General Links

These are a selection of the better resources I use when I'm doing my own research and building out the Open Call list. Some publishers here are more receptive to new authors; others, not so much...

• Duosuma maintains an extensive list of open anthology calls across a number of genres. 

• Three Ravens Publishing has its own list of open calls.

• If horror is your thing, keep an eye on HorrorTree's list of Open Calls

• Angelique Fawns frequently posts open calls on her blog.

• WriteJobs collates a huge number of calls for submission of all types.

• Cathy Bryant maintains a monthly Comps & Calls list.

• Published To Death has a Calls for Submissions page.

• Tim Major frequently publishes open calls on his blog.

• If you suffer from poetry, you should check out A Dreaming Skin for monthly updates.

• There are many Facebook groups for open calls (including magazines as well as anthologies):

  • Anthologies Seeking Submissions

  • Anthology Readers, Writers, Publishers

  • Get Writing Horror: Open Calls and Markets

  • OPEN CALL: Crime, Thriller, Mystery Markets

  • OPEN CALL: Horror Markets

  • OPEN CALL: Science Fiction, Fantasy & Pulp Markets

  • OPEN CALL: SF Fantasy Horror - Paying Markets Only

  • OPEN CALL: Speculative Markets - Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

  • Open Submission Calls for Horror/Paranormal/Mystery/SciFi Writers

  • Open Submission Calls for Short Story Writers

Until Filled

• Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond (bi-monthly magazine-style anthology)

• GraveSide - Gradeside Stories (middle grade/YA horror)

• Jay Henge - Masque & Maelström: The Reluctant Exhumation of Edgar Allan Poe

• Jay Henge - Professor Feiff's Trans-Dimensional Travelogue

• Jay Henge - Pharmacopeia Obscura: The August Doctor’s Notes

• Magnolia Silcox - Define Crazy (non-fiction stories of schizophrenia)

• DwD Studios - Spy Adventure modules for "White Lies" TTRPG

• Angry Gable - Katabatic Circus (poetry)

• Angry Gable - Cozy in the Apocalypse

• Angry Gable - This Exquisite Topology (happiness, joy, and topology)

• Patchwork Raven - Backyard Earth (five books, stories are based on countries)

• Pro Se Productions - Dr. Sixgun (western)

• Pro Se Productions - Purgatory

• Pro Se Productions - The New Adventures of Candy Matson

• Epona Muse - Crip The Sun

• Choral Planet - In Perfect Harmony: 50 Inspiring Stories from Choral Musicians Around the World

• Lintussen - Flash Advent Calendar (Family friendly winter holiday flash)

• Pawsitively Creepy - Pawsitively Creepy Tails, Vol 1 (charity for local animal rescues)

• The Word's Faire - The Garden-Variety Grimoire (literary fiction on everyday magic)

• Kevin J. Kennedy - Collected Christmas Horror Shorts IV

• Collective Tales - Darkness 102: Advanced Lessons Were Learned (102 spots; 102 word flash horror)

• Red Cape - X is for X-rated (erotic horror)

• Red Cape - Y is for Youths (scary kids)

• Red Cape - Z is for Zombies

• Red Penguin - Neon Realms (Urban Fantasy)

• Red Penguin - Enchanted Hearts (fantasy romance)

• Red Penguin - Shadows & Sorcery (dark fantasy)

• Outsider Publishing Company - Christmas Chaos

• Raven Tale - Weird West

• Dark Holme -  Ethereal Nightmares: The Final Awakening

• Starspun Lit - YA Fantasy (ages 6-16) with an annual anthology

• Alien Buddha - Summer Sucks: An Alien Buddha Press Anthology

• Lost Blonde Literary - Winter Anthology 2025 - Fiction

• Lost Blonde Literary - Winter Anthology 2025 - Poetry

• Lost Blonde Literary - Winter Anthology 2025 - Non-Fiction

• Lost Blonde Literary - Winter Anthology 2025 - Visual Art

• Shacklebound Books - Happily Never After (dark fairy tales)

