Sharpen your writing pencils. Here are a few markets whose deadlines are looming over us.
Warm up the keyboard, these submission deadlines are closing fast – mixed/multi genre markets:
Nov 2021
Deadline: November 30th, 2021; opens November 15, 2021
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Quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features original short stories, poetry, and artwork. Theme of Justice. Speculative fiction is weird, almost unclassifiable. It’s fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and literary. Send us your strange, misshapen stories with enough emotional heft to break a heart, with prose that’s as clear and delicious as broth. Payment: $30.
https://apparitionlit.com/submissions/
Deadline: November 30, 2021, opens October 1, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Stories, poetry, nonfiction about the paranormal. Payment: $25 for fiction, $20 for articles, $7 for reviews, $6 per poem. Submissions are accepted Feb 1 – Mar 31, Jun 1 – Jul 31, Oct 1 – Nov 30.
https://www.hiraethsffh.com/parabnormal-magazine-guidelines
Deadline: November 30th, 2021; opens November 1, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Speculative fiction and poetry—science fiction, fantasy, and horror, but also compelling work that blurs the lines between these and falls outside of neat genre categories. Payment: For fiction, $0.01/word (1 cent a word) USD. For poetry, a flat rate of $5 USD per accepted piece. For artwork, a flat rat of $60 for cover art.
https://kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/
Deadline: November 30, 2021. Fee to submit online; no fee for postal submissions.
(checked Jul 28/21)
Genre: Poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Payment: $10 per page, with a $200 maximum.
https://artsandsciences.utulsa.edu/nimrod/submissions/
Deadline: November 30, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Parhelion is a young but established literary magazine based in Richmond, Virginia. We are now open to fiction, flash, poetry, and creative nonfiction submissions for our Winter 2022 issue. We remain open to pitches, articles, and content for features all year round. To see what kind of work we publish, and to get more detailed information on submitting, visit us online. As always, writers of all backgrounds and identities are welcome.
https://parhelionliterary.com/submission-guidelines/
Deadline: November 30, 2021. Note: Submit early in the month.
(checked Jul 28/21)
Fiction (flash and short stories), memoirs, and poetry. with a pop-culture twist. Payment: $50 per author (via PayPal) for our web issues. Payment for print is $5 per page, minimum of $20, plus 2 contributor copies and a 1-year subscription. FREE SUBMISSIONS: January, March, May, August, September, November.
https://splitlipthemag.com/submit
Deadline: November 30th, 2021; opens September 15, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Fiction, including excerpts from novels, creative nonfiction, art, and poetry. Payment: $60 CAD per published page.
https://thefiddlehead.ca/submit
Deadline: November 30, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Funny, speculative fiction short stories and poetry that embody The Fuckening. All stories must be science fiction, fantasy, horror, or a combination of the three. “These stories can be witty, goofy, dark, sarcastic…whatever, we don’t care, as long as they are speculative fiction and contain a reference to The Fuckening and maintain a general theme of fuckery (we mean this in the non-pornographic sense).” Payment: $10.
http://scifilampoon.com/the-fuckening/
Deadline: November 30, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Previously unpublished writing and art. Payment: $40 per book review, $40 per poem, $40 per photograph or piece of visual art, $15 per page for prose (min $45 and max $105).
https://newsouthernfugitives.com/submit/
Deadline: November 28, 2021; opens November 21, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Do you have a story you’d like us to feature on The Storyteller Series? Fiction, non-fiction, memoir – 7,000-10,000 words. Payment: $50 or $25.
https://nightshiftradio.com/submissions
Deadline: November 15, 2021. See themes
(checked Jul 28/21)
Theme of Wonder. Parabola is a quarterly journal devoted to the exploration of the quest for meaning as it is expressed in the world’s myths, symbols, and religious traditions, with particular emphasis on the relationship between this store of wisdom and our modern life. Original essays and translations, poetry, reviews. Payment: Not specified.
