Oestridae Janis By Paul Bahou “Janis… Janis… Can you hear me?” The twenty-two-year-old biology student’s vision blurred as she struggled to sit up. “Ahh…” she yelped, a sharp pain in her ankle jolting her alert. “Oh, thank God. You’re awake.” Jan...
Terrifying Tips: 7 Ways to Master the Art of Horror Seeing and reading a horror story is not everyone’s cup of tea. It’s a genre that we see is declining in demand today. Why? Mainly because the storyline of the movie or the novel is always quite the...
Submission Window: March 1st, 2022 – March 31st, 2022 Payment: $.03 USD per word Theme: Body horror in sports and fitness Note: Extended submission period for women and non-binary writers is April 1st – 7th, 2022. This fiction anthology from Eric Rag...
Deadline: March 31st, 2022 Payment: Contributor’s Copy (charity anthology) Theme: Stories of troubadours, minstrels, and bards teaming up with princesses feisty and bold. Scifi or Fantasy Since its beginnings in the early 1980s, the Life, the Univers...
10 Tips and Tricks for Writing a Horror Novel The thrill, the feeling of your blood rising, the sweat and anxiety as you wait for what happens next. You get the adrenaline rush as if you were the actor about to fall over a cliff. It is one thing to w...
Submission Window: February 15th-March 15th, 2022 Payment: $0.08 per word Theme: Human Monsters, Horror A new horror anthology edited by Sadie Hartmann and Ashley Saywers of Night Worms. “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside u...
Deadline: May 31st, 2022 Payment: $5 Theme: Vampires In celebration of the 125th Anniversary of the first publication of Dracula, the grandaddy of them all, we are courting vampire stories of all kinds. So, send us your very best vampiric tales – got...