Welcome back to this month’s Submission Roundup! Today’s post shines a light on some great submission calls, including ones that close at the end of this month as well as those that are still open for a little while, giving you plenty of time to polish up those tales!

As always, I’m not a representative for any of these publications. I am simply spreading the word! Please direct any questions you might have about a particular submission window to the respective publication.

And with that, let’s get started with this month’s Submission Roundup!

Riddled with Arrows
Payment: .03/word for original fiction and poetry (minimum $5; maximum $25); $5/flat for reprints
Length: up to 1,500 words
Deadline: June 10th, 2017
What They Want: Open to various genres, the editors seek metafiction and metapoetry about the art of writing itself.
Find the details here.

The Misbehaving Dead
Payment: $15/flat
Length: up to 10,000 words
Deadline: June 13th, 2017
What They Want: For their next anthology, A Murder of Storytellers is open to horror stories about the deceased who won’t stay dead.
Find the details here.

Welcome to Miskatonic University
Payment: .08/word
Length: up to 1,000 words for flash; 3,000-6,000 words for short stories
Deadline: June 30th, 2017
What They Want: Cthulhu mythos stories set at the college campus of Miskatonic University.
Find the details here.

Third Flatiron
Payment: .06/word
Length: 1,500-3,000 words
Deadline: July 15th, 2017
What They Want: This issue’s theme is Strange Beasties. Open to different speculative genres, the featured creatures in the stories can be monsters or not, so long as they are “strange.”
Find the details here.

Mental Ward: Stories from the Asylum Volume 2
Payment: $25/flat
Length: 4,000-8,000 words
Deadline: July 31st, 2017
What They Want: Horror stories set in sanatoriums, mental wards, or psychiatric hospitals.
Find the details here.

A Midas Clutch: Tales of Opulent Horror
Payment: .05/word for original fiction; .02/word for reprints
Length: 4,000-14,000 words
Deadline: January 2018
What They Want: Open to strange and creepy stories about the wealthy. The editors prefer contemporary tales, but will accept stories from different time periods.
Find the details here.

Happy submitting!