Story Sanctum

Open now for fiction and nonfiction.

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Story Sanctum is open for compelling fiction and nonfiction stories exploring the sacredness and strangeness of human experience, including religious or nonreligious perspectives.

Response time info: within a month

Read the full guidelines at storysanctum.org↗

Submission calls

fictionLiteraryHorrorPays: $10 per accepted story, or the writer may apply the full amount toward social-media promotion.

Open for 2027 until the submission limit is reached. Seeks compelling fiction with a clear point of view addressing the truth, beauty, sacredness, strangeness, heartbreak, horror, and hope of human experience. Stories may be up to 6,000 words. Submissions are by email.

nonfictionLiteraryHorrorPays: $10 per accepted story, or the writer may apply the full amount toward social-media promotion.

Open for 2027 until the submission limit is reached. Seeks compelling nonfiction with a clear point of view addressing the truth, beauty, sacredness, strangeness, heartbreak, horror, and hope of human experience. Stories may be up to 6,000 words. Submissions are by email.

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