Deadline: September 1st, 2022
Payment: Royalties
Theme: Military Science Fiction
Note: Reprints Welcome
An anthology of Future Combat and Mechanized Warfare
Call for entries
Three Ravens Publishing is accepting entries for a military science fiction-themed anthology to be published in 2022. Focus will be stories in the genre that featured future combat centered around mechanized warfare, ie, tanks, APC’s, cavalry, mounted infantry etc.
Submission Window: April 1-2, 2022
Payment: 8 cents per word for original, 2 cents for reprints
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
We have a new submissions schedule as of June 1, 2020:
The first and second day of every month, 12 am of the 1st to 12 am of the 3rd, E.S.T.
Only one submission per person.
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 – 6¢ per word for new fact-based work, 1- 4¢ per word for reprinted fact articles.
For new poetry, we pay $1 a line, reprints would be 50¢ a line, up to 40 lines. We’ll look at longer poems but that would be a hard sell, and words over 40 lines would be paid at 6¢ per word.
We began 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 about The 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.
Deadline: February 28th, 2022.
Payment: $10 per story, in exchange for nonexclusive publishing rights.
Theme: “Lunar horror and isolation.” See below for details.
Note: Reprints Welcome
Deadline: February 28th, 2022.
Payment: $10 per story, in exchange for nonexclusive publishing rights.
Theme: “Lunar horror and isolation.” See below for details.
Word count: 2,000 to 5,000 words. This is very flexible, especially for longer stories, but please get in touch before sending something smaller or larger.
Reprints: Yes! Please, for the love of God, send me reprints. $10 is just a token payment, and I know it.
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Deadline: December 15th, 2021
Payment: Royalties
Theme: Space Opera
Note: Reprints Welcome
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We consider stories for two types of publications:
Submissions: Open (check the deadlines mentioned above the images)
Response Time: We will try our best to respond in four to eight weeks after the submission period ends. The first wave of rejections is usually quick (two weeks after the submission period ends)
Word Count: 4,000–15,000 for website and anthologies; 500–2000 for flash fiction anthologies
Submission Fee: None
Rights: the copyright to the story remains yours. All we ask for are nonexclusive rights to publish your story
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Deadline: February 11th 2022
Payment: $.01 per word advanced against royalties
Theme: Giant bugs!
Note: Reprints Welcome
Beware the Bugs is open to stories about giant bugs (or, perhaps, normal sized bugs and tiny humans). Fantasy or science fiction are welcome.
Word Balloon Books sells print editions at comic cons, Ren Fairs, and book festivals. We’ve noticed that most books at these event target adult readers, so in 2022 we’re launching a line of anthologies appropriate for readers 10 and up. We’re open to challenging themes and subject matter, but language, graphic violence, and sexual content should be rated G. Child or teen protagonists preferred.
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Boneyard Soup Magazine no longer meets our conditions for an ‘ongoing’ market and we will post their open calls as we see them.
Payment: 5 cents per word, 1 cent per word for reprints
Theme: Horror and dark fantasy genres and are open to almost anything you can imagine within those categories.
Note: Reprints Welcome
Procedures
All submissions for fiction should follow proper manuscript format. Please send them to [email protected]. Attach submissions in .doc or .rtf format. We will not accept submissions embedded in the body of an email. Along with your manuscript, include a cover letter. The letter should include your bio. We will not consider multiple submissions or simultaneous submissions.
Payment
To receive payment for your story or non-fiction article, you will need a PayPal account. We pay 5 cents per word for original fiction up to 6000 words on publication for first world rights. For reprint fiction, we pay 1 cent per word up to 6000 words for nonexclusive reprint rights. For nonfiction articles, we pay 5 cents per word up to 3000 words.
Fiction
Boneyard Soup Magazine publishes quarterly in a digital format. We want stories in the range of 2000 to 6000 words.
We publish in the horror and dark fantasy genres and are open to almost anything you can imagine within those categories. Traditional Gothic. Pulpy horror with an ’80s vibe. Body horror. Ghost stories. Horror comedy. Don’t be afraid to submit if your tale falls within the horror and dark fantasy genres. However, we are not interested in stories with extreme violence or overt sexual themes.
Non-Fiction
One ancestor to the modern museum was the cabinet of curiosity, or Wunderkammer in German. These were private collections of strange and interesting objects amassed by wealthy persons in Europe. The earliest date back to at least the middle ages.
In that spirit, Boneyard Soup Magazine is committed to developing a wonder cabinet of sorts. Each issue will feature up to two non-fiction articles curated under the title Cabinet of Curiosities. Authors of these pieces will delve deeply into topics from the world of horror.
The idea is to explore the strange side of reality. Urban legends. Documented ghost stories. Myths. Odd, terrifying, or befuddling events from history. Anything creepy, weird, or horrifying is fair game here.
Important to note: These are not intended to be academic or scholarly. While still attending to good writing practice, imagine you are telling your story to a close friend.
Please submit a proposal for your article first. Include potential sources in your proposal. Upon the editor’s approval, you will send the written article. Pieces published under the Cabinet of Curiosities heading should be no more than 3000 words.
Reprints
We are happy to consider your short story if it’s been published in another place. However, be sure to include the word REPRINT in the header of your email. For example: STORY TITLE (REPRINT).
Response Time
Boneyard Soup Magazine is a small publication and as such we ask for your patience. Response time could be as much as four weeks. After that time, please send an email to [email protected] with the word QUERY in the subject line. In your email include the title of your story and the date submitted.
Please do not respond to rejection letters.
Artwork
Each issue of Boneyard Soup Magazine will feature original cover art and sketches to accompany published stories and articles. Like our taste in fiction, our taste in art is also broad.
If you are interested in seeing your artwork on the cover of one of our issues, please submit the artwork in question to [email protected].
If you would like to produce original sketches for an upcoming issue, please submit an inquiry with samples of your artwork to [email protected]. If interested, we will contact you with details for the story we’d like you to draw for.
Payment will be negotiated with each artist we work with.
Via: Boneyard Soup Magazine.
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