HWA L.A.: For July, 2024
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)
Dark Spores: Stories We
Tell After Midnight 4
https://cronegirlspress.com/submissions/
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: up to 3,000 words
Deadline: July 15, 2024
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Horror stories about
Mushrooms, Spores, Fungus, and all that rots in the dark.
https://futureofsex.net/sex-science-fiction-writers/
Payment: $70 flat
Story Length: 800–1,000 words
Deadline: Ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Erotic speculative
fiction stories exploring the unknown and often controversial topics, such as
the intersection of technology with sexuality. This is not a call for explicit
erotica meant to arousal but for artful speculation and storytelling about what
the future of sexuality and technology may hold (i.e. sensual instead of
overtly sexual).
Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute
Anthology
https://essentialdreams.press/submissions/
Payment: 10 cents a word
Story Length: 2,000–5,000 words
Deadline: Open between July 23–July
29, 2024
Reprints?: No
Response: Within 2 months
Description: Short fiction stories
celebrating Lee’s influence in speculative fiction. Open to any speculative
sub-genre.
Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores
https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/submissions/
Payment:
8 cents/ word original; 2 cents/ word reprint (range for non-fiction)
Story Length: 1,000–10,000
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 poetry and non-fiction (articles).
Small Wonders
https://smallwondersmag.com/submissions/#submit
Payment: 1 cent a word (minimum $10)
Story Length: up to 1,000 words (or
1,100 words for reprints)
Deadline: Intermittent
Reprints?: Yes
Response: Unspecified, but according
to online reports up to five months
Description: Non-themed short
stories relating to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.
Book Worms Horror Zine, Issue #6:
Witches
https://rsaintclaire.com/category/call-for-submissions/
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 1,500 words
Deadline: September 1, 2024
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Short fiction for our
Halloween issue about Witches! We generally enjoy “fun”, “80s style” horror
reminiscent of the zine’s old-school vibe, but we’ve also been blown away by
fresh voices that take the genre in a new direction. Also interested in poetry and non-fiction (articles) at different rates.
Note: This publisher accepts submissions ONLY via postal mail
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of
the Month”
https://chthonicmatter.wordpress.com/chthonicmatter/
Payment: $10 per 1,000 words
Story Length: 2,000–6,000 words
Deadline: July 15, 2024
Reprints?: No
Response: Within 2 months
Description: An offering of tales
from the dark side. Its contents range in tone from the quiet horror of Shirley
Jackson to the bleak stylings of Thomas Ligotti—and everything in between; i.e.
literary, dark weird fiction (and horror).
https://www.flunkmagazine.com/call-for-short-story-submissions
Payment: $50 flat
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Non-themed short
stories relating to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.
