Science Fiction and Fantasy Journals - Paying markets

Speculative fiction has a loyal fan base, so if you write science fiction or fantasy there are dozens of magazines that want your work! Here is a list of paying markets for journals accepting speculative fiction. Some have submission periods, so make sure you read their guidelines carefully. All are paying markets, and none charge submission fees.

Submission strategies

This table is a bit daunting, but you can simplify your task by making a list of all the places you intend to submit. (Make a separate list for each story or article.) As you submit, make sure to keep track of where, when, and how you submitted (i.e. email, Submittable, online form, etc.).

If you want to get published fast, start with the magazines that accept simultaneous submissions, and submit to all of them. Once your work is accepted, don't forget to withdraw it immediately from the remaining magazines. (If you have used Submittable, this is very simple. Just click "Withdraw.")

I suggest you start with the pro markets. These are harder to get into, but if you get published in a prestigious magazine it will establish you as a serious writer.

Save the magazines that take reprints for last. You can submit to those after your story has been published elsewhere.
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Pay ranges are as follows:

• Semi-pro payment = 1 - 5 US cents per word
• SFWA pro payment rate = 8 cents per word and up
• Pro for poetry= $50 per poem
• Token = 1 cent per word or less

Happy submitting!

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Magazine	Guidelines	Payment	Simultaneous	Reprints	Notes
Asimov's	https://www.asimovs.com/contact-us/writers-guidelines/	8-10 cents per word for short stories up to 7,500 words, and 8 cents for each word over 7,500. $1 a line for poetry	No	No	They also publish borderline fantasy, slipstream, and surreal fiction
Analog Science Fiction and Fact	https://www.analogsf.com/contact-us/writers-guidelines/	8-10 cents per word for short fiction (up to approximately 20,000 words), 6 cents per word for serials (40,000-80,000 words), 9 cents per word for fact articles, and $1 per line for poetry.	No	No	They publish science fiction stories in which some aspect of future science or technology is so integral to the plot that, if that aspect were removed, the story would collapse
Fantasy & Science Fiction	https://www.sfsite.com/fsf/glines.htm	8-12 cents per word	No	No	The speculative element may be slight, but it should be present.
Clarkesworld Magazine	http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/submissions/	10¢ per word	No	No	Science fiction and fantasy. No horror, but dark SF/F is permitted.
Diabolical Plots	https://www.diabolicalplots.com/guidelines/	10¢ per word	No	No	Science fiction, fantasy, and horror Has submission periods
Lightspeed	https://adamant.moksha.io/publication/lightspeed/guidelines	8¢ per word	No	No	Science fiction, fantasy 1500-10,000 words Has submission periods
Nightmare	https://adamant.moksha.io/publication/nightmare/guidelines	8¢ per word	No	No	Horror, dark fantasy 1500-7500 words Has submission periods
Strange Horizons	http://strangehorizons.com/submit/	10¢ per word $50 per poem	No	No	Speculative fiction Up to 10,000 words Has submission periods
Uncanny Magazine	https://uncannymagazine.com/submissions/	10¢ per word	No	No	SF/F fiction and poetry Novellas up to 40,000 words Has submission periods
Apex	https://apex-magazine.com/submission-guidelines/	8¢ per word	No	No	Speculative fiction
Beneath Ceaseless Skies	https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/submissions/	8¢ per word	Yes	No	Publishes “literary adventure fantasy”: stories with a secondary-world setting and some fantasy feel, but written with a literary approach
Cast of Wonders	https://www.castofwonders.org/submissions/	8¢ per word	Yes	Yes	Audio format  YA speculative fiction
Cricket	http://www.cricketmedia.com/submission-guidelines/	25 cents/word	?	No	Children's sci-fi and fantasy (ages 9 - 14) 1200–1800 words in length
Baltimore Review	http://baltimorereview.org/index.php/submit	$40	Yes	No	Fiction Accepts a variety of genres 5,000 words max Has submission periods
Compelling Science Fiction	http://compellingsciencefiction.com/guidelines.html	8¢ per word	Yes	No	Science fiction that is entertaining, scientifically plausible, self-consistent, and technically detailed when appropriate Has submission periods
More Distant Shores	https://moredistantshores.com/submissions	10 cents/word	No	No	Speculative, fantasy, slipstream
Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores	https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/submissions/	6 cents/word for original fiction, 2 cents/word for reprints, $1/line for poetry	No	Yes	Science fiction and fantasy  See submission schedule
Escape Pod	https://escapepod.org/guidelines/short-fiction/	8¢ per word	No	Yes	Science fiction Length: Up to 18,000 words Audio format
AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review	http://aescifi.ca/submit/	10¢ CAD per word	Yes	No	Science fiction 500 to 3000 words in length Has submission periods
Daily Science Fiction	https://dailysciencefiction.com/submit	8¢ per word	No	No	Science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, and more
The Dark	https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/submission-guidelines/	6¢ per word	No	No	Dark fantasy, horror 6,000 words max
Bourbon Penn	http://www.bourbonpenn.com/submissions.php	2¢ per word	No	No	Print and online magazine featuring slipstream, cross-genre, magic realism, absurdist, and the surreal Length: 2000 - 7500 words
Silver Blade	https://www.silverblade.net/submissions-2/	$15 for novellas, $3 for flash fiction, $8 for short stories, $8 for single poems and $15 for Featured Poets (by invitation only). Silver Pen will pay half of these rates for previously published works.	Yes	Yes	Science Fiction, Slipstream, Classic and Modern Fantasy; short fiction, flash fiction, novellas, and poetry
DreamForge Anvil	https://dreamforgemagazine.com/call-for-submissions/	$0.06/word Payment for reprints is $0.04/word Poems are paid at the rate of $25 to $100	Yes	Yes	SF and Fantasy Has submission periods
The Cafe Irreal	http://cafeirreal.alicewhittenburg.com/	1 cent U.S. per word	No	No	Magical Realism (2000 words max)
Escape Pod,  PodCastle Podcast	https://escapepod.org/guidelines/short-fiction/ (Science fiction) http://podcastle.org/guidelines/ (Fantasy) (Text and audio)	$0.08 per word for original fiction. USD $100 per story for reprint fiction.  $20 flat rate for flash fiction	Yes	Yes	Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy Has submission periods
Fantasy Magazine	https://adamant.moksha.io/publication/fantasy/guidelines	8 cents per word $40 per poem	No	No	Fantasy and dark fantasy See submission periods
Augur	http://www.augurmag.com/submissions/	11 cents CAD/word	Yes	No	Fantasy, Science fiction (softer side), Dystopia/utopia, Apocalypse/post-apocalypse, Slipstream, Fairytales, Fables, Fabulism, Magical realism See submission periods
Flash Fiction Online	https://ffo.submittable.com/submit	$80 for original stories; reprints $.02 (two cents) per word	No	Yes	Many genres, including speculative fiction See submission periods
khōréō	https://www.khoreomag.com/submissions/	$0.08/word for fiction, $100 for nonfiction, and  $40-300 for art	Yes	No	Speculative fiction, poetry, essays Open to writers who identify as an immigrant or member of a diaspora in the broadest definitions of the terms. Has submission periods
Visions	https://www.readvisions.com/submission-guidelines	4 to 5p (~6¢) per word	Yes	No	Science fiction and speculative short stories, from micro fictions to 3000-word pieces (5,000 words max) Has submission periods
