Submission Have Closed

November 30th, 2025 have come and gone.

The submissions deadline date for Exhumed Ottawa: What Lies Beneath, a horror anthology showcasing some of Ottawa's literary talents, is now closed.

This will mark the 4th of Broken Keys Publishing's award-winning anthologies!

Thin Places: The Ottawan Anthology (Faces of Ottawa Awards, Book of the Year 2021)

Love & Catastrophē Poetrē (Faces of Ottawa Awards, Book of the Year 2022)

Ghosts and Other Chthonic Macabres (Faces of Ottawa Awards, Book of the Year 2023)

JJ Wenzel Images Photography's artwork will be featured as the cover.

Guest editor will be Jennifer Kirkwood of The Book's Better Bookshop and Genuine Jenn.

Foreword by Jagjeet Sharma.

Finalists will be announced in the early New Year!