Pickpik
This October there are more than seven dozen calls for submissions. All of these are paying markets, and none charge submission fees. As always, every genre, style, and form is wanted, from short stories to poetry to essays.
I post upcoming calls for submissions shortly before the first day of every month. But as I am collecting them, I post them on my page, Calls for Submissions. You can get a jump on next month's calls for submissions by checking that page periodically throughout the month. (I only post paying markets.)
Also see Paying Markets for hundreds of paying markets arranged by form and genre.
Happy submitting!
Note: I update this list continually throughout the month, so check Calls for Submissions frequently for new submission calls.
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Sundog. Genre: Fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art. Payment: $50. Deadline: Opens October 1, 2024, and closes when they reach capacity.
Phano. Genre: Short stories and essays, 5000 words maximum. Payment: 2 cents/word. Deadline: Opens October 1, 2024.
Mudroom. Genre: Poetry, fiction, essays, and essays in translation. Payment: $15. Deadline: Opens October 1, 2024.
Over/Exposed. Restrictions: "We prioritize the work of graduate students, so please indicate in your submission if you are a graduate student, including your university, and department." Open internationally. Genre: Flash, short fiction, and non-fiction personal essays/memoir, poetry, reviews, experimental, art. "We are focused on the publication of works that are vulnerable, experimental, a little bit weird and sexy." Payment: CAD $15, Deadline: Opens October 1, 2024.
Strange Horizons. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: 10¢/word USD. Deadline: Opens October 1, 2024, and closes when they reach capacity.
Polar Borealis. Restrictions: Open to Canadians only. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: 1 cent per word. $10 for one thousand words or less. $20 for two thousand words or less (but reasonably above one thousand). $30 for three thousand words or less (but reasonably above two thousand). Deadline: Opens October 1, 2024.
The Forge Literary Magazine. Genre: Fiction, flash fiction, micro-fiction. Length: Under 3,000 words preferred. Payment: $75. Deadline: Opens October 1, 2024. They open to fee-free submissions on the first of each month and close when they reach their quota.
Flash Fiction Online. Genre: Flash fiction. Payment: $100. Deadline: Opens October 1, 2024, and closes when they reach capacity.
Galaxy’s Edge. Genre: Fantasy or urban fantasy. Payment: $0.07/word for stories up to 10,000 words. Deadline: October 1, 2024.
White Stag. Genre: Poetry, fiction, essays on theme: personal mythology & familial lore. Payment: $5 per poem or $10 per flash fiction or lyrical essay piece + one copy of the printed anthology. Deadline: October 1, 2024.
Quist. Restrictions: Open to writers and artists between the ages of 14 and 21 and based in Quebec. Genre: Poetry and prose. Payment: $75. Deadline: October 1, 2024.
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: October 1, 2024.
The Last Line. Genre: Fiction that ends with the last line provided. Payment: $20-$40. Deadline: October 1, 2024.
The Iowa Review. Genre: Fiction, poetry. Payment: $1.50 per line for poetry ($100 minimum) and $0.08 per word for prose ($100 minimum). Deadline: October 1, 2024. No fee for snail mail submissions. $4 fee for online submissions.
The Paris Review. Genres: Fiction, poetry. Payment: Not specified. Deadline: Opens October 1, 2024, and closes when they reach capacity.
Gordon Square Review. Genre: Poetry, short stories, personal essays, and hybrid prose works. Payment: $25 per prose piece and $10 per poem. Deadline: October 1, 2024.
Cutleaf. Genre: Literary nonfiction. Length: Less than 6,000 words. Payment: $100 to $400. Deadline: October 1, 2024.
Bright Wall/Dark Room. Genre: Essays on film and TV. See theme. Payment: $100 per essay. Deadline: October 1, 2024.
The Other Stories (Audio). Genre: Horror on themes. Payment: 15 GBT. Deadline: October 1, 2024. See themes.
Cogs and Cutlasses. Genre: Steampunk Adventure Fiction. Theme: A collection of piracy themed stories, set in a steampunk environment. Word Count: 5,000 – 10,000. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 1, 2024.
Science Fiction Is a Drag! Genre: Science fiction stories that are, first and foremost, drag. Payment: $50. Deadline: October 1, 2024.
Humour Me. Genre: Humorous short stories and cartoons. See themes. Payment: Flat fee of £20.00 per accepted submission for stories. Flat fee of £5.00 per accepted cartoon submissions. Deadline: October 2, 2024.
Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores. Genre: Speculative stories. Payment: 8 cents/word for original work. 2 cents/word for reprints. Deadline: October 2, 2024. Opens October 1. This is a monthly call.
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, 2024.
