Authortunities July 12—August 9

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🎉Congratulations to Jennifer Wilson who won a free subscription to Authortunities by correctly guessing Henry David Thoreau.

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher sometimes referred to as an anarchist. In "Civil Disobedience", Thoreau wrote: "I heartily accept the motto,—'That government is best which governs least;' and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe,—'That government is best which governs not at all;' and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. ... But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government."

You could win a year subscription to the paid version of this calendar, a $50 value. I’ll post the winner next week. To play ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/8utyuzur

🚀News from Space and Time magazine! Congratulations to all the poets and authors that make up our table of contents for the upcoming Special AI Discovery issue to be released later this month. Submissions open again on July 15 at ➡️https://spaceandtime.net/submissions/.

Also, starting next week, there will be a way to collect all 143 digital back issues, spanning from 1966 to the present, free. I’ll talk more about it Thursday, July 13 on Authortunities Forecast, so bring your questions.

FICTION

• “Love Me Do” by Dave Hangman

• "Emergence" by Tom Howard

• "A Lost World" by Chris McAuley

• “Online Living Trust” by Don DeBrandt

• "Our Ghosts Write to Us" by Kayla Nicole Wiltfong

• "Em Dash Eidolon" by Austin Farmer

• "Dense, Imperfect Code" by Jen Nafziger

• "Harmony in Bytes and Beings" by James Hong

POETRY

• “Airborne” by Colleen Anderson

• “Life and (Erasure Poem)” by RK Rugg

• “Poetry Birds” by Jennifer Shelby

• “Demon Seed” by Anna Taborska

• “Demon Spawn” by Anna Taborska

• “Rare Earth [Hypothesis]” by Bryant O’Hara

• “My Doppelgänger” by Jonathan Ukah

• “I am X” by Jonathan Ukah

• “You are my AI” by Jonathan Ukah

NONFICTION

• “Concept Creator, Not Word Generator” by J. Thorn

• "Algorithmic Allies" by GPT-4, prompt by Leonard Speiser

🎃The Horror Writer Association is holding the first ever Halloween in July to raise money for scholarships that support the continued educational foundations for the horror community. 🎃For more info, or to donate: https://www.pledge.to/halloween-in-july

Next program:

• Brave New World: Exploring AI hosted by Bram Stoker Award winning author Angela Yuriko Smith with J. Thorn, and Jason Franks- July 14, 6 pm EST

🎥 Authortunies Forecast, Thursdays at 1 pm. It’s a fast morale boost with author industry news you need. Episode 1.4 shares the upcoming Table of Contents for Space and Time magazine, provides information on the upcoming open submissions, reveals how to acquire free vintage digital back issues, and includes a call for 'cozy cosmic horror' from Underland Press. Watch it all live on Thursday at 1 pm EST!

And now, on to the main course. In this entire calendar share you will find:

• 21 newly opened submissions 🟢

• 48 submission deadlines 🔴

• 14 events for authors ⭐

• 12 first time shared 👁️‍🗨️

• 10 reprint markets ♻️

• 3 education 📚

• 2 awards 🏆

• 6 grants 💲

Send comments, victories, and everything I don’t know to aysmith.authortunities@gmail.com.

🖖 Now go forth and get published…

👁️‍🗨️🟢 · SHUB-NIGGURATH'S SWEATER (UNDERLAND PRESS) calls for short story submissions of “cozy cosmic horror” from 1-5k words for $0.01/word until August 11. Edited by Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito and Mark Teppo, launching in October 2023. ➡️https://www.underlandpress.com/cozycosmic.php

👁️‍🗨️🟢 · Uncharted Magazine Short Story Award: The Aftermath calls for short story contest submissions of “SF/F, Thriller/Horror, and Mystery/Crime” from 1,001–5,000 words to compete for $2,000 and publication, while the second- and third-place winners will receive publication and $300 and $200 until August 6. ➡️https://tinyurl.com/25pr59x8

⭐ JUL 12 · Your Authortunities Forecast, a streamlined show for pro writers covering opportunities that didn’t make this newsletter, news and reminders. See what you may have missed. Every Wednesday. ➡️https://tinyurl.com/342awykh

