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Deadline: June 1st, 2025 Payment: 2 cents per word for fiction, 3 words per word for poetry Theme: The history and power of Memento Mori artifacts or relics Memento Mori Ink Magazine, in collaboration with Crystal Lake Publishing has issued an open call for submissions to our 2026 anthology. In this collection, we explore the power of Memento Mori artifacts or relics. We want ancient objects or seemingly mundane items which have the power to whisper to those who possess them. We are looking for character-driven stories with a focus on the history and source of power behind their chosen object which must be tied to the afterlife, the passage of time, or the thin veil separating the living from the dead. As these objects reveal their secrets, characters must confront their deepest fears and the inevitable reality of their own mortality. Submission Guidelines: Short Stories: 3,000–5,000 words Poetry: 250–1,500 words (accepting three poetry pieces for this anthology) Compensation: Short Stories: $0.02 per word Poetry: $0.03 per word Important Details: •Deadline: June 1, 2025 •No reprints or simultaneous submissions •Email and word count at the top of your document •Payment via PayPal or Zelle upon acceptance; please include preferred payment method and details under your email •Submit a 100-word bio and a black-and-white photo •No AI-generated content; originality is essential Acceptance letters will go out approximately September 1, 2025 but we reserve the right to move this date. Submit here: https://form.jotform.com/243066993006055 Via: Memento Mori Ink Magazine's Facebook.

Deadline: June 1st, 2025 Payment: 15GBP Theme: Eldritch (Vol 110) ELDRITCH, 1st June 2025 Peel back the curtain of reality and reveal the ultimate indifference and the horror of the infinite beyond. If you think you’ve got what it takes to terrify, scar and haunt our audience of 10,000 daily listeners, then we want your stories! If accepted, we'll get our fantastic narration team to lend their voices, our editor will sprinkle some magic pixie dust on the track, and you could have your story heard by thousands of listeners each week. *** WHEN WILL I HEAR IF MY STORY HAS BEEN ACCEPTED OR NOT? We carefully review every single submission that comes through our door. If you’ve submitted a story to us, please be patient. We WILL let you know if your submission has or hasn’t been successful. Having said that, if you haven’t heard anything up to twelve weeks after the deadline has passed, feel free to ping us an email to check in on it. Submission Guidelines • Stories must be 2,000 (10% tolerance +/-) • Save stories in a Word document - Times New Roman font, size 12 • Include a 1-2 sentence log line for your story at the end of the document • Ensure that your name and an email address are somewhere on the document • Stories must fit an upcoming theme • By submitting your story to us, you are confirming that you are the original creator of the story • We will consider entrants whose work has been entered and published elsewhere, however please ensure you state where and when your story has been used elsewhere on the document • You will be allowed to place one call-to-action for your own work at the end of the episode. Be sure to...

Submission Window: April 15th - June 1st, 2025 Payment: 40% royalties for net eBook sales with a chance to increase to 50% should a specific threshold of sales be met. Theme: Novels and novellas in dark fiction, horror, dark romance, and horror romance. Publishing Opportunities for 2026 We are happy to announce that our focus for 2026 is to highlight the voices of underrepresented Canadian authors. We are seeking submissions from Canadian authors who identify as BIPOC, 2SLGBTQIA+, or are from marginalized communities. We are seeking two novels or novellas in the genres of dark fiction, dark romance, horror romance, or horror, to be published in the latter half of 2026. If you are a Canadian author with a unique story to tell, we encourage you to submit your work for consideration. Let's bring your voices to the forefront of the literary world. Our submission window will be from April 15 - June 1. We are seeking completed manuscripts. Eerie River Publishing only publishes a handful of novels a year. Regrettably, this means we will have to pass on some fantastic writing. We wish we could publish them all but the truth is we wouldn't be able to put the resources needed behind each project to make them a success. And that is what we are here to do. We are an inclusive company that accepts submission from anyone regardless of race, gender or sexuality. We accept agented and non-agented submissions during our submission window. What are we looking for?IN DARK FICTION ​​ We are seeking high-quality, novel and novellas in dark fiction, horror, dark romance,  and horror romance.  ​ We want unique, well-crafted stories with compelling plots, terrifying twists, and entertaining characters, for mature audiences. Give us your grim, heart-wrenching twist. The perfect story would balance the light and...

