Authortunities #26 for September 16-October 14
70+ vetted opportunities for authors ➕ win a haunted doll ➕ FREE on Amazon Space and Time Winter #139 〓 Read in all 50 US states and 36 countries!
Good morning! Here is your fresh authortunities for the week, just in time to savor with your morning cuppa.
Last week I had the opportunity to chat with a haunted doll named Sally during my Exorcise Your Writes show. She is currently staying with William Sterling, author of the upcoming novel STRING THEM UP, from Crystal Lake Entertainment. Sterling has generously offered to let Sally go visit a new home. The winner of this lovely vision of terror will be picked from those who have pre-ordered his book.
To enter, pre-order STRING THEM UP by William Sterling for $4.99 on Amazon here https://amzn.to/3PnDsYC. For a bonus entry, add STRING THEM UP on Goodreads to your ‘Want to Read’ shelf. The winner will be announced on launch day, September 22nd. Details: 🔗https://www.crystallakepub.com/want-to-win-a-sally-sees-all-doll/
You can find out more about Sally, Sterling and his book on September 20 at 2 pm EST on a special Exorcise Your Writes to celebrate this book launch.
Dare to meet Sally yourself: 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LehCuWTUto
Ever wonder where I gather the information for my calendar? I have some great sources and they all deserve credit. I keep an eye on them all week looking for new opportunities as well as subscribe to quite a few newsletters. If you’d like to browse them yourself, I keep a list on my blog. 🔗 https://angelaysmith.com/subscribe/
🆕 Many issues of Space and Time magazine are now free to read on Kindle Unlimited! For those without Kindle Unlimited, there will be a free issue up on Amazon each week. This week it’s one of my favorites—the final issue of 2020. Issue #139. 🚀 Find it here https://amzn.to/48iUgsp
The Space and Time magazine Free Book Promotion will be from Sunday, September 17, 2023, 12:00 AM PDT to Thursday, September 21, 2023, 11:59 PM PDT. Reviews and shares always appreciated.
And that’s it from me this week. Raw Dog Screaming Press just opened an exciting submission call and I’m off to think of cosmic, weird horror. Of course, I shared all the details below. Enjoy that and all the rest of this week’s authortunities.
In this entire calendar share you will find:
27 newly opened submissions 🟢
23 submission deadlines 🔴
9 events for authors ⭐
8 reprint markets ♻️
1 education 📚
1 award 🏆
1 grants 💲
Send comments, victories, and everything I don’t know (lots) to aysmith.authortunities@gmail.com.
Legis. Scribis. Vincis.
🟢 ONGOING · Bourbon Penn seeks “highly imaginative stories with a healthy dose of the odd” from 2000 - 7500 words for 3¢ / word. 🔗https://www.bourbonpenn.com/submissions
🟢 OPEN NOW · Enter to win a “Sally Sees All” doll from Crystal Lake Entertainment until September 21. To enter, pre-order STRING THEM UP by William Sterling for $4.99 on Amazon here https://amzn.to/3PnDsYC. Bonus entries available. 🔗https://www.crystallakepub.com/want-to-win-a-sally-sees-all-doll/
🟢 OPEN NOW · HERE THERE BE DRAGONS edited by H. David Blalock seeks art, poetry and “original fiction of 3,000 to 6,000 words” that include “renderings of dragons in writing and art.” Payment is “8 cents/word for the first 3000 words and 3 cents/word thereafter. Poetry shall be paid at $1.00/line. Art shall be paid at $30/piece. Cover art shall be paid $300.” Closes January 1, 2024. 🔗https://www.hiraethsffh.com/here-there-be-dragons
🟢 OPEN NOW · Insurgent [Lost Boys Press] seeks “ stories about rebels, insurgents and insurrectionists set in a secondary world” of 2000 – 9000 words for $40 flat rate until November 1. 🔗https://www.lostboyspress.com/insurgent
🟢 OPEN NOW · Shallow Waters Flash Fiction Contest [Crystal Lake Entertainment] seeks “Horror Onboard: Boat/Ship related stories” of max 1,500 words. “The winner will receive $0.03 per word, publication, and an Author Spotlight on our newsletter and Patreon page. The second place winner will receive $0.02 a word, and the third place winner $0.01 per word. The winner will also have the option of hosting the following month’s contest for an extra payment and a profit share from any new patrons joining our Patreon during that month.” Closes at the end of the month. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/ywz4fsnx
