• VIDEO — Rebecca Treasure On The Importance Making (And Fulfilling)
  Promises In Your Story in this workshop video excerpt.
• Markets and contests with submissions open or opening soon.
• SATURDAY, APRIL 18 - Worldbuilding From The Inside Out: Weave Rich Unique Environments And Societies Into Your Stories with Apex Magazine Managing Editor and published novelist, Rebecca E Treasure.
• Care to drabble with us? Each week our drabble community writes 100 words (or they don't—their call) to a single-word prompt.
• This Week's Prompt. An interesting item from the news to provide you with fodder for your creativity. This week, physicists found something that can move faster than light: the darkness inside it.
  
  

Making (And Fulfilling) Promises In Your Story

Markets and Contests

• ⛅️ Air / Light is open to submissions of short stories, personal essays, and poems, as well as hybrid and visual mediums. Send them up to 4,000 words of prose writing, or up to five pages of poetry, before April 6th. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰 Note that this call may close early if they reach a maximum number of submissions.
• 🗞️ Threepenny Review is open to submissions of short fiction, essays, and poems. Send them up to 4,000 words of prose writing, or poems up up to 100 lines, before April 15th. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 🏞️ Scrawl Place is open to submissions of writing with a strong sense of place. Send them up to three pieces of any length. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 🖤 Changeling Press is open to submissions of full-length romance novels, with a focus on dark speculative romance. Send them a query letter and full manuscript. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 🏚️ Wicked House is open to submissions of full-length horror novels. Send them a query letter and the first 50 pages. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 🐦‍⬛ Black Heron Press is open to submissions of literary fiction novels. Send them a query letter and the first 30-40 pages. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 🪦 Cemetery Gates Media is open to submissions of debut horror novels of at least 50,000 words. Send them a synopsis, author bio, and full manuscript. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 📚 Three Rooms Press is open to submissions of literary fiction novels for adults and teens, as well as full-length creative nonfiction. Send them a query letter, synopsis, marketing plan, and the first three chapters. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 🏙️ The New York Times(!) is open to submissions of “tiny love stories” of up to 100 words. No submissions fee!
• ☘️ The Woolf is open to submissions of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and prose poetry on the theme of “Green”. For some unfathomable reason, they discourage submissions about wolves and/or Virginia Woolf. Send them up to 2,000 words of prose writing, or up to three prose poems, before April 8th. No submissions fee!
• 🪞Glassworks Magazine is open to submissions of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Send them stories of up to 5,500 words, essays of up to 3,500 words, or up to five poems before April 10th. Note that this call may close early if they reach a maximum number of submissions, so don’t delay. No submissions fee!
• 📜 After / Thought Literary is open to submissions of short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and everything in between. Send them up to 3,500 words of prose writing or up to three poems. No submissions fee!

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