Deadline: April 30th, 2022 Payment: $100 Theme: Positive Visions of Democracy Note: Authors must be speculative fiction writers from across Africa and the African Diaspora and the stories should be centered around an African experience As we put pen...
Apex Book Company (Apex Publications) returned this year and they’re looking to expand. They are currently seeking funds “to publish a print compilation anthology of all the original genre short fiction published in our digital publication, Apex Maga...
Deadline: May 1st, 2022 Payment: 15GBP Theme: Ageing If you think you’ve got what it takes to terrify, scar and haunt our audience of 10,000 daily listeners, then we want your stories! If accepted, we’ll get our fantastic narration team to lend their...
Submission Window: May 1st-15th, 2022 Payment: 1 winner each month will win $10 Canadian Theme: A story at exactly 50-words If you’d like to have a 50-word story that you wrote featured on FiftyWordStories.com, first make sure that you understand exa...
This is post 1 of 9 in the series “The Hammerlock of the Gods” The Hammerlock of the Gods – Pro Wrestling and Horror – Introduction The Hammerlock of the Gods – Pro Wrestling and Horror – Carnivals and the counter culture Scheduled for April 13, 2022...
Deadline: May 9th, 2022 Payment: $30 & 2 print copies of the anthology. Theme: Your interpretation of “Running Away” Ever wish, with every cell in your body, that you could run away? From home, from a person, from your job, from yourself? Physica...
Deadline: May 24th, 2022 Payment: $10 and a contributor’s copy Theme: Tell us what really happened during the dancing plague of 1518 (full details below) The Dancing Plague: Our 4th Collection of Utter Speculation Tentative Deadline: May 24, 2022 Oct...
Deadline: April 30th, 2022 Payment: 10 cents per word Theme: Stories that are joyous, horrific, hopeful, despondent, powerful and subtle. Note: For this issue, only Southeast Asian writers living in Southeast Asia as well as the diaspora. Southeast A...
There are few things more frustrating than trying to come up with a clever, original name for a character in a story or movie. And even fewer things are more aggravating than when the character’s actual name is something as mundane as Jane Smith or J...
Deadline: April 29th, 2022 Payment: $0.30/word up to $390 for new writing, $70 for a single poem or $180 for three poems, $40 for reprint stories or essays, and $20 for reprint poems. Theme: Science, Humour and the Absurd Note: Australian writers or...