Dark short fiction writers, this one is for you 🖤 34 Orchard is open Jan 1 to 10 2026 for intense, unsettling stories that speak to deeper truths. 📏 1k to 6k words 💸 $50 per story Guidelines: horrortree.com/taking-submi... #HorrorTree #SubmissionCall #DarkFiction#Horror#Horror #WritingCommunity

Submissions @thedeadlands.com are open until 12/31 (midnight ET). SUGGESTIONS: do not send me novels, simsubs, stories about Dear Leader, corpse-fucking, or any combination thereof. HOT TIP: Why don't you read the guidelines! psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

“Write to the market.” You’ll never catch the market. By the time you’ve written it, the market is gone. Write what you’re on fire to write, and sometimes the market shows up.

We’re barrelling toward the end of the year! While you’re making resolutions, add some revisions to the list 📋 Heartlines opens for early subs from equity-deserving writers Dec 24-31, general subs open Jan 1 www.heartlines-spec.com/submission-g...

I am so ready

Hey. Make that story weirder.

I think that when one’s life suddenly resembles something one would like to read in a book it is good to recognize it, & mark the gratitude, the better to remember a beautiful thing

Strange Horizons will be open to general fiction submissions for 48 hours beginning January 19th, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC and ending January 21st, 2026 at 3 p.m. UTC. There will be no cap. See our fiction submission guidelines for more information on how to submit: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...

Feb. 16 deadline. For more, go to: writersunion.ca/short-prose-... #writingcommunity #writershelpingwriters #writersky

New Jack Webster financial awards for Indigenous journalism students at any of B.C.'s 5 J-schools (UBC, BCIT, KPU, TRU, Langara) and freelance Indigenous journos in the first five years of their careers. Deadline for application is Dec 14. jackwebster.com/indigenous-j...

I checked out my Abandoned Video Store Wrapped where they showed me a montage of all the times I ended up in there, wandering the labyrinthine shelves, trying to find my way out. Here and there, I played moldy VHS tapes, watching people in Jeremy masks acting out mundane scenes of my life.

If you're looking to keep writing through this busy month, check out my December Writing Challenge. Never too late to start and all the words count. Just a nice, easy nudge to keep your creativity flowing through the holidays. nepheletempest.substack.com/p/working-th...

Our silent auction closes this Saturday! Get your bids in now on items like this package of The Hour Stories cards by Dale Adams Segal, with an additional online Hour Stories session with editors Mel Anastasiou and Jen Landels! app.galabid.com/kpr2025/item...

The plan for 2026 is to be open to submissions these three times: April 19-25 July 19-25 October 18-24 I’ll be updating Kaleidotrope’s submissions guidelines page accordingly soon.

Five days left to take advantage of our donor bonus, a 90-minute Zoom with agent Sara Megibow on December 4 (thanks, Sara!). www.gofundme.com/f/support-siwc

just use the fucking library.

I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.

It is fascinating to me how many different kinds of scams aimed at authors exist these days, given that most of us are broke. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

We're thrilled to offer a 90-minute Zoom session with agent Sara Megibow as a donor bonus for our GoFundMe. Donate $250CAD or more Nov 15 - 30 inclusive to get an invite to the Dec 4 Zoom. We're incredibly grateful to Sara for her generosity! www.gofundme.com/f/support-siwc

but what *really* makes me incandescent is that Must Read is preying on newer authors. people who aren't yet plugged in to networks, who don't have much experience with short fiction contracts, who might overlook a dogshit contract because of the magazine's prestige. because prestige *is* a thing.

Recommended reading for short fic writers of any genre. The spec fic community has established very good, author focused publication standards over recent decades—other genres can learn from them, and from the tenacity of the experienced authors now holding the line against MRM’s awful boilerplate.

We are so very grateful to our community. More than 100 people have given to our GoFundMe. Thank you for your support! We're closing in on a 15k miletone. Let's try to get there this week! www.gofundme.com/f/support-siwc

Strange Horizons will be open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors only on November 3rd at 9am UTC! The window will close after 500 submissions are received. More information: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... If you sent us a story in April or June, you CANNOT submit in this window.

🎸Open Call Cursed Morsels wants your weirdest work for its Dec 1–7 window 💋 Cunty Horrors 🎤 Cursed Concerts 💘 Monstrous Dating Profiles 💼 Batshit LinkedIn Posts 💰 Nightmare Grifters 10¢/word+5 copies @cursedmorsels.bsky.social 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submissions-cursed-morsels-december-2025-window/

The Surrey International Writers Conference has been my favorite conference for over a decade. This year, it's not happening, because the hotel is in a labor disputed. SiWC had already purchased plane tickets, etc, for all the presenters. Can you help ensure its future? gofund.me/19c353dac

I really enjoyed @kharb.bsky.social's short story A Summer Soup to Cure Magical Thinking in Year's Best Canadian Fantasy & Science Fiction: Volume 2. It was witty, clever, and very enjoyable. Guess i should be tagging @ourmankoto.bsky.social in these for his selections.

