This October there are more than ten 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.
Reservoir Road Literary Review.
Genre: Literary short stories, lyrical creative non-fiction, photography.
Payment: $5.
Deadline: Opens October 1, 2023.
Note: Submission window closes when their cap is reached.
The Forge Literary Magazine.
Genre: Fiction, flash fiction, micro-fiction. Length: Under 3,000 words preferred.
Payment: $75.
Deadline:
They open to fee-free submissions on the first of each month and close when they reach their quota.
Cutleaf.
Genre: Fiction, nonfiction prose, poetry.
Payment: $100 to $400 for published nonfiction prose; $50 to $200 for published poetry; $100 to $400 for published fiction.
Deadline: Opens October 1, 2023.
Note: Submission window closes when their cap is reached.Polar Borealis. Restrictions: Open to Canadians only. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: 1 cent per word. $10 for one thousand words or less. $20 for two thousand words or less (but reasonably above one thousand). $30 for three thousand words or less (but reasonably above two thousand). Deadline: Opens October 1, 2023.
Nimrod.
Genre: Poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.
Payment: $10 per page, with a $200 maximum.
Deadline: October 1, 2023.
Fee to submit online; no fee for postal submissions.
The Iowa Review.
Genre: Fiction, poetry.
Payment: $1.50 per line for poetry ($100 minimum) and $0.08 per word for prose ($100 minimum).
Deadline: October 1, 2023.
No fee for snail mail submissions. $4 fee for online submissions.
Cybearpunk.
Genre: Science fiction stories that feature and empower large gay/bi/queer men.
Payment: 8 cents/word.
Deadline: October 1, 2023.
The Last Line.
Genre: Fiction that ends with the last line provided.
Payment: $20-$40.
Deadline: October 1, 2023.
Gordon Square Review.
Genre: Poetry, short stories, personal essays, and hybrid prose works.
Payment: $25 per prose piece and $10 per poem.
Deadline: October 1, 2023.
little somethings.
Genre: Flash fiction, flash memoir, poetry, art.
Payment: "Small honorarium."
Deadline: October 1, 2023.
Unsettling Reads.
Genre: Short story. Theme: Horror vs Thriller.
Payment: $10.
Deadline: October 1, 2023.
Negative Creep.
Genre: Horror inspired by Nirvana songs.
Payment: $50.
Deadline: October 1, 2023.
Coffee House Press is an independent book publisher and arts nonprofit based in Minneapolis, MN.
Genre: Full-length fiction and nonfiction manuscripts.
Payment: Royalties.
Deadline: Opens October 1, 2023.
Closes when cap is reached.
Sundog.
Genre: Fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art.
Payment: $25.
Deadline: Opens October1, 2023, and closes when they reach capacity.
Toronto Journal.
Genre: Short stories from anywhere in the world. "We will also consider non-fiction pieces about local history (Toronto, GTA, and surrounding)." No word limit.
Payment: $50 CAD per piece. All published writers will also receive two printed copies of the issue in which they appear.
Deadline: October 1, 2023.
Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores.
Genre: Speculative stories, poetry, nonfiction.
Payment: 8 cents/word for original work. 2 cents/word for reprints. $1 a line for poetry. 2 - 8 cents/word for nonfiction.
Deadline: October 2, 2023.
Accepts reprints.
Affirm Press.
Restrictions: Accepts submissions from Australians or authors based in Australia only.
Genre: Literary and genre fiction, entertaining nonfiction.
Payment: Royalties.
Deadline: October 2, 2023.
Accepts submissions the first Monday of the month.
Love Letters to Poe.
Genre: Gothic short stories and poems inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart.
Payment: Subject to fundraiser.
Deadline: October 3, 2023.
Invisible City.
Genre: All genres.
Payment: $20.
Deadline: October 5, 2023.
Havok.
Genre: Flash fiction. See themes.
