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Here are a dozen journals with no fixed deadlines that are open right now. These publications are looking for all genres and forms: short stories, poetry, nonfiction, reportage, fantasy, horror, humor, suspense ... there is something for every writer.
All of these journals are paying markets and none charge submission fees. As always, read submission guidelines carefully.
For hundreds of paying markets (arranged by genre) see: Paying Markets
Also see:
Mega-List of Paying Markets for Horror, Dark Fiction and Poetry
Mega-List of Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines - Paying markets
325 Paying Markets for Short Stories, Poetry, Nonfiction
Happy submitting!
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Class Collective Magazine "At Class Collective Magazine, we’re proud to publish writing that has a class based perspective on politics and culture. However, we encourage writers to interpret this prompt as creatively as they’d like—the sky’s the limit! We have multiple categories, including poetry, short fiction, essays, and commentary." Payment: CA$10 for poetry, and CA$20 for fiction, essays, and commentary (processed via PayPal).
Rural Writers of Color Fiction Anthology EastOver Press is accepting short stories for a forthcoming anthology. The anthology will focus exclusively on BIPOC writers who live in or hail from rural or semi-rural locales (in the United States) and whose short stories feature characters living and/or working in rural or semi-rural spaces. Submissions should be no more than 25 pages or 7500 words and may include up to three submissions per author or five submissions per editor of a literary journal. They are only accepting previously published stories at this time, and those stories should have been published in 2020 or 2021. Payment: $100-$300.
Fantasy Magazine publishes fantasy short stories, flash fiction, and poetry. They plan to stay open to submissions by BIPOC authors for the entirety of 2022. Payment: 8 cents per word; $40 per poem.
Sunday Long Read is looking for pitches for 2022 and would love to hear from you if you have some creative narrative nonfiction you'd like to write! Send an email at originals@sundaylongread.com. Payment: $2000 for a reported (>2000 word story). (See Twitter call for pitches HERE.)
Unnerving accepts FLASH FICTION story submissions of horror and suspense. Generally leaning toward horror. Payment: $15 for a flash story of 400 - 1,500 words. Reprints accepted. Unnerving also publishes books. Novellas/novels 25,000 words and up. Collections 45,000 to 85,000 words. 50/50 net sales split. (Note: The website says magazine submissions are both open and closed.)
The Anarchist Poetry Project. Genre: Poem Length: 3 poems up to 5 pages total. "The theme of the book is Building Better Worlds. We’re interested in what those better Anarchist worlds and systems look like. Poems that somehow relate to that theme within the context of anarchism will have a better chance of being accepted. In particular, we love speculative literature (scifi, fantasy, hopepunk and other -punk subgenres, magical realism, etc). But even if your poem doesn’t fall into such genres, we still want you to submit it as long as you identify as an anarchist, and your poems are in some way about or related to anarchism and building better worlds." Payment: $30 per poem + contributor copy. Deadline: Open until filled.
Ahoy Comics. Genre: Short fiction and social commentary. "We seek smart, weird, funny articles or stories, which run between 500 and 1,500 words. Now is a great time to connect with AHOY and send us your short fiction. We want to hear from you. This could be the start of a beautiful friendship, the kind worthy of a moose and his flying squirrel." Payment. $200.
Radon. Genre: Short stories and poetry containing elements of anarchism, transhumanism, dystopia, and/or science fiction. Payment: 1 cent per word for original work, half a cent per word for reprints.
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.
(mac)ro(mic) "We want your heart, your soul, the pieces that are a part of you. We want stories that are worlds in words, pieces that tell a (mac)ro story in a (mic)ro word count. We want works that focus on expressing, not impressing. Above all else, we want stories that connect. Our only restrictions? It has to be either flash fiction or creative nonfiction, 1,000 words or less. Other than that, surprise us." Payment: $15 per accepted piece.
Mystery Magazine (CANADA) presents original short stories by the world’s best-known and emerging mystery writers. "The stories we feature in our monthly issues span every imaginable subgenre, including cozy, police procedural, noir, whodunit, supernatural, hardboiled, humor, and historical mysteries. Evocative writing and a compelling story are the only certainty." Payment: 2¢/word USD for accepted stories. Their average response time is 1-5 weeks.
Jay Henge Publishing: 3 Anthologies: 1) "Professor Feiff's Compleat Pocket Guide to Xenobiology for the Galactic Traveller on the Move: Containing Divers Works Hitherto Unpublished by Scholars of Moderne Sciences, Herbarisme and Exoticks, with Thorough Explication of Chymicall Principles Terrestrial and Alien" 2) "Phantasmical Contraptions & More Errors" 3) "Phantom Thieves & Sagacious Scoundrels." Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: $5 USD per 1000 words up to 15k words.
