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Brand new: PINS by Jessica McHugh! With cash and weed dwindling Birdie does what any 21-year-old woman would: gets a job dancing at a strip club / bowling alley called PINS and, as murders occur, begins to question her sexuality. #WritingCommunity a.co/d/2b0zkgJ
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December 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Horror Anthology by Trans & Gender Non Conforming Voices

🏳️‍⚧️SUBMISSIONS OPEN UNTIL JAN. 10🏳️‍⚧️

Still seeking slush readers & generous benefactors to help fund interior art.

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YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM announced; cover art reveal & submissions info! — tenebrous press
Hey Ho, Tenebrous Cult! Hope you're as excited about this as we are: we're ready to announce submission details, and reveal the cover, of the next YOUR BODY volume. Mx Morgan G Robles crafted the ex...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Brand new! HOWLING OF THE UNFORTUNATE DEAD is the second book in John Baltisberger's MÖRK BORG novel series! Journey to the pitch black darkness of the Dying Lands... #MörkBorg #Books #HorrorCommunity #WritingCommunity madnessheart.press/product/howl...
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December 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Literary agent Laura Pink (Fiction; Open, Erotica, Romance, Thriller) opened to fiction queries. https://duotrope.com... #amquerying
Re-opening: Laura Pink
Literary agent Laura Pink (Fiction; Open, Erotica, Romance, Thriller) opened to fiction queries. https://duotrope.com/agent/laura-pink-38403 #amquerying
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December 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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New! THE HOME by Judith Sonnet is now on Audible! A storm broods over a wicked house. It will break down the fabric of reality. It demands sacrifice, and it feeds on ghosts. #WritingCommunity #Horror #Books tinyurl.com/3szbujce
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December 2, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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What we’d love to see in our submissions box for our Ruins & Rituals issue (by 28 Feb):
- fantasy horror set in the ruins of civilisation
- ⁠forgotten rituals turned folklore
- ⁠tricksy protagonists
- ⁠swoony romance and queer HEAs
- ⁠nothing that isn’t fantasy!
- ⁠also cats

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Indie Bites | Indie Fantasy Magazine
A non-profit quarterly magazine of indie fantasy authors, bloggers and illustrators.
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November 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Who am I? Sapphic Speculative Fiction of Identity and Purpose (Fiction; Fantasy, Horror, SF; pays) opened to fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com... #amwriting
Re-opening: Who am I? Sapphic Speculative Fiction of Identity and Purpose
Who am I? Sapphic Speculative Fiction of Identity and Purpose (Fiction; Fantasy, Horror, SF; pays) opened to fiction submissions. https://duotrope.com/anthology/who-am-i-sapphic-sf-identity-purpose-39597 #amwriting
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November 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Brand new: Squirming All The Way Up by Joey Powell! Two brothers reunite in rural Virginia to reconcile after their split years ago. For one, it's a chance to indoctrinate his brother into the Fellowship of the First Divine. #Horror #Books madnessheart.press/product/squi...
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November 30, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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To order a copy of my Wonderland Award-winning book THE EXPECTANT MOTHER DISINFORMATION HANDBOOK from Amazon, click here: tinyurl.com/5ex8n2e8

If you'd prefer not to prop up a soulless multinational corporation, you can also buy the book directly from Madness Heart Press: tinyurl.com/mrxsytah
November 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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WONDERLAND AWARD NOMINEE! Kennel by Garrett Cook: the kink world whispers of a man known as Daddy. Pup is a homeless femboy with only dreams to comfort them. When they meet, Pup is led into a strange world of drugs, eroticism, and degradation. #Books tinyurl.com/gckennel
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November 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Available now! ODD GOBS from @kaijupoet.bsky.social and
@rollinkunz.itch.io is a standalone #TTRPG about anticapitalist goblins making ends meet in a #cyberpunk, dystopian metropolis! #TTRPGs #IndieGames #IndieGameDev #Geek tinyurl.com/MHGOddGobs
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November 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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BRAND NEW! Ten Words For A Wicked Woman by the inimitable Susan Snyder is out now! This book is a rant against our march backward into patriarchy. It's a gander at hypocrisy and inner turmoil. It's Snyder at her most incisive! #Books #WritingCommunity a.co/d/cVw4LAH
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November 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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What an exciting call for submissions! 🌌💖 The blend of weird cosmic horror with trans and GNC voices is sure to bring fresh perspectives! Can't wait to see the creativity that emerges! ✨ #WritingCommunity #SFF #BodyH
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YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM is open for Weird Cosmic Body Horror/SFF from trans & GNC voices 🌌🫀

