I was smart and typed up a bunch of these before the 1st because I’ve just been getting more and more busy. Hooray!
If you’re a furry (or you’re a civilian with work furries would like!), you can check out [this spreadsheet] I made that tracks/shows all the furry markets at once, including future windows. This is so nothing gets missed over for the Furry Writers’ Guild newsletters (I’m not even the market officer* lol I just did it anyways). Also to fill in the gap of just being able to see a bunch of markets at once (which you can’t really do like this with the Submission Grinder) just for furry things. So feel free to bookmark it/share it around.
*if you want to see more stuff like this, you should vote for me so I can be!
Of course, if you’re a furry, you can definitely still read and submit to places in these posts! And if you’re not a furry but read these anyways, well, hi! You shouldn’t be surprised you’ve seen my stories you’ve seen my branding.
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]
The ❓️ is 1 or more emoji to quickly communicate what lengths they take, in case you’re only interested in certain ones!
⚡️ – Flash fiction (1,000 or less)
🩳 – Short stories (1,001-7,500)
📚️ – Novelettes/Novellas/ (7,500-40,000-ish?)
🪶 – oh yeah poetry too
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!)
- 🩳 #OHMURR, adult furry fiction, 2-6K shorts, $20, May 20- Sept 20 [link]
- 🪶 Also poetry (it might pay? unclear)
- ⚡️ Also essays (same pay as fiction), book reviews, and hookup stories (those are unpaid)
- 🪶 Adi, this window is poetry only, unknown length max but be realistic, $150/per, until May 30 [link]
- ⚡️🩳📚️ Apex Magazine, SFFH, <9K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, until May 31 [link]
- ⚡️🩳 Black Fox Literary Magazine, any, <5K flash/shorts, $20, until May 31 [link]
- 🪶 Also poetry
- Also creative nonfiction and blogposts
- 🩳 Childhood Fears, horror with kids as main characters, 2.5-7K shorts, $30, until May 31 [link]
- 🩳 Climbing High: Speculative Stories of Female Ambition, 2-4K shorts (but stuff a little outside that is fine), 8 c/w, until May 3 [link]
- 🩳 Don’t Go for the Vault: A Bank Robbery Horror Anthology, 1.5-4.5K shorts, 5 c/w (or 1 c/w reprints), until May 20 [link]
- 🩳 Escape Pod, SF, 1.5-6K shorts, 8 c/w, until May 31 [link]
- They are also open for stories about “democratic futures”
- ⚡️Flash Fiction Online, reprints only, 0.5-1K flash, $36, until May 31 [link]
- Their “Paranormal Noir” theme will be open until May 14 for underserved authors (8 c/w)
- ⚡️🩳 Heartlines Spec, SFF stories about long term relationships, 0.5-3.5K flash/shorts, 8 c/w CAD, Until May 31 [link]
- 🪶 also poetry ($60 CAD per)
- 📚️ Heavy Are The Years, about the weight of time on our minds/bodies/souls, 15-25K word novellas, 5 c/w, until May 31 [link]
- ⚡️ In A Flash, creative nonfiction for “goodbyes” theme, <0.5K flash, $25, until May 31 [link]
- ⚡️🩳 Kirby Fantasy Magazine, 0.3-7.5K flash/shorts, 5 c/w GBP (p/w? whatever), until May 31 [link]
- 🩳📚️ Mertails, merfolk (person + fish or other combos), 2-10K shorts, 1 c/w AU, until May 30 [link]
- ⚡️🩳 OnSpec, SFF, <5K flash/shorts, 5 c/w CDN, Canadians only, until May 31 [link]
- ⚡️ Orion’s Belt, SFFH, <1K flash, 8 c/w, until May 15 [link]
- 🪶 Also poetry ($40 per)
- Also book reviews ($45)
- 🩳📚️ Passing Strange: Queer Weird Arthurian Tales, 3-10K shorts/novelettes, 5 c/w ($500 max), until Aug 31 [link]
- Also narrative nonfiction
- ⚡️🩳 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)
- 🪶 Poet Lore, $50 each, until May 31 [link]
- 🩳 📚️ 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]
- 🩳 Saros Speculative, theme “breaking the mold”, 1-2.5K shorts, $33 CAD, until May 17 [link]
- ⚡️🩳 Tableware Magazine, any, ~<3.5K flash/shorts (“up to 15 pages of writing”), $50, until May 15 [link]
- 🪶 Also poetry
- Also essays and reviews
- ⚡️🩳 The Baltimore Review, any, <5K flash/shorts, $50, until May 31 [link]
- 🪶 Also poetry
- Also creative nonfiction
- ⚡️ The Cosmic Background, Nabokov’s Suspension (I really have no idea how to explain what this theme is just go read what they said), <1K flash, 10 c/w, until May 9 [link]
- 🩳 The Fifth Corner, dark/speculative/cross genre, 1-5K shorts, $150 CAD, until May 15 [link]
- ⚡️🩳📚️ The Neurodiversiverse, ND folx interacting with aliens, <15K flash/shorts/novelettes, $50 for flash $100 for shorts, until October 1 [link]
- 🪶 Also poetry (200 lines max, $50 per)
- ⚡️🩳 The Sprawl Mag, SFFH, <1.4K flash/shorts, $20 CAD, until May 31 [link]
- 🪶 also poetry
- ⚡️🩳 Three-Lobed Burning Eye, SFFH, 0.5-7.5K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, until May 15 [link]
- ⚡️🩳 Utopia Science Fiction, unthemed issue, 0.1-4K flash/shorts (longer possible w/query), 8 c/w, until May 17 [link]
- 🪶 Also poetry ($30 per)
- Also nonfiction (articles, <6K words, $30)
- ⚡️🩳 Were-2, any kinda were except werewolves, <7.5K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, until May 31 [link]
- ⚡️ Witches & Warlocks, dark fantasy, 100 words exactly but you gotta send 5, $5 for all 5, until May 31 [link]
Open SOON (later this month)(so mark your calendars!)
- ⚡️🩳 Augur, SFF, <5K flash/shorts, 14 c/w CAD, BIPOC + 2SLGBTQIA + Disabled Canadians only, May 5 – ???? [link]
- 🪶 Maybe also poetry too? unclear
- ⚡️🩳 Goblins & Galaxies, Sword & Sorcery + SFF, <6K flash/shorts, 6 c/w, May 7 – 14 [link]
- ⚡️🩳📚️ Lit Mag (whats with literary places having the worst names ever), any, <15K flash/shorts/novelletes, $100 for flash $150 2.5-5K (they don’t say how they define flash so maybe anything below 2.5K is flash to them) and $300 for 5K+ (if it’s just online than $100) May 15 – June 20 [link]
- Also nonfiction
- 🪶 Also poetry ($100 for however many they take)
