Circlet Press has a call out for short romance stories featuring asexual characters. They want “stories from all over the spectra—from science fiction to fantasy, from sex-repulsed to demi-sexual, from romantic to platonic.” Due April 15.
Read the full post on Dale Cameron Lowry’s blog for writers.
Lethe Press has a call out for previously published short stories for Transcendent 3: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction 2017. It is being edited by Bogi Takács. Submissions are due March 10.
Read the full post on Dale Cameron Lowry’s blog for writers.
Circlet Press has a fun call out for erotic fiction involving tentacles. Plants, aliens, monsters, magical humans—if they’ve got tentacles and your story is erotic, consider submitting it by March 31.
Read the full post on Dale Cameron Lowry’s blog for writers.
Things in the Well, the publication arm of Oz Horror Con, is putting together its fourth themed horror anthology. Beneath the Waves: Tales from the Deep will feature Clive Barker’s “The Madonna” as an anchor story. Writers are invited to submit new and original stories about underwater monsters and psychological terrors.
Read the full post on Dale Cameron Lowry’s blog for writers.
Spectacle is a new quarterly magazine of speculative fiction and related nonfiction. The editors welcome submissions in all speculative fiction genres, including sci-fi, horror, fantasy, and dystopia.
Read the full post on Dale Cameron Lowry’s blog for writers.
Carina Press wants 10,000- to 25,000-word erotic novellas for its “Dirty Bits” collection, which are steamy romances designed to be read in an hour or two. Each story should focus on a popular romance trope. All pairings, genders, and orientations will be considered. Subgenres such as sci-fi romance, fantasy romance, paranormal romance, and historical romance are welcome along with the contemporary romance.
Read the full post on Dale Cameron Lowry’s blog for writers.
MYTHIC is open for submissions through February 28. They want original sci-fi and fantasy fiction short stories. Works should be 2,000–6,000 words, submitted in standard manuscript format in Word. No simultaneous submissions or reprints. Token payment of $40.
Read the full post on Dale Cameron Lowry’s blog for writers.
Timeless Tales, an online print and audio magazine of fairytale retellings, is celebrating its five-year anniversary with an issue dedicated to short fiction and poetry inspired by the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. They will accept submissions March 12–22 and pay $20 for stories of up to 2,000 words (1,500 preferred).
Read the full post on Dale Cameron Lowry’s blog for writers.
Queer romance publisher JMS Books wants romance novels and novelettes that include horoscopes and/or astrology as part of the plot, but whether it’s a light or pervasive element is up to the writer. Any astrological tradition is welcome, as is any romance subgenre, including historical, contemporary, and paranormal. Read the full post on Dale Cameron Lowry’s blog for writers.
This weekend, we were thrilled to announce our call for submissions for a new anthology: Upstaged: queer women in performing arts. This is a project close to my heart as someone who has been on stage as a symphony violinist for the majority of my life and with two children in the arts. The idea was born after a friend had the opportunity to appear in The Vagina Monologues. As a result, she created a survey to collect the stories of trans and non-binary people’s experiences (which you can take here if it applies to you). Queer women are underrepresented … Read more