These magazines and anthologies publish fiction; a few outlets also accept other genres, like non-fiction and poetry. Please see the second section of this list for themed calls. – S. Kalekar<\/p>\n
Profiles<\/strong> The Stinging Fly<\/strong> <\/p>\n Barrelhouse AGNI Baltimore Review Gettysburg Review Short Fiction<\/strong> Matter Press: The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts The Cosmic Background<\/strong> THEMED CALLS<\/strong><\/p>\n The Drabblecast: Weird West <\/p>\n Brigids Gate Press: Scissor Sisters \u2013 Sapphic Villains Anthology The Other Side of Hope: Journeys in Refugee and Immigrant Literature<\/strong> <\/p>\n Apparition Lit: Creature<\/strong> Third Flatiron Anthologies: Rhapsody of the Spheres<\/strong> Crystal Lake Publishing: Dead Letters \u2013 Episodes of Epistolary Horror<\/strong> <\/p>\n Exile Editions: Through the Portal \u2013 Stories from a Hopeful Dystopia
\nThis is a new Dublin-based journal, and they are reading submissions for their second issue. \u201cProfiles welcomes character-driven fiction and non-fiction \u2014 both original works and works in translation \u2026 We\u2019re interested in publishing character studies. We love writing that channels the author\u2019s insatiable curiosity about other people (or their talent for self-reflection), is empathetic without bordering on apologia, and shows human nature as it is, not necessarily as it should be.\u201d They also publish artwork. They will be able to pay contributors of their second issue because of a grant they have received.
\nDeadline: 26 May 2023
\nLength: Up to 5,000 words
\nPay: \u20ac200 for work for this issue; potentially more for those participating in recordings, interviews, or launch (see here<\/a>)
\nDetails here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nThey publish Irish and international writing. They plan on being\u00a0open for submissions for fiction, nonfiction \u2013 including graphic narratives in both genres \u2013 as well as poetry, during the second half of May.
\nReading period: 16-31 May 2023
\nLength: No length restrictions for prose (see guidelines); up to 3 poems
\nPay: For fiction and nonfiction, \u20ac45 per magazine page, with a minimum\/maximum payment of \u20ac300\/\u20ac1,200 (approx. $325-1,300); flash fiction\/shorter essays (1 \u2013 2 pages): \u20ac150; poetry: \u20ac40 per magazine page, with a minimum payment of \u20ac60 per poem; featured poet: \u20ac400
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>They accept fiction, nonfiction and poetry. For fiction, \u201cWe tend to choose polished work with an engaging voice, conceived with humility and somewhat clear intention. \u2026 We do not hate on genre writing, although we do seek the traditional literary qualities we admire in such work. Which is to say, a good fantasy setting or interesting SciFi concept won\u2019t be enough without good characters, solid storytelling and dramatic tension in which the readers feel something real and true is somehow at stake on the page.\u201d
\nDeadline: 31 May 2023, or until filled
\nLength: Up to 5,000 words for fiction, up to 2,000-7,000 words for nonfiction (shorter for flash nonfiction), up to 5 poems
\nPay: $50
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>They publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. \u201cWe do not publish genre romance, horror, mystery, or science fiction; however, we are open to writing that borrows elements from any of these.\u201d They also accept translations. Online submissions are charged, but mailed submissions are free.
\nDeadline: 31 May 2023
\nLength: No length restrictions for prose (see guidelines); up to 5 poems
\nPay: $20\/page for prose, $40\/page for poetry, up to $300
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>They publish literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
\n<\/strong>Deadline: 31 May 2023
\nLength: Up to 5,000 words for prose, up to 3 poems
\nPay: $50 (Amazon gift certificate or via PayPal, if preferred)
\nDetails here<\/a> and here<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>They publish literary fiction (including flash, short stories, novellas, and novel excerpts), nonfiction, poetry, essay reviews, and art. Online submissions are charged, but mailed submissions are free.