Submission Window: May 1st - June 1st, 2025 Payment: $5 Theme: Poetry or short fiction about the Gods and Goddesses and heroes of the world’s many Pagan/polytheist traditions that somehow features Music Summer Solstice 2025: Music. Submission Period: 1 May through 1 June 2025. Jazz and blues. Rock and opera. Ballads and filk songs. Music has been an integral element of human creativity and culture since we first learned to carve holes into bones. Send us your best poems, short stories, and essays about music — in all its forms — from a Pagan/polytheist, witchy, and mythological point of view. Send us poems about the duel between Apollo and Marsyas, Bragi wooing Idun, and Pan stalking a poacher with madness-inducing pipe music. Send us short stories about a desperate musician making a crossroads deal with Dionysus, a composer praying to Hymen for inspiration, an archaeologist uncovering a temple and sacred instruments of Kothar-wa-Khasis. Send us essays about Väinämöinen as archetypal musician, Mozart’s opera Apollo et Hyacinthus, and the rise of the modern Pagan music scene. What is Eternal Haunted Summer? EHS is an ezine dedicated to 1) original poetry and 2) short fiction about the Gods and Goddesses and heroes of the world’s many Pagan/polytheist traditions. We feature 3) reviews of books, graphic novels, academic journals, magazines, movies, plays, and so forth which have a Pagan focus, or which otherwise might interest our Pagan readership. And 4) interviews with established and new Pagan authors, or authors of texts that interest a Pagan audience. And finally, 5) essays concerning the Gods, Goddesses, heroes, myths and folklore of the world. What do we mean by “original?” The submission must not have been previously published in hardcopy, or on another ezine, or website, or blog. Since people often discuss their writing on email lists and messageboards,...

Deadline: June 1st, 2025 Payment: $5 for poetry sets (up to 5 pages), $10 for flash fiction (up to 1000 words), $25 for fiction stories up to 5000 words, +$2/1000 words for over 5000 for fictions stories up to 10,000 words Theme: Canadian authors telling stories about community: finding it, building it, maintaining it, being expelled from it. SF and F are called out as acceptable, no word on H so probably a hard sell This anthology’s theme is “It Takes a Village” – I’m looking for stories about community: finding it, building it, maintaining it, being expelled from it. How do we build our villages as adults? How do we grow connections with those around us? What do we do when we’ve lost them? We’ve heard the phrase “It takes a village to raise a child” but also “The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.” How do we tackle these emotions as adults? As this is a bit trickier of an anthology theme than the last one, the reading period is going to be much longer, and the final evolution of the anthology’s theme will come from what the overarching theme and tone from the submitted and accepted pieces create. What I am looking for: Poems, flash fiction, short stories, science fiction, fantasy, romance, literary, contemporary, and more. We want a wide variety of fictional stories! Works from Canadian writers/authors only, with some preference for writers from British Columbia. Special consideration/interest for writers who are Former Foster Youth or Adopted Flash Fiction up to 1000 words Short Stories up to 10000 words – very limited spots for over 5000-word stories Poetry sets of up to 5 pages Polished works – please don’t send your first draft. Make sure to...

Deadline: June 1st, 2025 Payment: 1 cent per word or a flat $10 for reprints Theme: A story with a choice being made is central to the entire plot of the tale Note: Reprints welcome Behind the Revolving Door, an Anthology of Choices is the fifth anthology from Celestial Echo Press. The theme is the choices we make. Each of us makes a multitude of choices daily, some minor and some with major consequences. Do you or don’t you wear your lucky shirt to the sports event? What do you think the consequences would be if you didn’t wear your lucky shirt? This anthology will be a collection of stories that take the reader on a journey with the author’s protagonist as they go through a trial and are forced to take an action, to make a choice. For example, does the character find a wallet on the ground? Do they open it? Return it to the owner, or keep it? What are the consequences? Do they encounter a second choice, thus going back through the revolving door? Do they find classified information, implicating a family member in a coup? What do they do with it? Is the character hiking through the woods only to find a portal, not knowing where it will take them if they enter? What happens? Is it so bad that they try to return, hence going through the revolving door? There are many, many ways this theme can be interpreted. We believe authors can give us a great story by fleshing out the characters and plot. We’re asking for a minimum of 500 words, maximum 4,000 words. The revolving door on the cover will not be required in the story. If a door and/or a revolving door is in the story, that will be a...

