Special Issue: Halloween (Creative Nonfiction)
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Sweet’s Halloween Special Issue
Deadline: Sept 15
Submissions should be no longer than 1500 words.
To celebrate Halloween 2026, Sweet is calling for submissions to a Nonfiction Halloween Special Issue. And we’ll choose one essay to win a spooky prize.
We’re looking for your true spooky stories, told well.
All categories of the creepy, unexplained, ghostly, paranormal, macabre, otherworldly, uncanny and unsettling are welcome–as long as they are compelling and true. We are open to all forms of creative nonfiction and are eager to see creative intersections of the paranormal. What does a paranormal nature essay look like? Or fragments of the unexplainable? The uncanny memoir? The otherworldly personal essay?
Scare us, humor us, compel us to think beyond the self…and the grave? ::insert creepy laughter::.