Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores opens June 1-2, 2026. 🌌 Seeking: ✨ sci-fi ✨ fantasy ✨ myth & legend ✨ fairy tales ✨ eldritch fiction 💰 8¢/word for new fiction 📝 Poetry accepted 📚 1,000+ words horrortree.com/taking-submi... #SpeculativeFiction #WritingCommunity

📢 Open Call ⚠️ Genderf**k Anthology 📅 Through July 19 💰 $10/story 📏 1,000–5,000 words Dark, strange, transgressive erotica featuring trans & non-binary characters. 🖤 Benefits Trans Lifeline. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #LGBTQWriters #HorrorWriters

HEAVY ARE THE YEARS is open for speculative novella submissions.⏳🩸 ✨🚀Seeking stories about immortality, aging, memory, regret, and the burden of time.💀🌀 💰 $0.05/word + royalties 📚 15-25k words 📅 May 31, 2026 horrortree.com/taking-submi... From @bonedustpress.bsky.social & @wildstarpress.bsky.social

Gig work horror? That’s already real life. 💀 Agita Publishing is open for SIDE HUSTLE: Horror Stories for Late Capitalism. 🚕 Horror & dark sci-fi 💰 5¢/word 📚 1k-5k words 📅 May 15-June 14, 2026 horrortree.com/taking-submi... From @agitapublishing.bsky.social #Horror #WritingCommunity

📢 Open Call 🌀 The Cafe Irreal – Summer 2026 Issue 📅 Through July 1, 2026 💰 $0.01/word 📏 Up to 2,000 words Irreal, surreal, literary speculative fiction wanted. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #Surrealism #SpeculativeFiction

#WritingPrompt Wednesdays: Listen If You Dare from @corinnepwriter.bsky.social horrortree.com/writing-prom... #WritingPrompt#AmWriting #WritingCommunity

THE FATHOMS BELOW by Jackie Sonnenberg is now available. 🌊🩸 Sci-fi horror meets underwater adventure and prehistoric terror as humanity returns to the sea… and discovers something waiting in the depths. getbook.at/FathomsBelow #Horror #SciFiHorror #BookRelease

📢 Open Call 🌿 The Rotting Leaf – June 2026 Window From @briefecology.bsky.social 📅 June 1–7, 2026 💰 $0.06/word ($30 minimum) 📏 Up to 1,500 words Eco-horror, eco-gothic, surreal & experimental fiction wanted. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #EcoHorror #SpeculativeFiction

🩸 Taking Submissions: Wyldblood Magazine June Window Wyldblood Magazine opens for fiction submissions on the 1st day of each month only and is seeking speculative fiction, flash fiction, and novellas. 💰 Pay: £0.01/word 📚 SF/F only 🚫 No reprints horrortree.com/taking-submi...

📚 Authors & publishers are suing Meta over allegations that copyrighted books were used to train Llama AI. The lawsuit references LibGen, Anna’s Archive, and millions of allegedly pirated works. ⚖️ Why writers should care: horrortree.com/meta-lawsuit... #WritingCommunity #AI #Publishing

Orion’s Belt is now open for submissions until May 15! 🚀 We are accepting speculative fiction, micro fiction, poetry, translations, and reviews! For more information on submitting, including the link to our Duosuma submission manager👇We can't wait to read your work! www.orions-belt.net/submissions

📢 Open Call 🖤 Menace Magazine 📅 Ongoing 💰 $50 per piece Fiction, nonfiction, flash, poetry, and multimedia. Speculative, weird, and transgressive work wanted. 🔗 horrortree.com/ongoing-subm... #WritingCommunity #SpeculativeFiction

📢 Open Contest 🎃 Shallow Waters – May 2026 From @crystallake.bsky.social 📅 Deadline: May 31 📏 Up to 1,500 words Halloween Night horror. 💰 Up to $0.04/word + publication 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #HorrorWriters #FlashFiction

Margeaux Templeton explores the dangers of food in this week’s feature story, ‘Breakfast,’ a terrifying exploration of culinary delights. 🚶‍♂️ Daniel Foley takes the tenth step 🫂 J.P Heeley loses love to a straw embrace 🩻 Henry-Sanders-Wright on decaying love horrortree.com/trembling-wi...