Payment: $50 via PayPal for each story selected for an Anthology. No payment for online publication.
Deadline: October 6, 2023.
Short Fiction.
Restrictions: Accepts submissions from writers in every country
except the USA.
Genre: Short fiction.
Payment: 2p (£0.02) per word, to the nearest 100 words, with a minimum of £30 and maximum £100.
Deadline: October 6, 2023.
Black Ink Books.
Restrictions: Open to Australian writers.
Genre: Full-length general, literary and commercial non-fiction – including history, current affairs, memoir and biography.
Payment: Royalties.
Deadline: October 7, 2023.
Note: Open to submissions the first week of every month.
Cursed Morsels.
Genre: Single-author horror collections with an emphasis on the Weird, queer, splattery, anti-capitalist, and/or anti-fascist.
Payment: Advance: $300 + royalties.
Deadline: October 7, 2023.
Hauntings and Hoarfrost.
Genre: Gothic fiction.
See theme,
Payment: $50 CDN flat fee and a paperback copy of the anthology for stories. $20 CDN flat fee and a paperback copy of the anthology for poems.
Deadline: October 7, 2023.
Only Poems.
Genre: Poetry. "We love prose poems, traditional forms (ghazals, villanelles, sestinas), love poems, sex poems, and experimental questionnaires, but we are not married to a style or genre. We are welcoming of anything you think is your most exciting work. Ultimately, we want poems that move us or make us go: “God, I wish I had written this!”
Payment: $55.
Deadline: October 7, 2023.
Stone’s Throw.
Genre: "We're looking for dark fiction, crime and noir, length between 1,000 and 2,000 words."
Payment: $25.
Deadline: October 7, 2023.
Open to submissions the first week of every month.
Luna Press.
Genre: Speculative fiction novels and collections.
Payment: Royalties.
Deadline: October 8, 2023.
Luna Press: The Utopia of Us.
Genre: Speculative fiction, 2000-6000 words.
Payment: £75 for the story. Given Russia’s current war with Ukraine, royalties from the book will be donated to the Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.
Deadline: October 8, 2023.
Bad Day Book.
Genre: Poetry and prose.
See site for themes.
Payment: $40 - $75, depending on length.
Deadline: October 8, 2023.
QT: Queer Toronto Literary Magazine Genre: Poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, personal essays, reflections, memoirs, as well as artwork, drawings, comics, photographs, collages, and other visual media. "Here, queer literature is not limited to explicitly queer content, but rather works created by LGBTQ2SIA+ people. Individuals from underrepresented communities, especially women, trans people, and BIPOC artists and writers are encouraged to self-identify in their submission email. Creators based in, or content featuring Toronto will be given extra consideration, but QT welcomes all pieces and artists with a connection to Canada."
Payment: Featured artists and authors will receive an honorarium of $15. Issue designers will receive an honorarium of $100.
Deadline: October 9, 2023.
The Crow's Quill.
Genre: Historical Horror.
Payment: $20 per story.
Deadline: October 10, 2023.
Cossmass Infinities.
Genre: Science fiction and fantasy short stories.
Payment: $0.08/word for original fiction.
Deadline: October 14, 2023.
Note: Open during the first week of February and October for BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and other under-represented authors then opening to general submission for the second week.
The Other Stories (Audio).
Genre: Horror on themes.
Payment: 15 GBT.
Deadline: October 14, 2023.
See themes.
DreamForge.
Genre: Science fiction and fantasy short fiction up to 7000 words.
Payment: $0.08/word.
Deadline: October 14, 2023.
Daikaijuzine.
Genre: Speculative fiction, poetry, art.
Payment: $10.00 for each short story, and $5.00 for each poem and flash fiction piece.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Aôthen Magazine.
Genre: Fiction, poetry, nonfiction related to ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome.
Payment: $10.
Deadline: October 29, 2023.
Voiceworks.
Restrictions: Open to Australians under the age of 25.
