones, enlightened Mi-Go, and Nick Mamatas*. Make them lovable, make them loathsome, make us feel their triumphs and defeats! Put us in their basements, their garrets, their comic shops and conventions and pop-culture covens, and put us in their Cthulhu parody t-shirts while you’re at it. Mmm, is that a...

Deadline: July 31st, 2018 Payment: $150.00 and 2 contributor's copies Life After All — an apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic/pastoral apocalyptic LGBTQIA+ anthology — The end of the world is a dark, bleak place. Life is full of grit, misery, and barely scraping by. But if humans excel at anything, it’s making the best of a bad situation, and the end of the world would be no different. Less Than Three Press invites you to submit stories about life after the end of the world being far from bleak and hopeless. We want to see stories of hardened apocalypse survivors building new lives and homes with their found families; gentle robots terraforming the ruined remains of the Earth; your post-Earth space settlers slice-of-life. THE DETAILS: Deadline is July 31, 2018. Put SUBMISSIONS: TITLE (where TITLE is your title) in the subject line. Stories should be at least 8000 words and should not exceed approx 15000 words in length. Stories must be about a post-apocalyptic society. Stories must have a happily ever after (HEA) or happy for now (HFN) end. Any sub-genre is gladly accepted: sci-fi, mystery, contemporary, steampunk, etc. LT3 always welcomes representation of all genders and nonbinary or agender characters. All usual LT3 submission guidelines apply. Life After All is a general release anthology, which means authors will receive a flat payment of $150.00 once LT3 has a signed contract. Examples: Enchanted Soles, To the Victor. Authors will receive one copy each of the ebook formats LT3 produces and two copies of the paperback compilation. Stories should be complete before submitting, and as edited as possible—do not submit a first draft. They can be submitted in any format (doc, docx, rtf, odt, etc) preferably single spaced in an easy to read font (Times, Calibri, Arial) with no special formatting (no elaborate section separation,...

Deadline: July 31st, 2018 Winner: $100 and the coveted Bloody Axe Award Note: This only has 1 winner which we usually wouldn't fit but these guys do a GREAT show. The submission window for Deathscribe 2018, the 11th Annual Festival of Horror Radio Plays, is NOW OPEN. Submissions are accepted through our online submission form until July 31st. Every year we seek 10-minute audio drama scripts that are genuinely scary, imaginative, chilling, intelligent, suspenseful, horrific or downright grotesque. Writers may submit up to two audio drama scripts to Deathscribe in any given year. Five scripts will be selected from all submissions. These five pieces will be performed on stage in front of a live audience. The writer of the winning piece, chosen by a celebrity panel of judges, will receive the coveted Bloody Axe Award, as well as a $100 cash prize. Click here to SUBMIT Guidelines: PDF format is strongly preferred. If PDF is not possible, then only MS Word please. All scripts must have a title page with all contact information, but NO identifying information should appear anywhere else in the document. Scripts must be no more than TEN MINUTES in length, and should follow audio drama format. An example of proper audio drama format can be found here: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/bbcradioscene.pdf The Deathscribe experience includes performing the pieces on stage with Foley artists and a band creating the sound effects and music live. Therefore, scripts must be ready to produce, including direction for sound and music cues. Sorry, but submissions cannot include usage of copyrighted music. Writers may submit up to two (2) scripts for Deathscribeconsideration in any year. NO SCREENPLAYS. SCREENPLAYS WILL BE DISCARDED. WE KNOW THEM WHEN WE SEE THEM. (Nothing against screenplays. But this is a radio play festival.) DO NOT submit full-length plays for consideration in Deathscribe. They will be discarded. If you wish to submit a full-length horror...

