89 Calls for Submissions in November 2025 - Paying markets

This November there are more than seven 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.

Happy submitting!

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Last Girls Club. Genre: Feminist horror: short stories and poems - see themes. Payment: Fiction, 1.5 cents/word. Poetry, $10. Deadline: November 1, 2025.

Little Key Press: Clocks. Genre: Dark fiction, speculative fiction, near sci-fi, strange, wondrous stories. See theme. Payment: $40. Deadline: November 1, 2025. Closes when cap is reached, except for disabled writers.

Bloodletter. Genre: Feminist horror. Fiction and nonfiction. See theme. Payment: $250. Deadline: November 1, 2025.

The Iowa Review. Genre: Nonfiction. comics. Payment: $0.08 per word for prose ($100 minimum). $40/page for visual literature. Deadline: November 1, 2025. No fee for snail mail submissions. $4 fee for online submissions.

Frost Zone. Genre: Dark literary fiction, 1800 - 3800 words. Payment: $15 CAD. Deadline: November 1, 2025.

Philly Poetry Chapbook Review. Genre: Reviews of chapbooks coming soon or published in the past three years, essays on the crafts of poetry and chapbook making or publishing, and features about authors or publishers of chapbooks. Payment: $10. Deadline: Opens November 1, 2025.

The Forge Literary Magazine. Genre: Fiction, flash fiction, micro-fiction. Length: Under 3,000 words preferred. Payment: $75. Deadline: Opens November 1, 2025. They open to fee-free submissions on the first of each month and close when they reach their quota.

One Story. Genre: Short fiction between 3,000 and 8,000 words. Payment: $500. Deadline: Opens November 1, 2025. They open on the first of the month and close when they reach their quota.

FIYAH. Restrictions: Submissions are restricted to people of the African Diaspora. Genre: Speculative fiction, art, and poetry about African Diaspora. Length: Short fiction 2,000 – 7,000 words and novelettes up to 15,000 words. Payment: 8 cents/word per story or novelette. $50 per poem. 10 cents/word for nonfiction. $400 for art. Deadline: November 1, 2025.

Full Bleed. Genre: Prose, poetry, art. See theme. Payment: $25 - $50. Deadline: November 1, 2025. 

Podcastle. Genre: Fantasy podcast. Length: Up to 6,000 words. Payment: $0.06/word for original; $100 for reprints, $20 for flash fiction reprints. Deadline: Opens November 1, 2025.

Clocks. Genre: Dark fiction, speculative fiction, near sci-fi, strange, wondrous. Payment: $40. Deadline: November 1, 2025. Closes when cap is reached, so submit early.

Foglifter. Genre: Foglifter is a biannual compendium of queer and trans writing. It’s a space where LGBTQ+ writers celebrate, mourn, rage, and embrace. "Foglifter welcomes daring and thoughtful work by queer and trans writers in all forms, and we are especially interested in cross-genre, intersectional, marginal, and transgressive work. We want the pieces that challenged you as a writer, what you poured yourself into and risked the most to make. But we also want your tenderest, gentlest work, what you hold closest to your heart. Whatever you're working on now that's keeping you alive and writing, Foglifter wants to read it." Payment: $50. Deadline: November 1, 2025.

Ninth Letter Web Edition. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. See theme. Payment: $25 per poem and $75 for prose. Deadline: November 1, 2025.

The Other Stories (Audio). Genre: Horror on themes. Payment: 15 GBT. Deadline: November 1, 2025. See themes.

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: November 1, 2025.

Utopia Science Fiction: Alien Celebrations. Genre: Speculative fiction. See theme. Payment: 8 cents/word for fiction, $30 for nonfiction, $30 per poem. Deadline: November 1, 2025.

Adroit Journal. Genre: Fiction, poetry, art. Payment: $50 - $100. Deadline: November 1, 2025.

Thema. Genre: Fiction, poetry, and art on theme: Today's Onerous Task. Payment:  $10-$25 for short fiction and artwork, $10 for poetry. Deadline: November 1, 2025. Accepts reprints.

Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores. Genre: Speculative stories. Payment: 8 cents/word for original work. 2 cents/word for reprints. Deadline: November 2, 2025. Opens November 1. This is a monthly call.

Flame Tree: Afrofuturism Short Stories. Genre: Afrofuturism SFF. "Authors must be writing from an authentic perspective of the Black experience, whether based in the diaspora or in Africa." Payment: 8 cents/6 pence per word for original stories, 6 cents/4 pence for reprints. Deadline: November 2, 2025.

