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 Press - Gradeside Stories (middle grade/YA horror)

• Jay Henge Publishing - The Apparatus Almanac: Gizmology & Technomancy

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

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

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

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

• Angry Gable Press - Katabatic Circus (poetry)

• 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

• Wicked Taxidermy Press - Nemesis (Contest)

• Wicked Taxidermy Press - Roar (Fantasy)

• Wicked Taxidermy Press - 50 Shades of Dead (Horror, Romance)

• Wicked Taxidermy Press - The Eyes of Evil (villian stories)

• Wicked Taxidermy Press - Wicked Taxidermy 1

• Epona Muse Publishing - Crip The Sun

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

• Lintussen Press - 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 Publishing - Darkness 102: Advanced Lessons Were Learned (102 spots; 102 word flash horror)

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

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

• Red Cape Publishing - Z is for Zombies

• Outsider Publishing Company - Christmas Chaos

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

• Raven Tale Publishing - Weird West

• Dark Holme Publishing -  Ethereal Nightmares: The Final Awakening

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

• Alien Buddha Press - 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 - Short Fantasy Stories (100 word drabble)

• Shacklebound Books - iSoldier (100 word drabble, MilSF)

• 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

March 2025

• 01 Mar - Three Ravens - Brave Knights: Heroic Courage

• 01 Mar - Burial Books - Non-themed Horror Short Story Anthology

• 01 Mar - Crystal Lake Publishing - The Joining: Scenes of Wedding Terror

• 01 Mar - Alien Buddha Press - The Alien Buddha’s Big Backpack Full of Soup Cans (Malcontent Poems)

• 01 Mar - Wordrunner Chapbooks - 2025 Fiction Anthology (any genre; short story & flash fiction)

• 01 Mar - Humana Obscura - Blue (poetry & art)

• 03 Mar - Middle West Press LLC - Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters

• 09 Mar - Raconteur Press - Magic Malfunction (Edited by Wally Waltner)

• 14 Mar - Wicked Shadow Press - Circus of the Dead

• 15 Mar - Graveside Press - Cryptid Anthology

• 15 Mar - Raayan Media - "Tracks & Tales" - A Global Train Travel Anthology

• 15 Mar - Down & Out Books - Ya Got Trouble: Crime Fiction Inspired by Broadway Show Tunes

• 17 Mar - The Cabin - Writers in the Attic: KNOT (contest, any genre)

• 20 Mar - Metaphorosis Books - The Thing With Feathers: speculative stories of hope

• 23 Mar - Raconteur Press - Moggie Noir: Dames, Derringers, & Detectives (Edited by Rita Beeman)

• 30 Mar - Apep Press - Feline Frights: Whiskers Between Worlds (cat themed horror)

• 31 Mar - Wolfsinger Publications - Spirit of the Wolf (charity for missionwolf.org)

• 31 Mar - October Nights Press - Myths Reborn: Modern Tales of Cryptids & Dark Folklore

• 31 Mar - 518 Publishing - Catskill Chaos

• 31 Mar - PARSEC - 29th Parsec Short Story Contest (theme: ROOTS)

• 31 Mar - M. Allyson Szabo - Tales from the Turning Leaf Tavern (tavern stories w/recipes)

• 31 Mar - Inkd Publishing - Behind the Shadows III: Dark Secrets

• 31 Mar - The Brussels Review - TBR DARK (SF contest)

• 31 Mar - Foofaraw Press - Foofaraw (theme: foofaraw)

• 31 Mar - Hiraeth Publishing - Elder Things Expeditions (Lovecraftian horror)

• 31 Mar - Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers - Robert’s Recurring Nightmares (charity - Dominican Literacy Center)

• 31 Mar - Difference Engine - Free to Play: A Video Games Anthology

• 31 Mar - Altered Reality - Altered Worlds: An Altered Reality Anthology (spec fic)

• 31 Mar - Eternal Haunted Summer - When Vampires Save the (Day) Night

• 31 Mar - Henchman Press - Tales of the E4 Mafia, Vol 2

April 2025

• 01 Apr - Three Ravens - Escape Plan: Earth (theme: mad science journal)

• 01 Apr - Saddlebag Dispatches - She Rode West: Tales of Courage, Dust, and Destiny

• 01 Apr - Wild Ink Publishing - Tread Lightly, Speak Gently: An Anthology of Death

