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Deadline: August 31, 2025 Pay: $0.08/word Length: 2500-3500 See website for details: bannisterpress.com

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We’re new. Here’s what we published last year.

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Responses have been sent for all submissions received before today. If you’ve submitted and not received a response, please head to our website and send a query via the Contact page. Thank you and keep submitting!

We are a new publisher based in Canada, but our writers are from around the world!

Did we mention “The Old Woman and the Spider” by @akatherineblack.bsky.social from our Other Anthology was selected for Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction! (We did, but worth mentioning again!)

Responses have been sent to all submissions received up to and including June 30. If you submitted prior to July 1 and have not heard from us, please visit our website and use the Contact page to inquire about your story's status. Thank you and keep submitting!

Responses have been sent for all submissions received up to and including June 15. If you submitted before June 16 and don’t have a response, please visit our website and use the Contact page to inquire. Thank you and keep submitting! 🖤

Responses have been sent to all submissions received up to and including May 20. Please let us know if you submitted before May 20 and haven't heard from us. Keep your submissions coming! 🖤

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Send us your stories. We want your fantasy, your weird, and your speculative. Deadline: August 31, 2025 Pay: $0.08/word Length: 2500-3500 See website for details.

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Today's listing of the day is: The Other Anthology Series @bannisterpress.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

And as of today, responses have been sent for all submissions received on or before May 1.

As of today, responses have been sent for all submissions received on or before March 31. If you don’t see your response, please let us know.

We are delighted to see “The Old Woman and the Spider” by @akatherineblack.bsky.social will be reprinted for Year’s Best Arthropod Short Fiction! 🖤🕷️🕸️

Our cover artist for Other: the 2024 speculative fiction anthology is a Fear Street Prom Queen! Based on the books by R.L. Stine and coming to Netflix! bannisterpress.com/2025/05/07/i...

Get your copy of Other today: kdp.amazon.com/amazon-dp-ac...

Canadians! I have an assignment for you this weekend. What is THE MOST CANADIAN thing you own? It can be anything. A book, a garment, a food item, a tool, a decorative object, a cd, anything. #CanCon #Canada

Celebrate Women in Horror with Halli Reid's "The Shape of an Eye." Her father is starving to death. Is it the blight or something else? books2read.com/other2024 #wihm #womeninhorrormonth #womeninhorrormovement

Celebrate Women's History by reading about the historic women of Kawartha Lakes, like Molly Beall Reilly (1922-1980): Born Moretta Fenton Beall on February 25, 1922 in Lindsay, Molly wanted to joint the Royal Canadian Air Force as soon as she graduated high school. books2read.com/historicciti...

This month we're looking at the word MARCH found in Forgotten by A. Gural: Cecily is mutinous. “I cannot learn under these conditions. Tamsin stole my toast. I’ll not eat a morsel.” “Morsel’s a good word,” Jane notes, still reading.

Celebrate Women's History by reading about the historic women of Kawartha Lakes, like Dr. Olive Rea: Olive Maud Rea was born December 11, 1878 in Lindsay & grew up in Ops township. Her family was descended from Reaboro's founder & namesake, Thomas Rea, who— books2read.com/historicciti...

Celebrate Women in Horror with Kerry Ryan's "The Thunder Mutters." Sleep deprivation takes its toll on a new mother. Or does it? books2read.com/other2024 #wihm #womeninhorrormonth #womeninhorrormovement

"The Glass Mountain" is available to read on our website. Comment "AURORA" if you want to read the others. bannisterpress.com/glass-mountain

Are you voting in the Aurora Award nominations round? We've put together a package of our Aurora eligible stories, and will happily send it to you. Nominations end April 5. Contact us: bannisterpress.com/contact/

Deadline: August 31, 2025 Pay: $0.08/word Length: 2500-3500 See website for details. Art by Anwen O'Driscoll and used with permission.

Celebrate Women in Horror with C. Piveral's "In a Quiet Smile." Dottie and her quiet smile follow Janel everywhere she goes. books2read.com/other2024 #wihm #womeninhorrormonth #womeninhorrormovement

As of today, responses have been sent for all submissions received on or before March 19. If you don’t see your response, please let us know.

Celebrate Women's History by reading about the historic Dr. Florence Hardy McConney (1894-1981): Florence Hardy McConney from Lindsay, Ontario was Chief of Medicine and the first director of the Cancer Detection Clinic at the Women's College Hospital. books2read.com/historicciti...

Thank you for your submissions! Keep them coming!

This month we're looking at the word MARCH found inside Forgotten by A. Gural: “No one is better with a bow than Gwen,” Michael states defiantly, but Mr O’Connor doesn’t seem convinced. “I find that hard to fathom. She is a girl, after all.” I sit very still.

FYIs: * Most Canadian authors (esp genre) have US publishers. Their books are printed & distributed from the US * Bookstores would either have to absorb the 25% tariff or increase the cost of books. Both options are bad, especially for small indie bookstores Give the govt feedback at link below

On the impact for self-pub writers: bsky.app/profile/hunt...

Canadians, part of the proposed tariffs for April is a 25% tariffs on books. This would be devastating for Canada's book industry, with very little impact on the US. You can voice your opposition to this particular tariff using the form below: forms-formulaires.alpha.canada.ca/en/id/cm7upm...

“if every Canadian household redirected $25 a week from foreign products to Canadian ones, it would boost GDP by 0.7 per cent and create 60,000 jobs” www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...

Celebrate Women in Horror with Jacqueline Perez's "Venus." A woman tries to save her sister from the latest fad: owning a venus flytrap. books2read.com/other2024 #wihm #womeninhorrormonth #womeninhorrormovement

This month, celebrate Women's History by reading about the historic women of Kawartha Lakes, like Marie Kelly (1879-1944): Verulam-born Marie Kelly claimed to have been a librarian for J.P. Morgan, to have run a well-established fur trading post in Siberia, and… books2read.com/historicciti...

"The Glass Mountain" is available to read on our website. Comment "AURORA" if you want to read the others. bannisterpress.com/glass-mountain

Celebrate Women's History by reading about historic women of Kawartha Lakes, like Catherine "Katy" Amelia Davy (1873-1957). At 11 she witnessed the brutal gang rape of her mother. At 16 she ran a brothel. At age 24 she was skydiving out of hot air balloons. books2read.com/historicciti...

Celebrate Women in Horror with Y.M. Pang's "House of Jade Lions" Desperate to keep his family together, this man traps them in a house of horrors. books2read.com/other2024 #wihm #womeninhorrormonth #womeninhorrormovement

Are you voting in the Aurora Award nominations round? We've put together a package of our Aurora eligible stories, and will happily send it to you. Nominations end April 5. Contact us: bannisterpress.com/contact/

As of today, responses have been sent to all submissions received up to and including February 28, 2025. If you don't see your response, please let us know. bannisterpress.com/contact

This month, celebrate Women's History by reading about the historic women of Kawartha Lakes, like the area's first woman physician, Dr. Kathleen Buck (1874-1951). The best approximation of Kathleen's birth day is March 1873. The exact day is not known.

"The Glass Mountain" is available to read on our website. Ask us how you can read the others. bannisterpress.com/glass-mountain

Celebrate Women in Horror with Madeleine Gibson's "The Dead Patch." The abuse these girls took from their mother lingers. Even after she's dead. books2read.com/other2024 #wihm #womeninhorrormonth #womeninhorrormovement