Gutter. Genre: Poetry and prose in Scotland and beyond. Length: Poetry submissions can consist of up to five poems, totaling no more than 120 lines. Prose, up to 3000 words. Payment: £30. Deadline: October 4, 2024.
Space Cowboys 6. Genre: Speculative fiction. "Cowboys have a certain reckless reputation and that doesn’t fade away when you move them into space and onto alien worlds. Men and women who face hardships and rope a living out of an unforgiving landscape without waiting for orders from a distant authority. They do what needs to be done and take care of their animals, their people, and themselves." Payment: Royalty share. Deadline: October 4, 2024.
Ecotone. Genre: Poems in the French repeating forms: Especially rondeaux, rondels, rondelets, ballades, and the like.Flash fiction and nonfiction: Up to three works between 750 and 2,000 words Payment: $100 minimum for poetry and a $200 minimum for prose. Deadline: October 5, 2024. Fee-free peroid opens October 1.
Stone's Throw. Genre: Noir, dark fiction, crime short stories. Length: between 1,000 and 2,000 words. See theme. Payment: $25. Deadline: October 7, 2024.
The Aesthete. Genre: Fiction, poetry. Payment: $5. Deadline: October 7, 2024.
Affirm Press. Restrictions: They only accept Australians. Genre: All literary and genre fiction. For non-fiction, they are interested in most subjects that have a connection to Austria. authors 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. Read their submission guidelines here. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 7, 2024.
Black Ink Books. Restrictions: Open to Australian writers. Genre: Full-length general, literary and commercial non-fiction – including history, current affairs, memoir and biography. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 7, 2024. Note: Open to submissions the first week of every month.
Tales from the Moonlit Path. Genre: Dark, eerie speculative fiction and poetry. Payment: $10 for fiction. Deadline: October 12, 2024.
Flame Tree Publishing This Way Lies Madness. Genre: Horror on theme: Madness. Payment: 8 cents/word. Deadline: October 13, 2024.
Griffith Review. Genre: Short fiction and nonfiction up to 4,000 words. See theme. Payment: $500 (?) Deadline: October 13, 2024.
Daikaijuzine. Genre: Speculative fiction, poetry, art. Payment: $10.00 for each short story, and $5.00 for each poem and flash fiction piece. Deadline: October 13, 2024.
Seaside Gothic. Genre: Seaside gothic fiction, poetry, nonfiction, or a collection of photographs or illustrations. Payment: £0.01 per word. Deadline: October 13, 2024.
Solarpunk Magazine. Genre: Solarpunk. Payment: $0.08/word for fiction, $40/poem, and $75/essay. Deadline: October 14, 2024.
Inner Worlds Zine. Genre: Science fiction, fantasy, or supernatural horror prose with a strong emotional or psychological focus. "We are mainly interested in fiction, but we’re open to speculative memoir or creative non fiction, as long as it has speculative elements.” Payment: £0.02 per word for each piece accepted, with a minimum £20 payment. Deadline: October 14, 2024, for members of marginalised groups only.
Cast of Wonders. Genre: YA Speculative fiction; podcast. 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: Deadline: October 14, 2024.
New Orleans Review. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Payment: $300 for prose, $100 for poetry. Deadline: October 15, 2024. In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, there are no submission fees for Latinx writers from September 15th to October 15th.
Electric Spec. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: $20 per piece. Deadline: October 15, 2024.
QT: Queer Toronto Literary Magazine Genre: Poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, personal essays, reflections, memoirs, as well as artwork, drawings, comics, photographs, collages, and other visual media. "Here, queer literature is not limited to explicitly queer content, but rather works created by LGBTQ2SIA+ people. Individuals from underrepresented communities, especially women, trans people, and BIPOC artists and writers are encouraged to self-identify in their submission email. Creators based in, or content featuring Toronto will be given extra consideration, but QT welcomes all pieces and artists with a connection to Canada." Payment: Featured artists and authors will receive an honorarium of $15. Issue designers will receive an honorarium of $100. Deadline: October 15, 2024.
Spring Into SciFi. Genre: Science fiction short stories. Payment: $15. Deadline: October 15, 2024.
Speculative City. Genre: Speculative fiction set in the city. Payment: $20-$55 according to the category and length of the submission. Deadline: October 15, 2024.
Winter Horrorland. Genre: Horror. Word Count: 1,500-4,000. See theme. Payment: $25. Deadline: October 15, 2024.
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 15, 2024.
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, 2024.
McClelland & Stewart is a division of Penguin Random House. Restrictions: Open to Black, Indigenous, and racialized writers, as well as those of other traditionally underrepresented communities. Genre: Full-length literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Payment: Advance and royalties. Deadline: October 15, 2024.