• 01 Apr - Dead Birds Publishing - Supernatural Parables: Myth versus Reality (requires TWO stories from each author)

• 06 Apr - Raconteur Press - Wyrd West - Rawhide Revenants (Edited by Nick Nethery)

• 09 Apr - Arbutus Studios - Consumed (theme: food and eating)

• 14 Apr - Little Ghosts Books - Wet Screams: A Monsterfucker Anthology (NSFW)

• 15 Apr - Graveside Press - Witches

• 16 Apr - J. Manfred Weichsel - Jungle Scandals (NSFW)

• 18 Apr - Culture Cult - Juvie (underage criminals, overwhelming crimes)

• 20 Apr - Jambu Press - YELLOW: a Hue Are You anthology

• 30 Apr - Air and Nothingness Press - Mmeory (flash fiction on memory manipulation)

• 30 Apr - Graveside Press - Monster Romance (spicy monster stories)

• 30 Apr - Purple Toga - Feast or Famine

• 30 Apr - The Broken Spine - 2025 Festive Short Story Anthology

• 30 Apr - Oddity Prodigy Productions - Where Legends Walk (superheroes)

• 30 Apr - Baen - Fantasy Adventure Award (contest)

• 30 Apr - Arbutus Studios - Consumed (horror; food and eating)

• 30 Apr Belanger Books - Sherlock Holmes: A Year of Mystery 1889 (proposals)

• 30 Apr Belanger Books - Sherlock Holmes: A Year of Mystery 1890 (proposals)

• 30 Apr - Inky Bones Press - Creature Feature Anthology

• 30 Apr - Terrorcore Publishing - Some Thing Out There (Horror/SF w/ imaginary UFO festival)

• 30 Apr - Residential Aliens - Space Opera: First Contact

• 30 Apr - Residential Aliens - Space Opera: Alien Invasion

• 30 Apr - Residential Aliens - Space Opera: Generation Ship

• 30 Apr - Residential Aliens - Space Opera: Colony World

• 30 Apr - M. Keaton - Strange Legacy: 2025 (Creature Feature)

• 30 Apr - Inky Bones Press - Creature Feature (theme: bones)

• 30 Apr - Promised Protagonists - TBD (fiction, poetry, art; theme: stories you wish you had as a kid)

• 30 Apr - Fifth Wheel Press - Brainrot (doomsscrolling & disassociation)

• 30 Apr - The Writer's Co-Op - The Rabbit Hole (theme: A.I. and Other Weirdness)

• 30 Apr - Whitaker Lyon - Shenandoah Valley Fantastic (theme: Shenandoah Valley)

May 2025

• 01 May - Belanger Books - Solar Pons: A Year of Mystery 1919

• 01 May - Savage Realms Press - Necro-Sapiens (undead horror)

• 01 May - Opal Kingdoms Press - Extraordinary Beasts: Phoenix (PG-13, no horror)

• 04 May - Raconteur Press - Mad Science! (Edited by Dave Freer)

• 13 May - Speculation - Winter Lore Book 3:  Aurora: Tales of Winter Dreams

• 15 May - Wild Ink Publishing - Bleach Before Cereal: The Voices of Gen Z on their Lives and Mental Health Crisis

• 15 May - Azoth Khem Publishing - Mein Covfefe: Yuge Trouble in Little America (charity; ACLU)

• 16 May - Hemelein - Tales from the Silver City Saloon (weird west SF; LTUE charity anthology)

• 18 May - Raconteur Press - Goblin Souk (Edited by Cedar Sanderson)

• 18 May - Iron Faerie Publishing - Avalon (theme: Arthurian tales)

• 25 May - Conquest Pubilshing - Monstrous Angels: An Anthology of Religious Horror (charity for Avian Haven Wildlife Rehabilitation Center)

• 30 May - Black Beacon Books - Samhain Screams

• 30 May - Dim Shores - Suffering the Other (charity; RAICES/Transgender Legal Cente)

• 31 May - Graveside Press - Illustrated Poetry Anthology

• 31 May - Bag of Bones Press - Patterns (dark stories)

• 31 May - Ps and Qs Publishing - Gauges and Ghouls (haunted workplace)

June 2025

• 01 Jun - Raconteur Press - Vice Noir (Edited by LawDog)

• 01 Jun - Crystal Lake Publishing - Memento Mori Book One: Relics

• 01 Jun - The Laughing Man House - Smitten Land (televangelism)

