Dark Chapter Press: Call for submissions

Dark Chapter Press is currently looking for horror submissions. Here’s how to submit your work…

Submissions - General Horror

Dark Chapter Press is currently accepting fiction submissions in the Horror genre for short stories and novellas. Below are the submission requirements for each category so please do check them carefully before sending us your work. We understand that the submissions process can be frustrating and it can seem that publishers have the odds stacked against the author and with that in mind we want to treat you and your work with respect, and to fully consider each piece, weighing it against our development plans to ensure that we are the best people to take your work forward. Our aim is to review each piece in a timely manner, but it may take 6-8 weeks for our small team to process short story and novella pieces. Every submission will get a response.

Content - these guidelines apply to all submissions

What we look for: Imaginative storytelling, where the world you create and the characters who populate it feel real, grip us, and take us along their journey. We want stories with the power to disturb, to break boundaries, to throw away convention. We want writers to be creative, inventive, darkly humorous, gritty and above all, confident and brave. We want writing with a bit of grit to it. If you can write something, sit back and look at it and say: “that has definitely not been done before”, think about sending it to us.

What we are not looking for: Well stuff that’s been done before! We definitely don’t want sequels to Dracula, or alternative versions of classics. We don’t really like vampires that glow or sparkle in the daylight, either. Werewolves fighting vampires is tired now, please leave that alone. How many films have you watched where the strap-line sounded really cool but it turned out it was better than the film? We don’t want the book version of that, so no pointless gimmicks.

Blood, guts and screwing: Graphic subject matter is fine, but there has to be a point to it in the story. We are an adult press; we do want to make it clear that we aren’t just looking for shock tactics or gore and sex thrown in just for the sake of it. Judge the scenes and ask yourself, “Why did I put that in there?” and if you have a good reason for it being there, then it is fair enough.

They also have a call for other submissions so please check out their submission page at:

http://www.darkchapterpress.com/submissions/4585861729

And don't forget to check out their latest competition...

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