Submission Calls

STUCK

Submissions now OPEN until 31st January 2027.

We’re looking for dark stories (500-4k words) for our next charity anthology, which will be entitled STUCK.

Please interpret this theme however you like. Write us a quiet, moody piece or an action-packed, powerful, character-driven story.  Make it humorous or as dark as the night. Send us your best speculative, horror, dark fantasy or dark sci-fi story. We are not the market for violent, bloody, racist, ableist, homophobic, or masochistic fiction. And no poetry please, only short fiction.

If you want an idea of what we publish (and my, oh my, what an eclectic range it is), why not check out some of our other publications? Purchase links can be found by clicking here: Books.

No reprints.

Absolutely no AI-generated or AI-assisted fiction. Sending us AI-generated work will result in future submissions being automatically rejected.

SEND US YOUR BEST WORK!

Payment: 0.5 pence per word (after edits) and an e-book of the final STUCK anthology.

After we’ve recuperated our outgoing costs of author and cover artist payments, all profits seen in the year of publication will go to MIND (https://www.mind.org.uk/), a UK-based mental health charity.

An anthology of selected stories will be published in print and in e-book format.

See our 'Submission  Guidelines' section for information on how to submit.

Further questions that aren’t answered by the information on this website? Get in touch via email (bagofbonespress@gmail.com) or Twitter/X (@BagBonesPress) or Blue-sky (our EIC can be found at https://bsky.app/profile/sjtownend.bsky.social).

Good luck, happy writing, and thank you so much for supporting our press!