April showers bring May flowers (it rained on me super hard when I walked back from the storm yesterday and now it’s raining again today so it’s perfect being eepy weather).
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!)
- Black Fox Literary Magazine, any, <5K flash/shorts, $20, until May 31 [link]
- Also poetry ($6.67 per)
- Also nonfiction ($20)
- Cast of Wonders, YA SFFH for banned books week theme, <7.5K flash/shorts, 8c/w originals/$20-$100 reprints, until Apr 14 [link]
- Cutleaf, general/literary, <6K flash/shorts, $100, until Apr 15 [link]
- Also poetry ($50 per)
- Also nonfiction ($100)
- Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets, $100 per, college-age students 18-23 only, until May 31 [link]
- Emerge Literary Journal, general/literary, <750 flash, $15, until May 15 [link]
- Also poetry ($3.75 per)
- Also nonfiction ($15)
- Flash Fiction Online, SFFH, 0.5-1K flash, $100, until Apr 30 [link]
- Fraidy Cat Quarterly, horror on growth theme, 0.4-8K flash/shorts, $10-$20, until Apr 7 [link]
- Nocturne Magazine, dark SFFH, <6K flash/shorts, $10, until May 1 [link]
- Not Your Gran’s Erotic Lit, “weird” erotica, <4K flash/shorts, $20 original/$10 reprints, until Apr 30 [link]
- Poet Lore, any type of poetry, any length, $50 per, until May 31 [link]
- Saros Speculative, dystopian/post-apocalyptic, <3K flash/shorts, $40 CAD original/$20 CAD reprints, until Apr 15 (until 22 for marginalized creators), [link]
- Solarpunk Magazine, 1.5-7.5K, 8c/w, until Apr 14 [link]
- Also poetry ($40)
- Also nonfiction ($75)
- Teach. Write., any, <5K flash/shorts, $15, until Aug 31 [link]
- Also poetry ($3.33 per)
- The Audacity, literary essays, 1.5-3K, $1,500, open now, idk when it closes [link]
- The Daily Tomorrow, SF, 2.1-3.5K shorts, 10c/w, no posted close but won’t be open forever, [link]
- The Deadlands, SFFH about death, <5K flash/shorts, 10c/w originals/1c/w reprints, until Jun 30 [link]
- Also poetry ($50 per)
- Also nonfiction ($100)
- The Malahat Review, general/literay, <8K flash/shorts, ~5c/w, until May 31 (Canadians get the rest of the year) [link]
- Also poetry (~$51 per)
- Also nonfiction
- The Orange & Bee (both??? in this economy???), fairy tales, <4K flash/shorts, $80 flash/8c/w longer, until Apr 14 [link]
- Also poetry ($50 per)
- Also nonfiction (same as fiction)
- Translunar Travelers Lounge, SFF, <5K flash/shorts, 3 c/w ($20 min), until Apr 15 [link]
- Trollbreath Magazine, SFF, 1.5-7.5K shorts, 4c/w originals/0.5c/w reprints, until Apr 30 [link]
- Also poetry ($25 per)
- Also nonfiction ($40)
- Utopia Science Fiction, this window is unthemed, 0.1-4K flash/shorts, 8c/w, until May 31 [link]
- Also poetry ($25 per)
- Also nonfiction ($30)
- Women of the Weird West, <5K flash/shorts, 10c/w / $50 for 100 words exactly, authors of marginalized genders only, until Apr 30 [link]
- Also poetry ($50)
Open SOON (later this month)
- Dream Foundry Emerging Writers Contest, SFFH, finished story up to 10K words, prizes range from $400 to $1500, there’s a couple eligibility requirements so make sure to check those out, opens April 7 (idk when it closes) [link]
- Strange Horizons, SFF, <10K flash/shorts, 10c/w, opens Apr 16 [link]
- Taco Bell Quarterly, stuff about Taco Bell, 0.5-1.5K flash/shorts, $100, opens 4/20 😎 [link]
- They also do poetry and art and lots of other weird stuff