📚 Monster High: New Scaremester Vol. 2 A colorful, character-driven horror-adjacent comic that mixes mystery, school drama, and themes of identity and belonging. 🔗 horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo... #GraphicNovel #YAComics

Reviewers! If you want a pre-release ebook copy of SATURDAY MOURNING TELEVISION, hit us up via the link below and we'll get one to you: 💀📺 sliceduppress.com/contact

Inanimate Things: Volume Two is available to read on Kindle Unlimited and you can buy it just about anywhere else! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DY6C4BZD #burialbooks #inanimatethings #ScareShare #Horror #Horror_Retweet #supporthorror #HorrorCommunity

On June 23rd, I've got 5 sci-fi drabbles dropping in the drabble anthology Darker Stars! Available for pre-order digitally today on Amazon, I'll let you know when the print edition is due! amzn.to/42ZsJe8 #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

📢 Open Call Pyrite – The Space Heist Anthology From @theslabpress.bsky.social 📅 Nov 1–30 💰 1p/word (max £100) 📏 10,000–25,000 words Space heists, piracy, prospecting, and fool’s gold dreams. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #SciFiWriters #ScienceFiction

📢 Open Call 🌲 Undead Appalachia 📅 Open through May 31 💰 $50 📏 Under 5,000 words Folk horror set in Appalachian settings. Undead creatures, spirits, and more. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #FolkHorror #HorrorWriters

📢 Open Call ⚔️ Indie Bites Issue 23 Publisher @indiebites.bsky.social 📅 Open through May 31 💰 £5 + donation share 📏 Up to 7,500 words Theme: Quests & Quarrels Fantasy stories wanted. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #FantasyWriters #DarkFantasy

📚 Burns by David Polfeldt 🤖 A lonely search droid drifting through deep space in search of alien life. Existential sci-fi, cosmic isolation, witty AI banter, and the terrifying emptiness of the universe. 🔗 horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo... #SciFiBooks #BookReview #SpeculativeFiction

📢 Open Call 🌊 Smitten Land Issue 6 From @palestarsirius.bsky.social 📅 May 1 – June 1 💰 $10 + contributor copy 📏 2,000–10,000 words Religious horror, Leviathan, biblical monsters. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #HorrorWriters #DarkFantasy

📢 Open Call Mertails Anthology From @tfpublishing.bsky.social 📅 Open through June 30 💰 AU 1¢/word + contributor copy 📏 2,000–10,000 words Merfolk stories wanted. 🧜 Fantasy, sci-fi, romance & more. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #FantasyWriters #SpeculativeFiction

Writing Prompt Wednesdays: Have You Seen This Person? from @corinnepwriter.bsky.social horrortree.com/writing-prom... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

📢 Open Call Roxane Gay Books (Grove Atlantic imprint) 📅 Open through June 1 📚 Book-length works 💰 Traditional publishing Looking for compelling, character-driven books with strong voice. 🔗 horrortree.com/roxane-gay-b... #AmWriting #Publishing

📢 Open Call The First Line – Fall 2026 📅 Open through Aug 1 💰 Fiction: $25–$50 📝 Poetry: $10 Required first line: “The line of people stretched all the way around the block.” All genres welcome. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #WritingCommunity #LiteraryMagazine

A new chapter in one of sci-fi’s most ambitious series… Adrian Tchaikovsky ( @aptshadow.bsky.social ) returns with Children of Strife Terraformers. God complexes. Uplifted species. Full review by @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social: horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo... #SciFi #BookReview #SpeculativeFiction

📢 Open Call 🤖 YA Sci-Fi Graphic Novel Anthology @rebelgoosebooks 📅 Mar 31 – Jun 30 💰 $125 CAD per page 📄 4–20 pages AI-driven, near-future comics with teen protagonists. (NOT USING AI TO WRITE!) 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #ComicsCommunity #GraphicNovel

📢 Open Call SpecPoVerse – May–June 2026 📅 May 1 – June 30 💰 $5 per poem 📝 1–3 poems 📏 Max 100 lines Speculative poetry wanted. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #PoetryCommunity #SpeculativePoetry

Memorial Day horror hits different. War. Memory. PTSD. The things that don’t stay buried. Here are 10 horror reads that carry the weight of it all… 🔗 horrortree.com/memorial-day... #HorrorBooks #MemorialDay #SpeculativeFiction

Kamran Connelly warns us away from places we aren't wanted in this week's feature story, "Stay Away From the Barn". Amber Willis reminds us of past misdeeds Sean Sims concludes his story of the rampaging vampire Lanson Wells demonstrates a new type of Harvest horrortree.com/trembling-wi...

