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Paying speculative fiction #OpenCall s, #writing advice, #AuthorInterviews, #BookReview s, and more since 2011! By: @stuartconover.com‬
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🧠🚀 Sci Phi Journal is open.

Hard SF that zooms out: systemic, structural, epic.
They like artifact fiction (in-world docs) + speculative philosophy.

€0.03/word (orig) | €0.01/word (trans)
Feb 12, 2026

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#CallForSubmissions #HardSF
January 12, 2026 at 8:30 PM
🐻 Thuggish Itch is open for BEAR.

Horror or speculative fiction where the bear matters.
1,000–10,000 words.
No sim subs. No reprints.

💰 AU$5 / AU$10
🗓️ March 31, 2026

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#CallForSubmissions #HorrorWriters
January 12, 2026 at 4:30 PM
🎉 E book Giveaway Extravaganza

Award winning author Deborah Sheldon is celebrating 40 years of writing with a year long ebook giveaway at Horror Tree

12 horror titles, 10 winners every month, 120 chances to win 📚🩸

Details below, we start next week!
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#Horror #Giveaway
January 12, 2026 at 3:30 PM
☕🌙 This Sunday’s Trembling With Fear:

A desert diner at midnight.
A ritual feast.
A vision that won’t behave.
A grumpy ghost.

Stories by Jim Wright, Ashwin Dayal, FM Scott, and Alan Moskowitz.
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#TremblingWithFear #HorrorFiction
January 11, 2026 at 2:31 PM
🔥🎨 Pyres by Kev Harrison turns art into prophecy.

A spirit painter, a fire god, and a supernatural mystery tied to activism and power. Our review looks at the Celtic mythology, sisterhood, and moral questions at the heart of the novel.

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#HorrorBooks #BookReview
January 10, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Lowell has sacrifice on his mind in the final chapter of our Serial Saturday, "Hide Behind" by Molly May Jones:

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#Fiction #Free #FreeFiction #TWF #amreading #AmWriting #WritersLife #bookworm #IndieWriter #IndieAuthors
January 10, 2026 at 1:30 PM
🏙️🩸 Folk horror with concrete under its nails.
Blood in the Bricks (ed. Neil Williamson) puts dread in the Tube, tower blocks, and shuttered factories. Our review highlights “Down Street,” “Hagstone,” and “Flip” among the standouts.
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Edited by @neilwilliamson.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 2:30 PM
New horror call 👀

Behind the Shadows IV from Inkd Publishing wants character driven horror stories.

🗓 Submissions: Jan 1 to Mar 31 2026
✍️ 2,000 to 6,000 words
💰 $10 plus royalties

Details:
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#HorrorWriters #WritingCommunity #HorrorMarket
January 8, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Doom scroll your way into print 📱🩸
@whisperhousepress.bsky.social is open Feb 1-Mar 31, 2026 for DOOM SCROLL, a social media horror anthology.
200-2,000 words, $30 usd, humans only. Extended to Apr 15 for diaspora, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, & Autistic writers.
Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
January 8, 2026 at 4:30 PM
🩸 Lilith retold with bite.

She leaves Eden.
Finds Eve in the woods.
Raises a child who only wants blood. 👀

Of Witches and Vampires, A Lilith Story (Tricia Copeland)
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#VampireLore #DarkFantasy
January 8, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Editors and authors 🌎

ECO25 is seeking the best speculative ecofiction first published in 2025.

📏 990 to 7,500 words
💰 1c per word plus 2 print copies
🗓 Nominations close Jan 31 2026

Guidelines:
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From @apexmag.bsky.social
#EcoFiction #SciFi
January 7, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Hidden places, erased towns, blank spots on the map. 🗺️👁️

Stone’s Throw Feb 2026 window
Theme: I’M A BLANK SPACE, BABY (NOW WRITE YOUR NAME)

Dark fiction, crime, noir
1,000–2,000 words
25 USD

Submissions open 1–4 Feb 2026:
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From @rhppress.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 4:30 PM
January 7, 2026 at 3:30 PM
⏰ Final week! Story Unlikely’s 2025 Short Story Contest closes Jan 14. All genres welcome. 🏆 $3K/$1K/$750 + $250 reprint. Members have until Jan 31.
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January 7, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Cheat the Reaper with your fiction 💀

@writehive.bsky.social ’s DEFYING DEATH anthology is looking for sci fi, fantasy, and horror about survival and resistance.
Up to 8k words
Pays $45 + contributor copy
Subs Dec 1 2025 to Jan 31 2026
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#SubmissionCall
January 6, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Sci fi writers 🚀

Permanent Flux is open for ongoing submissions of thought provoking science fiction.

📏 About 3k to 10k words
💰 $0.06 per word, paid within 7 days

They want space opera, near future tech, alt realities, time travel and more.

Info and guidelines:
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January 6, 2026 at 4:30 PM
It is my birthday 🎂
So I made a list

Speculative fiction
where birthdays matter
and not in a fun way

Candles
thresholds
bad timing

- @stuartconover.com

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#AmReading #WritingCommunity
January 6, 2026 at 3:30 PM
🎄 Reykjavik goes dark at Christmas.

13 Yule Lads
A glowing Yule Cat 🐈‍⬛
A haunted theatre
Hot springs where a face forms in the steam

Folk horror holiday vibes 🇮🇸
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January 5, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Reposted by Horror Tree
In 2025, we published two short story collections, one unusually structured anthology, and ten zines! This year might be a little slower--gotta sustain energy and money--but you can still expect some wonderfully strange, grotesque, and unsettling fiction from us. Thanks for your ongoing support!
January 2, 2026 at 5:42 PM
A grisly discovery in the penultimate chapter of our Serial Saturday, Hide Behind by Molly May Jones:

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#Fiction #Free #FreeFiction #TWF #amreading #AmWriting #WritersLife #bookworm #IndieWriter #IndieAuthors
January 3, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Radon Journal is open for the June 2026 issue
Looking for
🌌 Science fiction
🤖 Transhumanism
✊ Anarchist and leftist themes
🔥 Dystopian futures
Pay :
Fiction 2c/word
Poetry $20/poem
Art rates in guidelines
Deadline April 30 2026
Details 👇
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From @radonjournal.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Building a home for short stories 🏠📚

We interviewed author and publisher Emma Steel about Write Angle Publishing, her new press for gothic leaning, emotional short fiction and poetry.

Read more:
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#HorrorTree #WritingCommunity #ShortStories #IndiePublishing ✍️
January 2, 2026 at 3:30 PM
🐇🌑 Stygian Lepus Magazine wants dark work

Dark fiction and serialized dark fiction
Creative non fiction, poems, articles, art
Any length but email first over 4k

5 USD per accepted piece
Digital contributor copy included

Sub window: Feb 1 to 25 2026
Details 👇
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January 1, 2026 at 8:30 PM
🚀 Call for subs: Whump In Space

Non Earth sci fi stories
Micro to novelette, up to 17,500 words
One story per length category

Contributor copy or 10 USD
50 percent of proceeds go to charity

Closes 31 March 2026
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#OpenSubmissions #SciFiWriters #SpaceFiction
January 1, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Kit Power’s Exploring the Labyrinth is a love letter to Brian Keene’s fiction and a masterclass in horror craft 📚🩸

Enthusiastic essays, spoilers with heart, and an intimate interview that will light up your TBR and your writer brain

Review: horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo...

#HorrorBooks #BrianKeene
January 1, 2026 at 3:31 PM