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By S. Kalekar

<\/strong>These magazines pay up to AUD3,000 (approximately USD1,930) for fiction. Some also accept other genres, like non-fiction and poetry; some calls are themed. They\u2019re open now, or will soon open for submissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Griffith Review<\/strong>
Griffith Review is an Australian literary magazine and they want fiction and non-fiction submissions for issue 92; the theme is Lost and Found<\/strong>. \u201c’Loss,’ wrote Marcus Aurelius, ‘is nothing else but change’. We lose face, lose time, lose heart, lose touch, lose ground, lose our keys (often); we can lose the things that hold us back or weigh us down, just as we can lose the people and places we love most. Loss, whether it offers us pain or reward, is fundamental to the experience of being human. What might we lose or gain as technology continues its rapid advance? How do we halt the loss of our natural world? What’s lost by growing up between cultures? Are we losing our sense of a shared reality? And what are the benefits to being a loser?\u201d
They mostly accept work from writers in Australia, and some work from overseas writers.
Deadline: 30 November 2025 (11.59 AEST)
Length: Up to 4,000 words for prose (for print)
Pay: AUD0.75\/word
Details here<\/a> and here<\/a>.

Haven Speculative
<\/strong>They publish speculative fiction and poetry. November is their general Fall submission window (for all writers). \u201cOur submission cycle is split into four reading periods, each containing three parts: a month explicitly reserved for submissions by authors of color, members of LGBTQIA+ communities, and writers belonging to other underrepresented groups; a month open to general submissions, during which anyone may submit; and a month in which we’re closed to submissions so that we may do the difficult (and exciting!) work of choosing content for future issues.\u201d They also publish climate crisis focused Dry<\/strong> and Wet<\/strong> issues each year.
Deadline: 30th<\/sup> November 2025 (for general submissions)
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>.

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<\/strong>This magazine only accepts speculative fiction submissions from immigrants or members of the diaspora. For this reading cycle, they want stories on the Revolutions<\/strong> theme. Some aspects they are especially interested in are: Cycles of revolution and counter-revolution; Revolution as the starting point instead of the endpoint; Quiet revolutions and alternative sites of resistance; and Disability, class and revolution. They also accept flash fiction and translations.
Deadline: 30 November 2025
Length: Up to 5,000 words (prefers up to 3,500 words)
Pay: $0.10\/word
Details here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.

Singapore Unbound: SUSPECT<\/strong>
Singapore Unbound\u2019s SUSPECT is open for submissions from Asian writers only. \u201cWe seek poetry, literary fiction, essays, and any kind of writings that do not fall into these categories, written or translated into English by authors who identify as Asian. We also publish reviews of books by Asian authors and interviews with Asian writers and artists. Translators must provide documentation of authorization to translate and publish from the writer whom they are translating. Submit a story or essay (1,500 to 6,500 words), or 3-5 poems (maximum 10 pages)\u201d.  
Deadline: 30th<\/sup> November 2025
Length: See above
Pay: $100
Details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Thread<\/strong>
Thread<\/a> is ChillSubs\u2019 literary magazine run entirely on social media. Send a micro prose or poem on the Closing<\/strong> theme \u2013 \u201cTell us about the ways a day ends or can be ended. Write about the sign-off of an email -warmly, best wishes, regards. Get literal or metaphorical with it. How did that door slam; how did the circle close? When was the last time you shut your laptop?
Whatever is closing, has closed, or may one day close, we want to hear about it.\u201d
You can either reply to their post on Threads, or DM them on Instagram. Your piece can be up to 500 characters (not words).
Deadline: 1 December 2025
Length: Up to 500 characters
Pay: $85
Details here<\/a> and here<\/a> (click to continue to other slides).

adventitious
<\/strong>This is a new magazine, and they will soon submissions for their first issue. \u201cAdventitious<\/em>hopes to be an intelligently mischievous literary magazine for the curious and unclassifiable. \u2026 We love speculative, surreal, and literary fiction. We admire its reach, its weirdness, and its refusal to color inside any lines. We believe in the work of the magazines and writers already making noise in that space, and we want to join in the ruckus: to publish fiction that\u2019s as thoughtful as it is surprising, and to do it with style, respect, and a great sense of nonsense.\u201d You can read about them here<\/a>. \u201cWe want stories that offer a sense of wonder through their language, characters, plots, or all of the above. Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and all speculative\/surreal will always be welcomed, but we\u2019re also happy with stories that shock and delight right here on this plane of existence.\u201d They are looking for stories from micro to novelette length. They will open for submissions on 1st<\/sup> December and close on 5th <\/sup>December or when they hit their submission cap, whichever is earlier.
Submission period: 1st<\/sup> to 5th<\/sup> December 2025 (or until filled)
Length: Flash up to 1,000 words; short fiction of 1,000-6,000 words; novelettes of 6,000-17,000 words
Pay: $0.08\/word
Details here<\/a> and here<\/a>.
(And, submissions for\u00a0Unidentified Funny Objects<\/strong>\u00a0anthology will open from 5th\u00a0to 12th\u00a0December 2025. They want speculative fiction with a strong humorous element, and pay $0.12\/word for stories of 500 to 8,000 words. Their Kickstarter<\/a> has funded. Details\u00a0here<\/a>.)