🟢 SEP 15 · BEYOND THE BOUNDS OF INFINITY [Raw Dog Screaming Press] seeks “cosmic horror and weird tales written by marginalized peoples whose experiences and worldviews have influenced their interpretation of dread” of 2000 – 4000 words for 8 cents per word until October 15. 🔗https://rawdogscreaming.com/contact/
🟢 ONGOING · Uncanny & Unearthly Tales (Vol 2) – The Midnight Labyrinth [Grendel Press] seeks “Genre-bending… Sci-fi, steampunk, horror, fantasy, etc” up to 5000 words for 8 cents per word. 🔗https://grendelpress.com/anthology-submissions/
🔴♻️ SEP 16 · The Other Stories Podcast closes to 2,000 word speculative fiction on the theme of “Fame” for a $15 GBP flat rate on September 16. 🔗https://theotherstories.net/submissions/
🔴 SEP 16 · Weird Horror Magazine closes for “horror and weird fiction from 500 to 6,000 words”. Payment is (U.S.) 1.5¢ per word (one and one-half cent), with a $25 (U.S.) minimum. 🔗https://undertowpublications.com/weird-horror-magazine
⭐ SEP 16 · Exorcise Your Writes for horror writers on the Horror Writers Association channel. Members of the Horror Writers Association can watch for the column of the same name in the HWA monthly newsletter to find out what guests are coming up, and how you can be a guest as well. See what you may have missed. Every Saturday at 2 pm EST with Angela Yuriko Smith. 🔗 Kiwi Despatches with Lee Murray
🟢 SEP 17 · Space and Time magazine Winter #139 is free on Kindle from Sunday, September 17, 2023, 12:00 AM PDT to Thursday, September 21, 2023, 11:59 PM PDT. “The final issue of 2020... we all dealt with the trauma of the year in different ways. For creatives, they expressed themselves in words and images. Here are stories that deal with race and bias, with fear and death. How we deal with losing a loved one... and an unloved one. There is some laughter in the mix as well as some tears. Poetry, reviews, interviews and a graphic short come together with outstanding illustrations to make a bit of brilliance here in the darkest month of the darkest year many of us have ever experienced.” 🔗https://amzn.to/48iUgsp
⭐ SEP 17 · The Speculative Sundays Poetry Reading Series presents Jenna Le reading their work live on Facebook via Zoom.🔗https://www.facebook.com/specpo
🔴 SEP 19 · Nightmare horror & dark fantasy magazine opens to BIPOC-identifying writers (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) only for original, unpublished short stories, flash fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction until September 19. 🔗https://adamant.moksha.io/publication/nightmare/
⭐ SEP 20 · Exercise Your Writes for writers of any genre discussing anything of interest to the publishing community. See what you may have missed. Every Wednesday at 2 pm EST with Angela Yuriko Smith. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/yz6475ew
🟢 SEP 21 · Shoreline of Infinity opens for science fiction up to 6,000 words until September 24. Payment is £20/1000 words. 🔗https://www.shorelineofinfinity.com/submissions/
🔴 SEP 21 · Last chance to enter to win a “Sally Sees All” doll from Crystal Lake Entertainment. To enter, pre-order STRING THEM UP by William Sterling for $4.99 on Amazon here https://amzn.to/3PnDsYC. Bonus entries available. 🔗https://www.crystallakepub.com/want-to-win-a-sally-sees-all-doll/
🔴 SEP 17 · Space and Time magazine Winter #139 is free on Kindle until Thursday, September 21, 2023, 11:59 PM PDT. “The final issue of 2020... we all dealt with the trauma of the year in different ways. For creatives, they expressed themselves in words and images. Here are stories that deal with race and bias, with fear and death. How we deal with losing a loved one... and an unloved one. There is some laughter in the mix as well as some tears. Poetry, reviews, interviews and a graphic short come together with outstanding illustrations to make a bit of brilliance here in the darkest month of the darkest year many of us have ever experienced.” 🔗https://amzn.to/48iUgsp
🔴 SEP 22 · Rattle Magazine’s “Poets Respond” challenge calls for poems inspired by “ a news story or public event from the previous week, and has been written in the time since.” Selected poems will appear as the Sunday poem at Rattle.com which appear to over 10,000 people via RSS feed and daily email service. Poets will receive $100 and a complimentary subscription to the print magazine. The deadline for each week is Friday at midnight PST.
