{"id":2831,"date":"2017-06-07T15:37:40","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T15:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/?p=2831"},"modified":"2017-06-07T15:37:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T15:37:40","slug":"summer-writing-submission-roundup-for-june-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/summer-writing-submission-roundup-for-june-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Writing: Submission Roundup for June 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to this month&#8217;s Submission Roundup! Today&#8217;s post shines a light on some great submission calls, including ones that close at the end of this month as well as those that are still open for a little while, giving you plenty of time to polish up those tales!<\/p>\n<p>As always, I&#8217;m not a representative for any of these publications. I am simply spreading the word! Please direct any questions you might have about a particular submission window to the respective publication.<\/p>\n<p>And with that, let&#8217;s get started with this month&#8217;s Submission Roundup!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2460 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Submission-Roundup-Final-1.jpg\" alt=\"Submission Roundup\" width=\"448\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Submission-Roundup-Final-1.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Submission-Roundup-Final-1-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><strong>Riddled with Arrows<\/strong><br \/>\nPayment: .03\/word for original fiction and poetry (minimum $5; maximum $25); $5\/flat for reprints<br \/>\nLength: up to 1,500 words<br \/>\nDeadline: June 10th, 2017<br \/>\nWhat They Want: Open to various genres, the editors seek metafiction and metapoetry about the art of writing itself.<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riddledwitharrows.com\/guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Misbehaving Dead<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nPayment: $15\/flat<br \/>\nLength: up to 10,000 words<br \/>\nDeadline: June 13th, 2017<br \/>\nWhat They Want: For their next anthology, A Murder of Storytellers is open to horror stories about the deceased who won&#8217;t stay dead.<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amurderofstorytellers.com\/submissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Welcome to Miskatonic University<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nPayment: .08\/word<br \/>\nLength: up to 1,000 words for flash; 3,000-6,000 words for short stories<br \/>\nDeadline: June 30th, 2017<br \/>\nWhat They Want: Cthulhu mythos stories set at the college campus of Miskatonic University.<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brokeneyebooks.com\/submissions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Third Flatiron<\/strong><br \/>\nPayment: .06\/word<br \/>\nLength: 1,500-3,000 words<br \/>\nDeadline: July 15th, 2017<br \/>\nWhat They Want: This issue&#8217;s theme is Strange Beasties. Open to different speculative genres, the featured creatures in the stories can be monsters or not, so long as they are &#8220;strange.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdflatiron.com\/liveSite\/pages\/submissions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Mental Ward: Stories from the Asylum Volume 2<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nPayment: $25\/flat<br \/>\nLength: 4,000-8,000 words<br \/>\nDeadline: July 31st, 2017<br \/>\nWhat They Want: Horror stories set in sanatoriums, mental wards, or psychiatric hospitals.<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"http:\/\/sirenscallpublications.com\/open_subs.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A Midas Clutch: Tales of Opulent Horror<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nPayment: .05\/word for original fiction; .02\/word for reprints<br \/>\nLength: 4,000-14,000 words<br \/>\nDeadline: January 2018<br \/>\nWhat They Want: Open to strange and creepy stories about the wealthy. The editors prefer contemporary tales, but will accept stories from different time periods.<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lethepressbooks.com\/call-for-submissions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy submitting!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back to this month&#8217;s Submission Roundup! Today&#8217;s post shines a light on some great submission calls, including ones that close at the end of this month as well as those that are still open for a little while, giving you plenty of time to polish up those tales! As always, I&#8217;m not a representative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-submission-roundup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2831"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2855,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2831\/revisions\/2855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}