A fun little aside: I’ve been elected to the Furry Writers’ Guild market manager position, hooray! Which is a lot of what I’m already doing, but I’ll be doing it for the guild officially, too lol. If you’re a furry and you only want to see specifically-furry markets (including book publishers), then keep an eye out for the monthly newsletter, which you can find [on the Guild’s website]. Stick it in your RSS feed reader (you do have one, don’t you?) or follow the various Guild channels.
If you aren’t a furry (or are one and are interested in mainstream markets), then this is still the place for you! And if you just learned I’m a furry: how lol. Like, look at my .ico. Look at my pfp on everything. Look at my widgets!!! It’s not a secret!
Anyways, time for markets. Let’s see if I can finish this before my wrist pain gets too bad 🙂 I don’t wanna go to the glue factory.
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!)
- ⚡️🩳105 Meadowlark Reader, TRUE AND REAL STORIES about Kansas, 0.1-3K flash/shorts, $10, you gotta either live in Kansas or have lived in Kansas, until June 30 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Baffling Magazine, queer SFFH with a “gossip” theme (and also unthemed stuff is fine), <1.2K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, until June 15 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Baneberry, horror, 0.5-7K flash/shorts, $500, until July 8 [link]
- 🩳The Book of Demons, fantasy/horror stories about demons, 3-4K flash but stuff outside that can work, 8 c/w, until June 8 [link]
- 🩳📚️Carynx sorcery anthology, 2-8K shorts, 20 GBP, writers who live in the North of England only, until July 31 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Cast of Wonders, speculative YA for their “banned books” week, <7.5K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, until June 15 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Crooked Spine, horror, <3.5K flash/shorts, $20, until June 17 [link]
- 🪶Also poetry ($5 per)
- Right when that window closes, their next window for “wet country” (bogs n such) opens) June 17 – July 29
- ⚡️🩳Cryptic Frog, SFFH, 0.5-5K flash/shorts, $3 lol, until ??? [link]
- ⚡️🩳DLIM anthologies, SFFH, <5K flash/shorts, Filipino authors (either living in the Philippines or part of the diaspora), 7 c/w, one closes Sep 30 and the other Feb 28 [link]
- 🪶Also poetry
- 🩳Earth Resists and Reclaims, climate/enviornmental horror, 2-6K shorts, $50, until June 15 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Exquisite Undead, vampires, <7K flash/shorts, $30 for <1.5K $65 for anything longer, until Sept 1 [link]
- 🪶Also poetry ($30)
- ⚡️🩳Fairy Tale Review, “new” fairy tales and work about old school fairy tales, <6K flash/shorts, $50, until June 15 [link]
- ⚡️Flash Fiction Online, SFFH but also pretty open to whatever, 0.5-1K flash, $100, until June 30 [link]
- ⚡️Flash Point SF, SFF, 0.1-1K flash, 2 c/w, until July 31 [link]
- ⚡️If There’s Anyone Left SFF, <1K flash, 8 c/w, POC, LGBTQ+, disabled, and members of marginalized genders only, until July 15 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Jurassic Ghosts, dino ghosts in Alberta, Canada, <7.5 flash/shorts, $50 CDN, until June 30 [link]
- ⚡️manywor(l)ds, any (including multimedia), <1K flash/things, $10, queer/disabled/neurodivergent authors only, until Jul 31 [link]
- 🩳📚️Mertails, merfolk, 2-10K shorts/novelettes, 1 c/w AUD, until June 30 [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)
- ⚡️Night Shades, “speculative” (get weird w/it), <0.5 flash, $75, until ??? [link]
- ⚡️🩳NYGEL, monster erotica, <4K flash/shorts, $20 originals $10 reprints, until ??? [link]
- 🩳ONE, horror, 2-4K shorts, 5 c/w CDN, until June 30 [link]
- 🩳📚️Passing Strange: Queer Weird Arthurian Tales, 3-10K shorts/novelettes, 5 c/w ($500 max), until Aug 31 [link]
- ⚡️🩳 Phobos Magazine, “The uncanny states of America”, <2K flash/shorts, 8 c/w, until July 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]
- ⚡️🩳PseudoPod, horror stories that first came out in an anthology or collection this year (so reprints only), <6K flash/shorts, $100 for shorts $20 for flash, until July 30 [link]
- ⚡️🩳📚️Savagery on the Salty Seas, oceany horror, <10K flash/shorts/novelettes, $50, until July 10 (or 15? they have both on the same page) [link]
- 🩳📚️Short Story, Long, any, 2-8K shorts, $150, until June 30 [link]
- 🩳Side Hustle: Horror Stories for Late Capitalism, 1-5K shorts, 5 c/w, until June 14 (queer/disabled/BIPOC authors get until June 21) [link]
- 🩳SLUGGER, horror, 1-4K shorts, $25, until June 15 [link]
- 🩳Small Town Weirdness, 2-5K shorts, 20 GBP, until June 30 [link]
- ⚡️SmokeLong Quarterly, any (fiction or nonfiction), <1K flash, $100, until June 15 [link]
- 🪶SpecPoVerse, speculative poetry, <100 lines (regular poem) <500 words (prose poem), $5 per poem, until June 30 [link]
- 🩳📚️Tales to Terrify, horror, 2-10K shorts/novelettes, 3 c/w, no specific close date [link]
- ⚡️🩳The Truth we Carry, stories about the survivor experience, <3K flash/shorts, $100, survivors of domestic abuse and sex trafficking only, until June 30 [link]
- 🩳Thyme Travelers, SFFH, 1-5K shorts, 8 c/w, Palestinian writers only, until Aug 31 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Tractor Beam, “soil fiction” for their water issue, <6K flash/shorts, $1,000, until June 30 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Trollbreath Magazine, SFFH, <7.5K flash/shorts, 4 c/w, until Oct 31 [link]
- 🪶Also poetry ($25 per)
- Also nonfiction (“articles” <2.5K, $40)
- 📚️🪶Troublemaker Firestarter, any, this one is actually a little weird it’s full collections (30-100 pages of stuff) of shorts/poems/nonfiction, $100 + royalties, until June 30 [link]
- ⚡️🩳Whim and Wander, “stories that reflect transcendent goodness and the triumph of light over darkness,” <5K flash/shorts, $20, until ??? [link]
- 🪶Also poetry ($10 per)
Open SOON (later this month)(so mark your calendars!)
