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Can Connor escape the facility? Find out in the last instalment of our Serial Saturday, The Soul Equation by Zach Grant:

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November 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
💀 Book Worms Horror Zine Issue #10 is coming - and the end is near!

Theme: Apocalyptic Horror 🌎
From nuclear winters to digital doomsdays, show us your end of the world.
💰 Pay: 8¢/word (fiction), $25 (poetry)
🕛 Deadline: Jan 10, 2026
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November 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
It's feeding time. But can all hunger be sated? Find out in this week's Unholy Trinity, "Rejection" by Evan Baughfman.

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November 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
🦇 Dracula Beyond Stoker is opening its coffin once more!

📖 Issue 9 theme: Bram Stoker - make the man himself the monster, the myth, or the hunter.
💰 Pay: 5¢/word + copies
🕛 May 1–June 30, 2026
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November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Got a short story that deserves the spotlight? ✨

Short Story Substack is open Dec 1–31 for any genre - from 6 to 10,000 words.

💰 $100 + 50% of subscription revenue for the chosen story!
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November 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
New feature on Horror Tree: Cradle of Horror - a YouTube channel delivering 20-minute, original audio stories with bespoke sound design. Launched Oct 3 and posting monthly. Sample “Noises” here: horrortree.com/cradle-of-ho...
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Rooted Literary Magazine is seeking submissions for its Home Issue.
Speculative fiction, poetry, art, essays, and more exploring what home means — love it or hate it, take us there.

💰 $10 + contributor copy
🕛 Deadline: Dec 1, 2025
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November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
✍️ The Café Irreal seeks fiction that bends reality and refuses resolution.

Submit your irreal stories—think Kafka, Borges, or Lispector. Take us where logic unravels.

💰 Pay: 1¢/word ($2 min)
🕛 Deadline: Jan 1, 2026
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November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
✨ Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores opens Dec 1–2 for science fiction, fantasy, myth, legend, fairy tale, and eldritch tales!

💰 8¢/word originals | 2¢ reprints
🌍 Global voices welcome
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November 11, 2025 at 8:30 PM
✨ manywor(l)ds is open Dec 1–Jan 31 for stories by trans, two-spirit, disabled, neurodivergent, Mad, queer, crip, nonbinary, genderqueer, and intersex creators.
💰 $10 honorarium
🌍 Any genre
@manyworlds.place
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November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Is it worth submitting your work to non-paying or semi-pro markets? 💭

Masimba Musodza dives into the pros, cons, and hidden benefits of unpaid submissions - and when they can still help your writing career.

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#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Propagule Magazine wants your most surreal, defiant, and daring fiction for Volume 8 - stories that bend reality but still move with purpose.

💰 Pay: $5–10 per 1,000 words
🕛 Deadline: Dec 15, 2025
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November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
💫 A Coup of Owls is open Dec 1–7 for its Spring 2026 Issue!

They publish work by marginalized and underrepresented creators only.
No set theme - send stories that carry your soul.

💰 £5–£15 pay range
🕛 Deadline: Dec 7, 2025
@acoupofowls.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
❄️ As winter creeps in and the nights stretch long, curl up by the fire with a spine-chilling story. 🕯️

@stuartconover.com shares 10 eerie reads perfect for cold nights and creeping shadows.

🔥 Read now: horrortree.com/winter-is-co...

#HorrorCommunity #WinterReads
November 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Reposted by Horror Tree
New novel Twiggy Voo? features a variety of real life cast of characters. Including a younger Winston Churchill & his wife Clemmie, plus the muscleman Monte Saldo, the latter becoming the personal trainer to Winston for 'reasons' 😅

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#booksky #althistory #cosycrime #christmas
November 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Connor tries to go back to normal in Chapter Five of our Serial Saturday, The Soul Equation by Zach Grant:

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November 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Rotting Leaf Magazine is open Dec 1–6, 2025 for Eco-Fiction, Eco-Horror, and Eco-Gothic stories (1,500 words or less).

💰 Pay: $0.06/word + contributor copy
🌱 Haunting landscapes, surreal nature, & existential dread welcome.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Horror publishing update: Wicked House joins Aethon. Team expands; slate grows. Details and title list here: horrortree.com/aethon-books...
#HorrorCommunity #HorrorBooks #BookNews #WickedHouse #AethonBooks #AmWriting #SpecFic #IndieHorror #WritingCommunity
November 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Missing bodies. Strange deaths. Get the latest news in this week's Unholy Trinity, "Newspaper Clipping 1,2,3" by Ivan K Conway.

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November 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Taking Submissions: Stygian Lepus Magazine – Dec 2025
🗓 Dec 1–25, 2025 | 💰 $5
Theme: Dark fiction, serialized dark fiction, & creative non-fiction

Accepting stories, poems, art & articles leaning to the dark side.

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#WritingCommunity #Horror #DarkFiction #AmWriting
November 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Taking Submissions: World Upside Down
🗓 Deadline: Jan 15 2026 | 💀 Pay: Contributor copy
Theme: Mind-bending Lovecraftian tales
Submit 1–3 scary short stories or poems honoring H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic horror and madness.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Book Review: Night of the Living Toilet Paper by Kevin Garone
A fast-paced, middle-grade adventure where paranormal chaos, friendship, and rogue toilet paper collide.

Full review on Horror Tree:
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#BookReview #Horror #MiddleGrade #HorrorTree
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Taking Submissions: Untitled Cozy Fantasy Anthology
🗓 Deadline: Jan 31, 2026 | 💰 $30
Theme: Cozy Fantasy

Send your whimsical, heartwarming tales—second-world, urban, or magical realism-all welcome.
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@hollowoakpress.bsky.social
#WritingCommunity #Fantasy #CozyFantasy
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Ongoing Submissions: A Midnight Kind of Place
💰 £15 (GBP) per story
Theme: Most forms of horror
🌍 Open worldwide (UK focus)

Seeking 500–10,000 word horror stories that chill, haunt, and linger.

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#WritingCommunity #Horror #AmWriting #DarkFiction #HorrorTree
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM