Call for Horror Submissions to Anthology: This World of Vile Wonder: Horror Tales of the Scientific Revolution

Submission Guidelines for Anthology: This World of Vile Wonder: Horror Tales of the Scientific Revolution

General

• Payment: $75 usd per story via PayPal

• Word Count: 5,000 (firm) to 10,000 words

• Submission Window: January 1 to February 28, 2025

• Submit To:

the.scythian.wolf@gmail.com

• Subject Line: Scientific Revolution Submission: Story Title

• Submit as: .docx Attachment (no links)

• Format: Standard Manuscript Format

• Include: Name or Pen Name in Email

• Include: Brief Synopsis (3-4 sentences will suffice) in Email

• Publication Date: 2025

 Editor: Coy Hall (He/Him)

 Additional

• Story must be set between the years 1500 and 1700 ce

• Any category of science from the period welcome

• With setting and details, historical accuracy is vital

• All subgenres of horror welcome

• No Poetry Submissions

• No Reprints

•  Stories that utilize AI in any capacity will be rejected

•  Multiple Submissions Not Permitted

•  Simultaneous Submissions Permitted

•  Receipt of Submissions Will be Confirmed

•  Acceptances and Rejections sent March 2 - April 30

  Rights

 exclusive publication for one year after publication date

non-exclusive publication after one year

All Copyright belongs to the Author

Call for Submissions: ephemeras Literary Magazine

ephermeras literary magazine

Deadline: Feb. 28, 2025

Submission Guidelines​
Fiction: we are namely seeking literary fiction and its sub-genres. If it's weird, if it's nostalgic, if it's urgent—we want to read it.
​Up to 3,000 words in a singular submission or 3 pieces of flash fiction (under 1,000 words).​​​​

Nonfiction: we accept creative nonfiction and cultural commentary/criticism (up to 3,000 words)
​We will not accept submissions of interviews, book reviews, academic papers, or personal narratives that do not address a wider scope at this moment​​

Queries/pitches are encouraged but not necessary prior to submitting

Poetry: up to 3 poems in a single submission. So the integrity of the original work is not lost, please refrain from sending experimental line breaks and spacing that will not translate during formatting.

Visual art: film photography, paintings, sculptures, digital artwork (submit 3-5 photos as individual high-quality JPEG files)
​
ephemeras will NOT accept work generated from or with the assistance of AI.

How To Submit

Email your submissions to:

ephemerasmag@gmail.com 

with the following in the subject line:
​[Genre and Work Title/s], Name

Include a brief cover letter, and a third person bio (15o characters).

Please submit all written works as .doc or .docx files only.

For extra credit, tell us how you found us. We always like hearing about it.

Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, please let us know if work submitted to us is in consideration elsewhere.

We cannot compensate writers at this time.

We will not accept previously published work, unless previous publication is defunct.

ephemeras reserves first initial publishing rights in North America, archival rights for as long as ephemeras is operational.

Call for Submissions: Common House Magazine

 

Submissions to Common House are open from January 20th to March 16th 2025. Please ensure to review our submission guidelines before submitting.

How to submit:

We accept electronic submissions only. We will not accept work submitted directly through email.

Please submit your piece(s) as a:

Word document (.doc or .docx) or PDF (.pdf) for written work

PNG file for art and photography

MP3 file for audio

MP4 file for video

Name your document LastName_Title, and include all pieces of the same genre in a single document. Please refrain from including additional identifying information such as first name or bio in the document.

Our preferred format is 1.5 spaced, 12-pt font Times New Roman.

If your work does not fit into one of our five main genres—poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, visual art, or multimedia work—simply choose the genre you feel fits best.

What to submit:

Please submit:

1 work of prose up to 3500 words or 2–3 flash pieces up to 1000 words each

OR up to 5 poems

OR up to 5 works of art or photographs

OR audio and video submissions of up to 5 minutes

We are interested in original, previously unpublished pieces. Published pieces include those posted on personal blogs or social media.

We will consider excerpts from longer work, but we are unlikely to accept an excerpt that doesn’t work well on its own.

We accept simultaneous submissions, but please notify us by email:

 commonhousemag@gmail.com 

if your work has been accepted elsewhere.

We recommend scrolling through a few of our previously published issues before submitting to know whether your piece is a good fit for us.

Who can submit:

We accept work from anyone, anywhere in the world.

​After submitting:

Our response time is 1–3 months. Feel free to inquire by email about the status of your submission after 3 months have passed.