Gallery of Curiosities Podcast	http://gallerycurious.com/submissions/ CLOSED	.03/word	Yes	Yes	Weird speculative fiction Has submission periods
The Dread Machine	https://www.thedreadmachine.com/submit/	.03/word for original stories, .01/word for reprints	Yes	Yes	Futuristic dark fiction, speculative fiction, cyberpunk, slipstream, and science fiction
The Fairy Tale Magazine	https://www.fairytalemagazine.com/submissions	$50	Yes	No	Fairy tales (See themes) Poems can be any length, but stories or nonfiction should be between 750 and 1,000 words. Has submission periods
Grimdark Magazine	https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/submissions/	AUD$0.07 per word Reprints: AUD$0.01 per word	No	Yes	Grimdark fantasy and sci-fi
On Spec	CLOSED	Poems (4-100 lines): $100CAD, Short stories: $100 - $200CAD depending on length	Yes	No	Speculative writing of all kinds Prefers Canadians Has submission periods
Sci Phi Journal	https://www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/submission-guidelines/	3 (Euro) cents per word for original fiction and 1 (Euro) cent per word for translations of fiction into English	Yes	No	Hard SF  Has submission periods
Eye to the Telescope	https://eyetothetelescope.com/submit.html	US 3¢/word rounded up to nearest dollar; minimum US $3, maximum $25	?	No	Speculative poetry Has submission periods
Uncharted	https://www.unchartedmag.com/submit/	$200	Yes	Yes	Science Fiction/Fantasy Short Stories 1,000-5,000 words
Abyss & Apex	https://www.abyssapexzine.com/submissions/	$0.08/word	No	No	Speculative fiction, poetry
Aftermath	https://www.aftermathmag.org/submissions.html	2 cents/word for short stories; 1 cent/word for everything else	Yes	Yes	Humans are doing so much damage to the natural world that it can only end in a spate of perfect storms that will wreck our civilization. These inevitable apocalyptic events offer a wealth of inspiration.
Andromeda Spaceways Magazine	CLOSED	1 cent per word (AUD) with a AUD$20 minimum and a AUD$100 maximum per piece. For flash fiction (under 1,000 words), AUD$10 per piece	No	No	Speculative Fiction See submission periods
Bracken	https://www.brackenmagazine.com/submit	$30	?	No	Fabulism, magical realism Fiction, poetry, art Has submission periods Has begun to charge $3 for submissions
MacroMicroCosm	https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/macromicrocosm-1lhW7	Royalties	Yes	No	Speculative fiction, poetry, and nonfiction anthologies See themes
The Fantastic Other	https://fantasticother.com/submissions/	$5	Yes	No	Surrealist fiction and poetry, art Has submission periods
TDot Spec	http://tdotspec.com/submissions/	CAD 2c/word for originals; 50% rate for reprints.	Yes	Yes	Speculative fiction anthologies See themes and deadlines
Cosmic Horror Monthly	https://cosmic-horror.net/submissions/	1 cent per word for original fiction. 5k words = $50; 0.5 cents per word for reprints; 10 – 20 dollars for artwork chosen as interior content. Negotiable; 100 dollars for cover art. Negotiable.	?	Yes	Horror and dark science fiction
Electric Spec	http://www.electricspec.com/Submissions.html	$20	Yes	No	Speculative Fiction Has submission periods
James Gunn’s Ad Astra	https://www.adastrasf.com/submissions/short-fiction-submission-guidelines/	$50	No	No	Speculative fiction, Poetry
Heroic Fantasy Quarterly	http://www.heroicfantasyquarterly.com/?page_id=39	$100 for stories and $25 for poems	No	No	Heroic fantasy Up to 10,000 words Will serialize up to 50,000 words Has submission periods
Kaleidotrope	https://kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/	For fiction, $0.01/word (1 cent a word) USD. For poetry, a flat rate of $5 USD per accepted piece. For artwork, a flat rat of $60 for cover art.	No	No	Speculative fiction, poetry  Has submission periods
Lackington’s	https://lackingtons.com/submissions/	1 cent CAD per word for stories ($25 CAD minimum), $25 CAD for interior illustrations, and $40 CAD for cover art	No	No	Fantasy, SF, slipstream, post-apocalyptic, magic realism, mythopoeia, folktale, grimdark, weird, or any flavour of ‘punk. They prefer stories with experimental prose and structures. Has submission periods
Leading Edge	https://www.leadingedgemagazine.com/submissions/	Fiction, 1 cent per word, $10.00 minimum, $50.00 maximum Poetry, art and nonfiction negotiated	?	?	Clean speculative fiction short stories, poetry, nonfiction
Metaphorosis	https://magazine.metaphorosis.com/guidelines/	$.01/word	Yes	No	Science fiction and fantasy prose only up to a firm 10,000 word ceiling
Neo-opsis	http://www.neo-opsis.ca/guidelines.htm	2.5 cents (Canadian) per word, to a maximum of $125.00	No	No	Science fiction and fantasy short stories, poetry and art See submission periods
New Myths	https://sites.google.com/newmyths.com/newmyths-com-home/submissions	1.5 cents/word with a minimum payment of $30 for all submissions, fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction and poetry; book reviews $30; art $60.	Yes	No	Science fiction and fantasy See submission periods
The First Line	http://www.thefirstline.com/submission.htm	$25.00 - $50.00 for fiction, $5.00 - $10.00 for poetry, and $25.00 for nonfiction	No	No	Each issue contains short stories that stem from a common first line. Have your way with it. See submission periods
Planet Scumm	https://www.planetscumm.space/submit/	2 cents a word	Yes	No	Speculative fiction, weird fiction, slipstream See submission periods
Speculative City	http://www.speculativecity.com/submissions/	$20-$55	Yes	No	Speculative stories set in a cityscape See submission periods
Tales From the Moonlit Path	https://talesmoonlitpath.com/	$10	Yes	Yes	Fiction and poetry
Three-lobed Burning Eye	http://www.3lobedmag.com/submissions.html	$100 for short fiction, $30 for flash fiction	No	No	Speculative fiction: horror, fantasy, science fiction
Underland Arcana	https://www.underlandarcana.com/submissions/	$0.01 / word—up to 5,000 words	?	No	Short fiction that veers into the numinous, the esoteric, the supernatural, and the weird See submission periods
Gemini Magazine	http://gemini-magazine.com/submit-contact/	$20	Yes	No	All genres
Tales From Between	https://talesfrombetween.wordpress.com/submissions/	$120 for new, $60 for reprints	Yes	Yes	Horror and fantasy
Wyldblood Press	https://wyldblood.com/submissions-2/	£0.01 per word for print and digital rights (to a maximum of £75)	Yes	No	Speculative fiction
Allegory	https://www.allegoryezine.com/submissions	$15	Yes	Yes	Speculative fiction See submission periods
Alien Dimensions	https://aliendimensions.com/submission-guidelines/	$10	?	No	Science fiction See submission periods
Translunar Travelers Lounge	https://translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/	$0.03 per word with a minimum of $20	No	No	Speculative fiction See submission periods
The Colored Lens	http://thecoloredlens.com/?page_id=8/	$20 per short story, article, or piece of artwork, and $10 for flash. For novellas,  $20 for the first 10,000 words, and $1 per 1000 words after that	No	No	Speculative fiction
Polar Borealis & Polar Starlight	http://polarborealis.ca/submission-guidelines/	$10 for one thousand words or less. One cent a word for stories 1,000 words to 3,000 words in length, capped at $30; Poems - $10; Art $5 - $40	Yes	Yes	Science Fiction, Fantasy, Weird Fantasy, Horror with SF aspects, Lovecraftian Horror Contributors must be Canadian, or at least reside in Canada. Has submission periods
Daikaijuzine	https://daikaijuzine.org/guidelines	$10	Yes	Yes	Speculative fiction, flash fiction, articles, and poetry
Tales and Feathers	http://www.augurmag.com/submissions/	11 cents CAD/word	Yes	No	Cozy slice-of-life fantasy short stories. Has reading periods
