Deadline: December 31st, 2021 Payment: $5 Theme: Stories that are the perfect length for between sitting down and having a ‘royal flush’ THE TOILET ZONE: THE ROYAL FLUSH SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED TO 31 DECEMBER 2021 HellBound’s third outing to the smalles...
Top 7 Tips For Writing Ghost Stories Read on for our top tips on how to write a ghost story. Your first step should always be to define a ghost story to yourself, but you should know how to proceed afterwards. The best ghost stories are ones that are...
Deadline: April 17th, 2022 Payment: $25 Theme: Any genre, Rated R, your story’s main character must be killed at the end of the story The Grey Rooms – Season 5 Story Submission Guidelines We are excited to bring you another season of our horror antho...
Deadline: January 30th, 2022 Payment: Short stories: $100 CAD upon publication, Poetry: $50 CAD upon publication Theme: A multimedia project inspired by the electrosymphonic album “Wayward & Upward” by Spinoza Gambit. Note: Look at the submission...
Naming Characters by JP McLean. In his famous Romeo and Juliet soliloquy, Shakespeare asked, “What’s in a Name?” Quite a lot, as it turns out. I don’t have children, so the only names I’ve bestowed are on my fictional characters and my dogs. Happil...
Deadline: December 5th, 2021 Payment: Royalties or $5, whichever is greater Theme: Weird Fiction and Cosmic Horror Note: Reprints Welcome SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We consider stories for two types of publications: Website Anthologies (approximately 20 s...
Deadline: March 1st, 2022 Payment: $1c per word, and $15 per poem Theme: The gamut of everything from absurdist horror to bizarre science-fiction to unsettling dark fantasy. • What are we looking for? We’re looking for short stories, flash fiction, a...
Diverse Disciplines: Fielding the Field by Catherine Jordan Can authors write in different genres? As a writer, if you haven’t already tried your hand within other categories, you should—genre blending is on the rise. The mixture of themes and eleme...
After I finished writing The Cassidy Chronicles I thought I was finished writing about Aiyana and Kendra. I started with their wedding, broke it up, got them married, sent them on adventures, put them in peril, and finally ended things with them on t...
