Publishing ... and Other Forms of Insanity: Calls for Submissions

Calls for Submissions

Literary journals and publishers put out calls for submissions when they are seeking new material.

If you have a completed story, essay, poem, or piece of creative nonfiction, these are good opportunities. A journal is more likely to publish what you submit if they are looking for it.

These are all my posts that list calls for submissions. They are arranged in descending order, with the most recent posts first. All are paying markets.

Even if the deadlines on the older calls have passed, it is worth looking at them as most journals will be open to submissions periodically. If you find a journal that is a good fit for your writing, you can submit during their next reading period.

Here are some good sites to check for submission calls.

(Scroll down for the current month.)

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New Pages

Poets & Writers

Trish Hopkinson

The Poetry Kit

Funds for Writers

Horror Tree

Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)

Calls for Submissions (Facebook group)

Erika Dreifus - monthly newsletter with writing contests, calls for submissions, and more

Angelique Fawns publishes a very informative list of monthly submission calls, including tips for submissions. All are paying markets.

Angela Carr publishes calls for submissions every month on her blog, A Dreaming Skin.

Here is a spreadsheet with 300 places to submit - both paid and unpaid:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RQpwe31zRjYv9Fstg1A2KYhqQ2stTF1BKKMK01eYvpI/edit#gid=0

Erika Krouse has an excellent ranked list of 500 literary magazines. http://www.erikakrousewriter.com/erika-krouses-ocd-ranking-of-483-literary-magazines-for-short-fiction/#ranking

TOP 1000 LITERARY MAGAZINES. This database includes more than 1000 literary magazines publishing fiction and/or creative non-fiction. Magazines publishing genre fiction and those with geographical restrictions tend not to be included.

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Also see:

325 Paying Markets for Short Stories, Poetry, Nonfiction

185 Literary Magazines Accepting Reprints

109 Paying Markets for Flash Fiction

65 Places to Publish Novellas and Long Short Stories - Paying markets

Mega-List of Paying Markets for Horror, Dark Fiction and Poetry

Mega-List of Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines - Paying markets

Mega-List of University Literary Journals Accepting Submissions in Fiction, Poetry, Art, CNF

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NO DEADLINE

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.

Poetry Substack accepts one poem every month. Genre: Poem. Must have a rhyme scheme or a rhythm scheme. No blank verse or free verse. Payment: Base Pay of $10 for the chosen poem + 50% of subscription revenue to be sent by Paypal, Zelle, or check. Reprints accepted.

Affirm Press accepts all literary and genre fiction. For non-fiction, they are interested in most subjects that have an author or authors based in Australia, and only manuscripts that haven’t been previously published. They only accept submissions on the first Monday of each month and twice yearly on their children’s & teen list. Read their submission guidelines here. They only accept Australians.

Strange Horizons is open to speculative fiction submissions between Monday 1600 UTC and Tuesday 1600 UTC, every week of the year except during the month of December.

The Hungur Chronicles. Genre: Horror. Vampires or creatures with vampiric themes. Payment: The pay for original stories is $25.00; for reprints, $12.00. Payment for poems is $5. The pay for illustrations is $8.00. The payment for articles is $10. The pay for cover art is $25.00.

The Dark The Dark publishes dark fantasy and horror. "Don’t be afraid to experiment or to deviate from the ordinary; be different—try us with fiction that may fall out of “regular” categories. However, it is also important to understand that despite the name, The Dark is not a market for graphic, violent horror." Length: 2,000 – 6,000 words. Payment: 6 cents/word for original fiction up to 6,000 words on publication for first world rights; and 1 cent/word for reprint fiction up to 6,000 words on publication for nonexclusive reprint rights. Deadline: Open now.

Et Sequitur. "We are open to all genres, from literary to speculative and everything in between. Our only requirement is that your submission in some way connect with the latest Et Sequitur story, be that in character (minor, major, protagonist, antagonist), setting (neighborhood, world, workplace, house -- even a certain object could work, if it's featured prominently), or theme. Be creative! Continue the story, tell a side-character's story, take the theme and twist it in a new way. In the submission form, you'll be asked to identify which element of the previous story you've chosen to incorporate in your own." Submissions for the next issue will open once the previous issue is published (expected to be the first day of every-other month). They will temporarily close when a story has been chosen for the next issue. Payment: $25.

Assemble Artifacts is looking for stories of wonder and suspense. "We prefer stories of at least 5,000 words, but are open to longer and shorter works. Please include a one to three sentence pitch of your story, and an author bio with your submission. We are open to writers of all levels of experience." Payment: 8-10 cents per word for short fiction.

Backyard Earth is a "round the world" series of books. The idea is that they will make five books - one for each continent (more or less). Each book will contain one story for every country on that continent. Submissions will stay open until they have a full complement. Short fiction only. Payment: $25.

Starry E yed Press: 224-Verse. Genre: Space opera, 2,000 words to novel length. Payment: Royalty split. Read guidelines here.

Psychopomp. Genre: Nonfiction essays on art, short fiction, novels, movies, music, fashion, culture, entertainment, science, and more, that fall under the umbrella of goth, death, funerary, grief, loss, alternative, otherworldly themes. Payment: $50.

The International Human Rights Festival (IHRAF). Genre: Poem, short story, or essay (2500 words or less) Payment: $50.

Android Press is a small press that publishes science fiction, fantasy, and the various -punk subgenres. "We love stories that are full of hope and optimism. We also love stories that hold up a mirror to our society and force us reexamine our past and our values in order to move forward and build a better future." Accepts novels and novellas. Payment: Royalties.

Unnerving publishes Horror, Crime, Mystery, & Dark General Fiction novels and novellas. The finished products will need to be between 20,000 and 110,000 words in length. 50/50 net royalties split. No contract fees. 5-year publishing terms. Unnerving also publishes anthologies. Please read full guidelines here.

Haunted Doll House is an imprint of Agape Editions that publishes full-length books in print. Genre: Fiction and memoir. "As our name suggests, we aren’t afraid of the dark: we live there. We want your horror stories, your mystery novels, your dark sf/f, your genre-resistant writing about the ecstasies, traumas, and terrors that took you to the very edges of yourself." Please read full guidelines here.

The SFWA Blog is open to pitches for original nonfiction articles on topics that might be of interest to new and/or established creators of science fiction and fantasy. SFWA welcomes pitches from both members and nonmembers; Black, Indigenous, and other writers of color, as well as writers of other under-represented identities, are encouraged to submit article pitches. Payment: 10 cents/word.

