WRITERS GUIDELINES

We are looking for original, horror, dark mystery and suspense short stories up to 10,000 words. Please query for longer material. We want tales that are powerful and emotional, but that are also creepy, chilling and disturbing. Dark suspense, sci-fi, fantasy, mystery and crime fiction are also welcome as are supernatural and psychological tales.

Particular attention will be given to submissions where character building and evocative language is used to create the story. In other words, we are not just after blood and gore if there is no plot behind your work.

It should be noted that whilst all subjects will be considered, submissions which promote prejudice for any reason, or which include violence/abuse towards children will not be considered.

SUBMISSION FORMAT: Electronic submissions can be emailed as long as they are sent as an attached file (rtf) to benzoof@silvertorpedo.com. Please put the word SUBMISSION in the title. Authors details, and email address must be included in the submission as well as a short bio. All submissions that do not follow the submission format will not be considered.

RESPONSE TIME: Average 1 month.

PAYMENT: We are a new venture so unfortunately cannot afford to pay authors at this moment in time. Hopefully this will change in the future.

We are usually open to submissions all year round.

ARTIST GUIDELINES

We are still working on the details for this section. We will keep you posted.

POETRY GUIDELINES

We are after original dark literary poems that stir the emotions and are no longer than 32 lines in length. These should be sent by email as an RTF attachment to We are open to submissions year round.