This is an even more busy month for me. I got 2 schools to go to! I’m still doing PT! And I’m going out of town for a wedding aaaaaa
‘course I also want to be “sorry for getting this up so late” but it’s still the 1st, just later in the day. Even today was Very Busy. Pumpkin spice.
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!)
- Apex Magazine, SFFH “with an Edge,” <=9K flash/shorts/novelettes, 8c/w, until ??? [link]
- Even more stuff from Flame Tree, 3-4K-ish, 8 c/w
- ❤️ Flash Fiction Online, any, 0.5-1K flash, $100, until Oct 31 [link]
- Flash Point SF, SFF, 0.1-1K flash, 2 c/w, until Oct 31 [link]
- ❤️ Inner Worlds, “speculative stories about our inner lives”, 0.5-2.5K flash/shorts, 2 GBP/w, until Oct 31 [link]
- The html review, anything “that utilize[s] the web as a medium,” any, none, until Nov 1 [link]
- And they really do mean anything. Poetry, nonfiction, essays, “graphic storytelling” go wild
- ❤️ Transcendent Fiction Publishing, SFF + furry novels (I know I normally don’t post novels but this place is cool 🙂 ), 30-120K novellas/novels, until Oct 31 [link]
Open SOON (later this month)
- Meetinghouse, any, <=7.5K flash/shorts, $40, Oct 3 – Nov 16, [link]
- Also nonfiction
- Also poetry ($8 per)