🌀 Up to 4,000 words
💉 3c/w originals, $25 reprints
📅 Deadline: Jan 10, 2026
♻️ Reprints welcome, simsubs ok

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

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#amwriting #horror #SFF
November 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Pssst. We have a new sci-fi horror drabble call and two reprint short story calls open now for #submissions!
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Submissions
OPEN CALLS Please read the guidelines very carefully. Stories submitted that do not conform to the guidelines will not be read. We are a small press. We hope to increase pay rates for all of our an…
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November 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Brand new! HOWLING OF THE UNFORTUNATE DEAD is the second book in John Baltisberger's MÖRK BORG novel series! Journey to the pitch black darkness of the Dying Lands... #MörkBorg #Books #HorrorCommunity #WritingCommunity madnessheart.press/product/howl...
Art card featuring a skeletal knight, pierced by many blades, resting his hands on a bloodstained broadsword. Text reads "Howling of the Unfortunate Dead: A Novel Compatible With Mörk Borg by John Baltisberger"
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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BRAND NEW: Bound With Briars by Charles R. Bernard! In a future dystopian American monarchy, inhuman experiments are carried out on prisoners in a pocket dimension. Now, however, a stranger has appeared to upset the balance. #WritingCommunity #Horror tinyurl.com/BoundWithBri...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Holiday season got you down? Don't sulk about it - write about it! Then send that writing to us!
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November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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6 days left to submit your #weirdfiction, #sciencefiction, #fantasy, #horror short stories! We are also open for factual science articles and cover art!

Check out our submissions page for guidelines.

#submissioncall #submissionsopen
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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WONDERLAND AWARD WINNER FOR BEST NOVEL! Nympho Shark Fuck Frenzy by Susan Snyder and Christine Morgan! All the guts you can handle, all the glory the Wonderlands bestow, and a plot packed to the gills with unusual sex acts! GET IT NOW! madnessheart.press/product/nymp...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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mquigley1963.bsky.social Melisa Quigley @mquigley1963.bsky.social · 9d
‘Wow, what a book, what a read. This book pulls you in and guides you on a rollercoaster of emotion, love, hate, anger, fear, longing, and so much more. Every time I picked it up to continue, I swiftly read a chapter or two in a matter of moments. And the ending. OMG’ – Erik
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November 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Available now! SLEEP PARALYSIS, a live action roleplaying game about fear by Garret Cook, is an experimental game for two or more people that involves being creepy and working through big feelings through the medium of games. #LARP #Geek #Horror madnessheart.press/product/slee...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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WONDERLAND AWARD WINNER FOR BEST COLLECTION! The Expectant Mother Disinformation Handbook by Robert Guffey, a curiosity disguised as a maternity guide! Replete with footnotes, Guffey explores the absurdity of postmodern motherhood. #Books a.co/d/1WFOsAQ
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November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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🦊 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!
State of Matter | Issue 20 is going mythic.

We’re commissioning 3 faux-tales, one each in:
🔮 Science Fiction
⚔️ Fantasy
👻 Horror

💰 CAD 150 (~₹9,500) per selected story
🗓️ Submissions: Sept 15 – Dec 15, 2025

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November 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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We’re looking for military sci-fi horror and dark fantasy reprints!!! shackleboundbooks.wordpress.com/submissions/ #submissions
Submissions
OPEN CALLS Please read the guidelines very carefully. Stories submitted that do not conform to the guidelines will not be read. We are a small press. We hope to increase pay rates for all of our an…
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November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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OUT NOW! Out newest imprint, Gutter Mystic Press, is pleased to present its debut book - Black Sunrise on Piss Earth: Nihilism, Fascism, and the 21st Century Occult by Charles R. Bernard. All proceeds donated to Food Not Bombs! #WritingCommunity #Books tinyurl.com/GMBSoPE
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November 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM