Typing this with both of my wrists in braces because I sure am having to do a lot of typing for work + school + everything else!
I made a thing this weekend to automatically scan a website and report it it’s been changed. Like, for example, they add when their next submission window will be! While I made it with one specific web page in mind, you can use it for whatever page you want! You can find it [here]. Windows has Linux coreutils now so it should theoretically work fine on Windows. But also this is a very technical thing, so if you don’t know what any of that means, then this won’t be able to help you, sorry 🙁
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 it 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
- SubStacks no longer qualify, as [they profit from platforming and promoting Nazis]. [This is not a new issue].
- 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!)
There’s also some extra specifics to fit for this list specifically:
- This is a limited-time opportunity, either a theme or a window that will close (so places open every day of the year and have no themes, like Clarkesworld, don’t fit this)
- Markets that have schedules, like “the first week of every month” don’t qualify since it’s so predictable
- It needs to be a window lots of people can submit to, especially ones who aren’t otherwise aware they can sub to it.
- Markets with “secret” submission portals like Lightspeed don’t qualify, because you already know if you have access or not
- Markets with extremely narrow demographics (i.e. students of specific schools or members of clubs) don’t qualify, since 99.9%+ of you won’t be eligible
- Markets that do have limited demographics (like age, gender, race, disability) do qualify. Unless it’s something super narrow, like Canadians who are 13 years old exactly, then I probably won’t
- The window needs to be open long enough for readers of this to actually have a chance to submit
- This means that if I’ve seen that they hit their sub caps and close within 24 hours of opening, it’s not getting listed because it’ll be too late by the time you read this, and I don’t want to waste your time
- Even then, there’s still going to be places that qualify but won’t end up on this list, just due to time on my part. If a window has a theme, it’s a limited opportunity like an anthology, or it pays more than a token amount, then I’m more likely to list it.
Markets!
Format:
- ❓️Market, [limited demographic info (if applicable)] genre/theme (unless the market name makes it obvious), lengths/types, pay, window info [link to submission guidelines]
I shorthand the speculative genres: Science Fiction (SF), Fantasy (F), and Horror (H). So a market that says they take all three or “speculative” stories in general would be SFFH. A place that’s sci fi and fantasy would be SFF. If they give more granular genre (e.g. cosmic horror, space opera), then I’ll say those instead.
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
👓️ – or nonfiction (all types)
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 to the submission form, if needed!)
- ⚡️100-Foot Crow, SFFH for “bars” and “transformation” themes, 100 words EXACTLY, $8 (so 8 c/w), until Oct 15 [link]
- ⚡️🩳📚️The Adroit Journal, any, <9K flash/shorts/novelettes, $100, until Nov 1 [link]
- 👓️Also creative nonfiction
- 🪶Also poetry ($50)
- ⚡️🩳📚️Astrophobia 2, space horror, <10K flash/shorts/novelettes, $140, until Dec 31 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Black Fox Literary, any, <5K flash/shorts, $20, until Nov 30 [link]
- 👓️Also nonfiction (<1.5K words)
- 🪶 Also poetry ($6.67 per)
- ⚡️🩳📚️Best of British Science Fiction, [British/Irish/etc writers only], this is a “best of” so they want SF stuff FIRST published in 2026, 1.5 p/w GBP, until Dec 30 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Brave New Weird, this is a “best of” so they want stuff that was FIRST published between Oct 31 2025 and Oct 31 2026, <7.5K flash/shorts, $25, until Nov 1 [link]
- 🩳Carynyx Press, [authors living in “the North of Engladn” only) cosmic horror, 2-8K shorts, 20 GBP, until Nov 30 [link]
- 🩳Deep Cut, literary horror, 1.5-6K shorts, 8 c/w, until Oct 31 [link]
- They’re also doing scholarly articles on horror (5-7K, $25)
- 🩳Dirty Martini, horror noir, 1-5K shorts, 8 c/w, until Dec 31 [link]
- ⚡️🩳📚️Divergent Space, future stories about neurodivergent characters, no word count limits but please be realistic, $5+, until Jan 31 [link]
- 🪶Also poetry
- ⚡️🩳DLIM anthologies, [Filipino authors (either living in the Philippines or part of the diaspora) only] SFFH, <5K flash/shorts, 7 c/w, closes Feb 28 [link]
- 🪶Also poetry
- ⚡️🩳Elegant Lich, fantasy, <7K flash/shorts, 3 c/w, until??? [link]
- 🩳Escape Pod, SF, 1.5-6K shorts (but reprints can be up to 18K), 8 c/w ($100 for reprints), until May 31 [link]
- 🪶Eye to the Telescope, SF poetry about faeries, 7 c/w, until Oct 15 [link]
- 🩳Flame Tree Press anthologies, see below for each theme, 2-4K shorts but does accept outside that range, 8 c/w
- ⚡️Flash Fiction Online, any, 0.5-1K flash, $100, until ??? [link]
- ⚡️Flash Frog, any, <1K flash, $25, until Dec 31 [link]