👁️‍🗨️🔴 JUL 12 · Another Name for Darkness (Sans. Press) calls for short story submissions in all genres for €150 until July 12 or until they “hit our 1,000 submission cap”. ➡️https://www.sanspress.com/submissions

🔴 JUL 14 · Solarpunk Magazine closes submissions July 14. Pro rates paid as defined by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA): $.08 per word for fiction ($100 minimum), $40 per poem, $75 for for nonfiction, $100 for reprint cover art, $200 for original unpublished cover art, $50 for reprint interior art, and $100 for original unpublished interior art. ➡️https://solarpunkmagazine.com/submissions/

👁️‍🗨️⭐📚 JUL 14 · The Horror Writers Association presents Halloween in July with Brave New World: Exploring AI hosted by Bram Stoker Award winning author Angela Yuriko Smith with J. Thorn, and Jason Franks at 6:00 pm EST. A virtual event, free to attend. ➡️https://www.pledge.to/halloween-in-july

⭐ JUL 15 · Exorcise Your Writes is now on the Horror Writer Association’s YouTube channel!  A Conversation About Positive Mental Health with Senah Lloyd shares her personal experiences with depression and how she made it through the shadows and continues to shine. Every Saturday, 2 pm EST with Angela Yuriko Smith. Season 02, Episode 37.
➡️ A Conversation About Positive Mental Health with Senah Lloyd

🔴 JUL 15 · It Was All A Dream (Hungry Shadow Press) closes to “short horror, weird, dark fiction between 1500 and 3000 words (firm limit) that take your least favorite horror trope and make it work” for $0.05 USD per word on July 15. ➡️https://www.hungryshadowpress.com/it-was-all-a-dream-2

🔴 JUL 15 · The Nightmare Never Ends (Exploding Head Fiction) The Oswald in Mexico City Dossier (Vautrin Publishing) closes for short stories inspired by “Oswald in Mexico City” between 2,000 and 5,000 words for $35 USD flat rate on July 15. ➡️https://vautrin.pub/submissions/

🔴 JUL 15 · If There’s Anyone Left closes for science fiction and speculative flash fiction up to 1k words for $0.08 USD per word on July 15. ➡️https://www.iftheresanyoneleft.com/submission-guidelines

🔴 JUL 15 · December Tales II (Curious Blue Press) closes for ghost stories between 2000 and 3500 words (firm limit) for a $25 USD flat rate on July 15. ➡️https://www.hungryshadowpress.com/it-was-all-a-dream-2

🔴 JUL 15 · The twentieth annual issue of Fairy Tale Review closes submissions July 15 and will be published in February 2024. Payment is a $50 honorarium. They consider prose, poetry, graphic novels, comics, original art, translations to English and dialogues. ➡️https://www.fairytalereview.com/submit/

🔴 JUL 15 · Dark Blooms closes to girl coming-of-age horror stories of up to 15k words for up to $40 flat rate on July 15 (July 22 for trans women and women of color). ➡️https://sites.google.com/view/ruthannaevans/dark-blooms-submissions

🔴 JUL 15 · The Nightmare Never Ends (Exploding Head Fiction) closes to “stories that blend dreamscapes into reality, stories where nightmares come alive, where fears take shape, and we can no longer tell what’s real and what’s not” between 2,000 and 5,000 words for $25 USD flat rate on July 15. ➡️https://www.jenniferbernardini-author.com/submission-guidelines

🔴 JUL 15 · The Fantastic Other closes to fiction, flash fiction, poetry, or art for $5 flat rate on July 15. ➡️https://fantasticother.com/submissions/

🔴 JUL 15 · Nat. Brut closes to folio, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for $30 flat rate on July 15. ➡️https://www.natbrut.com/submit-open

🔴 JUL 15 · Sasee closes to 500-1k word nonfiction articles by women on “Wonder-fur World” for variable payments on July 15. ➡️https://sasee.com/submissions/

