Happy turkey month, y’all
Info
For a market to be “notable,” it needs to be a window that just opened or will open soon (as in, sometime this month). It needs to be a limited window and not a place you can submit to every day of the year.
For a market to be shared, it has to meet my minimums for a market I’m comfortable recommending. This means:
- No submission fees, or there’s an exception to fees that is reasonable-enough to qualify for (e.g. sub early enough, specific demographics, etc.)
- Pay for work, or is unpaid but is a unique opportunity (i.e. for charity, hyper-niche fanzine)
- Any kind of adaption/format is okay (print, anthologies, web, audio, etc.), except crypto/NFT-bullshit
- Absolutely no AI of any sort
- No AI images, including social media posts
- No tolerance of AI-generated works
- I mostly go by what I see on their site, their submission guidelines, and their responses to my emails, if I can’t tell/need clarification
- They are respectful, professional, and not hateful
- Good contracts, they keep their word, etc
- No TERFs, Nazis, etc. or places that knowingly platform such people/views
- They treat your data with respect (e.g. no sharing/selling, basic security features on website, etc.)
- The focus of these lists will be fiction, since that’s what I mostly write. Some markets also do poetry and non-fiction, but those will not be the focus of these posts
Markets!
In no particular order…
Format:
- Market, genre (unless the market name makes it obvious), lengths/types, pay, window info [link to submission guidelines]
Open NOW
(Note: Some places scheduled to open on the 1st might not have the switch flipped just yet, so check back later, if needed!)
- Fever Dreams, horror, 2-8K shorts, 8 c/w, until Nov 14 ’24 [link]
- Shatter the Sun, queer sword and sorcery, <6K shorts, 8 c/w, until Jan 15 ’25 [link] (scroll down to find it)
- The press is also doing: We’re Here, SFFH stories that “explores queerness and/or transness” originally printed in 2024, <17.5K shorts/novelettes, 1 c/w, until Dec 31 ’24 [link] (scroll down)
- Khoreo, SFFH, only accepts “writers who identify as immigrants or members of a diaspora in the broadest definition of the terms”, current theme is “symbiosis,” <5K shorts, 10 c/w, until Nov 30 ’24 [link]
- Myriad, SFF “nocturnal” theme, <1K flash, $20 CAD, until Nov 30 ’24 [link]
- Their “kinship” theme will be open until Nov 8 ’24 for BIPOC authors as well. Same details but $18 CAD
- After Happy Hour, any, <5K-ish reprint shorts from “defunct markets” (aka is no longer available), $10, until Jan 31 ’25 but get in quick if you want a fee-free sub [link]
- Allegory, SFFH (or others if it’s original/”quirky”), <5K shorts, $15, until Dec 31 ’24 [link]
- Apparition Lit Flash Fic, SFF on/about “stews, soups, and curries”, <1K flash, $30, until Nov 14 ’24 [link]
- Augur and Tales and Feathers are both currently in their special demographics window (BIPOC, trans, and/or disabled writers who are also Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and/or living in what is known as “Canada”). They have slightly different tones/wordcounts but both pay 14 c/w CAD, until Nov 15 ’24 [link]
- Dracula Beyond Stoker, Dracula is public domain so legally it’s not fanfiction lol this window is about Jonathan Harker, 1.5-5K shorts, 5 c/w, until Dec 31 ’24 [link]
- Gasher Press, hybrid poetry chapbooks, this is for an advance + royalties so no idea what that’ll look like (but it’s more than $0!), until Jan 31 ’25 [link]
- Hexagon, SFFH, <10K shorts/novelettes, 1 c/w CAD, until Nov 7 ’24 [link]
- Kaleidotrope, SFFH but also hard to categorize stuff, 0.25-10K shorts, 1 c/w, until Nov 30 ’24 [link]
- PodCastle, Fantasy, <6K shorts, 8 c/w original $20 or $100 reprints (based on length), until Nov 30 ’24 [link]
- Stone’s Throw, “Jingle Bell Rock” theme, 1-2K shorts, 1 c/w, until Nov 4 ’24 [link]
- Stories on Flame, SFFH inspired by Blue Oyster Cult, 3-5K shorts, $25, until Dec 31 ’24 [link]
- The Deadlands, SFFH about death, <5K shorts, 10 c/w original 1 c/w reprints, until Dec 31 ’24 [link]
- The Orange & Bee, fairy tales, <4K shorts, $80 for flash, 8 c/w shorts, until Nov 13 ’24 [link]
- Triangulation Anthology, SFFH “women anti-heroes” theme, <5K shorts, 3 c/w, until Jan 31 ’25 [link]
- Utopia Science Fiction, Xeno-linguistics, 0.1-4K shorts, but open to longer if it fits the theme, 8 c/w, until Jan 31 ’25 [link]
- Drabblecast, mostly SFFH but anything that’s “weird”, 0.5-4K shorts (takes shorter, but unpaid), 6 c/w original 3 c/w reprints, no set end date for this window [link]
- Small Wonders, SFFH, <1K flash, 10 c/w, no set end date for this window but is only for reprints [link]
Open SOON (later this month)
- Frost Zone, “dark literary fiction,” 1.8-3.8K shorts (+/- 200 words, “if needed”), $15 CAD, Nov 2 – 16 ’24 [link]
- The Skull & Laurel, SFFH New Weird, 0.1-4.9K flash/shorts, 3 c/w originals $25 reprints, Nov 2 – 7 ’24 “marginalized writers” ONLY for this window [link]
- Weird Horror Magazine, 0.5-5K shorts, 2 c/w, Nov 2 – 14 ’24 [link]
- Cursed Morsels, “creature in the bathroom,” <0.5K flash, 10 c/w, Nov 15 – 22 ’24 [link]
