Payment: $5
Theme: A short horror story (100-300 words) that would fit on the back of a VHS box!
VIDEO NASTIES:
MICRO FICTION THAT COULD FIT ON THE BACK OF A VHS
DO YOU HAVE A HORRIFIC MICRO TALE THAT COULD FIT ON THE BACK OF A VHS BOX?
We love microfiction here at Pyre Magazine, and we miss the video store rental days, so we figured we combine the two in our new series: Video Nasties Microfiction!
Deadline: May 1st, 2022
Payment: £30 payment and a contributors copy
Theme: Powerful crime fiction short stories
In November 2022, we will publish the first Red Dog Press Crime Fiction Anthology. Edited by Stephen J. Golds, this will be a collection of stories under the title GONE.
We are looking for powerful crime fiction short stories, of between 3500 and 6000 words, within all sub-genres of crime fiction.
GONE will combine stories from world-class, best selling authors, with debuts and as yet unsigned authors.
Payment: $200
Theme: Smart, weird, funny articles or stories, which run between 500 and 1,500 words.
(Tap tap.) Testing, one-two-three? (Tap tap.) Hey, if anybody’s out there, WE HAVE RE-OPENED THE AHOY SHORT FICTION AND COMMENTARY SUBMISSIONS PORTHOLE!
If you write quality short fiction, it’s time to send us your stuff.
But first, please consider our Official Ahoy Short Fiction Submission Guidelines
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Submission Window: April 1st-30th, 2022
Payment: $1 per accepted piece
Theme: horrorku, horror themed tanka, haibun, see below for details
The Submission may include any or all of the following:
· Up to seven (7) horrorku or horror tanka [we will rarely publish 5/7/5(7/7)]
· Up to three (3) haibun [title + prose + haiku/tanka — no more than 100 words]
· Up to five (5) pieces of cover art
All submissions must be original, unpublished work that is not under consideration by a print or web-based journal. Posts in closed, critique-oriented groups and social media sites are acceptable for submission, but public posts on forums such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are not. By submitting a piece to us, you are guaranteeing that it is your original work and not under consideration or published anywhere else in the world.
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Deadline: June 30th, 2022
Payment: $5
Theme: Scary Kids
You don’t have to be a parent to know just how horrifying children can be.
We want your stories innocent youngsters turned malevolent (think: The Omen, Children of the Corn, The Midwich Cuckoos, etc.)- the more terrifying the better!
Deadline: June 1st, 2022
Payment: $20
Theme: We ask our fiction writers to imagine their readers navigating a story with one finger poised over a mouse button. Can your story stay that finger to the end?
“Turning words into art is unnatural. It begins with a contrary attitude. It says, I am unhappy with the way things are and desire to make things different. Rather than represent the world, I will make something wildly and savagely new. I will defy logic. I will invest in new perceptions. I will combine and recombine and fabricate and juggle until something that I have never experienced is experienced. The process is alchemical. The process is violent. It goes to the heart of creativity. It disrupts and shatters. It is splendid with provocation. It is an aggression against banality. It is sharp and loud like a janitor scraping frost from a window. The hectic bounce of steam on a street after a truck roars by. The anarchy of waters, the comedy of the face, dangerous feelings vented from a cage of skin.” ~ John Olson
Deadline: October 31st, 2022
Payment: Poetry – $10 USD,. Flash – $15 USD, Short Fiction – $35 USD
Theme: Well-crafted stories and poems suitable for a middle-grade audience
Note: All entries must have a Utah connection (Either the author or the story.)
Timber Ghost Press is proud to present The Big Book of Things That Go Bump in the Night: A Collection of Utah Horror. With the help of the Utah Horror Writers*, Timber Ghost Press is excited to be publishing the ninth collection of Utah horror.
We are seeking well-crafted stories and poems suitable for a middle-grade audience. We’re looking for stories and poems in the same vein as Neil Gaiman, Victoria Schwab, Patrick Ness, Holly Black, and R.L. Stine. Please ensure your story/poem is suitable for a younger audience. If we deem the story too extreme for children, it will be rejected. For this anthology, all entries must have a Utah connection, either on the part of the author or the story itself (it is called Utah horror for a reason).
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Submission Window: April 1st-April 30th, 2022
Payment: $25 and a contributors copy
Theme: Tales of stone cold villains (literally on the cold!)
From castles atop snow crested mountains to the cold isolation of the frozen tundra, the lure of darkness beckons us all.
For Kingdoms of Wrath and Ice, Tourmaline & Quartz seeks your tales of stone cold villains. Show us the frosty ice queens, the conniving fae lords we love to hate and hate to love. Give us your dragons with hearts as cold as their gold, or the witch who summons a snowstorm to save herself from the hunters. Tell us about your morally gray outcasts that crave vengeance while the heroes are seeking warmth.
The winter months are dark, the snows are deep, and the ice is treacherous. But what if the bitter cold wasn’t the only villain?
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