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The Year’s Best from Women in Horror, a new annual reprint anthology, is now open for submissions. Lindy Ryan says, “Women have always shaped horror. We have written its monsters and haunted houses, its ghosts and witches, its final girls and terrible mothers. We have used horror to explore fear and rage, grief and desire, bodies and identity, family and power.
“And while women’s contributions to the genre have historically been buried, ignored, or forgotten, today’s work—particularly work published by independent presses, small magazines, digital venues, limited-run anthologies, and other ephemeral spaces—still too often disappears from the larger genre conversation almost as quickly as it arrives.”
The Call Details
Word Count: Up to 7500 words for fiction and nonfiction / Poetry: Up to 1 page length
Multiple entries are fine but use submittable for every entry: https://blackspotbooks.submittable.com/submit/
They’re looking for the supernatural, psychological, Gothic, folk, cosmic, body horror, horror comedy, dark fantasy, weird fiction, and things that cannot be easily categorized.
Your work must have been published between January 1, 2026 – December 31, 2026. This is a reprint anthology, so your work must have already been published during the year of 2026.
Work must be for women and those identifying as women. No AI.
“We are particularly interested in work that may not otherwise be preserved in a permanent print edition: pieces published online, in small-press anthologies, limited-circulation publications, and other venues beyond the genre’s largest markets.”
Payment
Rights: Worldwide First Reprint Rights in Print, Digital & Audio
Payment: $0.01 USD per word + contributor copies in print (for U.S.-based authors) and eBook (for all contributors)
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