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These magazines\/anthologies will pay approximately $70 to $600 for fiction (one market pays considerably more for novella-length stories). A couple of them also publish other genres, like fiction and poetry. They\u2019re are open now, or will open soon for submissions. – S. Kalekar<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Wild Hunt <\/strong>
\nThey publish fiction (flash and short). According to their website<\/a>, the magazine \u201ccelebrates the weird, surreal, the other, and imaginary worlds. Its aim is to feature writing and artwork that includes strange occurrences, mysterious places, magic, creatures and monsters, the uncanny, fairies, folklore, horror, the ghostly and ghoulish, and any whirlwind adventures.\u201d
\nDeadline: 17 December 2021
\nLength: 500-3,000 words
\nPay: \u00a30.02\/word
\nDetails\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Women-identified authors are invited to submit to submit horror fiction to a Baba Yaga themed anthology, titled Into the Forest<\/a>, from Black Spot Books. Pay is $0.06\/word for stories of 1,000-5,000 words, and the deadline is 31 December 2021.)<\/p>\n

Neon Hemlock Press<\/strong>
\nThey\u2019re currently open for three projects; two for original stories (see below), and one is for a reprint anthology, titled We\u2019re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2021<\/a>, details here<\/a> and here<\/a> \u2013 payment is unspecified, and the deadline for that is 31 December 2021.
\n— Baffling Magazine – <\/strong>This is open for flash fiction submissions. \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
\nDeadline: 20 December 2021
\nLength: Up to 1,200 words (specially want to see more stories under 500 words)
\nPay: $0.08\/word
\nDetails here<\/a> and here<\/a>.
\n— Luminescent Machinations: Queer Tales of Monumental Invention –<\/strong> They want \u201cSpeculative stories focusing on queerness in the darker side of science-fiction, fantasy and horror: mechs, mecha and cybernetics as both extensions and perversions of humanity\u201d for this anthology.\u00a0 They have extensive guidelines, including: \u201cStarships, piloted and unpiloted machines of war or industry, the occasional cyborg\u2026 mecha are a representation of war, of power and resistance, of transcending human limits, a representation of extension of the body itself. We are looking for stories about these machines and the people who interface with them through a queer lens, in the most inclusive definition of queer. Queer, trans, undefinable.\u201d
\nDeadline: 31 January 2022
\nLength: Up to 6,000 words (1,000-4,000 preferred)
\nPay: $0.08\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>, here<\/a> (scroll down), and here<\/a> (Submittable).<\/p>\n

