The Submission Pit Substack

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The Submission Pit is a speculative fiction publication offering a monthly $100 prize to the best submitted short story.

Response time info: ~15 days; sourced from The Submission Grinder

Read the full guidelines at thesubmissionpit.substack.com↗

Submission calls

fictionScience FictionFantasyHorrorCloses Sep 30Pays: $100 prize for the winning story; 50% of monthly paid-subscriber revenue also goes to the winning author/story.

Monthly submissions are due by the end of the month, with the winner announced on the 15th. Only speculative fiction is accepted: science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Stories must be 6 to 10,000 words; reprints and simultaneous submissions are allowed. One story per author may be submitted per reading period. No AI-generated stories.

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