Genre: Nonfiction pitches.
Payment: $100 for written work and art, $150 for multi-page comics or suites of art.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Topograph.
Genre: Fiction, poetry, nonfiction, flash fiction, place reviews on theme of Place. "Show us the where. We want work in which the setting is a character. We want work that examines a place's meaning. We want work that reveals the boundaries between places. We prefer work about places we don't hear too much about."
Payment: $10.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
The Spectacle.
Genre: Poetry, fiction, nonfiction.
Payment: $50.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Myriad: Necropolis.
Genre: Speculative fiction." We’re looking for stories of the monsters that lurk in the skeletons of brutalist structures. The strange rituals of those who found ways of surviving. Labyrinths of crumbling stone. Spirits inhabiting a dilapidated ballroom. Plants flourishing in abandoned train stations. Chimaeras stalking the ruins of a long forgotten urban landscape." Length: Up to 1000 words.
Payment: $5 for accepted poetry and cartoons, 0.01$ per word for all short stories up to 7,500 words, $40/page for comics and $150 for cover art pieces. (Payment in CAD).
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
evOke.
Genre: All things Pagan, polytheist, and witchy.
See themes.
Payment: $5.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Open from the 1 - 15 of every month.
Maine Review.
Genre: Short fiction, poetry.
Payment: Fiction and Nonfiction writers receive a $25 honorarium per published flash (1,000 words or fewer) and a $50 honorarium for work 1,001 words or more. Poets receive a $25 honorarium per published poem.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Opens October 9, 2023.
A Public Space.
Genre: Fiction, essays, poetry, as well as graphic and hybrid work.
Payment: Honorarium.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
The Pig’s Back.
Genre: Fiction and nonfiction.
Payment: €300. Length: 2,000-5,000 words.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Typehouse.
Restrictions: In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, no-fee submissions are open for all Hispanic/Latino/a/e/x creators, not limited to those in the US.
Genre: Prose, poetry, art.
Payment: $25.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Carte Blanche (Canada).
Genre: Poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, translations. comics, photography.
Payment: "Modest"
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Sasee.
Genre: First-person, non-fiction material that is for or about women. Essays, humor, satire, personal experience, and features on topics relating to women are their primary editorial focus.
Payment: Varies.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Consequence Magazine: The Culture of War.
Genre: Short fiction, poetry, nonfiction, interviews, reviews, and visual art mainly focused on the culture of war.
Payment: $20 - $60 for prose and poetry, $150 for art.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Tule Publishing.
Genre: Romance and mystery ebooks.
Payment: Royalties.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Conium Press.
Genre: Magical realist, surrealist, and experimental fiction: Chapbooks.
Payment:
Ten copies and a small honorarium. Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Feisty Felines.
Genre: Fantasy, science fiction, horror, suspense, humor, and romance, appropriate for up to a PG-13 audience. Felines and or familiars (of other types) must be central to the work.
Payment: 6 cents/word.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Beyond the Bounds of Infinity.
Restrictions: Submissions are restricted to marginalized peoples.
Genre: Horror.
Payment: 8 cents/word.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Jane Nightshade's Serial Encounters Anthology.
Genre: Short stories about casual encounters of fictional people with serial killers, that turned creepy or deadly. Stories can be straight crime/thriller stories or ones with a supernatural bent.
Payment: $5.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Griffith Review: Counterfeit Culture.
Genre: Non-fiction, fiction on theme: Past Perfect. "No matter the relentless pace of technological innovation and the digitisation of everything from money to media – our appetites for retro design and aesthetics, for cultural products that reimagine technicolour-dream versions of decades gone by, or for fantasies of a past golden political age are ever on the rise."
Payment: Negotiated.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Embodied Exegesis: Transfeminine Speculative Futures.
Restrictions: Submissions are restricted to people who are transfem: trans women, transfems, nonbinary trans women, etc.
