These magazines pay $50 to €1,200 (about $1,300) for fiction. Some of them also accept other genres, like non-fiction and poetry. Some calls are themed. – S. Kalekar
The Stinging Fly
This Ireland-based journal is open now for fiction (short fiction and novel excerpts), creative non-fiction, and poetry for the Spring 2024 issue. They also accept graphic fiction and non-fiction, as well as art. They have a ‘featured poet’ section as well, for poets working toward their first collection.
Deadline: 28 November 2023 (see guidelines)
Length: For prose, “just as long (or as short) as it needs to be”; up to 3 poems for general poetry submissions
Pay: €150 for flash fiction/shorter essays (1-2 pages); €45/page for longer prose, minimum/maximum payment of €300/€1,200; €40/page for poetry, minimum payment of €60/poem; €400 for featured poet
Details here and here.
The Fiddlehead
This Canadian literary magazine is accepting for general submissions of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry via Submittable. Postal submissions are accepted year-round. They have some submission periods for Canadian writers only (see guidelines).
Deadline: 30 November 2023
Length: Up to 5,000 words for prose, up to 6 poems
Pay: CAD50/page
Details here and here.
Escape Artists: PodCastle
This is a fantasy podcast and online magazine. “We’re open to all the sub-genres of fantasy, from magical realism to urban fantasy to slipstream to high fantasy, and everything in between. Fantastical or non-real content should be meaningful to the story. … Ideally, fiction should have strong pacing, well-defined characters, engaging dialogue, clear action, and still be beautiful. Above all, we’re looking for stories that are fun to listen to. Humor is encouraged. … We’d particularly like to see more stories set outside America, and stories that feature characters who represent a range of backgrounds and ethnicities.” They also accept translations, as well as reprints; writers can send one original story and one reprint at a time.Deadline: 30 November 2023
Length: Up to 6,000 words (accepts longer for reprints – see guidelines)
Pay: $20 for flash fiction, $0.08/word for original short fiction
Details here and here.
(Their sister magazine, Escape Pod, is open for science fiction submissions, and pays $0.08/word for stories up to 6,000 words. Details here.)
Baltimore Review
They publish fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Some editor preferences are in the bios on their Staff page.
Deadline: 30 November 2023
Length: Up to 5,000 words for prose, up to 3 poems
Pay: $50 (via a gift certificate or PayPal, if preferred)
Details here and here.
Apparition Lit: Blight
Apparition Lit is a quarterly speculative fiction and poetry magazine. They’re reading submissions on the Blight theme. Their general submission period for all writers ends on 30th November, and extends by a week for BIPOC writers; also see the note about their equity initiative in the guidelines here (scroll down) – “Our submission window will remain open for an additional week each quarter for writers who identify as BIPOC and self-identify in their cover letter.
We will also accept simultaneous submissions from writers who identify as BIPOC or LGBTQIA+. Please just note how you identify in your cover letter, that it is a simultaneous submission.”
Deadline: 30 November 2023 for general submissions (all writers); extends by a week for BIPOC writers (see guidelines)
Length: 1,000-5,000 words for fiction, up to 5 poems
Pay: $0.05/word for fiction, and $50/poem
Details here and here.
(They also publish flash fiction online on monthly prompts, during the first fortnight of every month.)
Moonstruck Books: Nightmare Diaries
Moonstruck Books is a publisher of “speculative fiction, science fiction, horror, fairy tales, gritty and gothic fiction, and experimental fiction.” Currently, they are also open for an anthology of dark fiction titled Nightmare Diaries. They want short stories, fairy tales, flash fiction, and novellas.
Deadline: 27 December 2023
Length: 500-10,000 words
Payment is $0.10 per word
Details here (scroll down).
Channel Magazine
This Irish magazine accepts fiction, non-fiction, poetry; non-fiction is accepted through the year (for both print and online), and fiction and poetry have submission periods; submissions for the upcoming issue opened on 20th November. “Channel’s aim is to provide a home for Irish and international writing that contributes to building rich, mutually sustaining relationships between human beings and the natural world. … This journal exists to provide a passage through which ideas about human relationships with our environment, expressed and embodied in creative work, can flow.” Submissions can be in English or Irish, and also works in translation. “Although based in Ireland, Channel welcomes international submissions. We also welcome submissions in Irish or English translation.”
Deadline: 31 December 2023
Length: prose up to 6,000 words, up to 4 poems
Pay: €35/page; minimum payment is €50, and the maximum is €250
Details here.
Air and Nothingness Press: We Are All Thieves of Somebody’s Future
They want fiction submissions. “We are seeking stories for an anthology to be titled We Are All Thieves of Somebody’s Future which will collect stories with the theme: Resource Scarcity – using up the last of a critical resource and dealing with the aftermath. While stories could be dystopic (ex. the last tree), authors could also explore hopepunk (losing a resource leads to something unforeseen and positive), solarpunk (a pollution laden resource leads to a better solution), fantasy (the last dragon). We are open to all genres.”
Deadline: 31 December 2023
Length: 1,000-3,000 words
Pay: $0.08/year
Details here and here.
(They will open submissions for another anthology in February 2024.)
Zombies Needs Brains: Two Anthologies
They want submissions for two fiction anthologies.
— Familiars “is to feature science fiction, fantasy, or urban fantasy stories where the story revolves around some type of animal familiars (or human familiar). We would like a wide variety of genre settings for this anthology. In other words, we don’t want the entire anthology to be urban fantasy settings. As always, we are looking for a range of tones, from humorous all the way up to dark.”
— Last-Ditch “is to feature military science fiction, fantasy, or urban fantasy stories revolving around spies, espionage, and last-ditch Hail Mary efforts to turn the tides of war. We would like a wide variety of genre settings for this anthology. In other words, we don’t want the entire anthology to be science fiction settings. As always, we are looking for a range of tones, from humorous all the way up to dark.”
Deadline for both anthologies: 31 December 2023
Length: Up to 7,500 words
Pay: $0.08/word
Details here, here, and here.
Room Magazine: Bodies
They publish fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and art by folks of marginalized genders, including but not limited to women (cisgender and transgender), transgender men, Two-Spirit and nonbinary people. They want submissions on the Bodies theme. “We’re seeking writing about touch and isolation, trans and queer embodiment, fat liberation, chronic illness and disability, brutality, sensuality, and other meditations on the bones and muscles you inhabit every day. What words live in the relationship between your body and other bodies? Between your body and the land beneath it? Explore what it means to feel empowered and grounded in your body—and what it means to feel betrayed by it. Have you ever lost your body to dissociation? Or perhaps to transcendence? The body is a site of self-love, self-hate, and body neutrality alike: accepting loving odes, body horror, and everything in between.”
Deadline: 5 January 2023
Length: Up to 3,500 words for fiction and creative non-fiction, up to 5 poems
Pay: CAD50/page, up to CAD200 for print, and CAD75 for reviews and work accepted for online publication
Details here and here.
Bio: S. Kalekar is the pseudonym of a regular contributor to this magazine. She can be reached here.
