January has been one hell of a month. If you didn’t write anything or felt up to submitting, that’s okay! If you still don’t, that is also okay! But writing can serve as a type of defiance as well.
You know yourself best, so do what you can, but don’t be afraid to channel your rage into action.
I’m also making an effort to include more poetry and nonfiction, to be useful for all sorts of writers (and writers who might want to expand into other forms!)
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 needs 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.)
- You’re paid for your work. Unpaid opportunities will be included if sufficiently unique (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, but there’ll be some poetry and nonfiction as well!
Markets!
In no particular order…
Format:
- Market, genre (unless the market name makes it obvious), lengths/types, pay, limited demographics (if relevant), 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!)
- Aurealis, SFFH, 2-8K shorts, $20-60 AUD per 1K words, Australian/New Zealand only, until Feb 28 ’25 [link]
- Bothered stories, erotica, <=5K flash/shorts, 10 c/w or $100 for “just the sex” pieces, no stated window close [link]
- Brick Books, full-length poetry collections, exact payment unknown, Canadians/”landed immigrants living in Canada” only, until May 31 ’25 [link]
- Disability Anthology, any, but most be about disability (please see page for specifics), <=3K flash/shorts, $500 AUD, disabled/neurodivergent writers only [link]
- Also poetry, 200 lines max
- Also nonfiction (creative)
- Flame Tree Fiction Newsletter, SF on theme “synthetic souls,” <=1K flash, 8 c/w [link] (sign up for their newsletter if you want to know the theme as soon as it’s announced, along with announcements of their anthologies!)
- Flash Fiction Online, any, 500-1K flash, $100, until Feb 28 ’25 [link]
- Flash Frog, any, <=1K flash, $25, until Jun 30 ’25 [link]
- Flash Point SF, SFF, 100-1K flash, 2 c/w, until Mar 31 ’25 [link]
- Gordon Square Review, any, <=5K flash/shorts, $25, until Apr 1 ’25 [link]
- Also poetry, $25 per
- Also nonfiction (essays), $25
- Haven Spec, SFFH, <=6K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, until Feb 28 [link]
- It Was Paradise, life on “the other side” of the climate crisis, <=20K flash/shorts/noevelettes/novellas, 15 c/w, until Jun 23 ’25 [link]
- Also poetry, any length, $75/page
- Also nonfiction (creative)
- Merganser Magazine, any, no max word count stated, 8 c/w, no clear closing date (this place is very new, so there’s a lot of unknowns!) [link]
- Also poetry, $1/line
- Also nonfiction (any/general?)
- Modern Mummies, stories with a modern take on the “mummy genre” (please see page for lotsa specifics), 1.5-5K shorts, 5 c/w, until Feb 28 ’25 [link]
- Planet Scumm, SFF, <=5K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, until May 7 ’25 [link]
- Red Line: Chicago Horror Stories, must be set within the Chicago city limits, 1-5K shorts, 5 c/w, writers who currently or have lived in the counties around Chicago (please see page for specifics), until Feb 28 ’25 [link]
- (s)crawl, horror, 1-5K shorts, $20, until May 30 ’25 [link]
- Also poetry
- And nonfiction (articles/essays)
- Solstita, “all things genre (even literary)”, <=20K flash/shorts/novelettes/novellas, $50, until Feb 28 ’25 [link]
- Also poetry
- Southword Journal, any, <=5K flash/shorts, 300 EU, until Feb 28 ’25 [link]
- Also poetry, 50 EU per
- SpecPoVerse, SFF poetry, <=100 lines or <500 words per, $5 per, until Mar 31 ’25 [link]
- The Baltimore Review, any, <=5K flash/shorts, $50, until May 31 ’25 [link]
- Also poetry, $50 for three
- Also nonfiction (creative), $50
- The Diana Woods Memorial Award in Creative Nonfiction, <=3.5K flash/shorts, $250, until Feb 28 ’25 [link]
- Worlds of Possibility, uplifting SFF, <=5K flash/shorts, 10 c/w, until Feb 17 ’25 [link]
- Also poetry, $50 per
- Wrath Month, SFFH on punk and queer rage, <=6K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, until Jun 1 ’25 [link]
Open SOON (later this month)
- Springtime on Story Street, any, <=100 word micros, $25, Feb 14 – 28 ’25 [link]
