Fireside Fiction reopened to submissions April 1 and will remain open until April 30. Noted writer and editor Daniel Jose Older is guest editing  during this submission period, and the stories he chooses will be spread over several issues. Fireside pays 12.5 cents per word. Full details here.

If you write SFF or horror screenplays, the Austin Film Festival’s 2016 Screenplay & Teleplay competition is now open for entries. They accept feature screenplays, short screenplays, television specs, television pilots, and digital series. Their horror and Sci-Fi categories are sponsored and judged by a production company each year.There is an entry fee for this competition, but it is a tiny fraction of the prizes awarded. You can find full details here.