Painted Hearts Publishing. Genre: HOLIDAY short stories! Submissions should be between 15k and 25k words, be of a romantic nature, and contain a holiday/winter theme. All genres of LGBTQ+ romance and all heat levels are welcome. Payment: $100. Deadline: October 15, 2024.
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: October 15, 2024. Fiction only.
Translunar Travelers Lounge. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: $0.03 per word with a minimum of $20. Deadline: October 15, 2024. (Note: September 15-21 is reserved for writers of color)
Rattle: Tribute to the Haibun. Genre: Haibun. Payment: $200. Deadline: October 16, 2024.
Roxane Gay Books. Genre: Un-agented novels, short fiction collections, memoirs, narrative nonfiction books, and personal essay collections. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 16, 2024.
Roxane Gay Books. Genre: Novels, short fiction, memoir, essay collections, and nonfiction. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 16, 2024.
Shooter. Genre: Fiction, poetry, CNF, art on theme of Coming of Age. Payment: £25 per story and £5 per poem. Deadline: October 20, 2024.
Typehouse. Restrictions: October 14-21: In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, no-fee submissions are open for all Hispanic/Latino/a/e/x creators, not limited to those in the US. Genre: Poetry, prose, art. Payment: $5. Deadline: October 21, 2024.
Astrolabe. Genre: Fiction, creative nonfiction, and photography & art. Payment: $50. Deadline: October 22, 2024.
Off Topic Publishing: Poetry Box. Genre: Poetry. Payment $40 CAD. Deadline: October 25, 2024. This is a monthly call. Submit by the 25th of each month.
Havok. Genre: Flash fiction. See themes. Payment: $50 via PayPal for each story selected for an Anthology. No payment for online publication. Deadline: October 25, 2024.
Riddlebird. Genre: Literary fiction, personal essays. Payment: $100. Deadline: October 26, 2024.
Flame Tree Press: Afrofuturism. Genre: Speculative fiction that is located in "the African point of view, experience, culture, themes, and history with technology based in Africa, not the diaspora." Payment: 8 cents/6 pence per word for original stories, 6 cents/4 pence for reprints. Deadline: October 27, 2024. Accepts reprints.
The Suburban Review. Genre: Prose, art, poetry. Theme: Disability. Payment: AUD150-275 for prose; AUD125-275 for poetry; comics and art AUD100-300. Deadline: October 27, 2024..
Mythaxis. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: $20. Deadline: October 30, 2024.
Deadset Press: Rebels and Rainbows. Restrictions: Open to all Australian and New Zealand authors who identify as LGBTIQA+, from any gender identity, and ally authors. Genre: Stories that feature LGBTIQA+ characters of any gender identity across the wide universes of speculative fiction. Swashbuckling pirates, mischievous necromancers, charming elder gods, dashing bounty hunters, anything goes! Payment: $25. Deadline: October 30, 2024.
Agbowo. Restrictions: Open to African origin writers only. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays, book reviews and art/photography. Payment: Single Poems - $25; Suites of poems (2-4) - $50; One act plays -$50; Essays/Nonfiction - $60; Fiction - $60; Visual Art - $35. Deadline: October 30, 2024.
How2Conquer. Genre: Nonfiction books. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Dread Mondays. Genre: Workplace horror. Payment: 6 cents/word. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Nine Arches. Genre: Poetry collections. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Brick. Genre: Nonfiction. Payment: $55–725, depending on the length of accepted work, plus two copies of the issue the work appears in and a one-year subscription to the magazine. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
The Temz Review. Genre: Prose (fiction and creative non-fiction) up to 10,000 words long. Payment: $20. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
MetaStellar. Genre: Science fiction, fantasy or horror. 1000 words max. Payment: 8 cents per word. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Diet Milk: ‘In The Bleak Midwinter.' Genre: Gothic micro/flash fiction. Payment: $3 for micro fiction, $5 for flash fiction. Deadline: October 31, 2024. (Runs from October 1 - 31)
New Writing Scotland. Restrictions: Open to writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing or inclination. Genre: All forms of writing. Payment: £50 for the first published page and £25 for each subsequent published page. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Harbor Review. Genre: Poetry, art. Payment: $10. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Rebel Satori Press. Genre: Book-length nonfiction on the occult and esoterica. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Cozy Mysteries from the Rock. Restrictions: Open to Canadians. Genre: Cozy mystery. Length: under 10,000 words. Payment: $0.01 CAD per word. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Inner Worlds Zine. Genre: Science fiction, fantasy, or supernatural horror prose with a strong emotional or psychological focus. "We are mainly interested in fiction, but we’re open to speculative memoir or creative non fiction, as long as it has speculative elements.” Payment: £0.02 per word for each piece accepted, with a minimum £20 payment. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Midnight Menagerie. Genre: Stories that feature the strange and bizarre from around the cosmos and other dimensions. Payment: $15. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Dust & Dark. Genre: Horror. Payment: £0.07 per word. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Flash Point Science Fiction. Genre: Speculative fiction stories from 100 to 1,000 words in length. "Send us your science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, and everything in between, so long as it’s short." Payment: 2 cents/word. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
JMS Books. Genre: LGBTQ romance stories, 12,000 words minimum. See theme. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Parallel Universe Publications: Swords & Sorceries. Genre: Heroic fantasy. Payment: £25; and an additional £25 if a hardcover version is issued. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy. Genre: Science fiction and fantasy. Length: 1500-7500 words. Payment: $0.005/word up to 7500 words. Minimum of $15. Reprints paid at full rate. Deadline: October 31, 2024. Accepts reprints.
