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Deadline: September 29th, 2025 Payment: 8 cents per word, 2 cents per word for reprints Theme: Action/adventure, general, fiction/narrative nonfiction, humor/comedy/satire, speculate (fantasy, sci fi, horror, magic realism, cyberpunk), memoir, western, romance, alternate history, suspense/thriller, mystery/crime, literary, and any cross/hybrid genres. Note: Reprints Welcome Submissions to our magazine run annually from February 2nd through September 29th Why submit to us? - WE PAY WRITERS FAIRLY. It’s hard work writing good stories, and you deserve to get paid. Or maybe you don’t and you’re just duping us? Regardless, we pay 8 cents a word (with a $500 cap), and 2 cents a word for reprints. - NO SUBMISSION FEES. Nobody's getting rich off $3 per submission, but paying money just for the privilege of receiving a form letter rejection is the worst. (Costs of running an E-zine aside) We’re going to go ahead and coin a phrase right here and now - ‘Write privilege’, get it? Of course, you do. - GET YOUR WORK IN FRONT OF A LARGE AND GROWING AUDIENCE. Our aim is fixed on telling good stories, period, and because of that we have built a massive readership from all over the globe. Want to get your stories out to more than just dear old nana? Then you've come to the right place. - REASONABLE TURN-AROUND TIME. If you haven't heard from us within 90 days, then your story was rejected. Rejections stink - we get it - but its better than forever waiting and wondering. - WORKABILITY. Is that the right term? Well, we're going with it. Unlike large publishers who view authors as just a number, we actually work with you to help present the story in its best possible light. We do, however, expect reciprocity; Story Unlikely is comprised of volunteers who are by nature team players. If you're an inflexible my way or the highway type - or...

Deadline: September 30th, 2025 Payment: Prose and poetry: 5$ + 1c/word over 500 (up to 5k) words + .2c/word over 5k words, Graphic Narrative Fiction: 5$/page, Reprints of any category: Half of above, Cover Illustration: $100 Theme: Stories about the future which feature non-traditional families Submissions are open for Home Constellations: A sci-fi anthology of unconventional bonds (working title) from Manawaker Studio, edited by CB Droege. Home Constellations is an anthology focused on stories about the future which feature non-traditional families. This volume will contain stories and poetry. THEME Submitted works should be of any genre, as long as the work depicts a world that is noticeably in the future. Hard and Soft Sci-fi, (Post-)apocalyptic, Solarpunk, Slipstream, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Alternate (future) History, Supernatural, Retro-futurism etc. are all fine names for genres that often take place in the future, but your story doesn’t have to fit into one of those. In fact, if it manages to miss all of those labels, we may be even more interested to see it (unless it thus falls into what we specifically don’t want (see next paragraph)). All works must also prominently feature a relationship or family structure which might be considered unconventional. The story doesn’t have to be about the relationship. The adventure or challenge of the story can be anything, but some prominent characters should be in a chosen family. We’re particularly looking for stories with healthy polyam relationships, but want to also include other queer structures. Send us a story of a stable triad struggling to raise their son in a Martian colony dome. Show us a gay couple exploring alien ruins. Tell us about the escaped assassin-bot and the genetically engineered hypercat who find a baby on their doorstep. Whatever else the story is about, we want it to show that each person gets to decide for...

Deadline: October 31st, 2025 Payment: .02¢ per word Theme: Tiny Terrors is our short fiction program for when a novel just won’t do. Just a short shocking scream to keep you awake at night … Tiny Terrors is our short fiction program for when a novel just won’t do. Just a short shocking scream to keep you awake at night … Graveside Press is again looking for submissions for our Tiny Terrors short fiction program. Open for Submissions : February 1, 2025 through October 31, 2025 Expected Publication : throughout 2026 Submissions Requirements Stories with approximately 2,000 – 12,000 words will be considered for our Tiny Terrors anthologies. Stories with approximately 5,000 – 15,000 words will be considered for our Tiny Terrors standalone stories. For stories longer than 15,000 words, please submit your manuscript to our General Call for Submissions. Pay rate: anthology stories: .02¢ per word remitted 90 business days after publication standalones: 50% royalties of net earnings paid quarterly 2025 TT submissions will be looking at a 2026 publication date. Via: Graveside Press.

Deadline: October 31st, 2025 Payment: $5 and a contributor copy if it goes to print Theme: Horror and almost all it contains! Details below What We Want: We are seeking 500 to 2000 word articles to post on our website. You can send one already completed or send us a proposal. The articles should be about something horror related including, but not limited to, such things as a horror movie review or discussion, a horror product or toy review or discussion, any musings on the horror genre you want to discuss or comment on, any nonfiction article related to the horror genre, horror flash fiction or poetry, and anything that would be considered an article in the horror genre that is entertaining. You could write an article on how bad the newest horror movie was. You could write a short history or analysis of an historical event, production, or person in the horror genre. You could write a philosophical analysis of the treatment of children, plants, or hats in horror movies. We’ll even post creepy flash fiction or poetry. You can write almost anything at all as long as it’s got an element of horror and it’s creative and fun. You can send art with the article for posting as well if you have accompanying artwork. All blogs posted on Burial Books website may be compiled into a book annually called The Blogs of Burial Books. So, you must be cool with this. What We Don’t Want: No porn. No book reviews since we don’t want to hurt any author’s feelings or give them too much praise and make them think they’re God. Absolutely no AI artwork or AI written articles, only humans can be published here. Word Count: Anything at least 500 words and not over 2500 words we...

Deadline: October 31st, 2025 Payment: One time payment and royalties Theme: Horror What we Want: Good horror novels at least 60,000 words. No fantasy, or science fiction. What we Don’t Want: We don’t want porn. No poetry. We don’t want pure romance stories, but of course you can have romance in the story (You know what we mean). If you don’t have a clue, then just send it anyway. Payment: Authors shall receive a one time payment and a percentage of royalties from the book. Deadline: October 31, 2025. Rules and Guidelines: Novel submissions must be over 60,000 words or we will not read it. Also, only one submission per author. If we want more than one submission from you, we will reach out to you and ask. How to Submit: Email submissions to [email protected] with the following: 1) Name, Word Count of Your Novel, and whether it’s been published before; 2) The first twenty (20) pages of your manuscript attached in Microsoft Word (if you send the entire manuscript we will only read the first 20 pages); and 3) A Query Letter attached in Microsoft Word (here is a link to How to Write a Query Letter) OR if no Query Letter then please include the following in the body of the email: a) 1-3 paragraphs about your book telling us at least what it’s about including a little detail about the plot (a short synopsis is fine too); and b) your Author Bio (tell us about yourself and what you’ve had published. Please include a link to your website or a social media profile). We try to reply within 4 to 6 weeks. Please put EXACTLY the following in the subject line: ATTN: HORROR NOVEL. Via: Burial Books.