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Sorry, I'm one day late for International Women's Day: Horror directed by Women 💃👩🏻🧙 boxd.it/tSQ24

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In honor of #InternationalWomensDay I’d like to celebrate some of my favorite #WomenOfHorror 🖤 @rachelharrison.bsky.social @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social @christaqua.bsky.social @sadiehartmann.bsky.social @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social @datlow.bsky.social

submitted 22 hours ago • 10 comments

BIPOC authors, bring us your cosmic horror. This submission opportunity runs through the month of March! Learn more at sobelobooks.com/submissions

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Happy Valentine’s, Monsterfuckers! Submissions are OPEN for Wet Screams, an erotic anthology of creature feature delights! Bring us your bump-in-the-night stories of encounters with fur, fangs, and more… Open now until April 14th. Guidelines & link here: www.littleghostsbooks.com/wetscreams

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

hey psychopomp blog is back we want your death or fantasy focused articles got budget to acquire a few articles a month currently (buy our books!) read the guidelines + pitch at the link below (would really appreciate if you could share this paid writing opportunity).

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

Short story submission call! Opening June 1! From the minds of me and @mstevensonbooks.bsky.social comes ENTER HERE: An Anthology of Portals. It's an adult SFFH speculative anthology celebrating marginalized authors. More info on our website! #writing #WritingCommunity cjsubko.com/enter-here-a...

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

𝑺𝑳𝑨𝑲𝑬 𝑯𝑶𝑼𝑺𝑬 is a queer erotic horror choose-your-own-ending anthology featuring some of your faaavourite authors and artists :J It's now available on itch, but only until July!!! 💙 papriqa.itch.io/slake-house 💙 🏚️ papriqa.itch.io/slake-house 🏚️ 🩸 papriqa.itch.io/slake-house 🩸

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

We are delighted to announce a new Six-Week Workshop scholarship for Trans writers. The Sea Star Scholarship, an annual full-tuition scholarship for the Six-Week Workshop, has been offered by an anonymous donor and will be available for the first time this year.

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

It is on! Go free get some queer SFFH 🪐📚🩸 and Romance 🌶️📚💙 ebooks. If you read and like any of them, don't forget to post ratings and reviews.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Yessssss IM IN

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

We're open for submissions to our sixth issue through January! 🌟 Read the guidelines and submit here: inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-g... #SFF #SpeculativeFiction #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Intense and oooooh I like it. 'Our Demons... should we repress, tame or embrace them?' Concept, Art Dir, Photo: Pol Kurucz CG: Mark Berden Full credit list via FB/IG #beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #darkart #photography #artcollectors #artmagazine #artinspo #art

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Why not start 2025 with a new series? This year is packed with fabulous sequels, you can jump on board with book one now for 0.99! Exclusive to our website, ends 17/1 23:59, titles vary by country! @natania.bsky.social @maryrobinettekowal.com @pennyvixen.bsky.social https://geni.us/Solarissale

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

I'm still looking for work for this year so if anyone has any projects I'd be suited for or a character or scene you want painting, send me an email! I'm available commercially and for private commission. Contact: [email protected] Portfolio: www.artstation.com/tom_dale

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

WE ARE LOOKING FOR SUBMISSION DEAR BIPOC WRITERS! Send me your nasty, pretty, terrifying, sex, sensual erotic-eco-horror! I would love to see more submissions from BIPOC authors sharing their lovely creepy visions with me! MORE!!!! ~ DEADLINE NOW JAN 31st !!! ~

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Kids are back in school! Time to get these 3 stories banging around inside my head OUT!!

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life

submitted 87 days ago • 229 comments

Violet Lichen is currently open to novella queries! 🖤✨🍄💀🌿🖤 We are looking for weird, unsettling, or surreal speculative fiction with distinctive characters and settings that feel alive. The mid-winter window will stay open until at least Jan 10 (details below!) violetlichen.com/2024/12/08/v...

submitted 90 days ago • 6 comments

Sale extended!! Beautiful art to keep and share 🖤

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

So many great books on sale! Helpmeet was a favorite this year, Jackal, Jackal in the cart 🖤

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Hey horror author pals! LITTLE GHOSTS PRESS is HALFWAY through our submission window! We’re taking horror novella pitches from now until the end of December. More info on the page for the submission call. Responses will be sent by Feb. 1st! 🖤👻📚 www.littleghostsbooks.com/contact-us

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submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

In my new role as Contest Director for the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award, a friendly reminder that this year's deadline is fast approaching: www.baen.com/contest-jbmssa

submitted 104 days ago • 5 comments

Hi folks. I paint and draw, build musical instruments and bread ovens, and like to party in fields and spend as much time in my campervan as possible. Old leftie, BLM, hate what Twitter became. You can see my stuff at www.davidseedfineart.co.uk

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

Phantom Worlds: The Cellar Door Issue #6 will be opening to submissions from Dec 1, 2024 - Jan 31, 2025. Seeking horror short stories where alternate realities invade our own. 2k - 8k length. Payment is $50 + copies. Visit the DPP website for more info: shorturl.at/71knL

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Working on a #manuscript? ✍️ We’d love to hear from you! GoldSF is now open for #submissions We are looking for fresh&exciting intersectional #feministSF, & especially keen to see formally experimental novels. Initial submissions c.15k words, full ms (if requested) max 80k. Deadline: 20th Jan 2024

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment

Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your purse/backpack at any given moment: 1. Pack of cheap crayons 'Not Suitable for Children' 2. Plastic yellow tent stake 3. New lip balm that I HATE/MUST use until spent 4. Lidl cart coin 5. Enough sand to ethically house a Beetlejuice worm

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Now is a good time to share this here, too. Please don't inquire about specifics at this time. Just a heads up. We'll share more info when we get closer.

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We have new tees and 2025 calendars on the shop!! wolfskulljack.com/collections/...

submitted 125 days ago • 3 comments

PSA

submitted 120 days ago • 7 comments

A very popular piece I did in 2018 that often gets shared without credit or gets ripped off entirely! I like this guy! I’ll be making more tees with him on in November!

submitted 143 days ago • 71 comments

khōréō is looking for more first readers to join our team! First readers should be available for a few hours a week, three times a year to read through submissions. If you like what we do and want to be part of it, apply before October 14! More details: www.khoreomag.com/join-our-team/

submitted 171 days ago • 0 comments

And we're off! Nefarious Bat Press are officially open to novella submissions! Dark fic-writing women and enbys... send us your stuff! (But also: please read the guidelines - on our website, and in the comments below!) www.nefariousbatpress.com

submitted 174 days ago • 1 comment

This essay captures a bit of the tension of being Asian American - white audiences assume you're "authentic" if (and only if) you mention anything Asian. But many of us have been trained in Western literature and art. In my case, I grew up incredibly disconnected from Asian cultural trappings.

submitted 174 days ago • 1 comment