The Kenyon Review<\/strong>
\nThis magazine usually publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and plays. For the current submission call, their guest editors will edit a portfolio of literature in translation, to be published in one of their issues in 2023. Their guidelines say, \u201cIf translation is about transcending boundaries, what are the boundaries we can transcend through translation other than that of language and culture? What false binaries can we interrogate through experimental approaches, and what new permutations can we include under the umbrella of \u201ctranslation\u201d? What if we inverted the adjectives usually allocated to translations in reviews and attempted translations that are not smooth but rough, not seamless but seamful, not bold but timorous, not nimble but ungainly? We are interested in experiments that undermine traditional hierarchies of original and translation, behind-the-scenes accounts of translation, hybrid translations, fiction and poetry about translation and translators, and fungal translations\u2014a breaking-down and reconstituting of the source in an entirely new form, as opposed to the translation-as-reproduction paradigm. We would be particularly delighted by translations from literatures, both in terms of source languages and forms, that are traditionally underrepresented in white Anglophone publishing.\u201d They\u2019re also reading submissions for a non-fiction contest, and that has an entry fee.
\nDeadline: 31 December 2021
\nLength: Up to 7,500 words for prose; up to 6 poems, according to general submission guidelines
\nPay: For translators, $120 per poem or $300 for a work of prose; and $75 honorarium to the author of the original work
\nDetails\u00a0here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Zombies Need Brains
\n<\/strong>They are open for three speculative fiction anthologies \u2013 Noir<\/strong>, featuring \u201cscience fiction, fantasy, or urban fantasy stories with a detective\/private investigator set-up and a noir atmosphere\u201d in a variety of genre settings; Shattering the Glass Slipper<\/strong>, about \u201cstories of known fairy tales that have been upended, gender-bent, or twisted around in some way\u201d – see guidelines for fairy tales that the anchor authors are intending to use, and they\u2019re unlikely to use the same fairy tale twice; and Brave New Worlds<\/strong>, featuring \u201cscience fiction stories set along the pathway of us leaving Earth for the stars\u201d.
\nDeadline: 31 December 2021
\nLength: Up to 7,500 words
\nPay: At least $0.08\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Channel
\n<\/strong>This Ireland-based journal was born out of the climate crisis, publishing poetry and prose with an environmentalist perspective.
\nThey publish fiction, non-fiction, and poetry \u2013 they want work that engages with the natural world, and have a particular interest in work which encourages reflection on human interaction with plant and animal life, landscape and the self. They also accept translations. Deadline: 31 December 2021
\nLength: Up to 6,000 words for prose, up to 4 poems
\nPay: \u20ac50\/poem, and \u20ac50\/page of prose up to \u20ac150
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fiyah<\/strong>
\nThis magazine publishes work by and about Black people of the African Diaspora. \u201cThis definition is globally inclusive (Black anywhere in the world) and also applies to mixed\/biracial and Afro-appended people regardless of gender identity or orientation.\u201d They are reading speculative fiction (short fiction to novella length) and poetry submissions for an unthemed issue; non-fiction is closed. They also accept reviews.
\nDeadline: 31 December 2021
\nLength: 2,000-15,000 words for fiction; up to 1,000 words for poetry
\nPay: $0.08\/word for fiction, $50 for poems
\nDetails\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cosmic Horror Monthly
\n<\/strong>This magazine will open in January for submissions of Cosmic Horror, Lovecraftian, Weird, and dark science fiction stories. They also accept reprints, and artwork. Please do not send submissions before 1st<\/sup> January.
\nReading period: 1-14 January 2022
\nLength: 1,000-7,500 words (up to 5,000 words preferred)
\nPay: $0.03\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Planet Scumm
\n<\/strong>They are reading submissions for issue #14, for Fall 2022 \u2013 they publish \u201cHard sci-fi, soft sci-fi, sci-fi that melts in your mouth-brain not your hand-brain\u201d as well as speculative fiction, weird fiction, and slipstream.
\nDeadline: 17 January 2022
\nLength: Up to 5,000 words
\nPay: $0.04\/word
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wyldblood Magazine<\/strong>
\nWyldblood is open for speculative fiction submissions for their Wyld Flash series, and for Wyldblood Magazine, a print and digital magazine. They also accept reprints. (The press is also open for submissions, and pays royalties).
\nDeadline: Open now
\nLength: 250-7,000 words
\nPay: \u00a30.01\/word up to \u00a375<\/strong>
\nDetails\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hermine
\n<\/strong>This is a print-only annual literary magazine. They publish fiction, and they are reading now for their third issue. There is no deadline; submissions will remain open until filled.
\nDeadline: Open now
\nLength: Up to 4,000 words
\nPay: CAD50-200
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Submissions are also open for Mumber Mag<\/a> \u2013 they want fiction, nonfiction, and translations, of up to 2,000 words, as well as poetry. They want work suited to the internet \u2013 it could mean short, or work with hyperlinks. Pay is $25 for poetry and shorts, and $50 for other work. The deadline is 1 January 2022.)<\/p>\n

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Bio:<\/strong>\u00a0S. Kalekar is the pseudonym of a regular contributor to this magazine. She is the author of\u00a0182 Short Fiction Publishers<\/a>.\u00a0She can be reached\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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