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Tales to Terrify, a volunteer-run fan podcast featuring short horror, dark fantasy, and other disturbing fiction, opens to full-length submissions of 2,000-10,000 words on June 1. They pay $0.03 USD per word for original work (that has never been published) and $0.01 USD per word for reprints. Learn more and submit at talestoterrify.com/submissions.
The Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Writers is an annual, no submission fees contest with cash prizes of $1,500 for First Place, $750 for Second Place, and $400 for Third Place. In addition to their cash prizes, winners get featured at Flights of Foundry, an annual convention where professionals from all over the industry come to discuss all things related to the speculative arts. Learn more and submit by June 8 at dreamfoundry.org/writing-contest.
The British Fantasy Society short story competition is open for submissions from April 1 - June 30. First prize is £100 and publication in BFS Horizons. Submissions from outside the UK are welcome. The entry fee for BFS non-members is £5. Learn more and submit by June 30 at britishfantasysociety.org/get-in-touch/bfs-short-story-competition/.
The Existential Hope program at the Foresight Institute has announced the AI Futures Challenge 2026, which invites young creatives (ages 16+) to build the most grounded, vivid worlds of a future where AI transformed things for the better. To enter, take their free 1.5 hour Udemy course, then submit your world. They will award one $5,000 prize and five $1,000 prizes. Learn more and submit by June 30 at worlds.existentialhope.com/#AIFutures.
Driftwood Press' 2026 Adrift Chapbook Contest for original poetry is now open. The winner will receive $750. If a runner-up is chosen, they will be awarded $350. The submission fee is $25. Learn more and apply by July 15 at driftwoodpress.com/adrift-chapbook-contest.
Kaleidotrope will be open to speculative fiction and poetry submissions from July 19-25 and October 18-24. Learn more at kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/.
The Protopian Fiction Prize is currently open to submissions. A “protopia” is an optimistic but achievable future. The Prize invites stories focusing on two strands of potential positive change: Collective Self-Governance and Public AI. The Prize will award $5,000 for the winning entry in each category. Learn more and submit by July 31 at protopianprize.moksha.io/publication/the-protopian-fiction-prize.
FIYAH, a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features stories by and about Black people of the African Diaspora, will open for submissions from July 1-31 on the theme of magical schools. Learn more at fiyahlitmag.com/submissions.
The Must Read Books Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing (formerly the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing) will open for submissions Aug. 1. The $500 award will go to the best unpublished and unsold science fiction or fantasy short story submitted by a full-time undergraduate college student. The winner also will be invited to the IAFA annual International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) in mid-March in Orlando, FL, and the winning story will be published in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. Learn more at mustreadbooksaward.com. |
