Monday, May 15, 2017

May, 2017 Dark Fiction Short Story Market Listings/ Notes

Here are some genre short story market listings with a focus on Dark Fiction that I find interesting, are currently open, and pay a minimum professional rate of five (5) cents per word:


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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 RenĂ©e 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..


Wednesday, May 3, 2017

New Release in Issue #5 of Gamut Magazine


NEW RELEASE! I’ve written an article for Issue #5 of Gamut Magazine (May), titled: “The Five Human Senses in Modern Horror Short Fiction.” This is a tie-in article to my forthcoming anthology, The Five Senses of Horror, scheduled for publication in June, 2017 from Dark Moon Books. Gamut is a pay online magazine, available here: http://gamut.online/memberships