Illustrated Worlds	https://www.illustratedworldsmagazine.com/	$10 for poetry, 1 cent/word for fiction, $10 - $50 for art	?	?	Fantasy, dark fantasy and horror
Liquid Imagination	https://liquidimagination.silverpen.org/submissions/	$8 for short stories (1001 words up to 6000 words) and poems, and $3 for flash stories (up to 1000 words)	Yes	No	Modern fantasy, science fiction, horror, dark fantasy, and literary - poetry and fiction
Luna Station Quarterly	http://lunastationquarterly.com/submissions/	$5	No	Yes	Speculative fiction written by women-identified authors Has reading periods
Mythaxis	https://mythaxis.co.uk/submissions.html	$20	Yes	No	Speculative fiction Has reading periods
Not One of Us	https://not-one-of-us.pub/about/guidelines/	¼¢ per word ($5 minimum); $5 for poems; $8 to $15 for art	?	No	Not One of Us considers the problem of “otherness” from every possible fictional angle: horror, SF, fantasy, noir, slipstream, Western, mainstream, whatever
Space Squid	https://www.spacesquid.com/scifi-fantasy-mag/contributorguidelines/	$5	Yes	Yes	Speculative fiction humor
Swords and Sorcery	http://www.swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/submissions.html	$10	?	No	Original short stories of 1,500 to 6,000 words length that feature fantasy elements and pre-industrial settings
Theme of Absence	https://themeofabsence.com/submission-guidelines/	$3 - $5	No	No	Speculative flash fiction and short stories
TQR	http://www.tqrstories.com/guidelines	$50	?	?	If you can figure out what they publish I will give you a prize
Utopia Science Fiction	https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/submit/	$5 - $35	Yes	No	Speculative fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art
Liminal	http://liminalstoriesmag.com/submissions/	6c/word	No	No	Weird fiction, magical realism, soft science fiction Has submission periods
Dreams & Nightmares	https://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines-i-print-primarily.html	$12	?	?	Speculative poetry Print Snail mail submissions
Every Day Fiction	https://everydayfiction.com/submit-story/	$3	No	No	All genres of flash fiction
Nature Futures	http://blogs.nature.com/futureconditional/2015/04/19/how-to-write-for-nature-futures/	£85 or US$130	?	No	Near-future, hard SF 850 - 950 words
Love Letters to Poe	CLOSED	USD $0.05 (five cents) per word	No	No	Gothic fiction, stories that evoke wonder and terror, romance and horror Up to 1500 words Has submission periods
Tree and Stone	https://www.tree-and-stone.com/submissions	$0.02 per word $20 for art	Yes	No	Surrealism, magical realism, fabulism, slipstream, anything that might be deemed unconventional. 1000 words max
Fiyah	http://www.fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/	$50 - $300	No	No	Quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features stories and poetry by and about Black people of the African Diaspora
Third Flatiron	https://thirdflatiron.com/2021_TF_WP/?page_id=13	8 cents/word	No	No	SFF Themed Anthologies Has reading periods
Space and Time	https://spaceandtime.net/submissions/	1 cent/word	Yes	No	Speculative fiction Has reading periods
Interzone	https://interzone.press/submissions/	1.5 euro cents/word	Yes	No	Science fiction and fantasy stories up to a maximum of 10,000 words
The Deadlands	https://thedeadlands.com/guidelines/	10 cents/word for original fiction; 1 cent/word for reprints	No	Yes	Speculative fiction that concerns itself with death–but also everything death may involve  Also accepts poetry, essays  Up to 5,000 words
Bards and Sages	CLOSED	$30 for original fiction; $15 for reprints	?	Yes	All speculative genres (horror, fantasy, science fiction, slipstream, steampunk, magical realism, etc) up to 5,000 words in length
The Society of Misfit Stories	https://www.bardsandsages.com/contact_us/fiction_submission_guidelines	$50 for original fiction; $25 for reprints	?	Yes	All forms
Phantasmacore	http://www.phantasmacore.com/submissions/	$5.50 for fiction, $1 for poetry and flash fiction	Yes	Yes	Speculative fiction and poetry Has submission periods
Frozen Wavelets	https://earthianhivemind.net/frozen-wavelets/?fbclid=IwAR0P-PiUCwG8VAQpRh8KK-zsLFsWtYa4IJA7B5nc7e4pE1M6e2H4IbE8Ugo	Fiction: US $ 0.08/ word and US $ 1/ line per poetry 1 cent/word for reprints	No	Yes	Speculative fiction and poetry Has submission periods
Midnight and Indigo	https://www.midnightandindigo.com/write-for-us/	$50 - $100	?	No	Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, and Personal Essays written by Black women writers Has submission periods
East of the Web	http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/index.php?p=submissions/20131_1	5 cents/word	?	Yes	Science fiction and fantasy Stories should be at least 7,000 words
All Worlds Wayfarer	http://www.allworldswayfarer.com/submissions/	$20	Yes	No	Publishes speculative fiction anthologies Has submission periods
Dragon Soul Press	https://dragonsoulpress.com/anthologies/	Royalties	?	Yes	Publishes speculative fiction anthologies Has submission periods
Apparition Lit	https://apparitionlit.com/submissions/	$30 minimum for short stories, $30 for poems	Yes (from BIPOC writers only)	No	Speculative fiction and poetry Has submission periods
Constelación	https://www.constelacionmagazine.com/submissions	8 cents/word	No	No	Quarterly speculative fiction bilingual magazine, publishing stories in both Spanish and English See themes Has submission periods
Shoreline of Infinity	https://www.shorelineofinfinity.com/submissions/	£40/1000 words	Yes	Yes	Science fiction and fantasy Has submission periods
HYBRID Ink	https://hybrid.ink/submit/anthologies/	2½¢ per word (maximum $100 per story)	Yes	Yes	Publishes Future//Tense anthologies Has submission periods
Havok	https://gohavok.com/submission-guidelines/	Pays $10 for anthologies only	?	No	Various genres under 1000 words See submission schedule
Through the Gate	http://throughthegate.net/submissions/	$20	Yes	No	Fantastical poetry
Amazing Stories	https://submission.amazingstoriesmag.com/guidelines/	8 cents/word	No	No	Speculative fiction  Has submission periods
Aurealis	https://aurealis.com.au/submissions/	A$20 and A$60 per 1000 words	No	No	Science fiction, fantasy or horror short stories between 2000 and 8000 words Has submission periods
The Arcanist	https://thearcanist.io/submit-your-work/home	10 cents/word	Yes	No	Flash speculative fiction Has submission periods
Perpetual Motion Machine	https://perpetualpublishing.com/submissions/	$25	?	No	Horror, science fiction, crime, and noir 1500 words max
Mithila Review	https://mithilareview.com/submission-guidelines/	$10 for reprints and $10-$50 for original stories between 4000-8000 words or longer	Yes	Yes	Fantasy, science fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Baffling Magazine	https://www.bafflingmag.com/submissions	$0.08/word	Yes	No	Under 1,200 words We 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.   See submission periods
Sci-Fi Lampoon	http://scifilampoon.com/submissions/	$5	Yes	?	Fantasy, sci-fi, and horror themed humor
Starward Shadows Quarterly	closedhttps://starwardshadows.com/submissions/	1 cent/word for short stories, $10 for flash fiction, art negotiated	Yes	No	Dark speculative fiction  See submission periods
Martian: The Magazine of Science Fiction Drabbles	closed	8 cents/word, 4 cents/word for reprints	Yes	Yes	Sci-fi stories of exactly 100 words
Fusion Fragment	http://www.fusionfragment.com/submissions/	Both previously unpublished work and reprints pay 3.5 cents (CAD) per word, up to a maximum of $300 (CAD) per story.	Yes	Yes	"Feel free to send us anything that even vaguely resembles science fiction." See submission periods
