{"id":6350,"date":"2019-03-12T10:12:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=6350"},"modified":"2019-03-12T10:12:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:12:19","slug":"10-calls-for-short-stories-50-to-360-per-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/10-calls-for-short-stories-50-to-360-per-story\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Calls for Short Stories: $50 to $360 Per Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

These fiction markets pay $50-360 for short stories, and a few of them accept other genres also, like non-fiction and poetry. Also see this list<\/a> of fiction markets paying $100-500 \u2013 deadlines are coming up quickly. \u2013 S. Kalekar<\/strong>
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\nSpeculative City: Occult
\n<\/strong>The magazine publishes \u201cprovocative works that are centered within a cityscape.\u201d They want fiction and poetry on the theme of \u2018Occult\u2019. They also want critical essays and opinion pieces that explore the theme in regards to speculative fiction. Deadline: 25 March 2019
\nLength: Up to 5,500 words
\nPay: $20-75
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pseudopod
\n<\/strong>This is an online magazine and podcast and they publish horror \u2013 dark, weird fiction. Their stories run the spectrum from grim realism or crime drama, to magic-realism, to blatantly supernatural dark fantasy. They publish highly literary stories reminiscent of Poe or Lovecraft as well as vulgar shock-value pulp fiction. What matters most is that the stories are dark and compelling.
\nReading period: 15-31 March 2019
\nLength: Up to 1,500 words for flash, 1,500-6,000 words for short fiction
\nPay: $0.06\/word, $100 for short story reprints, $20 for flash fiction reprints
\nDetails here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mad Scientist Journal: I Didn\u2019t Break the Lamp: Historical Accounts of Imaginary Acquaintances
\n<\/strong>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adThis anthology will be a collection of fictional stories about imaginary friends, imaginary enemies, and imaginary entities that fall somewhere in between. Each story is written from the perspective of someone who has been or been near the imaginary acquaintance in question. Like their regular magazine, this narrator will also have a bio, and stories should be in first person. They have a higher pay rate than for their magazine for this anthology.
\nDeadline: 31 March 2019
\nLength: 500-8,000 words
\nPay: $0.02\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Foreshadow: A Serial YA Anthology
\n<\/strong>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adThis is an online project showcasing young adult fiction, from new and emerging (see guidelines for who fits into the \u2018New Voices\u2019 slot) as well as established writers. They only accept fiction which is in the young adult genre. Their guidelines say, \u201cTo foreshadow in storytelling is to leave hints and drop clues, so each story in\u00a0FORESHADOW<\/em>\u00a0will be introduced by a single-word title that offers a suggestion of what to expect. To find that title, you might ask yourself this question:\u00a0If you could distill your story into one word, what would it be?<\/em>\u00a0This title will act as a clue to what may be discovered in your story\u2014and the issue. Perhaps the clues in our first issue might be Magic, Invention, and Heartbreak. Or Thrillride, Starstruck, and Canary. It\u2019s your choice\u2014and we\u2019re open to most anything!<\/p>\n

When you submit your story, please include your one-word clue. Ideally this will be the title of the story, but if not please still include the clue.\u201d The final deadline for this project is coming up.
\nDeadline: 1 April 2019
\nLength: 2,000-7,000 words
\nPay: $170
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Canthius
\n<\/strong>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adThey welcome submissions of fiction, creative non-fiction, experimental works, and poetry. They welcome work by diverse authors and say they strongly encourage women of colour, including Indigenous and Black women,\u00a0to submit, and accept submissions in Indigenous languages.
\nDeadline: 1 April 2019
\nLength: Up to 3,500 words, up to 5 poems
\nPay: $50\/work of prose, $15\/poem
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Massachusetts Review
\n<\/strong>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adThis literary magazine is currently open for submissions of fiction, poetry, translations, and essays \u2013 articles and essays of breadth and depth are considered, as well as discussions of leading writers; of art, music, and drama; analyses of trends in literature, science, philosophy, and public affairs. Translations are accepted year-round. There is no fee for mailed submissions.
\nDeadline: 30 April 2019
\nLength: Up to 8,000 words for fiction, up to 6 poems; no length guidelines for essay submissions
\nPay: $50
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Quommnicate Media: Geek Out II!
\n<\/strong>This will be an online and print anthology, and the theme is, \u2018Where queer meets geek\u2019. They want genre fiction, poetry (slam poems and non-traditional format), and creative non-fiction (non-memoir based) \u2013 opinion essays, topical articles, reviews and comedy, comics\/graphic stories and scripts. They do not want literary fiction, memoir-based non-fiction, traditional poetry. They rarely accept erotica or work intended for children.
\nDeadline: 30 April 2019
\nLength: Up to 5,000 words of prose, up to 3 pages per poem, comics and scripts up to 10 pages; work longer than 10 pages must be numbered
\nPay: $5\/page
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gumshoe Review
\n<\/strong>This magazine publishes short fiction mysteries, and essays on topics of interest to readers, writers and students of the mystery genre. Their guidelines say, \u201cWe don’t want character studies or mood pieces. We’d like it to lean towards noir but being a mystery — telling a story is actually more important.\u201d Also, \u201cWe’re looking for stories where the investigator is the protagonist, or at least a significant character, and the focus is on solving a solving a crime, or getting someone out of a jam, or seeking some sort of justice.\u201d
\nDeadline: Open now
\nLength: Up to 1,000 words for both fiction and non-fiction
\nPay: $0.05\/word, up to $50
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Burbon Penn
\n<\/strong>They want highly imaginative stories with a healthy dose of the odd. They want \u201cgenre\/speculative stories and are quite partial to slipstream, cross-genre, magic realism, absurdist and the surreal.\u201d They want fully-drawn characters, mysterious stories, ideas and action.
\nDeadline: Unspecified
\nLength: 2,000-7,500 words
\nPay: $0.01\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Future Visions
\n<\/strong>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adThey publish science fiction anthologies on a quarterly basis. Their guidelines say, \u201cIn the tradition of great television anthology series such as\u00a0The Twilight Zone,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Black Mirror,\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0Future Visions Anthologies\u00a0<\/em>will broadly explore all genres and traditions of science fiction and speculative fiction, seeking in each story to explore deeply themes that are relevant to a modern audience.\u201d They also \u201cwant authors to feel free to explore these larger questions using any and all of the popular science fiction tropes: new technology, exploration, nightmarish dystopians, alien species, baffling utopias…\u201d They have a profit-share model of royalties, in which guaranteed minimum pay is $100 over 6 months.
\nDeadline: Rolling
\nLength: 2,000-6,000 words
\nPay: Royalties; minimum $100
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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