{"id":5707,"date":"2018-10-12T08:14:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T15:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=5707"},"modified":"2018-10-12T08:14:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T15:14:24","slug":"10-calls-for-submission-100-to-450-for-short-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/10-calls-for-submission-100-to-450-for-short-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Calls for Submission: $100 to $450 for Short Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"
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These fiction markets pay $100 for short stories, and a few of them pay significantly more \u2013 deadlines are coming up. Some of these markets also accept work in other genres, namely poetry, non-fiction, and plays. — S. Kalekar<\/strong><\/div>\n
DreamForge: Future Best
\n<\/strong>They want traditional stories, flash fiction, vignettes, or poetry in any genre or sub-genre of science fiction or fantasy for their anthology, \u2018Future Best\u2019. This first issue will include 10 short stories that show mankind as recognizing the challenges in its own success and ready to deal with the situation in a humane way. They want stories which have a future with a hopeful ending, where humane values triumph, and\/or where protagonists struggle to improve the lives of others as well as themselves.
\nDeadline: 31 October 2018
\nLength: Up to 1,500 words
\nPay: $0.06-0.08\/word, and $100 to the best story among the 10
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Room Magazine
\n<\/strong>This feminist magazine is currently accepting fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and art for an unthemed issue. They only publish work written by women, transgender men, Two-Spirit and nonbinary people.
\nDeadline: 31 October 2018
\nLength: Up to five poems; up to 3,500 words for prose
\nPay: CAD50 (for one page) to CAD150 (for five pages and up)
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Literature for Life
\n<\/strong>This is a Los Angeles based online literary journal and resource for middle and high school educators, to spark a love of reading and writing. They publish fiction, non-fiction, articles, essays, short plays and poems spanning multiple genres. All work should be appropriate for use in a high school classroom. Most of the works are set in LA and are by LA-based creators, though they do take some non-Los Angeles work in each issue. See guidelines for details.
\nDeadline: 6 November 2018
\nLength: No restrictions, though stories shouldn\u2019t be so long as to be novella-length
\nPay: $100
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Escape Artists: PseudoPod
\n<\/strong>This horror audio magazine has just opened a brief submission period. They want dark, weird fiction, and their stories range from grim realism or crime drama, to magic-realism, to blatantly supernatural dark fantasy.\u00a0Beautiful language at the expense of plot does not translate well, as it is an audio magazine. Anything holiday-themed (for any holiday) needs to be submitted, ideally, six months in advance. Every quarter, they have Flash on the Borderlands episodes that contain three flash stories\u00a0with a common theme \u2013 these are short, and quirkier and more experimental than the weekly features.\u00a0They also accept reprints.
\nDeadline: 12 November 2018
\nLength: Up to 1,500 words for flash, 1,500-6,000 for short fiction
\nPay: $0.06\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Nothing Without Us
\n<\/strong>For this anthology, they want fiction about and by disabled people. Their guidelines say, \u201cWe welcome writers across the disability, mental illness, developmental disabilities, neurodiversity, blind, and Deaf spectrums. We welcome those who manage invisible and visible disabilities and\/or chronic conditions.\u201d\u00a0Fiction based on lived experiences is welcome. The lead character must be disabled, blind, Deaf, Autistic, neurodiverse, and\/or live with mental illness.\u00a0 Canadians will receive preferred status.
\nDeadline: 31 December 2018
\nLength: 1,000-3,500 words
\nPay: Currently at $0.03\/word; will try to increase this amount via Kickstarter
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Zombies Need Brains: Three Anthologies
\n<\/strong>The three science fiction and fantasy anthologies are: Portals<\/strong> (stories that contain a portal opening up between two different worlds and the consequences that come from that portal; both science fiction and fantasy), Temporally Deactivated<\/strong> (stories where the author explores what the phrase \u201ctemporally deactivated\u201d could mean with regards to a person, place, or thing), and Alternate Peace<\/strong> (alternate history stories where the divergence from our timeline comes from some kind of peaceful change to our past; writers must explore the consequences of this divergence). See guidelines for additional details. The anthologies are Kickstarter funded, and the goal has been met; if stretch goals<\/a> are met, authors will be paid more.
\nDeadline: 31 December 2018
\nLength: Up to 7,500 words
\nPay: At least $0.06\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
The Cincinnati Review
\n<\/strong>This literary magazine reads poetry, fiction, literary non-fiction, translations of poetry, and artwork. Query for drama and review submissions. There is also an online feature, micro, which is unpaid. They accept work through their submission portal only. Writers who are disabled or incarcerated can mail their submissions, though. They have detailed guidelines about what kind of work each editor is looking for.
\nDeadline: 1 March 2019
\nLength: Up to five poems (a total of 10 pages), up to 40 pages of fiction, up to 20 pages of non-fiction
\nPay: $25\/page for prose, $30\/page for poetry
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Escape Artists: Escape Pod
\n<\/strong>This science fiction podcast has opened up again for general submissions. They want stories that center on science, technology, future projections, and\/or alternate history, and how these intersect with people. They also accept reprints.
\nDeadline: Unspecified
\nLength: 1,500-6,000 words
\nPay: $0.06\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Factor Four Magazine
\n<\/strong>They want speculative flash fiction \u2013 science fiction, fantasy, supernatural, super hero, or any combination of these.
\nDeadline: Open now
\nLength: Up to 1,500 words
\nPay: $0.08\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Three-Lobed Burning Eye
\n<\/strong>This speculative fiction magazine is published online twice yearly, and they have a print anthology once in two years. They accept horror, fantasy and science fiction. Also: \u201cWe’re looking for short stories from across the big classifications and those shadowy places between: magical realism, fantastique, slipstream, interstitial, Weird fiction. 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\u2019re not looking for excessive violence or gore, or extreme horror.
\nDeadline: Open now
\nLength: 1,000-7,000 words for short fiction, 500-1,000 words for flash fiction
\nPay: $100 for short fiction, $30 for flash fiction
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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