Infinite Worlds	https://www.infiniteworldsmagazine.com/submissions-faqs	8 cents/word	?	No	Science fiction stories between 1500–5000 words in length Also publishes art and comics
Orion’s Belt	https://www.orions-belt.net/submissions	8 cents/word	Yes	No	All stories must be under 1200 words
Mesozoic Reader	https://farthertrees.wordpress.com/mesozoic-reader/	$10	No	Yes	Stories and poetry of any genre are welcome, so long as dinosaurs or other prehistoric creatures are a central element Has submission periods
Fairy Tale Review	https://fairytalereview.submittable.com/submit/	$50	Yes	No	Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art Has submission periods and themed issues
Future Science Fiction Digest	https://future-sf.com/submissions/	8 cents/word	No	Yes	Translated fiction. Author or authorized translator may submit fiction  that has been previously published in source language but not in English Writers may not live in Anglophone countries
Star Line	http://www.sfpoetry.com/starline.html	3 cents/word for poetry, 1 cent/word for articles	?	?	Speculative poetry, art, nonfiction
The Common Tongue	https://www.commontonguezine.com/guidelines-submissions/ CLOSED	3 cents/word	No	No	Dark High Fantasy in English and Spanish
The Future Fire	http://futurefire.net/guidelines/index.html	$10 - $20	No	Yes	Fiction and poetry that focuses on the social-political elements of imaginary, futuristic, fantastic, horrifying, surreal or otherwise speculative universes
Three Crows	CLOSED	0.01$/word	Yes	No	Dark and weird fantasy, horror, and sci-fi
The Vanishing Point	https://vanishingpointmagazine.com/index.php/submissions/	$25	No	?	Horror, Sci-fi, Dark Fantasy, and all things speculative
Etherea Magazine	https://ethereamagazine.com/submissions/	$100 AUD for short stories $25 for flash fiction (1000 words max)	No	?	Fantasy and science fiction Short stories, flash fiction
Gwyllion	http://gwyllionmagazine.com/submissions/	£10 per accepted story or poem	Yes	No	We encourage submissions from writers living in Wales and/or who identify as Welsh. All submissions will be considered but priority will be given to stories with Welsh themes.
MetaStellar	https://www.metastellar.com/write-for-us/flash-fiction-story-submission/	8 cents/word	?	?	Fantasy, horror, and science fiction (up to 1,000 words)
Dark Matter	CLOSED	8 cents/word	Yes	Yes	Dark science fiction, poetry, comics, and art
Haven Speculative	https://www.havenspec.com/submit	1 cent/word for fiction, $5 - $10 for poetry	Yes	Query first	Fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art See themes
Synthetic Reality	http://syntheticrealitymagazine.com/submissions/	Payment varies	Yes	Yes	Fiction, poetry, articles, book reviews Print and online format Science Fiction, Fantasy, SHTF, Slipstream, Horror, Sword and Sorcery and surreal fiction, they are also open to other stories
Savage Realms	https://www.literaryrebel.com/savage-submissions/	$25	?	?	Sword and Sorcery up to 10,000 words
Lost Colony Magazine	https://lostcolonymagazine.com/submissions/	$50	?	No	Fantasy and science fiction  between 10,000 and 25,000 words in length.
Dark Void	CLOSED	5 cents/word	?	?	Science fiction horror
Tall Tale TV Podcast	https://talltaletv.com/submission-guidelines/	Not specified	Yes	Yes	Science fiction and fantasy
Neon	https://www.neonmagazine.co.uk/	Minimum payment of £10	Yes	Yes	Neon is a magazine of slipstream fiction, poetry, and artwork. We publish creative work that is fantastic or surreal, and which crosses the boundaries between science-fiction, horror and literary fiction.
Flash Point	https://flashpointsf.com/submissions/	$15	No	No	100 - 1000 words
The Phlogiston Press	https://thephlogistonpress.substack.com/about?utm_source=menu-dropdown	Royalties	?	Yes	"We’re looking for short form speculative fiction, old style, slipstream, horror, fantasy, science fiction, literary, poetry, flash with a maximum length of 8,000 words - or even a longer story to serialise over a few newszines."
Galaxy's Edge	http://www.galaxysedge.com/submissions/	7 cents/word	No	No	Fantasy and science fiction up to 10,000 words
HyphenPunk	https://hyphenpunk.com/submissions/	$25	Yes	No	Short stories and graphic stories, art. "We want to publish your speculative fiction with some type of -Punk aesthetic. Cyber-, steam-, solar-, diesel-, ray-, bio-, street-, splatter-, arcano-, nano-, or whatever else your crazed imagination can come up with. If its -Punk then it fits."
Penumbric	https://www.penumbric.com/subs.html	$10	?	Yes, on a case-by-case basis	Speculative fiction, poetry, art, music, animation See submission periods
Decoded	https://decodedpride.com/submit/	$25 - $200	Yes	No	Queer science fiction, fantasy, and horror
Pressfuls	https://pressfuls.com/about/	3 cents/word	?	?	Science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery/crime, short stories and short nonfiction
SFS Stories	https://sfsstories.com/	$25	?	Yes	Science fiction and fantasy flash fiction (under 1000 words)
Speculatief	http://speculatief.be/submissions/	$0.01 per word, with a max of $25 per short story	?	N/A	Translated science fiction and fantasy short stories, poetry and audio fiction Also accepts art Translations into Dutch
Solarpunk Magazine	https://solarpunkmagazine.com/submissions/	$0.08/word for fiction, $40/poem, and $75/essay	No	No	Fiction, nonfiction, poetry See submission schedule and themes Accepts translations
Seize the Press	https://www.seizethepress.com/submissions/	£0.06/word	Yes	No	Dark, transgressive speculative fiction up to 2000 words
Archive of the Odd	https://archiveoftheodd.wordpress.com/submissions/	$0.01/word for short stories	Yes	Yes	“Archive of the Odd is a zine of uncanny occurrences, told in even stranger ways.”
Factor Four	http://factorfourmag.com/submissionsinfo/	11 cents/word	No	No	Science fiction, fantasy, supernatural, super hero, or any combination up to 1000 words
Wyngraf	https://wyngraf.com/submissions/	1 cent/word	Yes	No	Cozy fantasy See submission periods
Tasavvur	https://tasavvurnama.com/submissions/	2.5 cents/word	?	?	South Asian speculative fiction up to 5,000 words
Fission, the annual anthology of British Science Fiction Association	https://bsfa.co.uk/fission	£0.02/word	?	?	Science fiction You don't have to be a member to submit See deadlines
Zooscape	https://zooscape-zine.com/guidelines/	8 cents/word	No	Yes	"We love science-fiction with animal-like aliens and fantasy with talking dragons, unicorns, or witch familiars.” See submission periods
Dragon Gems	https://waterdragonpublishing.com/submissions/dragon-gems/	$0.02 per word + access to ten (10) digital contributor copies	Yes	Yes	Fantasy or science fiction (or at least contain fantastical elements) 2,000 – 10,000 words in length.
Medusa Tales	https://medusatales.com/submissions/	1 cent/word, $10 for reprints	Yes	Yes	Speculative stories (sci-fi, fantasy, and horror) of human transformation and immobilization.
Hexagon	https://hexagonmagazine.ca/submit/ CLOSED	$5 for accepted poetry and cartoons, $10 for flash fiction, $15 for works between 1,001-4,999 words, $20 for accepted written works over 5,000 words, $30 for Graphic Stories and $110 for cover art pieces. All rates are CAD.	No	No	Speculative short stories, flash fiction, poetry, graphic stories, and visual art, in English or French.
The Sprawl Mag	https://www.thesprawlmag.ca/guidelines	$20 CAD	Yes	?	Speculative poetry, short fiction, and visual art. "Whether it is utopic, dystopic, magical, or sci-fi, we look forward to seeing your work." See submission periods
Bards & Wordsmiths	http://www.augurmag.com/submissions/	$60 CAD	Yes	No	Speculative poetry
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11 New Agents Seeking Genre Fiction, Romance, SFF, Kidlit, Picture Books, Memoir, LGBT and more

