There are nearly three dozen calls for submissions in January. All of these are paying markets, and none charge submission fees. As always, every genre, style, and form is wanted, from speculative fiction to poetry to personal essays.
NOTE: I post calls for submissions on 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.)
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Apex Publications. Apex is open to receiving dark scifi/fantasy/horror novellas and novels during the month of January 2018. They consider novellas of 30,000 to 40,000 words and novels up to 120,000 words. Pays royalties and an advance.
Smoking Pen Press. Genre: Romance short stories. Payment: $25. Deadline: January 1, 2018.
Left Hooks. Genre: Poetry. Payment: $10. Deadline: January 1, 2018.
Minerva Rising. Genres: Nonfiction prose, fiction, poetry. Theme: Roots, Wings, and Everything In Between. Payment: $50 for fiction or nonfiction prose and $35 for poetry. Deadline: January 1, 2018.
Ellipsis. Genre: Flash fiction. "Submit no more than 300 words, fiction or non-fiction, in response to the prompt word(s) ‘Two/Too/To." Payment: Royalties. Deadline: January 5, 2018.
Insignia. Genre: Speculative fiction, short stories. Theme: "Stories for this anthology may be set in any Asian country (real or imagined), and main characters should be natives also. The ‘birds and beasts’ concept is open to include any type of animal (real or mythical), and that animal must be important to the story. Animal-shifters are great, as well as stories of people encountering mythical beasts. Your animal could be a hero or a villain, just entertain us with your unique idea." Payment: 0-2000 words = US$5 / 2001-6000 words = US$10. Deadline: January 7, 2018. Reprints accepted.
Black Rabbit. Genres: Poetry, fiction (900 words max) and personal essays (250 words max). Payment: $25 per piece. Deadline: January 8, 2018.
Alien Dimensions. Genre: Speculative fiction. "ProxiBee 2118.” Payment: $10. Deadline: January 10, 2018.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Holiday Collection. Genre: True stories and poems. "People love reading about the winter holidays – from Thanksgiving all the way through New Year’s Day. We want to hear about your traditions and how they came to be. We want to hear about your holiday memories and the rituals that create the foundation of your life. We love to hear about the funny things too: the ugly holiday sweaters, the gingerbread house that kept falling down, the re-gifting embarrassments and the fruit cake disasters. Please be sure your stories are “Santa safe” so we don’t spoil the magic for any precocious young readers." Payment: $200. Deadline: January 10, 2018.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Empowered Woman. Genre: True stories and poems. "Whether you are single or married, working or retired, widowed or divorced, working or stay-at-home, you are in-charge of your life and the decisions you make. A woman doesn’t have to lose her femininity or become a bully to be empowered. A woman doesn’t have to be single, divorced or widowed to be looked upon as independent. Married women and women in relationships are independent too. We are looking for your true stories on how you are running your life, how you became empowered and achieved independence. Your story will help women of all ages feel stronger, more capable, and more confident… more empowered." Payment: $200. Deadline: January 10, 2018.
The Stinging Fly. Genre: Poetry and short stories. Payment: "Token." Deadline: January 11, 2018.
Outlook Springs. Genre: Poetry and short fiction. "Send us your weird, wobbly wordwork: fiction, nonfiction, and poetry." Payment: $10 for poems, $25 for prose. Deadline: January 11, 2018.
Splickety: Dystopian Disaster. Genre: Flash fiction, between 300 and 1,000 words long. "The future is here, and it’s worse than we imagined. Societal collapse, cruel government, anarchy, famine, plague—send us a story that wrecks our world. We want teenage characters who struggle through the wreckage for justice, freedom, or life itself. When nightmare is reality, who will survive?" Payment: 2 cents/word. Deadline: January 12, 2018.
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: January 15, 2018. (?)
Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Miracle of Love. Genre: True stories. "We’re looking for stories about how you found love. And how you kept it fresh over the years. New love, old love, please warm our hearts with your stories and poems." Payment: $200. Deadline: January 15, 2018.
Mind Candy 2.0. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: 6 cents/word. Deadline: January 15, 2018.
Ruminate. Genre: Poetry. Payment: $17/page with a max of $68 a poem. Deadline: January 15, 2018.
Great Weather for MEDIA. Genre: Poetry, flash fiction, short stories, dramatic monologues, and creative nonfiction. Payment: $10. Deadline: January 15, 2018.