Electric Literature's essays examine books and culture through a personal and critical lens. "We prefer full submissions on spec but accept detailed pitches as well. Instead, email a detailed pitch to editors@electricliterature.com with the subject line [ESSAY PITCH]. Pitches should describe the subject matter of the essay (which must be about books, writing, storytelling or narrative media like movies, games, and TV) and give a sense of the argument you plan to make or the story you plan to tell. We welcome thoughtful considerations of new releases, overlooked classics, childhood favorites—anything that can illuminate or be illuminated by the human experience. Requests for Electric Literature to cover your book or your client's book are not considered pitches. If your story is immediately time-sensitive or news-responsive, indicate this in your subject line; otherwise, please wait at least a week to follow up." Payment: $100.

Write City Magazine is published by the Chicago Writers Association. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Payment: $50/CWA members, $25/nonmembers per prose piece and $35/members, $10/nonmembers per poem.

Farrago Books is an imprint of Duckworth Press (UK). Farrago’s tagline is “fiction to make you smile”. All of the work they publish, from mysteries to science fiction, have humor at the core. They do not publish memoir.

Cornice. Genre: Stories about somebody doing something. "Struggle, challenge, and danger are at the heart of our favourite stories. We equally prize any work that is centred on oddball characters, or which makes us laugh." Payment: $40 USD.

Scorched Earth Press: Cars Against Humanity! Genre: Nonfiction pieces whose goal is to illuminate the many ways in which cars, and the infrastructure built to support them, constrict (human) life. "We want the essays in this volume to help readers understand the deadly automotive ecologies that have emerged around the world over the past century." Payment: $50.

The Mantelpiece. Genre: Fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Online and print. Payment: 0.1 EUR per word for the first 1000 words and 0.04 EUR for every subsequent word, with a minimum payment of 40 EUR.

Pillow Talking (Podcast). Genre: First person, narrative/creative nonfiction stories of real-life bedroom conversations. Payment: $25AUD.

Geist. Restrictions: Canadian connection required. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art. Payment: $100 - $1000. Geist offers no-fee general submissions for Black writers, Indigenous writers, and writers of color.

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

Sally Port Magazine: Making the Choice. Genre: Fantasy. Payment: 5 cents/word.

Masters Review: New Voices. Restrictions: Open to writers who have not published a full-length work (a short story collection is OK) Genre: Narrative nonfiction and fiction, book reviews, interviews, and craft essays. Payment: $50 - $100.

Flame Tree Press Newsletter. Genre: Flash fiction. Payment: 8 cents/word for originals, 6 cents/word for reprints. Note: Those submitting must sign up for their newsletter.

Flame Tree Publishing: Afrofuturism Short Stories. Genre: Afrofuturism short stories. Payment: 8 cents/word for originals, 6 cents/word for reprints. Open until filled.

Protean. Genre: Poetry, critical essays. Payment: $60 - $400. Open until filled.

Iterant. Genre: Poetry. Payment: $50.

Red Cape Publishing: A - Z of Horror: X, Y, and Z. Genre: Horror on themes. Payment: £10.

Jay Henge: Pharmacopeia Obscura: The August Doctor’s Notes. Genre: "We seek stories of speculative medicine: ancient treatments with unforeseen side effects, sentient diseases, experimental therapies, uncanny medical devices, or practitioners whose ethics and methods straddle the line between genius and madness. Think: surgical sorcery, pharmaceutical horror, future bioware, medieval apothecaries with secrets, or cosmic parasites only the Doctor understands. Tone can range from dark and eerie to surreal and satirical—but all submissions should have an edge of the uncanny. We are not looking for stories with excessive gore." Payment: $5 USD per 1000 words. Open until filled.

Jay Henge: Masque & Maelström: The Reluctant Exhumation of Edgar Allan Poe. Genre: "We invite writers to submit their best speculative fiction stories for an upcoming anthology inspired by the master of macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. We’re seeking tales that capture the essence of Poe’s work—be it eerie atmospheres, twisted psychological depths, or hauntingly gothic settings—while adding your own speculative twist. Whether infused with science fiction, fantasy, horror, or an unexpected blend of genres, your stories should explore the dark and the mysterious through new lenses. Let your imagination run wild and honor Poe’s legacy with chilling tales that resonate with his timeless themes. Send us your stories!" Payment: $5 USD per 1000 words. Open until filled.

Jay Henge: Professor Feiff's Trans-Dimensional Travelogue. Genre: "Pack your bags and fasten your seatbelts—Professor Feiff is curating an extraordinary holiday guide like no other! We’re seeking speculative fiction tales that explore the idea of travel and vacations to places tantalizingly close to our own reality, yet thrillingly removed. Whether it’s a weekend getaway to a parallel dimension, a guided tour through time itself, or a quiet retreat to a world hiding just beyond the veil of perception, your story should evoke the wonder, curiosity, and occasional peril of holidays beyond the mundane. Send us your (SFF+) tickets to astonishing locales!" Payment: $5 USD per 1000 words. Open until filled.

The Forge Literary Magazine. Genre: Prose. They prefer stories under 3,000 words but will consider up to 5,000 words. Payment: $100. Deadline: Free submissions open on the 1st of each month and close when cap is reached.

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. Open from the 1st to the 10th of every month.

Frontier Poetry: New Voices. Restrictions: Submissions are open to new and emerging poets only (no more than one full-length published work forthcoming at the time of submission. Genre: Poetry. Payment: $50.

The Thing With Feathers: speculative stories of hope. Genre: A speculative anthology of hopeful stories – with feathers! They can be stories about birds, other creatures, aliens, constructs, humans, etc., but with some kind of feather element – whether natural or artificial. Payment: Original stories will be paid at a rate of $.01/word. Reprints will be paid a flat rate of $20/story. Deadline: Spring 2025.

Bad Day Book. Genre: Poetry and prose. See site for themes. Payment: $40 - $75, depending on length.

THIS EXQUISITE TOPOLOGY. Genre: Slipstream, speculative—science fiction, horror, fantasy, weird— and fabulist pieces exploring the radiance, awe, and exuberant thrall of “This Exquisite Topology” in short stories (1k-6k), flash fiction (~500-1k), or poetry (no line limit). Payment: $10 per poem and $25 per short story or flash (paid via PayPal). Open until filled.

