{"id":4516,"date":"2019-10-04T04:45:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T04:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2019-10-04T04:45:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T04:45:25","slug":"spooky-stories-submission-roundup-for-october-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/spooky-stories-submission-roundup-for-october-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Spooky Stories: Submission Roundup for October 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back for October&#8217;s Submission Roundup! Lots of great opportunities this month, so start polishing up those stories now!<\/p>\n<p>As always, a word from the keeper of the blog: I am not a representative for any of these markets; I&#8217;m merely spreading the word. That means if you have any questions, please direct them to their respective editor.<\/p>\n<p>Now onward with this month&#8217;s submission calls!<\/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>Electric Spec<\/strong><br \/>\nPayment: $20\/flat<br \/>\nLength: 250 to 7,000 words<br \/>\nDeadline: October 15th, 2019<br \/>\nWhat They Want: Open to a wide range of speculative short fiction.<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electricspec.com\/Submissions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Dark Divinations<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nPayment: $10\/flat<br \/>\nLength: 2,000 to 5,000 words<br \/>\nDeadline: October 31st, 2019<br \/>\nWhat They Want: Editor Naching T. Kassa is seeking horror stories about divination set in the Victorian age.<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"https:\/\/horroraddicts.wordpress.com\/2019\/01\/22\/submission-call-dark-divinations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arsenika<\/strong><br \/>\nPayment: $60\/flat for fiction; $30\/flat for poetry<br \/>\nLength: up to 1,000 words<br \/>\nDeadline: October 31st, 2019<br \/>\nWhat They Want: Open to speculative fiction and poetry, including horror.<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"http:\/\/arsenika.ink\/submissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Movies, Monsters, and Mayhem<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nPayment: .06\/word<br \/>\nLength: up to 6,000 words<br \/>\nDeadline: October 31st, 2019<br \/>\nWhat They Want: Open to short stories that feature a monster in a movie setting.<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"https:\/\/wordfirepress.com\/anthology-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Pulp Horror Phobias Volume 2<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nPayment: .04\/word<br \/>\nLength: 4,000 to 6,000 words<br \/>\nDeadline: October 31st, 2019<br \/>\nWhat They Want: Lycan Valley Press is seeking pulp\/noir stories that deal with phobias.<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"https:\/\/lycanvalleypress.submittable.com\/submit\/140934\/pulp-horror-phobias-vol-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Fiends in the Furrows II: More Tales of Folk Horror<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nPayment: .04\/word<br \/>\nLength: 4,000 to 8,000 words<br \/>\nDeadline: Opens November 1st, 2019 for submissions<br \/>\nWhat They Want: The follow-up to the highly successful <em>The Fiends in the Furrows<\/em>, the editors are seeking folk horror stories from around the world.<br \/>\n<strong>Find the details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nosetouchpress.com\/call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy reading and submitting!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back for October&#8217;s Submission Roundup! Lots of great opportunities this month, so start polishing up those stories now! As always, a word from the keeper of the blog: I am not a representative for any of these markets; I&#8217;m merely spreading the word. That means if you have any questions, please direct them to [&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-4516","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\/4516","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=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4526,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions\/4526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}