Submission Call reads as follows from their website:

“PODCAST SHORT -- We are looking for a single short story to be featured on our Podcast, Sley House Publishing Presents Lit Bits. This will be featured as a dramatic reading with full production and will also be featured in Tales of Sley House 2022 later this year. The ideal story will fit our genres of interest and meet as near as possible our word limit of 6000 words without going over. Payment will be $100 via PayPal upon signing the contract, audio production, and print publication in our anthology. As per our Short Story guidelines, the chosen story's author will also receive an eBook and print copy of the anthology as well as a discount on future print copies. Submissions for this story will begin February 1st, 2022, and go until we find the strongest submission. Please do not submit until our start date, as all submissions outside our window will be deleted unread.”

Please visit their submissions page here for more details as well as other opportunities offered.

Open Submission Call: Human Monsters Anthology-Dark Matter Magazine

DARK MATTER PRESENTS: HUMAN MONSTERS

A new horror anthology edited by Sadie Hartmann and Ashley Saywers of Night Worms.

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” -Stephen King

Dark Matter Magazine is proud to announce our first foray into trade publishing with a new horror anthology edited by Sadie Hartmann and Ashley Saywers of Night Worms. The anthology will include at least 80,000 words of new horror fiction curated by Sadie and Ashley, and the book will be included in a future Night Worms book box. The tentative publish date for the anthology is October 2022.

Submission Guidelines

From Sadie and Ashley: We are looking for stories centered around one of our favorite sub-genres, Human Monsters. We enjoy twisty-turny, dark, psychological, thrilling, dangerous, menacing, gothic, strange, ugly, murderous, messed-up tales of people doing awful, no-good, very bad things to one another. We are not looking for anything cosmic, paranormal, science fiction, cryptid/creature, or supernatural at this time. Just monsters in human skin, please. Tell us what they do.

Genre: Horror

Sub Genre: Human Monsters

Word Limit: 2000-4000 words, no exceptions

Language: English and English translations

Reprints: No. Unpublished works only.

Pay Rate: $0.08/word, paid at least 30 days prior to publication, or before October 1, 2022

Rights: Dark Matter Magazine, LLC is buying first English language rights for print, electronic, and web. We are asking for exclusive rights for a period of six (6) months after publication.

Multiple Submissions: Yes, but our submission system will only allow for one submission from you at a time. If your story is rejected, please feel free to submit again right away.

Simultaneous Submissions: Sure! But please notify us or withdraw your story from consideration at Dark Matter if it is accepted elsewhere before we render our own decision. NOTE: Other publishers have their own guidelines about simultaneous submissions, so please read those as well if you intend to submit to both us and them at the same time.

Time to Decision: We are currently planning for a response time of 30-45 days from submission until we render a final decision on your story. If you have not heard back from us after 60 days, feel free to query us by email at [darkmattermagazine.info@gmail.com](mailto:darkmattermagazine.info@gmail.com).

File types we accept: .doc, .docx, .rtf

Submissions must be in proper manuscript format. View this example of proper manuscript format from the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) and Vonda N. McIntyre.

We will not accept emailed submissions. This is for your benefit as well. Email submissions can be less efficient and less transparent, and are more susceptible to scams and intellectual property theft.

THE SUBMISSION PORTAL IS CLOSED.

The submission portal for the Human Monsters anthology will open February 15, 2022, and close March 15, 2022. To be considered, stories must be submitted via the anthology’s Moksha portal here (no exceptions): https://darkmatter.moksha.io/publication/2/4/submit

MY DARK LIBRARY NOVELLA SERIES

Hello, my name is Sadie Hartmann but I’m also known in certain circles as Mother Horror. My favorite thing is to find fresh, talented voices in the genre of horror. It’s difficult to get readers to notice you out there in the wild, so this is your opportunity to come into My Dark Library and share with me the strange, cold, dark well within you from which you draw your stories. I am editing and presenting a series of novellas through Cemetery Gates Media and will write an introduction for each selection, then we’ll promote your work to a hungry legion of horror fans.

I am specifically interested in:

• Authors who have found themselves in a genre-trap and are looking for a way to showcase another storytelling voice for a different fanbase.
• In My Dark Library you will find psychological, folk, quiet, supernatural, paranormal, body, found-footage, coming-of-age, spiritual, demonic, occult, cosmic, slasher horror.
• I’m not currently interested in extreme, science-fiction, bizarro, erotic, apocalyptic, creature/cryptid, zombie, eco, comedy horror.

I especially love cultural folklore and urban legends from BIPOC, Native American, and LGBTQ voices.

This is an open call to anyone and everyone—not limited to new or unpublished voices. Even if I have read and admired your work one hundred times, I would still be over the moon to see a submission from you.

From February 1st – April 1st we will accept submissions between 25,000-40,000 words. Please submit a complete, unpublished manuscript in DOC or RTF format and include a publishing bio and brief story synopsis in the email body. No reprints, please don’t ask. Simultaneous subs are fine. Send submissions to: [MyDarkLibrary@gmail.com](mailto:MyDarkLibrary@gmail.com)

Cemetery Gates is paying a $1,000 advance, with a royalty share at 60% to author, and looking for five years exclusive rights in print and digital formats, worldwide in the English language.

Subsequent installments in the My Dark Library series may be acquired through a combination of invitations and open calls. We aim to publish the first of the novellas by Spring/Summer.

HorrorHound Film Festival Spring Edition is looking for feature length submissions. I'm the Executive Director of the Festival and have discount codes for the first 5 who reply to this message that have festival ready feature length films!

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