WINTER HORROR SUBMISSION CALL
Missing your flight is scary. So is sleeping in your childhood bedroom with cousins you can’t remember. Are your old band posters talking to you, or is that the ghost of Chanukah’s past?
Please send us your horror, thriller, and suspense stories (1,000-7,000 words) about holiday travel. We are interested in publishing stories set around a variety of cultural holidays and traditions.
Take us into the mind of a sinister flight attendant on Christmas Eve. Show us the monsters who stalked ancient Winter Solstice festival-goers. Place us in the middle of a serial killer’s game while on a seniors-only cruise. Give us psychological terror while frying latkes in Grandma’s kitchen. Dazzle us with bonfires and fireworks and arson on New Year’s Eve.
The details:
This call is open May 6, 2025 to June 6, 2025.
We request submissions to be Google Docs or Word documents in Shunn modern manuscript format.
Payment is tiered based on word count. 1000-3000 words=$20, >3000-5000 words=$30, >5000-7000 words=$40
ROF Publishing House requests First North American Serial Rights and First Electronic and Digital Rights.
We are not interested in stories that perpetuate stereotypes of gender, race, religion, nationality, ability, or sexuality or that minimize or glorify abuse, violence, or colonialism, including Zionism. ALL VOICES WELCOME!
We are not interested in stories made with the help of AI.
We plan to publish this anthology as an ebook and in paperback.
If you have questions or need to withdraw your story because another publisher has accepted it, please email editor@rofpublishinghouse.com.
