Here are the most interesting open submissions calls for SFF writers I’ve found this month. Good luck!

Qualia Nous
The first volume of this anthology series contained high-profile names and was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology. This new volume looks set to be a bit deal, too. The editor interprets the slightly opaque title as referring to ‘subjective, conscious experience; the internal and subjective component of sense perceptions arising from stimulation of the senses by phenomena… having the ability to understand what is true or real.’ Plenty to chew on there!
Word count: 3,000 – 10,000 words
Payment: 10 cents per word
Deadline: 31 July 2023
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Luna Press
This wonderful Edinburgh-based SFF publisher, which has received multiple genre awards (and which published both my short story collection And the House Lights Dim and my YA novel Machineries of Mercy) will be open to novels and collections in mid-June. Get your manuscripts polished and ready to go!
Word count: 50,000 words and above
Payment: To be negotiated
Deadline: Open 16–18 June 2023
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Greater Than His Nature / Open All Night
Atomic Carnival Books are currently preparing two anthologies. The first is Greater Than His Nature, themed around ‘mad science’. The second, Open All Night, is more unusual, to feature ‘retail and service industry-based stories… graveyard shifts, overnight inventories gone bad, and haunted diners’.
Word count: Ideally between 2000–6000 words
Payment: 3 cents per word
Deadline: 30 June 2023
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Centaur
This publication isn’t explicitly an SFF one, though its editors seek bold pieces of flash fiction that could be classed as ‘fantasy, reality, and everything in between’.
Word count: Up to 400 words
Payment: $20
Deadline: Ongoing
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Graveyard Boots
Horror in the Old West! The editors of this anthology seek ‘stories that add creatures, gunslingers, ghouls, ill omens, bad luck, evil minds, monsters and more to the already desolate landscape and ghost towns’. Sounds ace.
Word count: 2500–5500 words
Payment: Half a cent per word
Deadline: 31 August 2023
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The Cosmic Background
I like the sound of this new online publication of slipstream flash fiction, largely because their list of influential writers is pleasingly varied, including Kelly Link, George Saunders, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Sarah Pinsker.
Word count: Up to 1000 words
Payment: 8 cents per word
Deadline: Ongoing
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