• Shacklebound Books - Dead Planet (milSF horror reprints)

• Shacklebound Books - Defiler (dark fantasy)

• Shacklebound Books - Darker Stars (100-word SF horror)

• Hellbound Books - Beautiful Tragedies 4 (dark poetry)

• Esoterica - Fairytales, Reconsidered

• Thesis - The Folklore Project: A Middle-Grade Anthology

• Amazing Stories - Tales of Galactic Pest Control

• CAAB - Echoes of Dreams (effects of dreams on reality)

• White City - The Inspector Pooh Case Files (novellette/novella)

• WATG Press - Dark Tales from the Outside (Horror, gothic, and dark fiction)

• Baynam Books Press - Room 333 (Supernatural / Temporal Horror)

• Baynam Books Press - Kill ‘Em with Laughter (Horror-Comedy / Extreme Satire)

• Baynam Books Press - Hell Nursery Rhymes (Folklore Horror / Surreal / Children-Gone-Wrong)

• Baynam Books Press - Clean Cuts: Tales from the Morgue Beautician (Quiet Horror / Psychological / Death Culture)

• Baynam Books Press - You’ve Reached the Afterlife Hotline (Supernatural / Tech Horror / Twilight Zone-style)

• Baynam Books Press - The Abduction Files (Sci-Fi Horror / Cosmic / Abduction Horror)

• Baynam Books Press - Camp Cannibal (Slasher / Cannibal Horror / Satirical)

• Baynam Books Press - Splatology (Extreme Horror / Splatterpunk)

December 2025

• 01 Dec - Propaganda - Northern Light Frights (Alaksan horror)

• 01 Dec - Night Shade Books - Best Horror of the Year 2025

• 01 Dec - Aiden Messer - Are You Really Awake? (dream/nightmare horror)

• 01 Dec - Eldritch Cat - The Lantern Keepers

• 01 Dec - Bold Strokes Books - Gender Ever After (Gender-Affirming Sapphic Romance Stories)

• 01 Dec - Weird Christmas - The Eighth Annual Weird Christmas Flash Fiction ConThology

• 05 Dec - Raconteur - Plasma Pulp: Lost Worlds (Edtied by Lawdog)

• 12 Dec - Alex Shvartsman - Unidentified Funny Objects 10 (SF/F Humor, ONE WEEK ONLY)

• 15 Dec - Bayonet Books - Chaos Theory: Cryptid Chronicles

• 15 Dec - Whitaker Lyon - Virginia Fantastic (SF/F set in Virginia, 1k words max)

• 15 Dec - Ink'd - Dance, When They Want You to Cower (LGBTQIA+, charity)

• 20 Dec - Cannon - 2026 Third Annual High Caliber Awards (novella)

• 20 Dec - B Cubed - More Alternative Liberties

• 25 Dec - Drek Death and Doom - Bloodlust (Valentine’s Day Horror)

• 31 Dec - Uncomfortably Dark - Self (S)care : Best of 2025 (4th call)

• 31 Dec - DBS - Dracula: Beyond Stoker: Van Helsing

• 31 Dec - Iron Faerie - Mistletoe and Vine : Hawthorn & Ash Vol 7 (fantasy/horror)

• 31 Dec - Black Beacon Books - The Black Beacon Book of Horror 2

• 31 Dec - Oddity Prodigy Productions - Tales of Steel and Sorcery (sword & sorcery)

• 31 Dec - Micromance Magazine - Saltwater And Ash (paramythromantasy anthology)

• 31 Dec - Nat 1 - "TPK" Fantasy Anthology (Faewalk Shared Universe)

• 31 Dec - Nat 1 - Gaslamp Pulp (Fantasy)

• 31 Dec - RGD Books - Submit vol IV & V (extreme horror)

• 31 Dec - Kilter & Rammel - Transformations (fun but dark)