Deadline: July 31st, 2018 Payment: 6 cents per word for original work and 3 cents per word for reprints. Note: Reprints allowed We are looking for speculative stories--science fiction, fantasy, horror--with Christian themes, characters, or cosmology, and for artwork for this site. Fiction Guidelines Technical details Stories can be up to 8000 9000 words (thanks, Patreon supporters!). This is a hard limit--our submission system will enforce it. We pay 6 cents/word for original stories (or original translations of stories that have not previously appeared in English), and 3 cents/word for reprints. Authors are paid once we've agreed on edits and signed a contract, prior to earliest publication (generally on our Patreon page). We are seeking 6 months' exclusive worldwide publication rights for original works (with exceptions for established Best of the Year anthologies), and non-exclusive worldwide print and electronic rights thereafter for both original works and reprints. We want to publish your story online in our webzine and keep it there indefinitely. We're also acquiring the right to offer ebook versions of the stories we publish, as Patreon rewards or for purchase; and to publish a print and ebook anthology of all the stories that appeared in the webzine over a given 1- or 2-year period. For original fiction, we want to be the only place publishing it for the first 6 months; after that, you're welcome to publish it anywhere else in any format you like. No multiple or simultaneous submissions. Don't resubmit a story we've rejected unless we request revisions. However, if we rejected a story of yours for the Mysterion anthology, you can send it to us again, once, if we held your story for further consideration, or we rejected it with specific critiques of the story and you revised the story to address those critiques. (But if we've already rejected your story twice, it's probably not worth sending it to...

Deadline: July 31st, 2018 Payment: 8 cents per word NOTE: During past 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, preferably by just letting us know your submitting email address. David Steffen is the editor, who you may also know from using the Submission Grinder writing tool or reading the Long List Anthology series.   Last year Diabolical Plots became a SFWA-qualifying market, so if you have a personal goal to join SFWA, making a sale here would help you toward that goal.   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–the answer will be no. Pay rate: 8 cents per word (more than the minimum 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.  We understand we are tying up your story while you wait, and so we strive to respond as quickly as possible.  While each...

Deadline: July 31st, 2018 Payment: $25 Left Hand Publishers announces their new call for submissions for Mindscapes Unimagined and Mysteries Unimagined. Submissions open in early June, and close at the end of July. Do not submit before the submission date stated in the call (see below). Mindscapes Unimagined will focus on the supernatural, horror, fantasy, urban fantasy, and any speculative fiction. Mysteries Unimagined is much as it seems: spotlighting mysteries, thrillers, crime drama, and unanswered questions. All short stories submitted MUST have a twist toward the end that catches the reader off guard and surprises them with more than a touch of irony or shock. No simultaneous submissions, please. We ask that you do not submit a story to us and to another market at the same time. This has come up a number of times. It wastes your time and ours if we read, edit, review, and possibly accept your short story only to have it be accepted somewhere else at the same time. In order for our titles to be unique and original, we insist that all submissions be previously unpublished works and properly formatted. Please read and adhere to ALL the guidelines. Mindscapes & Mysteries Unimagined In our Call for Submissions for our anthologies we accept only short stories. Novels, novellas, and short story collections (as an entire book) should be submitted to https://lefthandpublishers.com/open-call-for-submissions/. We will review your submission and contact you on the viability of Left Hand Publishers accepting it to be published. Please use this form to submit your manuscript. If you do not receive a receipt of your submission within 72 hours, please email us at [email protected] to confirm that we have received your document. WIN A FREE AUTHOR WEBSITE Submitting your story automatically registers you in our Register To Win contest where you could win a FREE author website (some restrictions apply). It does NOT register you in our Win A Free Kindle contest. In...

Deadline: July 31st, 2018 Payment: 1.5 cents/word with a minimum payment of $30 Submission Guidelines:  New Myths will no longer consider submissions of fiction, nonfiction and poetry outside of specific reading periods. These periods run from June 1-July 31 and from January 1-February 28. Artwork, requests for book reviews, and other correspondence can still be submitted at any time.   No Multiple Fiction Submissions Please do not send more than one fiction submission at a time. Wait until you receive an answer before sending a second story. No more than three fiction submissions total from any one author will be considered during a given reading period.    Poetry is different. See below. Contact information:   Please send fiction, nonfiction and poetry to [email protected].   Please send queries for book reviews to [email protected]   All other correspondence, including art submissions, to [email protected] NewMyths.com publishes speculative fiction of every stripe except graphic horror. We like each issue to have an eclectic variety of stories:  funny, frightening, hard and soft sci-fi, adventure, thoughtful, etc. Every issue includes at least one nonfiction piece dealing with some aspect of science, myth, folklore, or literature as it relates to speculative fiction, usually of the well-researched essay variety rather than opinion or editorial. Speculative poetry is welcome. We tend to receive a lot of free verse and not enough "form" poetry. We also buy one piece of artwork per issue, and occasionally commission one. We publish book reviews of recent releases about every two weeks. If you have written a review, or have a book coming out soon, please contact us. Reading an issue is the best way to know if your submission is a fit for NewMyths.com or not. Responses take 60-90 days on average. Feel free to send a follow-up query after that point. Submissions...

