This is a super-busy month for me. I’m going back to school! I’m starting PT! I got writing obligations to deal with!!!
But I also got the Peet’s cold brew pass, so I will be extra-caffeinated this month. I, uh, forgor it was a thing so I made myself an iced coffee before I checked my morning emails so my hoarding of coffee shall begin…once I’m done with this. Today’s going to be Long.
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!
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, or the switch is flipped but they haven’t updated their website, so check back later or click further, if needed!)
- Alocasia, plants/gardens/parks/etc (gotta be planty), <= 3.5K flash/shorts, $50, queer writers only [link]
- Also poetry
- ❤️ Cast of Wonders, YA SFFH, <= 7.5K flash/shorts, 8 c/w ($20 or $100 for reprints), until Sep 14 [link]
- ❤️ Escape Pod, SF, 1.5-6K shorts (reprints up to 18K), 8 c/w ($100 for reprints), until May 31 [link]
- Foglifter Journal, “the most dynamic, urgent queer writing today”, <=7.5K flash/shorts, $50, queer writers only, until Nov 1 [link]
- Also poetry ($10 per)
- Also nonfic ($50 per)
- Heartlines Spec, SFF on long-term relationships, 0.5-3.5K flash/shorts, 8 CAD c/w, until Sep 30 [link]
- Also poetry ($60 CAD per)
- ❤️ manywor(l)ds, any, <=1K flash/shorts, $10, queer/disabled/neurodivergent only, until Oct 31 [link]
- they’re really cool btw, so if you have hybrid work, this is the place!
- ❤️ Plott Hound Magazine, speculative animal stories, <= 5K flash/shorts, 8/cw, until Sep 15 [link]
- Also poetry ($10 per)
- Also nonfiction ($100)
- Polymorphic, horror/weird fiction, <= 5K flash/shorts, $30 CAD, until Dec 31 [link]
- smoke and mold, trans eco horror, <=4K flash/shorts, $100, until Sep 30 [link]
- Also poetry
- Also interviews
- SpecPoVerse, SFF poetry, <= 100 lines/500 words, $5 per, until Oct 31 [link]
- The Cincinnati Review, any, <=10K flash/shorts/novelettes, $25/page (and ~250 words/page so ~1 cent-ish/word), until Sep 30 [link]
- ❤️ The Razor, any, <=1.5K flash/shorts, $100, until Dec 31 [link]
- Also nonfiction
- Three-Lobed Burning Eye, SFFH (including spec thrillers/westerns), 0.5-7.5K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, until Sep 15 [link]
- Toad Shade, “We’re all going to die” theme, 1.5-2K shorts, $25, until Sep 30 [link]
- Trans/Port, trans SFF, 3-7K shorts, 1 c/w, until Sep 15 [link]
- Trollbreath, SFFH, 1.5-7.5K shorts, 4 c/w, until Sep 30 [link]
- Also poetry ($25 per)
- Uncanny, SFF, 0.75-10K flash/shorts/novelettes, 10 c/w, until Sep 8 [link]
Open SOON (later this month)
- ❤️ none lol BUT! check out Flights of Foundry it’s an online-only writing con Sept 26-28! [link] it’s free even
