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Tales to Terrify, a volunteer-run fan podcast featuring short horror, dark fantasy, and other disturbing fiction, opened 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 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.
The Loghaven Artist Residency invites writers of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting and journalism in the creation stage of their specified project or work cycle to apply for a transformative residency experience on ninety acres of woodland in Knoxville, Tennessee. All Loghaven Fellows are awarded stipends to support the creation of new work during the residency. The residency has a $25 non-refundable application fee to apply. Apply by July 15 at loghaven.org/residencies/apply.
Anathema: Spec from the Margins, a free, online magazine publishing speculative literature by queer people of color across the LGBTQIA spectrum, is accepting fiction, poetry, nonfiction and art submissions until July 21. Learn more and submit at anathemaspec.subfolios.com/submit.
Kaleidotrope will be open to speculative fiction and poetry submissions from July 19-25 and October 18-24. Rates are $0.01/word (1 cent a word) for fiction and a flat rate of $5 per accepted piece of poetry. 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.
The Salam Award for Imaginative Fiction is a short story award to promote science fiction and related genres of writing in Pakistan. Participants must either be currently residing in Pakistan or be of Pakistani birth/descent. The English competition is open for submissions until July 31 at thesalamaward.com/home.
Applications are also open for the 2027 Salam Workshop, which will take place March 22-31, 2027 in Lahore, Pakistan, with award-winning authors Elizabeth Bear and Saad Z. Hossein as lead instructors.
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) 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, and the winning story will be published in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine. Learn more at mustreadbooksaward.com.
The International Federation of Library Associations is hosting the Li-Sci-Fi (Library Science Fiction) short story competition. Winners will be chosen by celebrity judge, Mary Robinette Kowal. Submit short fiction about the future of libraries by Sept. 1 at ifla.org/news/li-sci-fi-ifla100-library-science-fiction-short-story-competition. |
