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Deadline: January 31st, 2021 Payment: $25 per thousand words Theme: Weird westerns set in the world of ‘The Widow’s Son’ (a link to details below for those who haven’t read it. Malahas Press will be publishing a Weird West/Western Horror anthology of...
Deadline: February 28th, 2022 Payment: £25 Theme: All forms of horror, ideally stories that take place outside of suburban America We are now officially open for submissions to our second anthology and our first young adult horror anthology, titled N...
How To Write a Horror Story in 5 Steps Are you an aspiring writer aiming to achieve success in the literary world of modern times? If yes, perhaps one of the genres you want to explore is horror stories. Why? Simply because what is unnatural and shoc...
Submission Window: December 1st-2nd, 2021 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...
Deadline: February 15, 2022, 11:59 PM PST. Payment: 1 Free print edition. Authors are entitled to purchase additional copies at 50% discount for resale. Theme: Unopened Doors Word count: 500-7,000 max Sunbury Press is now accepting submissions for an...
Where do You Get Your Ideas? As a writer, I get asked a lot of questions. The most common one, aside from “Why are you like this?” or “What’s wrong with you?” is “Where do you get your ideas?” I’m sure most of you have heard this time and again too....
How Can Writers Vary Sentence Structure? Diversifying Your Sentence Structure for Variety and Pacing Many years ago during a presentation at the now defunct Antioch Writers’ Workshop, I made a reference to “lazy writing.” One of the attendees asked m...
