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.