QU. Genre: Fiction, essays, script excerpts, poetry. Payment: $100 per prose piece, $50 per poem. Deadline: January 15, 2018
Rattle: Athlete Poets. Genre: Poetry. Payment: $100. Deadline: January 15, 2018.
Liminal. Genre: Speculative fiction and poetry. "We like stories that are strange and unsettling, sharp-edged and evocative. Although we will consider any genre, we have a soft spot for weird fiction, magical realism, soft science fiction, and those uncategorizable stories that straddle the line between genres." Payment: 6 cents/word/fiction. $50/poem. Deadline: January 15, 2018.
Helios Magazine. THEME: “Exquisite Corpse” Genres: Fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art. Payment:$0.03 USD per word for the first 1,500 words and $0.01 USD after for short stories, and $0.25 USD a line for poetry. Deadline: January 15, 2018.
Enchanted Conversation. Genre: Fairy tale. Theme: Un rêve d'amour (A Dream of Love). Payment: Story pay: $30, Poem pay: $10. US dollars only. Deadline: January 20, 2018.
Zathom. Genre: Poetry, short stories, musings. Payment: $10. Deadline: January 26, 2018.
Carrion Blue 555: “The Garden of Earthly Delights” Anthology. Genre: Fiction, poetry, plays, and pretty much any other formats you can think of. (Creative non-fiction is encouraged but pitch your concept beforehand.) We are seeking new and original work inspired by the famed Bosch triptych, “The Garden of Earthly Delights.” Pieces can be accounts of scenes occurring within the painting; further adventures of the denizens of the painting; bizarre odes to the painting itself; some conglomerate of the above; or something entirely different. Length: 7K words max: if your submission is longer (or is expected to be), pitch them the concept beforehand. Payment: Half cent a word with a $5.00 minimum. No simultaneous submissions. Deadline: January 31st, 2018.
Room Magazine. Genre: Feminist fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews. "Room magazine invites women and genderqueer folks who identify as part of the LGBTTQIA+ spectrum to submit their best poetry, fiction, CNF, and art to our first queer-themed issue. We especially encourage submissions from writers affected by multiple intersections of oppression, such as racism, classism, ableism, fatphobia, ageism, and transphobia." Payment: $50 CAD for one page, $60 for two pages, $90 for three pages, $120 for four pages, $150 for five or more pages. Deadline: January 31, 2018.
Fiyah: Issue 6 Theme: Big Mama Nature. Genre: Short fiction, poetry. "We’re looking for stories of Nature and her swift backhand when folks get out of line. Give us your stories of ecological wastelands, futures full of solar powered punks, or natural disasters. Climate fiction is the name of the game, and Big Mama don’t play." Payment: Short stories (2,000 – 7,000 words): $150 USD; Novelettes (<15,000 words): $300 USD; Poetry: $50 USD. Deadline: January 31, 2018.
Barking Sycamores. Genre: Poetry, short fiction, hybrid genre, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and artwork submissions. Theme: The Undiscovered Country. "Barking Sycamores is a literary journal entirely edited and operated by queer, neurodivergent people of color. We also welcome and publish essays about neurodivergence and the creation of literature." Payment: Unspecified. Deadline: January 31, 2018.
Prairie Fire "Love Issue." Genre: Short stories, creative nonfiction, poetry on theme of "Love." Payment: 10 cents/word for prose, $40 per poem. Deadline: January 31, 2018.
Sharkpack. Genre: Poetry, art, short fiction. Payment: Visual artists will be paid a small honorarium for their work; contributors of letters will receive a minimum $25 per published piece. Deadline: January 31, 2018.
Twyckenham Notes. Genre: Poetry. Payment: $10. Deadline: January 31, 2018.
Monologue Bank. Genre: Monologues, plays. Payment: Writers receive 80% per download (monologue or play). Deadline: January 31, 2018.
NonBinary Review. Genre: poetry, fiction, essays, and art on theme of "The Little Prince." Payment: 1 cent per word for fiction and nonfiction, and a flat fee of $10 for poetry (singular poems or a suite) and $25 per piece of visual art. Deadline: January 31, 2018.
