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

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

• Angry Gable - Katabatic Circus (poetry)

• Angry Gable - Cozy in the Apocalypse

• CAAB Publishing - The Story That Should Not Be (break one rule of the genre)

• CAAB Publishing - The Stone Carved Skull (shared item stories)

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

• Dickinson Publishing - Raw Blood and Nerve (horror)

• Dreamweaver Press - Room 333 (haunted hotel, infinite timelines)

• Dreamweaver Press - Dumb Ways to Die (and Undie Again)

• Dreamweaver Press - Terror on the High Seas (extreme pirate horror)

• Dreamweaver Press - The Executioner’s Ledger (horror in gallows, witch trials, and torture chambers)

• Dreamweaver Press - Creature Feature: Redux (B-movie monsters reimagined)

• Dreamweaver Press - Hell Nursery Rhymes (childhood isn’t always innocent)

• Dreamweaver Press - Body Hackers Anonymous (extreme biotech-body horror)

• Dreamweaver Press - The Abduction Files (alien abduction horror)

• Dreamweaver Press - My Dead Valentine (undying love - literally)

• Dreamweaver Press - You’ve Reached the Afterlife Hotline (messages that shouldn’t exist)

• Dreamweaver Press - Static in the Sky (cosmic horror meets sci-fi)

• Dreamweaver Press - Inside the Mind of a Monster (from killer's POV)

• Dreamweaver Press - Meat Market: Tales of the Butcher’s Block (gore, cannibalism, slaughterhouses)

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

• Epona Muse - Crip The Sun

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

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

• Hellbound Books - Beautiful Tragedies 5 (anti-romance poetry anthology)

• Jay Henge - The Midnight Menagerie at the Edge of Everywhen

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

• Pinko Press - No Cause For Alarm (normalized emergency)

• Pinko Press - The Slush Pile (stories w/at least 50 rejections)

• Red Raven Books - Mixed Bag (horror, dark crime, weird fiction)

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

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

October

• 01 Oct - Thinking Ink Press - The Neurodiversiverse: Bridging Worlds

• 01 Oct - Cracked Anvil Press - Off the Broken Path: Dark Tales of Enchanted Forests

• 01 Oct - Cryptic Frog Quarterly - Endless Archives, Entrancing Tomes

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

• 10 Oct - Bayonet Books - Necro Hamster (Necromancer hamster. No, really.)

• 11 Oct - Belanger Books - Steel True, Blade Straight: The Belanger Books Journal of Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Inspired Stories, Poems, and Scholarship

• 12 Oct - Whimsey & Woe - Adorable Abominations

• 14 Oct - Phantomania - YOU Phantomaniacs (fantasy, all subgenres)

• 14 Oct - Wicked Shadow Press - Flash of the Dead: Cursed (horror flash fiction featuring curses)

• 15 Oct - Edge & Busby Press - Tinsel (holiday horror)

• 15 Oct - Little District Books - Radiant Dawn: A Queer Hopepunk Anthology

• 15 Oct - Word Fire Press - Superheroes, Super Problems

• 15 Oct - Horrific Scribes - The Already Have You (conspiracy horror)

• 15 Oct - Worldstone Publishing - Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy 6

• 18 Oct - Flame Tree Fiction - Dark Ages: Folk Horror Stories

• 28 Oct - Iron Faerie Publishing - Merrow (tales of mermaids, merfolk, & sea mythology)

• 31 Oct - Misti Media - I Want to Know What Love Is: Stories of Romance Inspired by Power Ballads

• 31 Oct - Belanger Books - The Pontine Dossier: Millennium Edition 2026 Annual

• 31 Oct - Kilter & Rammel - Fun in the Dark (antiquities; fun yet dark)

• 31 Oct - Hiraeth Publuishing - Untold Tales of the Round Table

• 31 Oct - Whitaker Lyon - Sideways Virginia (alternate history centerd on Virginia)

• 31 Oct - Exploitation Media - Heartsick (LOVE: all the shapes it can take and all the ways it can go wrong)

• 31 Oct - Parallel Universe Publications - Swords & Rockets: Tales of Futures Past

• 31 Oct - Camden Park Press - Stitching Up Death (contemporary, traditional, cozy mystery stories)

November

• 01 Nov - Opal Kingdom Press - Extraordinary Beasts: Fires and Fangs

• 01 Nov - Flame Tree Fiction - Mythos and Meaning: Human Accounts of Beastly Encounters

• 01 Nov - Red Penguin Books - Yesterday's Gone (real and imagined stories from the past)

• 01 Nov - CosmicSparky - Tails of Suspense (charity for Friends of Eaton County Animals)

• 01 Nov - Amanda Ruzsa - Tales of Arachnophobia: Eight-Legged Freaks

• 01 Nov - Broken Tribes Press - Blue (the color)

