There are three dozen calls for submissions with deadlines in September. All of these markets pay writers.
As always, there are calls for a wide variety of genres and styles. Short stories, essays, interviews, poems, and flash fiction are all welcome.
Note: For links to sites that regularly post calls for submissions - both paid and unpaid - go to Calls for Submissions.
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Skirt! Magazine
Genre: Personal essays. Theme: Stories about your big life, big moments, big thoughts and big dreams.
Payment: $200 per piece
Deadline: September 1, 2016
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On Second Thought: Sense of Place Issue
"For the 2016 Sense of Place issue writers are invited to focus on images from Digital Horizons (digitalhorizonsonline.org). Digital Horizons is an online library that includes thousands of images, documents, videos, and oral histories depicting life on the Northern Plains from the late 1800s to today. Articles may focus on a specific image of the author’s choosing from the Digital Horizons library. Submissions can include historical analysis, critical reflections, or other approaches to understanding or interpreting images of the Northern Plains over time. However, we will also accept submissions not focused on Digital Horizons." Writers must have some connection to North Dakota.
Payment: $250 per piece
Deadline: September 1, 2016
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Timeless Magazine: Theme: The Snow Queen
Genre: Timeless Tales exclusively publishes retellings of fairy tales and myths. Must relate to theme
Payment: $20/story
Deadline: September 1, 2016
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Ligature Works
Genre: Speculative fiction, poetry
Payment: $25
Deadline: September 1, 2016
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|tap| literary magazine
Genre: Poetry and prose on trauma, mental health, social justice, and by marginalized voices
Payment: $25 per piece
Deadline: September 1, 2016
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Sirens Call: Alone With Your Fear
Genre: Stories that pit the main character against their own greatest fear
Length: 4,000 – 8,000 words
Payment: $25 per piece
Deadline: September 1, 2016
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Geometry
Genres: Poetry, prose, creative nonfiction
Payment: $10-$50 for poetry, and 1-3 cents per word for fiction and non fiction
Deadline: September 1, 2016
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Goblin Fruit
Genre: Fantastical poetry
Payment: $15
Deadline: September 1, 2016
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Briarpatch
"Briarpatch Magazine publishes writing and artwork on a wide range of topics, including current events, grassroots activism, electoral politics, economic justice, ecology, labour, food security, gender equity, indigenous struggles, international solidarity, and other issues of political importance."
Genre: Nonfiction
Payment: $50 - $150
Deadline: September 5, 2016
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Wayward Ink
Genre: GLBT speculative fiction
Length: 3000 - 15,000 words
Payment: $50 – $80
Deadline: September 9, 2016
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apt
Genres: Fiction, poetry, essays
Payment: $50 per piece
Deadline: September 15, 2016
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Tanstaafl Press Anthology: Enter the Aftermath
Genre: Stories about the burnout or shortly after any type apocalypse
Payment: $0.01-0.08 per word
Deadline: September 15, 2016
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Horror Library
Genre: Horror
Payment: 3 cents per word
Deadline: September 15, 2016
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Inside The Bell Jar
Genre: Poetry, short stories and flash fiction of absolutely any genre. The only real requirement we have is that your piece is related to mental illness in some way; through a character, the general theme, something about the setting – you decide.
Payment: £15 per published short story. £10 per poem
Deadline: September 15, 2016
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Broken Pencil
Genre: Fiction, 3000 words max
Payment: $100
Deadline: September 15, 2016
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Behind the Mask: A Superhero Anthology
We’re more interested in the ordinary day-to-day challenges facing these extraordinary individuals: growing up, growing old, relationships, career struggles, parenting. How they cope with that age-old desire to fit in when, let’s face it, they don’t.
Genre: Fiction (3,000 - 6,000 words)
Payment: 3 to 8 cents per word
Deadline: September 15, 2016
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Eye to the Telescope: Ghosts Issue
"I am looking for more than thumps in the attic and pretty dead girls on a moonlit road. I want the unexpected, the unmeasured—I want poems that belie the limits of life and afterlife and what we think a ghost story should be. Give me phantoms and poltergeists, yes, bean-sidhe and È Guǐ, pathos or parody, space ship specters or transmigrating alien souls—I want any and all of it, as long the poem has meat on its bones. No restrictions on genre or form, though graphic violence or gore will be a hard sell. More than anything, I want to be moved."
Genre: Speculative poetry
Payment: US 3¢/word rounded to nearest dollar; minimum US $3, maximum $25. Payment is on publication.
