{"id":12436,"date":"2025-04-15T11:40:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T18:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=12436"},"modified":"2025-04-15T11:40:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T18:40:49","slug":"10-fiction-magazines-paying-up-to-800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/10-fiction-magazines-paying-up-to-800\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Fiction Magazines Paying up to $800 for Short Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By S. Kalekar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These magazines pay up to $800 for fiction. A few also accept other genres, like non-fiction and poetry. They are open now, or will open soon for submissions.

New Session: Adaptations
<\/strong>New Sessions is a telenet<\/a> literary magazine that is back after a hiatus. They want submissions for Issue 3. \u201cNew Session issue three will be different from issues one and two. Delivering the magazine over electronic media allows us to tell stories that more static forms cannot; it allows for a (limited) degree of interactivity, but constraints breed creativity, and New Session would like to invite you to explore that space.
We are looking for short stories, poetry, and non-fiction that contain \u201cadaptations\u201d, or variances. Essentially, we\u2019re asking you to submit work that has small or large changes based on any number of conditions. For example, your story or poem can have words, pages, or sections that change based on time of day, the number of times a reader has seen your story before, or the reader\u2019s location.
These are just examples (see guidelines for more examples), but the core of the call for proposals is this: your submission should be mutable, it should have a set number of variances, and you should tell us how those variances should be expressed.
Your submission may have one adaption or it may have many.
\u2026 please format your work to fit on an 80×24 terminal screen (that\u2019s 80 horizontal characters and 24 vertical). We\u2019re shooting for a length of between 5 and 10 \u201cpages\u201d of 80×24 text for a single reading of the story (ie, each adaptation can make it much longer), but we are quite flexible on length. Issue 3 will be released in June, in both Telnet and HTML forms.\u201d They also encourage collaboration between writers and the developer of the New Session content management system, so they ask you to reach out (see guidelines).
Deadline: 20 April 2025
Length: See above
Pay: $50
Details here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taco Bell Quarterly
<\/strong>They have detailed guidelines, including, \u201cTaco Bell Quarterly seeks literary\/creative essays, short stories, fiction\/prose, poems, comics, art, one act plays, fever dreams, multimedia, stupid status updates, criticisms, manifestos, recipes and anything else that explore any and all elements of Taco Bell. Or not. Shoehorn a chalupa in your short story. Maybe we\u2019ll love it. \u2026 We lean towards pieces that are queer and center their pain\/joy in a Taco Bell.\u201d They\u2019ll open for submissions on 20th<\/sup> April, see announcement here<\/a>; submit via Submittable<\/a> during the reading period. Opens on: 20 April 2025
Length: 500-2,500 words for prose, up to 4 poems
Pay: $150
Details here<\/a> and here<\/a>.

Mythaxis<\/strong>
This magazine will open for a brief period in April. \u201cMythaxis\u00a0seeks speculative fiction (sf\/f\/h) of all stripes for our first three issues each year. We are also interested in submissions of crime fiction for our end-of-year \u201call crime\u201d issue. All these genres are equally welcome in each submission window.\u201d Submission is via a form<\/a> which will open during the reading period. They\u2019ve given all their reading periods on their website.
Reading period: 23 to 30 April 2025
Length: 1,000-5,000 words
Pay: \u20ac0.01\/word
Details here<\/a>.

Haven Speculative
<\/strong>They are open for speculative fiction and poetry submissions from all writers in April. They are also reading submissions for their climate crisis focused Dry<\/strong> (might be published in May this year; looking for content that focuses on the dry aspects of climate change\u2014desertification and falling reservoirs, rising temperatures and endless droughts\u2014we’ll center stories by authors directly affected by the climate crisis\u201d) and Wet<\/strong> (published September; \u201cwe focus on stories of water\u2014monsoons and the rising tides, hurricanes and the disappearing coast\u2014we’ll center stories by authors directly affected by the climate crisis\u201d) issues. Scroll down on the guidelines page for the themes. They are closed for non-fiction and art. Next month, they will read submissions by underrepresented writers only (see guidelines). \u00a0
<\/strong>Deadline: 30 April 2025 for general submissions (from all writers)
Length: Up to 6,000 words for fiction, up to 5 poems
Pay: $0.08\/word for fiction, $20\/poem
Details here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(And, Strange Horizons<\/strong><\/a> has announced that they will open for general fiction submissions<\/a> during April \u2013 opens 16th<\/sup> April, closes when filled \u2013 and also for a special Afrosurrealism<\/a> special issue, which is open only to people of African descent; they pay $0.10\/word for fiction. Submission is via their Moksha portal.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Randon Journal<\/strong>
Their guidelines say, \u201cRadon welcomes short story and poetry submissions containing elements of anarchism, transhumanism, dystopia, or science fiction.\u201d You can read more about the genres they publish in the FAQ section, here<\/a>. They accept work year-round, with cut-off dates for issues. They\u2019re also looking for an artist in residence, to collaborate on artwork for their magazine \u2013 see their Submittable<\/a> page for details.\u00a0
Deadline: 30 April 2025 for the next issue (reads year-round)
Length: Up to 5,000 words for fiction, up to 5 poems
Pay: $0.02\/word for fiction, $20\/poem
Details here<\/a> and here<\/a>.