Hyperion and Theia. Genre: Fiction, poetry, and art on theme of Rebus. Payment: 2 - 3 cents/word. Deadline: January 31, 2018.
NOTE: I post calls for submissions on 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.)
_________________________
Apex Publications. Apex is open to receiving dark scifi/fantasy/horror novellas and novels during the month of January 2018. They consider novellas of 30,000 to 40,000 words and novels up to 120,000 words. Pays royalties and an advance.
Smoking Pen Press. Genre: Romance short stories. Payment: $25. Deadline: January 1, 2018.
Left Hooks. Genre: Poetry. Payment: $10. Deadline: January 1, 2018.
Minerva Rising. Genres: Nonfiction prose, fiction, poetry. Theme: Roots, Wings, and Everything In Between. Payment: $50 for fiction or nonfiction prose and $35 for poetry. Deadline: January 1, 2018.
Ellipsis. Genre: Flash fiction. "Submit no more than 300 words, fiction or non-fiction, in response to the prompt word(s) ‘Two/Too/To." Payment: Royalties. Deadline: January 5, 2018.
Insignia. Genre: Speculative fiction, short stories. Theme: "Stories for this anthology may be set in any Asian country (real or imagined), and main characters should be natives also. The ‘birds and beasts’ concept is open to include any type of animal (real or mythical), and that animal must be important to the story. Animal-shifters are great, as well as stories of people encountering mythical beasts. Your animal could be a hero or a villain, just entertain us with your unique idea." Payment: 0-2000 words = US$5 / 2001-6000 words = US$10. Deadline: January 7, 2018. Reprints accepted.
Black Rabbit. Genres: Poetry, fiction (900 words max) and personal essays (250 words max). Payment: $25 per piece. Deadline: January 8, 2018.
Alien Dimensions. Genre: Speculative fiction. "ProxiBee 2118.” Payment: $10. Deadline: January 10, 2018.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Holiday Collection. Genre: True stories and poems. "People love reading about the winter holidays – from Thanksgiving all the way through New Year’s Day. We want to hear about your traditions and how they came to be. We want to hear about your holiday memories and the rituals that create the foundation of your life. We love to hear about the funny things too: the ugly holiday sweaters, the gingerbread house that kept falling down, the re-gifting embarrassments and the fruit cake disasters. Please be sure your stories are “Santa safe” so we don’t spoil the magic for any precocious young readers." Payment: $200. Deadline: January 10, 2018.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Empowered Woman. Genre: True stories and poems. "Whether you are single or married, working or retired, widowed or divorced, working or stay-at-home, you are in-charge of your life and the decisions you make. A woman doesn’t have to lose her femininity or become a bully to be empowered. A woman doesn’t have to be single, divorced or widowed to be looked upon as independent. Married women and women in relationships are independent too. We are looking for your true stories on how you are running your life, how you became empowered and achieved independence. Your story will help women of all ages feel stronger, more capable, and more confident… more empowered." Payment: $200. Deadline: January 10, 2018.
The Stinging Fly. Genre: Poetry and short stories. Payment: "Token." Deadline: January 11, 2018.
Outlook Springs. Genre: Poetry and short fiction. "Send us your weird, wobbly wordwork: fiction, nonfiction, and poetry." Payment: $10 for poems, $25 for prose. Deadline: January 11, 2018.
Splickety: Dystopian Disaster. Genre: Flash fiction, between 300 and 1,000 words long. "The future is here, and it’s worse than we imagined. Societal collapse, cruel government, anarchy, famine, plague—send us a story that wrecks our world. We want teenage characters who struggle through the wreckage for justice, freedom, or life itself. When nightmare is reality, who will survive?" Payment: 2 cents/word. Deadline: January 12, 2018.
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: January 15, 2018. (?)
Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Miracle of Love. Genre: True stories. "We’re looking for stories about how you found love. And how you kept it fresh over the years. New love, old love, please warm our hearts with your stories and poems." Payment: $200. Deadline: January 15, 2018.
Mind Candy 2.0. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: 6 cents/word. Deadline: January 15, 2018.
Ruminate. Genre: Poetry. Payment: $17/page with a max of $68 a poem. Deadline: January 15, 2018.
Great Weather for MEDIA. Genre: Poetry, flash fiction, short stories, dramatic monologues, and creative nonfiction. Payment: $10. Deadline: January 15, 2018.