📚 Breathtaker by Mark Wheatley & Marc Hempel A surreal blend of horror, philosophy, and body horror wrapped in a cult classic graphic novel. 🔗 horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo... #GraphicNovel #HorrorComics

Is the doll just a dream, or is something more sinister at play? Find out in Chapter 2 of our Serial Saturday, Hovel House by Ry Slotar: horrortree.com/serial-satur... #Fiction #Free #FreeFiction #TWF #amreading #AmWriting #WritersLife #bookworm #IndieWriter #IndieAuthors

📢 Open Call Green Sheaf – Fall 2026 Issue 🌿 Theme: The Crone 📅 Aug 21 – Sept 18 💰 $50 flat 📏 Flash ≤500 words 📝 Poetry ≤50 lines For female-identifying & gender fluid writers 50+ 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity

Let 𝘛𝘞𝘍 focus on the small pleasures: chocolate and shopping with Daniel DuBois and an old money purse...😱 horrortree.com/trembling-with-fear-4-12-26/ ‎ #WeeklyEzine #TremblingWithFear

📢 Open Call Scattered: A Dark Forest Press Zine @darkforestpressllc.bsky.social 📅 July 1–15 💰 Fiction: $0.01/word 📝 Poetry: $25 📏 1,000–6,000 words Dark, weird, bizarre horror wanted. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #HorrorWriters #DarkFiction

📢 Open Call Eye to the Telescope #61 👽 Theme: Aliens 📅 Open through July 15 💰 5¢/word 📝 1–3 poems Speculative poetry only. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #PoetryCommunity #SpeculativePoetry

📚 New essay: “MonsterVision” and Nostalgia Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, late-night horror rentals, and Friday nights with Joe Bob Briggs on MonsterVision. A look back at the horror influences that shaped a lifelong fan. 🔗 horrortree.com/monstervisio... #HorrorCommunity #MonsterVision

📢 Open Call A Coup of Owls – Autumn 2026 Issue @acoupofowls.bsky.social 📅 June 1–7 💰 £5–£15 📏 100–8,000 words Open theme, all fiction genres. For underrepresented & marginalized writers. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #WritingCommunity #ShortStorySubmission

📢 Open Call Stone’s Throw – July 2026 Feature From @rhppress.bsky.social 📅 June 1–4 💰 $25 📏 1,000–2,000 words Theme: The Red, White, and Due Dark fiction with Indigenous voices and histories. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #WritingCommunity #DarkFiction

Writing Prompt Wednesdays: Heartless from @corinnepwriter.bsky.social horrortree.com/writing-prom... #WritingPrompt #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

📢 Open Call Radon Journal – October 2026 Issue @radonjournal.bsky.social 📅 May 1 – Aug 31 💰 2.5¢/word fiction 📝 $25 per poem 📏 Up to 5,000 words Science fiction + leftist social commentary wanted. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #WritingCommunity #SpeculativeFiction

📢 Open Call Allegory Volume 50/77 📅 May 1 – June 30 💰 $15 per story 📏 No strict word count Seeking strong speculative fiction with originality and a quirky slant. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #WritingCommunity #SpeculativeFiction

📚 Hex House by Amy Jane Stewart Published by @titanbooks.bsky.social A gothic horror novel full of feminine rage, survival, transformation, and a house that appears only when it’s needed most. A powerful review and a book worth watching. 🔗 horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo... #HorrorBooks #BookReview

🚨 Due to technical difficulties, we've added a couple of days, ENTER TODAY! :) Win an ebook copy of CONTRITION Enter here horrortree.com/contrition-e...

📢 Open Call Book Worms Horror Zine #11 🏕️ Summer camp horror 📅 Open through June 15 💰 8¢/word 📏 1,500 words or less Poetry also accepted. 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #HorrorWriters #FlashFiction

📢 Open Call On Spec 2026 New Canadian Literature of the Fantastic 📅 Open through May 31 💰 $0.05 CAD/word (max $250) 📏 Up to 5,000 words Canadian writers only Genre: science fiction & fantasy 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #WritingCommunity #SpeculativeFiction

📚 Bombyx by R.C. Matheson Reviewed by @stephellis.bsky.social A fast, brutal novella about addiction, paranoia, manipulation, and a world that seems determined to destroy one man. A short read with a big impact. 🔗 horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo... #HorrorBooks #BookReview

Steph is the best! (And I still need to pick up a copy of Women of the Weird West with how many westerns I've been writing lately... -Stu)