Deadline for pitches: June 1st, 2025 Deadline for accepted pieces: July 1st, 2025 Payment: $10 + Contributor Copy Theme: Televangelism Horror Themes: Religious horror surrounding gospel of prosperity and televangelism Smitten Land is a queer religious horror literary magazine. Issue 3 revolves around themes of televangelism and gospel of prosperity. We are accepting pitches for fiction, poetry, and book reviews for books revolving around our theme. We are also accepting journalistic / nonfiction pitches from voices who have had experiences with real life churches who preached prosperity gospel. Please submit a 200 word pitch to [email protected] with the subject line TELEVANGELISM PITCH - - . In the body of the email, please include your projected wordcount. Please do not inquire about the status of your submission until the reading period has closed. Deadline for pitches: June 1st, 2025 Deadline for accepted pieces: July 1st, 2025 Payment: $10 + Contributor Copy Via: The Laughing Man House.

Submission Window: June 1st - 2nd, 2025 Payment: 8 cents per word for original, 2 cents for reprints, For artwork: $10 for the non-exclusive right to use each image, for as long as the site is online.  If we publish a print collection we will pay a pro-rata share for each image used. Theme: Well written original work in science fiction, fantasy, myth, legend, fairy tales, and eldritch, in written, podcast, video, and/or graphic story form, and from around the world. Note: Reprints welcome     Submissions Schedule The first and second day of every month, 12 am of the 1st to 12 am of the 3rd, E.S.T. For reading impaired individuals, our submissions manager and ‘forget password’ have a captcha compatible with screen readers. We pay 8¢ per word for new fiction, 2¢ per word for fiction reprints, 2 – 8¢ per word for new fact-based work, 1- 4¢ per word for reprinted fact articles. For new poetry, we pay $1 per line, and for reprints we pay 50¢ a line  We’re looking for poems up to 40 lines. We’ll consider longer poems but that would be a hard sell, and words over 40 lines would be paid at 8¢ per word. We sponsor The Kepler Award to recognize and encourage writers of excellent science fiction and fantasy stories that creatively extrapolate on known science in constructive and exciting ways. You can learn aboutThe Kepler Award here. You can read a copy of our standard contract here.   It can be varied as needed to include the rights of translators, voice actors, etc. Writers Guidelines We accept new work as well as reprints, prose and poetry, from a minimum of 1000 words on up.   All else being equal, shorter pieces will be favored, and we have yet to find a story over about 9-10,000 words we...

Deadline: June 6th, 2025 Payment: 1000-3000 words = $20, 3000-5000 words = $30, 5000-7000 words = $40 Theme: Horrifying holiday travel NEW publisher ROF Publishing House is seeking ooky and spooky, thrilling and chilling holiday travel nightmares for a themed short story collection: SEASON’S GRIEVINGS: Holiday Travel Stories Gone Wrong Missing your flight is scary. So is sleeping in your childhood bedroom with cousins you can’t remember. Are your old band posters talking to you, or is that the ghost of Chanukah’s past? Please send us your horror, thriller, and suspense stories (1,000-7,000 words) about holiday travel. We are interested in publishing stories set around a variety of cultural holidays and traditions. Take us into the mind of a sinister flight attendant on Christmas Eve. Show us the monsters who stalked ancient Winter Solstice festivalgoers. Place us in the middle of a serial killer’s game while on a seniors-only cruise. Give us psychological terror while frying latkes in Grandma’s kitchen. Dazzle us with bonfires and fireworks and arson on New Year’s Eve. Call is open May 6, 2025 to June 6, 2025 Submit stories by clicking this link: Submissions Link Submissions should be Word documents in Shunn Manuscript Format We are not interested in stories that perpetuate stereotypes of gender, race, religion, nationality, ability, or sexuality or that minimize or glorify abuse, violence, or colonialism, including Zionism. If you have questions or need to withdraw your story because another publisher has accepted it, please email [email protected]. Payment is tiered based on word count. 1000-3000 words = $20 3000-5000 words = $30 5000-7000 words = $40 ROF Publishing House requests First North American Serial Rights and First Electronic and Digital Rights. Via: ROF Publishing's Substack.