Here are eleven new literary agents actively seeking clients. New agents are a boon to writers. They are actively building their lists, and will go the extra mile for their clients. All of these agents work for established agencies with good track records. They are looking for all genres.

Always check the agency website and agent bio before submitting. Agents can switch agencies or close their lists, and submission requirements can change. 

NOTE: Don't submit to several agents at the same agency simultaneously. If one rejects you, you may then submit to another. (Some small agencies share. Be alert to a notice that "a no from one is a no from all.")

You can find a full list of agents actively seeking new clients here: Agents Seeking Clients.

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Tali Shammas of Storm Literary Agency

Tali grew up devouring books by flashlight long past her bedtime. After several years practicing corporate law, she returned to her childhood love: reading and writing fiction. Tali interned with Creative Media Agency and joined Storm as an agent in 2026. With her legal knowledge and skills in client advocacy and contract negotiation, she looks forward to building a diverse client list.

What she is seeking: I am drawn to commercial hooks, lyrical writing, and voice-y characters who jump off the page and pull you in. I love books that weave in folk stories and mythologies, particularly those underrepresented in literature. Similarly, I am interested in non-Western settings. In fantasy, I adore a unique magic system. I am also a big fan of books about books. Across all genres and age groups, I would love to see projects from BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, neurodiverse, and chronically ill communities.

How to submit: Use her querymanager HERE. Currently closed to queries.

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Rebecca Lommers of Katie Reed Literary

Rebecca Lommers graduated from Washington State University with a Bachelor’s in English: Creative Writing, a Music Minor, and an Editing and Publishing Certificate. She is currently attending graduate school at Eastern Washington University to receive an MFA in Fiction. She has loved books ever since she learned how to read, and she always dreamed of reading books before they were published. She is incredibly excited to work with authors to help them achieve their writing dreams. She interned with Katie Reed for two years before being promoted to junior agent.

What she is seeking: Romance, upmarket fiction, domestic suspense or psychological thriller, Epic Fantasy, Dystopian scifi, Literary Fiction, YA/NA Crossover, Mythology Retellings, Fiction with a Fantastical Angle.

How to submit: Use her querymanager HERE.

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Jackie Garcia-Morales of Storm Literary Agency

Jackie Garcia-Morales is a mixed Puerto Rican neurodivergent professional and career changer from STEM to publishing. She began her career in trade marketing, publicity, and sales at Penguin Random House and Baker & Taylor, alongside work with boutique presses and freelance reviewing for Kirkus Indie and Publishers Weekly. She also has experience in academic and peer-reviewed publishing, including acting as editor of a nonprofit journal for clinical herbalism.

What she is seeking: Author-illustrators that want to work across fiction and nonfiction picture books, chapter books, and graphic novels (spanning age audiences). Particularly interested in STEM/STEAM, social-emotional learning, irresistible humor/silly, mystery, epic adventure, mindfulness/similar wellness concepts, and stories centering diverse or underrepresented lived experiences, including neurodiversity, disability, multicultural identity, and unconventional family structures, Nonfiction from experts, YA, YA Crossover, & New Adult.

How to submit: Use her querymanager HERE. Currently closed to queries

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Hollie Michaels of Martin-Newens Literary Management

While working toward her M.A. in Creative Writing (Scripts) from City University of London, Hollie worked for the Blake Friedmann Literary Agency as a reader. When she returned to NYC, she joined the Gersh Agency as an assistant in the Theatrical Department. While working in indie theater as a director and producer, Hollie taught theater from grades K-12 and continued teaching when she moved to CT and had kids. During that time, Hollie ventured deeper into publishing, expanding her background from playwright to writing books for kids.

​​Hollie is the author of the chapter book series, Golda and Ezra, published by Capstone, as well as an early middle grade, The Bad News Bestie. Her youth play, Children of Hooverville is published and widely performed by middle schools around the country. Her short comic Wimbly can be found in Kids Comics Unite anthology, Let’s Go!

Hollie lives in commuting distance to NYC, with her husband, two kids and two fur babies. In her free time, Hollie works on building a green thumb, camping, baking sugar free treats, exploring indie bookstores and seeing Broadway shows.

​What she is seeking: Hollie is excited to build her list of amazing authors and illustrators from kidlit to adult. She is looking for the following:​

Illustrators: I’m open to all styles – traditional and digital - send me your portfolio.
Please no AI.

Picture Books: I’m open to authors and author / illustrators. Please send me humor, dark humor, wacky humor, kids being kids, commercial fiction, nonfiction told in a fun / engaging way. I’m not the best fit for books that are didactic or lesson based.
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Middle Grade / Chapter Books: Please send me commercial, contemporary, fantasy, dystopian, mystery, horror. Anything with humor, heart, a strong voice, and unforgettable characters. Stories a young reader won’t want to put down.

Graphic Novels: I am open to pitch packets from chapter books, middle grade, young adult. I prefer author / illustrators only but if you have a background in writing for comics (and really know the language of writing graphic novels) I will be open to those authors as well.

Young Adult: I’m looking for commercial, fantasy, dystopian, romance, sci-fi, and horror.
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New Adult: Romance, Fantasy and any genre mashups.

​Adult: I’m open to selective genres. I am looking for humor and a unique voice

Commercial, Sci-Fi, Dystopian, Romcom

Fantasy– I love cozy, witchy, everyday magic to magical worlds.

Horror -I prefer supernatural, speculative in this space and humor.

In all genres I am looking for a strong voice, a gripping story with emotional stakes, humor, and layered, unforgettable characters.

How to submit: You can submit to Hollie via Query Tracker here.

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Celsie Moseley of Context Literary Agency

Celsie graduated from Baylor University in 2021, earning a B.A. in English Literature. After a year teaching English in South Korea, she went on to earn her publishing certificate from the Columbia Publishing Course Oxford in 2022. Previously, she was the promotions assistant at the University of Chicago Press where she assisted the wider publicity team in executing their book campaigns. In her spare time, Celsie loves to read genre-bending SFF with strong characters and unique premises. When she’s not reading, she can often be found playing video games on her PC.

What she is seeking: Celsie is looking for unique voices, atmospheric stories that pull you under from the very first page, and worlds that feel as intimate as they are expansive. She is interested in themes that explore power, corruption, rebellion, class systems, climate change, liminal spaces, and intersectionality. In kidlit, she's seeking whimsical and heartfelt MG and high concept YA fiction. On the adult side, she seeks genre-bending SFF, horror, and book club/upmarket fiction.

How to submit: Please send a short description, short bio, and 5-10 pages of text pasted into the body of the email to querycelsie@Contextlit.com

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Jenny Lewis of Darhansoff & Verrill Literary Agents

Jenny joined as an associate agent in 2026. She began her publishing career as an intern at Writers House before working with Sobel Weber Associates and WW Norton.

What she is seeking: Fiction, memoir, history. She’s actively growing both her children’s and adult lists—across genres, she has a particular bent towards works that are voice-driven, immersive, and combine humor with a razor-sharp bite.

How to submit: Please send the first 50 pages in an email to submissions@dvagency.com

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Hannah Teachout of Folio Literary Management

In 2022, Hannah completed her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts and began as an intern at Folio in 2023. I have worked as a bookseller, festival organizer, and freelance editor before landing at Folio Literary Management where I’ve had the privilege to support Lauren Spieller and John Cusick and their lists of talented clients and am now building my own list.

What she is seeking: Across Middle Grade, Young Adult, and Adult fiction, I’m looking for stories with high concepts, gripping and memorable voices, and characters you don’t want to let go of when the book ends. This could be fantasy, horror, thriller, romance, bookclub, etc, but I tend to prefer fast-paced, tight plotting no matter the genre. I’m a sucker for projects that cross shelves (think horror-romcom or other mash-ups!) and I’m always looking for underrepresented voices telling all sorts of stories, with adventure and joy and hope at their heart.

How to submit: Use her querytracker form HERE.

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Ms. Brianna Aideen of Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency

Brianna Aideen joined The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency after interning for both JDLA and Triada US. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Film and Creative Writing. When she’s not reading, she’s painting, writing, or pointing out the production mistakes in feature films.

What she is seeking: Brianna represents Adult, New Adult, and some YA fiction. I am mostly focused on Adult or New Adult genres, but I won’t pass up a brilliant YA. I love all things fantasy and romance, give me all the tropes.

How to submit: Use her querytracker form HERE.

