It’s Winter (i.e. my face was cold when I walked to Peet’s to get an iced coffee)(look I’m still gonna drink iced coffee in the winter even if it’s cold). Also putting this together ahead of time since I got a piece coming out on the first (plus all the other “it’s the first of the month aaaaaaa” tasks I gotta do), so, hopefully, nothing has aged weirdly!
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 word flash, 8 c/w, until Dec 7 [link]
- Baffling Magazine, queer SFFH, <1.2K flash, 8 c/w, until Dec 14 [link]
- Crux, SFFH, <7K flash/shorts, 3 c/w AUD, Australians only, until Jan 31 [link]
- Also poetry ($20 AUD per)
- Fantabulosa!, SFFH, 0.5-6K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, queer writers only (and this window is specifically only for trans and BIPOC authors), until Dec 15 [link]
- Letters to the Gods Left in Fireplaces, Monsters and Eroguro theme, <=17.5K flash/shorts/novelettes, royalties only, open until March 1 ’26 [link]
- Also poetry (100-7.5K words)
- ❤️ manywor(l)ds, any, <1K flash, $10, queer and/or disabled writers only, until Jan 31 [link]
- The are pretty “genre” agnostic, so things like poetry, nonfic, and multimedia works, too!
- Otherside, speculative, <17.5K flash/shorts/novelettes, $100, members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, this window is reprints ONLY (and they need to not be available online anywhere for free) [link]
- Also (original) nonfiction (up to 4K words)
- Original fiction + poetry opens on Jan 1
- ❤️ Plott Hound Magazine, speculative animal stories, <5K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, until Dec 15 [link]
- Also poetry ($10 per) and nonfiction ($100)
- The Cincinnati Review, any, <10K flash/shorts, $25/page, until Dec 31 [link]
- Also poetry ($30/page)
- The Deadlands, speculative stories about death, <5K flash/shorts, 10 c/w, until Dec 31 [link]
- Also poetry (any length, $50 per)(but only “the first 3 weeks” so until the 21st, I guess?)
- ❤️ Wiggle Bird Mailing Club, T4T zines, these are zines so wordcount is ???? but they want 8 to 32 or 64 pages (zine pages, not MS Word!), $550, trans/queer authors only, until Jan 15 ’26 [link]
Open SOON (later this month)
