{"id":7514,"date":"2019-12-03T09:39:09","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T17:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=7514"},"modified":"2019-12-03T09:41:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T17:41:17","slug":"fiction-markets-paying-100-for-december-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/fiction-markets-paying-100-for-december-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Calls for Short Stories ($100+ Per Story)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

These magazines pay up to $100 for fiction, and a few pay significantly more. Some also publish other genres, like non-fiction, cross-genre work, and poetry. A few have really short submission windows, with rapidly approaching deadlines. \u2013 S. Kalekar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Electric Literature: The Commuter
<\/strong>Electric Lit\u2019s The Commuter is a space for poetry, flash, graphic, and experimental narratives. It publishes weekly and they have just opened a brief submission period for prose. Send either one standalone or three short, connected flash fiction pieces. They will be open for comic and graphic narrative submissions soon (16-23 December 2019).
<\/strong>Deadline: 9 December 2019 for prose
Length: Up to 1,500 words
Pay: $100
Details here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Escape Artists: Cast of Wonders
\n<\/strong>This is a YA podcast\nand online magazine. They want stories aimed at the 12-17-year age range.\nStories should \u201cevoke a sense of wonder, have deep emotional resonance, and\nhave something unreal about them.\u201d They publish fantasy, sci-fi, horror, comedy<\/strong>, steampunk<\/strong>,\nage-appropriate paranormal romance<\/strong>, superheroes<\/strong> and many other genres.\nThey also accept reprints.
\nDeadline: 15 December 2019
\nLength: Up to 6,000 words
\nPay: $0.08\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nGay Mag
\n<\/strong>Apart from cultural criticism, personal essays, artwork and photography,\nthis online magazine also publishes short fiction. They are looking for work on the themes\nof Community<\/strong> and Power<\/strong>. They accept pitches for essays.
\nDeadline: 16 December 2019 for Community; 16 March 2020 for Power
\nLength: Can accept more work in the shorter (1,200 words) than longer (3,500\nwords) range
\nPay: $1\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zombies Need Brains
\n<\/strong>They\nneed stories for three science fiction and fantasy anthologies. They are looking for a range of tones,\nfrom humorous all the way up to dark. They want stories which use the\ntheme in an unusual and unexpected way, and those will get preference. Apocalyptic<\/strong>\nwillfeature science fiction or fantasy stories set during or after an\napocalypse (of any kind); Galactic Stew<\/strong> will feature stories involving food, whether it be\npoisoning, a cultural or societal ritual, a trade meeting over dinner, etc (no\ncannibalism); and My Battery is Low and it is Getting Dark<\/strong> will feature stories where some type of tech has\noutlived its time and yet, during the course of the story, it discovers a new\npurpose or is used in a new, purposeful way (the theme is inspired by the\nOpportunity rover).  
\nDeadline: 31 December 2019
\nLength: Up to 7,500 words
\nPay: Minimum $0.08\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nThe Stinging Fly
\n<\/strong>This Irish magazine publishes fiction\nand poetry from Ireland and abroad, and they have a particular interest in\npromoting the short story. They also publish commissioned essays, occasional author interviews and novel\nextracts, and have a \u2018Featured Poet\u2019 section by poets working toward\ntheir first collection (see guidelines). They\nwelcome translations of poetry and prose.
\nDeadline: 16 January 2020
\nLength: No length guidelines for fiction; up to 3 poems
\nPay: \u20ac25\/page\nfor fiction and nonfiction; \u20ac40 for single poem\/magazine page; \u20ac200 for Featured Poet
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bennington\nReview
\n<\/strong>This\nliterary magazine aims to carve out a \u201cdistinctive space for innovative,\nintelligent, and moving fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, film writing and\ncross-genre work.\u201d They are particularly taken with writing that is\nsimultaneously graceful and reckless.
\nDeadline: 15 May 2020
\nLength: Up to 30 pages of prose; 3-5 poems; 10-20 pages of film (or TV) writing
\nPay: $100-200 for prose; $20\/poem
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grain Magazine
\n<\/strong>This Canadian literary\nmagazine accepts work from around the world and publishes fiction, poetry, and\nliterary non-fiction. Queries for submissions of work in other forms (i.e. short\nplays, comics, etc.) are welcome. Visual art submissions are usually by\ninvitation, though queries are welcome.
\nDeadline: 15 May 2020
\nLength: Up to 3,500 words for prose; up to 6 pages for poetry
\nPay: $50\/page, up to $250
\nDetails here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reckoning
\n<\/strong>They want creative\nwriting about environmental justice. Their guidelines say, \u201cFiction preferably\nat least a tiny bit speculative, nonfiction preferably more creative than\njournalistic, poetry tending towards the narrative and preferably with some\nthematic heft, art leaning away from the pulpy heavily towards the political.\nBut the heart of what we want is your searingly personal, visceral,\nidiosyncratic understanding of the world and the people in it<\/em> as\nit has been, as it is, as it will be, as it could be, as a consequence of\nhumanity\u2019s relationship with the earth.\u201d They actively seek work from\nIndigenous writers and artists, writers and artists of color, queer and\ntransgender writers and artists, and anyone who has suffered the consequences,\nintended or otherwise, of dominant society\u2019s systemic disconnect with and\nmistreatment of the natural world. They welcome translations.
\nDeadline: 22 September 2020
\nLength: 0-45,000 words for prose; 3-5 poems
\nPay: $0.08\/word for prose; $30\/page for poetry; minimum $25\/piece of art
\nDetails here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Science Fiction
\n<\/strong>This flash fiction\nmarket accepts speculative stories. They also accept flash series, of three or\nmore stories around a theme; each story needs to stand on its own. They may\npublish dark fantasy, but they try not to publish pure horror. They also\npublish artwork.
\nDeadline: Rolling; not accepting submissions from 24 December to 2 January 2020\n
\nLength: 100-1,500 words
\nPay: $0.08\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

tdotSpec\n
\n<\/strong>This Canadian magazine publishes\nspeculative fiction. There are no theme restrictions. They also publish review\nand non-fiction articles (though these are unpaid), speculative poetry, and\ngraphic format stories and comics. They also accept reprints of fiction and\npoetry. 
\nDeadline: Unspecified; open on Mondays for submissions
\nLength: 100-10,000 words for fiction; up to 3 poems
\nPay: 1.5c\/word for fiction; 25c\/line for poetry (Canadian)
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author Bio:<\/strong> S. Kalekar is the\npseudonym of a regular contributor to this magazine. She is the author of 182 Short Fiction Publishers<\/a>. She can be reached here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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