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Taking Submissions: In Celebration of Splatterpunk

Taking Submissions: In Celebration of Splatterpunk

Deadline: July 31st, 2022 Payment: $5 Theme: Splatterpunk Another venture into new genre territory for HBB! We know just how much our readers just love their horror stories gushing with blood and spattered with buckets of gore, severed limbs, and disembodied viscera, so here’s your opportunity to scare them rigid and knot their stomachs with your most horrifying tales of death and…

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Queer Sci Fi 2022 Flash Fiction Contest

Queer Sci Fi 2022 Flash Fiction Contest

Deadline: May 1st, 2022 Prizes: The top three winners will receive cash prizes of $75, $50, and $25 respectively Theme: A sci fi, fantasy, paranormal or horror LGBTIQA story that has no more than 300 words with the theme of: Clarity Every year, QSF holds a flash fiction contest to create an amazing new anthology of queer speculative fiction stories. We ask authors to do the nearly-impossible – to…

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Taking Submissions: Broadswords and Blasters Presents: Futures That Never Were (Early Listing)

Taking Submissions: Broadswords and Blasters Presents: Futures That Never Were (Early Listing)

  Submission Window: July 1st to July 15th, 2022 Payment: $40 Theme: Sword and Planet fiction. While the magazine is still in limbo, Broadswords and Blasters is making a return… in the form of an anthology! They’re going with a very underutilized area of science fiction these days and one that might be fun to write for. If you love pulpy sci-fi mixed with a dash of fantasy, this might be just the…

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Ongoing Submissions: Video Nasties

Ongoing Submissions: Video Nasties

Payment: $5 Theme: A short horror story (100-300 words) that would fit on the back of a VHS box! VIDEO NASTIES: MICRO FICTION THAT COULD FIT ON THE BACK OF A VHS DO YOU HAVE A HORRIFIC MICRO TALE THAT COULD FIT ON THE BACK OF A VHS BOX? We love microfiction here at Pyre Magazine, and we miss the video store rental days, so we figured we combine the two in our new series: Video Nasties…

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Taking Submissions: Taking Submissions: Hawaii Speculative Short Story Anthology

Taking Submissions: Taking Submissions: #Hawaii Speculative Short Story Anthology

Deadline: May 15th, 2022 Payment: $50 Theme: Speculative fiction (horror, science fiction, fantasy) that takes place in Hawaii. Note: The author must have ‘some’ connection to Hawaii. Note: Reprints welcome, though might be a hard sell if enough quality original work comes in Theme: Short stories in the genres of fantasy, science fiction, horror, or any mixture thereof, taking place on the…

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Taking Submissions: Gone

Deadline: May 1st, 2022 Payment: £30 payment and a contributors copy Theme: Powerful crime fiction short stories In November 2022, we will publish the first Red Dog Press Crime Fiction Anthology. Edited by Stephen J. Golds, this will be a collection of stories under the title GONE. ​ We are looking for powerful crime fiction short stories, of between 3500 and 6000 words, within all sub-genres of…

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Ongoing Submissions: Ahoy Comics

Ongoing Submissions: Ahoy Comics

Payment: $200 Theme: Smart, weird, funny articles or stories, which run between 500 and 1,500 words. (Tap tap.) Testing, one-two-three? (Tap tap.) Hey, if anybody’s out there, WE HAVE RE-OPENED THE AHOY SHORT FICTION AND COMMENTARY SUBMISSIONS PORTHOLE!  If you write quality short fiction, it’s time to send us your stuff. But first, please consider our Official Ahoy Short Fiction Submission…

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Taking Submissions: Otoroshi Journal 2022 Summer Issue (Early Listing)

Taking Submissions: Otoroshi Journal 2022 Summer Issue (Early Listing)

Submission Window: April 1st-30th, 2022 Payment: $1 per accepted piece Theme: horrorku, horror themed tanka, haibun, see below for details The Submission may include any or all of the following: · Up to seven (7) horrorku or horror tanka [we will rarely publish 5/7/5(7/7)] · Up to three (3) haibun [title + prose + haiku/tanka — no more than 100 words] · Up to five (5) pieces of cover art All…

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