I’ve come to the incomprehensible (startling! shocking, even!) conclusion that I age… I’ve been using the same author photo since 2011, when I started pursuing writing, and for 11 years since have looked upon it as if I were Dorian Gray. The great and obvious truth is that I don’t look anything like I did back then. So here with the holidays, I’m trying out a new author photo that matches the reflection in the mirror. Voila and behold: Eric J. Guignard!
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Dark Moon Books will be opening soon for anthology H/DF short story submissions for +HORROR LIBRARY+ VOLUME 8!
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Non-themed, imaginative, dark tales
•
2 cents/word
•
No reprints
• Approximate 1,500–5,000 word count
• Open Jan. 16–Jan. 30 only
• 30-day response
• Read previous volumes to determine what the
editor likes
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Details here: http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/Submissions.html
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Quick, nice interview of me by Steve Stred
as part of his 3Q's series!
https://stevestredauthor.wordpress.com/2022/12/23/3qs-eric-j-guignard-is-a-potential-time-traveler/
Just informed I’ve been nominated for "This Is HorrorAwards 2021”!
What a thrill, especially as it’s my second time nominated.
Thanks as always to the tireless promo and support of indie horror by This Is Horror.
My nomination is for the anthology: PROFESSOR CHARLATAN
BARDOT’S TRAVEL ANTHOLOGY TO THE MOST (FICTIONAL) HAUNTED BUILDINGS IN THE
WEIRD, WILD WORLD.
Voting is open to the public herein:
https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/this-is-horror-awards-2021-vote-now/
***
#ericjguignard #ericguignard #Booksofericjguignard #darkmoonbooks #horror #bookstagram #fantasy #darkfantasy #darkfiction #diversity #anthology #CharlatanBardot #hauntings #hauntedbuildings #horrorstories #horrorshortstories #shortstories #promotebooks #professorcharlatanbardotstravelanthology #professorcharlatanbardot
Great time attending and participating in LOSCON 48 (Los Angeles) over
the weekend! Thanks so much to the volunteers who put it on. The Con was VERY
well organized with an army of support staff to assist. There was a huge track
of programming revolving around science fiction and fantasy, as well as pop
culture, writing, technology, song, dance, costuming, gaming, and more. This
was my first time going, and I was very impressed with the experience.
I sat in on a ton of panels, but only took pics of a few. Besides selling and signing books in the dealer's room, my own speaking schedule was expansive.
I was...
* Moderator and fill-in panelist for: “Capturing Fear: How To Write Great
Horror” with Deborah Daughetee and Brian Fitzpatrick.
* Panelist for: “The Dark Side of Fantasy” with Brandie June and Erin Rado,
moderated by L. K. (Leanne Kathleen) Ingino.
* Moderator for “The Twilight Zone: A Wondrous Land of Imagination” with
panelists Steven Barnes, Lynn Barker, and Denise Dumars
* Panelist for “How to Find and Keep Track of the Publishing Markets” along with
James C. Glass, moderated by Kristen Renee Gorlitz.
* Moderator for “How to succeed at NaNoWriMo,” which evolved into more of an
interview of NaNoWriMo professional Rebecca Inch-Partridge, who also
implemented in-class learning for attendees.
Thanks so much to Nick Smith, Michelle Pincus, Kristen Renee Gorlitz, and all the other committee members and convention volunteers of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society (LASFS) who made this con a success!
HWA L.A.: For December, 2022
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)
Paramnesia (anthology,
edited by Grendel Press)
https://grendelpress.com/anthology-submissions/
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: 3,000–7,000 words
Deadline: January 1, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: January 31, 2023
Description: Short stories related
to “Paramnesia,” a condition or phenomenon involving distorted memory or
confusions of fact and fantasy, such as confabulation or déjà vu. NOTE: See website for other upcoming
anthology calls, of Dark Fantasy, Horror, and Romance.
https://submission.amazingstoriesmag.com/
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 1,500
Deadline: January 2, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Flash fiction stories
set in the future and revolving around Sol, including planets, moons,
asteroids, Oort and Kuiper).
Literally Dead: Tales of Holiday
Hauntings anthology, edited by Gaby Triana)
https://www.alienhead-entertainment.com/submissions
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: 2,000–4,000 words
Deadline: January 20, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Short stories of
classic paranormal, poltergeists, ghosts, spirits, haunted places and objects,
and the eerily unexplained that take place on or around the winter holidays.
