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Tales to Terrify, a volunteer-run fan podcast featuring short horror, dark fantasy, and other disturbing fiction, is open to full-length submissions of 2,000-10,000 words. 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 Deadlands, a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that publishes death-focused stories, poetry, and nonfiction, is accepting poetry submissions. Payment is $50/poem. Learn more and submit at psychopomp.com/deadlands/guidelines.
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.
OTHERSIDE publishes speculative fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by self-identified members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. It is currently open to submissions of original fiction and poetry for the Autumn issue until July 21. The Winter issue will be open to submissions of original fiction and poetry Oct. 1-7 for trans, BIPOC, and/or disabled authors only, and Oct. 8-21 for general submissions. Nonfiction is currently open year-round. Learn more and submit at othersidespec.com/guidelines.
Kaleidotrope will be open to speculative fiction and poetry submissions from July 19-25 and Oct. 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.
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.
Applications are 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. Learn more and apply by Aug. 28 at thesalamaward.com/the-salam-workshop-2027-edition.
Porter Square Books will select two writers, one writing for adults and one writing for young readers, to be Writers in Residence at Porter Square Books: Cambridge Edition in 2027. Learn more and apply by Aug. 28 at portersquarebooks.com/porter-square-books-writers-residence-program.
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. |