Unfortunately, we are currently unable to pay contributors. Common House is an entirely volunteer-run operation; as we continue to grow, we hope to be able to compensate contributors in the future.

Submit your work here.

Call for Submissions: subTerrain

 

subTerrain publishes original fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, essays, and commentary three times a year. Submissions must be previously unpublished material. (Note maximum number of submissions per issue below.)

 

Feel free to interpret our themes in unique and unusual ways.

 

All other regular submission guidelines still apply, as below.

 

The following are some general guidelines (as always, we suggest READING an issue of the magazine to see what we're all about).

Submissions must be previously unpublished and be:

1. typed, double-spaced on 8 1/2 x 11 paper.

2. Fiction: a maximum of 3,000 words. (Max. 3 stories per issue)

3. Poetry: we no longer accept unsolicited poetry submissions (unless specifically related to one of our theme issues). Poetry should be single-spaced with stanza breaks. (Max. 5 poems per issue)

4. Creative Non-Fiction: a maximum of 4,000 words. (Max. 2 articles per issue)

5. Commentary (social or otherwise): a maximum of 4000 words. (Max. 2 articles per issue)

6. Photography & Illustration: we only accept solicited art and photography. Please forward us a link to your work;

7. Please do not send submissions via email; online submissions accepted through Submittable only (mailed submissions are still accepted as well.)

8. Please allow 6 months for a response, though we shall strive as always to respond sooner.

 

Payment rates for published submissions:

Poetry: $50 per poem

Prose: $.10 per word (to a maximum of $500.) 

 

Submission fees:

Electronic submissions come with a $3.00 submission fee to help cover our Submittable account and thereby allow us to continue accepting online submissions. If you choose to submit by traditional mail, you will not be charged the submission fee. Mailed submissions can be sent to the address below.

*If submitting by mail, please identify on the front of the envelope the theme issue to which you're submitting. (Note: Writers outside of Canada submitting by mail must include Canadian postage for their SASE.)

 

subTerrain Magazine

P.O. Box 3008, MPO

Vancouver, BC V6B 3X5

Canada

 

More information and submission portal here.

Call for Submissions: Wild Roof Journal

Wild Roof Journal is an online art & literary publication that features work from a wide range of creative people—painters, drawers, photographers, digital artists, writers, poets, and anyone else who is passionate about the creative process and self-expression.

 

Our primary goal is to provide a welcoming environment for artists to share their work. The people behind the scenes of Wild Roof are fellow artists—we know the amount of time and energy it takes to produce a finished piece, and the challenges of getting it out into the world for people to see. We want to offer opportunities for artists to connect with other artists as well as to promote their work to a larger audience.

 

We would like to keep our themes broad enough to offer a lot of room for interpretation. Our emphasis is on presenting the most engaging and thoughtful artwork possible, not on adhering to strict rules for subject matter or style. 

 

As a guideline for what we find interesting, here are a few points to consider: Our aesthetic preferences are varied, but we tend to favor unique perspectives and experimentation. More traditional forms are appreciated as well; however, with wildness comes some level of the unpredictable and the weird… If you feel like you do things a bit differently than “the norm” (whatever that means to you), then you’re probably in the right place!

 

We tend to like work that is inquisitive and curious, at times mysterious, at times playful. So, if you find questions more interesting than answers, you’re on the right track for us!

 

Although we have categories for our submissions, we are absolutely interested in hybrid forms or work that defies easy categorization. If this describes your work, we encourage you to submit; if necessary, you may pick the category that’s most fitting and add a note to explain your work in more detail.

 

Note for all submissions: Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but please withdraw pieces from consideration if they are accepted elsewhere. If you have a previously published piece that you feel deserves our attention (and you have retained the rights), please acknowledge the previous publication.
If your work is accepted, you agree to give Wild Roof Journal online publishing and archival rights; following publication, all rights revert back to the author/artist. We ask that you credit Wild Roof Journal if the work is published elsewhere in the future.

 

Submit your work here. 

Deadline for most submissions: Feb. 16, 2025

Call for Submissions on Theme of "Survival": Panorama: The Journal

 

We are open for submissions during the following periods: 

March 2025 issue: 17th January – 28th February 2025
July 2025 issue: 1st May – 14th June 2025
November 2025 issue: 1st September – 14th October 2025

​For our March 2025 issue, we have chosen the theme of SURVIVAL. After SURVIVAL, we’ll have the PARIS issue in July. Then ENCOUNTERS in November.

