$50 to $480 for Short Stories – 10 Calls for Submissions

These markets pay $50-480 for fiction; one magazine also publishes short graphic fiction, and one does not specify its pay rate, but it is a reputed outlet. Some calls are themed. A few accept other genres also, like poetry and non-fiction. Deadlines are approaching very quickly. – S. Kalekar

MARY: A Journal of New Writing
This is a student run online arts journal sponsored by Saint Mary’s College of California’s MFA in Creative Writing program. They publish fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and hybrid genres, and they like work that is “weird and risky and humming a little”, according to guidelines. 
Deadline: 13 March 2020
Length: Up to 15 pages for prose, up to five poems
Pay: $50
Details here.

Selene Quarterly Magazine
This is a magazine of romance, mystery, and alternate history. They publish fiction and poetry. Of interest are: #OwnVoices in general; Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) as protagonists; and Omegaverse, Magic Realism, Alien Romance, Interactive Fiction (IF), Cli-Fi, Afrofuturism, and -punk sub genres. They welcome translations.
Deadline: 15 March 2020
Length: 100-17,499 words for fiction; up to 100 lines for poetry
Pay: $0.08/word for the first 1,000 words, $0.01/word after; $50 for poetry
Details here.

Augur Magazine
They want dream-touched realism, slipstream, fabulism, and literary speculative fiction, as well as rich realism, high fantasy, and science fiction. They pay cash for fiction and poetry, and the payment for blog pieces is a contributor copy. 
Deadline: 15 March 2020
Length: Up to 1,000 words for flash fiction, 1,000-5,000 words for short fiction, up to five poems
Pay: CAD110 for flash fiction, CAD0.11/word for short fiction, CAD60 for poetry
Details here.

Kanstellation Magazine: Selfing through Tech
This online publication that presents a thematic collage of what it means to be human in the digital age. For their third issue, they want fiction, non-fiction, and poetry on the theme ‘Selfing through Tech’. Their guidelines say, “What is the self? Where is the self? The disconnect between mind and body has reached unparalleled proportions. In the global village, the tech family is the norm, grandma visits via the tiny screen. WiFi reaches out like vines in the thickest part of the jungle. On a remote rock in the middle of the ocean, the island’s guardian uploads the current sunset for all to see. Is the world our personality’s oyster, or is there no home-cooking left to eat?” See guidelines for further details, and also for the poetic forms they are accepting for this issue.
Deadline: 24 March 2020
Length: 500-1,200 words for flash fiction and non-fiction, 1,000-2,000 words for short fiction, creative non-fiction, and essays, and up to four poems
Pay:  $60 for each poem, $80 for each flash piece (fiction or non-fiction), and $100 for each essay
Details here.

PodCastle
­­­­­They publish fantasy short fiction on their website and as a podcast. They are open to all the sub-genres of fantasy, from magical realism to urban fantasy to slipstream to high fantasy. Fantastical or non-real content should be meaningful to the story. They also accept reprints. 
Deadline: 31 March 2020
Length: Up to 6,000 words
Pay: $0.08/word
Details here.

Legion of Dorks Presents: Horizons – An Anthology of Epic Journeys
This is a fiction anthology by Cursed Dragon Ship Publishing and they want stories exploring the theme of epic journeys. Stories must center around an exploration epic in scale. Writers must include some sort of adventure, whether real or virtual, that concludes by the end of the story to meet the theme requirements. Some ideas are: a colonizer ship reaches the alien planet of its final destination, but finds out someone beat them there; an immortal makes one last journey across the cosmos before she decides to end it all; or a teenager sets out on his own to discover his place and discovers he isn’t of this world.
Deadline: 31 March 2020
Length: Up to 7,000 words
Pay: $50
Details here.

Silver Shamrock Publishing: Midnight in the Pentagram
This is a horror fiction anthology. They want Occult/Demons/Possession/Satanism horror stories with The Omen/Exorcist meets EC Comics/Tales From the Crypt kind of vibe.
Deadline: 31 March 2020
Length: Up to 6,000 words
Pay: $0.06/word
Details here.

Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
This magazine publishes sword and sorcery, both as fiction and as poetry.
Deadline: 31 March 2020
Length: Up to 10,000 words; can serialize up to 50,000 words; up to three poems
Pay: $25-100 for fiction, $25 for poetry; Tolkinesque (really long) poetry will be paid like fiction
Details here.

Hybrid – Future//Tense: Gender
This is an anthology of transfuturistic science-fiction. The stories within will explore the way gender, transition, and trans issues may change over time, from the near future to far, on Earth or other planets, in humans or those from the stars. They want submissions that explore the shape of gender and identity in the decades and centuries to come. Stories should have G-R rating. Also see this link for some other open anthology calls with later deadlines.
Deadline: 1 April 2020
Length: 5,000-15,000 words
Pay: 2½¢ per word, up to $100
Details here.

Infinite Worlds
This magazine publishes science fiction. They publish comic/graphic novel shorts (4-10 pages) as well, and also publish artwork.
Deadline: Open now
Length: 750-4,000 words for fiction
Pay: $75; negotiated rates for short graphic fiction
Details here.

Bonus: Catapult
This reputed magazine of narrative non-fiction and fiction doesn’t specify its pay rates, but is accepting fiction submissions during March. They’re particularly interested in flash fiction (1,000 words or fewer). Their guidelines say, “We welcome short stories, novel excerpts that stand on their own, and translated fiction. We pay for all pieces that we publish.” They are also reading themed non-fiction.
Deadline: end-March 2020
Length: Has published anywhere between 500 and 6,000 words; typically 2,500 words
Pay: Unspecified
Details here.


Author 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.

 

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