Raconteur Press. Genre: Short stories. "The ladies have had their turn. Now it’s time for stories about those fellas who place themselves between the hazard and the helpless. Reluctantly or not, they’ll uphold their moral code, even if it costs them." Payment: Royalties. Deadline: November 2, 2025.

Cordite. Genre: Poetry. Payment: Not specified. Payment is available for Australian contributors only. Deadline: November 2, 2025.

Strange Horizons. Restrictions: Open to indigenous writers. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: 10 cents/word. Deadline: Opens November 3, 2025. Closes when cap is reached.

Stone's Throw. Genre: Noir, dark fiction, crime short stories. Length: between 1,000 and 2,000 words. See theme. Payment: $25. Deadline: November 3, 2025. Note: This is a monthly call.

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: November 7, 2025. This is a monthly call.

Write or Die. Genre: Short fiction. Length: Up to 4000 words. Payment: $200. Deadline: November 7, 2025. No fee to submit the first week of the month.

Crimeucopia. Genre: Crime fiction. See theme. Payment: £4/US$4 per 1000 words. Reprints pay up to a maximum of - £7.00. Deadline: November 8, 2025. Accepts reprints.

Flame Tree: Gilgamesh. Genre: SFF stories that really interrogate Gilgamesh and all his flaws, traits and relationships. Payment: 8 cents/6 pence per word for original stories, 6 cents/4 pence for reprints. Deadline: November 9, 2025.

Flame Tree: Helen of Troy. Genre: Stories that delve deeper into the character and backstory of Helen, to shine a light on more than her immediate link to the Trojan War. Payment: 8 cents/6 pence per word for original stories, 6 cents/4 pence for reprints. Deadline: November 9, 2025.

Fleame Tree: Of Blood & Petals and The Tarot of Love. Genre: Romantic fantasy. See themes. 

Payment: 8 cents/6 pence per word for original stories, 6 cents/4 pence for reprints. Deadline: November 10, 2025. 

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: November 10, 2025. Open from the 1st to the 10th of every month. 

Ornithopter Press. Genre: Full-length poetry manuscripts. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: November 12, 2025.

Flame Tree: Ghost Lights. Genre: Horror. See theme. Payment: 8 cents/6 pence per word for original stories, 6 cents/4 pence for reprints. Deadline: November 14, 2025.

Luna Station Quarterly. Restrictions: Open to women writers only. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: $10. Deadline: November 15, 2025. 

Varnish Prize for Fiction. Genre: Short fiction, up to 5,000 words. Prize: First Place: $350. Second Place: $100. Third Place: $50. Deadline: November 15, 2025. Closes when cap is reached.

Severn River Publishing. Genre: Full-length series fiction. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: November 15, 2025. 

Usawa Literary Review. Genre: Feminist poetry, fiction, CNF by and about underrepresented communities. (Journal is based in India.) See theme. Payment: INR1,000/$12. Deadline: November 15, 2025. 

The Spectacle. Genre: Poetry, fiction, nonfiction. Payment: $50. Deadline: November 15, 2025. 

Crimson Quill Quarterly. Genre: Sword & sorcery, dark fantasy, and grimdark subgenres of fantasy fiction. Length: Up to 10,000 words. Payment: $35. Deadline: November 15, 2025.

Kissed by the Elements. Restrictions: Priority given to Canadians. Genre: Romance short story. See theme. Payment: 1 cent/word CAD. Deadline: November 15, 2025. 

The Blue Route. Restrictions: Only the work of current undergraduate writers will be considered. Genres: Fiction, or creative nonfiction totaling no more than 3000 words. Payment: $25. Deadline: November 15, 2025.

Revolute. Genre: Poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Payment: $50. Only pays writers based in the US. Deadline: November 15, 2025. 

Mascara Review. Genre: Nonfiction, reviews, poetry, fiction. Payment: Poems $100; Fiction and essays $200; Reviews $200. Only pays Australian writers. Deadline: November 15, 2025. 

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Funny stories. Genre: Nonfiction. We are looking for stories about something that happened to you in your life - in your relationship with a partner or spouse, a parent or child, a family member or friend, at work or at home that made you and the people around you laugh out loud. Did you mean for it to be funny? Payment: $200. Deadline: November 15, 2025. 

These Dreaming Hills. Restrictions: Open to writers with strong connections to Appalachia. Genre: Speculative fiction rooted in central Appalachia between 1,000-6,000 words. Payment: US $.08/word. Deadline: November 15, 2025.