Submission Window: June 1st - 7th, 2025 Payment: 8 cents per word Theme: Dark and disruptive SF stories that have strong emotional resonance under 300 words in length We open from the 1st-7th of each month, beginning April 2025. What we want: Anomaly is interested in science fiction stories under 300 words in length, for publication on their Patreon, with the right to collect stories into a future anthology. We're looking for dark and disruptive stories that have strong emotional resonance. We like stories that stick with us after reading, that get us thinking about the twisted use of technologies, the way the world may be, or how characters might react to an evolving technological future. What we're asking for: First rights with 90 days of exclusivity after publication, and the nonexclusive right to republish the story in a future anthology that collects Anomaly stories, with permission from the authors. Compensation: .08 per word for original fiction and an electronic copy of any future anthology. Submission Guidelines: Please attach your file to this form in .doc/.docx format. Use Times New Roman 12 point font with Shunn standard manuscript format. Stories must be 300 words or less. No simultaneous submissions. No multiple submissions. No stories written with AI. No reprints at this time. If you need any further assistance, please email us at [email protected]. SUBMIT HERE Via: Anomaly's Patreon.

Submission Window: June 1st - 7th, 2025 Payment: Drabbles and Flash – £5, Short Stories 1001 to 4000 words – £10, Short Stories 4001 to 8000 words – £15 Theme: Stories you’ve poured your soul into but haven’t been able to find the right home for. We do not have set issue themes but feel free to be inspired by the season, seasonal occasions and events. Note: Only publishes creators from under represented and/or marginalized communities. WE ONLY PUBLISH CREATORS FROM UNDER REPRESENTED AND/OR MARGINALISED BACKGROUNDS AND/OR COMMUNITIES We don’t ask for any proof, we take this on trust with the expectation that anyone not from a marginalised background or underrepresented community wouldn’t take up the space of someone who is. We ask you to consider this before submitting. QUARTERLY ONLINE ANTHOLOGY: BRIEF We’re looking for stories you’ve poured your soul into but haven’t been able to find the right home for. We’re looking for stories that make us feel something. Warmth, love, melancholy, rage. We want it all. All genres, styles and themes will be considered and we especially love stories that are outside the box in their telling. Ambiguous endings? Non-linear storytelling? Antagonist’s point-of-view? A story told in just one scene? We love it all. PLEASE NOTE: We will close submissions early if our cut off point is reached Quarterly Online Anthology Submission Schedule: June 1st – 7th (Autumn Issue) or until we reach 70 submissions September 1st – 7th (Winter Issue) or until we reach 70 submissions December 1st – 7th (Spring Issue) or until we reach 70 submissions March 1st – 7th (Summer Issue) or until we reach 70 submissions ​We do not have set issue themes but feel free to be inspired by the season, seasonal occasions and events. We are unlikely to publish stories...