https://parabola.org/submissions/
Deadline: November 15, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Restrictions: Open to writers who specifically identify as queer and BIPOC. Fiction, poetry, and essays that are centered within the cityscape. Payment: $20-$55.
http://www.speculativecity.com/submissions/
Deadline: November 7, 2021; opens November 1, 2021 (1st week every month)
(checked Jul 28/21)
Fantasy and dark fantasy. Short Story 1500-7500 words. (Stories of 5000 words or less are preferred.) Flash Fiction: Up to 1500 words. Poetry: prefers shorter poems. Payment: 8 cents per word for original short stories and flash fiction. $40 per poem.
https://adamant.moksha.io/publication/fantasy/guidelines
Deadline: November 7, 2021; opens to submissions on November 1, 2021 (poetry submissions currently closed)
(checked Jul 28/21)
Feminist-friendly work of any variety, but as a general rule your piece should be under 2000 words (50 lines for poetry, max. 3 poems) and able to be classified as “fiction”, “culture”, “memoir”, “column”, “poetry”, and/or “review”. Payment: $60 AUD.
Submissions to Scum are open the first week (from the 1st to the 7th) of every month. The rest of the month, submissions are closed.
https://www.scum-mag.com/submit-to-scum/
Deadline: November 3, 2021; opens October 1, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Fairy tales, and essays on theme of “Healers, Midwives and Cunning Folk.” Payment: $100. US dollars only. Essays: $50.
https://enchantedconversationmag.blogspot.com/p/submissions.html
Deadline: November 2, 2021 (Submissions window: 1st and second day each month)
(checked Jul 28/21)
Speculative stories. Payment: 6 cents/word for original work, 2 cents/word for reprints, 2-6 cents/word for new fact-based work, 1-4 cents/word for reprinted fact articles, $1/line for new poetry, 50 cents/line for poetry reprints (poetry up to 40 lines). *Allows reprints
https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/submissions/
Deadline: November 1, 2021; opens August 1, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Poetry, short fiction, drama, and creative non-fiction. Payment: $3 per page (Only pays American writers.).
https://ellipsis.submittable.com/submit
Deadline: November 1, 2021; Opens September 1, 2021
(checked Jun 28/21)
Genres: Poetry, prose, cross-genre work. “Foglifter welcomes daring and thoughtful work by queer and trans writers in all forms, and we are especially interested in cross-genre, intersectional, marginal, and transgressive work.” Payment: $25.
https://foglifter.submittable.com/submit
Deadline: November 1, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Genres: Fiction, poetry, nonfiction using the first line provided. (See site.) Payment: $25.00 – $50.00 for fiction, $5.00 – $10.00 for poetry, and $25.00 for nonfiction.
http://www.thefirstline.com/submission.htm
Deadline: November 1, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Theme of Get It Over With! Fiction, poetry, and art on theme: Get It Over With! Payment: $10-$25 for short fiction and artwork, $10 for poetry. Accepts reprints.
http://themaliterarysociety.com/submissions.html
Oct 2021
Deadline: October 31, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Chapbook manuscripts in the genres of poetry, speculative diary, and hybrid work that confounds definition 20-50 pages in length. “We lean heavily toward more experimental, non-narrative work in general.” Payment: $200 & 10 complimentary copies.
https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/dream-pop-press-YicB3
Deadline: October 31, 2021; opens October 1, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Restrictions: Open to writers who identify as an immigrant or member of a diaspora in the broadest definitions of the terms. “This includes, but is not limited to, first- and second-generation immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, persons who identify with one or more diaspora communities, persons who have been displaced or whose heritage has been erased due to colonialism/imperialism, transnational/transracial adoptees, and anyone whose heritage and history includes ‘here and elsewhere’. We especially encourage BIPOC creators who identify as the above to submit their work.”
