Book Worms Horror Zine – Summer Edition
Pack your poisonous bug spray, your Blair Witch map, and your messiest mess kit—then join us for our campiest issue yet!
This summer, Book Worms Horror Zine is heading to camp, and we want your creepiest, campiest horror stories to share around the fire. We’re talking classic summer scares like Friday the 13th, Sleepaway Camp, and The Evil Dead—but don’t be afraid to blaze your own twisted trail. Conjure a new type of monster crawling up from the pond scum, turn a Kumbaya sing-along into an alien abduction, or dream up something so strange and disturbing we’ll never leave home again.
So…
stoke the fire, sharpen your pencils, and tell us a tale that’ll have us sleeping with one eye open in our sleeping bags.
Submission Guidelines:
Please read ALL before submitting! You’d be amazed (we are) how many great stories are turned away each submission period because writers fail to follow the rules. Please don’t waste your (and our) time and stick to the following…
Deadline: June 15, 2026 (must be received by deadline, so please mail early).
Word Count: 1500 words or less (we mean it).
No reprints, please. Exclusive print rights for six months after publication.
Payment is 8 cents a word for fiction and non-fiction, $25 for poems 20 lines or less.
ACCEPTING MAIL-IN SUBMISSIONS ONLY! (*see exception below)
Mail your submissions to: La Regina Studio/Grundy Commons/925 Canal Street/Bristol, PA 19007
Decision notices are sent through email so there is no need to include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Please include your email address and your mailing address with your submission. All submissions must be typed (cover letters preferred but not mandatory) and be properly formatted. Also, if you have a social media presence, please include those beneath your email.
Be sure to:
- Send only one submission, meaning don’t send multiple short stories or poems or a combination of both. Send only one piece and send your best.
- DO NOT send your submissions using registered mail or any kind of correspondence requiring a signature. It probably won’t get to us and you’ll be wasting your money.
- *If you’ve had work previously published in Book Worms (you know who you are) you may email your submission to bookwormssubmissions@gmail.com (same deadline) Please write Returning Author Submission in the subject line.
- Please use the EXACT mailing address listed above. Please don’t write Book Worms on the address. This is a side project and our mailman might get confused. The mailbox is in a huge industrial complex and unfortunately, letters have gotten lost in the past, so please follow the instructions and mail as early as possible.
We can’t wait to gather ‘round the fire and read your tales. Curious what’s lurked in our pages before? Check out Book Worms Horror Zine.
R. Saint Claire 