Foglifter
<\/strong>They want work from LGBTQ+ writers only \u2013 fiction, non-fiction, poetry, hybrid works, drama, and art. \u201cFoglifter welcomes daring and thoughtful work by queer and trans writers in all forms, and we are especially interested in cross-genre, intersectional, marginal, and transgressive work. We want the pieces that challenged you as a writer, what you poured yourself into and risked the most to make. But we also want your tenderest, gentlest work, what you hold closest to your heart.\u201d Also see their \u2018Writers In Need\u2019 funds for and by contributors, on their guidelines<\/a> page.
Deadline: 1 May 2025 (for the Fall edition)
Length: Up to 7,500 words for prose, 3-5 poems, up to 20 pages of drama or hybrid works
Pay: $50
Details here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(– And, FIYAH<\/strong> is another magazine that accepts work from a limited demographic \u2013 they only accept submissions from Black writers of the African Diaspora. They want speculative fiction and poetry on the ISEKAI, aka Waking Up in Another World<\/strong> theme. Send fiction of 2,000-15,000 words, or poetry up to 1,000 words. They pay $0.08\/word for fiction and $50 for poetry, the deadline is 30 April 2025. Details here<\/a>.
— <\/strong>Submissions are also open for the other side of hope: journeys in refugee and immigrant literature<\/strong>. \u201cwe consider fiction, poetry & artworks by refugees and immigrants only; narrative non-fiction by everyone on the theme of migration. They pay. The deadline is 30 April 2025. Details here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adi Magazine<\/strong>
Adi is a feminist literary journal of global politics. They are open now for fiction submissions. \u201cAdi is thinking about alternative political visions for a world in desperate need of them. We want examples from outside of the mainstream, stories about practices, ideas, and movements that were\/are suppressed by economic, socio-cultural, religious, or imperial (colonial) powers. We privilege perspectives from the Global South\u2026But we are also interested in the experiences of all marginalized peoples everywhere as they have explored alternative economies, subversive strategies, and surprising solidarities.\u201d And, stories \u201ccould be based on historical events, or could focus on imagined futures that subvert current empires.\u201d They accept flash and short fiction as well as translations.
Deadline: 4 May 2025
Length: Up to 5,000 words
Pay: $200 for flash, $500 for short fiction
Details here<\/a>.

Planet Scumm
<\/strong>They publish fiction, including flash fiction, and they\u2019re reading submissions for their Fall 2025 issue. They want sci-fi of all kinds, and speculative fiction, weird fiction, and slipstream.
Deadline: 7 May 2025
Length: Up to 5,000 words
Pay: $0.08\/word
Details here<\/a>.

The Georgia Review<\/strong>
They publish literary fiction, including translations. Regarding length, they say, \u201cAlthough we are willing to read work of any length, we rarely publish prose works 9000 words or longer.\u201d They also publish non-fiction and poetry. Online submissions from non-subscribers are charged, but there is no fee for mailed submissions; they\u2019re also open for a poetry prize, which has a submission fee.\u00a0
Deadline: 15 May 2025
Length: Up to 9,000 words of prose, 6-10 pages of poetry
Pay: $50\/printed page of prose and $4\/line of poetry, up to $800; $150 for reviews published on GR2
Details here<\/a>.

Tableware Magazine
<\/strong>This is a new print magazine. They want \u201cart, poetry, fiction, essays, photography, reviews. Most anything you can print on paper.\u201d
Deadline: 15 May 2025
Length: Up to 15 pages for writing (see guidelines)
Pay: $50
Details here<\/a>.
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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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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