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.

Another Jane Pratt Thing. Genre: "It Happened to Me" Your Turn. What Happened to You, Sweetie?

We want to hear your stories, no matter how mundane, no matter how unhinged. Payment: $50.

Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction Series. Restrictions: Authors must be Canadian citizens, permanent residents, or ex-pats. Genre: Fantasy and science fiction published in the previous year. Payment: 1 cent (0.01 CAD) per word for non-exclusive world English language reprint rights for fiction. Poetry will receive a $10 CAD reprint fee.

Dark Moments Monthly Challenge. Genre: Dark fiction drabble (exactly 100 words). See theme. Payment: 4 cents/word. Monthly call.

Cellar Door: Phantom Worlds. Genre: Horror stories featuring nightmarish dreamscapes and alternate worlds/realities merging with our own. Payment: $50. Open until filled.

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. Open the first seven days of every month.

Seven Story Hotel. Genre: Interviews, essays, stories, poems, and artwork. 7SH explores the weird, esoteric, and outsider fringes of contemporary culture, art, and technology. Payment: $45. Open until filled.

JUNE 2025

The Temz Review. Genre: Prose (fiction and creative non-fiction) up to 10,000 words long. Payment: $20. Deadline: Opens June 1, 2025.

The Forge Literary Magazine. Genre: Prose. They prefer stories under 3,000 words but will consider up to 5,000 words. Payment: $100. Deadline: Opens June 1, 2025. Free submissions open on the 1st of each month and close when cap is reached.

The Paris Review. Genres: Prose. Payment: Not specified. Deadline: Opens June 1, 2025, and closes when they reach capacity.

Okay Donkey. Genre: One flash fiction OR one poem per author, per submission period. See website for details. Payment: $20. Deadline: Opens June 1, 2025 and closes when cap is reached.

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

The Offing. Genre: CNF: Insight. Payment: $25 - $100. Deadline: June 1, 2025.

Behind the Revolving Door: An Anthology of Choices. Genre: All genres. "This anthology will be a collection of stories that take the reader on a journey with the author’s protagonist as they go through a trial and are forced to take an action, to make a choice." Payment: 1 cent per word for original stories or a flat $10 for reprints. Deadline: June 1, 2025. Accepts reprints.

Breath and Shadow. Genre: 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 :The pay scale is $30 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. Deadline: June 1, 2025

It Takes a Village Anthology. Restrictions: Open to Canadian writers/authors only, with some preference for writers from British Columbia. Genre: Poems, flash fiction, short stories, science fiction, fantasy, romance, literary, contemporary, and more. Theme: Community. Payment: $5 for poetry sets (up to 5 pages); $10 for flash fiction (up to 1000 words); $25 for fiction stories up to 5000 words +$2/1000 words for over 5000 for fictions stories up to 10,000 words. Deadline: June 1, 2025.

IHRAM Publishes. Genre: Poetry, fiction, esssays, art. Theme: Invisible Chains: Contemporary Slavery and Forced Migration. Payment: $50 for writing, $25 for art. Deadline: June 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: June 1, 2025.

Eerie River. Restrictions: Open to underrepresented Canadian authors. Genre: Novels or novellas in the genres of dark fiction, dark romance, horror romance, or horror, Payment: Royalties. Deadline: June 1, 2025.

Green Writers Press is an independent, Vermont-based publishing company dedicated to spreading environmental awareness and social justice by publishing authors who promulgate messages of hope and renewal through place-based writing and environmental activism. Genre: Adult/juvenile fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: June 1, 2025.

Eternal Haunted Summer. Genre: Poetry, short fiction. Theme: Music. Payment: $5. Deadline: June 1, 2025.

The Big Issue. Restrictions: Open to Australians. Genre: Fiction. Payment: $500. Deadline: June 2, 2025.

Affirm Press accepts all literary and genre fiction. For non-fiction, they are interested in most subjects that have an author or authors based in Australia, and only manuscripts that haven’t been previously published. They only accept submissions on the first Monday of each month and twice yearly on their children’s & teen list. Read their submission guidelines here. They only accept Australians. Deadline: June 2, 2025.

Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores. Genre: Speculative stories. Payment: 8 cents/word for original work. 2 cents/word for reprints. Deadline: June 2, 2025. Opens June 1.

Stone's Throw. Genre: Noir, dark fiction, crime short stories. Length: between 1,000 and 2,000 words. See theme. Payment: $25. Deadline: June 4, 2025. Note: This is a monthly call.

Strange Horizons. Genre: Speculative fiction novelettes. Payment: 10 cents/word. Deadline: Opens June 4, 2025. Closes when cap is reached.

The Fabulist. Genre: Fantastical flash fiction. Payment: $100. Deadline: June 4, 2025. Opens June 3.

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: June 7, 2025.

Talk Vomit. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry. Theme: The uncanny. Payment: Fiction and nonfiction - $10-30; poetry - $5-15. Deadline: June 7, 2025.

Mslexia. Restrictions: Open to women. Genre: Fiction poetry, nonfiction. See theme. Payment: £30. Deadline: June 9, 2025.

Encounters With Cryptids Anthology. Genre: Horror stories about cryptids. Payment: 3 cents/word. Deadline: June 9, 2025.

Samjoko Magazine. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, play, screenplay. Payment: $20. Deadline: June 10, 2025.

Inkd Publishing: Beyond. Genre: Science Fiction. Word Limit: 2,000 to 8,000 words. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: June 10, 2025.

Vellum Mortis. Genre: Horror. Length: 1000 words max. See theme. Payment: $5. Deadline: June 10, 2025.

Thread Litmag: Numerical. Genre: Micro fiction and poetry. See theme. Payment: $85. Deadline: June 13, 2025.

Philly Poetry Chapbook Review. Genre: Poetry. Payment: $10. Deadline: June 14, 2025. Reprints accepted.

Poetry Magazine. Genre: Poetry. Payment: For text poems, $10/line with a minimum honorarium of $300 per poem. For visual poems, audio poems, and video poems, $300 per poem. If a piece is published in multiple formats, such as print and video, payment is made for each format. For prose, $150 per published page. Deadline: June 14, 2025.

Plott Hound. Genre: Speculative fiction starring animals. Payment: 8 cents/word. Deadline: June 15, 2025.