Stories, essays, and art: fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and any genre in between or around it, as long as there’s a speculative element. Payment: 0.08/word for fiction, $100 for nonfiction, and $40-300 for art.
https://www.khoreomag.com/submissions/
Deadline: October 15, 2021; opens July 15, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Fiction, poetry, nonfiction, reviews, visual art, and translations focused on the human consequences and realities of war and geopolitical violence. Payment: $40 – $80.
https://www.consequenceforum.org/submissions
Deadline: October 15, 2021; opens August 1, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Restrictions: Writers must be neurodivergent. Poetry, fiction up to 6000 words, CNF up to 6000 words, Art, Photography, Comics. Payment: 3 cents/word for prose. $1 line for poetry. $30 – $40 for art.
https://thefatcoyote.com/blog/submission-guidelines/
Deadline: October 7, 2021; opens October 1, 2021 (1st week every month)
(checked Jul 28/21)
Fantasy and dark fantasy. Short Story 1500-7500 words. (Stories of 5000 words or less are preferred.) Flash Fiction: Up to 1500 words. Poetry: prefers shorter poems. Payment: 8 cents per word for original short stories and flash fiction. $40 per poem.
https://adamant.moksha.io/publication/fantasy/guidelines
Deadline: October 7, 2021; opens to submissions on October 1, 2021 (poetry submissions currently closed)
(checked Jul 28/21)
Feminist-friendly work of any variety, but as a general rule your piece should be under 2000 words (50 lines for poetry, max. 3 poems) and able to be classified as “fiction”, “culture”, “memoir”, “column”, “poetry”, and/or “review”. Payment: $60 AUD.
Submissions to Scum are open the first week (from the 1st to the 7th) of every month. The rest of the month, submissions are closed.
https://www.scum-mag.com/submit-to-scum/
Deadline: October 4, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Stories, art and poetry that examine the connection between animals and humans, and the ways we and our lives are more similar than people assume. Payment: $25 for featured writers, $50 for art.
https://www.honeyguidemag.com/submit
Deadline: October 3, 2021; opens October 1, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Fairy tales, and essays on theme of “Healers, Midwives and Cunning Folk.” Payment: $100. US dollars only. Essays: $50.
https://enchantedconversationmag.blogspot.com/p/submissions.html
Deadline: October 2, 2021 (Submissions window: 1st and second day each month)
(checked Jul 28/21)
Speculative stories. Payment: 8 cents/word for original work, 2 cents/word for reprints, 2-8 cents/word for new fact-based work, 1-4 cents/word for reprinted fact articles, $1/line for new poetry, 50 cents/line for poetry reprints (poetry up to 40 lines). Allows reprints
https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/submissions/
Deadline: October 1, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Restrictions: Open to marginalized creators, particularly work by disabled and/or LGBTQIA+ folx. Fiction or poetry with elements of Southern Gothic or horror. Theme: (re) birth. Births, baptisms, beginnings. “Cicada’s Lament wants your hanging moss and blue porch ceilings. We want your deer skulls and old ghosts, your ancient and decrepit houses.” Payment: $5.
https://www.cicadalament.com/submissions.html
Sep 2021
Deadline: September 30th, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Fiction, CNF, Poetry, Art & Photography. Query first for Reviews & Interviews. Payment: $10 CAD. Though Qwerty has primarily published literary fiction and fine art, we have no qualms with publishing genre fiction that subverts convention, experimental work that inverts tradition in pursuit of innovative storytelling, or images that play on the senses in unusual ways.
https://qwertymagazine.submittable.com/submit
Deadline: September 30, 2021. Note: Submit early in the month.
(checked Jul 28/21)
Fiction (flash and short stories), memoirs, and poetry. with a pop-culture twist. Payment: $50 per author (via PayPal) for our web issues. Payment for print is $5 per page, minimum of $20, plus 2 contributor copies and a 1-year subscription. FREE SUBMISSIONS: January, March, May, August, September, November. TIP JAR SUBMISSIONS ONLY: February, April, June, October, December. We don’t accept submissions in July.
https://splitlipthemag.com/submit
Deadline: September 30, 2021
(checked Jul 24/21)
Genres: flash fiction, creative nonfiction. 500 word limit. Buoyed by a sense of freedom and renewal here in northwestern Ireland with Covid restrictions being lifted, we’ve decided the next edition of our ‘Wild Atlantic Writing Awards’ (WAWA) should be completely open, meaning you can choose whatever theme you wish. And to add a little spice to the mix and help focus your mind, one teeny-weeny challenge is that the title of your story MUST be 3 (three) words only, no more, no less.
1,000 euro in prize money.
https://www.irelandwritingretreat.com/wawa
Deadline: Sep 25, 2021; Opens June 26, 2021
(checked Jul 28/21)
Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Payment: $100 per nonfiction piece, $50 fiction, $15 per poem.
The Puritan seeks submissions all year round, from anywhere in the world.
Submissions received between Dec. 26 and Mar. 25 are considered for the spring issue, published in early May. Those received between Mar. 26 and June 25 are considered for the summer issue, published in late early Aug. Those received between June 26 and Sept. 25 are considered for the fall issue, published in Nov. Those received between Sept. 26 and Dec. 25 are considered for the winter issue, published in Feb.
http://puritan-magazine.com/submissions/
Deadline: September 22, 2021
(checked Jun 26/21)
Creative writing and art about environmental justice. Payment: 8 cents a word for prose, $30 per page for poetry, art negotiable, minimum $25 per piece.
https://reckoning.moksha.io/publication/reckoning
Deadline: September 7, 2021. Opens to submissions on September 1
(checked Jun 26/21)
Fantasy short stories, flash fiction, poetry. Payment: 8 cents per word for original short stories and flash fiction. $40 per poem.
https://adamant.moksha.io/publication/fantasy/guidelines
Deadline: September 7, 2021; opens August 1, 2021. Submit early in the month to avoid submission fees. **Due to a recent development, we will not be open to submissions this month. More details to follow shortly.**
(checked Jul 28/21)
Poetry, fiction, & visual art. Payment: $10 per poem, flash fiction or visual art piece, and $20 per long-form prose piece. Free submissions until Submittable-allotted monthly free submissions limit is reached.
https://intothevoidmagazine.com/submissions/
Deadline: September 7, 2021; opens to submissions on September 1, 2021
(checked Jun 26/21)
Feminist-friendly work of any variety, but as a general rule your piece should be under 2000 words (50 lines for poetry, max. 3 poems) and able to be classified as “fiction”, “culture”, “memoir”, “column”, “poetry”, and/or “review”. Payment: $60 AUD.
Submissions to Scum are open the first week (from the 1st to the 7th) of every month. The rest of the month, submissions are closed.
https://www.scum-mag.com/submit-to-scum/
Deadline: September 6, 2021
(checked Jul 27/21)
Poetry, creative nonfiction/essays, fiction/short stories/flash fiction, scripts and digital media (photography, drawings, podcasts, and short films). “We are especially looking for content from vulnerable populations and those who care for them; content that connects us with every community, makes us feel something, helps us see illness, wellness, health, or the healthcare environment differently, and inspires equality in healthcare and the world.” Payment: Not specified.
https://pleaseseeme.com/submissions/
Deadline: September 5, 2021
(checked Jul 27/21)
Restrictions: Open to Black women writers. Genre: Short fiction, narrative, personal essays. Payment: $50 – $75. Our digital platform, midnightandindigo.com features a diverse array of voices that connect readers to content featuring strong female lead characters or a Black female POV; across the spectrum of experience.
https://midnightindigo.submittable.com/submit
Deadline: September 3, 2021
(checked Jun 26/21)
Fairy tales, and essays on theme of “Healers, Midwives and Cunning Folk.” Payment: $100. US dollars only. Essays: $50.
https://enchantedconversationmag.blogspot.com/p/submissions.html
Deadline: September 2, 2021 (Submissions window: 1st and second day each month)
(checked Jun 26/21)
*Allows reprints
Speculative stories. Payment: 6 cents/word for original work, 2 cents/word for reprints, 2-6 cents/word for new fact-based work, 1-4 cents/word for reprinted fact articles, $1/line for new poetry, 50 cents/line for poetry reprints (poetry up to 40 lines).
