These markets pay $100 to approximately $360 for fiction (one of these, FIYAH, pays significantly more). Several of the outlets also accept other genres, like non-fiction and poetry. – S. Kalekar
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. They accept fee-free submissions in November and December.
Deadline: 31 December 2020 for fee-free submissions
Length: Up to 8,000 words for prose, 3-6 poems
Pay: $25/page, up to $150
Details here
FIYAH
This speculative fiction and poetry magazine accepts work by and about Black writers of the African Diaspora. This definition is globally inclusive (Black anywhere in the world) and also applies to mixed/biracial and Afro-appended people regardless of gender identity or orientation. They are reading work for an unthemed issue. See guidelines for the kind of stories they will reject.
Deadline: 31 December 2020
Length: Short fiction of 2,000-7,000 words, novelettes of up to 15,000 words; up to 1,000 words for poetry
Pay: $0.08/word for fiction; $50 for poems
Details here
Cohesion Press: SNAFU – Holy War
They want fantasy, horror, or science fiction on the holy war military horror theme; extreme action (military or paramilitary) stories.
Their guidelines say, “Military ACTION-BASED horror, themed around religion and/or religious-based conflict.
Think the Crusades, Europe’s Thirty Years War, The Troubles in Northern Ireland (but with unnatural monsters)… anything that can be considered a high-action monster story based around a conflict (overt or covert) of religion. For level of unnatural creature we will give priority to, think Dog Soldiers or Aliens. We want lots of monster goodness.
We will also be looking for soldiers, mercs, police, private security/paramilitary. Hell, even a group of bodyguards protecting some arsehole theocracy warlord in his jungle property.
Just ensure the action is central to the story, from start to finish, and don’t forget monsters!”
Deadline: 31 December 2020
Length: 2,000-10,000 words
Pay: AUD0.05/word
Details here
Cloud Lake Literary
They only accept work by Canadian writers and creatives. They publish fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and children’s literature (up to and including YA).
Deadline: Ongoing; 31 December for Spring volume
Length: Up to 3,500 words for prose, up to 150 lines for poetry
Pay: CAD50/page up to CAD150
Details here
December
This magazine publishes poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction (essays, memoirs, biography, literary journalism, social or cultural commentary or analysis). Online submissions are charged for non-subscribers, but mailed submissions are free. There are no guidelines for the length of prose submissions, but they ask writers to submit either one prose piece or up to three short (up to 1,000 words each).
Deadline: 1 May 2021
Pay: $10/page, up to $200
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. In the spirit of poet Dean Young’s dictum that poets should be “making birds, not birdcages,” we are particularly taken with writing that is simultaneously graceful and reckless.” They publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and film writing essays – they will also consider pieces on television, video art, viral videos, Vines, or any of the other alternative forms that moving images might take. For fiction and nonfiction, they also accept self-contained excerpts from longer pieces. They also publish translations.
Deadline: 8 May 2021
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 literary magazine accepts work from Canadian and other writers around the world. They publish fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry that is “engaging, surprising, eclectic, and challenging”, according to their guidelines. Queries for submissions of work in other forms (i.e. short plays, comics, etc.) are welcome. They also pay for visual art. They can accept a limited number of entries through Submittable each month; once this cap is reached, writers can still send entries by post, or wait until the 1st of next month to submit via the online system.
Deadline: 15 May 2021
Length: Up to 3,500 words for prose; up to 6 pages for poetry
Pay: CAD50/page, up to CAD250
Details here
Aftermath Magazine
They publish stories and non-fiction on the theme of the end of human civilization as a result of our destruction of the environment (see guidelines). They also publish work that “celebrates the beauty and importance of our environment, the natural world, the splendour of the wild, the abundance of wonderful creatures, big and small, and our kinship with them, the simple joys and profound enrichments experienced by people who are able to commune with nature.” Submissions can be in English or Dutch.
Deadline: Open now
Length: 1,500-5,000 words
Pay: $0.02/word for fiction, $0.01/word for non-fiction
Details here
The Common Tongue
They want fantasy with a dark tone, and several subgenres of these – including dark fantasy, grimdark fantasy, and sword & sorcery. They accept original stories as well as stories for their shared universe. They do not accept low fantasy (see guidelines).
Deadline: Open now
Length: 600-6,000 words
Pay: $0.03/word
Details here
Hypnos Magazine
This is a magazine of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. They’re 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
Length: Up to 10,000 words
Pay: $0.01/word
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.
