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<\/p>\nWelcome back for this month’s Submission Roundup! As always, there are lots of great opportunities this month, so if you’ve got a story seeking a home, then one of these markets might be the perfect fit!<\/p>\n
First, the usual disclaimer: I’m not a representative for any of these markets; please direct your questions to their respective editors. And with that, onward with August’s Submission Roundup!<\/p>\n
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Strange Horizons<\/strong> Flame Tree Publishing’s Gothic Fantasy series<\/strong> Why Didn’t You Just Leave<\/strong><\/em> A Darker Continent: Strange Tales Of Europe At War<\/b><\/em> We Are the Quiet Ones<\/strong><\/em> Little Bastards: Too-Short Horror Stories No One Wants<\/strong> Happy submitting!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome back for this month’s Submission Roundup! As always, there are lots of great opportunities this month, so if you’ve got a story seeking a home, then one of these markets might be the perfect fit! First, the usual disclaimer: I’m not a representative for any of these markets; please direct your questions to their […]<\/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-7039","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\/7039","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=7039"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7072,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions\/7072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPayment: .10\/word for fiction; $50\/flat for poetry; $150\/flat for nonfiction
\nLength: up to 4,000 words
\nDeadline: August 15th, 2023
\nWhat They Want: Editors Suzan Palumbo and Marika Bailey are seeking speculative fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from Caribbean and Caribbean-diaspora authors.
\nFind the details here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPayment: .08\/word for original fiction; .06\/word for reprints
\nLength: 2,000 to 4,000 words
\nDeadline: August 27th, 2023
\nWhat They Want: The editors are seeking African Ghost Short Stories from African and African-diaspora writers.
\nFind the details here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPayment: .10\/word
\nLength: 500 to 5,000 words
\nDeadline: August 31st, 2023
\nWhat They Want: Editors Nadia Bulkin and Julia Rios are seeking stories that focus on why people don’t leave haunted places.
\nFind the details here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPayment: Percentage of Kickstarter
\nLength: 5,000 to 10,000 words
\nDeadline: August 31st, 2023
\nWhat They Want: Editor John Linwood Grant is seeking weird and strange fiction set in Europe during World War II.
\nFind the details here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPayment: $25\/flat
\nLength: Short stories up to 3,000 words for fiction; Flash, micro fiction, and narrative poetry up to 1,200 words
\nDeadline: Open from August 13th to September 10th, 2023
\nWhat They Want: This issue is seeking quiet horror and dystopian stories on the theme of “The End.”
\nFind the details here<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPayment: .08\/word
\nLength: 1,000 to 2,000 words
\nDeadline: Open September 15th to September 30th, 2023 for general submissions; Extended submission period to October 7th, 2023 for marginalized authors
\nWhat They Want: Editors Alexis DuBon and Brandon Applegate are seeking horror stories that are too long to be flash fiction but often too short for most short story calls.
\nFind the details here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n