Deadline: September 15, 2016
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Syntax & Salt
Theme : Myths, Monsters, Legends and Fairy Tales
Genre: Short stories
Payment: $10
Deadline: September 15, 2016
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New Zenith Magazine
Genre: All genres and types of fiction as well as poetry, cartooning, illustrations/illustrated stories, short comics, photography on theme of holidays
Payment: All works 250 or less words will receive $5.00. Works of 251 words or more will receive $0.02 per word.
Deadline: September 15, 2016
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Janeland: Women Write More about Leaving Men for Women
"Six years have passed since the publication of Lambda Literary Award finalist Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write about Leaving Men for Women, a groundbreaking exploration of sexual fluidity through intimate, firsthand stories. It’s time to update, extend, broaden, and strengthen the conversation."
Payment: Varies
Deadline: September 15, 2016
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Southward
Genres: Poetry, fiction
Payment: €30 per poem and €120 per short story
Deadline: September 15, 2016
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The Capilano Review
Genre: Prose and poetry
Payment: $50/page
Deadline: September 15, 2016
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3288 Review
Genre: Fiction, nonfiction and poetry
Payment: $25 - $50
Deadline: September 15, 2016
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Cicada YA
"CICADA YA lit/comics magazine is looking for fairy tales and folklore with a twist—we want you to take familiar stories and dress them up; dress them down; give them some bite; shine a different light on them. Tell us a dark and weird tale from your culture, or show us something new. Let the wolf win. Stick all of those tired old folktale tropes in a blender, add genre-savviness and a dash of hot sauce, and serve over ice."
Genre: Short fiction, poetry, essays, and comics for teen audience - pitches only
Payment: 10 to 25 cents per word
Deadline: September 20, 2016
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Splickety
Theme: Christmas in Crisis
Genre: Flash fiction.
Payment: 2 cents per word
Deadline: September 23, 2016
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The Puritan
Genres: Essays, fiction, poetry
Payment: $100 (essay), $50 (fiction), $15 per page (poem)
Deadline: September 30, 2016
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Alberta Fishing Guide Magazine
Genre: Articles about fishing in Alberta, Canada. Send queries only
Payment: $300-$500 per piece
Deadline: September 30, 2016
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Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine
Genres: Fiction, poetry, fairy tales
Theme: Ghosts
Payment: $30 per story, $10 per poem
Deadline: September 30, 2016
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Nashville Review
Genres: Fiction, poetry
Payment: $100 for fiction, $25 for poetry
Deadline: September 30, 2016
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Heart of Steel — LGBTQIA Knights Anthology
Genre: Stories about knights and all they are willing to do and endure for the sake of those they love and protect
Payment: $200
Deadline: September 30, 2016
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Best Mom Ever!
"We’re looking for stories about moms of all ages, from young mothers to great-grandmothers, and everything in between. Let your mom or grandmother or stepmother or the mother of your children know that her hard work has been recognized and that without her, the kids wouldn’t be where they are today."
Payment: $200
Deadline: September 30, 2016
____________________
Writer’s Chronicle
"The editors look for articles that demonstrate an excellent working knowledge of literary issues and a generosity of spirit that esteems the arguments of other writers on similar topics."
Genre: Nonfiction
Payment: $18 per 100 words
Deadline: September 30, 2016
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Patchwork Raven
"We are looking to create a book of diverse protagonists - stories from and about people all over the world from all kinds of cultures and sub-cultures. Don't get too hung up on "message", though - we want strong tales that will be gripping to kids, we just also want multiple kinds of voices in the book."
Genre: Bedtime stories for children between roughly 3-9 years old. Stories should be between 500 and 1500 words.
Payment: $25
Deadline: September 30, 2016
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Metphorosis
Theme: Gun control
Genre: Science fiction and fantasy
Payment: $.01/word
Deadline: September 30, 2016
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Tin House
Themes: True Crime and Rehab
Genre: Stories, essays, poems
Payment: $50 - $200
Deadline: September 30, 2016
____________________
Fighting Monkey: Uncommon Minds
"We are seeking stories of exceptional intelligence, uncanny empathy, telekinesis, telepathy, or whatever else your UnCommon Mind can dream up. Is an UnCommon Mind a gift or a curse? You tell us. Better yet, show us the consequences of living with an UnCommon Mind. Happy and tragic endings are equally appreciated, but please refrain from submitting cliffhangers. While all genres are welcome, UnCommon anthologies tend to lean more toward magical realism."
Genre: Speculative fiction, magical realism
Payment: Royalties
Deadline: September 30, 2016
As always, there are calls for a wide variety of genres and styles. Short stories, essays, interviews, poems, and flash fiction are all welcome.
