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- Video - Author and RYA instructor Lavie Tidhar on how to get new ideas for science fiction stories.
- Markets and contests with submissions open or opening soon.
- October 18 - From Logline to Pitch Deck: Sell Your Vision led by award-winning author, Lavie Tidhar. Newsletter discount.
- Winners of our Weird West Quick Draw flash fiction contest - first place winner, "Horse And Rider" by Christine Beres is now available in the October issue of Apex Magazine. In the shadows of a burning homestead, a rider looks for a horse.
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Markets and Contests
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Many thanks to Scribophile for sponsoring this week's open submissions. Scribophile is a free welcoming community of writers where you're guaranteed to get solid critiques on your work. You can also get 20% off your first purchase using coupon code APEX20.
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- 🌊 Seaside Gothic is open to submissions of short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction that “is led by emotion, addresses duality, and connects to the edge.” Send them a single work of up to 1,000 words before October 19th. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 🏚️ Angry Gable Press is compiling an anthology of cozy dystopian fiction (make of that what you will). Send them stories between 500 and 8,000 words, or poems between 25 and 100 lines. This call will close once they receive enough suitable stories, so don’t delay. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 🤡 Flame Tree Publishing is open to submissions of satirical and absurdist horror for a forthcoming anthology. Send them stories between approximately 3,000 and 4,000 before October 19th. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 📝 Crepuscular is open to submissions of tiny genre-bending stories of up to 250 words. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 🌲 Into the Deep, Dark Woods is a forthcoming anthology of primal forest-infused dark fantasy. Send them stories or poems of up to 5,000 words before October 15th. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 🦑 Lovecraftiana is open to submissions of short stories and essays inspired by eldritch horror, as well as serialised novels. Send them complete work of up to 10,000 words or a synopsis and three sample chapters of a longer work. Payment is in unspecified royalties. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 🔑 Little Key Press is looking for sci-fi and fantasy short stories on the theme of “Clocks”. Send them stories between 3,000 and 5,000 words before November 1st. Note that they’ll close early if they reach their maximum number of submissions, so don’t delay. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 💻 Blanket Gravity Magazine is open to submissions of short fiction and creative nonfiction. They’re particularly interested in work on the theme “Technology and Love”. Send them work of up to 5,000 words. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 👹 Sometimes Hilarious Horror is open to submissions of dark humour short stories and poems. Send them stories of up to 15,000 words or up to four poems. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 📚 Querencia Press is open to submissions of chapbooks and full-length books in any genre. Send them a full manuscript of at least 7,000 words or 20 pages. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 📖 Type Eighteen Books is open to submissions of full-length adult and YA literary fiction. Send them a query letter and synopsis. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- ⚰️ Exquisite Death is open to submissions of atmospheric horror and dark fantasy stories and poems. They’re particularly interested in poetry, though not in guidelines, so have a look around their site. Stories can be up to 3,000 words. No submissions fee!
- 🍵 Soup Can Magazine is looking for poetry that is “anti-capitalist, anti-racist, and anti-establishment.” Send them up to five poems of no more than one page each. No submissions fee!
- 🗝️ Cross & Crosskeys is open to submissions of gothic and weird fiction and poetry. Send them stories of up to 5,000 words, or up to three poems. No submissions fee!
- 🧛🏻♂️ Verseve is looking at blackout poetry repurposed from Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Submit before October 20th. No submissions fee!
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If you’re like me, you probably just want to write. But I want to show you the benefits of diving deep into understanding the value of your work – and how to pitch it. With ideas at a premium, and attention spans low, it helps to learn how to condense your work into a visual and easily-understandable intellectual property that can be shown to agents, producers and publishers.
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Whether you simply struggle to figure out how to finish a story, want to try selling a film or TV show, or sell an anthology or non-fiction concept to a publisher, this workshop’s for you.
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First place winner, "Horse And Rider" by Christine Beres is now available in the October issue of Apex Magazine. In the shadows of a burning homestead, a rider looks for a horse.
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