Deadline: June 7th, 2025 Payment: Fiction and nonfiction run in the $10-30 range; poetry in the $5-15 range. Theme: The Uncanny Our summer edition theme is the uncanny, however you interpret that. What happens when settings look fine — happy, even — on the surface, only for a distortion to be lurking just out of sight? What can the uncanny help us understand about ourselves, our relationships, our communities? Submissions may be sent using this Google Form. We manage submissions through Google Forms, linked above. The details: Non-fiction under 4,000 words, fiction under 2,000, and poetry just generally kept to a minimum Please submit one prose piece or two poems. Turnaround times vary. Expect a response within approximately one month of submissions closing. Talk Vomit believes wholeheartedly in simultaneous submissions and raises their eyebrows at places that don’t. BUT, if your piece is accepted elsewhere, please email [email protected] as soon as you can. If you don’t, it stands to be quite embarrassing for both of us. Talk Vomit asks for first serial rights. We aim to share most work on our website, our Substack, and in print, as space allows. Upon initial publication, all rights revert back to you, although we ask you credit Talk Vomit in the event of republication. Some stuff we particularly like: Gothic stories. Not high fantasy stuff, usually, but moody and atmospheric pieces that take a microscope to the underbelly of our communities and relationships Flash satire Essays that weave first-person with cultural criticism; essays with a fresh coming-of-age narrative (one can come of age at many times in their life, in many ways; Monica is currently particularly interested in coming-of-age stories related to motherhood, fwiw) Cultural criticism, in general Book reviews, especially those in the 300-600 word range — unless you’re baking in some first-person narrative and lengthier criticism....

Deadline: June 9th, 2025 Payment: $0.03c per word Theme: Cryptid stories Edited by: Trevor Henderson and Andrew Cull Open call 2k to 4k words. All cryptid stories are welcome. No reprints, please. Payment: $0.03c per word. Subs close on June 9th. Stories to: encounterswithcryptids at gmail dot com. Stories by LGBTQ+ and BIPOC authors are strongly encouraged Via: Andy Cull on Bluesky.

Deadline: June 10th, 2025 Payment: Royalties Theme: Straightforward science fiction with great characters A Science Fiction Anthology Submission Period: March 10, 2025 to June 10, 2025 Theme: Beyond – Science Fiction. Editor likes: characters, emotion. Dislikes: difficult words to pronounce. Faves: Dune, Expanse, Fifth Element, Foundation Stories that contain infanticide, rape, or gratuitous gore will not be accepted. Submission Period: March 10, 2025 to June 10, 2025 Submissions: No AI, 1 per author; no reprints, no simultaneous submissions; Submission Cost: Free Word Limit: 2,000 to 8,000 words Submission Guidelines: Anonymous submission with no author name in document; 12 pt Times or Arial; .Doc or .Docx; double-space; first line indent; no tabs used. Genres: Science Fiction Anticipated Pay: Royalty share of D2D sales Each contributor will receive a share, as will the publisher, from the sales on the D2D platform. This does not include Kickstarter funds (unless the Stretch goals are met), wholesale to authors, or retail outlets. Timeline Projections: Submissions close: June 2025 Review: July 2025 Acceptance / Rejection: July 2025 Edits: July/August 2025 Production: August 2025 Published: October 2025 Upon acceptance, the author is expected to work with the editor on at least one round of revisions in MSWord. Our publication goal is dependent on the extensive time needed to review and edit submissions may vary depending upon the submitted works and author’s response times. Inkd Publishing LLC will hold first publication rights for four months after publication and the continuing non-exclusive right to reproduce the work in Beyond. Authors must provide assurance that their story submission is an original, previously unpublished work, is not currently under consideration elsewhere, and that it will not be submitted for publication elsewhere prior to receiving notification that it has not been accepted for inclusion in Beyond. For the D2D royalty sharing, you can expect ongoing financial compensation from Draft 2 Digital...

