Welcome back for this month’s Submission Roundup! Lots of great opportunities this month, so be sure to polish up those stories and send them out into the world! But first, the usual disclaimer: I’m not a representative for any of these markets; I’m merely spreading the word! Please direct your questions and comments to the respective editors.

And now onward with this month’s Submission Roundup!

Vastarien
Payment: .05/word for fiction and nonfiction; $50/flat for poetry
Length: 2,000 words to 7,500 words for nonfiction; 750 to 6,000 words for fiction; up to 50 lines for poetry
Deadline: May 15th, 2019
What They Want: Vastarien is seeking nonfiction, literary horror fiction, and poetry that’s inspired by Thomas Ligotti and related themes.
Find the details here.

LampLight Magazine
Payment: .03/word ($150 max) for original fiction; .01/word for reprints
Length: up to 7,000 words
Deadline: May 15th, 2019
What They Want: Open to dark, literary fiction.
Find the details here.

Selene Magazine
Payment: .06/word for original fiction; $50/flat for original poetry; $15/flat for reprint poetry and .01/word for reprint fiction
Length: 100 to 7,500 words for fiction; any length for poetry
Deadline: May 31st, 2019
What They Want: Open to speculative fiction, in particular alternate history, mystery, and romance.
Find the details here.

Year’s Best Cosmic Horror 2019
Payment: not specified
Length: Up to 12,000 words
Deadline: May 31st, 2019
What They Want: Reprint stories from 2018 that deal in the themes of cosmic horror.
Find the details here.

Accursed: A Horror Anthology
Payment: $25/flat
Length: 2,500 to 6,000 words
Deadline: June 30th, 2019
What They Want: Horror and horror-comedy stories about cursed objects.
Find the details here.

Nox Pareidolia
Payment: .06/word
Length: up to 6,000 words
Deadline: June 30th, 2019
What They Want: Open to black authors only until the end of June, Nightscape is seeking ambiguous horror stories in the vein of Robert Aickman.
Find the details here.

Happy reading!