Taking Submissions: Fearmoji: Queer Emoji Horror
Deadline: August 1st, 2025
Payment: $25 USD and a contributors copy
Theme: Adult queer body horror that somehow strongly incorporates the use of emoji
Emojis carry a lot of weight in contemporary societies drenched by social media interactions. This theme is very open, but must feature emojis as the primary driving force of the narrative. Give me sentient emojis, cursed emojis, a secret combination of emojis that unlocks a demon, a serial killer whose signature is the love heart reaction, disaffected youths whose use of the shrug emoji comes back to haunt them, a coder with an emoji axe to grind… The potential here is limitless.
What I want:
Adult queer horror body horror. I will also accept horrormance, splatterpunk, and extreme. As long as your story revolves around emojis (any emoji, I don’t care), has the body horror element, and is queer, I am in. I want believable, authentic characters, and crazy fucking scenarios.
Please edit to the best of your ability before submission. I edit everything anyway, but help out and make things are easy for me as you can.
What I will not accept:
No rape, bestiality or pedophilia. No gender or sexuality-based phobia unless you’re doing revenge horror or something where it’s actually needed. Vampires and werewolves are done to death now, so if you are doing that, make it really unique.
Important information, please read:
Word Count: 4000–7500 (anything outside this range won’t be read and won’t be considered).
Submissions open: May 1, 2025
Submission deadline: August 1, 2025 (don’t worry about timezones, please. If your calendar says August 1, it’s August 1).
Expected publication: December 2025
Payment: $25 USD + paperback + ebook
Submission email: [email protected]
In your submission email, just title it as: Fearmoji Sub + [Pen name] + [Title]
A note about queerness—
Slashic publishes queer horror, not horror that has a secondary character on page 10 somewhere who may or may not be queer. This press exists to elevate and make visible queer creators, queer voices, and queer stories. If you aren’t queer or don’t have a queer story to tell, please look to the many many many other publishing opportunities you are afforded. Anything not queer won’t be read and won’t be responded to, simply because I don’t have that sort of time anymore.
Do not self-reject. I do that enough for all of us. Let’s assume you’re an amazing author with a great story to tell. I want to read it. If I reject it, it’s not because it’s shit, it may just not be what I’m looking for.
Have I missed something? Please just ask me.
Via: Slashic Horror Press.
