| 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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