🌊 Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores – Submissions Open 🌌 A two-day submission window (March 1–2, 2026) for sci-fi, fantasy, myth, fairy tales, and eldritch fiction from around the world. 💰 8¢/word (original) | reprints welcome 🚫 No AI | No simultaneous submissions 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi...

🪐✍️ Taking Submissions ✍️🪐 SpecPoVerse is open for speculative poetry. Formal, experimental, and prose poems welcome. 💰 $5 per poem 🗓 Deadline: March 31, 2026 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #PoetrySubmissions #SpeculativePoetry #AmWriting

🔥📚 Short horror that does not waste a word. Our review of Scratch by Jack Keaton is live. A brutal West Texas fever dream packed with graphic violence, stark prose, and no mercy for the reader. 🔗 horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo... #HorrorBooks #ExtremeHorror #ShortFiction #BookReview

The “Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity” anthology KS campaign is 95% base goal funded (www.kickstarter.com/projects/526...). This means we are 81% to SG1 & 71% to SG2. 10 more backers to base goal funding. A little more caffeine in our mugs today and we’ll be there. #sff #fantasy #book #ks #booksky

🩸📖 Sunday reads are live. This week’s Trembling With Fear opens with “The End is Red” by Nic James, a lyrical story about endings and memory, plus drabbles exploring nature, hubris, and dreams gone wrong. 🔗 horrortree.com/trembling-wi... #TremblingWithFear #ShortFiction #SpeculativeHorror

🌌📚 #BookReview 📚🌌 When the power dies, the secrets come out. Our review of The Cellar Below the Cellar by Ivy Grimes is live. A quietly unsettling folk horror about community, buried truths, and what waits beneath the house. 🔗 horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo...#BookReview #AmReading

Was it all just a joke? Find out in the final instalment of our Serial Saturday, "Demon of Ubud: The Last Festival" by Olga Korotkaya: horrortree.com/serial-satur... #Fiction #Free #FreeFiction #TWF #amreading #AmWriting #WritersLife #bookworm #IndieWriter #IndieAuthors

🐲 Trollbreath Magazine is OPEN for 2026 Speculative fiction, poetry, non-fiction & cover art 💰 Paid | 🚫 No AI 📅 Deadline: Oct 31, 2026 🔗 horrortree.com/trollbreath-... From @trollbreathmag.bsky.social #WritingSubmissions #SpecFic

Submissions for our zine call have been a little slow, so I've extended the call to February 14th. Check out our themes and guidelines here: cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

🎥🩸 COVER REVEAL + EXCERPT 🩸🎥 We’re beyond excited to share a first look at This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want by Hailey Piper, out September 15, 2026. Read the reveal + excerpt here: horrortree.com/check-out-th... ✍️ Written by @haileypiperfights.bsky.social 📚 Published by @titanbooks.bsky.social

✨ What Elegant Stars is open ✨ Queer space opera full of fashion, society, and scandal. 💰 $0.08/word 🗓 Deadline: April 15, 2026 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

✨🌌 Astrolabe Submissions Open 🌌✨ Looking for fiction, CNF, poetry & art about connection — across rifts, myths, and alternate futures. Pays $50. 📅 March 20 – April 20, 2026 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... From @astrolabe.ooo #WritingSubmissions #SpeculativeLit #PayingMarkets

A Christmas Carol reimagined as a brutal crime horror. Serial killers as ghosts. Grief, guilt, and earned redemption. Our review of Humbug by Luciano Marano is live. 🔗 horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo... Published by @crystallake.bsky.social #HorrorBooks #BookReview #DarkFiction #HorrorReads

Want to get paid 10 cents per word and have your work featured in a horror/Weird fiction zine? Send us something by the 7th! #writingcommunity #submissioncall cursedmorsels.com/submission-c...

Our submission window is open for 10 more days! Send us horror stories that seep through skin and settle in the bones. thephantompulse.com

I made this film to help spread the word 👻 InhuMANities is up for: Canadian Book Library 2026 Awards Category: Suspense 2025 Bram Stoker Awards® Preliminary Ballot Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Outwrites Scary Awards Category: Body Horror & Collection #horror #horrorwriter

🎲 Stone’s Throw is open March 1–4, 2026 from @rhppress.bsky.social Theme: DOUBLE DOWN AND THEN DO IT AGAIN Dark fiction, crime, and noir about gambling, loss, and fallout. 💰 $25 | 📏 1k–2k words 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi...

