Grimly Dinge: Open Call Dickinson Publishing Group Gold Star Program Gold Star Free

Dickinson Publishing Group (DPG) is currently accepting short story submissions for its new horror fiction site, Grimly Dinge.

PAY: $20 per story

WORD COUNT: 0-4500

SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: Rolling

PUBLICATION DATE: Weekly

MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS: Up to 3

SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: Sure, just let us know if you get accepted somewhere else

REPRINTS: No

WHAT KIND OF STORIES DO WE PUBLISH?
The first anthology we published had stories about: a man who kills himself so his family gets his life insurance payout; a woman hallucinating (or maybe actually seeing) the rat manifestations of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph; an over-industrialized town in which people cannot die until a new priest is appointed to the village church; a several-thousands-year-old horse transporting a boy back in time to see the horse’s many bloody murders; all the petroleum products in the world disintegrating all at once, bringing about civilizational collapse; a young bible salesman discovering a woman presumed to have been killed during the Puritan era, still alive and more enthusiastic about selling bibles than him; and, a girl who binds her corsets so tight that all her children are deformed (which is fine by her, because she rents them out to a traveling circus).

If your story falls anywhere in there—basically, if it’s weird AF—this is the place. Break taboos, offend people, make your characters unlikeable, treasonous little shits, or Cronenbergian nightmares—as long as your story’s well-written, your phantasmagoria, body horror, and general freakery are all welcome here.

One last thing. If you’re submitting a werewolf, vampire, or zombie story, it’d better be so bizarre and original that it bears no resemblance to those dusty old tropes. Like, a coyote slowly turning into an old human man and going insane once he realizes he can’t go back to the wild. Or a vampire that tries to kill herself by drinking gasoline, only to discover she has evolved the same physiological need for petrol she once had for blood. WEIRD.