Real Stories of the US Space Force
(Baen Books)
https://cstuarthardwick.com/ussf-call-for-submissions/
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 10,000 words
Deadline: January 22, 2023 (or until
full)
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Science fiction short
stories and fact articles illustrating current and future near-Earth
space-related threats and dispelling misconceptions about America’s newest
service branch… Scientifically plausible drama about people facing interesting
challenges related to the US Space Force or more generally, the policing and
defense of near-Earth space and related issues, now or in the foreseeable
future (the next century or so).
Solarpunk Magazine
https://solarpunkmagazine.com/submissions/
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 500–7,500 words
Deadline: Open between January
1–January 14, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Stories that strive for
a utopian ideal, that are set in futures where communities are optimistically
struggling to solve or adapt to climate change, to create or maintain a world
in which humanity, technology, and nature coexist in harmony rather than in
conflict, etc. Also open to poetry and non-fiction.
https://uncharted.submittable.com/submit
Payment: $200 flat
Story Length: 1,000–5,000 words
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: Yes (but no pay)
Response: Three months
Description: Any type of genre
story: Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction, Crime, Fantasy, etc. (see submission
page for additional themed 1-time calls).
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of
the Month”
https://www.3lobedmag.com/submissions.html
Payment: $100 flat
Story Length: 1,000–7,500 words
Deadline: Ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response Time: within 3 months
Description: Non-themed, original
speculative fiction: horror, fantasy, and science fiction.
https://dmrbooks.com/submissions
Payment: 1 cent a word
Story Length: 4,000–8,000 words
Deadline: December 31, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Unthemed, original
sword-and-sorcery short stories (i.e. generally combining swashbuckling
adventure with supernatural elements).
I’ve
been remiss in keeping up with my blog, so first up is something I already
shared on social media a few weeks ago, but for the blogosphere record, here t’is:
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I can’t
believe I just (co-) WON the revered Shirley Jackson Award!!!
This for: Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (published by Dark Moon Books) with
Charlatan Bardot!!!
I was
screaming with excitement, I almost fainted! THANK YOU!!!!
Thank
you to all contributors who were a part of this creative journey. There were 63
authors involved, 2 artists, and, of course, my editing counterpart, Professor Charlatan Bardot (who also wishes to extend his gratitude).
Thank
you also to the jurors, readers, reviewers, and other supporters.
And
congratulations also to Unfettered Hexes:
Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness who shares this award with me as a “tie”.
More
here: http://darkmoonbooks.com/travel_anthology.html
And
here: https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/
AND!! I uploaded my virtual acceptance video, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu51v3SGdRU
***
#ericjguignard
#ericguignard #Booksofericjguignard #darkmoonbooks #horror #bookstagram
#fantasy #darkfantasy #darkfiction #diversity #anthology #CharlatanBardot
#hauntings #hauntedbuildings #horrorstories #horrorshortstories #shortstories
#promotebooks #professorcharlatanbardotstravelanthology
#professorcharlatanbardot #shirleyjacksonaward #shirleyjacksonawards
I received my first-ever-nomination to the revered Shirley Jackson Awards! It’s an incredible honor and I’m overjoyed for this recognition in the category of anthology for Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World, published last November by Dark Moon Books.
Thank you to all contributors who were a part of this creative journey. There were 63 authors involved, 2 artists, and, of course, my editing counterpart, Professor Charlatan Bardot (who also wishes to extend his gratitude).
Thank you also to the jurors, readers, reviewers, and other supporters.
And congratulations also to many other friends and authors I admire who are on this year’s list!
More here: https://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/nominees/
#ericjguignard #ericguignard #Booksofericjguignard #darkmoonbooks #horror #bookstagram #fantasy #darkfantasy #darkfiction #diversity #anthology #CharlatanBardot #hauntings #hauntedbuildings #horrorstories #horrorshortstories #shortstories #promotebooks #professorcharlatanbardotstravelanthology #professorcharlatanbardot #ShirleyJacksonAwards
HWA L.A.: For September, 2022
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)
Crack in the Code:
Cybernated Stories of Rebellion
https://mochamemoirspress.com/write-for-us/
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 7,500 words
Deadline: September 30, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: November 30, 2022
Description: Science fiction and
fantasy stories where the androids, robots, and/or cyborgs have been naughty,
going off programming, cracking their internal code, etc. Give us dramatic
stories, mischievous stories, stories that stun, but not offend us… where the
artificial lives become alive and share their stories.
Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi,
Fantasy, and Horror Anthology (Shortwave Media)
https://obsolescencebook.com/submission-guidelines
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: 2,000–5,000 words
Deadline: September 16, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: Mid-November, 2022
Description: Submissions focused on
horrifying or fantastical interactions with technology. How you incorporate the
theme in your story is up to you. We want to stress the definition of
“technology” ranges from modern smartphones and smart house IOT devices, back
to some of humanity’s earliest inventions, like the wheel or the written word
itself.
Merciless Mermaids: Tails from the
Deep (ed. by Edited by Kevin J. Anderson and Allyson Longueira)
https://wordfirewestern.moksha.io/publication/merciless-mermaids-tails-from-the-deep/guidelines
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Open: August 31, 2022–October 7,
2022
Reprints?: No
Response: December, 2022
Description: Stories about
malevolent and merciless merfolk of all kinds. Give us your mermaids who fought
for the wrong reasons, made tough by their circumstances or by their own
choices. Show us their schemes and villainous wiles, the fairytales that end in
blood. Or laughter. Tempt us with their twisted workings across time and space,
colors and creeds.
Aniko Magazine (Issue 4)
https://www.anikopress.com/submit
Payment: $125 AUD flat
Story Length: up to 1,500 words (or
50 lines of poetry)
Deadline: September 15, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: The theme of Issue 4 is
“Double.” Think doppelgängers, body doubles, déjà vu. What does it mean to live
a double life? Explore double crosses, double standards or double-edged swords.
Or name a more iconic duo - we’ll wait. Have us seeing double! To include poetry,
flash fiction, short stories and creative nonfiction.
Tiny Tales (Podcast)
https://www.tinytalespodcast.com/submissions
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: 500–1,200 words
Deadline: September 7, 2022
Reprints?: Yes, as long as not previously
published in audio form
Response: unknown
Description: Fantastic, bizarre, and
enthralling fiction stories to turn into podcast episodes.
https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/submissions/
Payment: 8 cents/ word original; 2 cents/ word reprint (range for
non-fiction)
Story Length: 1,000–40,000
words (focus on shorter form)
Deadline: Opens the 1st and 2nd day only of each
month.
Reprints?: Yes
Response: abt. 2 months
Description: Well written original stories in science fiction, fantasy,
myth, fairy tales, and eldritch; in written, podcast, video, and/or graphic
story form, and from around the world. We care about character, plot, ideas, and
storytelling ability. We accept both serious and humorous work (no horror).
Also interested in non-fiction.
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of
the Month”
https://pressfuls.com/about
Payment: 3 cents a word
Story Length: 2,000–3,000 words
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: 6 weeks
Description: Original horror,
Fantasy, Sci-fi, and Crime/Mystery short stories.
https://smallbeerpress.com/about/submission-guidelines/
Payment: 3 cents a word
Story Length: up to 6,000 words
Deadline: ongoing/ intermittent
Reprints?: No
Response: within 6 months
Description: NOTE: PAPER SUBMISSIONS
ONLY (no email): Non-themed literary speculative fiction (no gore, sword and
sorcery, or erotica), as well as non-fiction, poetry, and black and white art.
Apparition
Lit
https://apparitionlit.com/submissions/
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: 1,000–5,000 words
Deadline: August 15-31, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: by the 15th day of the
following month after submissions close
Description: Speculative fiction
that meet our quarterly theme. Speculative fiction is weird, almost
unclassifiable. It’s fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and literary. Send us stories
with enough emotional heft to break a heart, with prose that’s as clear and
delicious as broth. We’re looking for proactive characters and beautiful
language, all wrapped up in a complete story. Month of August Theme = NOSTALGIA.
https://www.assemblemedia.com/artifacts
Payment: 8–10 cents a word
Story Length: “at least” 5,000 words
(soft range)
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: Responses only for
acceptance. Assume rejection if no response after 90 days.
Description: Stories of wonder and
suspense that also reflect contemporary issues and incite meaningful
conversation. (*NOTE: Submitters, double-check the rights that are being sold
with work).
Diabolical Plots ezine
https://www.diabolicalplots.com/guidelines/
Payment: 10 cents a word
Story Length: 3,500 or less
Deadline: Open between July 24–August 1, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response Time: One month after end of submission window
Description: telepathy stories of every shape and style. Stories might
be as intimate as mind-readers in love, forever seeing themselves through their
lover’s eyes; or as harrowing as a telepath on the battlefield, drowned in
every iota of pain, fear and grief felt for miles. They might be as bizarre as
telepathy tourism from alien planets, all cognitive connoisseurs who find
humans to have a particularly piquant mindset; or as familiar as a job
interview, which has simply gained a new mental level to spar upon.
