“We are currently looking for stories in the following genres: fantasy gangster detective/mystery science fiction adventure/exotic travels westerns romance horror/occult Pulp Carnivale is publishing 3 types of short story: Flash Fiction: Stories of 1,000 words or less, published daily as a “News Flash”. Short Story: Stories of differing longer lengths, around 5,000 words or less. [...]
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Pulp Carnivale
April 9th, 2011 
Lorna D. Keach 
Posted in Markets, Online Zines 
Tags: horror fiction, horror markets, horror writer, horror writing, Markets, short stories 
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January 21st, 2011 Lorna D. Keach 
“Guidelines: Tell us a Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror story in under 140 characters. Other than that, we’re just looking for good stories. Rates: We pay $1.20 per submission entry—which equates to a minimum payment of approximately 5¢/word (considering a “word” to be 6 characters). While we technically pay professional rates for fiction we DO [...]
The Red Penny Papers
January 21st, 2011 Lorna D. Keach 
“We’re open to submissions from January 15-February 28, 2011. The Red Penny Papers publishes webfiction that celebrates the spirit of the penny dreadful, the sensationalist and gothic novel, and their more modern successor, the pulp magazine– the catch is that it must have a dark speculative bent. We want stories of the underbelly: opium dens [...]
Posted in Magazines, Markets Tags: horror, horror fiction, horror markets, horror writer, horror writers, horror writing, paying, print, short stories, writers, writing No Comments »Horror Garage
January 21st, 2011 Lorna D. Keach 
“HORROR GARAGE combines the best in original dark fiction with the finest in horrific rock n’ roll. Think HORROR OF PARTY BEACH, PSYCHOMANIA, and DEATH RACE 2000: B-movie babes, screamin’ skulls, bug-eyed creeps, and gallons of blood. 1. DO NOT submit to HORROR GARAGE (or any similar venue) without being completely familiar with it. Take [...]
Posted in Markets, Online Zines Tags: horror, horror fiction, horror markets, horror writer, horror writers, horror writing, short stories, writers, writing, zine 1 Comment »Mammoth Book of Horror now accepting reprints!
October 6th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
“Editor Stephen Jones is considering stories and novellas first published between January 2010 and December 2010 for the 22nd annual edition of the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror series, to be published by Robinson in the UK and Running Press in the US in 2011. Jones says, “Authors, do not assume that I have [...]
The Horror of Self-Critique pt 2
October 1st, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
(Or, Why don’t we just put the Writer’s Market down for a bit and relax?) I collect old college Literature textbooks. It’s a wretched habit, because it means there’s now 70 copies of Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” in my house—but, then again, none of my habits are particularly healthy. Still, this week, I stumbled [...]
The Horror of Self-Critique, pt 1
September 24th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
(Or, why won’t my inner voices just shut up?) I’ve got a book coming out. It’s small press, and its only loosely horrific so I’m not plugging it here, but suffice it to say the experience has taught me quite a lot about publishing novels. (I’m working out all my industry naiveté before my Great [...]
The Mothman Files Anthology
September 17th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
“Title: The Mothman Files Publisher: Woodland Press Editor: Michael Knost Format: Trade Paperback Payment: five-cents per word (upon publication) plus contributor copy. No reprints Story length: Up to 3000 words No multiple or simultaneous subs Deadline: Friday, July 1, 2011 E-mail submissions to: themothmanfiles at yahoo dot com We will accept .doc attachments only. I [...]
Posted in Anthologies, Markets Tags: anthology, horror, horror fiction, horror markets, horror writer, horror writers, horror writing, new market, print, print anthology No Comments »Vestal Review
September 17th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
“Vestal Review now publishes its print issues twice a year in a perfect-bound edition. Some of the content is available on the Web. We welcome your submissions, but please read our guidelines first. We don’t read new submissions in December, January, June and July. All submissions sent during this time will be deleted. Because of the [...]
2009 Shirley Jackson Award Winners
August 27th, 2010 Lorna D. Keach 
The Shirley Jackson is a new award established in 2007 for, “…outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic.” Check out the rules for the award here, and check out 2009′s winners announced last month at Readercon 21: NOVEL Winner: BIG MACHINE, Victor LaValle (Speigel & Grau) Finalists: Last Days, [...]