https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/submissions/
Deadline: September 2, 2021
(checked Jun 21/21)
Interim is looking for women’s writing that explores the meaning and ethics of place in the broadest sense of the word, writing that seeks location as dwelling and indwelling simultaneously so as better to know what it means to belong somewhere. Speaking of the house, in The Poetics of Space Bachelard claims “all really inhabited space bears the essence of the notion of home.” Send poems, essays, flash fiction, and/or hybrid forms that play with notions of place for our fourth all women’s print anthology, forthcoming in December, 2021. Because we believe the truth is experimental, we’ll especially appreciate work with innovative approaches.
https://www.interimpoetics.org/
Deadline: September 1, 2021 Theme: Falling Into Place – now closed for submissions
(checked Jul 27/21)
Genre: Short stories and poetry. See themes. Payment: 20.00 USD for featured authors, or $10.00 USD for stories published on their &More page and $5.00 USD for poems.
https://bwgwritersroundtable.com/submissions-contacts/
Deadline: September 1, 2021
(checked Jun 26/21)
Short stories, creative nonfiction, and poems on theme of Escapism. Payment: £25 for each story/poem.
https://www.moonflakepress.com/submit
Deadline: September 1, 2021; opens July 2, 2021
(checked Jun 27/21)
Fiction, nonfiction, art – all genres. “We seek to publish the most challenging and thought provoking flash fiction and essays. We believe only by confronting the bare bones of reality we understand our place in the world.” Payment: 5 cents/word.
https://theantihumanists.com/
Deadline: September 1, 2021
(checked Jul 24/21)
The theme for the Fall Issue is “An Archive.” Superpresent is a quarterly magazine of the arts. Superpresent is available free online and a limited run of print copies for each issue. Superpresent publishes poems, short stories, essays, visual art pieces, experimental art, video art, and sound art. Poetry 1 page, other written forms 500-2000 words.
Deadlines:
Spring – March 1
Summer – June 1
Fall – September 1
Winter – December 1
https://superpresent.wordpress.com/call/
Deadline: September 1, 2021. Submit early in the month to avoid fees
(checked Jun 26/21)
Genre: Poetry, prose, art. Payment: Prose: $100+, Poetry: $75 per poem. Illustration: $100 per page. Art Portfolios: $200 for up to 12 images
https://www.thesouthamptonreview.com/submit/
Deadline: September 1, 2021; Opens July 1, 2021
(checked Jul 27/21)
Genre: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, Art, Photography, Combined Work from underprivileged individuals. Payment: $5.
https://thewiresdreammagazine.wordpress.com/submit/
Deadline: September 1, 2021
(checked Jul 27/21)
Gritty urban fiction, Crime/Mystery Fiction, Ghosts, The Supernatural, Literary Essays. “We’re interested in essays that talk about contemporary crime fiction, or essays that walk the path between, say, 19th century fiction and fiction in the here and now.” Payment: $130.00 and two contributor’s copies for fiction over 2,000 words. $65.00 and two contributor’s copies for fiction under 2,000 words. $50.00 and two contributor’s copies for literary essays.
https://vautrin.pub/submissions/
Aug 2021
Deadline: August 31, 2021. Opens August 15, 2021
(checked May 30/21)
Genre: Speculative fiction and poetry on theme of Wonder. Payment: $30.
We publish poems and stories between 1k-5k words in January, April, July, and October. We also hold monthly flash fiction contests between the 1st and 15th of each month. Flash stories must be under a 1000 words and be inspired or based on the chosen theme. Full details for submission guidelines are below.
https://apparitionlit.com/submissions/
Deadline: August 31, 2021
(checked May 30/21)
Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, music. The theme is “The City.” We are seeking art, words, and sounds that explore, critique, celebrate and interrogate the urban landscape, culture and environment. The city, a place, should play a central role in the work and should be a central character or focus. We are seeking a diverse range of city representation from large cities to small, from real to imagined. Payment: $50.
