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These markets pay up to $50 for fiction, and some pay more \u2013 a few also accept other genres, like non-fiction and poetry. Also, look at this list<\/a> for fiction markets paying $100 to $3,500, and this one<\/a> for writing contests that are free to enter, with prizes up to $38,000. Deadlines are approaching quickly. \u2013 S. Kalekar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copper Nickel
\n<\/strong>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adThey\npublish poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and translation folios. Contributors have\nreceived numerous honors<\/a> for their work. For\nwriters outside the US, payments are subject to a 30% tax which is withheld at\nthe front end. Their submission system can only accept 1,800 submissions per\nmonth during a reading period.    
\nDeadline: 15 December 2019
\nLength: No length guidelines for fiction and non-fiction; 4-6 poems
\nPay: $30\/page (per-page pay will vary slightly each year based on funding);\n$500 each in Editors\u2019 Prizes for a poetry and a prose entry in each issue
\nDetails here<\/a> and here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frozen Wavelets
\n<\/strong>This is a new speculative flash fiction and poetry e-zine which\npays pro rates. They encourage\nwriters to push boundaries, in format and topics. Torture\nporn, vampires, gore and splatter for the sake of it, romance, and racist\/misogynist\/white-supremacist\ndiscourse are hard sells. They also have a list of editor\npreferences. Very short work (Twitterfiction, Drabbles) is also published, as\nare translations and reprints. Proposals for speculative art are welcome.
\nDeadline: 15 December 2019
\nLength: Up to 750 words for fiction (500-1,500 for reprints), up to 10 lines\nfor poetry
\nPay: $0.08\/word for fiction, $1\/line of poetry
\nDetails here<\/a>.
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Autonomous Press: Spoon Knife 5\n\u2013 Liminal
\n<\/strong>This is a fiction, poetry, and\nmemoir anthology. The guidelines say, \u201cA liminality is a\nthreshold, the place between here and there which is, in itself, both and\nneither. From it we get the word \u201csubliminal\u201d meaning, literally, \u201cbelow the\nthreshold of sensation.\u201d A liminal space is a transitional zone. It is at the\nheart of a ritual or rite of passage, when one is no longer the thing they\nstarted as, but has yet to become the thing they will be. To stand at a liminal\npoint is to occupy both sides of a boundary at once. … We are looking for fiction, poetry, and memoir\nthat explores thresholds and liminalities of all kinds… The work must further\nintersect with themes of neurodivergence, queerness, and\/or the intersections\nof neurodivergence and queerness.\u201d Some examples are racial or cultural\nliminality, the experience of occupying liminal space as an individual,\nexplorations into the subconscious or other borderland spaces, or ghosts,\nentities out of phase with the material world, virtual entities, voices, or\nother characters that exist in threshold or liminal\/subliminal spaces.
\nDeadline: 31 December\n2019
\nLength: Up to 10,000 words for prose; up to five poems
\nPay: $0.01\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