Deadline: August 1st, 2018 Payment: $5 for flash fiction and $10 to $20 (depending on length) for short stories Issue #11: A is for Aliens, Apocalypse and Armageddon  (Fall/Winter 2018) Alien abduction, human experimentation and assault by anal probe. Deadly deep space. Invasive artificial intelligence. Invaders from Mars, extraterrestrial beings and big-eyed, naked Greys. It's the end the world as we know it, and we do not feel fine. ​          A note from the editors: we're looking for boundary-trampling, genre-splicing stories here. Skip the standard brain-eaters and ho-hum zombies. Give us something different, something much, much worse. Submission deadline: 8/01/2018 We are not afraid." Body Parts Magazine is an online literary magazine of horror, erotica, speculative fiction, essays and art. Each themed issue honors Eros and Thanatos, the Greek gods of libido and mortido—life and death. We celebrate the vast and various expressions of dreams and darkness, our primitive desires and urges, and seek to encounter—and embrace—those shadowy monsters who dwell in the dimly lit corners of human experience.  Upcoming Themes Submissions for each issue are accepted through the last day of each reading period (if specified). You are welcome to submit material for any issue, simply indicate which issue you would like your work to be considered for. Be advised: we generally begin reading submissions for ​a particular issue after the close of its submission deadline, so don't panic if you haven't heard back before then. Body Parts accepts well-written, thoughtfully structured horror, erotic horror, speculative fiction, dark fantasy (including fairy tales and mythology), exceptional stories about ghosts, ghouls, monsters and wretched creatures, Gothic fiction, and all combinations of the above. Our boundaries are few and far between. Before you submit, please note that: We no longer accept reprints. Emails with attachments and stories submitted after the deadline will be deleted unread.  Fiction Flash Fiction: 1,000 words or fewer. Short Stories: up to 8,000 words. Serialized or Longer...

Deadline: August 1st, 2018 Payment: $25.00 - $50.00 for fiction, $5.00 - $10.00 for poetry Fall: The window was open just enough to let in the cool night air. Due date: August 1, 2018 We love the fact that writers around the world are inspired by our first lines, and we know that not every story will be sent to us. However, we ask that you do not submit stories starting with our first lines to other journals (or post them online on public sites) until we've notified you as to our decision (usually two to three weeks after the deadline). When the entire premise of the publication revolves around one sentence, we don't want it to look as if we stole that sentence from another writer. If you have questions, feel free to drop us a line. (Also, we understand that writers may add our first line to a story they are currently working on or have already completed, and that's cool. But please do not add our first line to a previously published story and submit it to us. We do not accept previously published stories, even if they have been repurposed for our first lines.) One more thing while I've got you here: Writers compete against one another for magazine space, so, technically, every literary magazine is running a contest. There are, however, literary magazines that run traditional contests, where they charge entry fees and rank the winners. We do not - nor will we ever - charge a submission fee, nor do we rank our stories in order of importance. Occasionally, we run contests to help come up with new first lines, or we run fun, gimmicky competitions for free stuff, but the actual journal is not a contest in the traditional sense. Fiction: All stories must be...

Deadline: August 1st, 2018 Payment: £10 per 1,000 words for prose, and £10 per poem. Note: Reprints Allowed Blood Bath Litzine is open for submissions of short fiction and poetry on the theme of BODIES Bodies are sites of terror and desire; they can be politicised, policed and possessed, becoming either a haven of pleasure or a hellish prison of flesh. We want to read your weirdest, most innovative stories on BODIES. THIS COULD BE: Body horror; Gory existential dread. We want to feel uncomfortable inside; give us stories that leave a dark, greasy mark on your soul. The body politic; oppressive control over bodies. Ideas surrounding body autonomy, dystopian regimes, AI and robotics, all welcome. The creepier the better. Changing bodies; Violent possessions, Weird transformations. If it involves dentata or an unexpected hunger for flesh, send it our way. Body snatchers, visceral displays, personal hauntings; we’re into it. Just to be clear these are not chapters or subheadings, just some ideas to get you going. We’re open to any and all types of horror, dark fantasy, speculative or science fiction, so don’t hold back. WE LOVE: Experimental poetry or prose; we’ll do our best to print your original language or innovative typography. Socially aware fiction. Stories that have something to say (or scream) about the modern world. Stories told through a feminist lens are always going to make us happy. We particularly encourage submissions from people of colour, trans people, nonbinary people, women, femmes and other members of the LGBTQ community. Genre fiction; though it has to contain an element of horror. We are interested in fantasy, science-fiction, erotica…as long as it has a dark edge. For a more visual representation of what we love, check out our Instagram page, @bloodbathlitzine. WE DON’T LOVE: Exploitative or otherwise offensive portrayals of harmful...