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: October 31, 2024. Nonfiction only.
Dragon Soul Press: Dragon Legends. Genre: "All dragon stories. All genres accepted." Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Kaleidotrope. Genre: Speculative fiction and poetry—science fiction, fantasy, and horror, but also compelling work that blurs the lines between these and falls outside of neat genre categories. Payment: For fiction, $0.01/word (1 cent a word) USD. For poetry, a flat rate of $5 USD per accepted piece. For artwork, a flat rat of $60 for cover art. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Black Beacon Books: Steampunk Sleuths. Genre: Steampunk Sleuths will be an anthology of four novelettes (15 - 20,000 words) featuring detectives in a steampunk setting solving peculiar crimes. The only requirements for submission will be that the means of committing the crime (murder, theft, kidnapping...) must be clearly steampunk and the reader must be given the tools to crack the case before the solution is revealed. Payment: $50. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Haven Speculative. Genre: Speculative fiction and poetry. Payment: 8¢ per word for fiction and $20 for poetry. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
The Rumpus. Genre: Essays, comics. Payment: $400 divided among all contributors. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dog Stories. Genre: True stories and poems. "We are looking for first-person true stories and poems up to 1200 words that highlight the unique personalities that cats have. Celebrate your cat, or a cat you know, with a wonderful story about what he or she does. Stories can be serious or humorous, or both." Payment: $200. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
AND A FEW MORE
The Forge Literary Magazine. Genre: Fiction, flash fiction, micro-fiction. Length: Under 3,000 words preferred. Payment: $75. Deadline: Opens November 1, 2024. They open to fee-free submissions on the first of each month and close when they reach their quota.
Last Girls Club. Genre: Feminist horror: short stories and poems - see themes. Payment: Fiction, 15 cents/word. Poetry, $10. Deadline: November 1, 2024.
Ninth Letter Web Edition. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. See theme. Payment: $25 per poem and $75 for prose. Deadline: November 1, 2024.
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: $25. Deadline: November 1, 2024.
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: November 1, 2024.
Nonbinary Review. Genre: Poetry, fiction, essays, and art. See theme. Payment: $10 - $25. Deadline: November 1, 2024.
Poetry Ireland Review. Genre: Poetry. Payment: €50, or a year's subscription to the review. Deadline: November 1, 2024.
Antiphony Press. Genre: Poetry collection. Payment: $500 plus 10 copies of your book. Deadline: November 1, 2024.
The Other Stories (Audio). Genre: Horror on themes. Payment: 15 GBT. Deadline: November 1, 2024. See themes.
Cutleaf. Genre: Poetry Payment: $50 to $100. Deadline: November 1, 2024.
Iron Horse. Genre: Poems, stories, and essays that center around deception: false pretenses, fraud, sleight-of-hand tricks, the Big Lie, poker faces, academic dishonesty, infidelity, AI, spin jobs, any type of monkey business. "We'll be especially happy to receive manuscripts about the lies that save people."
Payment: $100 per essay or story, and $50 per poem or flash piece. Deadline: Free day November 1, 2024.
Wyld Magick. Genre: Fantasy. Theme: Forest Fae. Word Count: 5,000 – 10,000. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: November 1, 2024.
Thema. Genre: Fiction, poetry, and art on theme: Maybe Next Time. Payment: $10-$25 for short fiction and artwork, $10 for poetry. Deadline: November 1, 2024. Accepts reprints.
The First Line. Genre: Fiction, poetry, nonfiction using the first line provided. (See site.) Payment: $25.00 - $50.00 for fiction, $10.00 for poetry, and $25.00 for nonfiction. Deadline: November 1, 2024.
