{"id":10070,"date":"2022-04-26T09:59:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T16:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=10070"},"modified":"2022-04-29T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T16:57:00","slug":"10-fiction-markets-paying-50-to-600-for-april-and-may-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/10-fiction-markets-paying-50-to-600-for-april-and-may-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Fiction Markets Paying $50 to $600 for April and May 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

These magazines\/publications pay $50 to $600 for fiction. A few also accept other genres, like non-fiction and poetry. They\u2019re either open now, or will open soon for submissions. – S. Kalekar<\/strong><\/p>\n

Worlds of Possibility
\n<\/strong>\u201cWorlds 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.\u201d For the April reading period, the editor wants stories of up to 5,000 words.
\nDeadline: 30 April 2022
\nLength: Up to 5,000 words
\nPay: $0.10\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mycelia<\/strong>
\nThis is an online magazine from Hedera Felix. They publish fiction, poetry, and reviews. They want \u201cthe weird and the eerie.\u201d They are reading for their fifth issue. They also offer editorial mentorship<\/strong>: \u201cOur mentorship reserves one spot in Mycelia for an unpublished writer from an underrepresented community.\u201d
\nDeadline: 1 May 2022
\nLength: Up to 3,000 words for fiction; up to 40 lines for poetry
\nPay: \u00a340
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vautrin
\n<\/strong>They publish gritty urban fiction and crime\/mystery fiction. Also, \u201cif you\u2019ve written a good short story with crime fiction elements that doesn\u2019t necessarily seem like genre fiction, it could still be a fit.\u201d
\nDeadline: 3 May 2022
\nLength: Up to 6,000 words
\nPay: $65-130
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Solarpunk Magazine
\nThis is a magazine of solarpunk fiction. The May submission window is for their BIPOC and Lunarpunk issues. The magazine \u201cpublishes 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.\u201d Also, \u201cAny genre of science fiction, interstitial fiction, magic realism, or fantasy has potential as a solarpunk forum\u2014we welcome robots and elves with equal excitement.\u201d The kind of work they want is described on their Moksha submission page, as well as the guidelines page.
\nReading period: 1-14 May 2022
\nLength: 400-7,500 words for fiction; up to 5 poems; 1000-2,000 words for non-fiction
\nPay: $0.08\/word for fiction; $40\/poem; $75\/essay or article
\nDetails here<\/a> (guidelines) and here<\/a> (Moksha submission portal).
\n<\/strong>(– Nightlight<\/strong><\/a>, a podcast for Black horror writers, accepts stories up to 10,000 words, and pays $75-200 for stories \u2013 less for reprints. They are open through the end of April, and are open for submissions during even months from February to August.
\n— Room Magazine<\/strong><\/a>, 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<\/strong> until 9 May 2022, as well. They are also open now for a fee-based creative non-fiction contest.)<\/p>\n

Escape Artists: Cast of Wonders \u2013 Banned Books Week
\nThis is a YA speculative fiction online magazine and podcast, published by Escape Artists, aimed at the 12-17 age range \u2013 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<\/strong> in May; see the submission\/Moksha portal for details on this year\u2019s theme when the call is live. They will be open in June for stories by writers aged 19 and younger (see schedule).
\nReading period: 1-14 May 2022 for Banned Books Week
\nLength: Up to 6,000 words
\nPay: $0.08\/word
\nDetails here<\/a> (general guidelines), here<\/a> (Moksha\/submission portal) and here<\/a> (schedule).
\n(Other podcast markets from the Escape Artists suite are:
\n— Escape Pod<\/strong><\/a>, which publishes science fiction, open until 31 May;
\n— Pseudopod<\/strong><\/a>, open for horror reprints until 1 August, see the submission portal here<\/a>; and
\n— PodCastle<\/strong><\/a>, which will open for a special issue, Indigenous Magic<\/strong>, during July; they want fantasy stories \u201cthat center Black, Brown, and Indigenous cultures, histories, belief systems, philosophies, and perspectives\u201d. See their announcement here<\/a>.
\nThese magazines pay $0.08\/word for original fiction, and $20-100 for reprints.)<\/p>\n

AGNI
\n<\/strong>This respected literary magazine now charges for online submissions, but postal submissions are still free. They publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Also, \u201cWe have no word limits, though space is at a premium and length sometimes affects our decisions.\u201d
\nDeadline: 31 May 2022
\nLength: One story, one essay, up to 5 poems
\nPay: $20\/page for prose, $40\/page for poetry, up to $300
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Space Fantasy Magazine: Is there anybody out there?
\n<\/strong>This is a new magazine and they are reading for their inaugural issue and the theme is, \u2018Is there anybody out there?\u2019 For this theme, they want \u201cstories about unexpected encounters in isolated places.\u201d
\nTheir general submission guidelines say, \u201cWe want stories that challenge our relationship with space\u2014past, 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.\u201d
\nReading period: 1-31 May 2022
\nLength: Up to 1,250 words
\nPay: $0.08\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One Story
\nThis well-regarded magazine publishes one piece of literary fiction a month. Apart from cash payment, writers also get 25 contributor copies.
\nDeadline: 31 May 2022
\nLength: 3,000-8,000 words
\nPay: $500
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Night Coffee Lit
\nThey publish poetry, art, and ephemera: \u201csubmit 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.\u201d
\nDeadline: Open now
\nLength: 3-5 poems; unspecified for prose
\nPay: $50
\nDetails here<\/a>.
\n<\/strong>
\nThree-Lobed Burning Eye
\n<\/strong>This is a speculative fiction magazine. They want \u201cOriginal speculative fiction: horror, fantasy, science fiction. We\u2019re 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.\u201d They also welcome translations.
\nDeadline: Ongoing
\nLength: Flash up to 1,000 words; 1,001-7,500 words for short stories (2,000-5,000 preferred)
\nPay: $30 for flash, $100 for short fiction
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Bio:<\/strong>\u00a0S. Kalekar is the pseudonym of a regular contributor to this magazine. She can be reached\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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