🦉 Submissions open for A Coup Of Owls – Summer 2026 Stories you’ve poured your soul into. 📅 March 1–7, 2026 💰 £5–£15 🌈 For underrepresented & marginalized creators only 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... From @acoupofowls.bsky.social #WritingSubmissions #PayingMarkets #FlashFiction

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

🐇🌑 Stygian Lepus Magazine is open for dark fiction, serialized fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, articles, and art. 📅 March 1–25, 2026 💰 $5 per accepted piece 🚫 No simultaneous submissions 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #WritingSubmissions #DarkFiction #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

🔥🌿 Hearth Stories is open for cozy speculative fiction — stories about connection, family, comfort, and the natural world. 📅 March 1–31, 2026 💰 1¢/word (min $20) 🚫 No AI 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... From @hearthstories.bsky.social #WritingSubmissions #CozySpeculative

🖤 Book Review: The Composition of a Crow A modern myth retelling that’s brutal, emotionally raw, and deeply unsettling. Difficult to read—but powerful if you stick with it. 🔗 horrortree.com/book-review-...

☕⭐🌍 Hard SF submissions are open for Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity. ✔️ All 3 elements required ✔️ 2k words max ✔️ Pays $0.08/word 🚫 No AI 📅 March 1–31, 2026 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... Brought to you by @aanpress.bsky.social #HardSF #WritingSubmissions

I was getting ready to schedule a post for next week when I raised an eyebrow at the artwork on the submission guidelines. Still, I kept going. In the FAQ, they were strongly opposed to AI writing. Great! However, the next section is the attached screenshot. So. We won't be listing them.

🔥 TAKING SUBMISSIONS: Rage, Well Spoken An activist call for creative non-fiction by women that confronts sexism, misogyny, harassment, and power — and treats rage as necessary, valid, and political. 🗓 Deadline: March 31, 2026 💰 $0.04 USD per word 📏 1,000–7,500 words 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi...

📼✨ Submissions Open: Eavesdrop Issue 6 – Nostalgia Queer-focused poetry, fiction, CNF, plays, comics & visual art. All genres welcome. Pays up to $70 per piece. 📅 Deadline: Feb 28, 2026 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi... From @eavesdropmagazine.bsky.social #WritingSubmissions #QueerLit #Nostalgia 🖤📼

👻 Book Review: The Hauntings Back Home by @rebeccacuthbert.bsky.social A collection of ghost stories that balances dread, humor, and grief. Thirteen haunted tales with real emotional bite. 🔗 horrortree.com/book-review-...

🖤 Trembling With Fear – new issue 🖤 Featuring “The Ocean Sings And I Must Go” by Steven Patchett, plus drabbles from Nicolette M. Ward, Don Tucker, and F.M. Scott. 🔗 horrortree.com/trembling-wi... 🖋️ @stevenpatchett.bsky.social 🖋️ @shadowsbetween.bsky.social 🖋️ @fmscottauthor.bsky.social

🧬 Book Review: Lurking in the Gene Pool A 22-story speculative anthology where family bonds blur into horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and dark comedy. Thought-provoking and unsettling. 🔗 horrortree.com/book-review-...

Has Liz been taken by the jungle? Find out in the third chapter of our Serial Saturday, Demon of Ubud: The Last Festival by Olga Korotkaya: horrortree.com/serial-satur... #Fiction #Free #FreeFiction #TWF #amreading #AmWriting #WritersLife #bookworm #IndieWriter #IndieAuthors

🫀 After the pain comes survival. After the Hurt is open July 1–31, 2026. Stories about whump aftermath, recovery, caretaking, flashbacks, and conditioning. Micro to novelette Free paperback or $10 USD Reprints allowed horrortree.com/taking-submi...

⏳ Book Review: Borrowed Time A fast-moving dark fantasy full of mythological intrigue, gods at war, and mortals caught in the middle. Complex, ambitious, and gripping. 🔗 horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo... Reviewed by @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social

🪖 Horror submissions open for current and former military dependents. When the Base Goes Dark explores the terrors families face when deployments leave home vulnerable. Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi... #HorrorSubmissions #SpecFic

🎤 Book Review: Screwing Sinatra by P. Moss A noir crime thriller steeped in 1960s Vegas glamour, corruption, and betrayal. Stylish, dialogue-heavy, and unapologetically hard-boiled. 🔗 horrortree.com/book-review-... #BookReview #NoirFiction #CrimeReads 🥃🎰

Open call: Voices for the Voiceless Stories of courage, guardianship, and compassion. Deadline: April 30, 2026 Pay: $20 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi...

