🕷️ Taking submissions for Tales of Arachnophobia: Eight-Legged Freaks! Seeking horror stories where spiders are central to the terror. 💰 $15 USD + contributor copies 📖 1,000–5,000 words 📅 Deadline: Nov. 1, 2026 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #SubmissionCall #Horror

Writing Prompt Wednesdays: Bloody Mosh Pit from @corinnepwriter.bsky.social horrortree.com/writing-prom... #WritingPrompt #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

👻 Timber Ghost Press is seeking horror novels and novellas, especially cosmic, weird, wilderness, gothic, and liminal horror. 💰 Advances + royalties 📅 Aug. 3–17 📖 25,000+ words horrortree.com/timber-ghost... From @timberghostpress.bsky.social #SubmissionCall #Horror

Your story must begin with: "Lawrence was the last to arrive." The First Line – Winter 2026 is accepting fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. 💰 Pays up to $50 📅 Deadline: Nov. 1, 2026 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #SubmissionCall #WritingCommunity

Ancient woods, troubled minds, folklore, and cosmic dread fill The Withering Hours by @morgansylvia.bsky.social Read our review of Morgan Sylvia’s seventeen-story collection, recommended for fans of Lovecraftian horror and dark storytelling. horrortree.com/epeolatry-bo... #BookReview #HorrorBooks

📖 The Fanatic Literary Magazine is accepting submissions for Issue #1! Seeking original fantasy and science fiction stories. 💰 $25/story 📖 Up to 4,000 words 📅 Deadline: Aug. 26, 2026 horrortree.com/taking-submi... From @thefanaticlitmag.bsky.social #SubmissionCall #PayingMarket #OpenCall

🧜 Merrow is open for submissions! Seeking fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction inspired by mermaids, merfolk, and sea mythology. 📖 2,500–7,000 words 💰 Royalty share 📅 Deadline: Oct. 28 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #SubmissionCall #Fantasy #Horror

Can a dystopian writer also be a horror writer? @sebdoubinsky.bsky.social explores the fears connecting both genres in a guest post for the #LiberationNow #BlogTour from @meerkatpress.bsky.social. horrortree.com/dystopian-wr...

😱 Trembling With Fear 😱 The animal world is no stranger to using smell as a key sense, but humans are less aware of its potency to avoid danger. This week’s story, 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘚𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘭, by Kailili Dillavou, looks at the jeopardy of a lingering sickly sweet smell.

Wake up. Coffee. Bicycle. Vole skull. Paint. Repeat. Can Elle break out of the cycle? Find out in Chapter 5 of our Serial Saturday, The Residency by Stuart Ziarnik: horrortree.com/serial-satur... #Fiction #Free #FreeFiction #TWF #amreading #AmWriting #WritersLife #bookworm #IndieWriter #IndieAutho

Eye to the Telescope #62 is open for speculative poetry submissions exploring the darker side of faeries, folklore, and myth. 💰 7¢/word ($7 minimum) 📅 Deadline: Oct. 15, 2026 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #Poetry #SubmissionCall

The Trouble with "I" in First Person Narratives from @jeffvandezande.bsky.social horrortree.com/the-trouble-... #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

🌙 Android Press is seeking lunarpunk stories for *What Blooms in Darkness*. Explore ecological futures, hidden communities, liberation, and the possibilities that thrive beyond the light. 💰 8¢/word + contributor copy 📅 Nov. 1–30 horrortree.com/taking-submi... From @press-android.bsky.social

Hallowfield Publishing is accepting paranormal novelettes, novellas, and novels for its immersive Hallowfield Case File universe. 👻 Ghosts 🔦 Investigations 🐺 Cryptids 💰 Up to 50% ebook royalties horrortree.com/hallowfield-... #SubmissionCall #WritingCommunity

Is horror better in black and white? Seth Voorhees explores why monochrome horror continues to stand the test of time, from classic monster movies to modern releases. Read more: horrortree.com/black-and-wh... #HorrorMovies #ClassicHorror

⚔️ Untold Tales of the Round Table is seeking original Arthurian fantasy inspired by Camelot, the Grail Quest, and the Knights of the Round Table. 💰 Pays up to 5¢/word 📅 Deadline: Oct. 31, 2026 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #SubmissionCall #Fantasy

The 2026 Wow! Literary Award for Emerging Writers is open! Write about intelligence, consciousness, or interspecies communication for a chance to win $1,000 and publication. 📅 Deadline: Sept. 10, 2026 horrortree.com/the-2026-wow... From @setiinstitute.bsky.social #SubmissionCall #WritingContest

Writing Prompt Wednesdays: Webbed Hands from @corinnepwriter.bsky.social horrortree.com/writing-prom... #WritingPrompt #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

🕵️ Can you keep the villain hidden until the very end? Hidden Villains: Enigma is seeking fantasy and science fiction stories featuring mysteries, secrets, riddles, and hidden antagonists. 💰 $10 USD + royalty share 📖 2,000–6,000 words 📅 Oct. 1–Dec. 31 horrortree.com/taking-submi... #AmWriting

Cloaked Press is open to fantasy, science fiction, and horror novels and novellas from both agented and unagented writers. Character-driven stories are at the top of their wish list. 📅 Deadline: Aug. 14, 2026 horrortree.com/cloaked-pres... From @cloakedpress.bsky.social #SubmissionCall #AmWriting

Brick Cave Books is accepting science fiction and fantasy novel submissions through September 30. 📖 50,000–125,000 words 📅 July 1–September 30, 2026 📚 Publishing contract upon acceptance Details: horrortree.com/brick-cave-m... #AmWriting #ScienceFiction #Fantasy

🎃 Have a completed horror novella? Crooked Spine's Halloween Novella Competition is open! 💰 $300 prize + 50% royalties 📖 Up to 40,000 words 📅 Sept. 20 deadline horrortree.com/taking-submi... From @crookedspinepress.com #AmWriting #Horror

🩸 🩸 Trembling With Fear🩸 🩸 Nicholas Kellogg makes the ultimate sacrifice in “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺”. ✉️ Camryn Barnhart writes us a letter. 🐝 Nicolette Ward provides us with a surprise offering. 🚪 Tom Gdisis provisions us with a useful body

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I feel like I've been here before ... No, seriously, haven't I already said that? Chapter Four of our Serial Saturday, The Residency by Stuart Ziarnik: horrortree.com/serial-satur... #Fiction #Free #FreeFiction #TWF #amreading #AmWriting #WritersLife #bookworm #IndieWriter #IndieAuthors

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Exoplanet Magazine is open for speculative fiction submissions! 🚀 Science fiction, fantasy, horror, slipstream, weird fiction, and hybrid fiction 📖 Up to 5,000 words 💰 $0.01/word (minimum $5) 📅 September 1–15, 2026 horrortree.com/taking-submi... From: @exoplanetmag.com #AmWriting

Could one tiny word be weakening your prose? Jeff Vande Zande shares an easy editing exercise using Word's Find feature to spot unnecessary "up" and other filler words. horrortree.com/the-trouble-... by @jeffvandezande.bsky.social #AmWriting #WritingTips

Some of the scariest places are the ones between where you've been and where you're going. Enter to win LIMINAL SPACES here: horrortree.com/liminal-spac...

🧟 Reinvent the zombie. Flame Tree Publishing seeks fresh cosmic... no, undead horror exploring folklore, myth, and new interpretations of zombies. 💰 8¢/word 📖 2,000–4,000 words preferred 📅 Aug. 9 deadline horrortree.com/taking-submi... #AmWriting #Zombie