OPEN CALL: Season's Grievings
- catvoleur
- May 9
- 2 min read
SEASON'S GRIEVINGS: HOLIDAY TRAVEL STORIES GONE WRONG
Missing your flight is scary. So is sleeping in your childhood bedroom with cousins you can’t remember. Are your old band posters talking to you, or is that the ghost of Chanukah’s past?
DEADLINE:
June 6th 2025
WORDCOUNT:
1,000 -- 7,000 words
PAYMENT:
Payment is tiered based on word count.
1000-3000 words=$20,
>3000-5000 words=$30,
>5000-7000 words=$40
WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR:
Please send us your horror, thriller, and suspense stories about holiday travel. We are interested in publishing stories set around a variety of cultural holidays and traditions.
Take us into the mind of a sinister flight attendant on Christmas Eve. Show us the monsters who stalked ancient Winter Solstice festival-goers. Place us in the middle of a serial killer’s game while on a seniors-only cruise. Give us psychological terror while frying latkes in Grandma’s kitchen. Dazzle us with bonfires and fireworks and arson on New Year’s Eve.
PLEASE DON'T SEND
We are not interested in stories that perpetuate stereotypes of gender, race, religion, nationality, ability, or sexuality or that minimize or glorify abuse, violence, or colonialism, including Zionism.
We are not interested in stories made with the help of AI.
REPRINTS?
No
MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS?
No
SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS?
Yes, but please withdraw if the story is accepted somewhere else
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
If you have questions or need to withdraw your story because another publisher has accepted it, please email editor@rofpublishinghouse.com.
FORMATTING GUIDELINES:
We request submissions to be Google Docs or Word documents in Shunn modern manuscript format.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
RIGHTS REQUESTED
ROF Publishing House requests First North American Serial Rights and First Electronic and Digital Rights.