Horror Writing Markets Update for August 2023
31 July 2023
Just in time for August, here are some places to send your beautiful and terrifying collections of words.
Open Now
- The Crow’s Quill is taking submissions for the monthly theme of “Shapeshifters” until August 10.
- The Sirens Call quarterly zine wants your Halloween pieces. Deadline: August 15.
- Tales from the Moonlit Path is open for stories about summer camp for their 2023 summer challenge. Get ‘em in before August 15.
Open Soon
- The Quiet Ones opens up for short stories, flash and micro fiction, and narrative poetry on August 13.
- Beginning August 17, you can submit fiction, nonfiction, art, and video to Pyre Magazine.
Anthology Calls
- African and African-diaspora writers can submit to Flame Tree Press’s African Ghost Short Stories until August 27.
- Send your best horror and dark sci-fi stories about shopping malls to Escalators to Hell: Shopping Mall Horrors. Deadline: August 31.
- Two Sentence Horror Stories is open until August 31.
- Cursed Morsels Press is open for submissions to their anthology, Why Didn’t You Just Leave from now until August 31.
For more markets, you can always take a stroll through my horror markets database. If you have a current or upcoming market to submit, email me at [email protected].