I guess it hasn’t been a full year cause the auto-generated url is still as expected! Also the year is coming to a close, so there’s places open.
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!)
- Anomaly, SF, <300 words, 8 c/w, until Nov 7 [link]
- Dracula Beyond Stoker, essentially fanfic for Dracula (this window is about Van Helsing), 1.5-5K shorts, 5 c/w, until Nov 30 [link]
- Also poetry
- Fantabulosa!, SFFH, 0.5-6K words, 8 c/w, queer writers only, until Nov 30 [link]
- Also poetry ($50 per)
- Flash Point SF, SFF, current window is only drabbles, so 100 words exactly (sans title, Google Docs’ counter), $10, until Nov 30 [link]
- ❤️ NonBinary Review, “Carnival” theme, <3K flash, shorts, 1 c/w (originals + reprints), until Nov 30 [link]
- Also poetry ($10, unclear if it’s per poem or total)
- ❤️ Podcastle, fantasy (tho sf works sometimes, too!), <6K flash/shorts, 8 c/w originals ($20 or $100 reprints), until Nov 30 [link]
Open SOON (later this month)
- Rat Bag Literary, any, <3.5K flash/shorts, $1/3/10/20 (depending on length, $10 for reprints), opens Nov 15 [link]
- Also poetry ($5 per)
- Also nonfic (1 c/w)
