Horror Writing Markets Update for September 2023
30 August 2023
We’re beginning the slide into spooky season, this is our time. Start sending your dark visions out into the world.
Open Now
- The Quiet Ones, a queer-centered magazine of quiet horror and intimate dystopia, is open until September 10.
- On the nonfiction front, Pyschopomp wants “rad, gothy, death-focused essays” about media and culture.
- You can send historical horror to the The Crow’s Quill monthly call until September 10 and for the next monthly call, “Dark Epistolaries,” until October 10.
Open Soon
- Hexagon opens for speculative fiction on September 1.
- Deadlands opens up for fiction and poetry submissions on September 1. They are also currently open for nonfiction submissions.
- From the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers, Ghostlight: The Magazine of Terror is open from September 1 to December 1.
- On September 2, Weird Horror opens to submissions for two weeks.
- Tales from Between will be open for your “strange stories” from September 4—17.
- You can send your short horror, dark fantasy, and sci-fi fiction to Shortwave Magazine from September 9-15.
- Apex Magazine’s monthly flash fiction theme for October is “Necromancy” and submissions are open from September 7-30.
- The October theme at Grim & Gilded is “Seep” and you can send them short/flash fiction and poetry until October 11.
Anthology Calls
- Moonstruck Books is accepting dark fiction submissions for its upcoming anthology, Nightmare Diaries, until December 30.
- The Fear Forge anthology is accepting fiction related to fall and Halloween until September 25 (or until all the spots are full).
- Do you have a too-short (between 1000-2000 words) horror story looking for a home? Hungry Shadow Press’s Little Bastards wants ‘em. Open September 15—30.
Contests
- If you’re a contest sort of person, The Molotov Cocktail is holding their annual Flash Monster contest, open for flash fiction about monsters until October 9.
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].