Taking Submissions: Rampage on the Reefs

Deadline: April 28th, 2022 Payment: $10 Theme: Oceanic horror brought ‘to the surface’ Rampage on the Reefs (coming June 2022): the third anthology will bring us to the surface. We’re looking for colourful, weird aquatic horror; monsters in the shall...

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Jan 05, 2022
Taking Submissions: Last Girls Club Spring Issue 2022

Deadline: January 31st, 2022 Payment: Fiction is limited to 2,500 words or less. Authors are paid $0.01 per word upon acceptance ($25 USD max). Flash fiction is limited to under 1,000 words. Authors are paid $0.01 per word upon acceptance ($10 USD ma...

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Jan 04, 2022
Taking Submissions: Mysterion Spring 2022

Deadline: January 31st, 2022 Payment: 8 cents/word and 4 cents/word for reprints Theme: Speculative stories–science fiction, fantasy, horror–with Christian themes, characters, or cosmology Note: Reprints Welcome Open to fiction submissions each year...

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Jan 04, 2022
Taking Submissions: Eye to the Telescope #44

Deadline: March 15th, 2022 Payment: US 3¢/word rounded up to nearest dollar; minimum US $3, maximum $25 Theme: Notional Ekphrasis Eye to the Telescope 44, Notional Ekphrasis, will be edited by F. J. Bergmann. Ekphrastic poetry consists of poems based...

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Jan 04, 2022
What Can An Author Use To Give The Reader More?

Five Ways Writers Give You More By Warren Nast   Being a writer is more than just putting nouns in front of verbs. There is a whole pantry of techniques and visual things we use to give the reader more. Here are my top five. Epigraphs: At the beginni...

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Jan 04, 2022
Taking Submissions: 34 Orchard Spring 2022 Issue

Deadline: January 31st, 2022 Payment: $50 Theme: Stories that are “scary, disturbing, unsettling, and sad” What We Publish At 34 Orchard, we like dark, intense pieces that speak to a deeper truth. We’re not genre-specific; we just like scary, disturb...

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Jan 03, 2022
Meerkat Press Is Open To Novel Submissions

Deadline: March 31st, 21022 Payment: Royalty-based payments for novels, and in some cases, an advance against royalties. Theme: Speculative Fiction [most sub-genres and especially if those genre lines are crossed in unique ways] NO: Swords & Sorc...

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Jan 03, 2022