Thank you so much to everyone who attended our launch party! You can get a copy of Bitter Become the Fields now at Whitty Books, or through our website
It's a title reveal!
Bitter Become the Fields, a horror anthology will be out this year. The second collection from Horns and Rattles Press is chock full of stories to keep you up at night. We can't wait for you to read it!
Author and cover reveal coming soon!
At this point, we've read through all 350+ submissions to Flora and Fungi and sent out either rejections or hold notices while we make our final decisions. Again, we thank you all for your patience and for making our work so difficult! 🍄🌿🌻
We're working through the 350+ stories we received. Thanks to everyone who trusted us with their stories. Whether it's your first or your thousandth submission, it's always an act of courage to send your writing out into the world!
Time is flying by! Just under three weeks left to get your stories in!
(Extended deadline for marginalized voices: Dec. 2nd)
Send us your carnivorous crocuses, your monstrous mushrooms, your vengeful vines!
Author Reveal (1/4)
We're so excited to welcome these amazing writers to Bitter Become the Fields! (Authors, if we missed tagging you, please DM)
First up, we have stories from
@witt_rowan
,
@PegasusAuthor
, Cynthia Zhang, Carl Antonowicz,
@armori_
, and Nor Amigone!
Hot off the presses! We're so excited to share these amazing stories with the world! Join us this Saturday
@shopwhittybooks
from 6-8pm for the launch party!!
We've sent out all final responses for the Fungi and Flora anthology! Please query us if you haven't received a response yet.
If you received a rejection, please know that it wasn't personal. There were so many amazing, creative stories, and we wish we could've accepted more.
We're absolutely loving your stories! We're still working through submissions, but we decided to do our title reveal today! Our first collection will be called: Fish Gather to Listen
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We've made our final decisions for stories to include in Fish Gather to Listen. With over 200 submissions, we had to make some very tough choices. It's so hard to put your art out there, and we appreciate everyone who submitted so much. ❤️🦈❤️🐙❤️
🤖☠️TENEBROUS SUBMISSIONS CALL OPEN☠️🤖
THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE ALGORITHM.
Seeking short fiction, non-fiction, comics, art, poetry & WEIRD.
Apply within. MACHINES NOT WELCOME.
Concept art by
@spicycloaca
We'd like to thank everyone who ordered/pre-ordered books and everyone who came to the launch party! It was an amazing night. We're so excited to share these talented authors with you all!
We're going to send out another round of rejections this weekend. Please know that if we reject your story for this call, it's not because we didn't enjoy it or because it wasn't well-written. We'll probably only be able to accept around 5% of the submissions we received.
We've reached our Kickstarter goal after less than a week! Completely overwhelmed with gratitude for all our backers and everyone who shared and supported this project! Next step: stretch goals!
We're sending out the first round of acceptances and rejections this week. We received an overwhelming number of fantastic stories for this call, and we've enjoyed reading them so much! 🐟🦈🐠
Lots of new submissions are coming in as we approach the deadline! You've got until midnight (last place on earth) on May 11th to send us your spooky stories!
#submissionsopen
TOC announcement (not in final table of contents order)! We have quite a few amazing authors, so stay tuned for more posts!
Without Eyes, He Stares by
@RyanB4890
Psychopompós by Samantha Ryan, and
Endling by
@spicycloaca
!
📢Exciting news, y’all📢
@shopwhittybooks
@ScaryShelley
@JesMcCutchen
are starting an indie publishing press!
We’re gonna do some cool (and weird) stuff 💕📚👻
More info coming soon! In the meantime, sign up for our newsletter:
We love our authors, and we want to take a chance to highlight some of their other work and upcoming publications! For this first round, we're featuring Billie Karras,
@cc_rayne
, Samantha Ryan, and
@Leaves_Cobwebs
!
We've reached our Kickstarter goal after less than a week! Completely overwhelmed with gratitude for all our backers and everyone who shared and supported this project! Next step: stretch goals!
More TOC announcements!
Starfish by Billie Karras,
There is Something Sleeping in the Mariana Trench; It Dreams of You by
@beedeebrave
, and
Our Yellowed Bones by
@cc_rayne
More TOC announcements!
Sealskins, Daughters, Teeth by
@aardwyrm
A Night on the Andua by Michael Conrad, and
THE REAL GENUINE HONEST-TO-GOD MERMAID by Morgan MacVaugh!
Reminder: THE OFF SEASON, a coastal New Weird horror anthology (by
@dark_matter_ink
) is opening for subs in August! I'm looking for disturbing, briny horror set on the seaside - the weirder the better
🌊🦀🖤🦀 🌊
Submission guidelines below >>
More TOC announcements!
Topside, Topside, Do You Read Me? by
@Amy_E_Casey
,
Everything You Dump Here Ends Up in the Ocean by
@ecoevoexo
and
The Blood We Carry by Annemarie Bennett
Our From the Depths anthology is now available for preorder - published in print and digitally on April 7th. Sea monsters and selkies, pirates, mermaids and more.
Need some spooky inspiration? There are some amazing debut novels out this year! Check out Black Tide by
@PNWScribe
and learn how terrifying the beach can be!
Join us TOMORROW at Central Library for VERSES, a fundraising event that aims to generate money for this literacy service and educate attendees on the importance of adult literacy initiatives in Tulsa County.
Visit to learn more and purchase tickets.
Shadows on the Water Short Stories | Call for Submissions - Uncover the hidden treasures beneath the sea, succumb to the siren call of mermaids, and encounter the liberating spirits that dwell within fountains and waterfalls.
Moon jellies from the Dallas World Aquarium! What spooky secrets hide beneath their ethereal surface? We'd love to see some jellyfish horror stories!
#Submissionsopen
There are a lot of amazing supernatural creatures associated with the water.
@ScaryShelley
loves spooky stories about waterhorses, like Sair Back, Sair Banes by Anthony Engebretson! What are your favorite water monsters?