You may have read about Psychopomp’s recent reorg, but we are still doing Afterlives 2025: The Year’s Best Death Stories!
Instead of having open subs for authors, we are asking editors to send the deathly stories they published. If you are a writer who had story about death published in 2025, please be in touch with your editor and ask them to send it to us! We have sent submission info to editors, but may not have reached every single editor, it’s true.
Stories should be 1k to 17,500 words in length (shorts to novelettes). Stories should be about death, not slasher horror. Hopefully you know the vibe by now.
For our 2025 edition, Maria Haskins will be picking the final table of contents. Maria Haskins is a Swedish-Canadian writer and reviewer of speculative fiction. She is a non-fiction editor at Ruadán Books, and a fiction editor at Many Worlds. Maria reviews short fiction for Locus Magazine. Her essays and reviews are also available to read at Pyschopomp, Strange Horizons, and Maria’s Reading.
We will be open from February 1 to February 28, 2026.
