These magazines pay $100 to approximately $500 for fiction. Many also accept other genres, like non-fiction, graphic narratives, and poetry. Deadlines are approaching quickly. – S. Kalekar

Cast of Wonders
This is a YA speculative fiction online magazine and podcast, aimed at the 12-17 age range – they have extensive submission guidelines. They also accept translations, reprints, and submissions from young writers. They have short submission windows for two themes: Banned Books Week, which is open now (the 2021 theme for Banned Books Week is, Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us. – see the submission/Moksha portal for details), and Seasonal Holiday Submissions//Special Events, which will open for submissions soon. They may open a special window for young writers starting mid-July (see schedule).
Deadline: 26 June for Banned Books Week; reading period 27 June-3 July for Seasonal Holiday Submissions//Special Events
Length: Up to 6,000 words
Pay: $0.08/word
Details here (general guidelines), here (submission portal and guidelines for current open call – Banned Books Week) and here (schedule).

Electric Literature: The Commuter
Electric Literature’s ‘The Commuter’ publishes poetry, flash, graphic, and experimental narratives. It publishes weekly and they have a brief submission period for prose (up to 1,500 words – one standalone or up to three interconnected), poetry, and graphic narrative.
Reading period: 21-27 June 2021
Length: Up to 1,500 words
Pay: $100
Details here.

Hex Publishers: Shadow Atlas – Dark Landscapes of the Americas
This is a dark fiction and poetry anthology. Their guidelines say, “We seek haunting and folkloric tales where setting is character and landscape is an essential part of the story. We want stories that draw from the wellspring of cultural destinations and local folklore in their shaping – most especially, stories that are tied to a specific and concrete location. This can include places that never existed, or those with connections created by the author, but they must take place in South America. Original tales, mash-ups, and new takes on known folkloric elements/cryptids/legends are all welcome.” Short stories must be exclusively set in South America, and poetry must be set in the Caribbean, Central America, Mexico, and South America.
Reading period: 21-27 June 2021
Length: 2,500-3,000 words for fiction; up to 35 lines for poetry
Pay: $250 for short fiction; $25 for poetry
Details here.

Outcast Press: In Filth It Shall Be Found
They are reading work for a fiction anthology; stories “that fit broadly in the category of dirty realism and transgressive fiction. Speculative or other fantastical elements are acceptable, but only in moderation.”
Deadline: 30 June 2021
Length: 1,000-6,000 words
Pay: “Up to $100” + royalties
Details here.

The Willowherb Review
This UK-based magazine only publishes nature writing by writers of color, including BAME or BIPOC writers anywhere in the world. They want non-fiction especially, but will consider fiction and poetry as well — on nature, place, and environment. Their guidelines say, “we believe nature writing can tackle all sorts of issues: from stories of farming to long treks, tales of migration, racism, community, and beauty. You might be writing about remote places, cities, lost landscapes, or old homes. We’re looking forward to seeing what matters most to emerging nature writers. Above all, your submission should have a great sense of place and attention to the natural world.”
Deadline: 30 June 2021
Length: Up to 3,000 words for prose; up to 3 poems
Pay: £250 for prose, £100 for poetry
Details here.

Grimscribe Press: Vastarien
They publish literary horror inspired by Ligottian and/or related themes, and also non-fiction, poetry, and artwork on these themes.
Deadline: 30 June 2021
Length: 750-6,000 words for fiction, 2,000 to 7,500 words for non-fiction, poetry of up to 50 lines
Pay: $0.05/word for prose, $50 for poetry and art
Details here.

Extra Teeth
This is a Scottish magazine with an international outlook; they publish fiction and non-fiction. Their guidelines say, “We look for short stories that stick with you, lingering in the memory long after reading, and essays that explore specific interests or issues from a new perspective. We offer a space for writers to be strange, bold and experimental, and to express their unique style however they see fit.”  Deadline: 30 June 2021
Length: 800-4,000 words
Pay: £100
Details here.

Nightlight
This is a podcast for Black horror writers. They accept fiction, and reprints that have not previously appeared in radio format from Black writers. They are open for submissions on even months from February to August.
Deadline: 30 June 2021
Length: Flash up to 3,000 words; short fiction of 3,000-10,000 words
Pay: $75 for flash fiction, $200 for short fiction, $50 for reprints
Details here.

Constelación Magazine: Love Needs No Translation
This is a bilingual speculative fiction magazine, and they are open for their fourth issue, on the theme ‘Love Needs No Translation’. Authors are free to interpret their themes creatively, and they encourage writers to twist and bend the theme, as long as they fit into any of the speculative fiction genres. Submissions can be in English or Spanish.
Deadline: 1 July 2021
Length: Up to 6,400 words
Pay: $0.08/word
Details here.

Curiouser Magazine
This is an Australian magazine of short fiction and poetry. Their website says the magazine “…was created out of a love for intriguing short fiction that explores – by fantastical means – what it is to be human.” Also, “We specialise in prose and poetry that can be defined roughly by the genre of magic realism. Whilst the official definition for magic realism states it is a form of literature that deals, in an accepting fashion, aspects of life usually represented as outside reality, we prefer to cast our nets a little bit wider.
We love the fantastical, the horrific, the experimental, the incantatory. We don’t like morality plays, overt spiritualism, the banal, the painfully self-aware.”
Deadline: 1 July 2021
Length: Up to 5,000 words; up to three poems
Pay: AUD50-140 for short prose, AUD25-40 for poetry
Details here.

Buckmxn Story Service
They want submissions from US-based writers only, of preferably unpublished fiction and creative non-fiction. This is a snail-mail subscription of ten short stories, with one story delivered each week by post. The first volume began in Fall 2020. They now want submissions for volume 2 and 3 of the story service. “All writing styles are welcomed as long as it tells a story and takes the reader on a ride.” Each author may submit up to three stories, though only one per author will be published in each story service volume.
Deadline: 4 July 2021
Length: Up to 5,000 words
Pay: Begins at $120
Details here.

Catapult
This magazine publishes fiction and creative non-fiction; currently, they are only open for fiction submissions, and for translated fiction. They are particularly interested in flash fiction, of about 1,000 words or fewer.
Deadline: 16 July 2021
Length: 500-4,000 words
Pay: A minimum of $200
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.