🔴 JUL 15 · Hungry Shadow Press closes for short horror, weird, dark fiction stories between 1500 and 3000 words prompted by “your least favorite horror trope.” Payment is 5 cents a word. Extended submission window exclusively for LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and marginalized writers open July 16-22. ➡️https://tinyurl.com/3bpn29te

🔴 JUL 15 · 34 Orchard closes to submissions of short fiction from 1000 to 5000 words and poetry of any genre/length for $50 flat rate until July 15. ➡️https://34orchard.com/guidelines/

🔴 JUL 15 · SONORAN HORROR (Aphotic Realm) closes to “short stories of any genre as long as they are dark, sinister, or eerie in tone” from 1-5k words for 0.01 USD per word on July 15. ➡️https://aphoticrealm.com/announcing-sonoran-horror/

🔴🏆💲 JUL 15 · Francine Ringold Awards for New Writers closes July 15 to honor the work of writers at the beginning of their careers. Open only to writers whose work has not appeared or is not scheduled to appear in more than 2 publications. (Self-published works, works with a distribution of less than 100 copies, and journalistic articles are not considered toward the count of 2 publications.). $500 prizes will be awarded in both the fiction and poetry categories, and the winning manuscripts will appear in the spring issue of Nimrod. Winners will have the chance to work with the Nimrod board of editors to refine and edit their manuscripts before publication. open internationally. ➡️https://nimrodjournal.submittable.com/submit

🔴💲 JUL 15 · Poetry Online, a nonprofit literary organization based in Minnesota, is proud to introduce a second year of its chapbook series: the poetry.onl Chapbook Fellowship. Reading from April 15 to July 15, they will select one [1] fellowship-winning manuscript for publication for a $1000 honorarium and up to three [3] fellowship finalist manuscripts for publication with a $100 honorarium, 100 print run, & 15 complimentary copies, per finalist, and a $200 budget for licensing cover artwork through the press. Submission Fee:$9.90 USD. ➡️https://www.poetry.onl/chap-fell

🔴 JUL 15 · Electric Spec closes speculative fiction stories of “science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre” between 250 and 7000 words for $20 per piece for the August issue on July 15. ➡️http://www.electricspec.com/Submissions.html

👁️‍🗨️🟢 JUL 15 · Bright Wall/Dark Room monthly online magazine opens 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, a “Chicago, westerns or nostalgia” theme.  ➡️https://brightwalldarkroom.submittable.com/submit

🟢♻️ JUL 15 · Samovar, published by Strange Horizons, seeks speculative fiction, review-essays, poetry, interview/conversations, and reprints in translation. Payment for fiction is 8 US cents per word to the author, and 8 US cents per word to the translator. Payment for reprints is a flat $100 USD to the author and $100 USD to the translator. Payments for poetry is  $40 USD to the author and $40 USD to the translator. Payment for interview/conversations is $40 USD to each participant. Payment for review-essays is $40 USD. ➡️http://samovar.strangehorizons.com/submit/

🟢 JUL 15 · Space & Time magazine opens to submissions from July 15-31 for speculative poetry and prose. Payment is $5 per poem made via PayPal upon acceptance, plus a digital contributor copy. They buy first print, electronic and audio rights. After a work is published, rights immediately revert to the author. Submissions accepted in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French or Italian. ➡️https://spaceandtime.net/submissions/

🔴 JUL 15 · evOke is closed to "the moon" themed submissions of artwork, poetry, short fiction, essays, interviews, lifestyle and reviews on things "Pagan, polytheist, and witchy." Also interested in video and audio content. Payment is $5.   ➡️https://ev0kepublication.com/contributors/

🔴 JUL 16 · Invisible City closes to creative nonfiction up to 5,000 words for $20 USD flat rate on July 16. ➡️https://www.invisiblecitylit.com/submissions/ 

🟢 JUL 16 · Hungry Shadow Press opens an extended submission window exclusively for LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and marginalized writers for short horror, weird, dark fiction stories between 1500 and 3000 words prompted by “your least favorite horror trope.” Payment is 5 cents a word. Closes July 22. ➡️https://tinyurl.com/3bpn29te