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Grace Garrahan of Europa Content

Grace joined the agency as Associate Agent and Agency Coordinator after three years with The Robbins Office and previous experience at Lucinda Literary. Before she joined the agenting world, Grace worked in the events industry, where she formed a lifelong passion for food and bev. She currently lives in Brooklyn where she enjoys going to concerts, trying new restaurants, and walking until she finds hidden gems.

What she is seeking: She is interested in popular psychology, self-development, pop culture, and some memoir. In the fiction space, she is drawn to literary-leaning commercial fiction and mysteries/thrillers.

How to submit: Please email the first 25-50 pages of your manuscript to

grace@europacontent.com

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Ms. Stuti Shah of The Rights Factory

Prior to joining The Rights Factory, Stuti worked in international rights at Transatlantic Agency, advising on publishing contracts and collaborating with authors, publishers, and co-agents across domestic and international markets, giving her a close look at what makes a project stand out and a deal work for everyone at the table.

Before moving into publishing, she practiced at a top-tier law firm, and that experience has shaped how she reviews deals and advocates for her clients. When Stuti believes in a project, she is a fierce and dedicated advocate for it, in her authors' corner at every stage of their publishing journey.

What she is seeking: She's interested in commercial and upmarket fiction and narrative-driven nonfiction for adult and YA readers, including book club fiction with an edge, historical fiction, thrillers and psychological suspense, cosy mysteries, speculative and genre-blending fiction, fantasy, sci-fi & cli-fi, dark academia, coming-of-age sagas, romcoms, contemporary relationship fiction, and funny or whimsical fiction. On the nonfiction side, she prefers memoir, true crime, and narrative nonfiction with a compelling voice. Stuti is also actively seeking concept-driven books with cross-format or adaptation potential for film and TV.

How to submit: Use her querytracker form HERE.

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Kelsey Day of Aragi Agency

Kelsey Day (they/them) is an associate literary agent at Aragi Inc. Assisting Nicole Aragi, they cut their teeth working with bestselling phenomena such as Colson Whitehead, Tommy Orange, and Ocean Vuong.

What they are seeking: 

Fiction: BIPOC Literature, Horror, LGBTQ, Literary

Non-Fiction: Cookbooks, Illustrated, LGBTQ, Psychology, Self-help, Spiritual, Tarot/Astrology, Wellness, Witches/Witchcraft

How to submit: Use their querytracker form HERE.

103 Calls for Submissions in July 2026 - Paying markets

This July there are more than eight dozen calls for submissions. All of these are paying markets, and none charge submission fees. As always, every genre, style, and form is wanted, from short stories to poetry to essays.

I post upcoming calls for submissions shortly before the first day of every month. But as I am collecting them, I post them on my page, Calls for Submissions. You can get a jump on next month's calls for submissions by checking that page periodically throughout the month. (I only post paying markets.)

Also see Paying Markets for hundreds of paying markets arranged by form and genre.

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Thema. Genre: Fiction, poetry, and art on theme: Waiting in Line. Payment:  $10-$25 for short fiction and artwork, $10 for poetry. Deadline: July 1, 2026. Accepts reprints.

The Quiet Ones. Genre: Quiet Horror and Intimate-Scale Dystopian Fiction. "We primarily seek creative work from those who identify as LGBTQIAP+, women, and allies. We’re especially fond of (though do not require) stories that center LGBTQIAP+ and female characters. That said, we welcome work from anyone and everyone, and we do not automatically disqualify any submissions based on the author’s identity, nor do we require our contributors to share their sexual or gender identities." Payment: $25. Deadline: July 1, 2026.

Flash Fiction Online. Genre: Speculative flash fiction. Payment: $100. Deadline: Opens July 1, 2026. Closes when cap is reached.

The Marrow. Genre: Poetry written in, or translated into, English, from Australian and international poets. Payment: AU$40. Deadline: Opens July 1, 2026.

A Public Space. Genre: Fiction, essays, poetry, as well as graphic and hybrid work. Payment: Honorarium. Deadline: July 1, 2026.

Monstrously Misguided Anthology. Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Speculative, Dark Humour, Weird Fiction, Slipstream, Light Sci‑Fi. Theme: Creatures, legends, and monsters… but not as you’ve ever seen them before. Payment: 2.5 cents per word. Deadline: July 1, 2026.

The Forge Literary Magazine. Genre: Prose. They prefer stories under 3,000 words. Payment: $100. Deadline: July 1, 2026. Free submissions open on the 1st of each month and close when cap is reached.

Fusion Fragment. Genre: Science fiction or SF-tinged literary fiction stories and novelettes ranging anywhere from 2,000 to 15,000 words. Payment: Both previously unpublished work and reprints pay 4 cents (CAD) per word, up to a maximum of $400 (CAD) per story. Deadline: Opens July 1, 2026.

Cordite. Genre: Poetry. Payment: Not specified. Payment is available for Australian contributors only. Deadline: July 1, 2026.

The Paris Review. Genres: Poetry. Payment: Not specified. Deadline: Opens July 1, 2026, and closes when they reach capacity.

Dirty Magick Magazine. Genre: Short fantasy fiction, from 2,000 to 12,500 words. Payment: $50. Deadline: Opens July 1, 2026, and closes when they reach capacity.

It Came from the Trailer Park. Genre: Horror/Comedy. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: July 1, 2026.

Dark Ink: Movie Horror Themed Anthology. Genre: Horror centered on movies, filmmaking, and the act of watching films—where cinema itself becomes the doorway to terror.” Payment: $20. Deadline: July 1, 2026.

Phi Kappa Phi Forum. Genre: Poetry. See theme. Payment: $4/ line. Deadline: July 2, 2026.

Raconteur Press: Buck Yeah!. Genre: Short stories. Buck Rogers enters the public domain this year! We’re looking for new tales from the Buck Rogers universe. Rocket ships! Astonishing adventures 500 years into the future! Anti-gravity belts, rocket guns, disintegration beams! Length: 5,000 to 8,000 words. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: July 3, 2026.

Stone’s Throw. Genre: "We're looking for dark fiction, crime and noir, length between 1,000 and 2,000 words." Payment: $25. Deadline: July 4, 2026. Open to submissions the first three days of every month.

Liars’ League. Genre: Short stories. Length: 800-2,000 words. See theme. Payment: £20, reading of your story by a professional actor, as well as podcast, video and online publication of your work. Deadline: July 5, 2026.

Daikaijuzine. Genre: Speculative fiction, poetry, art. Payment: $10.00 for each short story, and $5.00 for each poem and flash fiction piece. Deadline: July 5, 2026.

Thirty West Publishing. Genre: Full-length poetry, fiction, short story collections, essay collections, CNF, novellas. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: July 5, 2026.

Cosmic Horror Monthly. Genre: Weird and cosmic fiction under 5,000 words. Payment: 3 cents (USD) per word. Deadline: July 7, 2026.

Black Inc. Restrictions: Open to Australians. Genre: Full-length general, literary and commercial non-fiction – including history, current affairs, memoir and biography. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: July 7, 2026. This is a monthly call.

Isele Quarterly. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, visual art, and hybrid works that explore the theme: Red. Payment: "Modest." Deadline: July 7, 2026.

University of Queensland Press has launched the careers of many celebrated Australian writers, such as David Malouf, Peter Carey, Kate Grenville, Doris Pilkington and Nick Earls. Originally founded as a traditional university press, UQP has since branched into publishing books for general readers in the areas of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, Indigenous writing and youth literature. UQP publishes books across the following categories: non-fiction (history, politics, current affairs, biography and memoir, environmental issues), literary fiction, including short stories, children’s and young adult (YA) books (fiction and non-fiction), poetry. They do not publish books in the following categories: Genre fiction (including romance, science fiction, fantasy, and erotica), travel guides, cookbooks, self-help books, plays/scripts/music scores, textbooks, unrevised theses or conference proceedings. Read their submission guidelines here. Deadline: July 7, 2026. Open the first seven days of every month.