Coming in 2026

• 02 Jan - Raconteur - Pogue, Too (Edited by Liska McCabe)

• 11 Jan - Procrastinating Writers United - I Haven’t Made It Home Yet

• 15 Jan - Beaches and Trails - Split Ends (psychological thriller)

• 15 Jan - Button Hall - The Knight Before Christmas (cozy romance, knight in shining armor)

• 15 Jan - Cross the Teas - World Upside Down (Lovecraftian-themed horror)

• 15 Jan - Dancing Griffin - A Very Special Episode: A 90s Stranger Danger PSA Anthology

• 23 Jan - Raconteur - Mad Science! Bits & Pieces (Edited by Dave Freer)

• 30 Jan - Ps and Qs - What’s Your Age Again? (comedic romatic age gap)

• 30 Jan - Uncertain Stories - Uncertain Stories

• 30 Jan - Baynam Books Press - Inside the Mind of a Monster (Psychological Horror / True Crime Fiction)

• 31 Jan - Ye Olde Dragons - Fairytale (theme TBD)

• 31 Jan - Ruadán Books - Summer in the City 

• 31 Jan - Dark Peninsula - Negative Space 3: The End of All Sanctuary (survival horror)

• 31 Jan - Hollow Oak Press - TBD (cozy fantasy)

• 31 Jan - Letter Books - Letters as Characters (language, writing systems, letterforms, or typography)

• 31 Jan - Parsec Ink - Bad Romance: The 22nd Annual Triangulation Anthology

• 31 Jan - Lycan Valley Press Publications - Medusa Reimagined

• 31 Jan - WriteHive - Defying Death (SF/F, horror)

• 31 Jan - Dark Peninsula Press - Negative Space 3: The End of All Sanctuary (survival horror)

• 01 Feb - June Road Press - TBD (poetry about a cross-country road trip)

• 03 Feb - Carrion Press - RATKING (entanglement and freedom)

• 09 Feb - Bayonet Books - Hostile Skies (alien invasion)

• 14 Feb - Opal Kingdom Press - Tentacles and Tides (non-mermaid sea creatures)

• 15 Feb - The Slab Press - Obsidian (space horror novelette)

• 15 Feb - National Flash Fiction Day - NFFD Anthology 2026: BRIDGES

• 17 Feb - Epona Muse Publishing - A Year of Horse Fantasy

• 27 Feb - Raconteur - Auntie Heroes (Edited by Rita Beeman)

• 28 Feb - Inkd - Detectives, Sleuths, and Nosy Neighbors III

• 28 Feb - Ink'd - Heightened Anxiety (thriller/suspense)

• 28 Feb - The Slab - Screams and Wails (rock horror)

• 28 Feb - Nyctalocos: A Collection of Night Terrors (night terrors)

• 28 Feb - Indie Bites - Ruins & Rituals (fantasy; free promotional anthology)

• 28 Feb - Black Beacon Books - The Fourth Black Beacon Book of Mystery

• 28 Feb - Scylla Publishing - Who Am I? A Sapphic Spec Fic Anthology of Identity and Purpose

• 28 Feb - Shtriga Books - Slavic Supernatural, Volume 2

• 28 Feb - The Slab Press - Screams and Wails (rock horror)

• 28 Feb - Code Blue Publishing - Tales from the Bedside (medical fiction & nonfiction)

• 28 Feb - Ruth Anna Evans Horrors - NEED: Horror Stories You Can't Live Without

• 28 Feb - Vanessa Finaughty Books - Space Wizards, Vol. 1

• 28 Feb - Baynam Books Press - We Bury the Dead Alive (Zombie Horror / Existential Terror)

• 01 Mar - Rogue River - Horrific: Tales of the Dying and the Dead

• 01 Mar - Brain Mill Press - Ab Terra 2025: An International Science Fiction Anthology

• 01 Mar - Transcendent Fiction Publishing - Verify You’re Not Human (therian/otherkin)