The Savage Waves of Spring. Genre: Noir/neo-noir stories that take place in a beach locale (ocean, lake, river, etc). Payment: $50. Deadline: June 15, 2025.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Stories About Pets. Genre: "From backyard to barnyard; from couch to coop; from aquatic to aerial; from indoor to outdoor; from fins to fur to feathers - we want to hear about all your pets." Payment: $200. Deadline: June 15, 2025.

Baffling. Genre: Speculative flash fiction. Length: Under 1200 words. See themes. Payment: 8 cents/word. Deadline: June 15, 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: June 15, 2025.

Yellow Arrow Vignette. Restrictions: Open to people who identify as women and live or have lived in the Baltimore area. Genre: Creative nonfiction, poetry (including spoken-word poetry), and cover art. Payment: $10. Deadline: June 15, 2025.

Propagule. Genre: Short stories that are intrepid with regard to experimentation and oddity; the strange, the surreal, the atypical, the unexpected. Payment: $30 (max). Deadline: June 15, 2025.

Bull City Press. Genre: Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction Chapbooks. Payment: Royalties (?) Deadline: June 15, 2025.

100-Foot Crow. Genre: Speculative fiction drabbles. Payment: 8 cents/word. Deadline: June 15, 2025.

The Necronomicon of Sherlock Holmes. Genre: Sherlock Holmes stories. Payment: $125. Deadline: June 15, 2025.

Kopi Break. Restrictions: Open to those affiliated with Singapore and the Singaporean diaspora. Genre: Poetry. Payment: $10. Deadline: June 15, 2025.

Quarter Press: Quarter(ly). Genre: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art. See themes. Payment: $5. Deadline: June 15, 2025. Closes when cap is reached.

The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. Genre: Fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, mixed media, visual arts, "and even kitchen sinks, if they are compressed in some way.” Payment: $50. Deadline: June 15, 2025.

Eye to the Telescope. Genre: Speculative poetry. See theme. Payment: $0.04/word, up to $25. Deadline: June 15, 2025.

Grain Magazine. Genre: Fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry. Payment: CAD50/page up to CAD250 for writing, up to CAD500 for art. Deadline: June 15, 2025.

IHRAM Press: Today’s Pressured Youth: What Will They Say? Genre: "We invite submissions that amplify the voices of young people—firsthand accounts from youths, reflections on the author’s personal experiences, stories of resilience, and perspectives on isolation or societal pressures." Payment: $50. Deadline: June 20, 2025. (Deadline extended.)

Memezine: Kakistocracy. Genre: "Bring us words SO FIRE they can melt 🧊 and burn a T€SLA. Be funny, be serious, but most of all, be urgent about it." (See theme) Payment: approx $20. Deadline: June 21, 2025.

Shooter. Genre: Fiction, poetry, CNF, art on theme of Sweet Hereafter. Payment: £25 per story and £5 per poem. Deadline: June 22, 2025.

Griffith Review. Genre: Nonfiction. See theme. Payment: Up to $500. Deadline: June 22, 2025.

Stygian Lepus Magazine. Genre: Dark speculative fiction. Payment: $5. Deadline: June 25, 2025.

JMS Books. Genre: LGBTQ romance stories, 12,000 words minimum. See theme. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Infernal Museum: Galactic Mindsea Empire – Bioids. Genre: Speculative stories set in the Galactic Mindsea Empire. See website. Payment: 4 cents/word. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

The Rialto. Genre: Poetry. Payment: £20. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Smokelong. Genre: Flash narrative up to 1000 words. They are looking for prose that is troubling, that explores our darkest fears. Payment: $100/$150 with audio, upon publication. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

BP Review: Genre: Writing on the theme of "Excess." Payment: $100. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Harbor Editions: Hybrid Chapbook Reading Period. Genre: Hybrid chapbook. Chapbooks should be around 20-50 pages. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: June 30, 2025. No submission fee for BIPOC writers.

Chestnut Review. Genre: Poetry, flash fiction, short fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, visual media (art/photography). Payment: $120. Deadline: June 30, 2025. Submit early in the month to avoid submission fee.

The Hudson Review. Genre: Poetry. Payment: Not specified. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

105 Meadowlark Reader. Restrictions: You must be a Kansas resident or have lived in Kansas at some point in your life. Genre: True stories about Kansas written by Kansans. Payment: $10. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Codhill Press. Genre: Poetry manuscript. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Midnight & Indigo. Restrictions: Open to black women. Genre: Fiction, personal essays. Payment: 7 cents/word for fiction, $100 for essays. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Unicorn Press. Genre: Poetry collections. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Something Old, Something New. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: $10 - $20. Deadline: June 30, 2025. Accepts reprints.

Inanna Publications. Genre: Full-length fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction and essays on ideas, society, politics, culture and the arts that speak to the diverse lives of women around the world. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Dracula Beyond Stoker. Genre: Fiction based on Stoker’s characters. See theme. Payment: 5 cents/word. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Hellbound Books. Genre: Pandemic horror. Payment: $5. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Hellbound Books. Genre: Extreme horror. Payment: $5. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Hellbound Books. Genre: Campfire stories. Payment: $5. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Lucky Jeffer son. Restrictions: Open to Latin/Latin-American Writers and Artists. Genre: Poetry, prose, art on theme: Estallido. Payment: $15 - $25. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Lucky Jefferson. Genre: Poetry, prose, art on theme: Fissure. Payment: $15 - $25. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Neon Hemlock. Restrictions: Open to trans women and writers of color. Genre: Speculative fiction novellas. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Off Topic: Trans and Genderqueer Voices Anthology. Restrictions: The work must be written by a trans/genderqueer person or people. Genre: Poems, flash fiction, short stories, creative nonfiction, essays, and unclassified other writing of any style and theme. Payment: $20CAD. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Redacted. Genre: Personal essay related to your personal experience with divorce. Length: Up to 3000 words. Payment: $125. Deadline: June, 30, 2025.