Deadline: June 15th, 2025 Payment: $125 and a contributor's copy Theme: Insert Sherlock Holmes into the realm of Lovecraftian Horror Edited by Derrick Belanger & Brian Belanger Description: Imagine Holmes investigating the disappearance of a college student in the mysterious town of Innsmouth, matching wits with a man who can reanimate the dead, or using his deductive skills to help fight creatures from beyond the realm of time and space. These are just some of the stories which could be included in the new anthology The Necronomicon of Sherlock Holmes. The anthology will feature traditional Sherlock Holmes stories blended with one or more of Lovecraft’s tales. Belanger Books is calling for submissions from writers, new or established, which are between 5,000 – 10,000 words (it is okay to be over some). Guidelines: The stories must feel like traditional Holmes and Lovecraft stories. The stories should have the traditional Holmes and Watson working with the traditional characters, creatures, and/or gods of H.P. Lovecraft. Remember, there was a logic to the writing of Lovecraft, a rationale behind the otherworldly beings even if humans couldn’t conceive it, that should blend well with the deductive skills of Sherlock Holmes. Payment: Authors shall receive a payment of $125 and a paperback copy of the anthology. Rights: Authors shall retain rights to their work. We only retain the rights to the story within the publication. Authors are welcome to submit more than one story for the anthology. Send submissions in a word document that is double spaced, in Times New Roman, and in 14 point font to [email protected] with the subject line ATTN: SUBMISSION FOR THE NECRONOMICON OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Submission Deadline: June 15, 2025. Publication Date: Winter 2025/2026 Via: Belanger Books.

Deadline: June 15th, 2025 Payment: US 4¢/word rounded up to nearest dollar; minimum US $4, maximum $25 Theme: Speculative poems about Birds Eye to the Telescope 57, Birds, will be edited by Maria Schrater. Send your speculative bird poems! The endless diversity of birds is one of the great marvels of our world. Migration patterns, flight mechanics, song, life cycle, and more—it's a diverse pool to draw from, with deeper potential with the addition of speculative layers. Guest Editor Maria Schrater has been fascinated by birds since she was a child, learning to imitate their calls and identify local species just by a flash of color. She has rescued baby birds, carefully viewed delicate nests, and watched majestic waterfowl take flight. Apparition readers may remember that Schrater adores out-of-the-box forms. You could even send a poem shaped as a bird. If you pick a traditional form, please name the form in the cover letter so it can be evaluated with that in mind. A generous interpretation will be applied to the definition of bird, but this call is not intended to include dinosaurs unless modern birds are also discussed. We are excited to see your poems! Submission Guidelines SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Use the form at https://bit.ly/SFPAettt57 to submit. Please submit 1–3 unpublished poems in English (ideally, attached as .docx or .txt) and include a short bio. Translations from other languages are acceptable with the permission of the original poet (unless public domain). Inquiries only to [email protected] with “ETTT” in the subject line. Deadline: June 15. The issue will appear on July 15, 2025. Payment and rights Accepted poems will be paid for at the following rate: US 4¢/word rounded up to nearest dollar; minimum US $4, maximum $25. Payment is on publication. The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association normally uses PayPal to pay poets, but can also send checks....

Submission Window: May 15th - June 15th, 2025 Payment: $8.00 ($0.08 per word) Theme: Scifi and/or Fantasy 100-word stories (can include horror but must have a SF or F element) that focus on the theme of 'Train" - any meaning of the word Train is valid. We’ll be opening again for submissions May 15 to June 15 for the theme TRAIN. We will allow one themed and one un-themed submission per writer. All submissions must be submitted via our Google form, which will be available here when we are open. What do we want? Speculative fiction (science fiction or fantasy) Note: We accept horror, but it must have a speculative element, whether science fiction or fantasy. Drabbles (100-word stories EXACTLY) Note: We calculate word count using Microsoft Word. If using Google Docs, please manually count your words. It has a truly baffling definition of a word (e.g., “1,000” = 2 words). Actual, complete stories Even though they’re only 100-words, drabbles still need all the essential elements of a story: character, setting, conflict, theme, and plot. What do we NOT want? Child abuse (of any type) Erotica Rape Revenge stories Hateful content Poems All the details Simultaneous submissions: Yes! Go crazy. Submit everywhere! But if it is accepted elsewhere, please let us know. Response time: Responses will be within 60 days. Please query after this time. Multiple submissions: You may submit two stories per submissions period. Note: Only one story will be accepted per author per period. Reprints: Nope. Stories many not be previously published in any format (including on your blog, Patreon, etc.). Formatting: Please format italics with surrounding _underscores_. You do not need to add indents or manual line breaks. AI use: No. All work must be original and yours. Using AI or plagiarizing will get you banned forever. No redemption arc will be possible. Contract terms: We require first worldwide English electronic...

