Horror Writing Markets Update for December 2023
29 November 2023
It’s getting dark and cold out there, just like your writing. Do some winter thriving.
Open Now
- Coffin Bell is accepting submissions for its “Multiverses” issue until December 31.
- You can send short fiction to Allegory until December 31.
- midnight & indigo is open to speculative stories and essays from Black women writers until December 31.
Open Soon
- Penumbric opens for fiction and poetry submissions on December 15.
- Baffling Magazine wants speculative stories that explore science fiction, fantasy, and horror with a queer bent from December 1 to 15.
- Early notice that Nightmare Magazine is opening for a rare, brief submission window January 14-20, 2024, so get ready.
Anthology Calls
- In honor of Steinbeck’s lost werewolf novel, the In the Eyes of the Hungry wants your Steinbeck-style werewolf stories. Open until December 31.
- Andrew Cull and Gabino Iglesias are putting together a second anthology of “found footage” horror stories and are open to submissions now until March 31.
- The Cellar Door: Marshland Horrors is looking for horror/suspense stories that take place in swamps, bayous, and marshlands starting December 1.
- The Map of Lost Places is open to short stories about places where weird things happen until the end of December.
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].