Submissions open: 00:01am on 15th March 2022
Submissions close: 11:59pm on 29th March 2022
Reaper Press is a new and exciting folk horror publishing press which aims to explore the torment and misery in the local and mundane. Our first publication will come in the form of an eBook anthology focusing on being haunted by our childhoods. Does your childhood bogeyman still haunt your dreams? Can you recall a local legend which still chills you to the bone? We at Reaper Press are searching for all of that and more.
We are looking for either prose or poetry submissions which follow the theme of haunted childhoods, inspired by all the things that go bump in the night.
This could include but is not limited to:
- Your childhood
- Childhood experiences of local legends/hauntings
- Internet history and lore (e.g., Creepypasta)
- Relics and creepy childhood nostalgia
- Archaic technology (e.g., VHS tapes/cassettes/computers)
- Forgotten time
- Childhood innocence and naivety
We welcome diversity in the form and content of submissions.
Submissions:
Submissions must be entirely your own and unpublished. Submissions can be under consideration elsewhere; however, we do ask for you to notify us if you are successful elsewhere. Submissions must be in English.
Please submit to reaperpress1@gmail.com.
Please note that we will only be accepting submissions from contributors based in the United Kingdom.
Attach your submission to the email in Word Doc format only.
In the body of your email, please provide a title and an author bio of no more than 100 words.
We would love to know:
- Author name and pronouns
- Your interests
- Where you are from
- Any previous publications
- A vector that you feel encapsulates your submission (optional)
For our first publication we are delighted to be collaborating with York St. John University for their symposium on Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children’s Fictions. Contributors to the anthology may be approached to be involved in this event for a reading of their work. Please let us know if this is something you would like to be involved with.
Please see individual category guidelines below for further details:
Prose:
- Non-fiction and essays
- Fiction including short stories, excerpts and flash fiction
- Maximum of 1000 words
Poetry:
- Any form
- Maximum of 30 lines
You can submit only one piece. Either of prose or poetry.
There are no submission fees and there will be no commission for successful submissions.
Successful applicants will be notified via email no later than the end of April.
We look forward to reading your work!
Grace, Hannah, Lily & Olivia
The Reaper Press team.