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Indie Press - est. 2023 - Tulsa Oklahoma

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We're open for submissions! Our next anthology's theme is: Flora and Fungi!
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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!
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TOMORROW!! Launch party!! Woo hooo!!!!
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So far, we've received 350 submissions! We're loving reading through them! Y'all are so talented 🍄🌼🌿
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TOMORROW is the last day to submit! Send us your "fishiest" stories! #submissionsopen
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We had an amazing time @GhoulishBooks Festival in San Antonio! Spooky people are the best people!
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Woohoo submissions are OPEN! See our site for more details and submission form. Looking forward to seeing your stories! #submissionsopen #horror @ScaryShelley @shopwhittybooks @JesMcCutchen
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And.... submissions are closed! We received over 200 submissions for our first call, and we're so excited to read all your spooky stories!
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We're so excited to present our cover! Spooky, ominous, and colorful! More updates coming soon!
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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! 🍄🌿🌻
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@hornsandrattles
Horns and Rattles Press
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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!
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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!
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We're open for submissions! Our next anthology's theme is: Flora and Fungi!
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We close tomorrow at midnight, last place on earth! (Extended deadline for marginalized voices: December 2nd)
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Horns and Rattles Press
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We're open for submissions! Our next anthology's theme is: Flora and Fungi!
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@hornsandrattles
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One week left for general submissions! Looking for inspiration? Check out Chlorophobia from @PressOrchid ! ed. by A.R. Ward
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@hornsandrattles
Horns and Rattles Press
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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!
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Author Reveal! 2/4 Bitter Becomes the Fields includes stories from Cliff Mcnish, Valerie Hunter, Shantell Powell, @_gail_guerrero and @JenLRossman !
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@hornsandrattles
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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!!
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@ScaryShelley just picked up this spooky sea-themed anthology from @BrigidsGate edited by @curiositybooked ! What spooky water-themed books are you reading?
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Author Reveal! 3/4 Next up, we have stories from @amayahperveen , Addison Smith, @flameswallower , @avramargariti , and @CrocollSmith !
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Author Reveal 4/4 Finally, Bitter Becomes the Fields includes stories from @djchan08 , Jessica Lynn, @jen_lesh_fleck , @freydis_moon , @Beth_Goder , and Alexandra Fitzpatrick!
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@hornsandrattles
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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.
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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 Be sure and sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date!
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We're up on Goodreads now! If you liked the book, please consider reviewing!
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Love the display @shopwhittybooks ! Buy now in-store or online!
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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. ❤️🦈❤️🐙❤️
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@hornsandrattles
Horns and Rattles Press
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Love these amazing tote bags!!
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About seven more weeks to send us your underwater spooky stories! Rivers? Oceans? Lakes? Puddles? Make us scared to get a drink of water!
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Horns and Rattles Press
2 years
Woohoo submissions are OPEN! See our site for more details and submission form. Looking forward to seeing your stories! #submissionsopen #horror @ScaryShelley @shopwhittybooks @JesMcCutchen
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Check out this seriously cool call from @TenebrousPress !
@TenebrousPress
Tenebrous Press
1 year
🤖☠️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
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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!
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Horns and Rattles Press
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Everyone's invited to our launch party @shopwhittybooks ! We're so excited to send our first anthology out into the world!
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Just one more month! Send your roots and mycelial networks our way!
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We're open for submissions! Our next anthology's theme is: Flora and Fungi!
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Horns and Rattles Press
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Congrats to Fish Gather to Listen contributor @ecoevoexo and all the other authors!
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omg my story "Everything You Dump Here Ends Up in the Ocean" made the shortlist!! 🐚🛢️🌊☣️
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@hornsandrattles
Horns and Rattles Press
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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.
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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!
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Horns and Rattles Press
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Can you believe it's December? The extended deadline for marginalized writers is tomorrow (December 2nd) at midnight, last place on earth!
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@hornsandrattles
Horns and Rattles Press
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Less than a week until our launch party! If you're in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area, come and meet us!
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Here's some terrifying inspiration for our Flora and Fungi call!
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@hornsandrattles
Horns and Rattles Press
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We'll be hanging out at the Small Press Fair! If you're in the Tulsa area, come say hi! @shopwhittybooks
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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! 🐟🦈🐠
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Holy Halibut! Only 2.5 weeks left to get us your spooky water stories! #submissionsopen
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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
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More TOC announcements! Sea People by @amongthegoblins , From Stagnant Waters by @Katecanwrite , and From the River the Penny Dropped by @KT_Wagner !
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Contributors @Leaves_Cobwebs and @TiffeBrown and editor @ScaryShelley have poems in Under Her Eye from @blackspotbooks !
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Final TOC announcement! Singing Sweetly Through Your Veins by @TiffeBrown and Naiad by @Leaves_Cobwebs !
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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 !
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Horns and Rattles Press
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We had a blast! We'll be back from 12 to 5 tomorrow!
