In contrast to last month, this is a huge list! It’s the start of the month, quarter, and year! There’s a ton of options for everyone, so make sure to check it out.
I also called out which places also take poetry or nonfiction!
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. Some markets also do poetry and creative nonfiction, but those will not be the focus of these posts. If they do, I will mention it.
Markets!
In no particular order…
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, so check back later, if needed!)
- 34 Orchard, “dark, intense pieces”, 1-5K shorts, $50, ’til Jan 15 [link]
- Also accepts poetry, any length
- 100 Word Project, the prompt is “sun”, 100 words exactly, $1, ’til May 31 ’25 [link]
- beestung, any, any wordcount (theoretically, they don’t list a limit), $20, no announced closing date [link]
- Also accepts poetry, any length
- Book XI, “philosophically informed” on the “things” theme, 1ish-7K shorts, $200, ’til Feb 28 ’25 [link]
- Also accepts poetry, any length, but $50 per
- Brink, any on theme of “renewal”, any wordcount (theoretically), $50-$100, ’til Jan 31 ’25 [link]
- Also accepts poetry ($25) and nonfiction ($50-$100). They’re really into hybrid/cross-genre stuff, so it’s a good fit for your things that are kinda weird!
- Cosmic Horror Monthly, <5K flash/shorts, 3 c/w, ’til Jan 7 ’25 [link]
- Cottage Crimes, crime/mysteries on private vacation properties, 2-6K shorts, 1.5 c CAD/w, ’til Feb 14 ’25 [link]
- Emerge Literary Journal, any besides horror/erotica, <750 flash, $15, ’til Feb 15 ’25 [link]
- Also accepts poetry and creative nonfiction flash
- Fraidy Cat Quarterly, horror for “paranoia” theme, 0.4-8K flash/shorts, $10-20, ’til Jan 7 ’25 (window extended for LGBTQ, BIPOC, and Palestinian authors ’til Jan 14) [link]
- GigaNotoSaurus, SFF, 5-25K shorts/novelettes/novellas, $200, ’til Jan 15 ’25 [link]
- Gwyllion, SFFH, 0-10K flash/shorts/novelettes, 15 GBP, ’til Feb 28 ’25 [link]
- Also accepts poetry (30 lines max each) and book reviews (200 words max)
- Heartlines Spec, SFF about long-term relationships, 0.5-3.5K flash/shorts, 8 c CAD/w, ’til Jan 31 ’25 [link]
- Also accepts poetry (any length, $60 CAD per)
- In Another Time, SFF for “illumination” theme, <5K flash/shorts, 1 c/w, ’til Feb 28 ’25 [link]
- Also accepts poetry (1 c/w, min $5) and nonfiction (about writing/publishing, current science, academic work on other SFF works, or historical stuff)
- Inner Worlds, SFFH on “our inner lives,” 0.5-2.5K flash/shorts, 2 c GBP/w (20 GBP min), members of marginalized groups exclusively ’til Jan 14 ’25, and then everyone else until Jan 31 ’25 [link]
- Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast, <5K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, ’til Jan 31 ’25 [link]
- Litmosphere, any, <5K flash/shorts, $50-100, ’til Jan 31 ’25 [link]
- Also accepts poetry ($50 per) and literary nonfiction
- Mysterion, SFFH “with Christian themes, characters, or cosmology”, <9K flash/shorts/novelettes, 8 c/w, ’til Jan 31 ’25 [link]
- Nashville Review, any, <7K flash/shorts (and novel excerpts), $100, ’til Jan 31 ’25 [link]
- Also accepts poetry (1-3, max 10 pages total, $25 per) and creative nonfiction (<8K words)
- rainy weather days, stories “that challenge our current status quo,” 1.5-15K shorts/novelettes, $25, ’til Jan 6 ’25 [link]
- Also accepts poetry (any, $2 per) and nonfiction (essays)
- Riddle Fence, any, <3K flash/shorts, $50/published page, ’til Feb 28 ’25 [link]
- Also accepts poetry (any length, but no more than 10 pages across all poems) and creative nonfiction
- Rock and a Hard Place, “the plight of marginalized, poor, depressed, and desperate people”<5K flash/shorts, $35 for 2-5K but nothing for flash, ’til Jan 25 ’25 [link]
- They also accept poems but don’t say if they pay for those
- Terrain.org, any, <5K flash/shorts (and novel excerpts), $50, ’til Mar 31 ’25 [link]
- Also accepts poetry and nonfiction (interviews, essays, scholarly stuff)
- The Forge Literary Magazine, any, <5K flash/shorts, $100, they’re open all the time via fee BUT have a limited number of fee-free subs at the start of each month! [link]
- The Joining, wedding-based horror, 2.5-5K, 2 c/w, ’til Feb 28 ’25 [link]
- The Spectacle, any (but especially SFF), 0.3-5K flash/shorts, $50, ’til Feb 15 ’25 [link]
- Also accepts poetry (any length, $10 per) and nonfiction (all sorts of stuff)
- The Threepenny Review, any, <4K flash/shorts, $400, ’til Apr 14 ’25 [link]
- Also accepts poetry (up to 100 lines, $200) and nonfiction (reviews and memoir)
- The World of Vile Wonder, horror set in 1500-1700 CE, 5-10K shorts/novelettes, $75, ’til Feb 28 ’25 [link]
- Three-Lobed Burning Eye, SFFH, 0.5-7.5K flash/shorts, $30-$100, ’til Jan 15 ’25 [link]
- Ubwali Literary Magazine, any, 3-6K, $10, Zambians or Africans living in Africa only, ’til Jan 31 ’25 [link]
- Also accepts poetry ($3.33 per) and essays
- Witch Craft, stories about witches (fantasy/horror), 2-4K shorts, 8 c/wc, ’til Jan 19 ’25 [link]
Open SOON (later this month)
