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By S. Kalekar

<\/strong>These 12 magazines\/outlets pay up to about $700 for fiction. A few also accept other genres, like non-fiction and poetry. They\u2019re open now, or will soon open for submissions. There are also some bonus themed calls at the end.

Kaleidotrope
<\/strong>\u201cKaleidotrope<\/a> publishes predominantly speculative fiction and poetry\u2014science fiction, fantasy, and horror, but also compelling work that blurs the lines between these and falls outside of neat genre categories. (Man does not live on space ships, elves, and ghostly ax murderers alone, after all.)\u201d And, \u201cWe have no minimum or maximum word count for fiction but strongly prefer stories over 250 words and under 10,000.
We consider all forms of poetry, but individual haiku, or other very short poems, may be a tougher sell.\u201d They will soon open for a brief submission period for fiction and poetry; they\u2019re open for artwork.
Submission period: 19th<\/sup> to 25th<\/sup> July 2026
Length: See above
Pay: $0.01\/word for fiction, $5 for poetry
Details here<\/a>.

Strange Pilgrims
<\/strong>Strange Pilgrims<\/a> wants flash and short fiction and non-fiction. \u201cWe\u2019re not married to any genre, structure, or subject. We love surreal, speculative, and fabulist stories; unhinged, lyric, and fragmented essays; voice-driven experimental narratives and slow-burn realism; cultural and literary criticism; hyper-intellectual riffs and children\u2019s stories \u2014 so long as they move. If your work is honest, well-crafted, and offers something emotionally and intellectually vivid, we want to read it.\u201d And, \u201cEach piece will be published alongside a short interview with the author.\u201d
(They\u2019re also open for a contest currently, for which they charge a submission fee.)\u00a0
Deadline: 20 July 2026 for general submissions
Length: Up to 1,000 words for flash, 1,001 – 10,000 words for short prose
Pay: $50 for flash prose, $200 for longer works
Details here<\/a> and here<\/a>

The Alchemy Press: Weird Alchemy<\/strong>
They are accepting submissions for a fiction anthology. \u201cThe tentative title is Weird Alchemy \u2026 What kind of story are we really looking for? If you\u2019ve read any of the Alchemy Press Books of Horrors, Shadowplays (published by PS Publishing) or No Laughing Matter (to be published by Flame Tree) anthologies, you\u2019ll know what tickles our taste buds. Basically: well written and subtle weird\/horror stories.
We want stories of 3,000-6,000 words (contact us before submitting if your story falls outside this range, remembering that below 3,000 words is going to be a very hard sell). Besides the adjectives used above, this is a non-themed book, so your imagination can fly far and wide. But no unnecessary violence or gore for its own sake; and no overt religious metaphors.\u201d
Deadline: 22 July 2026
Length: See above
Pay: 1 p\/word
Details here<\/a>.

Splinter
<\/strong>This Australian journal invites submissions in English (or in other languages with English translation) from writers across Australia and the world. \u201cSplinter is always looking for writing that considers how reality is made and how it can be broken. We are particularly keen on writing that acknowledges that existence is silly and absurd and also, somehow, really serious.
\u201cWhile we don’t want writers to feel limited by the below list, these are some topics and voices we are particularly interested in for issue six:<\/p>\n\n\n\n