Dracula Beyond Stoker: Issue 2:
Renfield
https://www.dbspress.com/submissions
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: 1,500–5,000 words
Deadline: January 15, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: Unknown, but reported as
generally between 30 and 60 days.
Description: The best new fiction
based on Stoker’s characters, locations, and themes. This issue: Give us your
best Renfield story. Everybody’s favorite flyman is such a rich character, yet
we know so little about him. Who do you think he is?
Dark Recesses Magazine
http://darkrecessespress.com/submissions/
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: 500–5,000 words
Deadline: Revolving submission
periods. Current widow is through August 15.
Reprints?: No
Response: Up to 12 weeks
Description: Non-themed horror/dark
fiction pieces.
WEBSITE (No mention of
Submissions): https://www.borderlandspress.com/
Social Media Submissions
Post): https://www.facebook.com/tom.monteleone.1/posts/pfbid02UJCkwFcxiubiDxpnbGqT5hoUFchLJR4biSQ4zV3s3zgDUBw7aRhvCCarZwEnyo8el
Payment: 5–7 cents a word
Story Length: No limit. (Suggested 2,000–5,000
words)
Deadline: No deadline. “Until
Filled”
Reprints?: No
Response: Up to 3 months
Description: Original, weird/ horror
fiction. NOTE: Submissions are to be postal mailed in only; no email.
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of
the Month”
https://theevilcookie.com/pages/submissions
Payment: 3 cents a word
Story Length: up to 3,000 words
Deadline: August 1–October 1, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: generally within 30 days
Description: Short stories filled
with gore, splatter, and extreme horror: Water, Extreme Horror, Splatterpunk,
Dark Humor.
https://www.bourbonpenn.com/submissions
Payment: 3 cents a word
Story Length: 2,000–7,500 words
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: up to 3 months
Description: Highly imaginative
stories with a healthy dose of the odd. Odd characters, odd experiences, odd
realities. We’re looking for genre / speculative stories and are quite partial
to slipstream, cross-genre, magic realism, absurdist, and the surreal.
This week I learned that I was nominated to the 2022 World Fantasy Awards!!! To say I am insanely thrilled and honored for this recognition would be an understatement. I have long followed and admired the World Fantasy Awards and recipients, and it’s the realization of a dream to be named among such highly-esteemed peers. I’ve been named a finalist in the category of anthology for my book Professor Charlatan Bardot's Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World, published last November by Dark Moon Books.
Thank you to all contributors who were a part of this creative journey. There were 63 authors involved, 2 artists, and, of course, my editing counterpart, Professor Charlatan Bardot (who also wishes to extend his gratitude).
Thank you also to the judges, readers, reviewers, and other supporters!
And congratulations also to many other friends and authors I admire who are on this year’s ballot, such as Jeffrey Ford, Eugen Bacon, Ellen Datlow, Paula Guran, Usman Mlk, Angela Slatter, Liz Hand, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and so many others!
And this coming on the back of a 2021 Bram Stoker Award in category of anthology, and I can safely say this book is still going strong! I'm so proud of it!
More here: https://locusmag.com/2022/07/2022-world-fantasy-awards-finalists/
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Cosmic Horror Monthly
https://www.cosmichorrormonthly.com/submissions/
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: 1,000–6,000 words
(preference of 3,000–5,000)
Deadline: Open from July 1–July 7,
2022
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Cosmic Horror,
Lovecraftian, Weird stories, etc. Lovecraftian themes and mythos works are welcomed
but try to avoid Lovecraft pastiche and styles mimicking that of his writer
circle from the early 20th century; we are strongly favoring stories with a
contemporary narrative style.
https://www.seizethepress.com/submissions/
Payment: British 6 pence a word (abt. 8 cents a word
US)
Story Length: up to 2,000 words
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: 30 days
Description: Dark speculative
fiction and anticapitalist sci-fi, fantasy and horror pop culture analysis.
Neon, dragons and gore. Bleak science fiction, dark fantasy and horror (No
moralizing, No happy endings).
https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/alternate-history-call-for-submissions-0-0
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 2,000–4,000 words
(soft range)
Deadline: July 11, 2022
Reprints?: Yes (paid at 6 cents a
word)
Response: generally 3 months
Description: Every angle of
alternate history from ancient worlds to distant futures, world wars, steampunk
and more. What if the course of history had been changed by a different
decision, a different victor, a different invention? Reimagine the world around
us – some examples just to give you an idea: What if the Ancient Egyptians had
conquered Rome? What if World War II had been won by the loser, not the
victors? What if women had ruled the world for 4,000 years not men? The options
are limitless for tales of true originality and with a vivid sense of
realism...
