Call for Submissions
Now Issuing a Call for Submissions for the theme of SuperFreak—Freakpunk Issue 2.
After you have thoroughly read the guidelines, submit your work using the form below.
- Freakpunk is a genre I named that encompasses weird fiction where the setting is a carnival, theme park, circus or fair/festival. That's kind of broad, I know, but I'd like to give the writers options when crafting their tales. Clowns can be part of the story, but they don't have to be. A creepy carny is just as good. Can there by a science fiction or dark fantasy freakpunk story. Hell yes! To get a good idea of what Freakpunk is, read some of the stories in the first Freakpunk issue: Issue 13: Come One, Come All! To the Southern Fried Freak Show!
- Send flash stories less than 1500 words and more than 700 words (any more or any less and your submission will be rejected). Flash will pay $10 upon acceptance, with first rights.
- Send drabbles of 100 words (exactly, not counting title). Drabbles will pay $1 No double or triple drabbles this time around.
- Only looking for 3-5 flash stories and 2-3 drabbles.
- No reprints on this one. NO REPRINTS.
- Submission Deadline is February 28th, 2020, launch to be April or May 1st 2020 Submissions may cut off prior to this date as the submission manager only gives us 100 submissions per month. If your submission bounces back, check this page to see if the call has been closed.
- People of Color Destroy Lovecraft
- Lovecraft wrote some hella scary monsters, on that most horror scholars agree, but he was terribly racist. I would like to see for this issue, POC characters that turn Lovecraft's racism and monsters on his/their heads. My preference for this issue is to have the majority of stories written by writers of color, if not all.
- Flash and short stories only.
- Reprints will be accepted on this one.
- DO NOT SEND SUBMISSIONS UNTIL March 1st!
- Women Destroy [Retro] Science Fiction
- Women authors only (Transwomen authors accepted because transwomen are women. There will be a non-binary issue coming soon).
- Retro Science Fiction. What is retro sci fi? It's also known as retro-futurism, and described as "the future that never was." Something like the science fiction stories of the 40s and 50s. John DeNardo wrote a nice article about it in Kirkus Review. Link: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/features/why-i-love-retro-science-fiction/
- I want you to imagine me a future of women characters that shine and live in a world (that they created or helped to create) filled with impossible wonders.
- Flash and short stories only.
- Reprints will be accepted on this one.
- No submissions accepted at this time.
- Down to the Sea in Bits (water monster horror)
- Kraken (there's one on our new cover after all!), evil mermaids, mutant fish and sharks, terrifying eels, sea monsters, etc. Inventions of new sea monsters? Hell yes.
- Sea/ocean based horror. Will consider well-done stories with smaller bodies of water as the setting. Even a puddle.
- Flash and Short Stories only.
- No submissions accepted at this time.
- Queering the Future Romance: In Love With My Clone/Doppelganger
- No submissions accepted at this time.
After you have thoroughly read the guidelines, submit your work using the form below.
