HWA L.A.: For October, 2024
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)
Dread Mondays (anthology,
published by Whisper House)
https://stevecaponejrauthor.com/2024/08/31/call-for-submissions-for-dread-mondays-a-whisper-house-press-anthology/
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: up to 4,000 words
(prefer under 3,000)
Deadline: October 31, 2024
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Short stories of
workplace horror.
https://www.dustanddark.com/submissions/
Payment: £0.07 (about US 9 cents a word)
Story Length: 2,000–7,000 words
(prefer 3,000–5,000)
Deadline: Open between October 1–October
31, 2024
Reprints?: No
Response: December 31, 2024
Description: Stylish, atmospheric
horror fiction, and we take a broad view of what that means. We’re interested
in clearly defined characters, evocative settings, tight pacing and compelling
plots. But most of all, we’re looking for stories that leave a lingering sense
of unease after we’ve read them. We’re much more interested in expertly
rendered dread than straightforward shocks.
Confounding Cupids (anthology, edited
by Kevin J. Anderson and Western Colorado University)
https://wordfirewestern.moksha.io/publication/confounding-cupids-when-love-goes-awry/guidelines
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: October 7, 2024 (*Not much
time left!)
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Speculative tales of love,
magic, and wonder that can devolve into chaos and confusion. Confounding
Cupids: When Love Goes Awry is your chance to take aim at your favorite
romance tropes and have a fantastical time... Central to your story should be a
match or matches full of paradoxes and delightful disorder.
The DARK (monthly online e-magazine)
http://thedarkmagazine.com/submission-guidelines
Payment:
5 cents a word (1 cent a word for reprints)
Story Length: 2,000–6,000 words
Deadline: Continuous
Reprints?: Yes
Response: between 1 day to 1 week
Description: Unique Horror and Dark Fantasy (No graphic/ violent
content); fiction that may fall out of “regular” categories (Tons of great
authors publish here).
Stop Surveillance Copaganda
(published through Strange Horizons online Magazine)
https://www.stopcopaganda.org/
Payment: 10 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: November 21, 2024
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Stories about
surveillance tech that don’t perpetuate law enforcement propaganda; Surveillance
technologies are increasingly built into our daily lives without our
consent—and are championed in mass media for their power to do so-called good.
The truth is, surveillance is mostly used to harm and oppress
communities—misidentifying people through facial recognition, targeting
families for missile strikes, criminalizing people who seek to assert their
bodily autonomy, and facilitating scams and stalkers. Most “positive” uses of
surveillance are straight-up copaganda. Searching for stories as alternatives
that tear down the narrative that surveillance and centralized power
necessarily equals safety.
https://brothersuber.moksha.io/publication/once-upon-a-moonless-night-tales-of-betrayal-revenge-and-redemption
Payment: 5 cents a word (payment cap at $400)
Story Length: 250–15,000 words
Deadline: December 16, 2024
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Dark Tales of Betrayal,
Revenge, and Redemption: Night after night the darkness beckons. You know that
one day soon you’ll lose your resolve, give in, and become the darkness.
There’ll be no going back once you do. These are the tales whispered in dark
corners. Of good people pushed too far. Stories of revenge and redemption for
past wrongdoings. Stories that excite the mind where what seems to be true
isn’t always the case.
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of
the Month”
https://magazine.trollbreath.com/submissions/
Payment: 4 cents a word (1/2 cent a word for reprints);
$25 flat rate for poetry
Story Length: 1,500–7,500 words
(prefer 4,000–5,000)
Deadline: Open between October 1–October
31, 2024
Reprints?: No
Response: Within 60 days
Description: Non-themed speculative
fiction, poetry, and non-fiction; from dark fantasy to hope punk to surrealism,
and everything in between.
https://sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/inner-worlds-zine/
Payment: £0.02 (about US 3 cents a word)
Story Length: 500–2,500 words
Deadline: Open between October 15–October
31, 2024
Reprints?: Yes
Response: unknown
Description: Science fiction,
fantasy, or supernatural horror prose with a strong emotional or psychological
focus.