• 01 Jun - Transcendent Fiction Publishing - The Morning After (transformations)

• 01 Jun - Wicked Ouija Press - The Writing On The Wall: Horror Inspired By The Music Of Iron Maiden

• 01 Jun - Transcendent Fiction - The Morning After (theme: transformations)

• 06 Jun - Wild Ink Publishing - Kaleidoscopic Quill: An Inspiring Butterfly Anthology (partial charity anthology)

• 15 Jun - Raconteur Press - Artifact Origins (Edited by John M. Olsen)

• 15 Jun - Belanger Books - The Necronomicon of Sherlock Holmes (proposals)

• 16 Jun - Kelp - The Savage Waves of Spring (Surf Noir Anthology)

• 29 Jun - Raconteur Press - Alien Family Values - Chosen Kindred (Edited by Sandra Medlock)

• 30 Jun - Hellbound Books - Pandemic & Outbreak Horror

• 30 Jun - Hellbound Books - Extreme Horror

• 30 Jun - Hellbound Books - Campfire Stories (horror)

• 30 Jun - Procrastinating Writers United - THE YELLING CONTINUES (poetry, fiction, artwork; theme: noise)

• 30 Jun - Camden Park Press - Cooking Up Death (cozy mystery featuring food)

• 30 Jun - Zombies Need Brains - Skull X Bones (SF/Fantasy pirates)

• 30 Jun - Sliced Up Press - Saturday Mourning Television

July 2025

• 01 Jul - Three Ravens Publishing - It Came From the Trailer Park: Vol 5 (creature feature horror comedy)

• 01 July - Wisecraft Publishing - Fantastic Schools: Universities (YA/general audience)

• 01 July - Wisecraft Publishing - Fantastic Schools: Familiars (YA/general audience)

• 13 Jul - Raconteur Press - Blades & Black Magic (Edited by Christopher Dinote)

• 15 Jul - Dramatic Roots - A Torch for the Long Night: Voices Against Fascism (poetry)

• 15 Jul -  Bayonet Books - Chaos Theory: Biological Bedlam

• 27 Jul - Raconteur Press - Moggies of Mars: Sword & Planet Adventures (Edited by Rita Beeman)

• 31 Jul - Undertaker Books - Horror on the Range

• 31 Jul - Autonomous Press - Spoon Knife 10: Polarities (any genre; opposites)

August 2025

• 01 Aug - Howdy Dude Paperbacks - TBD (theme: western short stories, no fantasy)

• 01 Aug - Howdy Dude Paperbacks - TBD (SF stories)

• 01 Aug - Howdy Dude Paperbacks - TBD (Sword & Sorcery stories)

• 10 Aug - Raconteur Press - Planks & Plunder (Edited by Sarah Clithero)

• 15 Aug - Red Penguin Books - Red

• 24 Aug - Raconteur Press - Glitched Grimm (Edited by Steve Diamond)

• 29 Aug - Wolfsinger Publications - Search for the Any Key

• 31 Aug - Bannister Press - Other (fantasy)

• 31 Aug - Hellbound Books - Hellbound Highway (road trip horror)

• 31 Aug - Specul8 Publishing - Knives, Nightmares and Neon: An 80s Slasher Anthology

• 31 Aug - Ps and Qs Publishing - Elven Rock of Ages (band, urban fantasy, shared world)

September 2025

• 07 Sep - Raconteur Press - It Came From The Pulp: Creature Features (Edited by Spearman Burke)

• 15 Sep - The Writer's Workout - Tales from the Unknown

• 15 Sep - Way Words - Tales from the Unknown

• 21 Sep - Raconteur Press - Mercs and Mayhem (Edited by Nick Nethery)

• 30 Sep - Undertaker Books - STTYG: Tattoo Edition

• 30 Sep - Manawaker - Home Constellations: A sci-fi anthology of unconventional bonds

October 2025

• 05 Oct - Raconteur Press - Bourbon and Lead: Dime Detective Stories (Edited by D. Jason Fleming)

• 31 Oct - Graveside Press - Tiny Terrors 2025

November 2025

• 02 Nov - Raconteur Press - Pinup Noir: High Class Muscle (Edited by Sam Robb)

• 16 Nov - Raconteur Press - Uncanny Valet (Edited by Rita Beeman)

December 2025

• TBD