SiWC has been the beating heart of my local writing community for over thirty years—please consider donating to keep this not for profit conference going after a financially brutal year.

RELEASE DAY! Year's Best Canadian F&SF Volume 3 is now available! Grab ebooks at all retailers and print via Amazon, with Ingram to follow shortly for bookstore & library sales. Grab your copy today and pls share WIDELY! #BookRelease #NewBook #SpecFic #fantasy #sciencefiction #canada #Booksky 💙📚🪐

📣 Romance writers, editors, marketers! The Federation of BC Writers is still seeking presentation proposals for the November romance writing intensive. Get paid to teach a 1 hour class about your favourite sub genre, tropes, structural tips, etc! fbcwadmin.com/presentation...

Seriously, DON’T SELF REJECT! I self-submitted my story “Summer Soup” a couple years ago, and it was included in volume 2! Shoot your shot, be your own biggest cheerleader, you’ve got nothing to lose, etc etc!!!

October should be conference month. We're all missing our friends, so we thought it might be fun to swap some anonymous words of writerly encouragement to support each other & SiWC Send a message: forms.gle/1GRHKDBJz4Ai... Receive a message & support SiWC at the same time: square.link/u/P7tmMvzh

Welcome to our Fall submissions window! Open until 10/31 flashpointsf.com/submissions/

hey, it's Fantasy Friday 🦄 💖 and general subs are currently OPEN!! send us your stories and poems that play with the limitations of borders and be a part of issue 100! ✨ more details on theme and how to submit here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

Small Wonders will be open to original flash fiction submissions this Friday, September 12th. We'll be open through October 31st! We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th. Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!

Details in … well: in the reply to what I’m reposting/quoting:

We are heartbroken to announce that an ongoing labour dispute at our conference hotel has forced us to cancel this year's SiWC for the first time in our 33-year history. We hope to see you at next year's conference, October 23-25, 2026 with master classes on the 21st and 22nd. Reg opens June 3, 2026

PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! We can't wait to read your stories!!! buff.ly/xB0IZOX

Hey book-writin’ Augurians! We’ve been informed our Moksha turned itself off over the weekend for novella & novelette submissions 👀 To be honest: we don’t know why or how. But we’re open again, and will be extending the deadline past August 30–more to come! ✨✨✨ Thanks to those who notified us!

Hey, I'm doing drugs and reading subs. If you have something Literary and your process is last minute and chaotic and you missed the window, email it to me or shoot it through our secret TBQ8 Straggler submittable opening. We pay $150.

We are searching for an Acquisitions Editor for University of Alberta Press. The posting is up and the deadline is September 10. This is a rare opportunity: please spread the word. https://bit.ly/3J3rHqS ##UAlberta @abbookpub.bsky.social‬ @cdnpublishers.bsky.social‬ ‪@writersguildab.bsky.social‬

PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb

I'm hitting the submissions tonight! I'm so happy to see the enthusiastic flood of horror stories already. If you'd like to submit a horror short story, up to 6000 words, our short submission window closes on Aug 11th. Please read submission guidelines closely first ❤️ pseudopod.org/submissions/

Guidelines for Saros #5 have arrived! We open on August 22nd for stories 500-2500 words in length centered on the theme of Sound/Silence. Payment will be $25 CAD for both originals and reprints. The period will stay open until we've collected 111 subs. Full details at sarossf.com/submissions/

📣 Calling all SFF writers... We're now OPEN for submissions of 🌟 Short fiction 🌟 Flash fiction 🌟 Poetry for Augur Issues 9.1, 9.2, and 9.3, AND @talesfeathers.bsky.social Vol 5! Got a sci-fi, fantasy, dystopian, slipstream, or a slice of life story that feels like a warm hug? We want it! 🐉🧚

Today’s the LAST DAY to snag early bird pricing for the best creative writing conference in Canada! Hope to see some of you beautiful wordy weirdos come October in sunny Surrey, BC, or online at the virtual conference.

Announcement for the writers among you: we're increasing our submissions word count to 10,000 words. If you write dark fiction send it our way. Don't explain anything, just make things weird and make us deal with it. Ambiguity encouraged, definitive endings frowned upon.

Early bird pricing for this year’s SiWC ends Thursday. Register now at www.SiWC.ca/registration

👀 We know we said we'd be open in the Fall... But Augur Magazine and @talesfeathers.bsky.social subs are opening on AUGUST 1!!! Peep the subs guidelines ✨ now ✨ 🔗 Link for more info: augursociety.org/submissions/

LAST CHANCE to vote in the 2025 Aurora Awards! If you're already a CSFFA member and haven't voted your favs yet, you STILL CAN until 11:59pm Eastern TONIGHT (Saturday, July 19)! 🔗 Link to vote www.csffa.ca I hope you’ll consider Year's Best Canadian F&SF Vol 2 for Best Related Work

HEY SFF WRITERS 👋✨ We want your books. So we can acquire them. And print them. For our ✨🪶 SOON TO BE LAUNCHED PRESS 🪶✨ Submissions are open until August 30. 12.5k-40k words. Guidelines are live on our site, found down-thread. Pass it on 👀