Black Petals

Open now for fiction and poetry.

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Black Petals is a quarterly horror and science-fiction magazine seeking dark, bizarre, unusual fiction and chilling poetry, particularly from new talent.

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

Read the full guidelines at blackpetalsmagazine.com↗

Submission calls

fictionScience FictionHorrorPays: Bragging rights only.

Accepts dark science fiction and bizarre or unusual horror, including micro fiction up to 350 words, flash fiction up to 700 words, and regular stories of 2,500 to 3,500 words. Avoid gratuitous graphic sex or violence, rape, splatterpunk, sexploitation, abuse, and copyrighted characters.

poetryHorrorScience FictionPays: Bragging rights only.

Seeks chilling poetry of any length up to four pages.

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