Submit to Us
Please read the guidelines. Send all submissions
to submissions@darkdeadthings.com,
but again, please read the guidelines.
Dark Dead Things is on the look out for short stories, poetry, and nonfiction.
We want your weird, sci-fi, and horror fiction (or nonfiction). As long as it’s strange, scary, or subversive, we’ll consider it.
No multiple submissions except for poetry. Please submit up to three poems.
If accepted, it might be for both the magazine and podcast or just one.
1,000-4,000 words for stories. This is a hard limit. Anything over or under won’t be considered.
$40 per short story or nonfiction piece; flat rate of $15 per poem
Previously published work will not be accepted. Unpublished only, please.
Please use a standard manuscript format. There are a lot of great resources out there if you’re not sure what this entails.
Format email subject line as: SUBMISSION - [Your Story] by [Your Name]
Submissions are CLOSED.
No submission fees ever.
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