Lovecraft eZine

If you’re in love with Lovecraft and crazy about Cthulhu then get your tentacles typing and submit a story to the Lovecraft eZine. Stories that contain just the right dash of Lovecraftian horror could be published in the online ‘zine and find themselves with a $25-$50 payment. To be fair, this is a pretty niche … Continue reading →

Cordite Poetry Review: Silence

Cordite is an online literary journal that highlights new poetry from established and emerging writers and they’re currently looking for submissions for their next issue: Silence. Poets can submit up to 3 poems via an online submission form and should make sure they’re in before December 14 2013. Payments are only available to Australian residents … Continue reading →

Peril Magazine

This call for submissions is for two upcoming issues of Peril magazine, both focusing on the theme of binaries. Peril is a biannual online magazine for Asian Australian writing that has been around since 2006. They’re accepting prose, poetry, non-fiction, spoken word videos, and visual art. As for the theme, Peril has a great list … Continue reading →

Country Style ‘Chance’ Competition

Country Style magazine are holding a short story competition based on the theme of ‘chance’. It seems to be open to any genre just as long as the story (which is to be 1500 words or less) is “referencing directly or obliquely, the idea of ‘chance’”. Our international friends are a bit left out of … Continue reading →

Seizure: Magazine + Flashers

Seizure are accepting submissions for two writing projects they’ve got tucked up their sleevies. These are great opportunities to get work published and get your writing out there. Submissions for the magazine itself are open, with the themes and cut-offs being ‘Crime’ for December 2012 and ‘Sport’ for June 2013. That’s buckets of time to … Continue reading →

Positive Words: Monthly Mini-Comps

Need to write but stuck for ideas? Want to do something quick to stretch those writer-muscles? Positive Words magazine run mini writing competitions every month for short stories (and I mean short stories) and short poetry, so you best get typing and scribbling soon because this month’s comp is about to close – and the November … Continue reading →