Kozy Krampus. Genre: Cosmic horror. See theme. Payment: $0.01/word. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Hope in A Grimdark World. Genre: Science fiction. All stories should have a message of hope whilst surrounded by darkness. Payment: $50. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Zombies Need Brains: SKULL X BONES. Genre: Science fiction, fantasy, or urban fantasy stories where the story revolves around pirates. Payment: 8 cents/word. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Anvil Press. Restrictions: Open to writers living in Canada. Genres: Full-length books per year in the following genres:
• literary fiction (short story collections, novels, uncategorizable prose)
• creative nonfiction
• memoir
• essay collections
• poetry
• books about Vancouver history (preferably off-beat or little-known history)
Read submission guidelines here. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Dragon Soul Press: Spells and Fangs. Genre: All stories featuring witches and vampires are welcome. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

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

Saturday Mourning Television. Genre: Short horror fiction inspired by early morning kids' TV. Payment: $35. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

foofaraw zine. Genre: Speculative and literary fiction. Payment: Fiction: $0.01 per word. Poetry: $5.00. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

SpecPoVerse. Genre: Speculative poetry. Payment: $5. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Allegory. Genre: Speculative Fiction and nonfiction. Payment: $15. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Black Hare Press. Genre: Dark stories, in any genre. Payment: 5,000 to 10,000 words – $20 USD, 10,000 to 17,000 words– $30 USD.. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Hub City Press. Genre: Books of literary fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, regional nonfiction, nature, and art. "We are seeking new and extraordinary voices from the American South." Payment: Royalties. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Off Topic Publishing. Restrictions: The work must be written by a trans/genderqueer person. Collaborative work is okay. Genre: Poems, flash fiction, short stories, creative nonfiction, essays, and unclassified other writing of any style and theme. Payment: $20 CAD. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Rebel Satori Press. Genre: Book-length nonfiction on the occult and esoterica. LGBTQIA+ fiction. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Inkd Publishing: Yay! all queer II. Genre: All genres. LGBTQ+ characters must have a central position within the story. Word Limit: 2,000 to 6,000 words. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

The Offing. Genre: Micro. Ten- to 560-character (including spaces) works in any genre. Payment: $25 - $100. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

The Fantastic Other. Genre: Fiction, flash fiction, poetry, art on theme: Storm. Payment: $5. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

Inked in Gray: Stellar Parallax – Human Hope In Grimdark Worlds. Genre: Gritty sci-fi. Payment: $50. Deadline: June 30, 2025.

New Orleans Review. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Payment: $300 for prose, $100 for poetry. Deadline: June 30, 2025. In celebration of Pride, there are no submission fees for LGBTQIA2+ writers in June. We are especially interested in trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming voices.

JULY

Thema. Genre: Fiction, poetry, and art on theme: I Wish I'd Said That. Payment: $10-$25 for short fiction and artwork, $10 for poetry. Deadline: July 1, 2025. Accepts reprints.

Okay Donkey. Genre: One flash fiction OR one poem per author, per submission period. See website for details. Payment: $20. Deadline: Opens July 1, 2025 and closes when cap is reached.

Headland. Genre: Short fiction and creative nonfiction. Payment: $50. Deadline: July 1, 2025

IHRAM Press: America's Slide Toward Authoritarianism Genre: Fiction, essays, poetry, art. "It is clear that the American political class has all the tensile strength of tissue paper in a summer storm, and that our court system is porous, offering a weak and possibly irrelevant backstop to what was once the strongest democracy in the world. So, as in all authoritarian states, it is left to the artists and creators to hold the line, to stand up for what is right and just, and to safeguard the republic. Only the creators have the courage to resist." Payment: $50. Deadline: July 1, 2025.

It Came from the Trailer Park. Genre: Horror/Comedy. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: July 1, 2025.

Phi Kappa Phi Forum. Genre: Poetry. See theme. Payment: $4/ line. Deadline: July 2, 2025.

The Fabulist. Genre: Fantastical flash fiction. Payment: $100. Deadline: July 2, 2025. Opens June 1.

Stone's Throw. Genre: Noir, dark fiction, crime short stories. Length: between 1,000 and 2,000 words. See theme. Payment: $25. Deadline: July 4, 2025. Note: This is a monthly call.

Cosmic Horror Monthly. Genre: Weird and cosmic fiction under 5,000 words. Payment: 3 cents (USD) per word. Deadline: July 7, 2025.

Vellum Mortis. Genre: Horror. Length: 1000 words max. See theme. Payment: $5. Deadline: July 10, 2025.

The Book of Jobs: An Anthology of Poems About Work. Genre: Poems about work. Payment: $10. Deadline: July 12, 2025.

Hexagon. Genre: Speculative fiction short stories, flash fiction, poetry, graphic stories, and visual art, in English or French. 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: July 7, 2025. Open to submissions the first week of every second month.

Diet Milk. Genre: Gothic fiction, art and poetry. See theme. Payment: ?. Deadline: July 8, 2025.

Solarpunk Magazine. Genre: Solarpunk. 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, 2025.

Cast of Wonders. Genre: YA Speculative fiction. Podcast. See themes. Payment: $.08/word for original fiction up to 6,000 words. For reprints, a $100 flat rate for Short Fiction, and a $20 flat rate for Flash Fiction. Deadline: July 14, 2025.

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, 2025.

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, 2025.

The Margins: Imagined Histories: A Folio for The Margins. Restrictions: Open to Asian American and diasporic poets. Genre: Poems (ghazals, free verse, sonnets, prose poems, hybrid forms, all styles welcome) or visual art (think photo essays, maps, collages, drawings). Experimental and hybrid works are welcome as are traditional forms. Payment: $50 to $90 (USD) for original and translated poetry; the fee varies based on the number and length of poems. Deadline: July 15, 2025.

Humans and Nature Press. Genre: Nonfiction, poetry, art. "We accept essays, book reviews, poems, and artwork, including comic art. Our readership is interested in discussions that bear, directly or indirectly, on the areas of conservation, evolutionary biology and ecology, environmental ethics, environmental philosophy, law, and policy, and the environmental humanities." Payment: $500. Deadline: July 15, 2025.

Electric Spec. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: $20 per piece. Deadline: July 15, 2025.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers. Genre: Nonfiction. We view this book as a wonderful gift for grandmothers of all ages. And what makes this topic so much fun is that the moment a grandchild is born, a grandmother is born too! And what an amazing experience it is. Everyone has a great story about the unconditional love between grandmothers and their grandchildren. We are looking for heartwarming, insightful, and humorous stories celebrating grandmothers. Payment: $200. Deadline: July 15, 2025.

Slugger. Genre: Horror. Payment: $25. Deadline: July 15, 2025.

Havok. Genre: Flash fiction. See themes. Payment: $50 via PayPal for each story selected for an Anthology. No payment for online publication. Deadline: July 18, 2025.

