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May, 2017 Market Listings/ Notes
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Welcome
to Miskatonic University (Broken Eye Books)
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 3,000 – 6,000 words (and flash fiction, 1,000 words or less)
Deadline: June 30, 2017
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Miskatonic University is still going strong in the Arkham Valley (and in
various satellite campuses and research stations around the world). Looking for tales
that combine college life and the cosmic weird. Of course, there's beer, sex,
and parties; study groups and all-night cramming; campus activism and
impassioned discourse; vital research and faculty struggling for tenure. But
also, you know, gruesome and psychedelic cosmic weirdness; weird fiction set in
a modern-day Miskatonic University. Stories should be set within or be
inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos.
The Forge Literary
Magazine
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: Generally 3,000 words
or less, but may be open to a bit longer. Flash is also highly appreciated
(1,000 words or less).
Deadline: Continually open
Reprints?: No
Response: 3 months or less
Description: Prose Fiction--Open
to all genres and voices, and stories with any background. Literary excellence
is our only criteria. Pieces read anonymously, so please do not put your
name anywhere in the file.
Strange Beasties
anthology (Third Flatiron)
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: 1,500 – 3,000 words
Deadline: May 15 - July 15, 2017
Reprints?: No
Response: up to eight weeks
Description: Slipstream. Are you itching to invent your own odd literary devices or
creatures? Impress us, delight us, or scare us with the diversity of your
fiendish creations. Creatures of the id don't necessarily have to be monsters,
but they do need to be strange. We'd fancy some ghostbusters and monster
hunters too.
Flash Fiction Online
Payment: $60 flat (= 6 cents/ word+)
Story Length: 500 to 1,000 words
Deadline: Intermittently open
Reprints?: Yes (payment at 2 cents/ word)
Response: Within one month
Description: A very short but complete story of flash fiction. Strong, interesting
characters, in genres of dark sci-fi, fantasy, paranormal, crime, horror, and
even literary.
Orson Scott Card's
Intergalactic Medicine Show
http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag.cgi?do=content&article=submissions
Payment: 6 cents a
word
Story Length: up to
17,500 words
Deadline: Intermittent
Reprints?: No
Response: Three
months
Description: Science
fiction, fantasy, and horror (in the sense of supernatural suspense, not gory
blood-fests). stories. Well-developed milieus and believable, engaging
characters. We also look for clear, unaffected writing (Follow the PG-13
standard as a model for content restriction).
Chicken Soup for the
Soul – “My Crazy Family!” (NON-HORROR,
NON-FICTION)
Payment: $200 plus ten copies of the book
Story Length: to 1,200 words. Poetry: open line count.
Deadline: June 30, 2017
Reprints?: No (some exceptions allowed)
Response: NO rejections sent out. Assume rejection if not heard 60 days before
date of publication.
Description: We do love our families but they can also drive us crazy! It’s fun to
read about all those wacky relatives and compare them to our own. These true
stories, either serious or hilarious, will touch your heart or make you laugh…
or both. They will make you see that other families are not that different from
your own, and that when push comes to shove, we all need our crazy families.
**This above market also open to
separate submission calls for non-fiction stories on Redemption; Christmas
Cheer; and other topics. ADDED HERE as I know several horror writers have
broken into non-genre works through this.
***Non-PRO-Paying
Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of the Month”
The Beauty of Death
2—Death by Water (ed. by Alessandro Manzetti and Jodi Renée Lester)
Payment: $100 flat
Story Length: 4,000 – 5,000
words
Deadline: September 1, 2017
Reprints?: No
Response: 1 month
Description: Stories that fit
the theme: Death by Water. All types of horror are welcome. Sex or violence in
a story should be artistically justified; no excessive gore. No stories about
child abuse of any kind. We welcome all subgenres and forms of speculative
fiction..