⭐ JUL 19 · Authortunities Forecast, 15 minutes or less covering opportunities too late to make this newsletter, news and reminders. See what you may have missed. Every Wednesday with Angela Yuriko Smith. ➡️https://tinyurl.com/342awykh

👁️‍🗨️⭐📚 JUL 19 · The Horror Writers Association presents Halloween in July with Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology Anniversary Panel hosted by Bram Stoker Award winning editor Vince Liaguno at 7:30 pm EST. A virtual event, free to attend. ➡️https://www.pledge.to/halloween-in-july

🔴 JUL 19 · Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern is closed to unpublished fiction up to 10k words to celebrate their 25th Anniversary. Payment is $400.   ➡️https://www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/guidelines-for-quarterly-submissions

⭐ JUL 20 · The Quick Reads event featuring women and non-binary writers of sci-fi, fantasy and speculative fiction Thursday, July 20 at 7 pm EST. This event features Gabby Gilliam, Sarah Jean Horwitz, Naching Kassa, Kyoko M, Sara Stamey, and B. Zelkovich reading for 8 minutes each. ➡️https://strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com/

🔴 JUL 21 · Astrolabe closes to fiction, creative nonfiction, and photography/art for $50 USD flat rate with free submissions on July 21. ➡️https://www.astrolabe.ooo/submissions

⭐ JUL 22 · Exorcise Your Writes is now on the Horror Writer Association’s YouTube channel!  On Feeling The Fervor with Alma Katsu, this multi-award winning and bestselling author shares how and why The Fervor is one of the most important books she has written to date. Every Saturday, 2 pm EST with Angela Yuriko Smith. Season 02, Episode 38.
➡️https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgpoctHeIrvwX0-VRQ53fDjD49LH1R7mY

🔴 JUL 22 · Hungry Shadow Press closes their extended submission window for LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and marginalized writers for short horror, weird, dark fiction stories between 1500 and 3000 words prompted by “your least favorite horror trope.” Payment is 5 cents a word. ➡️https://tinyurl.com/3bpn29te

🔴 JUL 22 · Room Magazine publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art by folks of marginalized genders, including but not limited to women (cisgender and transgender), transgender men, Two-Spirit and nonbinary people. They seek original short stories, poems, creative nonfiction, or art that fits the theme “of utopic exploration.” Payment is $50 (CAD) for one page, $60 for two pages, $90 for three pages, $120 for four pages, $150 for five or more pages. ➡️https://room.submittable.com/submit

🔴♻️ JUL 22 · The Other Stories Podcast closes to 2,000 word speculative fiction on the theme of “Rituals” for a $15 GBP flat rate on July 22. ➡️https://theotherstories.net/submissions/

👁️‍🗨️🔴 JUL 23 · Channel Issue 9 print bi-annual closes for submissions of “poetry, fiction and prose non-fiction… on creative work or community-based environmental projects” up to “prose pieces of over 6000 words or poems of over 300 lines.” Nonfiction/essay submissions are welcomed year-round. ➡️https://channelmag.org/submissions/

👁️‍🗨️🟢 JUL 23 · Mythaxis opens for submissions from July 23rd-30th for fiction from 1,000-5,000 words for €0.01 per word, with a €20 minimum. ➡️https://mythaxis.co.uk/submissions.html

👁️‍🗨️🔴 JUL 25 · MudRoom closes to poetry, fiction, essays, and essays in translation for a $15 USD flat rate on July 25. ➡️https://www.mudroommag.com/submissions

⭐ JUL 26 · Authortunities Forecast, 15 minutes or less covering opportunities too late to make this newsletter, news and reminders. See what you may have missed. Every Wednesday with Angela Yuriko Smith. ➡️https://tinyurl.com/342awykh

This is the end of the first two weeks, available for free. Access to the full month is for subscribers at $5 a month. If you think you would really benefit from a full month but can’t afford it, email me at aysmith.authortunities@gmail.com and I will be happy to set you up with a complimentary year subscription.

The next two weeks include:

• 14 newly opened submissions 🟢

• 21 submission deadlines 🔴

• 6 events for authors ⭐

• 8 reprint markets ♻️

• 1 awards 🏆

• 4 grants 💲