Deadline: August 1st, 2018 Payment: $50 Old Sins, a (very) small publishing cooperative, is soliciting for the following mixed-genre anthology. We are following up the Beyond Steampunk anthology with its sequel, Beyond Steampunk: Fake News. Real conspiracies are everywhere in history, from failures like the Gunpowder Plot to the successful Gulf of Tonkin incident to the variously successful Russian attempts to infiltrate multiple governments. Let’s not write about those. Let’s write about conspiracies that have been debunked thoroughly but do so through the lens of Alternate History, where they have actually happened. Let’s write about the second shooter, chemtrails, the Illuminati, Lizard People, Greys, the Loch Ness monster, Pope Joan, Templars worshipping Satan, and so many other rumored conspiracies throughout history as if they were real. In keeping with theme of Beyond Steampunk, no stories will be accepted if they are set in the British Isles during the Victorian era or are steampunk. Nor will we be accepting stories set during World War II as those have been done to death. Technical issues: We will be paying a flat rate of $50. We are looking for works between 1000 and 6000 words. The due date is August 1st. The earlier, the more time we have to consider it and offer suggestions. We will be publishing roughly a dozen works, depending on the total length of all of them. If this is successful, or we get enough good submissions, we will be creating another volume of this anthology. All works must be PG-13 or less. Authors will retain all copyright to their works and will be able to resell or reuse them. We only retain distribution rights for said works for the duration of the publication of this volume. Contact us at [email protected] or via our facebook page, com/oldsins/

Deadline: August 1st, 2018 Payment: $25 We’re all grown up right? Or are we? Do things in the night still make you wanna cry to mama? Well you can’t anymore, she doesn’t live here. Time to face your demons, man or woman. Mama ain’t here, but all she ever wanted was to hear your laughter, and to know you’re safe. You’re not safe. It’s just you now. But you won’t let mama down, right? Did mama tell you if you did that thing with your face it would freeze that way? Or that pop rocks and cola would make your stomach explode? Give us your funniest, grossed out horrors about the things and creatures you were warned about by your mama, God rest her soul (if applicable, of course). We want stories that tread that line between cringe worthy and shudder filled, tales that will make you laugh uncomfortably while being genuinely terrified. If you can strike that balance, we want your story. Your story must include a reference to Mama, or it won't fit the anthology theme. Diversity and Inclusiveness: Yes, we want stories from all sectors, from all kinds of people! We encourage submissions from women, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community. We seek to include writers from all walks of life who have a scary/funny story to tell. The Details: Please see our generic submission guidelines page for how to submit. Submission Period: May 27, 2018 to August 1, 2018 Reading Period: August 2, 2018 to December 31, 2018 Author Payment: $25 per accepted story. Via: Jolly Horror.

Deadline: August 1st, 2018.  Payment: $10.00 per 1000/w (to a max of $100). No Reprints allowed. We are seeking short stories based on our ongoing cryptozoology comic series "Beastly". These will be prequels, and explain how the various cryptids came to be captured. You can check out the comic at https://tapas.io/series/Beastly Your work has to include at least one of the two main characters (Graeme and / or Mr. Rutherford) in some capacity. Other than that, you are free to chose from most Cryptids (although if unsure just get in touch), and kill off who you please! Submission Information: Copyright to be included, but you will have the right to use as part of your CV / writing samples. Simultaneous submissions: okay. Multiple submissions: okay. Submission window: Now through August 1. Payment: If selected, rate of $10.00 per 1000/w (to a max of $100). Accepted lengths: anything (but noting the maximum payment of $100). Send your submissions or queries by e-mail to: dannyrichardwriter @ hotmail.com

