#TeamAndMore Thursday
Open Calls and the End of NaNo
It’s the last day of National Novel Writing Month! Did you participate? If so - did you make your daily or monthly writing goals? And finally, are you looking forward to the opportunity to take a break once it’s all over?
Calls
The end of the year is packed full of open anthology calls. You can find all the details for December and the following months over on the #TeamAndMore site.
Take the time to look through the General Links on the Open Call page as well! While we’re primarily focused on anthology open calls, there are many, many more possible markets out there. Print magazines, online periodicals, subscriber-only Patreon or Substack stories, poetry publications, publishers looking for novellas… they’re all listed there in those links.
If you’re just here for the anthologies, though, here’s the nearly six dozen calls coming up in December & January. Pick one or two, get cracking and get some stories out! You can check the web page for updates, or join us on the #TeamAndMore Facebook group where we post updates periodically.
December
01 Dec - Three Ravens - Magic & Mischief
01 Dec - Three Ravens - What If... Walls Could Talk
01 Dec - Knight Writing Press - Romancing the Rainbow (charity anthology with small royalty share)
01 Dec - Three Ravens - Assault Team (MilSF)
01 Dec - Raconteur Press - All Will Burn Vol 2
02 Dec - Wicked Shadow Press - Christmas of the Dead
15 Dec - WolfSinger Publications - Borne in the Blood (charity for Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation)
15 Dec - Cloaked Press - Spring Into Scifi 2024
15 Dec - Raconteur Press - Steampunk!
15 Dec - Midwest Writing Center - Radical Hospitality (poetry, flash)
15 Dec - StoryHack/Baby Katie Media - Sidearm & Sorcery, Vol 3
16 Dec - Kelp Journal - The Amber Waves of Autumn (Surf Noir Anthology)
17 Dec - Bona Books - I Want That Twink OBLITERATED! (LGBTQIA+ pulp-sinpired SF)
20 Dec - Cannon Publishing - 2024 High Caliber Awards (novella)
20 Dec - Nēpenthé Press - Folk Horror
24 Dec - Black Beacon Books - The Black Beacon Book of Ghost Stories
27 Dec - Moonstruck Books - Nightmare Diaries (Dark Fiction)
29 Dec - Raconteur Press - Giant! Freakin! Robots!
31 Dec - Eerie River Publishing - Wands (Tarot-themed)
31 Dec - Underdog Press - The Way of Worlds (space exploration/colonization)
31 Dec - Dreamspeaker Media LLC - Untold Tales Audio Anthology
31 Dec - Air & Nothingness Press - We Are All Thieves of Somebody's Future (resource scarcity)
31 Dec - Dragon Soul Press - Across Time
31 Dec - Dragon Soul Press - Fallen
31 Dec - The Cellar Door - Marshland Horrors (dampish dark fiction)
31 Dec - Jay Henge Publishing - Sunshine Superhighways (solarpunk)
31 Dec - Jay Henge Publishing - The Kafka Protocol (paperwork & bureaucracy)
31 Dec - Dark Thirty Poetry Publishing - Forgotten Fragments Of Time (chairty; Alzheimer’s Society)
31 Dec - TNFFF - Annual Short Story Contest (fantasy, no entry fee)
31 Dec - Manawaker Studio - Rattus Futura: An Anthology of Future Rodents
31 Dec - Grendel Press - Uncanny & Unearthly Tales (Vol 2): The Midnight Labyrinth
31 Dec - Psychopomp - Afterlives: The Year’s Best Death Stories 2023
31 Dec - Belanger Books - The American Adventures of Solar Pons
31 Dec - Apex Book Company - The Map of Lost Places (Kickstarter)
31 Dec - Castaigne Publishing - In the Eyes of the Hungry (Steinbeck-inspired horror)
31 Dec - Zombies Need Brains - Familiars (fantasy, SF, mystery, or horror)
31 Dec - Zombies Need Brains - Last Ditch (fantasy/SF)
31 Dec - Black Beacon Books - The Black Beacon Book of Pirate Tales
31 Dec - Jay Henge Publishing - Sunshine Superhighways (solarpunk)
31 Dec - DBS Press - The Brides of Dracula
31 Dec - H. Everend - HorrorScope: A Zodiac Anthology V4
31 Dec - January Embers Press - Writer’s Retreat: Tales of Writing and Madness
31 Dec - Polymath Press - Arithmophobia: An Anthology of Mathematical Horror
31 Dec - Butterworth Books - Sapphic Eclectic Volume 5
31 Dec - Interstellar Flight Press - Flash Fiction Submissions (online; yearly anthology)
31 Dec - Museum of the American Military Family - Home: It's Complicated (non-fiction)
31 Dec - Above the Rain Collective - Final Passenger
31 Dec - Thinking Ink Press - The Neurodiversiverse Anthology (SF; dealing w/aliens)
31 Dec - Vamptasty Publishing - Necroyummycon (Horror stories as food blogs, incl. recipes)
January
01 Jan - Three Ravens - Cryptid Horror
01 Jan - Hiraeth Publishing - Here There Be Dragons
01 Jan - Perihelion Publications - The Exodus Manifest
12 Jan - Raconteur Press - Pinup Noir Vol. 3
15 Jan - Flint Area Writers - Abandoned Monsters (monsters in Flint, MI)
15 Jan - Obsidian Butterfly - Horror Over the Handlebars (All stories must be set in CT)
15 Jan - New England Horror Writers - Wicked Abandoned
15 Jan - GWFM - Great Weather for MEDIA
16 Jan - Daniels & Fan - Brave New Girls (charity for the Society of Women Engineers)
16 Jan - Hungry Shadow Press - And One Day We Will Die: Strange Stories Inspired by the Music of Neutral Milk Hotel
19 Jan - Raconteur Press - Space Marines Vol. 3
25 Jan - Farthest Star Publishing - Leadership Gone Right
31 Jan - Eastover Press - Mirrorball: How Taylor Swift Reflects the Loss, Hope & Love of Millions Around the World
31 Jan - Underdog Press - Nightmares Before Bed
31 Jan - Dragon Soul Press - The Hunt
31 Jan - Belanger Books - Sherlock Holmes and the Great Lady Detectives
31 Jan - The Cellar Door - Marshland Horrors
31 Jan - Critical Blast - The Devil You Know Best
Site Updates
As usual, we’ve been trolling only the finest interwebz to find you even more and varied open calls. If you know of something that’s not on the list, let us know! The easiest way to do that would be to join our Facebook group, though you can always contact us on the website, too.
Don’t forget that in addition to the open calls, we maintain a list of freelance editors and a list of publishers as well. We’re hope to expand both in the near future - keep your eyes open for updates. In the meantime - find an open call and get cracking!
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