Spawn 2

Submissions open: 31 July 2023

Deadline: 31 October 2023

Publisher: IFWG Publishing International

Payment: 4c per word for original stories, 1c per word for reprints (Australian currency)

Note: Open to Australasian writers only, where Australasia means Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and the neighbouring islands of the Pacific. This call-out is open to Australasian citizens, residents and ex-pats.

Publication date: 25 November 2024

To be edited by award-winning author and anthology editor, Deborah Sheldon.

Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies will comprise stories from Australasian writers obtained entirely from open callout. On-spec submissions are welcome from Australasian writers of every persuasion including non-parents.

IFWG Publishing is very pleased to announce the contributors to Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies following a long and complex submissions period. Editor Deborah Sheldon has come up with an amazing list of contributors with their stories, and we would like to add that many great stories had to be rejected for various reasons, including how the final slate hangs together.

The Australasian-only contributors (and their story titles) are as follows (in alphabetical order):

Dmitri Akers—’Punch in Hell’
Emma Darcy—’Mother of Horrors’
Matthew R. Davis—’Water is the Womb of the World’
Rachel Denham-White—’The Green Woman’
Jason Franks—’Grizzle’
Rowan Hill—’Leach/Leech’
Samuel M. Johnston—’Chop_Shop’
Carole Kelly—’Respect’
Ben Matthews—’Flesh of My Flesh’
Lily Mulholland—’Body of Work’
Anthony O’Connor—’We Have Children Now’
Robyn O’Sullivan—’Two Sides of a Coin’
Leanbh Pearson—’These Bloody Lanes’
Kat Pekin—’The Stranger in My Yard’
Deryn Pittar—’Too Full’
Danielle Ringrose—’Bitten: A Love Story’
Carol Ryles—’In War with Time for Love of You’
Deborah Sheldon—’The Tea and Sugar Train’ (reprint)
Em Starr —’Stale’
H.K. Stubbs—’Latch’
Matt Tighe—’Envelopes’
Pauline Yates—’The Tenth Life’

Spawn 2: More Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies will be globally released, in print and ebook formats, on 25 November 2024.