10 Short Story Publishers Seeking Submissions ($50 to $300)

These magazines pay $50-300 for fiction. Some also accept other genres, like non-fiction and poetry. – S. Kalekar

Speculative City: Alternative history
They want speculative fiction, poetry, and essays within the alternative history genre. All works should be centered within a cityscape. 
Deadline: 24 February 2020
Length: Up to 5,500 words for prose
Pay: $20-55
Details here.

New Myths
They publish speculative fiction of every kind, except graphic horror. They also accept non-fiction essays, poems, reviews (query first), and artwork.
Deadline: 28 February 2020
Length: Up to 10,000 words for fiction and non-fiction; up to 5 poems of any length
Pay: 1.5c/word
Details here.

Ninth Letter
They accept fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and translated works. They want work that experiments with form, narrative, and non-traditional subject matter, as well as more traditional literary work. Submissions for the online issue (‘Debts’ theme) are also being accepted currently. 
Deadline: 28 February 2020 for the print edition; 20 March 2020 for the online issue
Length: Up to 8,000 words for prose, 3-6 poems for print; up to 3,500 words for prose, up to three poems for online
Pay: $25/page, up to $150 for print; $75 per story or essay, $25 for poetry for online
Details here.

Funicular Magazine
This magazine publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry from writers in Canada and around the world. They accept some fee-free submissions. Print contributors are paid. There is no payment for work published on the website.
Deadline: End-February 2020
Length: Up to 1,000 words for flash fiction, up to 3,000 words for short stories, up to 3 poems
Pay: CAD10/page for short fiction (up to CAD100); CAD25 per flash fiction piece and poem
Details here.

Andromeda Spaceways
This is an Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror magazine. They say on their website, “We like to think of ourselves as “Australia’s Pulpiest SF Magazine,” and are proud to publish fiction, non-fiction and artwork from around the world.”
Deadline: End-February 2020
Length: Up to 10,000 words for fiction (20,000 word limit for Australia and New Zealand authors, and for subscribers); poems of under 2 pages; articles of at least 100 words
Pay: AUD0.01/word; minimum AUD20, maximum AUD100; AUD10 for poetry and flash fiction; AUD10 for non-fiction above 1,000 words
Details here (link to submission portal; a lot of information about their guidelines, pay rates, etc. is in the FAQ section under various sub-heads).

Midnight Street Anthology #4: Strange Days
This is a sci-fi, horror, slipstream, and weird fiction anthology that sums up the precariousness of modern existence. Their guidelines say, “The world is in a mess. It seems that from a human perspective, we’re pretty well screwed. … Maybe the generation that comes after ours will be able to save the planet for human habitation. Who knows? It seems that this generation has pretty well fucked up everything that would ensure the long-term survival of humanity. Why is that? Greed, political imperatives, narrow-minded thinking, poverty, ignorance. There are many reasons.

It remains true that we are experiencing very strange days. There’s a mass extinction happening and it may well include our species.

What do you think? Can you come up with an original story that reflects this approaching catastrophe?” They also accept reprints.
Deadline: End-February 2020
Length: 2,000-8,000 words
Pay: £50
Details here.

Psychopomp Magazine
They want fiction that redefines the traditional storytelling and genre borders. They like stories that treat the concept of passages, transitions, and state of being betwixt and between. They usually do not publish traditionalist realist fiction or hard genre. Their guidelines also say, “With that said, we are certainly open to publishing more traditional literary work or more hard genre (no fan fiction) so long as it’s really, really good.” They will accept fee-free submissions until 1 March; tip-jar submissions are accepted year round.
Deadline: 1 March 2020
Length: Up to 5,000 words
Pay: $0.02/word, up to $100
Details here.

Hypnos Magazine
This is a magazine of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. They are looking for original, thought-provoking weird fiction, and they prefer longer, more complex work to flash fiction. Their guidelines also say, “we do not automatically reject submissions because of violent, obscene, or otherwise offensive content. We are not, by any means, seeking such works, but we do not reject submissions simply because some readers might, theoretically, find them upsetting.” 
Deadline: Ongoing; submissions received until 31 March 2020 will be published in the Spring issue
Length: Up to 10,000 words
Pay: $0.01/word
Details here.

The Drabblecast
This is a weekly audio science fiction, fantasy, and horror podcast. Their guidelines say, “Our singular focus is off-beat, funny, eclecticism in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.” They also accept reprints.
Deadline: Open now
Length: Short fiction of 500-4,000 words; Drabbles of 100 words and Twabbles of 100 characters – fiction under 500 words is unpaid
Pay: $0.06/word for short fiction, with a cap of $300 (reprints at $0.03/word, also capped at $300)
Details here.

Dark Moon Digest
They publish dark fiction – short stories and flash fiction reminiscent of The Twilight Zone, Black Mirror, and Tales from the Crypt, as well as reviews and columns. They also list the kind of stories they’ve seen far too many times. They close submissions when they hit their monthly limit of 300 in that category, and submitters can try again the following month. They also accept reprints.  
Deadline: Open now
Length: Up to 1,500 words for flash fiction, 1,500-7,000 words for short stories, 500-3,000 words for non-fiction
Pay: $0.03/word for short stories, $30 for non-fiction
Details here.


Author 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.


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