Three markets paying $150 - $500 for a story, a poetry contest and a call for submissions

The Faerie of Central Park
by Bruce Graw
from TANSTAAFL Press

Tanstaafl Press – Short story submissions wanted for Enter the Rebirth anthology.

Pays 1–8 cents per word

Stories must be less than 8000 words. Stories considered for Enter the Rebirth must be stories about the world coming back to a new stability after any type of apocalypse.

Questions / submissions: submissions@tanstaaflpress.com

Deadline: 15 December 2016. Full submission guidelines here.

Wicked Run Press seeks novella-length addiction-themed horror fiction

Pays $500 per story

The intoxication from a pint of vodka, the electric buzz from snorting cocaine, the warm embrace from shooting heroin – drinking and drugging provides the height of human experience. It’s the promise of heaven on earth, but the hell that follows is a constant hunger, a cold emptiness. The craving to get high is a yearning not unlike that of any other blood-thirsty monster. The best way to tell these truths of addiction is through a story, and dark truths such as these need a piece of horror to do them justice.

“It’s with great enthusiasm that I invite submissions to an addiction-themed horror anthology with an expected spring/summer 2017 publication date. Garden of Fiends is the working title. Submissions should be from 16,000 to 25,0000 words. The publisher will have one title in the anthology, and from 3 to 4 additional works will be included.

Send submissions to: wickedrunpress@gmail.com  

Deadline: 1 January 2017. Details here.

Beverly Akerman's story "Pie"
appears in Gemini Magazine

Hi, Brian.

Gemini Magazine is now accepting entries for its seventh annual Poetry Competitions. The grand prize is $1,000. Second place wins $100 and four honorable mentions will each receive $25. All six finalists will be published online in the March 2017 issue of Gemini. Open to any type of poetry, any subject matter, any length: prose, rhyming, free verse, ballads, sonnets, haiku The entry fee is $5 for each batch of three poems.

Deadline: January 3, 2017. Full submission guidelines here.
Coming in a few weeks: results of Gemini’s eighth annual Flash Fiction Contest. 

Peace, 
David Bright, Editor

Fiyah Magazine: Speculative fiction  and poetry wanted for “Spilling Tea” issue.

Fiyah is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features stories by and about people of the African Diaspora.
Pays $150 per story, $50 per poem

Questions and submissions to: submissions@fiyahlitmag.com

Deadline: 1 January 2017 Full submission guidelines here.

The Fieldstone Review, the University of Saskatchewan's online literary journal, is now accepting submissions of creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and reviews for its 2017 issue. The Fieldstone Review welcomes original, previously unpublished work of quality in a variety of styles and genres.

Deadline for submissions is January 15, 2017. Full submission guidelines here.

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