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39 Themed Submission Calls for February 2025

These are themed calls and contests for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Some of the call themes are: Cottage Crimes; Here Be Monsters; folk horror; Tales of Cryptid Chaos; Vampire Hunters – An Incomplete Record of Personal Accounts; We Are Not Going Back!; Illumination; Fresh Starts; Modern Mummies; Eco – ; and Joy. THEMED CALLS The…
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41 Themed Submission Calls and Contests for January 2025

These are themed calls and contests for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Some of the themed calls are: paranoia; short (b)reads; seaside gothic; fairy tales; sleeping beauty; food; underappreciated or overlooked writers; Queer tales of untold adventure; witch craft; speculative mysteries; carnival of horror; and lost at sea. Fraidy Cat Quarterly: ParanoiaFraidy Cat Quarterly is a…
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37 Themed Submission Calls and Contests for December 2024

These are themed submission calls and contests from 37 outlets for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Some call themes are: solar punk; (non)binaries; anarchy and harmony; shatter the sun – Queer tales of untold adventure; tales from the cleaners; silent nightmares –  haunting stories to be told on the longest night of the year; the workplace;…
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31 Themed Submission Calls and Contests for November 2024

These are themed calls and contests from 31 publishers for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry; a couple of the publishers are open for more than one call. Some of the call themes are: solarpunk conflicts; fever dreams; Aphrodite; censorship; stop surveillance copaganda; cat stories; future states of stars; on the farm; high seas horror; fortune and…
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32 Themed Submission Calls and Contests for October 2024

These are themed submission calls and contests for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry; a couple of these outlets are open for more than one call. Some call themes are: No place like home; were wolf short stories; food poems; winter horrorland; superstition; coming of age; time travel; rituals; underground; de/composition; steampunk sleuths; dread Mondays; bodies in…
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32 Themed Submission Calls and Contests for September 2024

These are themed submission calls and contests for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Some call themes are: tales of winter shadows; schism; environmental justice; Morgana le Fay; long-term relationships; visitation; Leviathan (industrial horror); each and other; hidden villains – criminals; and werewolves. THEMED SUBMISSIONS Speculation Publications: Evergreen – Tale of Winter ShadowsThis is a fiction and…
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