 

Guidance

We require a cover letter for all submissions, with certain information provided [introduction, background, publication history, social handles]. We also ask that all submitted work be sent as a Word Doc attachment, double-spaced, with page numbers. We are unable to accept work within emails, or sent as PDFs. We regret that due to the number of submissions we receive, submissions that do not meet our guidelines are declined. For more on our guidelines, read our FAQs and Submissions page. All emails should be sent to the section editor as indicated, and titled as requested. By following our guidelines, you can help us accept your work more quickly. Thank you.

Due to the number of submissions we receive, and our goal of publishing as many writers as possible, writers may only submit or query one work per issue. If your submission or query is declined for an issue, and the submission call is still open, you can submit another work or query again to that issue. Please submit all work via Submittable.

 

Payment and rights

Do you pay for contributions?

For our online editions, we regret we do not pay for works at this time, although someday we would like to.

Do I receive a copy if my submission is accepted?

Panorama‘s publications are available for free online, so you can access and share them whenever you like.

What rights do you require?

For online works, world rights in English only, online only, all rights return to the creator at the point of publication. We do not accept previously published work.

 

Literary submissions

What kinds of work do you accept via open submissions?

We accept literary travel works: nonfiction short stories and essays, travel fiction, travel flash, pyschogeography, cartography, experimental prose, and travel poetry. We also accept original translations of works not previously published in English. We rarely accept previously published work, but for some calls and some sections, we do. Our issues are each different, and each call is also different. Our current needs are listed on our Current Calls page.

What kinds of work do you not accept via open submissions?

We do not accept work which doesn’t follow our submission guidelines. We do not accept work which is more about opinion and telling the reader what to think, rather than showing the reader an experience through fine experiential prose.

We do not accept reportage or commercial travel writing. We do not accept works which promote the author, their books, or their professional expertise as an instructor. We do not accept work with exoticism, and choose pieces which we feel are mindful of the Panorama mission.

Outside of poetry, which has a lower word limit, we do not accept works under 800 words nor over 8,000 words. The average piece we publish is between 1500 and 6000 words. Your work is most likely to be chosen if it fits into that range,

For poetry, we limit poems to two pages, except for the print editions. For print poetry limits, we accept two to five pages per poem.

Call for Submissions: Tahoma Literary Review

We Are Reading!
We are open to submissions now through April 7. General guidelines are below.
And we are now accepting poems in translations. See below and our website for more information
Critiques for fiction and nonfiction are always available.
And check out our latest issue on the TLR website. Great stuff there.

We pay $55 for poetry (including translations), $55 for flash, and $0.05/word for prose over 1100 words.

To get a sense of what we are looking for, you can read any and all issues on our website. Or listen to contributors reading their work on our Soundcloud channel. We publish online, without a paywall. Print copies of back issues are available on our website.

Here are our guidelines:

One submission per writer per reading period, across genres.

Payment: $55 for flash prose, $55 for poetry; $0.05/word for longer prose and poems. For us flash is up to 1100 words, longer prose is 1,101 to 6,000 words. We pay on publication.

Complimentary Submissions: We offer free submissions to authors and poets from historically marginalized groups. We have a set number of these submissions available each reading period so plan to submit early. If the category does not appear below, we have reached our cap.

Submission fees: Standard submission fees for poetry and flash prose are $4; for longer prose the fee is $5.

A Transparency Index for each issue shows how submission fees help us pay our contributors and support team.

Submission expectations:

• Our standard response time is up to twelve weeks from submission. Previous contributors to Tahoma Literary Review should wait one full reading period before submitting again.Word or PDF files only. If we accept a file in PDF, we will need a Word (or compatible) version.

• Prose submissions should be in standard manuscript format (Double-spaced, Times New Roman font, 12-point type, one-inch margins, author name and contact information on the first page).

• Poetry submissions may include up to six poems in one manuscript.

• Submit via Submittable. If this presents an accessibility issue, please contact the editors for alternatives.

• We do not accept previously published material. This includes publication in any public venue, including print, web, and personal blogs.

• We are not currently reading plays, screenplays, reviews, novel excerpts, or children’s/young adult literature.

Rights: We ask for first North American serial rights and will post accepted work online as part of a complete issue. We intend to leave accepted works online indefinitely; otherwise all rights revert to the author upon publication.

Please do not resubmit revised work unless we have requested it specifically.

Simultaneous submissions Please inform us if a work is accepted elsewhere. You can use Submittable’s Withdraw feature to withdraw a submission fully. For flash prose or poetry use Submittable's Message feature to withdraw one of the selections and leave any others for our consideration. 

Submit your work here.