QU. Genre: Fiction, essays, script excerpts, poetry. Payment: $100 per prose piece, $50 per poem. Deadline: January 15, 2018
Rattle: Athlete Poets. Genre: Poetry. Payment: $100. Deadline: January 15, 2018.
Liminal. Genre: Speculative fiction and poetry. "We like stories that are strange and unsettling, sharp-edged and evocative. Although we will consider any genre, we have a soft spot for weird fiction, magical realism, soft science fiction, and those uncategorizable stories that straddle the line between genres." Payment: 6 cents/word/fiction. $50/poem. Deadline: January 15, 2018.
Helios Magazine. THEME: “Exquisite Corpse” Genres: Fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art. Payment:$0.03 USD per word for the first 1,500 words and $0.01 USD after for short stories, and $0.25 USD a line for poetry. Deadline: January 15, 2018.
Enchanted Conversation. Genre: Fairy tale. Theme: Un rêve d'amour (A Dream of Love). Payment: Story pay: $30, Poem pay: $10. US dollars only. Deadline: January 20, 2018.
Zathom. Genre: Poetry, short stories, musings. Payment: $10. Deadline: January 26, 2018.
Carrion Blue 555: “The Garden of Earthly Delights” Anthology. Genre: Fiction, poetry, plays, and pretty much any other formats you can think of. (Creative non-fiction is encouraged but pitch your concept beforehand.) We are seeking new and original work inspired by the famed Bosch triptych, “The Garden of Earthly Delights.” Pieces can be accounts of scenes occurring within the painting; further adventures of the denizens of the painting; bizarre odes to the painting itself; some conglomerate of the above; or something entirely different. Length: 7K words max: if your submission is longer (or is expected to be), pitch them the concept beforehand. Payment: Half cent a word with a $5.00 minimum. No simultaneous submissions. Deadline: January 31st, 2018.
Room Magazine. Genre: Feminist fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews. "Room magazine invites women and genderqueer folks who identify as part of the LGBTTQIA+ spectrum to submit their best poetry, fiction, CNF, and art to our first queer-themed issue. We especially encourage submissions from writers affected by multiple intersections of oppression, such as racism, classism, ableism, fatphobia, ageism, and transphobia." Payment: $50 CAD for one page, $60 for two pages, $90 for three pages, $120 for four pages, $150 for five or more pages. Deadline: January 31, 2018.
Fiyah: Issue 6 Theme: Big Mama Nature. Genre: Short fiction, poetry. "We’re looking for stories of Nature and her swift backhand when folks get out of line. Give us your stories of ecological wastelands, futures full of solar powered punks, or natural disasters. Climate fiction is the name of the game, and Big Mama don’t play." Payment: Short stories (2,000 – 7,000 words): $150 USD; Novelettes (<15,000 words): $300 USD; Poetry: $50 USD. Deadline: January 31, 2018.
Barking Sycamores. Genre: Poetry, short fiction, hybrid genre, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and artwork submissions. Theme: The Undiscovered Country. "Barking Sycamores is a literary journal entirely edited and operated by queer, neurodivergent people of color. We also welcome and publish essays about neurodivergence and the creation of literature." Payment: Unspecified. Deadline: January 31, 2018.
Prairie Fire "Love Issue." Genre: Short stories, creative nonfiction, poetry on theme of "Love." Payment: 10 cents/word for prose, $40 per poem. Deadline: January 31, 2018.
Sharkpack. Genre: Poetry, art, short fiction. Payment: Visual artists will be paid a small honorarium for their work; contributors of letters will receive a minimum $25 per published piece. Deadline: January 31, 2018.
Twyckenham Notes. Genre: Poetry. Payment: $10. Deadline: January 31, 2018.
Monologue Bank. Genre: Monologues, plays. Payment: Writers receive 80% per download (monologue or play). Deadline: January 31, 2018.
NonBinary Review. Genre: poetry, fiction, essays, and art on theme of "The Little Prince." Payment: 1 cent per word for fiction and nonfiction, and a flat fee of $10 for poetry (singular poems or a suite) and $25 per piece of visual art. Deadline: January 31, 2018.
Hyperion and Theia. Genre: Fiction, poetry, and art on theme of Rebus. Payment: 2 - 3 cents/word. Deadline: January 31, 2018.
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