Here are all the winning stories from five years of The Alien Buddha’s Horror Showdown!
2025: The Call Shift by NJ Gallegos ☕🏥🧟♀️
2024: Everything and the Kitchen Sink by Cheyanne Brabo 🔥🚰👻
2023: The Madness of George Pollard Regarding the Return of the Whaling Ship Essex and the Great Fire of 1846 by Jonathan Gensler 🐋🚢🔥
2022: The Fruits of Her Labor by NJ Gallegos 🍎🔪👁️
2021: Femme Fatale & The Gun by Kelsey Bryan Zwick 🕷️🖤🔫
https://t.co/hGYlFeNZmi
The Alien Buddha’s House of Horrors 9 & The Alien Buddha’s 2026 Horror Showdown
New for 2026:
• Word limit increased to 5,000 words
• Past judges may submit stories two years after serving as a judge
• Grand prize increased to $450
Deadline: September 21, 2026
Accepting horror stories across all subgenres.
Send your story as a Word document attachment to [email protected]
Include a third-person author bio, a short synopsis, and a link to your social media.
SURPRISE (again)! NECKSNAP has collab'd with the folks at You Are Not Alone to bring you a very special issue of Internet Horror, out now for your reading pleasure! short stories from the three editors, as well as some friends of the mag. 🖤 read it all at https://t.co/y9WimY5Wbk
SURPRISE! We are launching our first ever contest, the Emerging Voices in Speculative Horror Prize, in collaboration with M E N A C E! 🖤🦇 $300 GRAND PRIZE awarded to one first place winner!
Subs open May 15 - June 15. Full details at https://t.co/FykD8ESJlt.
General Submissions for Translunar Travelers Lounge are open. We are looking for speculative fiction stories, 5000 words or fewer. Please read the guidelines. We're looking forward to them! https://t.co/33GjikhHKc
Original flash fiction...
Original short fiction...
Original poetry...
Plus interviews with seriously cool people!
We published three issues in 2025! Give them a read!
https://t.co/5EShhcfpz7
Vulnerary Magazine will be closing 4/1/2026. Thank you for years of support and beautiful work; please read our closing statement.
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💊 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 💊
Want to scream about your asthma? Frustrated that your anxiety never gives you time off? PBP is open for #poetry, #prose, #art, and #photography submissions until March 7th that focuses all on those feelings!
Website: https://t.co/P38YY2yy97
Today is the day to submit a short story for THE SHINING anthology, if so inclined. You have until midnight; otherwise, the doors to the OVERLOOK close.
MetaStellar's spring submission cycle opens on midnight! We're looking for original, never-published sci-fi, fantasy, and horror stories of up to 1,200 words in length, and we pay 10 cents a word for accepted stories!
https://t.co/J82hFT5v7m
ISSUE THREE: FRINGE. SUBS OPEN MARCH 1 - MARCH 15.
[new mission statement. new sub form. new author interview. all on our website. more posts to come.]
Orion’s Belt is now open for submissions until May 15! 🚀 We are accepting speculative fiction, micro fiction, poetry, translations, and reviews!
For more information on submitting, including the link to our Duosuma submission manager 👉https://t.co/r44ns0JZRQ