Apex Magazine
http://www.apex-magazine.com/submission-guidelines
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 7,500 words
Deadline: Ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: One month
Description: Exceptionally well-written Science fiction, fantasy,
horror, and all its sub-genres.
Little Blue Marble
https://littlebluemarble.ca/submission-guidelines
Payment: 11 cents a word
(Canadian; translates to about 8 cents/word)
Story Length: up to 2,000 words (reprints
allowed up to 5,000 words at <1 cent/ word)
Deadline: Intermittent (currently
set to close July 31, 2022)
Reprints?: No
Response: up to 12 weeks
Description: Speculative fiction
that examines humanity’s possible futures living with anthropogenic climate
change. We prefer fiction with a hopeful outlook, but the occasional dystopia
might fit too.
https://adamant.moksha.io/publication/fantasy/guidelines
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: Up to 7,500 words
(preferred less than 5,000)
Deadline: Open from July 1–July 7,
2022 (open to BIPOC authors year-round)
Reprints?: No
Response: within 3 months
Description: Exceptional original
fantasy and dark fantasy stories (including horror).
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of
the Month”
https://mythulu.submittable.com/submit
Payment: 4 cents a word (up
to $75)
Story Length: 500–2,800 words
Deadline: October 1, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: 90 days
Description: “Utterly unique” stories
that brilliantly demonstrate the specific storycraft skill we’re teaching in
each issue. Concept and clarity are more important than prose.
CURRENT THEME: Submit co-authored stories in any genre. (Also looking
for non-fiction commentary and experiences with co-created projects.)
https://34orchard.com/guidelines
Payment: $50 flat
Story Length: 1,000–5,000 words
Deadline: July 1, 2022–July 15, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: August 31, 2022
Description: Dark, intense pieces
that speak to a deeper truth. We’re not genre-specific; we just like scary,
disturbing, unsettling, and sad.
HWA L.A.: June, 2022
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)
Shakespeare Unleashed (edited by
James Aquilone)
https://www.jamesaquilone.com/submissions
Payment: 6 cents a word (or
$35 flat for sonnet)
Story Length: 1,500–6,000 words
Deadline: July 22, 2022–August 31,
2022
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Horror stories based on
Shakespeare's plays and characters, as well as horror sonnets: Dark and scary
stories — no parodies or humor pieces. Stories can be set in time periods other
than the Elizabethan era, and can be updated or reimagined or merely “based
on.”
https://brigidsgatepress.com/submissions
Payment: 8 cents a word (or
$50 flat for poem; $50 flat for drabble)
Story Length: 500–3,500 words
(poetry to 350 words; drabbles of 100 words)
Deadline: June 30, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Horror or dark fantasy
stories, poems, and drabbles about malevolent mermaids, sinister sirens, scary
selkies, spirits, and other deadly and dangerous women of the sea. Stories
including the ocean or sea are the focus of the anthology, but we will consider
stories involving rivers as well.
https://vastarien-journal.com/submission-guidelines
Payment: 5
cents a word
Story Length: Nonfiction 2,000–7,500 words; Fiction 750–6,000 words
Deadline: June 1, 2022–June
30, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: Two months
Description: Scholarly and/or critical articles pertaining
to Ligotti or associated authors (see below) or the kind of thematic and
topical issues in which we’re interested; OR: Original fiction or poetry or art
inspired by Ligottian and/or related themes.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
https://www.themysteryplace.com/eqmm/guidelines/
Payment: 5-8 cents a word
Story Length: 2,500–8,000 words soft
range (additionally, ‘Minute Mysteries’ of as little as 250 words)
Deadline: Ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: Three months
Description: (No Horror, but Mystery and Crime) Every kind of mystery
short story: the psychological suspense tale, the deductive puzzle, the private
eye case—the gamut of crime and detection from the realistic (including the
policeman's lot and stories of police procedure) to the more imaginative
(including "locked rooms" and "impossible crimes"). We need
hard-boiled stories as well as "cozies."
Baffling Magazine (published by Neon
Hemlock)
https://www.bafflingmag.com/submissions
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: under 1,200 words
(preference under 500 words)
Deadline: Opens June 1, 2022–to
close unknown (presume June 15, 2022, per the previous year)
Reprints?: No
Response: up to 5 months
Description: Speculative stories
that explore science fiction, fantasy, and horror with a queer bent. We welcome
weird, slipstream, and interstitial writing.
https://thedeadlands.com/guidelines/#fiction
Payment: 10 cents a word (1
cent for reprints)
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
(preferably 3,000–4,000 words)
Deadline: ongoing or intermittent
(currently open)
Reprints?: Yes
Response: unknown
Description: Speculative fiction
stories about death, or what death may involve. EX: A ghost in a shadowed wood.