I post upcoming calls for submissions shortly before the first day of every month. But as I am collecting them, I post them on my page, Calls for Submissions. You can get a jump on next month's calls for submissions by checking that page periodically throughout the month. (I only post paying markets.)
Also see Paying Markets for hundreds of paying markets arranged by form and genre.
Happy submitting!
Note: I update this list continually throughout the month, so check Calls for Submissions frequently for new submission calls.
____________________
Sundog. Genre: Fiction, poetry, nonfiction, art. Payment: $50. Deadline: Opens October 1, 2024, and closes when they reach capacity.
Phano. Genre: Short stories and essays, 5000 words maximum. Payment: 2 cents/word. Deadline: Opens October 1, 2024.
Mudroom. Genre: Poetry, fiction, essays, and essays in translation. Payment: $15. Deadline: Opens October 1, 2024.
Over/Exposed. Restrictions: "We prioritize the work of graduate students, so please indicate in your submission if you are a graduate student, including your university, and department." Open internationally. Genre: Flash, short fiction, and non-fiction personal essays/memoir, poetry, reviews, experimental, art. "We are focused on the publication of works that are vulnerable, experimental, a little bit weird and sexy." Payment: CAD $15, Deadline: Opens October 1, 2024.
Strange Horizons. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: 10¢/word USD. Deadline: Opens October 1, 2024, and closes when they reach capacity.
Polar Borealis. Restrictions: Open to Canadians only. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: 1 cent per word. $10 for one thousand words or less. $20 for two thousand words or less (but reasonably above one thousand). $30 for three thousand words or less (but reasonably above two thousand). Deadline: Opens October 1, 2024.
The Forge Literary Magazine. Genre: Fiction, flash fiction, micro-fiction. Length: Under 3,000 words preferred. Payment: $75. Deadline: Opens October 1, 2024. They open to fee-free submissions on the first of each month and close when they reach their quota.
Flash Fiction Online. Genre: Flash fiction. Payment: $100. Deadline: Opens October 1, 2024, and closes when they reach capacity.
Galaxy’s Edge. Genre: Fantasy or urban fantasy. Payment: $0.07/word for stories up to 10,000 words. Deadline: October 1, 2024.
White Stag. Genre: Poetry, fiction, essays on theme: personal mythology & familial lore. Payment: $5 per poem or $10 per flash fiction or lyrical essay piece + one copy of the printed anthology. Deadline: October 1, 2024.
Quist. Restrictions: Open to writers and artists between the ages of 14 and 21 and based in Quebec. Genre: Poetry and prose. Payment: $75. Deadline: October 1, 2024.
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: October 1, 2024.
The Last Line. Genre: Fiction that ends with the last line provided. Payment: $20-$40. Deadline: October 1, 2024.
The Iowa Review. Genre: Fiction, poetry. Payment: $1.50 per line for poetry ($100 minimum) and $0.08 per word for prose ($100 minimum). Deadline: October 1, 2024. No fee for snail mail submissions. $4 fee for online submissions.
The Paris Review. Genres: Fiction, poetry. Payment: Not specified. Deadline: Opens October 1, 2024, and closes when they reach capacity.
Gordon Square Review. Genre: Poetry, short stories, personal essays, and hybrid prose works. Payment: $25 per prose piece and $10 per poem. Deadline: October 1, 2024.
Cutleaf. Genre: Literary nonfiction. Length: Less than 6,000 words. Payment: $100 to $400. Deadline: October 1, 2024.
Bright Wall/Dark Room. Genre: Essays on film and TV. See theme. Payment: $100 per essay. Deadline: October 1, 2024.
The Other Stories (Audio). Genre: Horror on themes. Payment: 15 GBT. Deadline: October 1, 2024. See themes.
Cogs and Cutlasses. Genre: Steampunk Adventure Fiction. Theme: A collection of piracy themed stories, set in a steampunk environment. Word Count: 5,000 – 10,000. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 1, 2024.
Science Fiction Is a Drag! Genre: Science fiction stories that are, first and foremost, drag. Payment: $50. Deadline: October 1, 2024.
Humour Me. Genre: Humorous short stories and cartoons. See themes. Payment: Flat fee of £20.00 per accepted submission for stories. Flat fee of £5.00 per accepted cartoon submissions. Deadline: October 2, 2024.
Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores. Genre: Speculative stories. Payment: 8 cents/word for original work. 2 cents/word for reprints. Deadline: October 2, 2024. Opens October 1. This is a monthly call.
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, 2024.