Note: For links to sites that regularly post calls for submissions - both paid and unpaid - go to Calls for Submissions.
_____________________
Skirt! Magazine
Genre: Personal essays. Theme: Stories about your big life, big moments, big thoughts and big dreams.
Payment: $200 per piece
Deadline: September 1, 2016
____________________
On Second Thought: Sense of Place Issue
"For the 2016 Sense of Place issue writers are invited to focus on images from Digital Horizons (digitalhorizonsonline.org). Digital Horizons is an online library that includes thousands of images, documents, videos, and oral histories depicting life on the Northern Plains from the late 1800s to today. Articles may focus on a specific image of the author’s choosing from the Digital Horizons library. Submissions can include historical analysis, critical reflections, or other approaches to understanding or interpreting images of the Northern Plains over time. However, we will also accept submissions not focused on Digital Horizons." Writers must have some connection to North Dakota.
Payment: $250 per piece
Deadline: September 1, 2016
____________________
Timeless Magazine: Theme: The Snow Queen
Genre: Timeless Tales exclusively publishes retellings of fairy tales and myths. Must relate to theme
Payment: $20/story
Deadline: September 1, 2016
____________________
Ligature Works
Genre: Speculative fiction, poetry
Payment: $25
Deadline: September 1, 2016
____________________
|tap| literary magazine
Genre: Poetry and prose on trauma, mental health, social justice, and by marginalized voices
Payment: $25 per piece
Deadline: September 1, 2016
_____________________
Sirens Call: Alone With Your Fear
Genre: Stories that pit the main character against their own greatest fear
Length: 4,000 – 8,000 words
Payment: $25 per piece
Deadline: September 1, 2016
____________________
Geometry
Genres: Poetry, prose, creative nonfiction
Payment: $10-$50 for poetry, and 1-3 cents per word for fiction and non fiction
Deadline: September 1, 2016
____________________
Goblin Fruit
Genre: Fantastical poetry
Payment: $15
Deadline: September 1, 2016
____________________
Briarpatch
"Briarpatch Magazine publishes writing and artwork on a wide range of topics, including current events, grassroots activism, electoral politics, economic justice, ecology, labour, food security, gender equity, indigenous struggles, international solidarity, and other issues of political importance."
Genre: Nonfiction
Payment: $50 - $150
Deadline: September 5, 2016
____________________
Wayward Ink
Genre: GLBT speculative fiction
Length: 3000 - 15,000 words
Payment: $50 – $80
Deadline: September 9, 2016
____________________
apt
Genres: Fiction, poetry, essays
Payment: $50 per piece
Deadline: September 15, 2016
____________________
Tanstaafl Press Anthology: Enter the Aftermath
Genre: Stories about the burnout or shortly after any type apocalypse
Payment: $0.01-0.08 per word
Deadline: September 15, 2016
____________________
Horror Library
Genre: Horror
Payment: 3 cents per word
Deadline: September 15, 2016
____________________
Inside The Bell Jar
Genre: Poetry, short stories and flash fiction of absolutely any genre. The only real requirement we have is that your piece is related to mental illness in some way; through a character, the general theme, something about the setting – you decide.
Payment: £15 per published short story. £10 per poem
Deadline: September 15, 2016
____________________
Broken Pencil
Genre: Fiction, 3000 words max
Payment: $100
Deadline: September 15, 2016
____________________
Behind the Mask: A Superhero Anthology
We’re more interested in the ordinary day-to-day challenges facing these extraordinary individuals: growing up, growing old, relationships, career struggles, parenting. How they cope with that age-old desire to fit in when, let’s face it, they don’t.
Genre: Fiction (3,000 - 6,000 words)
Payment: 3 to 8 cents per word
Deadline: September 15, 2016
____________________
Eye to the Telescope: Ghosts Issue
"I am looking for more than thumps in the attic and pretty dead girls on a moonlit road. I want the unexpected, the unmeasured—I want poems that belie the limits of life and afterlife and what we think a ghost story should be. Give me phantoms and poltergeists, yes, bean-sidhe and È Guǐ, pathos or parody, space ship specters or transmigrating alien souls—I want any and all of it, as long the poem has meat on its bones. No restrictions on genre or form, though graphic violence or gore will be a hard sell. More than anything, I want to be moved."
Genre: Speculative poetry
Payment: US 3¢/word rounded to nearest dollar; minimum US $3, maximum $25. Payment is on publication.
