These magazines pay up to $100 for fiction, and a few pay significantly more. Some also publish other genres, like non-fiction, cross-genre work, and poetry. A few have really short submission windows, with rapidly approaching deadlines. – S. Kalekar
Electric Literature: The Commuter
Electric Lit’s The Commuter is a space for poetry, flash, graphic, and experimental narratives. It publishes weekly and they have just opened a brief submission period for prose. Send either one standalone or three short, connected flash fiction pieces. They will be open for comic and graphic narrative submissions soon (16-23 December 2019).
Deadline: 9 December 2019 for prose
Length: Up to 1,500 words
Pay: $100
Details here
Escape Artists: Cast of Wonders
This is a YA podcast
and online magazine. They want stories aimed at the 12-17-year age range.
Stories should “evoke a sense of wonder, have deep emotional resonance, and
have something unreal about them.” They publish fantasy, sci-fi, horror, comedy, steampunk,
age-appropriate paranormal romance, superheroes and many other genres.
They also accept reprints.
Deadline: 15 December 2019
Length: Up to 6,000 words
Pay: $0.08/word
Details here.
Gay Mag
Apart from cultural criticism, personal essays, artwork and photography,
this online magazine also publishes short fiction. They are looking for work on the themes
of Community and Power. They accept pitches for essays.
Deadline: 16 December 2019 for Community; 16 March 2020 for Power
Length: Can accept more work in the shorter (1,200 words) than longer (3,500
words) range
Pay: $1/word
Details here.
Zombies Need Brains
They
need stories for three science fiction and fantasy anthologies. They are looking for a range of tones,
from humorous all the way up to dark. They want stories which use the
theme in an unusual and unexpected way, and those will get preference. Apocalyptic
willfeature science fiction or fantasy stories set during or after an
apocalypse (of any kind); Galactic Stew will feature stories involving food, whether it be
poisoning, a cultural or societal ritual, a trade meeting over dinner, etc (no
cannibalism); and My Battery is Low and it is Getting Dark will feature stories where some type of tech has
outlived its time and yet, during the course of the story, it discovers a new
purpose or is used in a new, purposeful way (the theme is inspired by the
Opportunity rover).
Deadline: 31 December 2019
Length: Up to 7,500 words
Pay: Minimum $0.08/word
Details here.
The Stinging Fly
This Irish magazine publishes fiction
and poetry from Ireland and abroad, and they have a particular interest in
promoting the short story. They also publish commissioned essays, occasional author interviews and novel
extracts, and have a ‘Featured Poet’ section by poets working toward
their first collection (see guidelines). They
welcome translations of poetry and prose.
Deadline: 16 January 2020
Length: No length guidelines for fiction; up to 3 poems
Pay: €25/page
for fiction and nonfiction; €40 for single poem/magazine page; €200 for Featured Poet
Details here.
Bennington
Review
This
literary magazine aims to carve out a “distinctive space for innovative,
intelligent, and moving fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, film writing and
cross-genre work.” They are particularly taken with writing that is
simultaneously graceful and reckless.
Deadline: 15 May 2020
Length: Up to 30 pages of prose; 3-5 poems; 10-20 pages of film (or TV) writing
Pay: $100-200 for prose; $20/poem
Details here.
Grain Magazine
This Canadian literary
magazine accepts work from around the world and publishes fiction, poetry, and
literary non-fiction. Queries for submissions of work in other forms (i.e. short
plays, comics, etc.) are welcome. Visual art submissions are usually by
invitation, though queries are welcome.
Deadline: 15 May 2020
Length: Up to 3,500 words for prose; up to 6 pages for poetry
Pay: $50/page, up to $250
Details here.
Reckoning
They want creative
writing about environmental justice. Their guidelines say, “Fiction preferably
at least a tiny bit speculative, nonfiction preferably more creative than
journalistic, poetry tending towards the narrative and preferably with some
thematic heft, art leaning away from the pulpy heavily towards the political.
But the heart of what we want is your searingly personal, visceral,
idiosyncratic understanding of the world and the people in it as
it has been, as it is, as it will be, as it could be, as a consequence of
humanity’s relationship with the earth.” They actively seek work from
Indigenous writers and artists, writers and artists of color, queer and
transgender writers and artists, and anyone who has suffered the consequences,
intended or otherwise, of dominant society’s systemic disconnect with and
mistreatment of the natural world. They welcome translations.
Deadline: 22 September 2020
Length: 0-45,000 words for prose; 3-5 poems
Pay: $0.08/word for prose; $30/page for poetry; minimum $25/piece of art
Details here.
Daily Science Fiction
This flash fiction
market accepts speculative stories. They also accept flash series, of three or
more stories around a theme; each story needs to stand on its own. They may
publish dark fantasy, but they try not to publish pure horror. They also
publish artwork.
Deadline: Rolling; not accepting submissions from 24 December to 2 January 2020
Length: 100-1,500 words
Pay: $0.08/word
Details here.
tdotSpec
This Canadian magazine publishes
speculative fiction. There are no theme restrictions. They also publish review
and non-fiction articles (though these are unpaid), speculative poetry, and
graphic format stories and comics. They also accept reprints of fiction and
poetry.
Deadline: Unspecified; open on Mondays for submissions
Length: 100-10,000 words for fiction; up to 3 poems
Pay: 1.5c/word for fiction; 25c/line for poetry (Canadian)
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.