https://www.blackcoffeevinyl.com/submit
Deadline: August 31st, 2021
(checked Jul 26/21)
Essays and creative non-fiction, reportage, fiction, poetry, memoir and picture stories. “This edition of Griffith Review explores the breadth of our educational experiences – from preschool to postgrad, from private to public, and from sandstone to the school of life.” Payment: Negotiated.
https://www.griffithreview.com/submit-to-griffith-review/
Deadline: August 31, 2021
(checked May 29/21)
Haunted Waters Press seeking submissions for consideration in the 2nd edition of our fiction anthology Tin Can Literary Review—$250 per published story. Also seeking works of fiction, poetry, flash, and Penny Fiction for paid print publication in the 19th issue of our literary journal From the Depths. Works appearing online in SPLASH! are eligible for future offers of paid publication. All submissions considered for 2021 HWP Awards. Your words and endeavors are important to us! Custom artwork, author interviews, and the HWP Contributor Showcase are just a few of the ways we show our appreciation. Visit us today! www.hauntedwaterspress.com
https://www.hauntedwaterspress.com/?utm_source=newpages&utm_medium=classified&utm_campaign=2021_cfs&utm_content=haunted_waters_press
Deadline: August 31st, 2021, opens August 1, 2021
(checked Jun 26/21)
Speculative fiction and poetry—science fiction, fantasy, and horror, but also compelling work that blurs the lines between these and falls outside of neat genre categories. Payment: For fiction, $0.01/word (1 cent a word) USD. For poetry, a flat rate of $5 USD per accepted piece. For artwork, a flat rat of $60 for cover art.
https://kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/
Deadline: August 31, 2021; opens August 1, 2021
(checked Jul 27/21)
Speculative fiction 1500-5000 words and art on theme of Botanicals. Fantasy, SF, slipstream, post-apocalyptic, magic realism, mythopoeia, folktale, grimdark, weird, or any flavour of ‘punk, it’s all good, BUT WAIT! Read this before submitting — we prefer stories with experimental prose and structures. Payment: 1 cent/word (CAD).
https://lackingtons.com/submissions/
Deadline: August 31st, 2021
(checked Jun 26/21)
Restrictions: To qualify to be published in Prospectus, you must NOT have done EITHER of the following, no matter what category you are submitting to: Have had a collection of poems published that is longer than 48 pages; Have had a collection of short stories, a novella, or a novel published longer than 150 pages. Genre: Poetry, fiction, reviews, art. Payment: $25.
http://www.prospectusliterary.com/submissions2020.php
Deadline: August 31, 2021. Note: Submit early in the month.
(checked May 30/21)
Fiction (flash and short stories), memoirs, and poetry. with a pop-culture twist. Payment: $50 per author (via PayPal) for our web issues. Payment for print is $5 per page, minimum of $20, plus 2 contributor copies and a 1-year subscription. FREE SUBMISSIONS: January, March, May, August, September, November.
https://splitlipthemag.com/submit
Deadline: August 31, 2021 or when 50 submissions received; opens July 1, 2021
(checked Jul 26/21)
Too Well Away Literary Journal offers a new model for publication. We believe it is more valuable to give writers careful, constructive editing leading up to publication than it is to reject their work without feedback. Only work that goes against community guidelines will be rejected. All submissions subject to collaborative editing. Emerging writers are especially encouraged to submit.
https://toowellaway.com/submit/
Deadline: August 28, 2021; opens August 21, 2021
(checked May 30/21)
Fiction, non-fiction, memoir – 7,000-10,000 words. Payment: $50 or $25.
https://nightshiftradio.com/submissions
Deadline: August 22, 2021
(checked Jul 27/21)
We are looking for submissions of poetry, short fiction, creative non-fiction and visual art. Writing that grabs us conveys a unique perspective and honest insight into our world. We are especially interested in underrepresented voices of all kinds, and we want to see submissions from writers and artists of all races, sexualities, nationalities, religions, and genders, as well as disabled and neurodivergent creators. Payment: $21. Fiction/nonfiction 500-5,000 words preferred.
http://typehousemagazine.com/submissions/
Deadline: August 15, 2021
(checked Jul 27/21)
Open to writers located in Canada. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction, art, poetry about food. Theme of Preserve. Payment: $50. August submission deadline is for complete work, skipping the pitching process.
http://www.hungryzine.com/issue-01-preserve-call-for-submissions-pitches/
Deadline: August 15, 2021
(checked Jul 27/21)
Theme of The Golden Rule. Original essays and translations, poetry, reviews. Payment: Not specified. See themes for each quarterly journal.
https://parabola.org/submissions/
Deadline: August 10, 2021; opens May 8, 2021
(checked Jul 27/21)
Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation.
Book of Matches is always interested in protest—interested in protest against the unknowing alive in human existence, in protest against the knowing, too. In essence, Book of Matches both celebrates what burns against the dark, and the assurance of how little it illuminates before going out. Send us your most meaningful lies, your real lives, and the poetry of both that we may see a bit more clearly the stormy seas around us all. Book of Matches desires neither COVID, nor overtly political work. Please begin submissions here: www.bookofmatcheslitmag.com/submit
Deadline: August 7, 2021, opens August 1, 2021
(checked May 30/21)
Speculative fiction and poetry. No horror. Payment: USD $.06/word (six cents a word) up to 1,250 words, and a flat payment of $75.00 for longer stories.
https://www.abyssapexzine.com/submissions/
Deadline: August 7, 2021; Opens August 1, 2021.
(checked Jun 26/21)
Fantasy short stories, flash fiction, poetry. Payment: 8 cents per word for original short stories and flash fiction. $40 per poem.
https://adamant.moksha.io/publication/fantasy/guidelines
Deadline: August 7, 2021
(checked Jul 26/21)
Speculative fiction and poetry about insects, crustaceans, arachnids, or myriapods. Payment: $20. Accepts reprints.
https://perennialpress.submittable.com/submit
Deadline: August 7, 2021; opens to submissions on August 1, 2021
(checked May 30/21)
Feminist-friendly work of any variety, but as a general rule your piece should be under 2000 words (50 lines for poetry, max. 3 poems) and able to be classified as “fiction”, “culture”, “memoir”, “column”, “poetry”, and/or “review”. Payment: $60 AUD.
Submissions to Scum are open the first week (from the 1st to the 7th) of every month. The rest of the month, submissions are closed.
https://www.scum-mag.com/submit-to-scum/
Deadline: August 3, 2021
(checked May 30/21)
Fairy tales, and essays on theme of “Healers, Midwives and Cunning Folk.” Payment: $100. US dollars only. Essays: $50.
https://enchantedconversationmag.blogspot.com/p/submissions.html
Deadline: August 2, 2021 (Submissions window: 1st and second day each month) *closed to Sept for move.
(checked May 30/21)
*Allows reprints
Speculative stories. Payment: 6 cents/word for original work, 2 cents/word for reprints, 2-6 cents/word for new fact-based work, 1-4 cents/word for reprinted fact articles, $1/line for new poetry, 50 cents/line for poetry reprints (poetry up to 40 lines).
https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/submissions/
Deadline: August 1, 2021
(checked Jun 26/21)
Poetry, fiction, essays, and essays in translation. Payment: $15.
https://www.mudroommag.com/submissions-1
Deadline: August 1, 2021
(checked May 31/21)
Genres: Fiction, poetry, nonfiction using the first line provided. (See site.) Payment: $25.00 – $50.00 for fiction, $5.00 – $10.00 for poetry, and $25.00 for nonfiction.
http://www.thefirstline.com/submission.htm
Deadline: August 1, 2021
(checked Jun 26/21)
Short stories, creative nonfiction, and poems on theme of Lush. Payment: £25 for each story/poem.
https://www.moonflakepress.com/submit
Deadline: August 1, 2021; Opens May 1, 2021
(checked Jun 26/21)
Genres: Fiction, poetry, CNF, art. Payment: $10.
