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<\/strong>These magazines pay $75 to $480 for fiction. A few also accept other genres, like non-fiction and poetry. – S. Kalekar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neon Hemlock Press: Baffling Magazine
<\/strong>This is a new speculative fiction magazine. Their guidelines say, \u201cWe are looking for speculative stories that explore science fiction, fantasy, and horror with a queer bent. We want queer stories and we want trans stories and we want aro\/ace stories. We want indefinable stories. We welcome weird, slipstream, and interstitial writing.\u201d They are particularly interested in stories under 500 words.
Deadline: 15 December 2020
Length: Up to 1,200 words
Pay: $0.08\/word
Details here<\/a>.
See this page<\/a> for other projects by Neon Hemlock Press.

Escape Artists: PodCastle
<\/strong>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adThey publish fantasy short fiction on their website, and in a podcast format. 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. They also accept reprints. 
Deadline: 31 December 2020
Length: Up to 6,000 words
Pay: $0.08\/word
Details here<\/a>.

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Escape Artists: Cast of Wonders
<\/strong>This is a young adult science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction online magazine and podcast. According to guidelines, stories should \u201cevoke a sense of wonder, have deep emotional resonance, and have something unreal about them. We aim for a 12-17 age range: that means sophisticated, non-condescending stories with wide appeal, and without gratuitous or explicit sex, violence or pervasive obscene language.\u201d See guidelines for details on the kind of work they like, and what they don\u2019t. They also accept reprints, translations, and work by writers under 18.
Deadline: 1 January 2021
Length: Up to 6,000 words
Pay: $0.08\/word
Details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bluestem<\/strong>
This is a thrice-yearly online literary magazine, from Eastern Illinois University. They publish fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry.
Deadline: 1 January 2021
Length: 3,000-5,000 words for prose (shorter is also ok), up to five poems
Pay: $75 for prose, $20 per poem
Details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Planet Scumm: Snake Eyes
<\/strong>For this submission call, they want stories only by cisgender women<\/strong>,transgender women, transgender men<\/strong>,non-binary<\/strong>people, and genderqueer<\/strong>people<\/strong>.The anthology theme is \u2018Snake Eyes\u2019. They want hard sci-fi, soft sci-fi, speculative fiction, weird fiction, and slipstream.
Deadline: 10 January 2021
Length: 2,000-6,000 words (one story or a collection of flash stories)
Pay: $0.02\/word
Details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Welkin: A Magazine of the Fantastic
<\/strong>This is a new magazine. Their website<\/a> says this is \u201cis magazine of fantastic literature, a journal devoted to the obscure and the outr\u00e9, to narrowing the gap between realist literary fiction and more traditional and fantastic modes of narrative. We specifically look for submissions in the magical realist, fabulist, fairy tale, fantasy, gothic, metafictional, slipstream, fantastic, weird, surrealist, and experimental genres. We seek a movement away from plotless, quotidian tales in favor of the imaginative, the gripping, and the plot-driven.\u201d They do not specify word count, but their quarterly magazine is 80 pages, so submissions have to be shorter than that. Flash stories of up to 1,500 words are unpaid. 
Deadline: Open now
Length: Unspecified (see guidelines)
Pay: $0.01\/word
Details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fusion Fragment
<\/strong>This Canadian magazine publishes science fiction or SF-tinged literary fiction stories and novelettes. Their guidelines say, \u201cAlthough any science fiction subgenre is fair game, our tastes lean towards slipstream, cyberpunk, post-apocalypse, and anything with a little taste of the bizarre. That said, quality always outstrips genre preference in terms of importance, so feel free to send us anything that even vaguely resembles science fiction.\u201d Work by Canadian writers will be prioritized.
Deadline: Open now
Length: 2,000-15,000 words
Pay: 3.5 cents\/word, up to $300 (Canadian)
Details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Neon<\/strong>
This is a UK-based literary magazine, and they publish prose, poetry, photography, and comics. The magazine \u201csits on the edge of horror and science-fiction, but with strong literary leanings\u201d, according to their website<\/a>. They prefer darker pieces, especially those with an element of the surreal or speculative, but are open to anything and like to be surprised. They also publish images, comics, and graphic poems, and self-contained extracts.
Deadline: Open now
Length: Up 10,000 words for fiction, 10 poems, 20 images
Pay: \u00a30.01\/word for prose, \u00a30.10\/line of poetry
Details here<\/a>.

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Joyland Magazine
<\/strong>Their tagline is \u2018A literary journal in multiple timezones\u2019. They accept fiction and creative non-fiction, and they read year-round. They charge for submissions, but they have free submissions for Black writers. They also offer general fee-free submissions for one weekend a month.
Deadline: Ongoing
Length: Up to 10,000 words
Pay: $100
Details here<\/a> and here<\/a>.

Fractured Lit
<\/strong>Fractured Lit publishes micro and flash fiction from writers of any background or experience. Both micro and flash categories are open year round. They will also consider reprints, but they do not pay for these.
Deadline: Ongoing
Length: Up to 400 words for micro fiction; 401-1,000 words for flash fiction
Pay: $75 for flash fiction and for micro series, $50 for micro
Details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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