{"id":6238,"date":"2019-02-19T10:46:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T18:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=6238"},"modified":"2019-02-19T11:01:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T19:01:37","slug":"10-themed-calls-for-short-stories-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/10-themed-calls-for-short-stories-100\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Themed Calls for Short Stories ($100+)"},"content":{"rendered":"

These markets pay $100 for fiction, and some pay significantly more. A few are also open for other genres like non-fiction, poetry, translations, graphic fiction, and reviews. Also see this list<\/a> of other fiction markets \u2013 deadlines are coming quickly. — S. Kalekar<\/strong><\/p>\n

Margery de Brus: Today, Tomorrow, Always anthology
\n<\/strong>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adFor this anthology, they want stories that address contemporary issues. Their guidelines say, \u201cWe’re looking for works that tell a compelling story and elicit a strong emotional response from readers. While literary basics like imagery and symbolism are important, we’re more concerned with the content of the story. Can you entertain us AND tell us something profound? Do the characters speak to us? Do we recognize them?\u201d
\nDeadline: 28 February 2019
\nLength: Up to 7,500 words
\nPay: $100
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Copper Nickel
\n<\/strong>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adThis literary journal is housed in the University of Denver, Colorado. They publish poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and writing in translation with a particular \u2013 but not exclusive \u2013 interest in work that considers sociohistorical context. Contributors to the magazine have received numerous honors for their work, including the Nobel, and prestigious fellowships, while others have published their first works here. They publish work by both US-based and overseas writers, though for the latter, payments are subject to a 30% tax which is withheld at the front end.
\nDeadline: 1 March 2019
\nLength: No length guidelines for fiction and non-fiction; 4-6 poems
\nPay: $30\/page; $500 each in Editors\u2019 Prizes for a poetry and a prose submission in each issue
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Podcastle
\n<\/strong>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adThey publish fantasy short fiction on their website and as a podcast. They are open to all the sub-genres of fantasy, from magical realism to urban fantasy to slipstream to high fantasy. Fantastical or non-real content should be meaningful to the story.
\nDeadline: 15 March 2019
\nLength: Up to 6,000 words
\nPay: $0.06\/word for original; $100 for reprints, $20 for flash fiction reprints
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The People\u2019s Preservatory
\n<\/strong>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adEarlier called The Cockroach Conservatory, this Weird genre magazine publishes fiction and poetry. They want Weird, funny, horror, fantasy, genre, and literary work.
\nDeadline: 15 March 2019
\nLength: Up to 3,000 words for stories, up to 5 poems
\nPay: $0.08\/word for fiction, $1\/line of poetry
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kaleidotrope
\n<\/strong>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adThis magazine leans very heavily towards the speculative \u2013 science fiction, fantasy, and horror. However, they \u201clike an eclectic mix and are therefore interested to read compelling work that blurs these lines, falls outside of neat genre categories\u201d, according to their guidelines. \u201cIn the end, what we want is interesting, sometimes unconventional work, well-written stories and poems that surprise and amuse us, shock and disturb us, that tell us things we didn\u2019t know or reveal old truths in brand new ways.\u201d They also publish poetry, and sometimes, non-fiction \u2013 essays, memoirs, and thoughtful criticism.
\nDeadline: 31 March 2019
\nLength: No maximum word limit for fiction, though anything above 10,000 words will be a tougher sell
\nPay: $0.01\/word for prose, $5\/poem
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Epoch Magazine
\n<\/strong>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adThis literary magazine is edited by faculty at Cornell University. They publish fiction, poetry, essays, cartoons, screenplays, graphic art, and graphic fiction. They only accept mailed submissions. The deadline is for unsolicited submissions; they read work submitted by literary agencies year-round.
\nDeadline: 15 April 2019
\nLength: No guidelines for prose; up to 5 poems
\nPay: Up to $150 for stories, more for long stories and novellas, and those submitted by literary agencies; $50\/poem
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

B Cubed Press: Tales from the Space Force
\n<\/strong>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adThis is an anthology around the Space Force. Their guidelines say, \u201cNow that America has an official Space Force, we need to incorporate it into literature.<\/p>\n

What to do we want?\u00a0 Camp? Satire? Bug Eyed Monsters? All good. We\u2019ll do serious stories, too.\u00a0 Mostly we want good stories. And if I am to confess, we want campy stories. We want the golden age of pulp to live again. … Ask yourself, what would an American Space Force do? Will there be a space wall around the International Space Station? Will NASA and the Space Force get along?\u201d Political bents are allowed, and they also accept poetry. Also check out their other themed calls: Alternative Bedtime Reading for Progressive Parents<\/a>, and Alternative Apocalypses<\/a>.
\nDeadline: 15 April 2019
\nLength: 500-5,000 words
\nPay: $0.02\/word and royalties; for flash pieces and poetry, an option of a flat $25 fee
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Georgia Review
\n<\/strong>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adThis literary magazine publishes fiction, non-fiction, reviews (including book briefs and essay-reviews) and poetry. There is no set word limit for prose, they have published work of less than one page in length to more than 60. They charge a fee for using Submittable, though current subscribers and past contributors can submit on it for free. There is no fee for mailed submissions.
\nDeadline: 15 May 2019
\nLength: No length prescribed for fiction and non-fiction; up to 5 poems
\nPay: $50\/page for prose, $4\/line for poetry; $50 for book briefs
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Factor Four Magazine
\n<\/strong>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adThis is a quarterly speculative flash fiction magazine that was launched in April 2018. They want stories that focus on four speculative fiction genres, or which are a combination of any of these: science fiction, fantasy, supernatural, and super hero.
\nDeadline: Open now
\nLength: Up to 1,500 words; under 1,000 words preferred
\nPay: $0.08\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Dark
\n<\/strong>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adThis online magazine publishes horror and dark fantasy. Their guidelines say, \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid to experiment or to deviate from the ordinary; be different \u2013 try us with fiction that may fall out of \u201cregular\u201d categories.\u201d This is, however, not a market for graphic, violent horror. They also accept reprints.
\nDeadline: Rolling
\nLength: Up to 6,000 words
\nPay: $0.06\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These markets pay $100 for fiction, and some pay significantly more. A few are also open for other genres like non-fiction, poetry, translations, graphic fiction, and reviews. Also see this list of other fiction markets \u2013 deadlines are coming quickly. — S. Kalekar Margery de Brus: Today, Tomorrow, Always anthology \u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adFor this anthology, they want…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6239,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions\/6239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}