Call for Submissions
Coming up:
Winter Lore Book 3: Aurora: Tales of Winter Dreams:
Submission Open March 25 to May 13, 2025
Word count 2,000 to 6,000
Pay: $20 for original fiction
$10 for poetry
$5 for reprints
$5 for short articles, poems and spells on winter rites, traditions and rituals
Payment and a contributors copy
Paperback for US residence
Ebook for Non-US residence
Please read and Follow All Guidelines Carefully or your story may be discarded without being read.
Use QueryManager to submit your story.
https://QueryTracker.net/query/SpecPub
To submit to the query manager you need to upload your complete manuscript, .doc and .docx files, formatted in standard Shunn Format, (double spaced, times new roman ect)
Have your name, word count and email at the top of the story document.
Format files with the project title, story title and author name in the name. For example : Winter Dreams- Booger Nights- Jensen
This is a collection of fantasy, folklore, and magic. It can be dark or light, but try to keep it within the bounds of fantasy.
Stories of how winter relates to rest and rejuvenation and refinement of dreams.
Stories will be about astral projection and lucid dreaming, dream spells, dream rituals, the magic of dreams, and subconscious desires and manifestations.
What dreams come in the longest nights? What is imagined in the long cold months?
-Stories of all faiths and spiritualities
-Folklore, myth and Magic around dreaming and Winter
-Stories of Winter Holidays and Traditions that tap into the subconscious and fantasies.
-We will consider stories around Christmas and Christian based holidays BUT they need to have something unique. This is not a Hallmark story collection.
-For rites, rituals, traditions and spells please provide all the information on the background and faith it stems from.
NO AI ART OR STORIES WILL BE ACCEPTED.
PLEASE NOTE: We have revised our submission standards. IF SUBMISSIONS DO NOT FOLLOW ALL THE GUIDELINES THEY WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY REJECTED WITH NO RESPONSE. THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS TO WORD COUNT, NAMES ON THE SUBMISSION FILE AND DOCUMENT AND FORMAT. We believe that your story is great, but if you can’t follow guidelines, we are not interested.
CLOSED: VAMPIRE HUNTERS: An Incomplete Record of Personal Accounts
Submissions Open January 15 - February 25 on Query Manager
https://QueryTracker.net/query/SpecPub
Vampire Hunters: An Incomplete Record of Personal Accounts will be a collection of found diary/journal entries from vampire hunters through out history. There would also be illustrations, charts, anatomy sketches and pieces of articles texts ect. interspersed throughout.
To submit to the query manager you need your complete manuscript, formatted in standard Shunn Format, (double spaced, times new roman ect)
Have your name, word count and email at the top of the story document.
Format files with the project title, story title and author name in the name. For example : Vampires - Fangtastic - Jensen
.doc and .docx files are preferred.
We want:
1000 - 5000 word Diary/Journal Entry type stories from vampire hunters throughout history. These can be based off real people and characters or entirely made up but the history should be more or less sound. Be mindful of copy protected characters and material.
Stories should be formatted like a journal or diary, with a date. There can be one or several telling a story.
We would also prefer a line or two (up to a paragraph) of context that would head each story in the anthology as to why this entry is included in the incomplete record.
For example: Louis Bernard was well known for his trumpet playing all over western Europe, but few were aware he also hunted vampires until he disappeared in 1897. This was the last entry into his journal.
Payment is .02 cents a word.
No multiple submissions. No reprints at this time, but we may change that in February. Simultaneous submissions are fine, just let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere.
Also looking for original art. Sketches, paintings, photos that would appear in a vampire hunter’s journal, such as charts, weapons, maps, anatomy.
$20 per piece
send image with a brief description of how it relates to the theme to specpubsubmissions@gmail.com. Watermarks are fine as long as you have a clean, high res image available if your piece is accepted.