Gutter. Genre: Poetry and prose in Scotland and beyond. Length: Poetry submissions can consist of up to five poems, totaling no more than 120 lines. Prose, up to 3000 words. Payment: £30. Deadline: October 4, 2024.
Space Cowboys 6. Genre: Speculative fiction. "Cowboys have a certain reckless reputation and that doesn’t fade away when you move them into space and onto alien worlds. Men and women who face hardships and rope a living out of an unforgiving landscape without waiting for orders from a distant authority. They do what needs to be done and take care of their animals, their people, and themselves." Payment: Royalty share. Deadline: October 4, 2024.
Ecotone. Genre: Poems in the French repeating forms: Especially rondeaux, rondels, rondelets, ballades, and the like.Flash fiction and nonfiction: Up to three works between 750 and 2,000 words Payment: $100 minimum for poetry and a $200 minimum for prose. Deadline: October 5, 2024. Fee-free peroid opens October 1.
Stone's Throw. Genre: Noir, dark fiction, crime short stories. Length: between 1,000 and 2,000 words. See theme. Payment: $25. Deadline: October 7, 2024.
The Aesthete. Genre: Fiction, poetry. Payment: $5. Deadline: October 7, 2024.
Affirm Press. Restrictions: They only accept Australians. Genre: All literary and genre fiction. For non-fiction, they are interested in most subjects that have a connection to Austria. authors 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. Read their submission guidelines here. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 7, 2024.
Black Ink Books. Restrictions: Open to Australian writers. Genre: Full-length general, literary and commercial non-fiction – including history, current affairs, memoir and biography. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 7, 2024. Note: Open to submissions the first week of every month.
Tales from the Moonlit Path. Genre: Dark, eerie speculative fiction and poetry. Payment: $10 for fiction. Deadline: October 12, 2024.
Flame Tree Publishing This Way Lies Madness. Genre: Horror on theme: Madness. Payment: 8 cents/word. Deadline: October 13, 2024.
Griffith Review. Genre: Short fiction and nonfiction up to 4,000 words. See theme. Payment: $500 (?) Deadline: October 13, 2024.
Daikaijuzine. Genre: Speculative fiction, poetry, art. Payment: $10.00 for each short story, and $5.00 for each poem and flash fiction piece. Deadline: October 13, 2024.
Seaside Gothic. Genre: Seaside gothic fiction, poetry, nonfiction, or a collection of photographs or illustrations. Payment: £0.01 per word. Deadline: October 13, 2024.
Solarpunk Magazine. Genre: Solarpunk. Payment: $0.08/word for fiction, $40/poem, and $75/essay. Deadline: October 14, 2024.
Inner Worlds Zine. Genre: Science fiction, fantasy, or supernatural horror prose with a strong emotional or psychological focus. "We are mainly interested in fiction, but we’re open to speculative memoir or creative non fiction, as long as it has speculative elements.” Payment: £0.02 per word for each piece accepted, with a minimum £20 payment. Deadline: October 14, 2024, for members of marginalised groups only.
Cast of Wonders. Genre: YA Speculative fiction; podcast. 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: Deadline: October 14, 2024.
New Orleans Review. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Payment: $300 for prose, $100 for poetry. Deadline: October 15, 2024. In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, there are no submission fees for Latinx writers from September 15th to October 15th.
Electric Spec. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: $20 per piece. Deadline: October 15, 2024.
QT: Queer Toronto Literary Magazine Genre: Poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, personal essays, reflections, memoirs, as well as artwork, drawings, comics, photographs, collages, and other visual media. "Here, queer literature is not limited to explicitly queer content, but rather works created by LGBTQ2SIA+ people. Individuals from underrepresented communities, especially women, trans people, and BIPOC artists and writers are encouraged to self-identify in their submission email. Creators based in, or content featuring Toronto will be given extra consideration, but QT welcomes all pieces and artists with a connection to Canada." Payment: Featured artists and authors will receive an honorarium of $15. Issue designers will receive an honorarium of $100. Deadline: October 15, 2024.
Spring Into SciFi. Genre: Science fiction short stories. Payment: $15. Deadline: October 15, 2024.
Speculative City. Genre: Speculative fiction set in the city. Payment: $20-$55 according to the category and length of the submission. Deadline: October 15, 2024.
Winter Horrorland. Genre: Horror. Word Count: 1,500-4,000. See theme. Payment: $25. Deadline: October 15, 2024.
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 15, 2024.
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, 2024.
McClelland & Stewart is a division of Penguin Random House. Restrictions: Open to Black, Indigenous, and racialized writers, as well as those of other traditionally underrepresented communities. Genre: Full-length literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Payment: Advance and royalties. Deadline: October 15, 2024.
