January,
2019
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)
Flame Tree Publishing (Flash Fiction)
Description: Original Flash Fiction
written to the month’s theme; must be subscriber to the newsletter to receive
the monthly prompt. This month is: The
Horror theme is Scary Spiders. The Sci-Fi stories theme is Rebellious Robots.
Description: Exceptionally well-written Science fiction, fantasy,
horror, and all its sub-genres.
Description: Non-themed horror
stories in epistolary form. Stories created from nearly any kinds or
combinations of documents, i.e. crime scene reports, diary entries, interview
transcripts, etc. This can include modern electronic and digital “documents”
such as texts, voicemails, Tweets, blog posts, and more.
Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove (Atthis
Arts)
https://www.atthisarts.com/stormcove
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: up to 4,000 words
Deadline: January 31, 2019
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Shared world anthology:
Stories must take place over the span of five minutes; AND they must take place
at a specific era, location, and time of day within the rooms or grounds of the
Hotel Stormcove. SEE GUIDELINES FOR DESCRIPTION OF HOTEL.
Description: (SF/Fantasy/Horror/Humor) A secret history (or shadow history)
is a revisionist interpretation of either fictional or real history which is
claimed to have been deliberately suppressed, forgotten, or ignored by
established scholars. Your tale can be based in the real world, past, present,
or future, as long as it has a speculative fiction element.
Alfred Hitchcock's
Mystery Magazine
http://www.alfredhitchcockmysterymagazine.com/contact-us/writers-guidelines
Payment: 5-to-8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 12,000 (but the shorter, the better)
Deadline: Intermittent
Reprints?: No
Response: Up to a year (though tracking status is utilized)
Description: Fiction Mystery: stories of detection of the classic kind,
police procedurals, private eye tales, suspense, courtroom dramas, stories of
espionage, and so on. Story must be about a crime (or the threat or fear of
one). Sometimes accept ghost stories or supernatural tales, but those also
should involve a crime (fresh, well told, and absorbing).
***Non-PRO-Paying
Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Picks of the Month”
Augur Magazine (Publisher or Editor)
http://www.augurmag.com/submissions
Payment: 4 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: January 31, 2019 (next to
be open May, 2019)
Reprints?: No
Response: Within 8 weeks
Description: “Literary” speculative
fiction: ream-touched realism, slipstream, fabulism, magical realism.
(TITLE TBD…)
SPLATTER (Blood Bound Books)
http://www.splatterclub.com/submissions/
Payment: 1 cent a word
Story Length: 500–7,000 words
Deadline: March 31, 2019 (NOTE: The website says December 31, 2018,
but this date HAS been extended to March 31, per editor’s Facebook discussion
post (The Splatter Club)
Reprints?: Possibly. Query first.
Response: Usually within eight
weeks.
Description: To publish half new
(unpublished) and half experienced authors, this splatter anthology is to
showcase non-themed bizarro, extreme horror, or splatterpunk in some way.
ALSO, they have a second anthology, SPLATTER IN SPACE, which is space-themed
Splatter Punk. Same terms.