The Lorelei Signal. Genre: Fantasy short stories, flash fiction, and poetry with strong female characters. Payment: $15 for short stories, $5 for poems and flash (<1000 wds) fiction pieces, $5 for reprints. Deadline: November 15, 2025. Accepts reprints.

Sublimation. Genre: Speculative poetry and art. See theme. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: November 15, 2025.

Raconteur Press. Genre: Short stories. "Robots, androids, drones. Stories about life with our synthetic helpers. Does artificial intelligence lead to artificial emotions? What happens when your kid wants to grow up to be just like his droid? Automatons with attitude." Payment: Royalties. Deadline: November 16, 2025.

Meetinghouse. Genre: Fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, art. Payment: $40 for digital content, $100 for prose published in print, and $50 for each poem published in print. Deadline: November 16, 2025.

The Stinging Fly. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Payment: Fiction and nonfiction: €30 per magazine page; Poetry: €50 per poem; Featured Poet: €250. Deadline: November 18, 2025.

Channel. Genre: Fiction, art, creative non-fiction, and poetry that engages with the natural world, and have a particular interest in work which encourages reflection on human interaction with plant and animal life, landscape and the self. Payment: €40/poem, and €50/page of prose up to €150. Deadline: November 20, 2025.

Farmer-ish. Genre: Nonfiction, CNF, poetry related to farming (including recipes). Payment: $25 for print journal. Deadline: November 21, 2025. See themes.

The Deadlands. Genre: Fiction. "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: 10 cents/word for fiction. Deadline: November 21, 2025. Accepts reprints. 

Horizon Review. Restrictions: Open to current residents of the Southwest (New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah), with preference given to submissions from New Mexico. Genre: Fiction, poetry, CNF, art. Payment: $25. Deadline: November 24, 2025.

Fashionably Late. Genre: Nonfiction anthology featuring LQBTQIA+ people who came out later in life. “We want to hear about the challenges and joys you faced as part of your journey.” Payment: $50. Deadline: November 28, 2025.

Split Lip Magazine. Genre: Fiction (flash and short stories), memoirs, and poetry. with a pop-culture twist. Payment: $75 for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, and art, $50 for interviews/reviews, and $25 for mini-reviews web issues. Deadline: November 30, 2025. Closes when they reach capacity, so submit early.

The Inspector Pooh Case Files. Genre: Private investigator stories based on Pooh characters. Stories must be novelette or novella length, 18,000 – to 40,000 words. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

JMS Books. Genre: LGBTQ stories, 12,000 words minimum. See themes. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

Singapore Unbound: Suspect. Restrictions: Open to authors who identify as Asian. Genre: Fiction and essays (maximum 6,500 words) or poetry (maximum 10 pages). See theme. Payment: $100. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

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: November 30, 2025.

Griffith Review. Genre: Poetry. See theme. Payment: AUD $200. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

BRB Books: Tales from the Little Library Anthology. Genre: Speculative fiction, set in the libraries of your childhood. Payment: $15. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

Stygian Zine: Love Lies Dying. Genre: short stories, personal musings, visual art, and comics on theme Love Lies Dying. Payment: CAD20. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

Silver Sun Books: Bandits & Botany Anthology. Genre: Fantasy fiction on the theme, Bandits & Botany. Payment: £5. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

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: November 30, 2025.

APEP Press: Feline Frights – Whiskers Between Worlds. Genre: Cat-themed horror stories. Payment: $20 for originals, $10 for reprints. Deadline: November 30, 2025. Accepts reprints.

Small Robin Press. Genre: Creative Nonfiction. Theme: Walls — real, imagined, perceived, constructed, demolished, and rebuilt. Payment: $50. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

Manawaker Studio: 100 Word Project. Genre: Speculative fiction of exactly 100 words. See theme. Payment: $1. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

This Is Not Your Mother’s Eating Disorder. Genre: Personal essay. Theme: Eating disorder. Payment: $250. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

Nonbinary Review. Genre: Speculative fiction, poetry, art. Length: Up to 3,000 words for prose; up to 3 pages for poetry. See theme. Payment: $0.01/word for prose, $10 for poetry. $25 flat fee for visual art, or $50 for pieces chosen as cover art. Deadline: November 30, 2025. Accepts reprints.

Baltimore Review. Genre: Poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, videos (including poetry), and cross-genre work. Payment: $50. Deadline: November 30, 2025. May close early if they reach their cap.

