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Call for subs: Triangulation: Bad Romance 💔

Trashfire, toxic relationships + a speculative twist.
🗓️ Deadline: Jan 31, 2026
📏 <5,000 words / <60-line poems
💵 3¢/word orig, 1¢/word reprints

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#horrortree #amwriting
December 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Death tales wanted. 💀

The Deadlands is open for speculative fiction, poetry, and essays about death and what comes after.

🗓️ Deadline: Dec 31, 2025
💵 10¢/word fiction, $50 poetry, $100 nonfiction

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

From @thedeadlands.com
#horrortree #amwriting
December 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Need gift ideas for the writer in your life (or yourself 👀)? I’ve rounded up 10 author tools to spark creativity, boost comfort, and make drafting a little more magical this season.

Read the guide: horrortree.com/deck-the-hal...

#WritingCommunity #AuthorLife #WriterGifts #HolidayGiftGuide
December 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Call for LitRPG horror! 🎮🩸

SNAFU: LEVEL UP (Cohesion Press) is open for action-heavy stories where characters level up, gain skills, and fight horrendous beasts.

🗓️ Deadline: Mar 31, 2026
💵 Pay: A$0.05/word (2.5k–9.5k)

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#horrortree #LitRPG #amwriting
December 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Call for character-driven spec fic: Tales from the Crosstimbers – Spring 2026 🌾

🗓️ Deadline: Jan 15, 2026
📏 ~1,000–5,000 words (prefer 1–2.5k)
💵 Pay: $10 or 1c/word (max $50)

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#horrortree #amwriting
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Bunny Graves is lacing up her boots and dragging us back into DARK MATTER and the Dark Factory world. New Horror Tree blog tour stop with killer quotes and a walk into the dark.

@kkoja.bsky.social @meerkatpress.bsky.social
#DarkMatter #BlogTour
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December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
New #TremblingWithFear is live! 🩸 Lead story “Straw Men” by Paul StJohn Mackintosh digs into identity in the modern age, plus drabbles by Julia Rajagopalan, Christopher Mattravers-Taylor & Emily Jones. horrortree.com/trembling-wi...
#WritingCommunity
December 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The hunt for Bedo continues in chapter 3 of our Serial Saturday, Hide Behind by Molly May Jones:

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#Fiction #Free #FreeFiction #TWF #amreading #AmWriting #WritersLife #bookworm #IndieWriter #IndieAuthors
December 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Dark Age Press is open Jan 1–31, 2026 for fantasy & sci-fi novels 🚀🐉

📏 Completed, unpublished novels 90,000+ words
💵 Advance: $500–$2,000 + royalties & copies
📚 Small indie press focused on SFF & literary fiction

Details: horrortree.com/dark-age-pre...

#amwriting #SFF #pubcall
December 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
New review on Horror Tree: The Great Dick and the Dysfunctional Demon by Barry Maher 👹

1982, a failed songwriter on the run, a dilapidated church, dark rituals, and a demon that won’t stay theoretical. Funny, bloody, and surprisingly sharp.

Read the review: horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo...
December 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Call for subs: Three-Lobed Burning Eye 🌒
Original horror/dark fantasy/SF with a strong narrative voice.
Pay $0.08/word + contributor copy.
Window: Jan 1–16, 2026.
Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
From @3lobedmag.com
#amwriting #specfic #OpenCall
December 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
FOOFARAW is open Jan 1–Mar 31,2026 for stories & poems about fuss and frills 🎭
🎯 Work that fits at least one meaning of foofaraw:
• Huge fuss over something tiny
• Over-the-top decoration / ornament
📏 500–5,000 words (fiction)
💵 Fiction: $0.01/word, Poetry: $5
Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
December 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Our latest Book review: THE NIGHT CREW II: BLOODLUST by Brad Ricks 🩸⚔️
Monster-hunting in New Orleans, a fledgling vampire team leader fighting his own bloodlust, and a nest of deadly succubi. Fast, punchy, & hard to put down!
Read the review: horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo...
@crystallake.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Call for subs: Solarpunk Magazine 🌱
Optimistic SFF, poetry, nonfiction & art about defiance, change, achievement.
Window: Jan 1–14, 2026.
Pay: pro rates.
Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
From @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social
#AmWriting #OpenCall
December 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Mysterion is open Jan 1–31, 2026 for speculative stories that engage with Christianity 🕊️🌌

📚 SF, fantasy, horror with Christian themes, characters, or cosmology
📏 Up to 9,000 words
💵 8¢/word originals, 4¢/word reprints

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#amwriting #specfic #christianfiction
December 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The Trembling With Fear drabble cupboard is looking bare, which means we're all in danger and need more 100 word stories!

Questions/details: horrortree.com/submissions

#amwriting
December 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Cosmic Horror Monthly is open Jan 1–7, 2026 for weird & cosmic fiction 🌕

🧠 Up to 5,000 words
💵 3¢/word (USD)
📮 Submit via Moksha only

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#amwriting #cosmichorror #weirdfiction
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Call for subs: Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine (Winter 2025)
🌘 Spec fic/poetry/art on the twilight edge.
💵 Pay $10.
📅 Window: Dec 15 2025–Mar 15 2026.
📂 Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
#amwriting #specfic
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
New on Horror Tree: “The Shape of the Unknown: Why Fear Still Rules Us” 🕳️

An essay on fear of the unknown, uncertainty, and why we’re drawn to horror, dark fantasy, and stories that poke at our deepest anxieties.

Read it here: horrortree.com/the-shape-of...

#horror #amwriting
December 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Astrolabe’s Winter 2025 window opens Dec 21–Jan 21 for stories of connection across genres 🌌

💫 Fiction, CNF, photography & art
🧷 Especially into work that slips beyond realism
💵 $50 honorarium per accepted submission

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

From ‪@astrolabe.ooo
#amwriting #litmag
December 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Brink Literary Magazine is open Jan 1–31, 2026 for hybrid/cross-genre work on CHAOS 🌪️

🧷 Hybrid / cross-genre, any length
🧷 From poetry + prose to translation + visual forms
🧷 Pay (USD): $25–$100 depending on form/length

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#amwriting #hybridwriting #litmag
December 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Call for splatterpunk & extreme horror: Carnage House Issue 10 💉

DIED window (BIPOC/LGBTQ+/disabled): Dec 1–13, 2025
General subs: Dec 14, 2025–Jan 14, 2026

🧠 500–5,500 words
💵 Token pay: $5
🚫 No AI, no bigotry

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Horror Tree review: Hiding Under the Leaves, ed. Donna Scott 🍂

22 folk horror tales of ritual, landscape, and lurking strangeness. Reviewer Stephanie Ellis digs into favourites and fresh takes across the TOC.

Review: horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo...
by @stephellis.bsky.social #bookreview #folkhorror
December 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This week’s Trembling With Fear seeks out the shadows in the depths of our minds, probing to find what might be hiding there.

Our featured short, from Maria Kassandrou, tries to look behind the masks we wear to be more acceptable to the public.

Then we hit the tiny terrors of:
• “Gnaw" by Daniel F
November 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM