{"id":7767,"date":"2020-02-18T07:32:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=7767"},"modified":"2020-02-18T09:21:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T17:21:38","slug":"10-short-story-publishers-seeking-submissions-50-to-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/10-short-story-publishers-seeking-submissions-50-to-300\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Short Story Publishers Seeking Submissions ($50 to $300)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

These magazines pay $50-300 for fiction. Some also accept other genres, like non-fiction and poetry. – S. Kalekar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speculative City: Alternative history
\n<\/strong>They want speculative fiction, poetry, and essays within the alternative\nhistory genre. All works should be centered\nwithin a cityscape. 
\nDeadline: 24 February\n2020
\nLength: Up to 5,500 words for prose
\nPay: $20-55
\nDetails here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New\nMyths
\n<\/strong>They publish speculative fiction of\nevery kind, except graphic horror. They also accept non-fiction essays, poems,\nreviews (query first), and artwork.
\nDeadline: 28 February 2020
\nLength: Up to 10,000 words for fiction and non-fiction; up to 5 poems of any\nlength
\nPay: 1.5c\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ninth\nLetter
\n<\/strong>They\naccept fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and translated works. They want work that experiments with form, narrative, and non-traditional\nsubject matter, as well as more traditional literary work. Submissions for the\nonline issue (\u2018Debts\u2019 theme) are also being accepted currently. 
\nDeadline: 28 February 2020 for the print edition; 20 March 2020 for the online\nissue
\nLength: Up to 8,000 words for prose, 3-6 poems for print; up to 3,500 words for\nprose, up to three poems for online
\nPay: $25\/page, up to $150 for print; $75 per story or essay, $25 for poetry for\nonline
\nDetails here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funicular Magazine
\n<\/strong>This magazine publishes fiction,\nnon-fiction, and poetry from writers in Canada and around the world. They\naccept some fee-free submissions. Print contributors are paid. There is no\npayment for work published on the website.
\nDeadline: End-February 2020
\nLength: Up to 1,000 words for flash fiction, up to 3,000 words for short\nstories, up to 3 poems
\nPay: CAD10\/page for short fiction (up to CAD100); CAD25 per flash fiction piece\nand poem
\nDetails here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andromeda\nSpaceways
\n<\/strong>This\nis an Australian<\/em>\nscience fiction, fantasy and horror magazine. They say on their website, \u201cWe\nlike to think of ourselves as \u201cAustralia\u2019s Pulpiest SF Magazine,\u201d and are proud\nto publish fiction, non-fiction and artwork from around the world.\u201d
\nDeadline: End-February 2020
\nLength: Up to 10,000 words for fiction (20,000 word limit for Australia and New\nZealand authors, and for subscribers); poems of under 2 pages; articles of at\nleast 100 words
\nPay: AUD0.01\/word; minimum AUD20, maximum AUD100; AUD10 for poetry and flash\nfiction; AUD10 for non-fiction above 1,000 words
\nDetails here<\/a> (link to submission\nportal; a lot of information about their guidelines, pay rates, etc. is in the FAQ<\/a> section under various\nsub-heads). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Midnight Street Anthology #4: Strange\nDays
\n<\/strong>This is a sci-fi, horror, slipstream, and weird\nfiction anthology that sums up the precariousness of modern existence. Their\nguidelines say, \u201cThe world is in a mess. It\nseems that from a human perspective, we\u2019re pretty well screwed. … Maybe the\ngeneration that comes after ours will be able to save the planet for human\nhabitation. Who knows? It seems that this generation has pretty well fucked up\neverything that would ensure the long-term survival of humanity. Why is that?\nGreed, political imperatives, narrow-minded thinking, poverty, ignorance. There\nare many reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It remains true that we are experiencing very\nstrange days. There\u2019s a mass extinction happening and it may well include our\nspecies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you think? Can you come up with an\noriginal story that reflects this approaching catastrophe?\u201d They also accept\nreprints.
\nDeadline: End-February 2020
\nLength: 2,000-8,000 words
\nPay: \u00a350
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psychopomp Magazine<\/strong>
\nThey want fiction that redefines the traditional storytelling and genre\nborders. They like stories that treat the concept of passages, transitions, and\nstate of being betwixt and between. They usually do not publish traditionalist\nrealist fiction or hard genre. Their guidelines also say, \u201cWith that said, we\nare certainly open to publishing more traditional literary work or more hard\ngenre (no fan fiction) so long as it\u2019s really, really good.\u201d They will accept\nfee-free submissions until 1 March; tip-jar submissions are accepted year\nround.
\nDeadline: 1 March 2020
\nLength: Up to 5,000 words
\nPay: $0.02\/word, up to $100
\nDetails here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hypnos Magazine
\n<\/strong>This is a\nmagazine of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. They are looking for\noriginal, thought-provoking weird fiction, and they prefer longer, more complex\nwork to flash fiction. Their guidelines also say, \u201cwe do not automatically reject\nsubmissions because of violent, obscene, or otherwise offensive\ncontent. We are not, by any means, seeking such works, but we do\nnot reject submissions simply because some readers might, theoretically, find\nthem upsetting.\u201d 
\nDeadline: Ongoing; submissions received until 31 March 2020 will be published\nin the Spring issue
\nLength: Up to 10,000 words
\nPay: $0.01\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Drabblecast<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>This is a weekly\naudio science fiction, fantasy, and horror podcast. Their guidelines say, \u201cOur\nsingular focus is off-beat, funny, eclecticism in science fiction, fantasy, and\nhorror.\u201d They also accept reprints.
\nDeadline: Open\nnow
\nLength:\nShort fiction of 500-4,000 words; Drabbles of 100 words and Twabbles of 100\ncharacters \u2013 fiction under 500 words is unpaid
\nPay:\n$0.06\/word for short fiction, with a cap of $300 (reprints at $0.03\/word, also\ncapped at $300)
\nDetails here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dark Moon Digest
\n<\/strong>They publish dark fiction \u2013 short stories and flash fiction\nreminiscent of The Twilight Zone<\/em>,<\/em> Black\nMirror<\/em>,<\/em> <\/em>and <\/em>Tales\nfrom the Crypt<\/em>, as well as reviews and columns. They also list the\nkind of stories they\u2019ve seen far too many times. They close submissions when\nthey hit their monthly limit of 300 in that category, and submitters can try\nagain the following month. They also accept reprints.  
\nDeadline: Open now
\nLength: Up to 1,500 words for flash fiction, 1,500-7,000 words for short\nstories, 500-3,000 words for non-fiction
\nPay: $0.03\/word for short stories, $30 for non-fiction
\nDetails here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author Bio:<\/strong> S. Kalekar is the pseudonym 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\n\n\n

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Want help becoming a published author of flash fiction? Join the waiting list for The Flash Fiction Workshop with Ella Peary.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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