Fahmidan Publishing is a publisher for all POC & Women ardent in battle against subjugation. Genre: Poetry or fiction chapbook. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

The Fiddlehead. Genre: Fiction, including excerpts from novels, creative nonfiction, art, poetry. See theme. Payment: $65 CAD per published page. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

Claudine. Genre: Fiction, CNF, micros. " We like fairy tales, magical realism, hauntings, but more than any genre, we love prose that makes us ache and images that linger. (Sea creatures, always a plus.)" Payment: $25. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

Contemporary Verse 2. Genre: Poetry and critical writing about poetry, including interviews, articles, essays, and reviews. Payment: $35 - $150. Deadline: November 30, 2025. Free submissions for Canadians only.

The Hudson Review. Genre: Fiction. Payment: Not specified. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

Dragon Soul Press: Forever Yours. Genre: All love stories with a happily ever after. All genres accepted.  Payment: Royalties. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

Nimrod. Genre: Poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Payment: $10 per page, with a $200 maximum. Deadline: November 30, 2025. Fee to submit online; no fee for postal submissions.

Broken Sleep Books. Genre: Poetry collections (40+ pages). Payment: Royalties. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

Haven Speculative. Genre: Speculative fiction and poetry. Payment: 8¢ per word for fiction and $20 for poetry. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

Black Fox Literary Magazine. Genre: Fiction, CNF, poetry, art. Payment: $20. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

Poet Lore. Genre: Poetry and poetry translations. Payment: $50. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

Inkd Publishing: Phantom Dusk. Genre: Speculative fiction. See theme. Payment: Minimum $10. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

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, art: fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and any genre in between or around it, as long as there’s a speculative element. See theme. Payment: 10 cents/word for fiction, and $100- $400 for art. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

Fantabulosa! Restrictions: Open to Queer writers. Genre: Speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art. Payment: $0.08/word for prose, and $50 for poetry. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

Flame Arrow. Restrictions: Submissions are restricted to Canadian authors or permanent residents. Genre: Speculative fiction novels and novellas. See theme. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: November 30, 2025.

Blood in the Sandstone. Genre: Desert Horror. Payment: $25. Deadline: November 30, 2025. Extended deadline for marginalized writers.

New Orleans Review. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Payment: $300 for prose, $100 for poetry. Deadline: November 30, 2025. In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, there are no submission fees during the month of November for all Indigenous writers, not limited to those living in/born the US.

AND A FEW MORE...

Eternal Haunted Summer. Genre: Poetry, short fiction. See theme. Payment: $5. Deadline: December 1, 2025.

Breath and Shadow  Genre: Writing on any topic for poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama; these pieces do not have to be "about" disability. However nonfiction, academic, and similar articles (profiles, interviews, opinion pieces) do have to relate to disability in some way. Payment: $25 for poetry, $40 for fiction, and $40 for nonfiction. In addition to publication and payment, Breath & Shadow will post links to contributors' work on other sites and to their Web site or e-mail address. Deadline: December 1, 2025.

Bold Strokes Books: Gender Ever After – Gender-Affirming Sapphic Romance Stories. Genre: Sapphic Romance. Payment: $50. Deadline: December 1, 2025.

Extremities: Choose Your Own Death. Genre: Queer adult horror novellas. Novella length: 30K–40K words. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: December 1, 2025.

Wallstrait. Genre: Flash fiction, longer stories, hybrid, and experimental stuff you can't quite define. Length: Up to 5,000 words. Payment: $25. Deadline: December 1, 2025. 

IHRAM Publishes. Genre: Poetry, fiction, esssays, art. Theme: Echoes from the Street: Homelessness and the Unhoused. Payment: $50 for writing, $25 for art. Deadline: December 1, 2025.

The Other Stories (Audio). Genre: Horror on themes. Payment: 15 GBT. Deadline: December 1, 2025. See themes.

Lycan Valley. Genre: Modern day reimagining of the Medusa story. "We want to see a strong bipoc woman* deeply rooted in culture. And, regardless of how she gets there, Medusa should be victorious and win in the end." Novella length (between 17,000 and 30,000 words) is preferred, but will consider both novellas and full-length novels for this project. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: December 1, 2025. Read guidelines HERE.

Eldritch Cat Press: The Lantern Keepers. Genre: Speculative short stories “We’re looking for tales that include characters who serve as guides, guardians, or messengers between the threshold of the living and the dead, lost or otherworldly. We want stories with haunting, dreadful, eerie, creeping or even sorrowful vibes." Payment: $10. Deadline: December 1, 2025.