Genre: Cyberpunk stories written by transfem authors.
Payment: $0.08/word for originals, $0.01/word for reprints.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Accepts reprints.
Hansen House.
Genre: Hansen House is looking for anything with queer protagonists or by queer authors so long as the story does not fall into the “bury your gays” trope.
Payment: Royalties.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Fat Coyote.
Restrictions: Writers must be neurodivergent.
Genre: Poetry, fiction, CNF, Art, Photography, Comics. Payment: 3 cents/word for prose. $1 line for poetry. $30 - $40 for art.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Seaside Gothic.
Genre: Seaside gothic fiction, poetry, nonfiction, or a collection of photographs or illustrations.
Payment: £0.01 per word.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Rattle: Tribute to Collaboration.
Genre: Poetry. The poems may be any subject, style, or length, but must have been written by two or more co-authors.
Payment: $200.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Translunar Travelers Lounge.
Genre: Speculative fiction.
Payment: $0.03 per word with a minimum of $20.
Deadline: October 15, 2023. (
Note: September 15-21 is reserved for writers of color)
Dose of Dread.
Genre: Horror flash fiction. Length: 500 – 1,000 words.
Payment: 2c/word.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
New Orleans Review.
Genre: Fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
Payment: $300 for prose, $100 for poetry.
Deadline: In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, there are no submission fees for Latinx writers from September 15th to October 15th.
Electric Spec.
Genre: Speculative fiction.
Payment: $20 per piece.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Amplitudes Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity Anthology.
Genre: Short fiction. "During a time of rising threat against queer and trans people's flourishing, this anthology project aims to imagine other, better worlds as an act of literary resistance. Inspired by the words of José Esteban Muñoz, “the future is queerness’s domain," these stories explore what might happen if the oppressive status quo of the here and now is rejected—instead asking, but what if things were different?"
Payment: 8 cents/word.
Deadline: October 15, 2023.
Muse Magazine.
Genre: Nonfiction articles for children.
Payment: Not specified.
Deadline: October 16, 2023.
See themes.
Queries only.
Uncanny Magazine.
Genre: Speculative short stories. Length: 750 to 10,000 words.
Payment: $.10 per word.
Deadline: October 16, 2023.
Flash Fiction Online.
Genre: Speculative (science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, and horror) and literary fiction.
Payment: $80.
Deadline: October 21, 2023.
Opens October 1.
Astrolabe.
Genre: Fiction, creative nonfiction, and photography & art.
Payment: $50.
Deadline: October 22, 2023.
adda.
Genre: Spoken and written poetry.
Payment: Not specified.
Deadline: October 22, 2023.
Voiceworks.
Restrictions: Open to Australians under the age of 25.
Genre: Completed Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry.
Payment: $100 for written work and art, $150 for multi-page comics or suites of art.
Deadline: October 22, 2023.
Mudroom.
Genre: Poetry, fiction, essays, and essays in translation.
Payment: $15.
Deadline: October 25, 2023.
Riddlebird.
Genre: Literary fiction, personal essays.
Payment: $100.
Deadline: October 26, 2023.
Black Ocean.
Restrictions: BIPOC writers only.
Genre: Full-length poetry manuscripts.
Payment: Royalties?
Deadline: October 27, 2023.
Every Day Fiction.
Genre: Flash fiction on theme: November. Length: 1000 words max.
Payment: $3.
Deadline: October 27, 2023.
Delightfully Unhinged Press.
Genre: Horror, thriller, splatterpunk, and more written by queer, transgender, bipoc, disabled, and women writers. See theme.
Payment: $3 - $5.
Deadline: October 28, 2023.
Some reprints accepted.
Embrace the Silence Anthology.
Restrictions: Submissions are restricted to Australian and New Zealand authors who identify as neurodivergent.
Genre: Apocalyptic stories featuring neurodivergent characters.
Payment: $20-$50.