An afterlife discovered through a rusted door. An abandoned house in the middle
of a haunted field. A skeletal figure moving with intent toward something unseen.
Death personified; stories from a worldwide perspective, different cultures,
different approaches to death.
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of
the Month”
https://perpetualpublishing.com/2022/05/21/now-open-for-submissions-night-frights-a-ya-horror-magazine/
Payment: 3 cents a word
Story Length: up to 3,500 words
Deadline: August 1, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: After September 1, 2022
Description: Stories with complex
characters and new ideas. Scare us. But also, inspire young readers into a
lifelong obsession with the genre.
https://www.mythicmag.com/p/submissions.html
Payment: 1 cent a word ($25
flat for reprint)
Story Length: 2,000–5,000 words
Deadline: June 1, 2022–June 30, 2022
Reprints?: Yes
Response: unknown (estimated 3
months)
Description: Diverse sci-fi and
fantasy fiction. All types and sub-genres, particularly views of the future and
realms of the fantastic that don't necessarily involve quasi-medieval settings.
HWA L.A.: May, 2022
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)
Literally
Dead (Halloween Ghost) anthology, edited by Gaby Triana)
https://www.gabytriana.com/alienheadpresssubmissions
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: 2,000–4,000 words
Deadline: May 31, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Short stories of
classic paranormal, poltergeists, ghosts, spirits, haunted places and objects,
and the eerily unexplained that take place on or around Halloween. Bonus points
if they’re about families, siblings, longtime pals, or pets. Just creepy and
dark ghosts!
https://spacefantasymag.com/submission-guidelines/
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 1,250 words
Deadline: May 30, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Space fantasy flash
fiction—Give us your living planets, stardust-peddling witches, and quantum
ghosts. We want stories that challenge our relationship with space—past,
present, and future. Show us new mythologies and undiscovered gods. Show us
what emerges from a black hole when its egg finally cracks. Show us the place
where science becomes magic.
Hidden Villains: Arise (anthology by Inkd
Pub)
https://inkdpub.com/submissions/
Payment: between 5 and 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 7,000 words
Opens From: June 1, 2022–August 31,
2022
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: old, imaginative
fantasy, horror, and sci-fi sculpted to thrill and entertain readers with the
bizarre or delve into the shadows; looking for engaging stories with
well-developed characters and deep emotion with focus on the “rising” of a
villain.
Campfire Macabre: Volume 2
https://cemeterygatesmedia.com/submissions/
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 500–1,500 words
Opens From: June 1, 2022–August 15,
2022
Reprints?: No
Response: Unknown. Assume rejection
if no response after 90 days.
Description: Flash horror fiction.
SEE PUBLISHER WEBSITE. There are 5 specific themes to write toward!
Fiends in the Furrows III: Final
Harvest (Published by Nosetouch Press)
https://www.nosetouchpress.com/call/
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: 3,500–7,000 words
Deadline: July 31, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Folk Horror from around
the world; isolation, paranoia, depravity, loss of individuality, and rustic
madness, etc.
https://reckoning.press/submit
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 20,000 words
Deadline: September 22, 2022
Reprints?: Query first
Response: 1 to 4 months
Description: Creative writing about
environmental justice. Diverse fiction stories (and poetry) including a
speculative element: Searingly personal, visceral, idiosyncratic understanding
of the world and the people in it as it has been, as it is, as it will be, as
it could be, as a consequence of humanity’s relationship with the earth.
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of
the Month”
https://bcubedpress.moksha.io/publication/madam-president/guidelines
Payment: 3 cents a word
Story Length: up to 7,500 words
(with a preference below 5,000)
Deadline: June 30, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Alternate History
and/or Speculative Fiction: An anthology about leadership. How did having to
fight for staff of power affect how is wielded.
Not just from the women who fought these battles, but for the very
people engaged, one side, or another who stood for or against those principles
that made it possible for the writing on
the office door to say Madam President. Looking for: Good writing, imaginative
scenarios, and a good bit of humor in stories.
https://www.commontonguezine.com/guidelines-submissions/
Payment: 3 cents a word
Story Length: 500–7,000 words
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: Unknown
Description: Dark fantasy magazine
aiming to bring cultural and integral voices to fantasy and diversify the
genre. Primarily interested in Fantasy (esp. High Fantasy) with a dark theme.
