Wednesday 2 March 2022

Free Competition, 5 Anthologies and 50 Other Writing Markets

To help keep those creative juices flowing, take a look through this list of Paying Writing Markets, plus a free-to-enter writing competition.

Stroll through the list and see how many ideas you can come up with and then write and submit them.

This should keep you writing continuously for the next 2 weeks or more.

Enjoy. :)


The Savage Mystery Writing Contest
The Mollie Savage Memorial Writing Contest (formerly Three Cheers and a Tiger) is a 48-hour short story writing contest. 
The March 2022 contest opens at 5 PM Eastern Time, Friday, March 18, 2022. All contest rules will be posted on the home page at that time.
Deadline: 5 PM Eastern Time, Sunday, March 20, 2022.
Free to enter.
Winning stories are published in the June issue of Toasted Cheese. 
If 50 or fewer eligible entries are received, first place receives a $35 Amazon gift card & second a $10 Amazon gift card. 
If 51 or more eligible entries are received, first place receives a $50 Amazon gift card, second a $15 Amazon gift card & third a $10 Amazon gift card.


Fiction Markets Paying $50 to $600 for March 2022

These magazines pay $50-$600 for fiction, and a few also accept other genres, like non-fiction and poetry. They are either open now, or will open soon for submissions. Some calls are themed.


5 Horror Anthology Submission Calls - 2022

MADAME GRAY'S POE-POURRI OF TERROR
Lifelong Edgar Allan Poe fan, Madame Gray, is in search of horror tales that pay homage to one of the greats of the genre.
3K - 8K word count
Deadline: September 1st, 2022

HELLBOUND SCI-FI
We are looking for your very best tales of aliens, strange new worlds, fantastic beings from distant planets, space travel, terrifying glimpses of the future, and whatever else your sci-fi mind may conjure up to horrify our readers.
4K - 10K word count 
Deadline: September 1st, 2022

KIDS ARE HELL!
We want your stories innocent youngsters turned malevolent (think: The Omen, Children of the Corn, The Midwich Cuckoos, etc.)- the more terrifying the better!
4K-10K word count
Deadline: 30 June 2022

IN CELEBRATION OF SPLATTERPUNK
We know just how much our readers just love their horror stories gushing with blood and spattered with buckets of gore, severed limbs, and disembodied viscera, so here's your opportunity to scare them rigid and knot their stomachs with your most horrifying tales of death and destruction.
 4K-10K word count 
Deadline: 31 July 2022

VAMPIRES AND SUCH
Send us your very best vampiric tales - gothic, contemporary, speculative - chill our bones and have us panic-buying garlic and wooden stakes...
4K- 10K word count
Deadline: 31 May 2022

All pay $5.00 for first rights plus publication
Find them all at:


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