@shopwhittybooks
Whitty Books
1 year
The small press fair is happening now! Stop by from 12-5 to meet The RoadRunner Press, @forktinepress , @pennycandybooks , @hornsandrattles , @GhoulishBooks , and shop a selection of our favorite small press titles 📚
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@hornsandrattles
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Hello everyone! To clarify, this is a short fiction anthology. We love poetry, but will not be accepting any poems for this collection. 🌵🌼🍄
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@hornsandrattles
Horns and Rattles Press
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📢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:
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@hornsandrattles
Horns and Rattles Press
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Today is the day!!
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Horns and Rattles Press
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Everyone's invited to our launch party @shopwhittybooks ! We're so excited to send our first anthology out into the world!
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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 !
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It's almost time for #tulsalitfest !! This weekend at @shopwhittybooks ! Come hang out with us and learn about other amazing small presses! #shopindie
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Everyone's invited to our launch party @shopwhittybooks ! We're so excited to send our first anthology out into the world!
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We passed our first stretch goal! Bonus digital content for all backers!
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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!
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Sneak peek of the cover art by local Tulsa artist Dustin Charles!
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Happening in just under an hour! Come swim with us!
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Join us this Sunday at 2pm CST for the Digital Launch Party! Registration at link below:
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Thank you so much to our 113 backers! We're deeply grateful for your support, and we can't wait to share these incredible stories with you all!
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More TOC announcements! Daughter of the Sea by Hope Kidd, Itself by @JanMFlynnAuthor and Cirrata by @hartless_k !
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@hornsandrattles
Horns and Rattles Press
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TODAY
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TOMORROW!! Launch party!! Woo hooo!!!!
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Today is the final day! 🐙🌊🦈🐡
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TOMORROW is the last day to submit! Send us your "fishiest" stories! #submissionsopen
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Horns and Rattles Press
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We'll be there!
@GhoulishBooks
Ghoulish Books
10 months
So, who's getting ghoulish with us in March?
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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
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Horns and Rattles Press
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It's our first #wihm and #InternationalWomensDay ! @ScaryShelley @auntjes and Victoria @shopwhittybooks are three spooky ladies who started a small press this year! Check us out, and submit your horror stories to our first anthology! #submissionsopen #smallpress #writehorror
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We had such a lovely time!! Thank you to everyone who could attend!!
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Happening in just under an hour! Come swim with us!
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Walloping Whales! We're less than 200 dollars from our second stretch goal! There's just one week left to pledge!
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Update: Square is down at the moment :( Hopefully, it will be back up and processing orders soon!
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Love the display @shopwhittybooks ! Buy now in-store or online!
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A little fish told me the Kickstarter officially launches tomorrow! 🐙🐟🐠
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Follow us on Kickstarter! We'll be launching soon!
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We're at 99 backers!! Just 66 hours left to get in on some amazing rewards!
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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!
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Just popped onto that sky site. Come grow with us!
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Awesome call for coastal horror from @dark_matter_ink edited by @Marissavu !
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🌿🍄 Marissa van Uden 🪸🦑 (semi-hiatus)
1 year
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 >>
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More TOC announcements! Pastorale by @cormackbaldwin and @IcelandicRain , A Fish-Eaten Grin by Gabrielle Bleu, and Boat by Heath Mensher!
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Looking for a collection of spooky shorts? Check out The Deep from @PressOrchid !
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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
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So creepy!!!
@HungryShadow1
Hungry Shadow Press
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ICYMI: This week's Deadly Drabble Tuesday! Today’s foul fable from @ecoevoexo will really get under your skin. READ IT:
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Horns and Rattles Press
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Thank you to everyone who came to our launch party! It was wildly successful!
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Horns and Rattles Press
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Merch table! Great turn out for the launch party so far!
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Horns and Rattles Press
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We did have a few emails bounce back, so if you haven't heard from us, please email us.
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Horns and Rattles Press
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A new anthology from a very cool publisher!
@WyldbloodPress
Wyldblood Press
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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.
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Horns and Rattles Press
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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!
@SCLSNJ
SCLSNJ
2 years
Need a new horror author to read? Check out the nominees for the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards for Superior Achievement in a First Novel! @IAmEEAdams , @isabelcanas_ , @PNWScribe , @ChristiNogle , @UnheimlichManvr . Learn more here:
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@teresa_ardrey @writerlynds Yes, send us your spooky underwater horror!
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Horns and Rattles Press
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We're here!! Come hang with us!!
@tulsalibrary
Tulsa Library
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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.
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Horns and Rattles Press
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Fish Gather to Listen Virtual Launch Party! Join us September 24th, 2pm CST. Registration below!
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Horns and Rattles Press
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Submissions open tomorrow! Get excited! #submissions #horror #horrorwriters
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Horns and Rattles Press
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Here's another call for spooky water stories!
@flametreepress
Flame Tree Press Team
1 year
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.
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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
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@ianlovegregori Hello! We're currently working on horror anthologies, but we may branch into other genres in the future!
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Looking for inspiration for #underwaterhorror ? Check out amazing nonfiction like The Brilliant Abyss by Helen Scales! #WritingCommunity #submissions
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Horns and Rattles Press
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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?
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@spicycloaca Yay!! I (HV) love oarfish and oarfish-adjacent entities!!
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