Painted Hearts Publishing. Genre: HOLIDAY short stories! Submissions should be between 15k and 25k words, be of a romantic nature, and contain a holiday/winter theme. All genres of LGBTQ+ romance and all heat levels are welcome. Payment: $100. Deadline: October 15, 2024.
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: October 15, 2024. Fiction only.
Translunar Travelers Lounge. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: $0.03 per word with a minimum of $20. Deadline: October 15, 2024. (Note: September 15-21 is reserved for writers of color)
Rattle: Tribute to the Haibun. Genre: Haibun. Payment: $200. Deadline: October 16, 2024.
Roxane Gay Books. Genre: Un-agented novels, short fiction collections, memoirs, narrative nonfiction books, and personal essay collections. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 16, 2024.
Roxane Gay Books. Genre: Novels, short fiction, memoir, essay collections, and nonfiction. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 16, 2024.
Shooter. Genre: Fiction, poetry, CNF, art on theme of Coming of Age. Payment: £25 per story and £5 per poem. Deadline: October 20, 2024.
Typehouse. Restrictions: October 14-21: In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, no-fee submissions are open for all Hispanic/Latino/a/e/x creators, not limited to those in the US. Genre: Poetry, prose, art. Payment: $5. Deadline: October 21, 2024.
Astrolabe. Genre: Fiction, creative nonfiction, and photography & art. Payment: $50. Deadline: October 22, 2024.
Off Topic Publishing: Poetry Box. Genre: Poetry. Payment $40 CAD. Deadline: October 25, 2024. This is a monthly call. Submit by the 25th of each month.
Havok. Genre: Flash fiction. See themes. Payment: $50 via PayPal for each story selected for an Anthology. No payment for online publication. Deadline: October 25, 2024.
Riddlebird. Genre: Literary fiction, personal essays. Payment: $100. Deadline: October 26, 2024.
Flame Tree Press: Afrofuturism. Genre: Speculative fiction that is located in "the African point of view, experience, culture, themes, and history with technology based in Africa, not the diaspora." Payment: 8 cents/6 pence per word for original stories, 6 cents/4 pence for reprints. Deadline: October 27, 2024. Accepts reprints.
The Suburban Review. Genre: Prose, art, poetry. Theme: Disability. Payment: AUD150-275 for prose; AUD125-275 for poetry; comics and art AUD100-300. Deadline: October 27, 2024..
Mythaxis. Genre: Speculative fiction. Payment: $20. Deadline: October 30, 2024.
Deadset Press: Rebels and Rainbows. Restrictions: Open to all Australian and New Zealand authors who identify as LGBTIQA+, from any gender identity, and ally authors. Genre: Stories that feature LGBTIQA+ characters of any gender identity across the wide universes of speculative fiction. Swashbuckling pirates, mischievous necromancers, charming elder gods, dashing bounty hunters, anything goes! Payment: $25. Deadline: October 30, 2024.
Agbowo. Restrictions: Open to African origin writers only. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, plays, book reviews and art/photography. Payment: Single Poems - $25; Suites of poems (2-4) - $50; One act plays -$50; Essays/Nonfiction - $60; Fiction - $60; Visual Art - $35. Deadline: October 30, 2024.
How2Conquer. Genre: Nonfiction books. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Dread Mondays. Genre: Workplace horror. Payment: 6 cents/word. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Nine Arches. Genre: Poetry collections. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Brick. Genre: Nonfiction. Payment: $55–725, depending on the length of accepted work, plus two copies of the issue the work appears in and a one-year subscription to the magazine. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
The Temz Review. Genre: Prose (fiction and creative non-fiction) up to 10,000 words long. Payment: $20. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
MetaStellar. Genre: Science fiction, fantasy or horror. 1000 words max. Payment: 8 cents per word. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Diet Milk: ‘In The Bleak Midwinter.' Genre: Gothic micro/flash fiction. Payment: $3 for micro fiction, $5 for flash fiction. Deadline: October 31, 2024. (Runs from October 1 - 31)
New Writing Scotland. Restrictions: Open to writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing or inclination. Genre: All forms of writing. Payment: £50 for the first published page and £25 for each subsequent published page. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Harbor Review. Genre: Poetry, art. Payment: $10. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Rebel Satori Press. Genre: Book-length nonfiction on the occult and esoterica. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Cozy Mysteries from the Rock. Restrictions: Open to Canadians. Genre: Cozy mystery. Length: under 10,000 words. Payment: $0.01 CAD per word. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Inner Worlds Zine. Genre: Science fiction, fantasy, or supernatural horror prose with a strong emotional or psychological focus. "We are mainly interested in fiction, but we’re open to speculative memoir or creative non fiction, as long as it has speculative elements.” Payment: £0.02 per word for each piece accepted, with a minimum £20 payment. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Midnight Menagerie. Genre: Stories that feature the strange and bizarre from around the cosmos and other dimensions. Payment: $15. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Dust & Dark. Genre: Horror. Payment: £0.07 per word. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Flash Point Science Fiction. Genre: Speculative fiction stories from 100 to 1,000 words in length. "Send us your science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, and everything in between, so long as it’s short." Payment: 2 cents/word. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
JMS Books. Genre: LGBTQ romance stories, 12,000 words minimum. See theme. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Parallel Universe Publications: Swords & Sorceries. Genre: Heroic fantasy. Payment: £25; and an additional £25 if a hardcover version is issued. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy. Genre: Science fiction and fantasy. Length: 1500-7500 words. Payment: $0.005/word up to 7500 words. Minimum of $15. Reprints paid at full rate. Deadline: October 31, 2024. Accepts reprints.