R<\/strong>ed\nRoom Press: Year\u2019s Best Hardcore Horror Vol. 5
\n<\/strong>This is a horror fiction reprint anthology. The\ncollection aims \u201cto give recognition to the extreme, harder side of horror, stories that\nbreak boundaries and trash taboos.\u201d The story should\noriginally have been published, or scheduled for publication, in a 2019 anthology,\nsingle author collection, magazine, or online magazine. Self-published\nanthologies\/collections are also accepted.
\nDeadline: 31\nDecember 2019
\nLength: Up to 6,000 words (longer works accepted, but pay capped at $60)
\nPay: $0.01\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, Hazardous Imaginings: More Politically\nIncorrect Science Fiction
\n<\/strong><\/em>The editor wants short stories that \u201cdue to\ntheir content, viewpoint, and\/or subject matter, have little or no chance of\nbeing published in the commercial market. … What are TODAY\u2019S taboos? What\nkinds of science fiction stories are verboten in today\u2019s commercial publishing\nmarket? What just won\u2019t fly, whether due to shared social beliefs and aversions\ncommon to editors, assumptions that editors make about their readerships\u2019\nbeliefs and aversions, or the commercial pressures of the corporate publishing\nworld? How can these modern-day taboos be illuminated and explored using the\nunique extrapolative tools of science fiction?\u201d And \u201cthe more outrageous or\ndisturbing the material, the more incisively it needs to be explored using the\ncognitive tools of science fiction.\u201d 
\nDeadline: 31 December 2019
\nLength: Up to 7,000 words (can be a bit flexible on length if the story is\ntruly outstanding)
\nPay: $0.03\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parsec\nInk: Triangulation \u2013 Extinction
\n<\/strong>This is a speculative fiction anthology, and they\u2019re now in their 16th<\/sup>\nyear. Their guidelines say, \u201cEvery day, another species creeps\ncloser to extinction, often brought on by things out of their control. The\nworld changes every time an insect, a rhino, a macaw ceases to exist. These\nchanges are tangible. Tell us about them. Bring us stories of imposing threats,\nextraordinary creatures brought low, stories of those warriors who fight tooth\nand nail for their survival. What does extinction mean to you? We like our\nstories to be profound, relatable, poignant yet familiar. Tell a tale for the\nages. Also, \u201cWe don\u2019t want to read a hundred stories about dinosaurs and\nasteroids; we want gritty commentaries and hopeful ruminations.\u201d While they\nlove creative interpretations of the theme, the stories do need to be a solid\nfit. They like SF, fantasy, and horror, and stories that are an intelligent\nblend of all three. Stories that aren\u2019t speculative will not be considered.
\nDeadline: 29 February 2020
\nLength: Up to 5,000 words (the sweet spot is 3,000)
\nPay: $0.03\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

87 Bedford
<\/strong>They publish fiction (short, flash, micro, serial), poetry, spoken-word, art, photography, other forms of creative media, and book reviews. They welcome both traditional and experimental forms of literary fiction, as well as genre fiction provided they feel that the work shows some \u201cliterary\u201d aesthetic. They accept serial works, especially for\u00a0fantasy, science fiction or other genre fiction, and will publish\u00a0each installment weekly or in each new issue. They also accept reprints.
Deadline: Open now
Length: 500-8,000 words for short stories; up to two poems
Pay: $0.01\/word for short stories, installments of serial fiction,\u00a0or\u00a0book review; $10 for everything else, such as reprints, flash fiction, micro fiction, poetry, art and photography, or other creative works
Details here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t Flinch
<\/strong>They want scripts for their horror anthology podcast. The guidelines say, \u201cThe style we are going for is theater play meets podcast. The script should be between 20 and 30 minutes in length. We are\u00a0not<\/strong>\u00a0looking for first-person narration styles, although we may certainly entertain them if they are extra special.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If\nit has a twist ending, all the better.\u201d
\nDeadline: Open now
\nLength: 20-30 minutes\u2019 length
\nPay: $100
\nDetails here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nJames Gunn\u2019s Ad Astra
\n<\/strong>This is a science fiction magazine, and they also publish\npoetry and scholarly articles. The guidelines say, \u201cJames\nGunn defines science fiction as \u201cthe literature of change\u201d and states that it\n\u201cincorporates a belief that the most important aspect of existence is a search\nfor humanity\u2019s origins, its purpose, and its ultimate fate.\u201d A tall order but a\nworthy goal.
\nOur editorial vision for James Gunn\u2019s Ad Astra<\/em> calls for raising our eyes above\nthe horizon and not limiting the scope of speculative fiction. It is in this\nspirit that we welcome great stories that range from the near-reality to the\nfar reaches of the what-if.\u201d They are reading stories for Issue 8.   
\nDeadline: Open now
\nLength: Most interested in stories of 2,500-5,000 words, will consider up to\n7,500 words; flash stories are a hard sell
\nPay: $50 for fiction, $20 per poem
\nDetails here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Write Ahead\/The Future Looms
<\/strong>They publish cyperpunk stories and art. They value fiction that is experimental with regard to narrative techniques, yet retains strong character and plot elements. They welcome queries for art submissions.
Deadline: Open now
Length: 750-2,500 words; also serialize works, with each installment of that length
Pay: \u00a30.02\/word
Details 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":"

These markets pay up to $50 for fiction, and some pay more \u2013 a few also accept other genres, like non-fiction and poetry. Also, look at this list for fiction markets paying $100 to $3,500, and this one for writing contests that are free to enter, with prizes up to $38,000. Deadlines are approaching quickly….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7546","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\/7546","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=7546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7548,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7546\/revisions\/7548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}