Black Petals

Open now for fiction, flash fiction, and poetry.

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Black Petals is a long-running quarterly magazine publishing horror and dark science fiction stories, flash, micro fiction, and poetry.

Response time info: ~33 days; sourced from The Submission Grinder

Read the full guidelines at blackpetalsmagazine.com↗

Submission calls

fictionScience FictionHorrorPays: Bragging rights only

Dark science fiction and bizarre/unusual horror stories; regular stories 2500-3500 words; no copyrighted characters, AI-generated, or plagiarized work; avoid graphic sex/violence for shock, rape, splatterpunk, sexploitation, or abuse of children, animals, or dead people.

flashScience FictionHorrorPays: Bragging rights only

Flash fiction up to 700 words and micro fiction up to 350 words; dark science fiction and horror only; same content restrictions as regular fiction.

poetryScience FictionHorrorPays: Bragging rights only

Poetry of any length up to four pages; dark science fiction and horror themes.

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