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.