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Open for submissions

For one day only we’re taking submissions – anything science fiction and fantasy. Flash to 1,500 words, short stories to 5,000 words and novelllas between 20-40,000 words. Guidelines and pay rates on our submissions page. February 1st. Send us your creative best, Wyldblood 17 Wyldblood 17 is available now buy from us or from Amazon…

Friday already?

We’re one week way from brand new Flash fiction on the website – in the meantime, plenty more stories for free at http://www.wyldblood.com As the new month approaches we’re close to opening for new fiction submissions too – one day only, on the first day of the month – check the website for details. We…

Friday update

No new story THIS week but we do still have (for one more week only) one of our longer stories from Wyldblood Magazine on the site for free – after next week you’ll have to buy the magazine to read it. So check out Flying Takes Heart by Adrienne Canino at wyldblood.com (or buy the…

Free Friday Fiction from Wyldblood

This fine story’s been stuck behind a paywall until now – this is the first time it’s been published online for free. You can buy it in all its printed glory (with eight other excellent tales) in Wyldblood 12 Flying Takes Heart Adrienne Canino The dragon saw a ridge of mountains that plunged into icy…

Wyldblood Friday Update

Wev’e got new fiction coming soon, but to whet your appetite, here’s a fine story from our archives… The Hanging Vine Leila Murton Poole You didn’t believe me about the fairies, Papa. The ones that hummed over the water, catching sunlight in their wings. Dragonflies, you called them. You didn’t believe me about the sea…

Wyldblood Friday Update – what’s new for 2026

Happy New Year everyone – here’s the first of this year’s Friday updates. Once we’ve got the holiday period out of our system we’ll try and limit ourselves to a weekly Friday post/email, though we may miss a week, and we may slip an extra one in if we get really excited about something or…

New Year’s Dawn

A seasonal short story by Ash Jones We touch down on Planet Alpha in darkness, just as the bad news from Earth filters in. We’d been expecting it, of course, but no-one really believes that Armageddon will really happen, until it does. We should have been whooping and hollering, but instead the tiny cabin is…

Merry Christmas from Wyldblood Press

Looking Back By Jane Saunders Trembling fingers reseal the parcels, fusing together the crumpled, patterned paper. Gift tags and ribbons swarm out from an impossibly tangled pile, unravelling and attaching themselves to the smooth surfaces with careful precision. Then, excited hands replace the parcels underneath a brightly lit tree. More and more of these parcels…

Wyldblood 17 is out now!

We’re finishing 2025 in style with a new Wyldblood Magazine and a brand new novella by Karl Dandenell. Both available now! Wyldblood 17 Wyldblood 17 is available now buy from us or from Amazon Eight brand new science fiction and fantasy stories in our latest 114 page anthology. Available in all digital formats and in…

A seasonal short story from Wyldblood Press – Merry Christmas.

We’re launching a new Wyldblood Magazine this week – #17 features eight brand new science fiction and fantasy stories, including this one, which were offering here for free as a Christmas present and a taster to Karl’s new novella – Between the Stars I Found Her. So if you like his Christmas tale, check out…

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