Astrolabe. Genre: Fiction, creative nonfiction, and photography & art. Payment: $50. Deadline: July 20, 2025.

Seaside Gothic. Genre: Seaside gothic fiction, poetry, nonfiction, or a collection of photographs or illustrations. Payment: £0.01 per word. Deadline: July 20, 2025.

Mythaxis. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: €0.01 per word, with a €20 minimum. Deadline: July 30, 2025.

Spoon Knife. Genre: Short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. See theme. Payment: $30. Deadline: July 31, 2025.

Worldsmyths: Dark Fantasy Short Stories. Genre: Dark Fantasy Short Stories. Payment: $25. Deadline: July 31, 2025.

THREE COUSINS PUBLISHING: Family, Fae, Fiend, Friend, and Foe. Genre: Speculative stories featuring a family with at least one type of supernatural family member. Payment: $10. Deadline: July 31, 2025.

Gaudy Boy. Restrictions: Authors of Asian heritage residing anywhere in the world. Genre: Full-length poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Payment: Advance of USD1,500. Deadline: July 31, 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. Payment: 10 cents/word for fiction, and $100- $400 for art. Deadline: July 31, 2025.

Dragon Soul Press: Terror Reigns. Genre: All horror stories are welcome. All genres accepted. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: July 31, 2025.

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, 2025.

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: $77. Deadline: July 31, 2025.

Clare Songbirds. Genre: Full-length poetry collections. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: July 31, 2025.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles, messages from heaven, angels. Genre: True stories about miracles, angels, messages from heaven, premonitions, amazing coincidences and other unexplainable but good events! Payment: $200. Deadline: July 31, 2025.

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, 2025.

Flash Fiction Online. Genre: Speculative flash fiction. Payment: $100. Deadline: July 31, 2025.

Gwyllion. Restrictions: Writers living in Wales and writers who identify (fully, in part, or by ancestry) as Welsh. Genre: Speculative fiction and poetry. Welsh themes. Payment: £15 per accepted story or poem. Deadline: July 31, 2025.

JMS Books. Genre: LGBTQ romance stories, 12,000 words minimum. See theme. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: July 31, 2025.

Inkd Publishing: Cthulu: Dreams. Genre: Horror. Incorporate the Lovecraftian theme as you will into your horror story. Word Limit: 2,000 to 7,000 words. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: July 31, 2025.

Taco Bell Quarterly. Genre: Short stories, non-fiction, prose, essays, poetry, art, comics, flash, films, "undefinable auras, experiments, and completely ordinary shit." "We are looking for innovative ways to lower the bar. We are looking for ways to degrade ourselves with flair. We are looking for universes that could be extremely traumatizing if the writers weren’t cowards. We are looking for ways to address the nightmares more directly." Payment: $150. Deadline: July 31, 2025. (Closes when cap is reached so submit early.)

Space and 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 31, 2025.

AUGUST

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, 2025.

Fearmoji: Queer Emoji Horror. Genre: Adult queer horror. Word Count: 4000–7500. See theme. Payment: $25. Deadline: August 1, 2025.

Burial Books: Science Fiction Short Stories. Genre: Science fiction short stories between 2000 and 8,000 words in length. Payment: $10. Deadline: August 1, 2025.

Burial Books: Sword and Sorcery Short Stories. Genre: Sword and sorcery fantasy short stories between 2000 and 8,000 words in length. Payment: $10. Deadline: August 1, 2025.

Howdy Dude. Genre: Western stories between 2,000 and 8,000 words. Payment: $10. Deadline: August 1, 2025.

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

Stone's Throw. Genre: Noir, dark fiction, crime short stories. Length: between 1,000 and 2,000 words. See theme. Payment: $25. Deadline: August 4, 2025. Note: This is a monthly call.

Abyss and Apex. Genre: Speculative fiction. No horror. Payment: USD $.08/word (eight cents a word) up to 1,000 words, and a flat payment of $80.00 for longer stories. Deadline: August 7, 2025.

Vellum Mortis. Genre: Horror. Length: 1000 words max. See theme. Payment: $5. Deadline: August 10, 2025.

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

Smokelong. Genre: "“Dark Fantasy and Psychological Thriller” Payment: $300. Deadline: August 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: August 15, 2025. Accepts reprints.

Lonely Cryptid: Trans/Port: Trans Speculative Fiction for a Queer Future. Genre: Speculative fiction. "The title of this anthology is intentionally open to interpretation. Give us trans like transporting, transforming, translating, transmitting, transcendental, transistor (radio? Sure!), and of course transgender! Give us port like any port in a storm, jacking in, porting software, and like we’ve opened a portal to another (better?) world!" Payment: 1 cent/word. Deadline: August 1 - August 15, 2025 priority window for folks historically marginalized or excluded from the publishing world due to race, gender, sexual orientation, country of origin, class, or other structural inequity.

The Fairy Tale Magazine. Genre: Fairy-tale inspired stories/poems. See theme. Payment: $25. Deadline: August 21, 2025.

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: August 21, 2025. Accepts reprints.

Farmer-ish. Genre: Nonfiction, CNF, poetry related to farming (including recipes). Payment: $25 for print journal. Deadline: August 22, 2025. See themes.

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: August 30, 2025.

Orion's Belt. Genre: Speculative fiction, poetry, art. Length: 1200 words max. Payment: 8 cents per word. Deadline: August 31, 2025.

Time After Time. Genre: Mystery short stories set in specific historical eras. Payment: $25. Deadline: August 31, 2025.

Hellbound Books: Road Trip Terror. Genre: HellBound Books is seeking short horror stories for an anthology on the theme of bad trips. Payment: $15. Deadline: Deadline: August 31, 2025.

Broken Sleep Books. Genre: Non-fiction prose pamphets (up to 150 pages). Payment: Royalties. Deadline: August 31, 2025.

Dragon Soul Press: Poisons and Potions. Genre: All horror stories are welcome. All genres accepted. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: August 31, 2025.

Haven Speculative. Genre: Speculative fiction and poetry. Payment: 8¢ per word for fiction and $20 for poetry. Deadline: August 31, 2025.

Cast of Wonders. Restrictions: Open to young authors. Genre: YA Speculative fiction. Podcast. See themes. Payment: $.08/word for original fiction up to 6,000 words. For reprints, a $100 flat rate for Short Fiction, and a $20 flat rate for Flash Fiction. Deadline: August 31, 2025.