Anodyne. Genre: Fiction, CNF, Poetry, Art, Photography, Video, Music on theme of Health. Payment: Revenue sharing. Deadline: July 7, 2026. (Submissions are free the first seven days of the month.)

Space & Time. Genre: Speculative fiction. "We welcome poetry, art and fiction that bend rules, transcend genre and break stereotypes." Submissions accepted in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French or Italian. See theme. Payment: 1 cent/word for prose, $5 for poetry. Deadline: July 7, 2026.

OTHERSIDE. Genre: Speculative fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by self-identified members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Payment: $0.08/word for prose. $50 per poem. $100 for nonfiction and reprints. Deadline: July 1- 7, 2026. Submission period only for BIPOC, trans, and/or disabled authors.

Baneberry. Genre: Literary horror. Length: 500 - 7000 words. Payment: $500. Deadline: July 8, 2026.

Interrobang. Genre: Fiction. See theme. Payment: $3. Deadline: July 8, 2026.

Havok. Genre: Flash fiction. See themes. Payment: $50 via PayPal for each story selected for an Anthology. No payment for online publication. Deadline: July 10, 2026.

Poetry Sango-Ota. Restrictions: Open to African poets. Genre: Poetry. "We are interested in poems with a keen connection to a sense of place, nature, or otherworldly geographies." Payment: N10,000 (ten thousand naira) per poem. Deadline: July 10, 2026. Open from the 1st to the 10th of every month. 

Griffith Review. Genre: Poetry. See theme. Payment: AUD$0.75 per word. Deadline: July 12, 2026.

A Public Space. Genre: Fiction, essays, poetry, as well as graphic and hybrid work. See themes. Payment: Honorarium. Deadline: July 13, 2026.

The Orange & Bee. Genre: Original works of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction that engage in a significant way with the long history of fairy tales. Payment: Poetry: flat rate $US50.00 per poem; Flash fiction/non-fiction: flat rate $US80.00 per story (max 1000 words); Short fiction/non-fiction: $US0.08 per word (max 4000 words). Deadline: July 14, 2026.

Solarpunk Magazine. Genre: Solarpunk. See theme. Payment: $0.08/word for fiction, $40/poem, and $75/essay, $100 for reprint cover art, $200 for original unpublished cover art, $50 for reprint interior art, $100 for original unpublished interior art. Deadline: July 14, 2026.

Mulberry. Genre: All creative media—from prose, flash, poetry, script, and comics, to film, music, visual art, dance, and everything in-between. Cross-genre, experimental, and hybrid work are always welcome, as well as excerpts of longer pieces. Payment: $20. Deadline: July 14, 2026.

Horror Tree: Trembling With Fear. Genre: Horror short stories. Payment: $5. Deadline: July 15, 2026.

Scuppernong. Genre: Hybrid memoir, as well as books on social justice issues in North Carolina. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: July 15, 2026.

Ragaire Literary Journal. Genre: Fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry from Ireland and abroad. Payment: €150 per story/essay, €80 per poem. Deadline: July 15, 2026.

If There's Anyone Left. Restrictions: Open to people of color, the LGBTQ+ community, members of marginalized genders, and disabled people. Genre: Speculative fiction. Length: 1000 words max. Payment: 8 cents/word. Deadline: July 15, 2026.

Able Muse is a small literary press. They publish poetry and fiction. Most of the fiction they publish is short story collections. They have one free reading period every year, from May 1 through July 15. Read submission guidelines HERE. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: July 15, 2026.

Strange Pilgrims. Genre: Fiction and nonfiction. “We’re not married to any genre, structure, or subject. We love surreal, speculative, and fabulist stories; unhinged, lyric, and fragmented essays; voice-driven experimental narratives and slow-burn realism; cultural and literary criticism; hyper-intellectual riffs and children’s stories — so long as they move." Payment: $50 for flash prose, $200 for longer works. Deadline: July 15, 2026.

In a Flash: Recipes. Genre: Creative nonfiction of 500 words or less. See theme. Payment: $25. Deadline: July 15, 2026.

Electric Spec. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: $20 per piece. Deadline: July 15, 2026.

Augur Magazine. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: $0.14 cents (CAD) per word for short fiction (1000+ words), and a flat fee of $112.00 per flash fiction piece (1000 words and under); $100 per poem. Deadline: July 15, 2026.

Eye to the Telescope. Genre: Speculative poetry. See theme. Payment: 5 cents/word, up to $25. Deadline: July 15, 2026.

Last Girls Club. Genre: Feminist horror: short stories and poems - see themes. Payment: Fiction, 1.5 cents/word. Poetry, $10. Deadline: July 15, 2026.

Scrawl Place is part visitor’s guide, part literary journal. Genre: Work that explores places in Chicago. Payment: $40. Deadline: July 15, 2026.

The Dancing Griffin Press Halloween Special. Genre: Horror. "All types of horror are welcome - extreme horror, young adult, spooky middle grade - monsters, body horror, torture, paranormal, we do not discriminate. The only requirement is that your story takes place during the month of October, and at least one character must die." Payment: USD $20 for original stories; $15 for reprints. Deadline: July 15, 2026.

Plott Hound. Genre: Speculative fiction and poetry starring animals. Payment: 8 cents/word for original fiction. $20 - $100 for reprints. $50 for poetry. $300 for art. Deadline: July 15, 2026. Accepts reprints.

Seaside Gothic. Genre: Seaside gothic fiction, poetry, nonfiction, or a collection of photographs or illustrations. Payment: £0.01 per word. Deadline: July 19, 2026.

Black Hare Press. Genre: Dark stories, in any genre. Length: 5,000 - 50,000 words. See theme. Payment: $20. Deadline: July 19, 2026.

In The Mood Magazine. Genre: Nonfiction, poetry. art. "From celebrity personas, to impersonations, to acting school methods, we’re looking for criticism, essays, poetry, and visual art that engages with the concept of performance." Payment: $300 CAD. Deadline: July 20, 2026.

OTHERSIDE. Genre: Speculative fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by self-identified members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Payment: $0.08/word for prose. $50 per poem. $100 for nonfiction and reprints. Deadline: July 21, 2026. 

The Deadlands. Genre: Poetry. "The Deadlands exists in liminal spaces between life, death, and elsewhere. We are looking for fiction that concerns itself with death—but also everything death may involve." Payment: $50. Deadline: July 21, 2026. Accepts reprints.

Crimeucopia. Genre: Crime fiction. See theme. Payment: £4 per 1,000 words. Deadline: July 21, 2026.

Kaleidotrope. Genre: Speculative fiction and poetry—science fiction, fantasy, and horror, but also compelling work that blurs the lines between these and falls outside of neat genre categories. Payment: For fiction, $0.01/word (1 cent a word) USD. For poetry, a flat rate of $5 USD per accepted piece. For artwork, a flat rat of $60 for cover art. Deadline: July 25, 2026.

Mudroom. Genre: Poetry, fiction, essays, and essays in translation. Payment: $15. Deadline: July 25, 2026.

Diabolical Plots. Genre: Science fiction, fantasy and horror up to 3,500 words. Payment: 10 cents/word. Deadline: July 27, 2026.

Crimeucopia. Genre: Crime fiction. Length: 10,000 words. See theme. Payment: £4 per 1,000 words. Deadline: July 28, 2026.

Mythaxis. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: 0.01 per word, with a $20 minimum. Deadline: July 30, 2026.

Splinter Journal. Genre: Poetry, fiction, memoir, nonfiction (pitches only). Payment: Profiles (pays AUD900), essays pays AUD900), writing about writing (pays AUD500), and criticism (pays AUD700), and completed submissions of poetry (pays AUD250/poem or AUD450/collection of up to four poems, fiction (pays AUD900), and memoir (pays AUD600). Deadline: July 30, 2026.

Pseudopod. Genre: Horror Anthologies and Collections of stories that have been or will be published in 2026. Payment: USD $0.08 per word for original fiction. USD $100 per story for reprint fiction. Deadline: July 30, 2026.