- ⚡️Flash Point SF, SFF, 0.1-1K flash, 2 c/w, until Oct 31 [link]
- 🩳📚️The Gigas Testament [Canadian citizens/residents only], horror, 2-10K shorts/novelettes, $50 CAD, until Oct 31 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Hobbyhorse, “obsession” theme, <5K flash/shorts, 2 c/w with a max of $70, closes Nov 30 [link]
- 👓️Also creative nonfiction
- 🩳Inkd Publishing, they all go to the same URL so they get listed as one thing in here lol, 2-6K shorts, $10 + royalties, [link]
- Arcanum Magicka, magic, until Dec 31
- Noncorporeal V: Disquiet, spooky stuff, until Nov 30
- Hidden Villains: Enigma, what it says on the tin, until Nov 15
- ⚡️The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, whatever as long as it fits, <600 word things, $50, until Dec 15 [link]
- 👓️Nonfic works, too
- ⚡️🩳Last Girls’ Club, “problematic” feminist fiction (think horror), <2.5K flash/shorts, 1.5 c/w ($37.50 max), until Oct 15 [link]
- 👓️Also nonfiction/reviews (1.5-2.5K words)
- ⚡️🩳Luna Station Quarterly, [women writers only], SFF, 0.5-7K flash/shorts, $10 until Nov 15 [link]
- ⚡️manywor(l)ds, [queer and/or disabled authors only] any, <1K flash, $10, until Oct 31 [link]
- 🪶👓️The stuff they take is weird so it can also be poetry or nonfiction
- 🩳Nettlesome, any, 2.5-5K shorts, $100, until ??? [link]
- ⚡️New Jersey Fantastic, SFFH in/about Jersey (someone do a story about the hockey team then I can force my roommate to buy this when it comes out), 0.7-1K flash, $5, until Dec 31 [link]
- ⚡️Night Shades, SFFH, <0.5K flash, $75, until Oct 11 [link]
- ⚡️Orion’s Belt, SFF, <1K flash, 8 c/w, Until Oct 31 (but they did close early in August, so don’t wait) [link]
- ⚡️🩳Otherside, SFFH with “exploration” theme, 0.5-4K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, [link]
- Oct 1 – 7 is trans/BIPOC/disabled authors only
- Oct 8 – 21 is open for the the rest of the LGBTQ community
- 🪶Also poetry ($50 each)
- 👓️Also nonfiction ($100)
- 🩳Phano, “Don’t Touch Grass”, 1-5K shorts, 5 c/w, until Nov 1 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Plott Hound, speculative animal stories, <5K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, until Oct 15 [link]
- 🪶Also poetry ($50)
- 👓️Also nonfiction (essay, 1-2.5K, $100)
- 🪶Poet Lore, any, $50 per, until Nov 30 [link]
- 🪶Poetry Ireland, any, 50 EU, until Oct 31 [link]
- 🩳📚️Propagule, weird stuff, 1.5-10K shorts/novelettes, $5-30, until Dec 15 [link]
- 👓️Also nonfiction
- 🩳📚️Radiant Dawn (a queer hopepunk anthology), 2.5-10K shorts/novelettes, 5 c/w + royalties, until Oct 15 [link]
- ⚡️Reckoning, this specific call is for “weird” fiction (still needs to be enviornmental justice-y), <1.2K flash, 15 c/w, until Oct 31 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Revolute, any, <6K flash/shorts, $50, until Nov 15 [link]
- 👓️Also nonfiction (essay, memoir, etc)
- 🪶Also poetry
- ⚡️🩳Romance from the Rock, [authors connected to Atlantic Canada only] romance, <7.5K flash/shorts, 1 c/w CAD, until Oct 31 [link]
- 🩳📚️Saros Speculative, “biopunk” theme, 1-15K shorts/novelettes, $25 CAD, until Oct 14 [link]
- 🩳Scream Parks, theme park horror, 4-6K shorts, $25, until Mar 1 [link]
- ⚡️Small Wonders, SFFH, <1K flash, 10 c/w, until Sep 30? [link] might still be open after 1st
- ⚡️SmokeLong Quarterly, any, <1K flash, $100, this is their fee-free window but you can pay the rest of the year (don’t do that!!!), open untill???? [link]
- 🩳Solarpunk, 1.5-7.5K shorts, 10 c/w, until Oct 14 [link]
- 🪶Also poetry ($50 per)
- 👓️Also nonfiction (essay/articles, $100)
- 🪶 SpecPoVerse, SFF poetry, <500 lines, $5, until Oct 31 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Strange Horizons, SFFH, <5K flash/shorts, 9 c/w, has a 1K sub cap so will probably close in a day or two [link]
- ⚡️🩳Stuck, any as long as it’s dark and works with the “stuck” theme, 0.5-4K flash/shorts, 0.5 GBP/w, until Jan 31 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Superheroes, Super Problems, villains are eligible, too, <5K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, until Oct 15 [link]
- 📚️Superheroes/Supervillains, yes another superhero one but this is a different publisher, 8-10K novelettes, $100, until Dec 1 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Translunar Traveler’s Lounge, fun SFFH, <5K flash/shorts, 3 c/w, until Oct 15 [link]
- ⚡️🩳📚️Virginia Sideways, alt-history connected to Virginia, doesn’t say but be realistic, 0.5 c/w, until Oct 31 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Workers Write!, from the pov of temp employees, 0.5-5K flash/shorts, $10+, until Dec 31 [link]
- 🪶Also poetry
- Zine machine, 8 page mini zines, $20, until Oct 31 [link]
Open SOON (later this month)(so mark your calendars!)
- 🩳Bourbon Penn, SFFH, 2-7.5K shorts, 5 c/w, Oct 15 – ??? [link]
- ⚡️🩳Diabolical Plot, “Diabolical Rot” theme, <3.5K flash/shorts, 10 c/w, Oct 18 – 25 [link]
- ⚡️🩳📚️Kaleidotrope, SFFH, no min/max but be realistic, 1 c/w, Oct 18 – 24 [link]
- 🪶Also poetry ($5 per)
- 🩳Opportunity Window, timeloops, 2-6K shorts, $200, Oct 15 – 22 [link]
- 🪶Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize, any length, $250, Oct 15 – Dec 15 [link]