🔗https://rattle.submittable.com/submit
🔴 SEP 22 · Bright Wall/Dark Room monthly online magazine is closed for submissions from 2,500-4,000 words for $50 USD for “interviews, profiles, formal analysis, cultural criticism, personal essays, and humor pieces” on filmmaking with a “Chicago” theme.
🔗https://brightwalldarkroom.submittable.com/submit
🟢 SEP 22 · Astrolabe calls for fiction, creative nonfiction, and photography/art for $50 USD flat rate with free submissions until October 22. 🔗https://www.astrolabe.ooo/submissions
⭐ SEP 23 · Exorcise Your Writes for horror writers on the Horror Writers Association channel. Members of the Horror Writers Association can watch for the column of the same name in the HWA monthly newsletter to find out what guests are coming up, and how you can be a guest as well. See what you may have missed. Every Saturday at 2 pm EST with Angela Yuriko Smith. 🔗 Metaphysical Traditions with Benebell Wen
🟢 SEP 24 · Shoreline of Infinity closes for science fiction up to 6,000 words. Payment is £20/1000 words. 🔗https://www.shorelineofinfinity.com/submissions/
🔴 SEP 25 · The Ex-Puritan is closed for interviews, essays, reviews, fiction, poetry and experimental work for their November issue. Payment ranges from $35 CAD per page for poetry to $200 CAD for essays. 🔗https://puritan-magazine.submittable.com/submit
📚 SEP 26 · Be the Boss of Your Own Time: Achieve Your Ideal Freelance Lifestyle is a free Reedsy sponsored 90 minute workshop where freelance coach Sarah Duran runs a workshop on how to be the boss of your time and achieve the lifestyle you want through freelance work. Whether you’re completely new to freelancing, or you’ve been doing it for a while but want to revamp your business, this workshop will help you: Understand the conditions that allow you to do your best work, analyze your work in terms of revenue, significance, preference, and skill, identify things to focus on (and not focus on) that bring you joy and revenue, and map your ideal day, week, and month. Noon EST, 9 am PST, 5 pm UK. To register 🔗https://tinyurl.com/3xhfapak
⭐ SEP 27 · Exercise Your Writes for writers of any genre discussing anything of interest to the publishing community. See what you may have missed. Every Wednesday at 2 pm EST with Angela Yuriko Smith. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/yz6475ew
🔴🏆 SEP 29 · The Edgar® Awards, sponsored by the Mystery Writers of America, honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, television, film, and theater. Submissions close for books published in August. Books must be submitted during the month of publication. In addition, the book MUST arrive to the judges within 30 days of sending the submission form to the national office. 🔗https://mysterywriters.org/edgars/edgar-submission-information/
🔴 SEP 29 · Rattle Magazine’s “Poets Respond” challenge calls for poems inspired by “ a news story or public event from the previous week, and has been written in the time since.” Selected poems will appear as the Sunday poem at Rattle.com which appear to over 10,000 people via RSS feed and daily email service. Poets will receive $100 and a complimentary subscription to the print magazine. The deadline for each week is Friday at midnight PST.
🔗https://rattle.submittable.com/submit
⭐ SEP 29 · The Pixel Project proudly presents our 21st live "Read For Pixels" YouTube Livestream Panel Session, “Tackling the Terrors of #MeToo: A 10-Year Retrospective on Sexism, Misogyny, and Violence Against Women in Horror”, featuring acclaimed Horror authors Angela Yuriko Smith, Linda D. Addison, and Paul Tremblay. Viewers can also support our anti-violence against women initiatives such as this panel session by donating to get fabulously cool and exclusive goodies for donors from our upcoming 10th Anniversary Read For Pixels fundraiser (https://tinyurl.com/R4PRallyUp2023) which will include exclusive goodies Angela Yuriko Smith, Linda D. Addison, and Paul Tremblay. The fundraiser will be from September 1st – 30th 2023. The 10th annual Fall Edition of the “Read For Pixels” YouTube Livestream session series features live YouTube Livestream sessions with award-winning bestselling authors in support of The Pixel Project’s work to end violence against women (www.thepixelproject.net).
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/live/P6hAlZa2exg?si=CQ6_FVRy9EiGNmhl
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The next two weeks include:
17 newly opened submissions 🟢
14 submission deadlines 🔴
3 events for authors ⭐
7 reprint markets ♻️
1 award 🏆
1 grants 💲
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