I’ve worked with only a handful of the presses and magazines listed below. Thus, this page is for informational purposes only and is not intended as an endorsement of any publisher included here. The list is updated on a semi-regular basis.
Alienhead Press – Boutique publishing company in Miami providing books for readers of young adult, horror, romance, and women’s paranormal fiction.
Andromeda Spaceways Magazine – Australian online magazine of science fiction. Seeking submissions during certain times of the year.
Apex Magazine – Science fiction magazine open to submissions all year.
Belanger Books – Detective publisher with a focus on Sherlock Holmes anthologies seeking submissions via open calls.
Bethlehem Writers Group – Sponsors an annual short story contest. Monetary prizes and a chance to be published in their annual anthology or online magazine.
Bourbon Penn Press – Online magazine seeking speculative stories. They are partial to slipstream, cross-genre, magic realism, absurdist, and the surreal.
Cat & Mouse Press – Small press along the Delmarva coast that publishes beach-themed novels and anthologies.
Celestial Echo Press – Anthology publisher seeking submissions during certain times of the year. Themes vary from project to project.
Chicken Soup for the Soul – Gathers true stories of life experiences via open calls throughout the year.
Clarkesworld – SF and Fantasy magazine open to submissions all year.
Corner Bar Magazine – Publishers of online speculative fiction, specifically fantasy and science fiction.
Dark Moon Books – Dark fiction publisher seeking submissions during certain times of the year.
The Deadlands – Monthly speculative fiction magazine publishing short stories, poems, and essays about the other realms, of the ends we face here, and the beginnings we find elsewhere.
Dreamforge Magazine – SF magazine seeking submissions during specific times of the year.
Eerie River Publishing – Small independent publishing house based in Ontario, Canada, committed to developing and releasing high-quality works in all of the dark genres.
Flame Tree Press – Trade fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. They publish globally in the English language, in print and ebook formats, with a focus on horror and the supernatural, crime and mystery thrillers, and science fiction and fantasy.
Galaxy’s Edge Magazine – Bi-monthly science fiction and fantasy magazine with new issues going live every January, March, May, July, September and November.
Gravelight Press –
Horror publisher seeking submissions via open calls from writers 40 years of age and older.
Grendel Press – Accepts short story submissions that fit into our chosen genres of Dark Fantasy, Horror, and Romance.
Hawkshaw Press – Mystery and detective fiction publisher
seeking submissions via open calls from writers 40 years of age and older.
Inklings Press – Small e-publisher focused on fantasy, sci-fi, horror, mystery and alternative history.
Kangas Kahn Publishing – An offshoot of Kangas Kahn films. They publish primarily horror and books about or involving Halloween, for now.
Lagrange Books – Fiction and nonfiction publisher seeking submissions via open calls.
Mysterion – Ezine of Christian-themed speculative fiction edited and published by the husband and wife team of Donald S. Crankshaw and Kristin Janz.
Nowhere Magazine – Travel magazine that sponsors various contests throughout the year.
Other Words Ink – Publisher and author services company with occasional open calls for anthologies.
Oddity Prodigy Productions – Speculative fiction publisher seeking submissions via open calls. Click on their Projects menu to see current opportunities.
Off-Limits Press -Queer-owned boutique press specializing exclusively in contemporary horror fiction.
Orison Books – Publishers of spiritual and literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Orison Books seeks to be broad, inclusive, and open to perspectives spanning the spectrum of spiritual and religious thought, ethnicity, gender identity, and sexual orientation. They hold three annual contests: The Orison Prizes in Poetry & Fiction, The Orison Chapbook Prize, and The Best Spiritual Literature Awards.
Out of this World Press – Science fiction publisher
seeking submissions via open calls from writers 40 years of age and older.
PseudoPod – Podcasting site with occasional open submission periods for short fiction. If your story is accepted, their narrators will read it on their podcast. They pay authors professional rates for original fiction and reach more people every week than any other short fiction horror market.
Scare Street –
Publishers of horror novels and anthologies with open calls for submissions at various times of the year.
Screencraft – Sponsors a number of screenwriting competitions throughout the year as well as cinematic novel and short story contests in the fall. Monetary prizes as well as potential script sales, agency representation, film options, and writing assignments.
Sequestrum – Journal of short prose and poetry. We publish concise, evocative writing that couldn’t exist in any other form, yet reminds us of the breadth and scope of longer works.
Speculative City – Online magazine that seeks submissions at various times throughout the year.
SPOOKY Magazine –
SPOOKY is a new fiction magazine in the old style. Horror with a gentler touch. Fans of the genre already know that creepy stuff can be fun. We’re here to prove it to the rest of the world.
The Genre Society – Focusing on fiction and poetry, they seek to provide a space for new, unread writers to publish their weird, their creepy, their fantastical stories.
TulipTree Publishing, LLC – Since 2015, TulipTree’s mantra has been its mission: to tell stories that need to be Told.
TulipTree Review is a print literary journal featuring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In addition to the annual Stories That Need to Be Told contest anthology of winners, TulipTree publishes fundraising books that benefit a variety of worthy causes.
Weird Horror Magazine – A home for the strange, the macabre, the eerie, the esoteric, the fabulist, and the gothic. Seeking horror and weird fiction from 500 to 6,000 words, firm.
Weird Tales Magazine – Speculative fiction magazine publishing strange and bizarre tales via open calls at specific times of the year.
