These magazines/publications pay $50 to $600 for fiction. A few also accept other genres, like non-fiction and poetry. They’re either open now, or will open soon for submissions. – S. Kalekar
Worlds of Possibility
“Worlds of Possibility is a series of science fiction and fantasy works released to Subscribers and Patrons of Julia Rios exclusively for a short time before being publicly available. For this project, I am especially excited for works that leave the reader with a sense of hope in some way.” For the April reading period, the editor wants stories of up to 5,000 words.
Deadline: 30 April 2022
Length: Up to 5,000 words
Pay: $0.10/word
Details here.
Mycelia
This is an online magazine from Hedera Felix. They publish fiction, poetry, and reviews. They want “the weird and the eerie.” They are reading for their fifth issue. They also offer editorial mentorship: “Our mentorship reserves one spot in Mycelia for an unpublished writer from an underrepresented community.”
Deadline: 1 May 2022
Length: Up to 3,000 words for fiction; up to 40 lines for poetry
Pay: £40
Details here.
Vautrin
They publish gritty urban fiction and crime/mystery fiction. Also, “if you’ve written a good short story with crime fiction elements that doesn’t necessarily seem like genre fiction, it could still be a fit.”
Deadline: 3 May 2022
Length: Up to 6,000 words
Pay: $65-130
Details here.
Solarpunk Magazine
This is a magazine of solarpunk fiction. The May submission window is for their BIPOC and Lunarpunk issues. The magazine “publishes hopeful short stories and poetry that strive for a utopian ideal, that are set in futures where communities are optimistically struggling to solve or adapt to climate change, to create or maintain a world in which humanity, technology, and nature coexist in harmony rather than in conflict. We also publish solarpunk art as well as nonfiction that explores real world, contemporary topics and their intersection with the solarpunk movement for a better future.” Also, “Any genre of science fiction, interstitial fiction, magic realism, or fantasy has potential as a solarpunk forum—we welcome robots and elves with equal excitement.” The kind of work they want is described on their Moksha submission page, as well as the guidelines page.
Reading period: 1-14 May 2022
Length: 400-7,500 words for fiction; up to 5 poems; 1000-2,000 words for non-fiction
Pay: $0.08/word for fiction; $40/poem; $75/essay or article
Details here (guidelines) and here (Moksha submission portal).
(– Nightlight, a podcast for Black horror writers, accepts stories up to 10,000 words, and pays $75-200 for stories – less for reprints. They are open through the end of April, and are open for submissions during even months from February to August.
— Room Magazine, which accepts fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by people of marginalized genders, pays up to CAD200, is open for unthemed submissions until 30 April 2022. They are accepting submissions for a Mentee in Residence until 9 May 2022, as well. They are also open now for a fee-based creative non-fiction contest.)
Escape Artists: Cast of Wonders – Banned Books Week
This is a YA speculative fiction online magazine and podcast, published by Escape Artists, aimed at the 12-17 age range – they have extensive submission guidelines. They also accept translations, reprints, and submissions from young writers. They have a short submission window for their Banned Books Week in May; see the submission/Moksha portal for details on this year’s theme when the call is live. They will be open in June for stories by writers aged 19 and younger (see schedule).
Reading period: 1-14 May 2022 for Banned Books Week
Length: Up to 6,000 words
Pay: $0.08/word
Details here (general guidelines), here (Moksha/submission portal) and here (schedule).
(Other podcast markets from the Escape Artists suite are:
— Escape Pod, which publishes science fiction, open until 31 May;
— Pseudopod, open for horror reprints until 1 August, see the submission portal here; and
— PodCastle, which will open for a special issue, Indigenous Magic, during July; they want fantasy stories “that center Black, Brown, and Indigenous cultures, histories, belief systems, philosophies, and perspectives”. See their announcement here.
These magazines pay $0.08/word for original fiction, and $20-100 for reprints.)
AGNI
This respected literary magazine now charges for online submissions, but postal submissions are still free. They publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Also, “We have no word limits, though space is at a premium and length sometimes affects our decisions.”
Deadline: 31 May 2022
Length: One story, one essay, up to 5 poems
Pay: $20/page for prose, $40/page for poetry, up to $300
Details here.
Space Fantasy Magazine: Is there anybody out there?
This is a new magazine and they are reading for their inaugural issue and the theme is, ‘Is there anybody out there?’ For this theme, they want “stories about unexpected encounters in isolated places.”
Their general submission guidelines say, “We want stories that challenge our relationship with space—past, present, and future. … Show us new mythologies and undiscovered gods. Show us what emerges from a black hole when its egg finally cracks. Show us the place where science becomes magic.”
Reading period: 1-31 May 2022
Length: Up to 1,250 words
Pay: $0.08/word
Details here.
One Story
This well-regarded magazine publishes one piece of literary fiction a month. Apart from cash payment, writers also get 25 contributor copies.
Deadline: 31 May 2022
Length: 3,000-8,000 words
Pay: $500
Details here.
Night Coffee Lit
They publish poetry, art, and ephemera: “submit a reasonable volume of your weirdsiest weirds, including but not limited to: works in translation, reviews of lost and forgotten esoterica, enlightened shitposts, short fictions both magical and real.”
Deadline: Open now
Length: 3-5 poems; unspecified for prose
Pay: $50
Details here.
Three-Lobed Burning Eye
This is a speculative fiction magazine. They want “Original speculative fiction: horror, fantasy, science fiction. We’re looking for short stories from across the big classifications and the shadowed places between: magical realism, fantastique, slipstream, interstitial, and the weird tale. We will consider suspense or western, though we prefer it contain some speculative element. We like voices that are full of feeling, from literary to pulpy, with styles unique and flowing, but not too experimental.” They also welcome translations.
Deadline: Ongoing
Length: Flash up to 1,000 words; 1,001-7,500 words for short stories (2,000-5,000 preferred)
Pay: $30 for flash, $100 for short fiction
Details here.
Bio: S. Kalekar is the pseudonym of a regular contributor to this magazine. She can be reached here.