Raconteur Press: The Spy Who Conjured Me. Genre: Short stories. The Cold War was not just between the US and USSR, but literally between the side of angels and the side of demons. A spy planting a haunted listening device in an enemy embassy finds that the ghost inside it has his own ideas. Codewords that are also magic spells, assassins using curses, and undead drops. Espionage with magical elements. Length: 5,000 to 8,000 words. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Sunlight Press. Genre: Fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, photography, reviews. Payment: $20 - $50. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Manawaker Studio: 100 Word Project. Genre: Speculative fiction of exactly 100 words. See theme. Payment: $1. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Swamp Pink. Genre: Short stories, poetry, nonfiction. Payment: $40 each, and we pay $0.05 a word for prose. Deadline: July 31, 2026. No submission fee for BIPOC writers.

miCRo. Genre: Flash fiction. Length: Up to 500 words. Payment: $25. Deadline: July 31, 2026. Closes when cap is reached.

FIYAH: Conjuring Academies & Spellbound Scholars. Genre: Black speculative fiction. Payment: $0.08/word for fiction, $50 for poetry. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Apex Magazine. Genre: Science fiction, fantasy, horror. Payment: $.08 per word up to 9,000 words. Additoinal 1 cent/word if podcast. Minimum of $50. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Brink. Genre: Hybrid work. See theme. Payment: $25–$100 depending on the length of accepted work, plus two copies of the issue the work appears in. Deadline: July 31, 2026.  Closes when cap is reached.

Thinking Ink Press. Genre: Speculative fiction novels and novellas and nonfiction. "We’re most interested in speculative fiction relating to our mission: To amplify disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent, and other historically under-recognized voices." Payment: Advance and royalties. Deadline: July 31, 2026. Open to submissions in the months of January, April, and July.

Dark Moments Patreon Monthly Challenge. Genre: Dark flash fiction. (Word count: 100 words exactly). See theme. Payment: 4 cents/word. Deadline: July 31, 2026. Monthly call.

Mud Season Review. Genre: Poetry, Fiction, CNF, Art. Payment: $50. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Saros Speculative Fiction: Terminally Online. Genre: Speculative Fiction. See theme. Payment: CAD25. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Haven Speculative. Restrictions: Open to submissions by authors of color, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and other underrepresented groups. Genre: Speculative fiction and poetry. Payment: 8¢ per word for fiction and $20 for poetry. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Flash Frog. Genre: Flash fiction ghost stories. 1,000 words max. Payment: $25. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Polaris Poetry Series. Genre: Afrofuturistic poetry. Submissions should be a minimum of 65 pages of poems, with each new poem beginning on a new page. Payment: $1000 advance. Deadline: July 31, 2026. Closes when cap of 100 submissions is reached.

Die Laughing. Genre: Funny horror. Payment: $10 for flash, $25 for shorts. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Spoon Knife. Genre: Short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. See theme. Payment: $30. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Phobos. Genre: Weird fiction. Payment: 8 cents a word or $25, whichever is greater. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Brink. Genre: Hybrid, cross-genre fiction, nonfiction poetry. See theme. Payment: $25 Poem; $50 Work (less than 1500 words); $50 Art (1-3 Images); $100 Art (4+ Images); $100 Work (more than 1501 words). Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Whitaker Lyon Press: Meet Virginia – A Romance Anthology. Genre: Short romance fiction. Length: 1,500-7,500 words. See theme. Payment: $20. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Exquisite Engines. Genre: Streampunk. See theme. Payment: $20. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Scylla: The Monstrous & The Divine Sapphic Anthology. Restrictions: Authors must be female identifying or non-binary; and the main character/s must be sapphic/wlw. Genre: Short and flash fiction, poetry. See theme. Payment: AUD0.10/word up to AUD400 for original fiction; up to AUD100 for reprints. Deadline: July 31, 2026. Accepts reprints.

Only Poems: Poet of the Week. Genre: Poetry. Payment: $100. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Locative Magazine. Restrictions: Open to Australian residents. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Payment: $30. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Zine Machine. Genre: Mini zines. Payment: $20. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Ink in Thirds. Genre: Poetry, prose (up to 600 words), art. Payment: $5. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Clare Songbirds. Genre: Full-length poetry collections. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: July 31, 2026. Closes when cap is reached.

ECHO Small Press Books accepts full length novel submissions from teens (ages 13 - 19) and publishes one book a year. Genre: YA. Length: Between 40 and 100 thousand words. Payment: Advance and Royalties. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

The Temz Review. Genre: Prose (fiction and creative non-fiction) up to 10,000 words long. Payment: $20. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Hellbound Books Anthology of Psychological Horror. Genre: Psychological Horror. Payment: $5. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Nine Pens. Restrictions: Open to people in the UK or Ireland. Genre: Poetry pamphlets. Payment: Royalies. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

parABnormal. Genre: Nonfiction, poetry on the paranormal. "For us, this includes ghosts, spectres, haunts, various whisperers, and so forth. It also includes shapeshifters and creatures from various folklores." Payment: $25.00 for original stories, $7.00 for reprints. $10.00 for each poem. $20.00 for original articles, $6.00 for reprints. $7.00 for reviews and interviews. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

New Myths. Genre: Speculative fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Payment: 3 cents/word with a minimum payment of $50 for all submissions, fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction and poetry; $50 for book reviews; $80 for art. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

A Midnight Kind of Place Anthologies. Genre: Horror. See themes. Payment: £30 for originals. Deadline: July 31, 2026. Accepts reprints.

Slashic Horror Press. Genre: LGBTQ horror manuscripts. Length: 30,000 to 90,000 words. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

khōréō. Restrictions: Open to writers who identify as an immigrant or member of a diaspora in the broadest definitions of the terms. "This includes, but is not limited to, first- and second-generation immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, persons who identify with one or more diaspora communities, persons who have been displaced or whose heritage has been erased due to colonialism/imperialism, transnational/transracial adoptees, and anyone whose heritage and history includes ‘here and elsewhere’. We especially encourage BIPOC creators who identify as the above to submit their work." Genre: Stories and art: fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and any genre in between or around it, as long as there’s a speculative element. Payment: 0.10/word for fiction, $100 for nonfiction, and $40-300 for art. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Dragon Soul Press: MIDNIGHT BITES. Genre: Horror across all genres. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Hashtag Press. Genre: Full-length children's and YA books as well as nonfiction. All books must be diverse or inclusive. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Anstruther Books. Genre: Poetry "that takes risks and represents a diverse cross-section of the Canadian literary community." Payment: Royalties. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

Flash Point Science Fiction. Genre: Speculative fiction stories from 100 to 1,000 words in length. "Send us your science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, and everything in between, so long as it’s short." Payment: 2 cents/word. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

The London Magazine. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Payment: Not specified. Deadline: July 31, 2026. Closes when cap is reached.

Short Story Substack accepts one short story every month. Genre: All genres. Word count 6,000 - 10,000 words. Payment: Base Pay of $100 for the chosen story + 50% of subscription revenue to be sent by Paypal, Zelle, or check. Reprints accepted. Deadline: July 31, 2026.

AND A FEW MORE...

The First Line Journal. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction and poetry using the line provided. (See theme) Payment: $25-50 for fiction, $25 for nonfiction, $10 for poetry. Deadline: August 1, 2026.

Dark Waters. Genre: Dark fiction. See theme. Payment: Up to $25. Deadline: August 1, 2026.

IHRAM Press. Genre: Poetry, fiction, esssays, art. Theme:We are opening submissions for an issue dedicated to amplifying the voices of women of colour, including transgender women and women living across cultures as expats, migrants, or in diasporic communities. Payment: $50 for writing, $25 for art. Deadline: August 1, 2026.

Saddlebag Dispatches. Genre: Short stories, poetry, and non-fiction articles about the West. Payment: $10 - $20. Deadline: August 1, 2026.