All of these journals are paying markets and none charge submission fees. As always, read submission guidelines carefully.
For hundreds of paying markets (arranged by genre) see: Paying Markets
Also see:
Mega-List of Paying Markets for Horror, Dark Fiction and Poetry
Mega-List of Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines - Paying markets
325 Paying Markets for Short Stories, Poetry, Nonfiction
Happy submitting!
____________________
Class Collective Magazine "At Class Collective Magazine, we’re proud to publish writing that has a class based perspective on politics and culture. However, we encourage writers to interpret this prompt as creatively as they’d like—the sky’s the limit! We have multiple categories, including poetry, short fiction, essays, and commentary." Payment: CA$10 for poetry, and CA$20 for fiction, essays, and commentary (processed via PayPal).
Rural Writers of Color Fiction Anthology EastOver Press is accepting short stories for a forthcoming anthology. The anthology will focus exclusively on BIPOC writers who live in or hail from rural or semi-rural locales (in the United States) and whose short stories feature characters living and/or working in rural or semi-rural spaces. Submissions should be no more than 25 pages or 7500 words and may include up to three submissions per author or five submissions per editor of a literary journal. They are only accepting previously published stories at this time, and those stories should have been published in 2020 or 2021. Payment: $100-$300.
Fantasy Magazine publishes fantasy short stories, flash fiction, and poetry. They plan to stay open to submissions by BIPOC authors for the entirety of 2022. Payment: 8 cents per word; $40 per poem.
Sunday Long Read is looking for pitches for 2022 and would love to hear from you if you have some creative narrative nonfiction you'd like to write! Send an email at originals@sundaylongread.com. Payment: $2000 for a reported (>2000 word story). (See Twitter call for pitches HERE.)
Unnerving accepts FLASH FICTION story submissions of horror and suspense. Generally leaning toward horror. Payment: $15 for a flash story of 400 - 1,500 words. Reprints accepted. Unnerving also publishes books. Novellas/novels 25,000 words and up. Collections 45,000 to 85,000 words. 50/50 net sales split. (Note: The website says magazine submissions are both open and closed.)
The Anarchist Poetry Project. Genre: Poem Length: 3 poems up to 5 pages total. "The theme of the book is Building Better Worlds. We’re interested in what those better Anarchist worlds and systems look like. Poems that somehow relate to that theme within the context of anarchism will have a better chance of being accepted. In particular, we love speculative literature (scifi, fantasy, hopepunk and other -punk subgenres, magical realism, etc). But even if your poem doesn’t fall into such genres, we still want you to submit it as long as you identify as an anarchist, and your poems are in some way about or related to anarchism and building better worlds." Payment: $30 per poem + contributor copy. Deadline: Open until filled.
Ahoy Comics. Genre: Short fiction and social commentary. "We seek smart, weird, funny articles or stories, which run between 500 and 1,500 words. Now is a great time to connect with AHOY and send us your short fiction. We want to hear from you. This could be the start of a beautiful friendship, the kind worthy of a moose and his flying squirrel." Payment. $200.
Radon. Genre: Short stories and poetry containing elements of anarchism, transhumanism, dystopia, and/or science fiction. Payment: 1 cent per word for original work, half a cent per word for reprints.
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.
(mac)ro(mic) "We want your heart, your soul, the pieces that are a part of you. We want stories that are worlds in words, pieces that tell a (mac)ro story in a (mic)ro word count. We want works that focus on expressing, not impressing. Above all else, we want stories that connect. Our only restrictions? It has to be either flash fiction or creative nonfiction, 1,000 words or less. Other than that, surprise us." Payment: $15 per accepted piece.
Mystery Magazine (CANADA) presents original short stories by the world’s best-known and emerging mystery writers. "The stories we feature in our monthly issues span every imaginable subgenre, including cozy, police procedural, noir, whodunit, supernatural, hardboiled, humor, and historical mysteries. Evocative writing and a compelling story are the only certainty." Payment: 2¢/word USD for accepted stories. Their average response time is 1-5 weeks.
Jay Henge Publishing: 3 Anthologies: 1) "Professor Feiff's Compleat Pocket Guide to Xenobiology for the Galactic Traveller on the Move: Containing Divers Works Hitherto Unpublished by Scholars of Moderne Sciences, Herbarisme and Exoticks, with Thorough Explication of Chymicall Principles Terrestrial and Alien" 2) "Phantasmical Contraptions & More Errors" 3) "Phantom Thieves & Sagacious Scoundrels." Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: $5 USD per 1000 words up to 15k words.
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