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<\/p>\nWelcome back for this month’s Submission Roundup, the final one of 2023! Lots of fantastic submission calls this month, so if you’ve got a story seeking a home, perhaps one of these markets will be a perfect fit!<\/p>\n
As always, a disclaimer: I’m not a representative for any of these markets; I’m merely spreading the word. Please direct your questions to their respective editors. And with that, onward with December’s Submission Roundup!<\/p>\n
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Kelp Journal<\/strong> Interstellar Flight Press<\/strong> Spooky Magazine<\/strong> The Map of Lost Places<\/strong><\/em> Dracula Beyond Stoker<\/strong> In the Eyes of the Hungry<\/strong><\/em> Gamut<\/strong> Marshland Horrors: The Cellar Door Issue #5<\/strong><\/em> Happy submitting!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome back for this month’s Submission Roundup, the final one of 2023! Lots of fantastic submission calls this month, so if you’ve got a story seeking a home, perhaps one of these markets will be a perfect fit! As always, a disclaimer: I’m not a representative for any of these markets; I’m merely spreading the […]<\/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-7172","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\/7172","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=7172"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7177,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7172\/revisions\/7177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gwendolynkiste.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPayment: $35\/flat
\nLength: 3,000 to 6,000 words
\nDeadline: December 16th, 2023
\nWhat They Want: Open to beach noir.
\nFind the details here<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPayment: .08\/word (minimum $25)
\nLength: up to 1,250 words
\nDeadline: December 31st, 2023
\nWhat They Want: Open to speculative flash fiction.
\nFind the details here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPayment: .01\/word
\nLength: up to 5,000 words
\nDeadline: December 31st, 2023
\nWhat They Want: Open to cozy and fun horror in the vein of Ray Bradbury and The Twilight Zone<\/em>.
\nFind the details here<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPayment: .08\/word
\nLength: up to 5,000 words
\nDeadline: December 31st, 2023
\nWhat They Want: An Apex Books anthology that’s seeking stories about locales where strange things happen.
\nFind the details here<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPayment: .05\/word
\nLength: 1,500 to 5,000 words
\nDeadline: December 31st, 2023
\nWhat They Want: The editor is seeking fiction that reimagines and expands upon the world of Dracula. For the upcoming issue, the theme is The Brides of Dracula.
\nFind the details here<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPayment: $50\/flat
\nLength: 2,500 to 6,000 words
\nDeadline: December 31st, 2023
\nWhat They Want: This anthology is open to horror short stories inspired by the work of John Steinbeck.
\nFind the details here<\/a>. <\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPayment: .10\/word for original fiction; .03\/word for reprint fiction; $50\/flat for original poetry; $25\/flat for reprint poetry
\nLength: 1,000 to 5,000 words for fiction and nonfiction; open for poetry
\nDeadline: Opens on January 1st, 2024 (though the submission portal fills up quickly)
\nWhat They Want: Open to dark speculative fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
\nFind the details here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPayment: $25\/flat
\nLength: 2,000 to 10,000 words words
\nDeadline: January 31st, 2024
\nWhat They Want: Dark Peninsula Press is seeking short horror fiction that takes place in marshes, bayous, swamps, or similar locales for the fifth issue of The Cellar Door.
\nFind the details here<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n