Deadline: June 15th, 2025 Payment: $20 per 1000-5000 word story, or $10 for stories under 1000 words Theme: Creepy stories, preferabbly with Fall/Autumn and/or specific Halloween setting and themes and not overly-dialogue heavy The Creepy Corner is a new podcast format from Straight to the Point Productions, releasing new and classic spooky stories in the lead up to Halloween. We are seeking original short horror to record and release in an audiobook/podcast format. Deadline - June 15, 2025 Note - stories may be accepted on a rolling basis, and Straight to the Point Productions reserves the right to close submissions early. All authors will be notified within 1 month from the close of submissions. Fees & Compensation - Selected Authors will receive $20 per 1000-5000 word story, or $10 for stories under 1000 words. Submission is free and there is no limit on number of submissions per author. Authors will be credited aloud in the audio of the episode, as well as in the show notes. Content Guidelines - We are accepting stories on any and all themes (with some limits), but with preference for: PG-13 or below rating Fall/Autumn and/or specific Halloween setting and themes Reinterpretations of folklore or classic stories Not overly dialogue-heavy To get a sense of the editorial team’s taste since this is our first edition, some writers we enjoy include Ray Bradbury, Karen Russell, Stephen King, Octavia Butler, China Mieville, Jeff Vandermeer, Shirley Jackson, Tananarive Due, Roald Dahl, Marisha Pessl, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, John Bellairs, and Daniel Handler.   We are also accepting submissions specifically related to Christmas and/or the winter holiday season for a special seasonal edition. Submission Guidelines -  Please submit .pdf or .doc(x) files only. Other file formats will not be considered. Please double-space manuscripts in size 12 font. Restrictions -  Maximum length...

Submission Window: June 1st - 15th, 2025 Payment: Fiction: 8 cents per word, Poetry: $50, Non-fiction: $100 Theme: Stories with anthropomorphized animals as protagonists in any realm of speculative fiction Deeply animal, deeply human We’re on the trail. We got our noses to the ground. In this den there are plott hounds sniffing out for quality animal-centric speculative fiction. Here at Plott Hound Magazine, we want stories that really dig deep into what it’s like to be an animal yet also teach us what it means to be human. Both deeply animal and deeply human. Humans have had enough stories to go around and more. It’s time to make some room for the ones with paws, claws, fangs, and tails. Let’s hear them howl, roar, growl, and hiss. Here, they run wild. Throw us a good bone to chew on. Help us fill this space to make it a dazzling menagerie. Prose Submission Guidelines -Word limit for original short fiction: 1000 (minimum) – 5000 words (maximum) sweet spot/preferred: 3000 – 4000 words -Maximum word limit for original flash fiction: 999 words -Reprints: not accepted at this time -Pay rate: 8 cents/word -Format: Standard Manuscript Format. 12 point Times New Roman, double spaced, .doc or .docx files. Mailing address and phone number are not required on the header. -Simultaneous submissions are allowed! Just make sure to give us a howl if your submission has been accepted elsewhere before we make a decision on it. -Multiple submissions: you may submit one piece per category at a given time. -If a submission is declined and the submission period is still open, you may send another. Currently there is no cooldown period between submissions during an open submission window. -Cover letter do’s and don’ts: > Include author name, name of submission, word count, best 2-3 publishing credits (if...

