It’s the first of the month! And the first day of a new quarter! So holy heck it’s a busy one! This definitely isn’t everyone who opened today, but the ones I wanted to highlight!
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!
- And a listing with a ❤️ is some place I’ve worked with, or can otherwise confidently say you’ll have a good experience working with them 🙂
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!)
- Brink, any, no max wordcount listed, $50 for <1.5K, $100 for 1.5k+, until July 31 [link]
- ❤️ Cast of Wonders, SFFH for YA audiences, <1.5K flash/shorts, 8 c/w original $20 reprints, until July 14 [link]
- Claudine, any, <=400 words, $25, until Nov 31 (normally I don’t include places open this long, but they’re brand new, and it’s always exciting to be in a first issue!) [link]
- Cosmic Horror Monthly, <5K flash/shorts, 3 c/w, until July 7 [link]
- Daikaijuzine, SFFH (but open to others), <=6K flash/shorts, $5 flash $10 shorts, until July 6 [link]
- Flame Tree Publishing anthologies (there’s a bunch so I’m gonna lump them together), originals or reprints (they say 2-4K but they’ve taken things outside it before), 8 c/w original, 6 c/w reprints
- A Breath of Time, romantasy (with some time shennigans/themes), until July 21 [link]
- Odysseus, fantasy (this is part of their series reimagining gods/legendary characters, so get creative!), until Aug 25 [link]
- Of Love and Dragons, romantasy (with dragons!), until Jul 21 [link]
- The Valkyries (same deal as Odysseus), until Aug 25 [link]
- Flash Fiction Online, SFFH + there’s a “regret” theme as well as unthemed, 0.5-1K flash, $100, regret until July 31, unthemed until they hit 300 subs [link]
- ❤️ Inner Worlds, SFFH w/strong emotional/psychological focus, 0.5-2.5K flash/shorts, 2 GBP/w (20 GBP min), July 1-14 for members of marginilaized groups only, July 15 – 31 for everyone else [link]
- khoreo, SFFH, <5K flash/shorts, 10 c/w, immigrants and members of a diaspora only, until July 31 [link]
- Monsterfuck, I think you can guess what they want, <2.5K flash/shorts, $25 AUD, queer writers only, until July 15 [link]
- ❤️ PodCastle, fantasy, <6K flash/shorts (reprints can be longer), 8 c/w ($20 for reprint flash, $100 for longer reprints), until July 31 [link]
- The Fabulist, “speculative and fantastical” (but really it’s mostly anything), <1K flash, $100,
until July 2 (but they’ll close when they hit 100 subs, so be quick!)they’re already full, but they plan to be open again on August 1, so mark your calendars! [link] - ❤️ The Pink Hydra, any, <30K flash/shorts/novelettes/(short-enough novellas), 1 ZAR cent/word (which is 1/18th a USD cent-ish), until July 31 [link]
- ❤️ The Voice of Dog, ghost/horror/spoopy furry-interest stories (for halloween month), <=5Kish flash/shorts (or a 10Kish story that can be broken into two episodes), unpaid but this is a cool podcast :), until Sept 1 (or full) [link]
- Weird West Quick Draw, SFFH westerns, <=1K flash, this is a contest, so the prizes range from $25 to $100 (and publication!), until July 15 [link]
- an untitled weird west anthology (for you weird cowboys!), also <1K flash, 2 c/w, until July 31 [link]
Open SOON (later this month)
- Apex drabble contest, spoopy and “the masks we wear” theme, 100 words exactly, 8 c/w (so, $8), July 10 – 24 [link]
- ❤️ Diabolical Plots, SFFH, <=3.5K flash/shorts, 10 c/w, July 7 – 21 [link]
- ❤️ Night Shades, speculative (but weird literary works, too), <=0.5K micros/flash, $65, they open at the end of the month, no specific date, but you can get alerts on their [bsky] [link (for sub guidelines)]
- there’s a non-0% chance their June subs might still be open when you read this on July 1! so there’s that