🌌 Eye to the Telescope #60 seeks speculative poetry on Paying Tribute. 1–3 unpublished poems. Pay: 5¢/word ($5–$25). Deadline: April 15, 2026. horrortree.com/taking-submi... #SpecPoetry #WritingSubmissions

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

🎮🎬📚 John Passarella ( @jpassarella.bsky.social ) breaks down adapting Return to Silent Hill from game to film to novel — and how horror novelizations reclaim what scripts leave behind. 🔗 horrortree.com/from-game-to... From @titanbooks.bsky.social #HorrorWriting #SilentHill #GuestPost

🩸 Open Call: Vampires Anthology Flame Tree Press is seeking original vampire short stories, paying SFWA rates. Edited by Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane. Deadline: Feb 15, 2026 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi...

🔥 HellBound Books is celebrating 10 years of horror with a special anniversary anthology. No theme. Original horror only. 4k–8k words. $10 payment. Deadline: June 30, 2026. horrortree.com/taking-submi... From @hellboundbooks.bsky.social #HorrorWriting #Submissions

✍️ Ronald Malfi on why short horror stories are sharp, hungry, and unforgiving. A guest post on precision, economy, and impact in short fiction. Published alongside We Should Have Left Well Enough Alone. horrortree.com/short-sharp-... @titanbooks.bsky.social #WritingHorror #GuestPost

🐉 DEVIL DRAGON Ebook Giveaway 🔥 10 ebook copies Available!. Creature horror set in outback Australia. By award-winning author Deborah Sheldon. 🗓️ Jan 19–31, 2026 Part of her 40-year career celebration. 🔗 horrortree.com/devil-dragon... #EbookGiveaway #CreatureHorror #MonsterHorror #HorrorBooks#Horro#Horro

✨ NonBinary Review #44 is open Feb 1–28, 2026. Theme: Saying Goodbye to Yesterday Speculative prose, poetry, nonfiction, and art Reprints welcome No AI content Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

🏠 Suburban Gothic stories wanted. Quiet streets. Closed doors. Something wrong beneath it all. Up to 7,500 words $0.01 CAD per word Deadline: March 31, 2026 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #HorrorWriting #Submissions #SuburbanGothic

🩸 Book Review: The Brides A feminist gothic reworking of Dracula told through letters and diaries. Slow-burn dread, rich atmosphere, and unforgettable women. 🔗 horrortree.com/book-review-...

🐉 Enter Our DEVIL DRAGON Ebook #Giveaway!🔥 10 ebook copies up for grabs. Creature horror set in outback Australia. By award-winning author Deborah Sheldon. 🗓️ Jan 19–31, 2026 Part of her 40-year career celebration. 🔗 horrortree.com/devil-dragon...#Giveaway!🔥 #EbookGiveaway #CreatureHorror #HorrorBooks

The gang move deeper into the woods in Chapter 2 of our Serial Saturday, Demon of Ubud: The Last Festival by Olga Korotkaya: horrortree.com/serial-satur... #Fiction #Free #FreeFiction #TWF #amreading #AmWriting #WritersLife #bookworm #IndieWriter #IndieAuthors

🧪 Agita Magazine is open for Bad Science. Horror + dark sci-fi flash up to 1,000 words. 💰 5¢/word 🗓️ Mar 1–14 🗓️ Extended (LGBTQIA+, disabled, BIPOC): Mar 15–21 horrortree.com/taking-submi... From @frombeyondpress.bsky.social #CallForSubmissions #HorrorFlash

Open submissions: Modern Decadent Wild Hunt Books wants unsettling, decadent short fiction inspired by symbolism and proto-Weird traditions. Deadline: Feb 1, 2026 Pay: £100 🔗 horrortree.com/taking-submi...

New on Horror Tree 🖤 Ronald Malfi discusses short fiction, genre boundaries, obsession, and writing with precision. 🔗 horrortree.com/an-interview...