• 02 Mar - Jamie Flanagan - Views from the Overlook ("The Shining" tribute, ONE DAY ONLY)

• 13 Mar - Raconteur - Crash Landings (Edited by David Badurina)

• 15 Mar - Beaches & Trails - Split Ends (psychological thriller)

• 15 Mar - Pebble - Our Lake In Winter (Lake Michigan in winter)

• 16 Mar - The Cabin - Writers in the Attic, Vol 15: Hodgepodge

• 20 Mar - Alien Buddah Press - Alien Buddha Talks to Animals (pets or wild animals, no mythicall creatures)

• 31 Mar - Pub 518 - Droids & Dragons

• 31 Mar - Air & Nothingness - Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity (hard SF)

• 31 Mar - Cohesion Press - SNAFU: Level Up (LitRPG)

• 31 Mar - Dreampunk Press - TEETH (eerie, creepy, Gothic)

• 31 Mar - Whitaker Lyon - Richmond Fantastic (spec fic set in Richmond, VA)

• 31 Mar - Inkd Publishing - Behind the Shadows IV (horror)

• 31 Mar - Baynam Books Press - Creature Feature: Redux (Creature Horror / Satirical Horror)

• 03 Apr - Raconteur - For Want of a Nail… (Edited by Bart Kemper)

• 06 Apr - Bayonet Books - Flames of Salvation (draconic redemption)

• 17 Apr - Raconteur - The Muse Within Us (Edited by Wally Waltner)

• 23 Apr - Baynam Books Press - The Executioner’s Ledger (Historical Horror / Torture Horror)

• 30 Apr - WolfSinger - Voices for the Voiceless (guardianship, courage, and compassion)

• 30 Apr - The Writer's Co-op - The Rabbit Hole Vol 9 (Weirdness Itself)

• 05 May - Baynam Books Press - Static in the Sky (Sci-Fi Horror / Cosmic Dread)

• 15 May - Raconteur - Pet Monsters (Edited by David Badurina)

• 29 May - Raconteur - Wyrd Warfare 3 (Edited by Chris DiNote)

• 31 May - Code Blue Publishing - Shadows from the Frontline (medical fiction & nonfiction)

• 31 May - Indie Bites - Quests & Quarrels (fantasy; free promotional anthology)

• 09 Jun - Bayonet Books - Fangs Out: Aerial Combat (dogfights)

• 30 Jun - Infernal Museum - Wonderdomes (shared world)

• 01 Jul - Three Ravens - It Came From the Tailer Park, Vol. 6 ("Prison Planet Earth")

• 03 Jul - Raconteur - Buck Yeah! (Edited by D. Jason Fleming)

• 30 Jul - Baynam Books Press - Dumb Ways to Die (Comedy Horror / Splatterpunk)

• 31 Jul - Raconteur - The Spy Who Conjured Me (Edited by Cedar Sanderson)

• 08 Aug - Baynam Books Press - Terror on the High Seas (Nautical Horror / Splatterpunk)

• 10 Aug - Bayonet Books - On the Fields of Honor (duels)

• 14 Aug - Raconteur - Hold-My-Beer Heroes (Edited by David Badurina)

• 22 Aug - Baynam Books Press - FUBAR: Technology Gone Bad (Tech Horror / Cyber Dread)

• 30 Aug - Code Blue Publishing - Echoes from the Other Side (medical fiction & nonfiction)

• 31 Aug - Julie Bozza - Passing Strange: Queer Weird Arthurian Tales

• 31 Aug - River Gardener - Monster Mayhem

• 24 Sep - Raconteur - Giant Killer Kaiju

• 30 Sep - WolfSinger Publications - Reflections in the Machine

• 02 Oct - Raconteur - The Wyrd, Wyrd, World of Sports (Edited by Liska McCabe)

• 31 Oct - Baynam Books Press - Witch, Please! (Magical Horror / Comedy)

• 12 Nov - Raconteur - Deep Blue (Edited by Bart Kemper)