By S. Kalekar
These magazines pay up to AUD3,000 (approximately USD1,930) for fiction. Some also accept other genres, like non-fiction and poetry; some calls are themed. They’re open now, or will soon open for submissions.
Griffith Review
Griffith Review is an Australian literary magazine and they want fiction and non-fiction submissions for issue 92; the theme is Lost and Found. “’Loss,’ wrote Marcus Aurelius, ‘is nothing else but change’. We lose face, lose time, lose heart, lose touch, lose ground, lose our keys (often); we can lose the things that hold us back or weigh us down, just as we can lose the people and places we love most. Loss, whether it offers us pain or reward, is fundamental to the experience of being human. What might we lose or gain as technology continues its rapid advance? How do we halt the loss of our natural world? What’s lost by growing up between cultures? Are we losing our sense of a shared reality? And what are the benefits to being a loser?”
They mostly accept work from writers in Australia, and some work from overseas writers.
Deadline: 30 November 2025 (11.59 AEST)
Length: Up to 4,000 words for prose (for print)
Pay: AUD0.75/word
Details here and here.
Haven Speculative
They publish speculative fiction and poetry. November is their general Fall submission window (for all writers). “Our submission cycle is split into four reading periods, each containing three parts: a month explicitly reserved for submissions by authors of color, members of LGBTQIA+ communities, and writers belonging to other underrepresented groups; a month open to general submissions, during which anyone may submit; and a month in which we’re closed to submissions so that we may do the difficult (and exciting!) work of choosing content for future issues.” They also publish climate crisis focused Dry and Wet issues each year.
Deadline: 30th November 2025 (for general submissions)
Length: Up to 6,000 words for fiction, up to 5 poems
Pay: $0.08/word for fiction, $20/poem
Details here and here.
khōréō
This magazine only accepts speculative fiction submissions from immigrants or members of the diaspora. For this reading cycle, they want stories on the Revolutions theme. Some aspects they are especially interested in are: Cycles of revolution and counter-revolution; Revolution as the starting point instead of the endpoint; Quiet revolutions and alternative sites of resistance; and Disability, class and revolution. They also accept flash fiction and translations.
Deadline: 30 November 2025
Length: Up to 5,000 words (prefers up to 3,500 words)
Pay: $0.10/word
Details here, here, and here.
Singapore Unbound: SUSPECT
Singapore Unbound’s SUSPECT is open for submissions from Asian writers only. “We seek poetry, literary fiction, essays, and any kind of writings that do not fall into these categories, written or translated into English by authors who identify as Asian. We also publish reviews of books by Asian authors and interviews with Asian writers and artists. Translators must provide documentation of authorization to translate and publish from the writer whom they are translating. Submit a story or essay (1,500 to 6,500 words), or 3-5 poems (maximum 10 pages)”.
Deadline: 30th November 2025
Length: See above
Pay: $100
Details here.
Thread
Thread is ChillSubs’ literary magazine run entirely on social media. Send a micro prose or poem on the Closing theme – “Tell us about the ways a day ends or can be ended. Write about the sign-off of an email -warmly, best wishes, regards. Get literal or metaphorical with it. How did that door slam; how did the circle close? When was the last time you shut your laptop?
Whatever is closing, has closed, or may one day close, we want to hear about it.”
You can either reply to their post on Threads, or DM them on Instagram. Your piece can be up to 500 characters (not words).
Deadline: 1 December 2025
Length: Up to 500 characters
Pay: $85
Details here and here (click to continue to other slides).
adventitious
This is a new magazine, and they will soon submissions for their first issue. “Adventitioushopes to be an intelligently mischievous literary magazine for the curious and unclassifiable. … We love speculative, surreal, and literary fiction. We admire its reach, its weirdness, and its refusal to color inside any lines. We believe in the work of the magazines and writers already making noise in that space, and we want to join in the ruckus: to publish fiction that’s as thoughtful as it is surprising, and to do it with style, respect, and a great sense of nonsense.” You can read about them here. “We want stories that offer a sense of wonder through their language, characters, plots, or all of the above. Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and all speculative/surreal will always be welcomed, but we’re also happy with stories that shock and delight right here on this plane of existence.” They are looking for stories from micro to novelette length. They will open for submissions on 1st December and close on 5th December or when they hit their submission cap, whichever is earlier.