HWA L.A.: March, 2022
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)
The Librarian
(anthology, Air and Nothingness Press)
http://aanpress.com/submissions.html
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 1,000–3,000 words
Open From: May 1, 2022–June 30, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: September 15, 2022
Description: A librarian's
adventures roving through the multiverse: The Librarian travels the multiverse
(along the timeline - past through the future - and across planetary systems
and universes) helping out people, societies, and those in need, with their
questions, problems, and research (as librarians do). Looking for positive,
hopeful stories with positive endings, and narratives that celebrate
librarians.
https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/p/submissions.html?m=1
Payment: $50 flat rate
Story Length: 750–1,000 words
Deadline: May 1, 2022–May 3, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: NO rejections sent out. Assume rejection if not heard 10 days after close
of submission window.
Description: Fairy tales that are
almost or entirely new or are just new takes on old tales are all welcome.
Mashups of existing fairy tales are welcome as well. CURRENT THEME: Weather.”
Ahoy Comics
https://comicsahoy.com/submissions
Payment: $200 flat rate
Story Length: 500–1,500 words
Deadline: Intermittent
Reprints?: No
Response: Six weeks (sometimes up to
three months)
Description: Smart, weird, funny
articles or stories; short fiction for mature readers, pieces that uphold the
story-telling legacy of comics. It could be a delirious rant, a personal
anecdote, a tale of horror or even poetry. It can be about anything, but we
have a soft spot for submissions with a dash of humor. These stories can be
political, but they must not be based on events that might be outdated by the
time we publish. Whatever the subject, it must still be relevant a year from
now.
Orion’s Belt (online magazine)
https://www.orions-belt.net/submissions
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 1,200 words
Deadline: September 1, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: generally within one week
Description: Bold, experimental
literary science fiction and fantasy stories that blur the line between “genre”
fiction and literary fiction.
Mother: Tales of Love and Terror
anthology (Weird Little Worlds)
https://weirdlittleworlds.com/submissions/
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: 1,000–3,000 words
Deadline: Open between April 15–May
15, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: There is no one with
more power and control over the fate of the world than a mother. Whether it’s
an evil stepmother or a virtuous mother-to-be, there are stories inherent in
the acts of mothering and being mothered; mothers become heroes and villains.
The concept of motherhood is examined and stretched to its ultimate limits
across time, space, gender, location, and concept. Deliciously dark, each tale
forces us to examine the depth and breadth of what motherhood is and what a
mother will do for her offspring.
All:
Payment: 8 cents a word/
original; $100 flat rate for reprints
Story Length: 1,500–6,000 words
(preferred 4,500 words or less)
Deadline: Intermittent (each market opens as needs)
Reprints?: Yes
Response: Up to three months
1. PodCastle (Fantasy Fiction Podcast)
http://podcastle.org/guidelines/
Description: Publishes in both
text and audio. Looking for fantasy stories. We’re open to all the sub-genres
of fantasy, from magical realism to urban fantasy to slipstream to high
fantasy, and everything in between.
2. Cast of Wonders (Y.A. Fantasy Fiction Podcast)
http://www.castofwonders.org/submissions/schedule
Description: Stories that evoke a sense of wonder and have something unreal about
them. We aim for a 12-17 age range: that means sophisticated, non-condescending
stories with wide appeal, and without explicit sex, violence or pervasive
obscene language. Think Harry Potter or The Hunger Games.
3. Escape Pod (Science Fiction Podcast)
http://escapepod.org/guidelines/short-fiction
Description: Our mandate is fun. We are fairly flexible on what counts
as “science” (as we’ll delve into superheroes or steampunk on occasion) and are
interested in exploring the range of the genre, but we are not looking for
fantasy, magical realism, or more than a tinge of horror. If your story isn’t
centered on science, technology, future projections, alternate history, and how
any or all of these things intersect with people, we’re probably not the right
market for it.
4. Pseudopod (Horror Fiction Podcast)
http://pseudopod.org/submissions
Description: Horror: dark, weird fiction. We run the spectrum from grim realism or
crime drama, to magic-realism, to blatantly supernatural dark fantasy. We
publish highly literary stories reminiscent of Poe or Lovecraft as well as
vulgar shock-value pulp fiction; strong pacing, well-defined characters,
engaging dialogue, and clear action.