Deadline: September 15, 2016
____________________
Syntax & Salt
Theme : Myths, Monsters, Legends and Fairy Tales
Genre: Short stories
Payment: $10
Deadline: September 15, 2016
____________________
New Zenith Magazine
Genre: All genres and types of fiction as well as poetry, cartooning, illustrations/illustrated stories, short comics, photography on theme of holidays
Payment: All works 250 or less words will receive $5.00. Works of 251 words or more will receive $0.02 per word.
Deadline: September 15, 2016
____________________
Janeland: Women Write More about Leaving Men for Women
"Six years have passed since the publication of Lambda Literary Award finalist Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write about Leaving Men for Women, a groundbreaking exploration of sexual fluidity through intimate, firsthand stories. It’s time to update, extend, broaden, and strengthen the conversation."
Payment: Varies
Deadline: September 15, 2016
____________________
Southward
Genres: Poetry, fiction
Payment: €30 per poem and €120 per short story
Deadline: September 15, 2016
____________________
The Capilano Review
Genre: Prose and poetry
Payment: $50/page
Deadline: September 15, 2016
____________________
3288 Review
Genre: Fiction, nonfiction and poetry
Payment: $25 - $50
Deadline: September 15, 2016
____________________
Cicada YA
"CICADA YA lit/comics magazine is looking for fairy tales and folklore with a twist—we want you to take familiar stories and dress them up; dress them down; give them some bite; shine a different light on them. Tell us a dark and weird tale from your culture, or show us something new. Let the wolf win. Stick all of those tired old folktale tropes in a blender, add genre-savviness and a dash of hot sauce, and serve over ice."
Genre: Short fiction, poetry, essays, and comics for teen audience - pitches only
Payment: 10 to 25 cents per word
Deadline: September 20, 2016
____________________
Splickety
Theme: Christmas in Crisis
Genre: Flash fiction.
Payment: 2 cents per word
Deadline: September 23, 2016
____________________
The Puritan
Genres: Essays, fiction, poetry
Payment: $100 (essay), $50 (fiction), $15 per page (poem)
Deadline: September 30, 2016
____________________
Alberta Fishing Guide Magazine
Genre: Articles about fishing in Alberta, Canada. Send queries only
Payment: $300-$500 per piece
Deadline: September 30, 2016
____________________
Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine
Genres: Fiction, poetry, fairy tales
Theme: Ghosts
Payment: $30 per story, $10 per poem
Deadline: September 30, 2016
____________________
Nashville Review
Genres: Fiction, poetry
Payment: $100 for fiction, $25 for poetry
Deadline: September 30, 2016
____________________
Heart of Steel — LGBTQIA Knights Anthology
Genre: Stories about knights and all they are willing to do and endure for the sake of those they love and protect
Payment: $200
Deadline: September 30, 2016
____________________
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Best Mom Ever!
"We’re looking for stories about moms of all ages, from young mothers to great-grandmothers, and everything in between. Let your mom or grandmother or stepmother or the mother of your children know that her hard work has been recognized and that without her, the kids wouldn’t be where they are today."
Payment: $200
Deadline: September 30, 2016
____________________
Writer’s Chronicle
"The editors look for articles that demonstrate an excellent working knowledge of literary issues and a generosity of spirit that esteems the arguments of other writers on similar topics."
Genre: Nonfiction
Payment: $18 per 100 words
Deadline: September 30, 2016
___________________
Patchwork Raven
"We are looking to create a book of diverse protagonists - stories from and about people all over the world from all kinds of cultures and sub-cultures. Don't get too hung up on "message", though - we want strong tales that will be gripping to kids, we just also want multiple kinds of voices in the book."
Genre: Bedtime stories for children between roughly 3-9 years old. Stories should be between 500 and 1500 words.
Payment: $25
Deadline: September 30, 2016
____________________
Metphorosis
Theme: Gun control
Genre: Science fiction and fantasy
Payment: $.01/word
Deadline: September 30, 2016
____________________
Tin House
Themes: True Crime and Rehab
Genre: Stories, essays, poems
Payment: $50 - $200
Deadline: September 30, 2016
____________________
Fighting Monkey: Uncommon Minds
"We are seeking stories of exceptional intelligence, uncanny empathy, telekinesis, telepathy, or whatever else your UnCommon Mind can dream up. Is an UnCommon Mind a gift or a curse? You tell us. Better yet, show us the consequences of living with an UnCommon Mind. Happy and tragic endings are equally appreciated, but please refrain from submitting cliffhangers. While all genres are welcome, UnCommon anthologies tend to lean more toward magical realism."
Genre: Speculative fiction, magical realism
Payment: Royalties
Deadline: September 30, 2016
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