\nDeadline: 31 May 2023
\nLength: Up to 10,000 words for prose; up to 5 short poems (if sending longer poems, send fewer \u2013 see guidelines)
\nPay: $3\/per line for poetry up to $300 for an individual poem, $30\/page for prose
\nDetails here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nThey accept fiction from every country except the US. \u201cWe publish one story per month as our Featured piece. We will also periodically seek to publish one story in a new section – “Introducing” – which will be a showcase for excellent new writers; that is, writers for whom this is their first published piece. In both cases we are looking for the best, carefully crafted, deeply considered work.\u201d
\nDeadline: 31 May 2023
\nLength: 500-5,000 words
\nPay: \u00a30.02\/word, up to \u00a0\u00a3100
\nDetails here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>They publish fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as fiction and creative nonfiction prose poetry, as long as it is compressed in some way.
\nDeadline: 15 June 2023
\nLength: Up to 600 words
\nPay: $50
\nDetails here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nThe Ex-Puritan<\/strong>
\nThis Canadian magazine publishes fiction, nonfiction, experimental\/hybrid work, interviews, reviews, and poetry. They accept a limited number of fee-free submissions every month.
\nDeadline: 25 June 2023, or until filled, for the Summer issue; reads year-round
\nLength: Up to 10,000 words for fiction, up to 4 poems; various for nonfiction (see guidelines)
\nPay: CAD200 per essay; CAD150 for fiction; CAD100 per interview or review; CAD35 per poem (or page, capped at CAD120); CAD50+ per experimental or hybrid work, at an increasing scale depending on the nature of the piece
\nDetails here<\/a> and here<\/a>.
\n(Also see their Submittable<\/a> for a special Indigenous Storytelling<\/strong> issue call; the deadline for that is 10th<\/sup> July 2023.)<\/p>\n
\nThis is a new magazine of primarily slipstream flash fiction. \u201cWe want the single best piece of flash fiction you have that comes from the places in-between. We are primarily a slipstream publication — that means we like your stories that don’t make a ton of sense. We want your giant talking frogs. We want your people with unexplained, never commented-upon eyes in their fingertips. We enjoy character-focused writing, with an emphasis on voice.\u201d They also accept reprints.
\nDeadline: Open now
\nLength: Prefer up to 1,000 words, can accept longer (see guidelines)
\nPay: $0.08\/word
\nDetails here<\/a> and here<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe Drabblecast is a speculative fiction magazine and podcast that publishes weird fiction. \u201cWe want WEIRD west stories \u2026 Westerns without a speculative element (scifi\/fantasy\/horror\/weird) will not be considered. Come weird or not at all.\u201d They also accept reprints.
\nDeadline: 26 May 2023
\nLength: 500-4,000 words
\nPay: $.06\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>.
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\nPrairie Fire: Haunted \u2013 Things That Keep You Up At Night
\n<\/strong>This Canadian magazine publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and they have a special call on the Haunted theme. Their website says, \u201cThis fall, Prairie Fire is taking a deep dive into what haunts us. What keeps you up at night? Is it thoughts of regret about what you did or didn\u2019t do, said or didn\u2019t say, the risks you didn\u2019t take? Or, maybe the pain of the past comes to visit, specters of history we\u2019ve inherited through family or societal trauma? What do these hauntings teach us, and how do we cope with them? Can we finally put the old ghosts to bed, or have we learned to live with them?
\nNot all hauntings are unwelcome. Sometimes an idea or dream, repeatedly whispered in our ears at night, can lead us to take personal action, give rise to radical change, create new movement in our lives, or inspire acts of great artistic expression. Sometimes, ghosts can be helpful.\u201d Also, the magazine \u201cencourages submissions from LGBTQI2S writers, BIPOC writers, differently-abled writers, and all who are otherwise affected by structural inequality.\u201d
\nDeadline: 26 May 2023
\nLength: Up to 5,000 words for prose, up to 3 poems
\nPay: CAD0.10\/word for prose up to CAD250, CAD40\/poem for print, varies for others
\nDetails here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>They want erotic horror, gothic horror, quiet horror, and body horror for this anthology. \u201cWe’re reclaiming the predatory lesbian trope, think Mrs Danvers in Rebecca or Roxy in Basic Instinct, so we\u2019re looking for stories of sapphic villains. Because we\u2019re looking to reclaim this trope and not reinforce it, we don\u2019t just want sapphic villains. Sapphic characters can also be heroes and anti-heroes. We\u2019d like to see a diversity of queer identities in a multitude of roles. We\u2019d especially love to see stories of feminine rage, erotic horror, genderbent retellings and reclamations of power by queer femmes.\u201d Stories must have diverse LGBTQ+ representation, can be set anytime in the past or present; the location can be anywhere on Earth.