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of
the Month”
http://ttapress.com/blackstatic/guidelines/
Payment: 3 cents a word
(ESTIMATE, as it can vary)
Story Length: up to 10,000 words
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: usually within 2 weeks;
but up to 3 months
Description: Non-themed, general
audience, thoughtful horror.
https://translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions
Payment: 3 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: April 15, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: 60 days after the
submission period has closed
Description: Stories that are fun
and have a speculative element to them. Swashbuckling adventure, deadly intrigue,
and gleeful romance are some of the most obvious examples of what we’re looking
for, but we won’t say no to more subtle or complicated topics.
New book release today by DarkMoon
Books!!
Presenting the NEW horror anthology:
+HORROR LIBRARY+ VOLUME 7
The
+Horror Library+ anthologies are internationally praised as a groundbreaking
source of contemporary horror short fiction stories—relevant to the moment and
stunning in impact—from leading authors of the macabre and darkly imaginative.
Filled with Fears and Fantasy. Death and Dark Dreams.
Monsters and Mayhem. Literary Vision and Wonder. Each volume of the +Horror
Library+ series is packed with heart-pounding thrills and creepy contemplations
as to what truly lurks among the shadows of the world(s) we live in.
Read
Volume 7 in this ongoing anthology series, and then continue with the other
volumes.
Shamble no longer through the banal humdrum of normalcy, but
ENTER THE HORROR LIBRARY!
Volume 7 contains 30 all-original stories, including:
• In “Hand of Glory,” a despairing prison inmate
studies astral projection in order to escape his cell.
• In “The Key to Mabella,” a cemetery groundskeeper discovers
a mysterious vault key held by his predecessor and investigates what it
unlocks.
• In “Abandon," a tour guide takes friends to
visit his home village, long-since deserted and languishing under superstition.
• . . . and more!
**Also including a special guest-artist's gallery of Allen
Koszowski!
###
Title: +Horror
Library+ Volume 7
Editor: Eric
J. Guignard
Publisher: Dark Moon Books (Los Angeles, CA)
Publisher Web: www.darkmoonbooks.com
Number of pages: 342 pgs at 6” x 9” trim (109,500 words)
13-digit
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-949491-39-5
13-digit
ISBN (e-book): 978-1-949491-40-1
Date of publication: March 1, 2022
Publisher’s
Page: http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/Horror_Library_7.html
Amazon Page: https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Library-7-Eric-Guignard/dp/1949491390/
###
Praise for the +Horror
Library+:
“Excellent stories of the highest caliber.” —Dread Central
“Uniformly well-crafted and original.” —Rue Morgue Magazine
“Impactful tales that throw the rules of both
reality and genre fiction out the window.” —Fearnet (Chiller TV)
###
Full Table of
Contents:
Introduction to +Horror Library+ Volume 7 by Eric J. Guignard
“Her. House.” by Jo Kaplan
“Pretties / Serpent” by Baba Jide Low
“Never Better” by Michael Harris Cohen
“The Kid in the Ambulance” by Suki Litchfield
“Discovery of Blanks” by Darren O. Godfrey
“Holder City” by Garick Cooke
“In the Valley” by Bentley Little
“Death Republic” by H. Pueyo
“Neon Showgirl” by Brady Golden
“Abandon” by Alex Woodroe
“Ring Rust” by Gene O’Neill
“just keep walking” by David Afsharirad
“Skandalopetra” by Rex Burrows
“Hand of Glory” by Cody Goodfellow
“The Riverman” by Charlie Hughes
“The Mouth” by Natalia Theodoridou
“Gateway to Oblivion” by William Meikle
“In the Devil’s Footsteps” by Liam Hogan
“Like Old Rope” by Trevor James Zaple
“Giant and Child: A Fugue” by Scotty Milder
“February Thaw” by Kristi Petersen Schoonover
“The Apartment” by Christi Nogle
“The Burning Heart” by Colin Leonard
“If You Touch Me, I Can Cry” by Lucy Taylor
“The Test” by Zoe Kaplan
“Ring Road” by Matt Thompson
“The Tooth Butcher” by Valya Dudycz Lupescu
“8-Ball” by Darren Todd
“Attention” by Michael James
“The Key to Mabella” by Terry Dowling
+Horror Library+ Presents: Special Guest-Artist’s Gallery of Allen Koszowski
###
Direct Book Links:
Publisher’s
Page: http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/Horror_Library_7.html
Amazon (paperback): https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Library-7-Eric-Guignard/dp/1949491390/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60106209-horror-library-volume-7
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/horror-library-volume-7-eric-j-guignard/1140852052
IndieBound (paperback): https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781949491395
Kobo (ebook): https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/horror-library-volume-7
Bookshop (paperback): https://bookshop.org/books/horror-library-volume-7/9781949491395
