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Paying speculative fiction #OpenCall s, #writing advice, #AuthorInterviews, #BookReview s, and more since 2011! By: @stuartconover.com‬
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New #TremblingWithFear is live! 🩸 Lead story “Straw Men” by Paul StJohn Mackintosh digs into identity in the modern age, plus drabbles by Julia Rajagopalan, Christopher Mattravers-Taylor & Emily Jones. horrortree.com/trembling-wi...
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December 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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As an FYI, January 1 is just our next open sub window. We'll accept solarpunk horror subs during any of our 2026 open windows through July! And the issue will publish in November 2026. So you don't have to scramble to have work ready in January if that's too fast a turnaround!
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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The hunt for Bedo continues in chapter 3 of our Serial Saturday, Hide Behind by Molly May Jones:

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#Fiction #Free #FreeFiction #TWF #amreading #AmWriting #WritersLife #bookworm #IndieWriter #IndieAuthors
December 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Dark Age Press is open Jan 1–31, 2026 for fantasy & sci-fi novels 🚀🐉

📏 Completed, unpublished novels 90,000+ words
💵 Advance: $500–$2,000 + royalties & copies
📚 Small indie press focused on SFF & literary fiction

Details: horrortree.com/dark-age-pre...

#amwriting #SFF #pubcall
December 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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New review on Horror Tree: The Great Dick and the Dysfunctional Demon by Barry Maher 👹

1982, a failed songwriter on the run, a dilapidated church, dark rituals, and a demon that won’t stay theoretical. Funny, bloody, and surprisingly sharp.

Read the review: horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo...
December 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Call for subs: Three-Lobed Burning Eye 🌒
Original horror/dark fantasy/SF with a strong narrative voice.
Pay $0.08/word + contributor copy.
Window: Jan 1–16, 2026.
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#amwriting #specfic #OpenCall
December 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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FOOFARAW is open Jan 1–Mar 31,2026 for stories & poems about fuss and frills 🎭
🎯 Work that fits at least one meaning of foofaraw:
• Huge fuss over something tiny
• Over-the-top decoration / ornament
📏 500–5,000 words (fiction)
💵 Fiction: $0.01/word, Poetry: $5
Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
December 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Our latest Book review: THE NIGHT CREW II: BLOODLUST by Brad Ricks 🩸⚔️
Monster-hunting in New Orleans, a fledgling vampire team leader fighting his own bloodlust, and a nest of deadly succubi. Fast, punchy, & hard to put down!
Read the review: horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo...
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December 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Call for subs: Solarpunk Magazine 🌱
Optimistic SFF, poetry, nonfiction & art about defiance, change, achievement.
Window: Jan 1–14, 2026.
Pay: pro rates.
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#AmWriting #OpenCall
December 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Mysterion is open Jan 1–31, 2026 for speculative stories that engage with Christianity 🕊️🌌

📚 SF, fantasy, horror with Christian themes, characters, or cosmology
📏 Up to 9,000 words
💵 8¢/word originals, 4¢/word reprints

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#amwriting #specfic #christianfiction
December 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Writing Exercise: To Be Grateful from @corinnepwriter.bsky.social
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#WritingCommunity #AmWriting
December 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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The Trembling With Fear drabble cupboard is looking bare, which means we're all in danger and need more 100 word stories!

Questions/details: horrortree.com/submissions

#amwriting
December 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Cosmic Horror Monthly is open Jan 1–7, 2026 for weird & cosmic fiction 🌕

🧠 Up to 5,000 words
💵 3¢/word (USD)
📮 Submit via Moksha only

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#amwriting #cosmichorror #weirdfiction
December 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Call for subs: Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine (Winter 2025)
🌘 Spec fic/poetry/art on the twilight edge.
💵 Pay $10.
📅 Window: Dec 15 2025–Mar 15 2026.
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#amwriting #specfic
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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New on Horror Tree: “The Shape of the Unknown: Why Fear Still Rules Us” 🕳️

An essay on fear of the unknown, uncertainty, and why we’re drawn to horror, dark fantasy, and stories that poke at our deepest anxieties.

Read it here: horrortree.com/the-shape-of...

#horror #amwriting
December 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Astrolabe’s Winter 2025 window opens Dec 21–Jan 21 for stories of connection across genres 🌌

💫 Fiction, CNF, photography & art
🧷 Especially into work that slips beyond realism
💵 $50 honorarium per accepted submission

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

From ‪@astrolabe.ooo
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December 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Brink Literary Magazine is open Jan 1–31, 2026 for hybrid/cross-genre work on CHAOS 🌪️

🧷 Hybrid / cross-genre, any length
🧷 From poetry + prose to translation + visual forms
🧷 Pay (USD): $25–$100 depending on form/length

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...

#amwriting #hybridwriting #litmag
December 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Call for splatterpunk & extreme horror: Carnage House Issue 10 💉

DIED window (BIPOC/LGBTQ+/disabled): Dec 1–13, 2025
General subs: Dec 14, 2025–Jan 14, 2026

🧠 500–5,500 words
💵 Token pay: $5
🚫 No AI, no bigotry

Details: horrortree.com/taking-submi...
December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Horror Tree review: Hiding Under the Leaves, ed. Donna Scott 🍂

22 folk horror tales of ritual, landscape, and lurking strangeness. Reviewer Stephanie Ellis digs into favourites and fresh takes across the TOC.

Review: horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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BUY INDIE🖤☠️

Scratching a FOLK HORROR itch from a new angle? We got options:

LUMBERJACK by @anthonyengebretson.bsky.social
THE BLACK LORD by @chinckleys.bsky.social
A SPECTRE IS HAUNTING GREENTREE by @carsonwinter.bsky.social
CROM CRUACH by @goresorcerer.bsky.social

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art by Jonathan LaMantia, a grizzled bearded face with too many eyes and a fir tree growing out of its head art by Matt Blairstone; a massive ominous black tree towers over paper birches against a yellow background art by Stefan Koidl, a living scarecrow with glowing eyes in a field against a sunset and small town in the background art by Jonathan LaMantia, horror vacui fills every inch, a slasher and wolfen creature, standing stones that look like teeth, tendons and bones and skulls and slithering things, rendered in magnificent black and white
November 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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#blackfriday sale on our creative and all expansive workshops at the indie press! Come join us for a rollicking, jolly good time! There’s also a 20% off code FRANKSGIVING through eventsbrite but emailing through the press is the best discount tbh ☺️😇💙📚🎄#writingcommunity #academia #writing
November 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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BUY INDIE🖤☠️

Looking for a story where ocean life assimilates w/the human body in a Weird Body Horror bonanza?

...Would you believe we have more than one?

Check out:

FROM THE BELLY by @emnays.bsky.social

REEF MIND by @hazelzorn.bsky.social

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art by Chris Shehan; a submerged human figure begins to sprout barnacles on its skin art by Becca Snow; corals erupt in a rainbow apocalypse from a skull and assimilate into a human figure
November 29, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Thanks to all who joined us for our TENTH EDITION, all about cryptids and creatures. Fear not: we will return in 2026; Chief Ink Slinger Lauren needs to lock in dates and themes but first she needs a sleep...
November 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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This week’s Trembling With Fear seeks out the shadows in the depths of our minds, probing to find what might be hiding there.

Our featured short, from Maria Kassandrou, tries to look behind the masks we wear to be more acceptable to the public.

Then we hit the tiny terrors of:
• “Gnaw" by Daniel F
November 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM