These outlets pay up to about $500 for fiction, and many of them also accept other genres, like non-fiction and poetry. They are open now, or will open soon for submissions. – S. Kalelar
The Humber Literary Review
They accept work from Canadian writers only, and especially welcome work from Canadian underrepresented writers. They want fiction, creative nonfiction, personal essays and poetry for their spring/summer print issue. They also accept review pitches (not unsolicited reviews). The magazine is affiliated with Humber College.
Deadline: 13 October 2024
Length: 2,500-5,000 words for fiction, 2,000-5,000 words for essays, 3-6 poems
Pay: CAD100
Details here and here.
Cast of Wonders
This is a young adult (YA) speculative fiction online magazine and podcast, from the Escape Artists suite of magazines. They have extensive guidelines about what they consider to be YA, and welcome submissions from writers under 18 years of age, as well. They also accept translations and reprints.
Deadline: 14 October 2024 (see schedule)
Length: Up to 6,000 words (see guidelines)
Pay: $0.08/word for originals
Details here and here.
Tenebrous Press: Skull & Laurel
The Skull and Laurel is a quarterly magazine of New Weird short fiction by Tenebrous Press. They want Weird Horror, Dark Fantasy, and Dark Science Fiction. They also accept translations and reprints. The press publishes works of other lengths, too (novels, novellas, and novelettes). They will soon open for short fiction submissions; submissions of other lengths are currently open, as are submissions for a reprint anthology/award. Their submission portal for short fiction will open during the submission period.
Opens on: 15 October 2024 for short fiction
Length: 100 to 7,499 words for short fiction
Pay: $0.03/word for original short fiction
Details here and here.
Lunate
This UK-based literary magazine has just opened a short reading period. “We welcome both fiction and essays (and work that occupies the intriguing hinterland between fiction and non-fiction.)” They do not want genre/commercial fiction.
Deadline: 20th October 2024
Length: 2,000-10,000 words for fiction
Pay: £100
Details here.
Mud Season Review
They publish fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. For fiction, “We are looking for fully realized stories that remind us of what it means to be human, that take risks, that show us something new, and that stand up over multiple reads, deepening with each encounter.” Please note, they may close submissions early if they reach their Submittable cap.
Deadline: 31 October 2024, or until filled
Length: Up to 6,000 words for prose, 3-5 poems
Pay: $50; and $15 for poets and artists whose work appears in The Take: Mud Season Review
Details here and here.
Belmont Story Review
This is a US-based magazine; their website says, “Belmont Story Review is a national magazine of literary arts, faith and culture.” They publish “new and established writers passionate about their craft, fearlessly encountering difficult ideas, seeking to explore the human experience. We feature works of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. “Faith” is not a specific religious perspective but a broad idea of faith is important for all of our selected publications.” They accept fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Please see their notes about payment, including, “Only contributors able to receive payment via paper check in the U.S. or Canada can be paid, others agree automatically by submitting that their location outside the U.S. or Canada does not guarantee them pay other than 3 in-kind copies of the issue in which they are printed, should they be selected for a print volume.”
Deadline: 31 October 2024
Length: Up to 12,000 words for prose, up to 5 poems
Pay: $100 for prose, $50 for poetry
Details here and here.
Augur Magazine
This is a Canadian magazine of speculative fiction and poetry; they also accept translations. They are accepting unthemed as well as submissions around the theme, ‘A Natural Desire’. They are open for general submissions (from all writers) until end-October, and have an extended submission period for Canadian writers who are BIPOC, trans, and/or disabled during the first two weeks of November (see guidelines).
Deadline: 31 October 2024 for general submissions, submissions from Canadian underrepresented writers only from 1-14 November 2024
Length: Up to 5,000 words for fiction, up to 5 poems
Pay: CAD100/poem and CAD0.14/word for prose
Details here.
(Submissions are also open for their sibling magazine, Tales & Feathers, for cozy short fantasy. They’re open to all writers through October, and internationally to writers who are BIPOC, trans, and/or disabled during the first two weeks of November. They pay CAD0.14/word for short fiction of up to 2,500 words, and a flat fee for flash fiction.)
Banshee
This journal, from Banshee Press, accepts fiction (including flash), non-fiction, and poetry from Irish and international writers. They are reading submissions for their 19th issue (spring/summer 2025). Deadline: 31 October 2024
Length: Up to 5,000 words for prose, up to 4 poems
Pay: €250 for a story/essay; €75 for flash fiction; €50/poem
Details here (also click on ‘We believe in paying writers’ in their submission guidelines for rates.)
Solarpunk Conflicts Anthology
This is a fiction and poetry anthology. There are detailed guidelines on the theme, including, “Solarpunk is optimistic. Solarpunk is hopeful. Solarpunk is about change and unity. Solarpunks seem to agree on these points. But what are the points of conflict within solarpunk? When do solarpunks disagree, and why? Is solarpunk a monolith, is it fractured and disparate, or is it somewhere in between? What spaces of tension exist within both genre and community that can flare to sudden flame at the right (or wrong) provocation? And, what do these conflicts look like in a solarpunk world?
This anthology is about these conflicts. Stories should explore a solarpunk conflict, either one manufactured entirely for the story, or one based in a real-world point of contention you feel currently divides solarpunks, or that has done so in the past. Conflicts can be as small or as grand as you would like, though the story as a whole should be legibly solarpunk and should not champion a non-solarpunk ethos.”
Deadline: 1 November 2024
Length: 2,500–8,500 words for fiction, up to 2 pages for poetry
Pay: CAD0.05/word for fiction, CAD0.25/word for the first two hundred words of poetry, and CAD0.10/word after (see guidelines)
Details here.
(Submissions are also open for Solarpunk Magazine, for “hopeful short stories and poetry that strive for a utopian ideal, that are set in futures where communities are optimistically struggling to solve or adapt to climate change, to create or maintain a world in which humanity, technology, and nature coexist in harmony rather than in conflict.” Deadline is 14 October 2024 for fiction of 1,500-7,5600 words and poetry, non-fiction is open on an ongoing basis. Pay is $0.08/word for fiction, $40/poem, and $75/essay or article, details here and here.)
Radon Journal
Radon is a triannual journal publishing fiction and poetry relating to science fiction, anarchism, transhumanism, and dystopia. They are open for submissions on an ongoing basis. They also accept reprints of fiction and poetry.
Deadline: Ongoing
Length: Fiction up to 3,000 words, up to 5 poems
Pay: $0.02/word for original fiction, $20 for original poetry
Details here and here.
Bio: S. Kalekar is the pseudonym of a regular contributor to this magazine. She can be reached here.
