Emerald City Ghosts
Open now for fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Last checkedEmerald City Ghosts is a speculative magazine seeking paranormal ghost stories, monster stories, poetry, and related reviews, with general submissions always open and themed calls scheduled monthly.
Response time info: ~14 days; sourced from The Submission Grinder
Read the full guidelines at emeraldcityghosts.substack.com↗Submission calls
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December themed call for Christmas ghost stories. Submissions are open November 1-20, 2026. Submissions should reference ghosts prominently or include a spirit, with interest in festive settings juxtaposed with grief, despair, and pain.
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General submissions are always open for ghost stories, monster stories, cults, forests, and things that live under the sea; stories should have a paranormal element. Flash fiction is up to 500 words and short stories are up to 2,000 words.
Open to: Submitters must be free subscribers.
General submissions are always open for paranormal flash fiction, including ghost and monster stories; flash fiction is up to 500 words.
Open to: Submitters must be free subscribers.
General submissions are always open for book and movie reviews up to 1,000 words.
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General submissions are always open for paranormal poetry, up to about 50 lines, with a preference for poems under 20 lines.
November themed call for dark academia/horror. Submissions were open October 1-20, 2026. The story needs a speculative or paranormal element and may include cults, secret societies, morally complicated characters, betrayals, campuses, ghosts, monsters, or folklore.
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