It’s a new quarter! So lot’s of open places! I was silly and scheduled a super important professional certification exam on the first, because I don’t already have enough to do on the first of the month lol
Also I’m gonna do a new thing I’m gonna have emoji to show what lengths places are open for! For those of you only interested in certain stuff:
⚡️ – Flash fiction (1,000 or less)
🩳 – Short stories (1,001-7,500)
📚️ – Novelettes/Novellas/ (7,500-40,000-ish?)
🪶 – oh yeah poetry too
As always, make sure to read the guidelines! Like a market for flash might have a cap of 500, or a minimum of 500. But hopefully this can help people who have specific focuses find things the most interesting to them quicker 🙂
Info
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 a waiver to that is reasonable enough (e.g. sub early enough, specific demographics, etc.)
- I count mailed-in-only subs as a “fee” because that costs money. I’ll make exceptions on a case-by-case basis
- You’re paid for your work. Unpaid opportunities will be included if sufficiently unique/compelling (i.e. sales are for charity, hyper-niche fanzine)
- Any format is cool (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
- 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.)
- Nowhere the vibes are “off” (I know that’s really vague/subjective, but this is me recommending markets!)
Markets!
Format:
- Market, genre/theme (unless the market name makes it obvious), lengths/types, pay, limited demographics (if applicable), 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, or maybe they’re in a different time zone, so check back later or click further on their site, if needed!)
- 🩳 📚️CLAW, F/F furry erotica with “women in power” theme, 4-10K shorts/novelettes, 0.5 c/w, until April 30 [link]
- ⚡️🩳 Cutleaf, any, <4K flash/shorts, $100, until Apr 15 [link]
- 🩳 Escape Pod, SF, 1.5-6K shorts, 8 c/w, until May 31 [link]
- 🪶Eye to the Telescope, spec poetry, $5 c/w but rounded up to nearest dollar with $5 min + $25 max, until Apr 15 [link]
- ⚡️Flash Fiction Online, “paranormal noir” theme, 0.5-1K flash, $100, until Apr 30 [link]
- ⚡️🩳 Kirby Fantasy Magazine, 0.3-7.5K flash/shorts, 5 c/w GBP (p/w? whatever), until May 31 [link]
- ⚡️🩳 Last Girl’s Club: The Witches’ Cosmo, feminist horror with “live and die by your words” theme, <2.5K flash/shorts, 1.5 c/w, until April 15 [link]
- 🪶Also poems ($10)
- ⚡️🩳 Mud Season Review, any, <6K flash/shorts, $50, until Apr 30 [link]
- 🪶the other side of hope, non-English poetry alongside English translations, 50 GBP, refugee/asylum seeker/immigrant poets only, until April 30 [link]
- ⚡️🩳 Otherside Spec, 0.5-4K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, trans/BIPOC/disabled authors only until Apr 7, Apr 8 -21 for everyone (and by everyone I mean still has to be 2SLGBTQIA+) [link]
- 🪶Also poetry ($50 per)
- ⚡️🩳 Phobos Magazine, “The uncanny states of America”, <2K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, until July 31 [link]
- ⚡️🩳 Plenitude Magazine, they’re a queer journal but no further genre specifics, <5K flash/shorts, $125 CAD, currently Canadians only, until May 31 [link]
- 🪶Also poetry ($60 CAD per)
- Also creative nonfiction (same stuff as fiction)
- ⚡️🩳 Propagule, any, 1.5-10K flash/shorts, $5/1K for first 2K, then $10/1K after (but still a max of $30), until June 15 [link]
- ⚡️🩳📚️ Quest Magazine, theme “power”, 0.5K+ flash/shorts/novellettes? they have no upper limit, $250 (serialized stuff is $250 per installment), until April 15 [link]
- Also creative nonfiction
- 🪶Also poetry ($100)
- 🩳 Solarpunk Magazine, 1.5-7.5K shorts, 10 c/w, until April 14 [link]
- 🪶Also poetry ($50 per)
- ⚡️Tales From the Cryptids, they’re open to really expansive definitions of the term “cryptid” so go wild, <1K flash, 10 c/w, until Apr 30 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Terrain.org, “place, climate, and justice”, <5K flash/shorts, $50, until April 30 [link]
- Also nonfiction
- ⚡️🩳The Cookout, speculative stories about The Cookout and the African diaspora, <5K flash/shorts, 10 c/w, members of the Black/African diaspora, until Apr 30 [link]
- ⚡️🩳The New Quarterly, any, technically any length but they say they probably won’t do >6K, $400, Canadian citizens and/or people living in Canada only, until Apr 30 [link]
- 🪶Also poetry ($100 per)
- 🩳The Pig’s Back, any (but probably not spec), 2-5K shorts, 300 EU, until Apr 15 [link]
- Poet Lore, $50 each, until May 31 [link]
- ⚡️🩳The Rotting Leaf, eco-fiction, <1.5K flash/shorts, 6 c/w ($30 min), until Apr 7 or submission cap [link]
- 🩳Tome & Space, SFFH + thriller/mystery and historical (prefers but doesn’t require those to be speculative), 1.5-6K shorts, 11 c/w CAD, no clear end date but I imagine they’re gonna get scared once they see the flood of subs lol [link]
- ⚡️🩳Translunar Travelers Lounge, SFF, <5K flash/shorts, 3 c/w, until Apr 15 [link]
- ⚡️🩳📚️Varnish, any, <8K flash/shorts/novelettes, $250, until Apr 4 [link]
- 🪶Also poetry ($100)
- ⚡️🩳Were-2, any kinda were except werewolves, <7.5K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, until May 31 [link]
- ⚡️🩳What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style, also they gotta be space opera, <6K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, until April 15 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Wired Hearts: Tales of Robots and AI, they’re only looking for reprints, 0.5-2K flash/shorts, $5 or $10 (depending on length), until Apr 30 [link]
- Zine Machine, it’s just zines lol, $20, until Apr 30 [link]
Open SOON (later this month)(so mark your calendars!)
- ⚡️🩳Cast of Wonders, “Banned Books Week” theme, <6K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, Apr 15 – 30 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Goblins & Galaxies, sword & sorcery/dark fantasy/sci fi, <6k flash/shorts, 6 c/w, Apr 7 – 14 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Heartlines Spec, stories about long-term relationships, 0.5-3.5K flash/shorts, 8 c/w CAD, equity-deserving groups only Apr 23 – 30 (then everyone else all of May) [link]
- ⚡️🩳📚️Kaleidotrope, SFFH, “strongly prefers” 0.25 – 10K flash/shorts/novelettes, 1 c/w, April 19 – 25 [link]
- 🪶Also poetry ($5 per)
- 🩳Saros Speculative, theme “breaking the mold”, 1-2.5K shorts, $33 CAD, Apr 13 – May 17 [link]
