📢 Open Call
The Rotting Leaf – May Window
From @briefecology.bsky.social
📅 May 1–7 (or until 50 subs)
💰 $0.06/word ($30 min)
📏 ≤1,500 words
Theme: eco-fiction and environmental storytelling.
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📢 Open Call for Novellas
Dancing Star Press
📅 Apr 1 to Jun 30
💰 30% paperback | 50% ebook royalties
📏 17.5k to 40k words
Genres: science fiction and fantasy
Focus: diverse, socially aware speculative storytelling.
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📢 Open Call for Horror
The Best of Scottish Horror 2026
📅 Open through July 31
💰 £30 originals | £10 reprints
📏 1k to 10k words
Theme: horror fiction by Scottish writers.
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New Interview!
Ronald Malfi talks about The Hive, suburban dread, obsession, and how ordinary objects can become terrifying.
A storm hits a quiet neighborhood and something strange begins spreading through the community.
Read the interview
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It's our latest #giveaway! Enter today to win 1 of 10 digital copies of Contrition!
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🐰 New Folk Horror Release
The Easter Maidens by Monique Snyman is here.
A perfect life.
A fatal accident.
A strange town where Easter traditions hide something far darker.
From @crystallake.bsky.social.
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#Horror #FolkHorror #DarkFantasy
🔥 New Post-Apocalyptic Horror
A Mother’s Love by @jjsegwis.bsky.social is out now from @blackharepress.bsky.social.
A military experiment mutates animals into monsters.
Florida collapses into chaos.
One mother must cross a dying city to reach her son.
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#Horror
Let 𝘛𝘞𝘍 focus on the small pleasures: chocolate and shopping with Daniel DuBois and an old money purse...😱
Weekly drabbles:
⏲️ Nicolette Ward on night hours
🐙 Alan Moskowitz on night nurses
💍 Daniel Foley on demon rings
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#WeeklyEzine #TremblingWithFea
🔥 New Release
In the Dollhouse We All Wait by @amandamblake.bsky.social is here.
A nanny job in a mansion.
A “child” named Annie.
A house full of dolls and rules you do not break.
Extreme horror from @crystallake.bsky.social’s Torrid Waters imprint.
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Can Art outrun danger? Find out in Chapter Eight of our Serial Saturday, The Chessmen by Shiv Majmudar:
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📢 Upcoming submission window
Dark Forest Press
Novels & Novellas
📅 July 1 to July 31, 2026
💰 50% net royalties
📏 20k to 180k words
Looking for dark, bizarre, and transgressive horror or weird fiction.
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#WritingCommunity #NovelSubmission #CallForSubmissions
Control, Alt, Delete – Memory Wiped An interview with David Watkins By Sarah Elliott ( @sarahelliottwriter.bsky.social )
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📝 New open call
Missed-Fits Anthology
by @calendaroffools.bsky.social
📅 Apr 16 to May 16
💰 $0.08 per word
📏 1,200 to 2,100 words
Theme: something missing, out of place, or that does not fit.
Speculative fiction welcome.
🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submissions-missed-fits/
📚 Ongoing Submissions
Tome & Space
💰 Up to $400 CAD
📏 1,500–6,000 words
Science fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction, thriller, or historical stories with speculative elements.
Details
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You'll want to check our #BookReview of House, Body, Bird by Bernie Jean ( @bernie-jsyk.bsky.social )👍
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📢 Open Call for Speculative Horror
Beyond the Red Line Anthology
Editor: @robgrim.bsky.social
📅 Apr 1 to Jun 30
💰 $10 + D2D royalty share + contributor copy
📏 2k to 6k words
Theme: redlining, segregation, and marginalized communities facing supernatural horrors.
🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi...
One week left for submissions!
Our general submissions for Issue 2 are NOW OPEN until April 21st!
If you are a 2SLGBTQIA+ writer, send us your work! You can submit one story and up to three poems. Wondering what we like? Issue 1 is free to read on our site! But please don't self-reject—we can't wait to read your work 🗡️🪐🌈
📢 Open Call for Speculative Fiction
Climbing High: Speculative Stories of Female Ambition
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
📅 Open through May 3
💰 $0.08 per word
📏 ~2k to 4k words
Theme: female ambition and achievement in speculative storytelling.
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Writing Prompt Wednesdays: Howling to the Moon from @corinnepwriter.bsky.social
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🌽 Taking Submissions
Sley House Publications Patreon May 2026 Window
📅 May 1-3, 2026
💰 $35 per accepted piece
📏 Up to 6,000 words
Theme: Tales from the Midwest
Speculative fiction, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, magical realism, and genre blends.
Details
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✈️ Taking Submissions
Wish You Were Here
Horror anthology about vacations gone wrong.
📅 Deadline: May 1, 2026
💰 $30 CAD + contributor copy
📏 Up to 7,000 words
Details
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#WritingSubmissions #HorrorWriting #ShortStories
Check out our #BookReview of Pleading His Belly on Zakon-4 by E.J. Leroy
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🧠 Ongoing Submissions
What Sleeps Beneath
💰 Essays: $0.05/word
💰 Reviews: $0.03/word
📏 Essays: 1,200–2,500 words
📏 Reviews: 800–1,200 words
Horror criticism, analysis, and commentary.
Details
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📢 Open Call for Horror Stories
A Midnight Kind of Place Anthologies
📅 Open through July 31
💰 £30 originals | £10 reprints
📏 1k to 10k words
Theme: stories centered on rats, wasps, or spiders.
🔗 horrortree.com/a-midnight-k...
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📚 Taking Submissions
Quest Magazine #2
Theme: Power
💰 $250 stories & essays
💰 $100 poetry
📅 Feb 15 – Apr 15
Speculative fiction exploring arcane, technological, and institutional power.
Details
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We reviewed The Tryst: The Red Thread Saga Book One by L Marie Wood
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Every time we post about submissions, new people like, repost, and in some cases submit.
🩸 🩸 Trembling With Fear 🩸 🩸
This week, Jenny Hart takes us on a heart-wrenching exploration of corporate reanimation.
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