• VIDEO — Write A Marketable Short Horror Story: award-winning author, KC Grifant shares the ingredients for a compelling short horror story that'll grab an editor's attention.
• Markets and contests with submissions open or opening soon.
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Write A Marketable Short Horror Story

Markets and Contests

• 🌳 Paranoid Tree is open to submissions of microfiction, creative nonfiction, and prose poetry of up to 400 words. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 🌊 Savagery on the Salty Seas is a forthcoming anthology of maritime horror. Send them work of approximately 7,500 to 10,000 words before June 15th. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 🖋️ Poetry Magazine is open to submissions of up to six poems in any style until June 15th. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 📝 Cahava is open to submissions of short fiction and poetry. Send them stories of up to 3,000 words, or up to five poems, before June 15th. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 🌋 Earth Resists and Reclaims is a forthcoming anthology of eco-horror. Send them stories between 2,000 and 6,000 words before June 15th. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 📖 The Medieval Horror Novella Contest is open to entries of gothic horror novellas between 20,000 and 30,000 words. The prize is a publication deal. This contest closes on June 15th. Also check out their folk horror short story submission call. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 📚 Creature is open to submissions of feminist horror, thriller, and dark fantasy novels. Send them a query letter and full manuscript before June 10th. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 💘 KissMet Quarterly is open to submissions of sweet autumn romance stories between 1,000 and 1,500 words. Submit before June 15th. No submissions fee!
• ☕️ Better Than Starbucks is open to submissions of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, as well as critical essays and prose poetry. Send them up to 5,000 words of prose writing, or up to four poems. No submissions fee!
• 🏞️ Fourteen Hills is open to submissions of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Send them up to 6,000 words of prose writing, or up to to three poems, before June 15th. Note that there is no submission fee for writers from traditionally underrepresented demographics.
• 🍪 Biscuit Hill is open to submissions of poetry, including prose poetry, poetry comics, and hybrid work. Send them up to six poems. No submissions fee!
• 🗺️ Superpresent is open to submissions of writing on the theme of “Mapping”. Send them between 500 and 2,000 words of prose writing, or up to three poems, before June 15th. No submissions fee!

Nostalgia Sells: Writing Coming-Of-Age Horror, June 26

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