• 03 Nov - Angel Krause - That Old House: The Living Room

• 05 Nov - Mournwood Anthology - TBD (theme: paranormal objects; Nigtvale meets the SCP)

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

• 15 Nov - Inkd Publishing - Hidden Villains: Enigma

• 17 Nov - Marshall Alessi - O Holy Fright (Christmas horror)

• 20 Nov - Belanger Books - Sherlock Holmes: The Science-Fictional Adventures

• 28 Nov - Iron Faerie Publishing - Daybreak (gothic horror and paranormal romance)

• 30 Nov - The Slab Press - Pyrite (spacefaring; scavenging, piracy, prospecting)

• 30 Nov - Ember Ink Press - Tales of the Emberwatch (Christian speculative fiction)

• 30 Nov - Black Beacon Books - Lighthouse 2 (horror in lighthouses)

• 30 Nov - Dreadhouse Publishing - Subliminal: Below (Sub) + threshold (limen)

• 30 Nov - Android Press - What Blooms in Darkness: A Lunarpunk Anthology

• 30 Nov - Inkd Publishing - Noncorporeal V: Disquiet (spooky, haunting, incorporeal)

• 30 Nov - Purple Ink Press - The Bimbo Book II

December

• 01 Dec - Terrorcore Publishing - Tails of Terror (1977 pet emporium horror)

• 01 Dec - Dead Fish Books - Did I Leave the Gas On: Tales of Coming Home

• 01 Dec - Dead Fish Books - Screw Dem Space Horses

• 01 Dec - Cross the Teas and Dot the Eyes - The Heart of Fear (romantic horror)

• 01 Dec - Worldsmyths - Books of Rot and Bloom: Spellbound (witches; based off Inna Vjuzhanina's paintings)

• 01 Dec - Big Bear Press - Superheroes/Supervillains: An Anthology

• 12 Dec - Bayonet Books - Spectres of the Past

• 18 Dec - Iron Faerie Publishing - Hawthorn & Ash (Fantasy, spec fic, horror; no SF)

• 18 Dec - J3E Press - Nightmare School (school terror)

• 31 Dec - Grimalkin Press - Dirty Martini (Fem Horror Noir Anthology)

• 31 Dec - Misti Media - Tractors and Troubles: Crime Fiction Out on the Farm

• 31 Dec - Twisted Dreams - Behind the Tape: Urban Crime Thriller Stories

• 31 Dec - Twisted Dreams - A Quiet Horror: An Anthology of Slow-Burn Horror

• 31 Dec - Inkd Publishing - Arcanum Magicka (magic in all its glorious forms)

• 31 Dec - Slashic Horror Press - Cheat Code: A Queer Horror LitRPG Anthology

• 31 Dec - Black Beacon Books - Tales from the Ruins 2 (post-apocalyptic)

• 31 Dec - The Laughing Man House Publishing - The Smitten Land Anthology (religious horror)

• 31 Dec - Nat 1 Publishing - PUNK anthology (punk, any subgenre)

• 31 Dec - Nat 1 Publishing - Pale & Tragic (gothic-themed)

• 31 Dec - Nat 1 Publishing - Gaslamp Pulp (fantasy)

• 31 Dec - Whitaker Lyon - New Jersey Fantastic

• 31 Dec - Whitaker Lyon - High School Fantastic: Magic, Mayhem, and Midterms

2027

January

• 08 Jan - Dickinson Publishing Group - G. & M.H.: Deathly Delusions (Tales Of Ghouls and Methamphetaminergic Hypnogogia)

• 18 Jan - Iron Faerie Publishing - Midsummer Nights (F/SF centered around the work of Shakespeare)

• 31 Jan - Bag of Bones Press - STUCK (charity for MIND, a UK mental health org)

• 31 Jan - Manawaker Studios - Divergent Space: A speculative anthology of unconventional minds

• 31 Jan - Ye Olde Dragon Books - Fairytale: Hansel and Gretel

February

• 22 Feb - P3 Media Group LLC - The Boys Book of Lost Worlds (middle-grade boys; lost world setting)

• 28 Feb - DILIM Press - Under the Volcano

• 28 Feb - 518 Publishing Company, LLC - A Guide to Mystical Cats

• 01 Feb - The Dionysian Public Library - Curses, Confusions, & Rebukes: An Anthology of Jewish Horror

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

March

• 01 Mar - Terrorcore Publishing - Scream Parks

April

• TBD

May

• TBD

June

• TBD

July

• 31 Jul - Ye Olde Dragon Books - Monsters (theme TBD)

August

• TBD

September

• TBD

October

• TBD

November

• TBD

December

• 31 Dec - Whitaker Lyon - Chesapeake Fantastic