The sun comes out at 8 PM now. It feels like we just got 3 more hours of daylight out of nowhere!!!
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!)
- Anomaly, dark SF, <=300 flash, 8 c/w, until June 7 [link]
- Baffling Magazine, SFFH, <= 1.2K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, until June 15 [link]
- Barrelhouse, <= 8K flash/shorts, $50, no specific close date but they do have sub caps that fill up quick [link]
- Also poetry (you still get paid $50 total, regardless of the number of poems)
- Also nonfiction
- Enter Here anthology, SFFH, 2-4K shorts, 1 c/w, writers must be from a marginiliazed demographic, until June 15 (BIPOC writers have an exclusive window June 16-22) [link]
- Flash Point SF, SFF, 100-1K flash, 2 c/w, until Jul 31, [link]
- Freefall, any, <= 4K flash/shorts, $10 CAD per page (up to $100), until Sep 30, Canadians only, [link]
- Also poetry ($25 CAD per)
- Also nonfiction (same payment as prose)
- manywor(l)ds, any, <=1K flash, $10, queer/disabled/neurodivergent writers only, until July 31 [link]
- Neo-Twiny Jam; interactive fiction game jam; <500 words; no payment, but raising funds for charity; until June 30 [link]
- Plott Hound Magazine, animal-centric speculative fiction, <=5K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, until June 15 [link]
- Also poetry ($10 per)
- Also nonfiction (essay) ($100)
- Saturday Mourning Television, horror inspired by early morning kids TV, 1-4K shorts, $35, until Jul 1 [link]
- Also accepts poetry
- Something Old, Something New; “unreality”; 1.5-5K shorts (they say up to 10K, but that’s less likely); $10 (or $20 if it’s serialized over 2 months); until June 30 [link]
- Troublemaker Firestarter, short story collections, 25-75 pages, $100 + $5 per copy sold, until June 30 [link]
Open SOON (later this month)
- The Fabulist, any, <= 1K flash, $100, June 3 + 4 only (head’s up: their last window they had a pretty low submission cap and filled up quickly, so it’s more like “the first few hours of June 3”) [link]