After Happy Hour. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, comics. Payment: $2.50 per printed page, with a minimum of $15 and a maximum of $50, on publication ($25 for the cover artist). Deadline: August 31, 2025. Free submissions are capped at 300, so submit early.

JMS Books. Genre: LGBTQ romance stories, 12,000 words minimum. See theme. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: August 31, 2025.

Bannister Press: Other Anthology series. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: $0.08 CAD per word. Deadline: August 31, 2025.

Heartlines Spec. Restrictions: "Since Heartlines Spec is primarily a Canadian magazine, we're looking to feature writers identifying as being from Canada/Turtle Island. This includes expats, new immigrants, and people who refuse/resist Canadian Identity. Our goal for each issue is to publish at least 50% Canadian content." Genre: Short fiction and poetry focused on long-term relationships: platonic, romantic, or familial. "We want stories and poetry with strong, confident relationships amid all the sci-fi/fantasy. We are especially interested in stories featuring queer platonic relationships, ace/aro love stories, and polycules." Payment: $0.08 CAD per word for short fiction and $80 CAD flat for poetry. Deadline: Early submission period for equity-deserving groups August 24-31.

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: August 31, 2025. Closes when they reach capacity, so submit early.

SEPTEMBER

IHRAM Publishes. Genre: Poetry, fiction, esssays, art. Theme: Enduring Voices: Life with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses. Payment: $50 for writing, $25 for art. Deadline: September 1, 2025.

Red Wolf Editions. Genre: Poems on theme: “Recovering Greenness.” Payment: Royalties? Deadline: September 1, 2025. (?)

Toronto Journal. Genre: Short stories from anywhere in the world. No word limit. "We will also consider non-fiction pieces that are either set locally or explore some local history (Toronto, GTA, and surrounding)." Payment: $50 CAD per piece. All published writers will also receive two printed copies of the issue in which they appear. Deadline: September 1, 2025.

Phi Kappa Phi Forum. Genre: Poetry. See theme. Payment: $4/ line. Deadline: September 2, 2025.

Throw. Genre: Noir, dark fiction, crime short stories. Length: between 1,000 and 2,000 words. See theme. Payment: $25. Deadline: September 4, 2025. Note: This is a monthly call.

Hexagon. Genre: Speculative fiction short stories, flash fiction, poetry, graphic stories, and visual art, in English or French. 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: September 7, 2025. Open to submissions the first week of every second month.

Samjoko Magazine. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, play, screenplay. Payment: $20. Deadline: September 10, 2025.

Vellum Mortis. Genre: Horror. Length: 1000 words max. See theme. Payment: $5. Deadline: September 10, 2025.

Quarter Press: Quarter(ly). Genre: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art. See themes. Payment: $5. Deadline: September 14, 2025. Closes when cap is reached.

Tin House. Genre: Debut Short Story Collections. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: September14, 2025. Opens September 13.

Plott Hound. Genre: Speculative fiction starring animals. Payment: 8 cents/word. Deadline: September 15, 2025.

Three-Lobed Burning Eye. Genre: Horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Payment: $0.08/word. Deadline: September 16, 2025.

Havok. Genre: Flash fiction. See themes. Payment: $50 via PayPal for each story selected for an Anthology. No payment for online publication. Deadline: September 19, 2025.

Reckoning. Genre: Art, poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction up to 15,000 words in length. See theme. Payment: 10 cents per word (US) for prose, $50 per page for poetry and art. Deadline: September 22, 2025.

Story Unlikely. Genre: Fiction and nonfiction up to 10,000 words. Payment: 8 cents a word for stories up to 2,500 words. Stories longer than this are capped at $200 payment. $75 max for reprints. Deadline: September 29, 2025. Accepts reprints.

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: September 30, 2025. Closes when they reach capacity, so submit early.

JMS Books. Genre: LGBTQ romance stories, 12,000 words minimum. See theme. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: September 30, 2025.

Freefall. Restrictions: Open to Candians. Genre: Short story and novel excerpts; non-fiction, writing-related or general-audience topics; creative non-fiction; plays; and postcard stories. Payment: $10 per page in the magazine (to a maximum of $100) and one copy of the issue your piece is published in. Deadline: September 30, 2025.

Thalia Press: Cat Anthology. Genre: Stories that feature cats. Payment: $25. Deadline: September 30, 2025.

Chestnut Review. Genre: Poetry, flash fiction, short fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, visual media (art/photography). Payment: $120. Deadline: September 30, 2025. Submit early in the month to avoid submission fee.

Aurealis. Restrictions: Australian and New Zealand writers. Genre: Science fiction, fantasy or horror short stories between 2000 and 8000 words. Payment: A$20 and A$60 per 1000 words. Deadline: September 30, 2025.

Black Hare Press. Genre: Dark stories, in any genre. Payment: 5,000 to 10,000 words – $20 USD, 10,000 to 17,000 words– $30 USD. Deadline: September 30, 2025.

Home Constellations. Genre: Speculative fiction. Theme: Stories about the future which feature non-traditional families. Payment: Prose and poetry: 5$ + 1c/word over 500 (up to 5k) words + .2c/word over 5k words. Graphic Narrative Fiction: 5$/page. Cover Illustration: $100. Deadline: September 30, 2025. Reprints accepted.

Dragon Soul Press: Holiday Spirit. Genre: All Christmas-themed stories are welcome. All genres accepted. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: September 30, 2025.

OCTOBER

IHRAM Press: Art, Action, Impact: Voices of 21st-century Activism Genre: "This anthology will explore interventions that have sparked widespread change, highlighting protests and acts of resistance expressed through art, storytelling, and personal activism." Payment: $50. Deadline: October 1, 2025.

Stone's Throw. Genre: Noir, dark fiction, crime short stories. Length: between 1,000 and 2,000 words. See theme. Payment: $25. Deadline: October 4, 2025. Note: This is a monthly call.

Translunar Travelers Lounge. Restrictions: October 15 - 21 is reserved for writers of color. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: $0.03 per word with a minimum of $20. Deadline: October 15, 2025.

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, 2025.

New Orleans Review. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Payment: $300 for prose, $100 for poetry. Deadline: October 15, 2025. In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, there are no submission fees for Latinx writers from September 15th to October 15th.

