Bannister Press

07/19/2025

Responses have been sent to all story submissions received. If you submitted before July 19 and have not received a response, please head to our website and send an inquiry via our Contact page. Thank you and keep submitting!

07/16/2025

Responses have been sent to all submissions received up to and including June 30. If you submitted prior to July 1 and have not heard from us, please visit our website and use the Contact page to inquire about your story's status.

Thank you and keep submitting!

05/26/2025

Responses have been sent to submissions received on or before May 20. If you submitted before May 20 and haven't received a response, please let us know. Keep your submissions coming! 🖤

Send us your stories. We want your fantasy, your weird, and your speculative.
Deadline: August 31, 2025
Pay: $0.08/word
Length: 2500-3500
See website for details.

05/18/2025

Send us your stories. We want your fantasy, your weird, and your speculative.
Deadline: August 31, 2025
Pay: $0.08/word
Length: 2500-3500
See website for details.

05/07/2025

The artist behind the gorgeous cover of Other: the 2024 speculative fiction anthology is a Fear Street Prom Queen!

05/06/2025

"Loved this book! I especially was fascinated by the story that connected the sections of the book written by Altaire Gural. Her writing made me want to cheat and skip ahead to the next section so I could read the next part of the story, rather than wait and read the story parts in the order the editors wanted them read. In the end, I read it the proper way once, and then went back a second time and read all of the parts with no gaps between them. Fascinating story line and characterizations that make you think! All of the stories were enjoyable, but Ms. Gural's was definitely my favorite."
Get your copy of Other today: https://kdp.amazon.com/amazon-dp-action/us/dualbookshelf.marketplacelink/B0DQ67PW3S

03/31/2025

Celebrate Women in Horror with Halli Reid's "The Shape of an Eye." Her father is starving to death. Is it the blight or something else?
http://books2read.com/other2024

03/30/2025

This month celebrate Women's History by reading about the historic women of Kawartha Lakes, like Molly Beall Reilly (1922-1980):

Born Moretta Fenton Beall on February 25, 1922 in Lindsay, Molly wanted to joint the Royal Canadian Air Force as soon as she graduated high school in 1939. �

The RCAF refused her application.

She went on to become an award-winning pilot and the first woman to fly professionally in the Arctic and the first woman in Canada to be promoted to the rank of Captain.

https://books2read.com/historiccitizens

03/29/2025

This month we're looking at the word MARCH found inside Forgotten by A. Gural:

Cecily is mutinous. “I cannot learn under these conditions. Tamsin stole my toast. I’ll not eat a morsel.”

“Morsel’s a good word,” Jane notes, still reading.

Miss Beale glances skyward, breathing deeply and composing herself. Patience of Job and all that. “Cecily, is it wise of you to reject any nourishment at all?” she asks.

“Yes, Miss. Someone has stolen the nourishment of my spirit, and so I reject the nourishment of the physical. I cannot have one without the other.”

“I am certain that no one has stolen your toast,” Miss Beale counters.

Cecily throws the piece of toast she does have directly in Tamsin’s face. “Did you hear that, No One?” she says. “You stole my toast!”

As Miss Beale marches Cecily out of the dining hall, Sarah turns to me. “We could at least tell Miss Beale. You were talking to someone.”

03/28/2025

This month celebrate Women's History by reading about the historic women of Kawartha Lakes, like Dr. Olive Rea:

Olive Maud Rea was born December 11, 1878 in Lindsay and grew up in Ops township. Her family was descended from Reaboro's founder and namesake, Thomas Rea, who came to Canada in 1820.

She was the first woman physician to establish a practice in Kawartha Lakes, and it was located right on Kent Street West in Lindsay.

https://books2read.com/historiccitizens

03/27/2025

Celebrate Women in Horror with Kerry Ryan's "The Thunder Mutters." Sleep deprivation takes its toll on a new mother. Or does it?
http://books2read.com/other2024