Submission period: 1st to 5th December 2025 (or until filled)
Length: Flash up to 1,000 words; short fiction of 1,000-6,000 words; novelettes of 6,000-17,000 words
Pay: $0.08/word
Details here and here.
(And, submissions for Unidentified Funny Objects anthology will open from 5th to 12th December 2025. They want speculative fiction with a strong humorous element, and pay $0.12/word for stories of 500 to 8,000 words. Their Kickstarter has funded. Details here.)
Plott Hound
This is a magazine of speculative fiction and poetry starring animals. They will soon open submissions for their Winter issue. Regarding the kind of stories they want: “Stories with anthropomorphized animals as viewpoint characters and protagonists
-Animal-centric speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction, horror)
-Underrepresented voices (BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, neurodivergent) that engage with animal myths, tales, and futures
-Stories with uncommonly written about animals as protagonists
-Stories that dig deep into the senses and experience of animals
-Stories that explore the cultures and societies of animals, not just cultures and societies with animals. Think of rabbit language and warren infrastructure in Watership Down, or the clans and warrior code of feral cats in Warriors.” They also welcome translations. They publish one essay per issue, as well. Their submission portal will open during the reading period.
Submission period: 1st to 15th December 2025
Length: 1,000-5,000 words (prefer 3,000-4,000 words) for fiction, up to 5 poems, 1,000-2,500 words for essay
Pay: $0.08/word for stories, $50 for poetry, $100 for essay
Details here and here.
Neon Hemlock Press: Baffling Magazine
Baffling Magazine publishes “speculative stories that explore science fiction, fantasy, and horror with a queer bent”. They want unthemed submissions, as well as submissions on the timefuckery theme for their next submission period, which will open soon.
Submission period: 1st to 15th December 2025
Length: Up to 1,200 words
Pay: $0.08/word
Details here.
(Neon Hemlock Press is also open for We’re Here – The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025, a reprint anthology for queer speculative fiction published in 2025, up to 17,500 words. The deadline is 31 December 2025. Details here, and here – scroll down, and here.)
Matter Press: The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
They publish fiction and creative non-fiction, as well as fiction and creative non-fiction prose poetry, as long as it is compressed in some way.
Deadline: 15 December 2025
Length: Up to 600 words
Pay: $50
Details here and here.
State of Matter
State of Matter usually publishes speculative fiction, poetry, and translations “which may broadly inform South Asian experiences.” For their 20th issue, titled “Folk Tales” / “Faux Trails” / “Fox Tails”; they will accept “three faux-tales: one science fiction, one fantasy, one horror. These folk-tails might emerge from any culture, any history, any landscape, but they should inform South Asian experiences. They should give us pause as readers from the subcontinent, as fox tales often do, and make us think about our specific place within the cosmos. … These tales should have: 1. A faux mythology, 2. An element (a folkus) of ‘faith’, loosely defined, 3. An innovative form (like fox trails usually have)”.
Deadline: 15 December 2025
Length: 1,000-15,000 words
Pay: CAD150
Details here and here.
Speck Magazine
This is a new magazine, and they are reading for their first issue.
Please note, they can only publish work from writers in the US. Their tagline is, ‘Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature’. They want submissions on the Craft theme. “Be it witchcraft, spacecrafts, or something else you interpret…submit
your fiction, poetry, or visual art”. Submission is via a form on their website.
Deadline: 21 December 2025
Length: Up to 2,500 words (see guidelines)
Pay: $5/page (up to $50)
Details here.
Strange Horizons
They are open for speculative fiction from Indigenous writers only, and will stay open until they hit a submission cap. They also accept other genres (from all writers), like non-fiction and poetry.
Deadline: Open now
Length: Up to 10,000 words (prefer up to 5,000)
Pay: $0.10/word for fiction
Details here and here; their overall guidelines page, for all genres, is here.
Bio: S. Kalekar is the pseudonym of a regular contributor to this magazine. She can be reached here.