Fiction
Haunted Words Press
Closed
- Length
- Up to 7,500 words
- Pay
- Contributor copy
- Fee
- No fee
- Simultaneous
- Allowed
- Reprints
- Reprints welcome
What they accept
Haunted Words Press publishes spooky, dark, peculiar, strange, and magical work for middle grade (8-12) and young adult (12-18) readers, accepting short stories up to 7,500 words and flash fiction up to 1,000 words, in any genre. The guidelines page checked states submissions are currently closed; the publication is free to submit, pays nothing for accepted pieces, and accepted work goes into that year's print anthology, of which contributors receive a free copy.
RomanceHorrorMystery & CrimeOther / not listed
- Resubmissions
- Allowed
- AI policy
- The guidelines state that no AI-generated work is accepted and that a submission found to be created using AI will be rejected instantly.
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