Notably-Open Markets: March Edition

I would have started working on this yesterday, but the power was out randomly for several hours. Thanks, PG&E! I’m glad all those rate hikes are helping you to keep doing nothing.

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!)

• After Happy Hour, any, <6K flash/shorts, $15-50 (depends on length), until Apr 30 ’25 [link]
  • Also poetry, $3.33 per
  • Also nonfiction (essay), $10
• Agbowó, any, <5K flash/shorts, NGN 50,000, African writers only, until Apr 30 ’25 [link]
  • Also poetry, NGN 20,000 for 1, NGN 40,000 for multiple
  • Also nonfiction, NGN 50,000
• Aurealis, SFFH, 2-8K shorts, 1 c/word, until Mar 31 ’25 [link]
• Cast of Wonders, YA SFFH (this window is for “seasonal” stories e.g. Halloween, Valentine’s, Christmas, etc), <6K flash/shorts, 8c/word, [link]
• Consumed, horror on food/eating, 1.5-75K words (I think they meant 7.5K? there’s no way they could be asking for a whole novel for an anthology), $20, until May 1 ’25 [link]
• Foglifter Journal, queer writing, <7.5K flash/shorts, $50, queer/trans writers only, until May 1 ’25 [link]
  • Also poetry, $10 per
  • Also nonfiction, $50
• Graveside Press anthologies, horror, 2-6K-ish shorts, 2c/word, [link for all]
  • Cryptids, until Mar 15 ’25
  • Witchcraft, until Mar 31 ’25
  • They also have a “Tiny Terrors” line for short fiction, up to 15K
• Hearth Stories, literary (historical) or fantasy, 1-10K shorts, $20, until Mar 31 ’25 [link]
• manywor(l)ds, any, <1K flash, $10, LGBTQIA2S and disabled/nuerodivergent writers only, until Apr 30 ’25 [link]
• Plott Hound Magazine, speculative animal stories, <5K flash/shorts, 8c/word, until Mar 15 ’25 [link]
  • Also poetry, $10 per
  • Also nonfiction (essay), 1-2.5K, $100
• PULP Literature, any, <20K flash/shorts/novelettes/novellas, 1-3c/word (depends on piece length), until Mar 31 ’25 [link]
  • Also poetry, $25-50 CAD per
• smoke and mold, pieces on what “trans lives bring to our changing nature-culture,” any, $100, trans/2S writers, until Mar 31 ’25 [link]
  • Also poetry
  • Also nonfiction (interview)

Open SOON (later this month)

• Don’t got any this time, sorry 🙁