{"id":4167,"date":"2019-05-10T12:30:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T12:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/?p=4167"},"modified":"2019-05-10T12:30:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T12:30:20","slug":"fiction-for-spring-submission-roundup-for-may-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/fiction-for-spring-submission-roundup-for-may-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiction for Spring: Submission Roundup for May 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back for this month&#8217;s Submission Roundup! Lots of great opportunities this month, so be sure to polish up those stories and send them out into the world! But first, the usual disclaimer: I&#8217;m not a representative for any of these markets; I&#8217;m merely spreading the word! Please direct your questions and comments to the respective editors.<\/p>\n<p>And now onward 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\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vastarien <\/strong><br \/>\nPayment: .05\/word for fiction and nonfiction; $50\/flat for poetry<br \/>\nLength: 2,000 words to 7,500 words for nonfiction; 750 to 6,000 words for fiction; up to 50 lines for poetry<br \/>\nDeadline: May 15th, 2019<br \/>\nWhat They Want: Vastarien is seeking nonfiction, literary horror fiction, and poetry that&#8217;s inspired by Thomas Ligotti and related themes.<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"https:\/\/grimscribepress.submittable.com\/submit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LampLight Magazine<\/strong><br \/>\nPayment: .03\/word ($150 max) for original fiction; .01\/word for reprints<br \/>\nLength: up to 7,000 words<br \/>\nDeadline: May 15th, 2019<br \/>\nWhat They Want: Open to dark, literary fiction.<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"https:\/\/lamplightmagazine.com\/submissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Selene Magazine<\/strong><br \/>\nPayment: .06\/word for original fiction; $50\/flat for original poetry; $15\/flat for reprint poetry and .01\/word for reprint fiction<br \/>\nLength: 100 to 7,500 words for fiction; any length for poetry<br \/>\nDeadline: May 31st, 2019<br \/>\nWhat They Want: Open to speculative fiction, in particular alternate history, mystery, and romance.<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"https:\/\/selenequarterly.com\/submissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Year&#8217;s Best Cosmic Horror 2019 <\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nPayment: not specified<br \/>\nLength: Up to 12,000 words<br \/>\nDeadline: May 31st, 2019<br \/>\nWhat They Want: Reprint stories from 2018 that deal in the themes of cosmic horror.<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"https:\/\/gehennabooks.com\/2019\/03\/04\/call-for-submissions-years-best-cosmic-horror-2018-anthology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Accursed: A Horror Anthology<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nPayment: $25\/flat<br \/>\nLength: 2,500 to 6,000 words<br \/>\nDeadline: June 30th, 2019<br \/>\nWhat They Want: Horror and horror-comedy stories about cursed objects.<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jollyhorror.com\/opencall.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Nox Pareidolia<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nPayment: .06\/word<br \/>\nLength: up to 6,000 words<br \/>\nDeadline: June 30th, 2019<br \/>\nWhat They Want: Open to black authors only until the end of June, Nightscape is seeking ambiguous horror stories in the vein of Robert Aickman.<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nightscapepress.pub\/p\/submissions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy reading!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back for this month&#8217;s Submission Roundup! Lots of great opportunities this month, so be sure to polish up those stories and send them out into the world! But first, the usual disclaimer: I&#8217;m not a representative for any of these markets; I&#8217;m merely spreading the word! Please direct your questions and comments to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4167","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\/4167","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=4167"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4271,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4167\/revisions\/4271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}