Plott Hound<\/strong>\u00a0
This is a magazine of speculative fiction and poetry starring animals. They will soon open submissions for their Winter issue. Regarding the kind of stories they want: \u201cStories with anthropomorphized animals as viewpoint characters and protagonists
-Animal-centric speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction, horror)
-Underrepresented voices (BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, neurodivergent) that engage with animal myths, tales, and futures
-Stories with uncommonly written about animals as protagonists
-Stories that dig deep into the senses and experience of animals
-Stories that explore the cultures and societies\u00a0of<\/em>\u00a0animals, not just cultures and societies\u00a0with<\/em>\u00a0animals. Think of rabbit language and warren infrastructure in\u00a0Watership Down<\/em>, or the clans and warrior code of feral cats in\u00a0Warriors<\/em>.\u201d They also welcome translations. They publish one essay per issue, as well. Their submission portal will open during the reading period.
Submission period: 1st<\/sup> to 15th<\/sup> December 2025
Length: 1,000-5,000 words (prefer 3,000-4,000 words) for fiction, up to 5 poems, 1,000-2,500 words for essay
Pay: $0.08\/word for stories, $50 for poetry, $100 for essay
Details here<\/a> and here<\/a>.

Neon Hemlock Press: Baffling Magazine
<\/strong>Baffling Magazine publishes \u201cspeculative stories that explore science fiction, fantasy, and horror with a queer bent\u201d. They want unthemed<\/strong> submissions, as well as submissions on the timefuckery <\/strong>theme for their next submission period, which will open soon.
Submission period: 1st<\/sup> to 15th<\/sup> December 2025
Length: Up to 1,200 words
Pay: $0.08\/word
Details here<\/a>.

(Neon Hemlock Press is also open for\u00a0 We\u2019re Here \u2013 The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2025<\/strong>, a reprint<\/strong> anthology for queer speculative fiction published in 2025, up to 17,500 words. The deadline is 31 December 2025. Details here<\/a>, and here<\/a> \u2013 scroll down,\u00a0 and here<\/a>.)

Matter Press: The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
<\/strong>They publish fiction and creative non-fiction, as well as fiction and creative non-fiction prose poetry, as long as it is compressed in some way.
Deadline: 15 December 2025
Length: Up to 600 words
Pay: $50
Details\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0

State of Matter<\/strong>
State of Matter usually publishes speculative fiction, poetry, and translations \u201cwhich may broadly inform South Asian experiences.\u201d For their 20th<\/sup> issue, titled \u201cFolk Tales\u201d \/ \u201cFaux Trails\u201d \/ \u201cFox Tails\u201d<\/strong>; they will accept \u201cthree faux-tales: one science fiction, one fantasy, one horror. These folk-tails might emerge from any culture, any history, any landscape, but they should inform South Asian experiences. They should give us pause as readers from the subcontinent, as fox tales often do, and make us think about our specific place within the cosmos. \u2026 These tales should have: 1. A faux mythology, 2. An element (a folkus) of \u2018faith\u2019, loosely defined, 3. An innovative form (like fox trails usually have)\u201d.
Deadline: 15 December 2025
Length: 1,000-15,000 words
Pay: CAD150
Details here<\/a> and here<\/a>.

Speck Magazine<\/strong>
This is a new magazine, and they are reading for their first issue.
Please note, they can only publish work from writers in the US. Their tagline is, \u2018Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature\u2019. They want submissions on the Craft<\/strong> theme. \u201cBe it witchcraft, spacecrafts, or something else you interpret…submit
your fiction, poetry, or visual art\u201d. Submission is via a form<\/a> on their website.
Deadline: 21 December 2025
Length: Up to 2,500 words (see guidelines)
Pay: $5\/page (up to $50)
Details here<\/a>.

Strange Horizons<\/strong>
They are open for speculative fiction from Indigenous writers only, and will stay open until they hit a submission cap. They also accept other genres (from all writers), like non-fiction and poetry.
Deadline: Open now
Length: Up to 10,000 words (prefer up to 5,000)
Pay: $0.10\/word for fiction
Details here<\/a> and here<\/a>; their overall guidelines page, for all genres, is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\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>.


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