Deadline: October 30, 2023.
Neon Hemlock.
Genre: Speculative fiction novellas.
Payment: Royalties.
Deadline: October 30, 2023.
Agbowo.
Restrictions: Open to African origin writers only.
Genre: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays, book reviews and art/photography. Payment: Single Poems - $25; Suites of poems (2-4) - $50; One act plays -$50; Essays/Nonfiction - $60; Fiction - $60; Visual Art - $35.
Deadline: October 30, 2023.
Mythaxis.
Genre: Speculative fiction.
Payment: $20.
Deadline: October 30, 2023.
Ofic.
Genre: Short fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, art. "Send us your dead doves, your blorbos, your plinkos, your wretched meow meows yearning to be free; that thing you wrote that made you think, “I don’t know where this belongs”; the stuff you’d never show anyone you know IRL. Give us your shameless, self-indulgent smut; the manuscript to the video essay you dictated to your YouTube subscribers in your head; your thoughtful explorations of trauma and identity; your Pepe Silvia wall; your sci-fi, your fantasy, your romance, your realism. We want anything and everything. As long as you identify as a fan, we want to read your work." (Up to 12,000 words).
Payment: Small honorarium.
Deadline: October 31, 2023.
Inner Worlds Zine.
Genre: Speculative fiction about our inner lives; our thoughts, our emotions, our perceptions, our dreams.
Payment: £0.01 per word.
Deadline: October 31, 2023.
Fanatical.
Genre: Sci-fi, fantasy and horror stories between 2,000 and 6,000 words.
Payment: £20.
Deadline: October 31, 2023.
Timberghost Press: This Isn't the Place: A Collection of Utah Horror.
Genre: Horror short fiction and poetry. "We are seeking well-crafted stories and poems that fit the theme of hauntings that take place in locations other than houses. For this anthology, all entries must have a Utah connection, either on the part of the author or the story itself."
Payment: Poetry - $15 USD; Flash - $20 USD; Short Fiction - $40 USD.
Deadline: October 31, 2023.
Many Worlds.
Restrictions: We welcome submissions by those who identify with and as any of the following descriptors: trans, two-spirit, disabled, neurodivergent, Mad, queer, crip, nonbinary, genderqueer, intersex. This is a space for the words, works, and worlds of and by those whose bodyminds defy social expectations and invite new ways of thinking and knowing.
Genre: Everything.
Payment: $10.
Deadline: October 31, 2023.
Variant Lit.
Genre: Fiction, nonfiction
Payment: $10.
Deadline: October 31, 2023.
Black Lawrence Press: Immigrant Writing Series.
Restrictions: Open to any individual living in the U.S. who identifies as an immigrant and who either (i) was born in another country, (ii) has at least one parent who was born in another country (iii) is a refugee, or (iv) lives in the United States under Asylum or a Protection Program, such as TPS or DACA.
Genre: books of poetry, prose (fiction or nonfiction), and hybrid texts of poetry and prose.
Payment: “In addition to publication, marketing, and a standard royalties contract from Black Lawrence Press, authors chosen for the Black Lawrence Immigrant Writing Series will receive a travel stipend of $500, which can be used for book tours or in any manner chosen by the authors.”
Deadline: October 31, 2023.
Engen Books: Cryptids from the Rock.
Restrictions: Open to Canadians.
Genre: "Short fiction under 7000 words that focus on cryptids, animals whose existence permeate urban myths but are not recognized within the scientific community. The From the Rock collections are intended to highlight the fantastic, varied writers Newfoundland and Labrador has fostered."
Payment: $0.01 CAD per word to an upper limit of 7,000 words.
Deadline: October 31, 2023.
Diet Milk: ‘In The Bleak Midwinter.' Genre: Gothic micro/flash fiction.
Payment: $3 for micro fiction, $5 for flash fiction.
Deadline: October 31, 2023. (Runs from October 1 - 31)
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