\nDeadline: 31 May 2023
\nLength: 1,500-4,000 words
\nPay: $0.08\/word
\nDetails here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nWeird Little Worlds: Playlist of the Damned<\/strong>
\nThis is a fiction (including flash) and poetry anthology. \u201cA hiker finds a grungy cassette tape in an abandoned mine that reads, DO NOT PLAY. When he does, he unleashes 25 tales of horror from the place where music and the macabre meet. \u2026 Bring us your Faustian deals with the Devil, your debauched rock stars, and demonic incantations. Music that soothes the beast or strangles with an invisible hand. These stories should be so integrally connected with music that the narrative can\u2019t function without it.\u201d Also, \u201cSpecific songs can be used, but (unless you have rights to the lyrics or it is in public domain) only references and titles can be included. There is no restriction on genre, style, or time period. We are interested in short fiction, horror poetry, and flash fiction alike in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.\u201d
\nDeadline: 31 May 2023
\nLength: 500-5,000 words
\nPay: $0.05\/word for prose, $1\/line for poetry (will increase if Kickstarter hits stretch goals)
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nThey publish fiction, poetry, and art from refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants only; these are unthemed. They also consider poems from refugee\/asylum seeker writing groups. Nonfiction and book reviews are open to all, and the theme for those is migration<\/strong>. Also, \u201cA.M. Heath Literary Agency will offer 1-2-1s to 6 of our vol.3 contributors\u200b\u200b.\u201d
\nDeadline: 31 May 2023
\nLength: 1,000-8,000 words for fiction; up to 4 poems; 2,000-5,000 words for nonfiction
\nPay: \u00a3100 for print, \u00a350 for online contributions, and \u00a3300 for art; asylum seekers get gift cards
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nApparition Lit is a quarterly speculative fiction and poetry magazine. They\u2019re reading submissions on the Creature theme for the last two weeks in May 2023; also see the note about their equity initiative in the guidelines here<\/a> (scroll down) \u2013 \u201cOur submission window will remain open for an additional week each quarter for writers who identify as BIPOC and self-identify in their cover letter.
\nWe will also accept simultaneous submissions from writers who identify as BIPOC or LGBTQIA+. Please just note how you identify in your cover letter, that it is a simultaneous submission.\u201d
\nDeadline: 31 May 2023 for submissions from all writers on the theme; and 7 June 2023 for writers who self-identify as BIPOC in their cover letter
\nLength: 1,000-5,000 words for fiction, up to 5 poems
\nPay: $0.05\/word for fiction, $50\/poem
\nDetails here<\/a> and here<\/a>.
\n(They also publish flash fiction online on monthly prompts, during the first fortnight of every month.)<\/p>\n
\nFor this speculative fiction and poetry anthology; they want SF, fantasy, space opera, hopepunk on \u2018Rhapsody of the Spheres\u2019 theme. \u201cThe dictionary defines a rhapsody as \u201can effusively enthusiastic or ecstatic expression of feeling.\u201d In ancient Greece, a rhapsody was\u00a0 also part of an epic poem of a suitable length for reciting.
\nEdie Brickell waxed rhapsodic about a smile on a dog, and Queen and Liszt gave us their musical Bohemian and Hungarian rhapsodies, respectively. Please give us a speculative fiction story or poem about what would make us happy right now.\u201d Please send your work only during the reading period.
