The Year's Best from Women in Horror, Volume I
Black Spot Books
Closes 31 Dec 2026
- Length
- Up to 7,500 words
- Pay
- 0.01 USD per word
- Fee
- Not stated
- Simultaneous
- Not stated
- Reprints
- Reprints only
What they accept
The Year's Best from Women in Horror, Volume I is a reprint anthology from Black Spot Books, edited by Lindy Ryan and Stephanie M. Wytovich, collecting the year's best horror by women and female-identifying authors. It takes only work first published between January 1 and December 31, 2026 (fiction and nonfiction up to 7,500 words, poetry up to one page), submitted once per form from October 31 through December 31, 2026, and pays $0.01 per word plus print and e-book contributor copies.
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- AI policy
- No work generated or written with or by generative AI will be accepted; by submitting, contributors confirm the work is their own creative work.
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