Deadline: August 1st, 2018 Payment: Royalty Split Stories: You keep copyright and all rights associated with the story. You give Millhaven Press first North American print rights, and permission to use the story in any anthology stemming from the original printing (such as a “best of” type anthology). Stories should be between 2,000-8,000 words (we may accept something shorter than 2,000 words or something longer than 8,000 but it has to be phenomenal). Do not submit a story for reprint. We are only interested in previously unpublished material (a story published on a personal blog is ok). No simultaneous submissions. Please do not submit the story to another outlet while waiting for a response from us. Multiple submissions are ok, but we will only print one story per author, per issue. If you aren’t sure which is your best, send more than one and we’ll decide. Use an easily readable font, double-space as .doc or .docx. Send as an e-mail attachment to [email protected]. Send a cover letter with contact information. Use story title, genre and approximate word count in the subject header of the e-mail. This is a quarterly print publication and the deadlines for the genre themes are as follows. Spring: Science Fiction/Fantasy (Submission Deadline 2/1/19) Summer: Mystery/Crime/Espionage (Submission Deadline 5/1/19) Autumn: Horror/Dark Fantasy (Submission Deadline 8/1/18) Winter: Action/Adventure/Western (Submission Deadline 11/1/18) We realize a lot of stories cross genres (the best usually do). Submit your story with all possible genres in the subject and we’ll sort it out. Not all submitted stories will be published. Stories are chosen solely by the publishers. We will read all submissions and respond with an acceptance or rejection letter via e-mail (Generally, within 2 weeks). If accepted, a standard royalty contract will be sent shortly after the closing submission deadline for that...

Deadline: August 1st, 2018 Payment: Royalties Note 1: Canadians only! Note 2: My apologies for the short window, was just notified of this one! Open for submissions from April 1, 2018 – August 1, 2018   SUMMARY Canadian Dreadful will be a collection of short stories between 2,500 and 10,000 words, each one set in one of the provinces or territories of Canada. We are looking for horror stories written by Canadians that employ elements of dark fantasy or magical realism. We welcome new authors and well experienced authors. Dark Fantasy combines fantasy and horror and creates a suspenseful, dread-inducing mood for the reader. A movie like “Pan’s Labyrinth” is an excellent example of this genre. You are welcome to utilize the darker elements of fantasy just as long as the story takes place the real world, not a mythical one. Magical Realism or “The Unreliable Narrator” is a style of fiction where magical, fantastical, or supernatural elements are brought into the “real world” of the story—and by the end of it, your reader will have to decide whether or not the magical events actually took place or not. Is the narrator crazy, telling the truth, or deliberately lying? Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” is an example of this. So are the novels (and movies) “The Life of Pi” by Yann Martel and “Bridge to Terabithia” by Katherine Paterson. Another movie that employs magical realism is “Big Fish”, directed by Tim Burton. Tell us a horror story that leaves the reader questioning whether or not the narrator was reliable. Leave “clues” for the reader to interpret as either confirmations or negations of the narrative. And most of all, let your reader feel a weighing sense of dread from the first to the last page. Another goal for this anthology...

Deadline: August 5th, 2018 Payment: First place: $120 | Second place: $80 | Third place: $40 3-IN-1 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 3 Themes—1 Submission Period PRIZES PER THEME: First place: $120 | Second place: $80 | Third place: $40  SUBMISSION PERIOD: July 1, 2018–August 5, 2018 4,000 to 8,000 words, with three winners selected from each theme. NO REPRINTS. The winners of each call will be published in the ASTERISK ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 2 releasing on Halloween 2018. THEMES: Southern Gothic Southern Gothic wallows like a feral hog in the ambiance of the Gothic macabre, fused with the dark underbelly of the American South. With its lingering themes of insanity, desperation and decay, the Southern Gothic exhumes the pervasive specters of bygone rituals and pervasive racial obsessions of the South in lushly lyrical fashion. Nosetouch Press welcomes original short stories of the Southern Gothic, and encourages writers to expand its frontiers, while embracing its terrifying traditions. Email entries to [email protected] | .doc or .rtf format • Please state “AA2-Southern Gothic” in your subject line. One entry per category, per person. ————————–————————–——– CREATURE FEATURES Monsters have always enticed people. They can embody larger than life, elemental forces that threaten the everyday, established order of nature, itself. The aberrant nature of monstrosity communicates a fundamental wrongness or evil. Nosetouch Press wants writers to summon unforgettable creatures in their stories, unique monsters that shake the ground and make waves, bringing terror wherever they go. Email entries to [email protected] | .doc or .rtf format • Please state “AA2-Creature Features” in your subject line. One entry per category, per person. ————————–————————–——– Cursed Things The history of cursed things—objects and places—is an ancient one. The supernatural threat implied in curses carries a special kind of narrative weight that can terrify and haunt anyone who encounters them. Nosetouch Press...