http://volneyroadreview.com/submit/
Deadline: August 1, 202
(checked May 27/21)
Restrictions: Open to women only. Genre: Art, poetry and prose, 350 words maximum. Payment: Small honorarium.
https://wemoon.ws/pages/copy-of-submitting-art-writing#write
Jul 2021
Deadline: July 31, 2021. See themes
(checked May 27/21)
Genre: Speculative fiction, art, and poetry about African Diaspora. Length: Short fiction 2,000 – 7,000 words and novelettes up to 15,000 words. Payment: $150 per story. $50 per poem. $300 per novelette.
http://www.fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/
Deadline: July 31, 2021, opens June 1, 2021
(checked May 27/21)
Stories, poetry, nonfiction about the paranormal. Payment: $25 for fiction, $20 for articles, $7 for reviews, $6 per poem. Submissions are accepted Feb 1 – Mar 31, Jun 1 – Jul 31, Oct 1 – Nov 30.
https://www.hiraethsffh.com/parabnormal-magazine-guidelines
Deadline: July 31st, 2021
(checked Jun 26/21)
Science fiction and fantasy. Payment: 1.5 cents/word with a minimum payment of $30 for all submissions, fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Book reviews – $30. Art – $60.
https://sites.google.com/a/newmyths.com/nmwebsite/submissions/sub-2
Deadline: July 31, 2021
(checked May 27/21)
Poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and flash, up to 3000 words on theme of Prohibition. Payment: For prose, 1¢ US per word, and $10 US per poem.
https://www.zoeticpress.com/new-page
Deadline: July 31, 2021
(checked Jun 26/21)
Restrictions: Room publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art by folks of marginalized genders, including but not limited to women (cisgender and transgender), transgender men, Two-Spirit and nonbinary people. Genre: Original short stories, poems, creative non-fiction, or art on theme of Ancestors. Payment: $50 (CAD).
https://roommagazine.com/submit/
Deadline: July 31, 2021
(checked Jun 26/21)
Themed Submissions: Infrastructure
We welcome all fine writing and are especially hunting for pieces which celebrate infrastructure, both external and internal. How do you define infrastructure? What supports you, and where do you turn for strength and comfort? Sleet’s Winter Infrastructure edition will debut in November 2021. See submissions page for guidelines,
www.sleetmagazine.com
Deadline: July 31, 2021
(checked Jun 26/21)
Fiction and poetry by refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants only. They accept non-fiction, reviews, and interview submissions by anyone as long as the subject matter sheds light on the refugee and immigrant life. Payment: £100 per published author in the print issue, and £50 per published author in the online issue.
https://othersideofhope.com/submissions.html
Deadline: July 31, 2021, opens July 1, 2021
(checked May 27/21)
Fiction, poetry. reviews. “We strive to be a platform for marginalized voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere, and to lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers we love. We work to shine a light on stories that build bridges, tear down walls, and speak truth to power.” Payment: $300 divided among all contributors.
https://therumpus.submittable.com/submit
Deadline: July 31, 2021; $2 submission fee per submission
(checked Jun 21/21)
Volney Road Review is paying $10 per accepted piece. Send us your best prose, poetry, art, photography, and comics for issue 4.1.
http://volneyroadreview.com/submit/
Deadline: July 30, 2021
(checked May 27/21)
Restrictions: Open to writers who identify as an immigrant or member of a diaspora in the broadest definitions of the terms. “This includes, but is not limited to, first- and second-generation immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, persons who identify with one or more diaspora communities, persons who have been displaced or whose heritage has been erased due to colonialism/imperialism, transnational/transracial adoptees, and anyone whose heritage and history includes ‘here and elsewhere’. We especially encourage BIPOC creators who identify as the above to submit their work.” Genre: stories, essays, and art: fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and any genre in between or around it, as long as there’s a speculative element. Payment: 0.08/word for fiction, $100 for nonfiction, and $40-300 for art.
https://www.khoreomag.com/submissions/
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