\nReading period: 19 May \u2013 1 June 2023
\nLength: 1,500-3,000 words
\nPay: $0.08\/word
\nDetails here<\/a> (scroll down for the theme) and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nTheir website says, \u201cwe\u2019re looking for short horror stories \u2026 written in epistolary format\u2014meaning, stories written as letters, journal entries, transcripts of radio broadcasts, newspaper clippings, text messages, etc.
\nFurthermore, each story should include some mention of how its manuscript was \u201cdiscovered.\u201d A letter found in a historian\u2019s archive, for example. Or emails saved as part of a missing persons investigation. Or an audio file recovered from a dead podcaster\u2019s PC. Push boundaries and play with the format\u2014and above all, be scary!\u201d
\nDeadline: 1 June 2023
\nLength: 2,500-7,000 words
\nPay: $0.01\/word
\nDetails here<\/a> (download guidelines).<\/p>\n
\nsin cesar: Climate
\n<\/strong>They want fiction (including flash fiction), nonfiction (memoir essays, critical essays, book reviews, & interviews), and poetry on the Climate theme. \u201cWe look for subversive and bold voices; thought-provoking pieces that seek to illuminate a truth for the reader.\u201d They prioritize work by Black and Brown artists.
\nDeadline: 1 June 2023
\nLength: Up to 3,000 words for prose, 3-5 poems
\nPay: $25-75 for poetry, $100 for prose
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nThe Fairy Tale Magazine: Love
\n<\/strong>They publish fairy tales \u2013 new fairy tales or mashups of fairy tales, as well as poetry. They have detailed guidelines, including, \u201cThe theme for 2023 is “LOVE,\u201d with romance preferred, but love between friends, family members, pets and their humans, etc., will be considered as well.
\nWe are also very open to the stories and poems focusing on seasonal holidays, like solstice celebrations, Halloween, Hanukkah,\u00a0 etc. However, while holiday based stories and poems are very welcome, you still need to include the theme. \u2026. Do bear in mind that all fairy tale related fiction and poetry needs an element of the supernatural\u2014as well as transformation. Transformation is a huge deal for the 2023 publishing year.\u201d General submissions to the magazine are free, and submissions to the contest have a fee attached.
\nDeadline: 2 June 2023
\nLength: 1,000-5,000 words (up to 3,500 preferred) for fiction, up to 500 words for poetry
\nPay: $50
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>They welcome international submission, but 90% of the work for this anthology will be from people who live in\/have ties to Canada. They have extensive guidelines, including, \u201cSend us your eco-fiction stories or prose poems\u2013\u2013literary, magical, speculative, solarpunk, supernatural, slipstream, reimagined folk\/fairy tales. We want eco-fiction that envisions imaginaries and relationships in a new or changing world. How do we walk through the portal to the other side? How will we address or overcome the legacy of the past: the negative actors and social constructs, environmental devastation, racism, exploitation, pathologies? \u2026 We want submissions from everyone, emerging through established, and from all communities\u2013\u2013including but not limited to LGBTQ2S+, Black, Indigenous, marginalized, culturally diverse, the deaf and disabled. Stories can be literary or speculative, with the environment playing an essential role in the narrative. We welcome visual content in the form of illustrations accompanying a story or prose poem, or as graphic stories.\u201d
\nDeadline: 31 July 2023 (extended)
\nLength: Up to 3,500 words
\nPay: CAD0.05\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>.
\n(Also see their fiction calls for ONWAACHIGEWIN \u2013 Prophecy and AKI\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Mother Earth<\/strong> anthologies; they want submissions from Indigenous writers only: First Nation, Inuit, M\u00e9tis, Status or Non-Status. \u201cWe\u2019d also love to consider Indigenous writers who do not live in Canada, but a restriction is that at least 90% of the authors in the anthology must live in Canada, or continue to maintain ties to Canada\u201d. They have detailed guidelines for each anthology. Pay is CAD0.05\/word for stories up to 5,000 words for both anthologies, and the deadline is now 31 July 2023. Details here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n
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