Rattle: Rebels. Genre: Poetry. "Our Spring 2026 issue will be dedicated to literary rebels—those poets who run counter to the literary mainstream." Payment: $100. Deadline: October 15, 2025.

Electric Spec. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: $20 per piece. Deadline: Ocober 15, 2025.

Seaside Gothic. Genre: Seaside gothic fiction, poetry, nonfiction, or a collection of photographs or illustrations. Payment: £0.01 per word. Deadline: October 19, 2025.

Mythaxis. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: €0.01 per word, with a €20 minimum. Deadline: October 30, 2025.

Neon Hemlock. Genre: Speculative fiction novellas. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 30, 2025.

JMS Books. Genre: LGBTQ romance stories, 12,000 words minimum. See theme. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 31, 2025.

Walpurgis Witcheries Anthology. Genre: Sword and sorcery. Length: Between 4,000 and 8,000 words. Payment: 1 cent/word. Deadline: October 31, 2025.

AfriCANthology II: Strange Truth of Black Canadian Fiction. Restrictions: Open to writers who live in Canada or are Canadian citizens living outside the country who self-identify as Black. Genre: Short stories (2,500 to 4,000 words) in any genre of fiction that honour the anthology’s themes and relate to the Black experience in Canada. Payment: $200 CAD. Deadline: October 31, 2025.

Black Lawrence 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, 2025.

Olit. Restrictions: Strong preference for Orlando based writers/submissions about Orlando and surrounding areas. Genre: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Hybrid, Artwork, Photography. "Send us all kinds of stuff. We love the artfully weird." Payment: $10. Deadline: October 31, 2025.

Dragon Soul Press: FIRE & ASH. Genre: All dragon-themed stories. All genres accepted. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 31, 2025.

Haven Speculative. Genre: Speculative fiction and poetry. Payment: 8¢ per word for fiction and $20 for poetry. Deadline: October 31, 2025.

Wildhouse Publishing. Genre: Full-length poetry collection. "Wildhouse Publishing curates books for unconventional people with adventurous spirituality." Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 31, 2025.

Midnight Meadow Publishing's goal is to publish engaging and unique LGBTQ+ stories while elevating marginalized voices. They are interested in a wide variety of genres. Read submission guidelines HERE. Deadline: October 31, 2025.

Flash Fiction Online. Genre: Speculative flash fiction. Payment: $100. Deadline: October 31, 2025.

Glass Poetry Press. Genre: Poetry chapbooks. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 31, 2025.

Phoenix Poets Series: University of Chicago Press. Genre: Full-length poetry manuscripts. Payment: Royalties. Read full guidelines HERE. Deadline: October 31, 2025.

SpecPoVerse. Genre: Speculative poetry. Payment: $5. Deadline: October 31, 2025.

NOVEMBER

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

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.

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.

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 4, 2025. Note: This is a monthly call.

Hexagon. Genre: Speculative fiction short stories, flash fiction, poetry, graphic stories, and visual art, in English or French. 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: November 7, 2025. Open to submissions the first week of every second month.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

DECEMBER

Eternal Haunted Summer. Genre: Poetry, short fiction. See theme. Payment: $5. 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.

Stone's Throw. Genre: Noir, dark fiction, crime short stories. Length: between 1,000 and 2,000 words. See theme. Payment: $25. Deadline: December 4, 2025. Note: This is a monthly call.

Plott Hound. Genre: Speculative fiction starring animals. Payment: 8 cents/word. Deadline: December 15, 2025.

The Aesthete. Genre: Short stories, flash fiction, poetry. Payment: $5. Deadline: December 21, 2025.

foofaraw zine. Genre: Speculative and literary fiction. Payment: Fiction: $0.01 per word. Poetry: $5.00. Deadline: December 31, 2025.

Haven Speculative. Genre: Speculative fiction and poetry. Payment: 8¢ per word for fiction and $20 for poetry. Deadline: December 31, 2025.

Allegory. Genre: Speculative Fiction and nonfiction. Payment: $15. Deadline: December 31, 2025.

Black Hare Press. Genre: Dark stories, in any genre. Payment: 5,000 to 10,000 words – $20 USD, 10,000 to 17,000 words– $30 USD.. Deadline: December 31, 2025.

Howdy Dude. Genre: Western and crime novels. Payment: Royalities. Deadline: December 31, 2025.

Dragon Soul Press: Fallen in Love. Genre: All romantic stories involving angels, nephilim, etc. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: December 31, 2025.

Dragon Soul Press: Curse of the Sword. Genre: All fairytale retellings. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: December 31, 2025.

Variant Lit. Genre: Poetry, fiction, flash fiction, art. Payment: $10. Deadline: December 31, 2025.

Chestnut Review. Genre: Poetry, flash fiction, short fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, visual media (art/photography). Payment: $120. Deadline: December 31, 2025. Submit early in the month to avoid submission fee.

JANUARY

After Happy Hour. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, comics. Payment: $2.50 per printed page, with a minimum of $15 and a maximum of $50, on publication ($25 for the cover artist). Deadline: January 31, 2026. Free submissions are capped at 300, so submit early.

FEBRUARY

New Orleans Review. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Payment: $300 for prose, $100 for poetry. Deadline: February 28, 2026. In celebration of Black History Month, there are no submission fees for Black writers for the month of February.

MARCH 2026

foofaraw anthology. Genre: Speculative and literary fiction. See theme. Payment: Fiction: $0.01 per word. Poetry: $5.00. Deadline: March 31, 2026.

The Hudson Review. Genre: Nonfiction. Payment: Not specified. Deadline: March 31, 2026.

New Orleans Review. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Payment: $300 for prose, $100 for poetry. Deadline: March 31, 2026. In celebration of Disability Awareness Month, there are no submission fees for writers living with both visible and invisible disabilities for the month of March.

JUNE 2026

Eternal Haunted Summer. Genre: Poetry, short fiction. See themes. Payment: $5. Deadline: June 1, 2026.

foofaraw zine. Genre: Speculative and literary fiction. Payment: Fiction: $0.01 per word. Poetry: $5.00. Deadline: June 30, 2026.

foofaraw anthology. Genre: Speculative and literary fiction. See theme. Payment: Fiction: $0.01 per word. Poetry: $5.00. Deadline: March 31, 2027.

foofaraw anthology. Genre: Speculative and literary fiction. See theme. Payment: Fiction: $0.01 per word. Poetry: $5.00. Deadline: March 31, 2028.

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