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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!)
- Allegory, SFFH (or anything original/”quirky”), <= 5K flash/shorts, $15, until Jun 30 [link]
- Also nonfiction, about writing in some way
- Anomaly, dark SF, <= 300 flash, 8 c/w, until May 7 [link]
- Bourbon Penn, fantasy/slipstream/”imagination and the odd”, 2-7.5K shorts, 4 c/w, until Aug 31 [link]
- Dream Thoery Media, speculative or literary, 0.3-1K flash, $30, until May 23 [link]
- Gasher Press, poetry chapbooks, any length, unknown payment, until Jul 31 [link]
- Heartlines Spec, SFF about long-term relationships, 0.5-3.5K flash/shorts, 8 c/w CAD, until May 31 [link]
- Also poetry, $60 CAD per
- Nocturne Magazine, dark SFFH, <= 6K flash/shorts, $10, until ??? (unsure of windows, but they are doing it by issue, so it’ll probably close at SOME point) [link]
- Planet Scumm, SFF, <= 5K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, until May 7 [link]
- rainy weather days, works about “defiance,” 1.5-15K shorts/novelettes, $25, until Jun 26 [link]
- Also poetry, $2 per
- Also nonfiction
- SpecPoVerse, SFF poems, <500 lines, $5 per, until Jun 30 [link]
- The Cincinnati Review, any, <= 10K flash/shorts/novelettes, 2 c/w, until May 31 [link]
- Also poetry, $30/page
- Also nonfiction
- The Cosmic Background, slipstream, <= 1.5K flash/shorts, 8 c/w (3 c/w for reprints), until ??? [link]
- Also poetry, $100 per
- The Deadlands, poetry about dead/the afterlife, any, $50 per, until May 21, [link]
- They have a fiction window that’s still open, too (10 c/w)
- The Malahat Review, any, <= 8K flash/shorts/novelettes, $70 CAD/page, this window allows non-Canadian writers, until May 31, [link]
- Also poetry
- Also nonfiction (bio, memoir, essay, travel writing, “historical account”)
- The Stinging Fly, any, any, 45 EU/page (with a 325 EU min), until May 15, [link]
- Also poetry (75 EU min)
- Also nonfiction
- Three-Lobed Burning Eye, SFFH, 500 > & <7.5K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, until May 15, [link]
- Ubwali Literary Magazine, any, 3-6K shorts, $10, until May 31, Zambian artists only, [link]
- Variety Pack, any, <= 9K flash/shorts, $20, until Jun 15, “Diasporic writers” only, [link]
- Also poetry, $2.50 per
- Also nonfiction (“general” pays, reviews/interviews do not)
Open SOON (later this month)
- Goblins & Galaxies Magazine, new wave sword & sorcery/dark fantasy/sci fi, <=6K flash/shorts, 3 c/w, May 7 – 14 [link]
- Night Shades, SFFH, <= 500 flash, $65, opens towards the end of the month but doesn’t give specific dates [follow on Bluesky for updates], [link]