Deadline: June 22nd, 2025 Payment: 15 cents per word for fiction and $75 per page for poetry and artwork. Theme: In a world devastated by catastrophes, we need stories that confront these horrors. Note: Prioritizing work by people with lived experience of war and conflict. It’s time to announce the call for submissions to It Was Paradise*, a special issue of Reckoning edited by Sonia Sulaiman and with cover art by Moníca Robles Corzo. In a world devastated by catastrophes, we need stories that confront these horrors. This is all out war on the planet, on life itself. War and conflict are the themes for this volume of Reckoning. Probe into the heart of extinction, genocide, and climate crisis. Expose the exploitation of the earth. Show us how the world could be on the other side. Send us your stories of environmental justice, of violence, imperialism, fascism, and resistance, of destruction, survival, and of triumph. It Was Paradise is open for submissions now through the summer solstice, June 22, 2025, with tentative release scheduled for October. Payment rate will be 15 cents (US) per word for prose, $75 per page for poetry and art. As always, we’re seeking submissions from Black, Brown, Indigenous, queer, trans, disabled, neurodivergent, imprisoned, impoverished, and otherwise marginalized human beings from everywhere, but in particular for this issue, we will be prioritizing work by people with lived experience of war and conflict. We’ll continue to accept submissions to our communication-themed regular issue, Reckoning X, throughout. Also, during this submission window only, we’re relaxing our usual rule about multiple submissions to allow folks to submit to both calls simultaneously.   We’re always open to submissions. There are never any fees to submit. We pay SFWA-qualifying “professional” rates upon acceptance; click below to see how much for different...

Submission Window: Marginalized writers from June 1, 2025 to June 15, 2025 and for BIPOC writers from June 1, 2025 to June 22, 2025. Payment: $0.01 USD per word Theme: Speculative fiction from marginalized voices that include a door opening (literally or metaphorically) in some manner. GENRE: Speculative Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror TITLE: Enter Here: An Anthology of Portals For untold years, the door has been closed. But today, the key turns. The lock clicks. The door opens, and you go through it. What awaits you on the other side? ENTER HERE is an anthology of thirteen short stories of speculative fiction from marginalized voices. Breaking into publishing can feel like knocking on a closed door or being turned away from a locked gate. With this anthology, we want to open the doors. Stories in this collection may fall into any genre of speculative fiction and will span the range from cozy to grimdark, but every piece must include a door opening in some manner. Physical or metaphorical, traditional or unusual—make the doors your own. Send us your lushly written, genre-blending stories that look at portals in unexpected or unusual ways. Submission rules: Submissions will be open for all marginalized writers from June 1, 2025 to June 15, 2025 and for BIPOC writers from June 1, 2025 to June 22, 2025. Submissions received after 11:59pm EST on June 15 for general submissions/June 22, 2025 for BIPOC submissions will be deleted unread. We are asking you to self-identify and will not be verifying identities, so please respect these submission windows.   Authors must self-identify as marginalized in some way. Intersectionality and #ownvoices are encouraged. However, you are not required to disclose your marginalizations. The purpose of this item is to ensure that we are capturing stories from marginalized writers, not to make an exhaustive list...

Deadline: June 22nd, 2025 Payment: £10 and each contributor will receive one free contributor copy of the book. Theme: Triumph, Love and Becoming. We are honoured to open submissions for our debut anthology. This anthology is the first offering from Dawn Woven Books, a publishing space devoted to soulful and authentic storytelling. Rooted in love, truth and creative expression. This collection will gather stories that explore themes of triumph, love, healing and becoming. This project is being developed as part of the Artist Incubator Programme with the Black South West Network, supporting creatives to bring powerful, purpose driven work into the world. As a writer, storyteller and vessel of love. I believe that every voice holds wisdom and every story, when told with heart can bring healing. This anthology is a call to Griots, truth-tellers and heart led writers to share the lived experiences that shaped them. Together, we are weaving a tapestry of voices that honour the past, illuminate the present and make space for new light to rise. If you have a true story that speaks to the power of perseverance, ancestral memory, self-love or the beauty of becoming, we would love to read it. Payment: £10 and each contributor will receive one free contributor copy of the book. Genre: Creative Non-Fiction (Personal essays, memoir style pieces and narrative reflections). However, we are very flexible and both fiction and creative non-fiction are equally welcome. We are open to any short story as long as it speaks to the theme. Theme: Triumph, Love and Becoming. Word Count: 1000 - 3,500 WORDS. Rights: We get the first publication rights and hold the rights to your story for three years from publication. After the three years, the rights revert back to you. Join us in bringing forward stories that heal, inspire and...