These outlets pay $50 to $320 for fiction. Many also accept other genres, like non-fiction and poetry. They’re open now, or will open soon for submissions. — S. Kalekar
Absynthe
This literary magazine is open for submissions, for its Spring 2022 issue. “We accept all genres from poetry, to prose, to creative nonfiction and anything in between. We do not accept academic essays”. They also accept artwork.
Deadline: 28 February 2022
Length: Up to 2,000 words for prose, up to 4 pages of poetry
Pay: $75
Details here.
Night Shift Radio: The Storyteller Series
Night Shift Radio podcast has The Storyteller Series and they choose two stories to publish each month. One story will be chosen for the Full Cast Audiobook treatment; that author will receive $50 for audio rights and non-exclusive print rights. A second piece will be chosen for their mid-month print only piece. The author of that piece will be offered $25. They publish fiction, non-fiction, memoir – anything that reads with tension and excitement. They will read work from 21st-28th during certain months: February, May, August, and November.
Reading period: 21-28 February 2022
Length: 7,000-10,000 words
Pay: $25, $50 (see guidelines)
Details here (episodes) and here (guidelines).
en bloc
They publish fiction, poetry, art, and photography. Submissions are ongoing; for issue 4, the deadline is 1 March 2022 (see ‘Is there a deadline?’ in FAQ).
Deadline: 1 March 2022 for Issue 4
Length: Unspecified
Pay: £35 per side as they appear in the magazine
Details here.
Wyngraf
This is a new cozy fantasy magazine (no science fiction or urban fantasy), and they’ll open briefly in March for submissions. “Often fantasy means the presence of magic, but not always… Low-magic and no-magic stories are welcome”. Stories should have a pre-modern technology level (their cutoff is about early 19th century). They want secondary worlds, do not want stories set on our earth, prefer fantasy to fairy tales, and human-only settings are welcome; see guidelines for these, and other, details. Please do not send submissions outside of their reading period.
Reading period: 1-8 March 2022
Length: 4,000-10,000 words
Pay: $0.01/word
Details here.
(And Lackington’s is open now for work on the ‘Prehistories’ theme; they want speculative fiction of 1,500-5,000 words – the speculative element may be subtle or overt; they pay CAD0.01/word, and the deadline is 31 March 2022.)
Dark Matter Magazine: Human Monsters Anthology
Dark Matter Magazine was established in 2020. They publish science fiction and horror stories, work “on the shadow side of reality”. They are reading submissions for their first trade anthology, in the horror fiction genre. “We are looking for stories centered around one of our favorite sub-genres, Human Monsters. We enjoy twisty-turny, dark, psychological, thrilling, dangerous, menacing, gothic, strange, ugly, murderous, messed-up tales of people doing awful, no-good, very bad things to one another. We are not looking for anything cosmic, paranormal, science fiction, cryptid/creature, or supernatural at this time. Just monsters in human skin”.
Deadline: 15 March 2022
Length: 2,000-4,000 words
Pay: $0.08/word
Details here.
Mascara Literary Review: Resilience
Mascara Literary Review is an Australia-based journal. They want submissions of fiction (including flash fiction), non-fiction, and poetry on the ‘Resilience’ theme for their first print anthology. Their guidelines say, “Resilience looks upwards to the ever-changing, ever-present skies, where fingers and fist touch the horizon. Resilience is often deeply imagined and hard won. Resilience, by turn, is fervent, supple, rhizomatic, generative. Like the beguiling evenness of an orchid, resilience is enduring and delicate.
Against the odds, the impediments and rigid boundaries that may limit our lives, we channel resilience as our guide and our key to rejuvenation and regeneration. Resilience offers a futuristic and promising gaze into the future: What does it look like? How did we get here? What have we lost and/or inherited?”
Deadline: 20 March 2022
Length: Up to 3,000 words for prose; up to 3 poems
Pay: AUD200
Details here.
B Cubed Press: Three themes
They are open for speculative fiction, essays, and poetry submissions for three anthologies. They will also accept reprints.
— Madam President: “Madam President is the name on the door.
Who that is and what it means is up to you.” Deadline: 30 March 2022
— Alternative Holidays: “Holidays as seen through the speculative fiction window”. Deadline: 30 March 2022
— Scott’s Planet: This is a shared-world anthology. “FTL Travel Happened. Putting Colonies in space became cheap. Everyone had one. Then the bubble burst. The Colonies were abandoned. But not everyone wanted to leave. This is their story.” Deadline: 30 May 2022
Deadlines: 30 March for Madam President and Alternative Holidays; 30 May 2022 for Scott’s Planet
Length: 500-5,000 words for Scott’s Planet; for Madam President and Alternative Holidays, “Story length for our books average about 2200 words but have ranged from 100 to 7500 words. However, we only use one or two stories over 5000 words and our advice is to keep it under 5K, unless we communicate in advance.”
Pay: $0.03/word + royalties
Details here.
West Branch
This respected literary magazine is published thrice-yearly, and they accept fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and translations. It is published from Bucknell University.
Deadline: 1 April 2022
Length: Up to 30 pages of prose; up to six poems
Pay: $0.05/word for prose up to $100; $50 for poetry
Details here.
Epoch Magazine
This literary magazine is run by Cornell University, and has been in publication since 1947. They publish fiction (short short to novella length), poetry, essays, cartoons, screenplays, graphic art, and graphic fiction. They’re reading submissions for Issue 70. They accept work by literary agents year round, and have an open reading period from 15 September to 15 April. They accept work by mail only.
Deadline: 15 April 2022
Length: Up to five poems, up to three short shorts or one longer work for fiction
Pay: Minimum $50 for poetry; up to $150 for fiction
Details here.
Consequence Forum
Consequence Forum is an independent, non-profit organization that publishes two monthly features online (in addition to other online content) and a print journal in the fall and the spring. They publish fiction, nonfiction (interviews, reviews, essays, and narrative nonfiction), poetry, reviews, visual art, and translations focused on the human consequences and realities of war and geopolitical violence. Submissions are considered for either the print journal or an online feature. One way they determine if a piece is better suited for online is if it lends itself to the electronic medium (i.e. longer works, work that uses space in innovative ways, pieces easily accompanied by audio and/or video, etc).
Deadline: 15 April 2022
Length: Prose up to 5,000 words; up to 5 poems
Pay: $40-80 for print prose and $80 for online prose; $40 per online or print poem; $20-40 for reviews; $200 for art
Details here.
Bio: S. Kalekar is the pseudonym of a regular contributor to this magazine. She is the author of 182 Short Fiction Publishers. She can be reached here.