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: October 31, 2024. Nonfiction only.
Dragon Soul Press: Dragon Legends. Genre: "All dragon stories. All genres accepted." Payment: Royalties. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Kaleidotrope. Genre: Speculative fiction and poetry—science fiction, fantasy, and horror, but also compelling work that blurs the lines between these and falls outside of neat genre categories. Payment: For fiction, $0.01/word (1 cent a word) USD. For poetry, a flat rate of $5 USD per accepted piece. For artwork, a flat rat of $60 for cover art. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Black Beacon Books: Steampunk Sleuths. Genre: Steampunk Sleuths will be an anthology of four novelettes (15 - 20,000 words) featuring detectives in a steampunk setting solving peculiar crimes. The only requirements for submission will be that the means of committing the crime (murder, theft, kidnapping...) must be clearly steampunk and the reader must be given the tools to crack the case before the solution is revealed. Payment: $50. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Haven Speculative. Genre: Speculative fiction and poetry. Payment: 8¢ per word for fiction and $20 for poetry. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
The Rumpus. Genre: Essays, comics. Payment: $400 divided among all contributors. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dog Stories. Genre: True stories and poems. "We are looking for first-person true stories and poems up to 1200 words that highlight the unique personalities that cats have. Celebrate your cat, or a cat you know, with a wonderful story about what he or she does. Stories can be serious or humorous, or both." Payment: $200. Deadline: October 31, 2024.
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The Forge Literary Magazine. Genre: Fiction, flash fiction, micro-fiction. Length: Under 3,000 words preferred. Payment: $75. Deadline: Opens November 1, 2024. They open to fee-free submissions on the first of each month and close when they reach their quota.
Last Girls Club. Genre: Feminist horror: short stories and poems - see themes. Payment: Fiction, 15 cents/word. Poetry, $10. Deadline: November 1, 2024.
Ninth Letter Web Edition. Genre: Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. See theme. Payment: $25 per poem and $75 for prose. Deadline: November 1, 2024.
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: $25. Deadline: November 1, 2024.
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: November 1, 2024.
Nonbinary Review. Genre: Poetry, fiction, essays, and art. See theme. Payment: $10 - $25. Deadline: November 1, 2024.
Poetry Ireland Review. Genre: Poetry. Payment: €50, or a year's subscription to the review. Deadline: November 1, 2024.
Antiphony Press. Genre: Poetry collection. Payment: $500 plus 10 copies of your book. Deadline: November 1, 2024.
The Other Stories (Audio). Genre: Horror on themes. Payment: 15 GBT. Deadline: November 1, 2024. See themes.
Cutleaf. Genre: Poetry Payment: $50 to $100. Deadline: November 1, 2024.
Iron Horse. Genre: Poems, stories, and essays that center around deception: false pretenses, fraud, sleight-of-hand tricks, the Big Lie, poker faces, academic dishonesty, infidelity, AI, spin jobs, any type of monkey business. "We'll be especially happy to receive manuscripts about the lies that save people."
Payment: $100 per essay or story, and $50 per poem or flash piece. Deadline: Free day November 1, 2024.
Wyld Magick. Genre: Fantasy. Theme: Forest Fae. Word Count: 5,000 – 10,000. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: November 1, 2024.
Thema. Genre: Fiction, poetry, and art on theme: Maybe Next Time. Payment: $10-$25 for short fiction and artwork, $10 for poetry. Deadline: November 1, 2024. Accepts reprints.
The First Line. Genre: Fiction, poetry, nonfiction using the first line provided. (See site.) Payment: $25.00 - $50.00 for fiction, $10.00 for poetry, and $25.00 for nonfiction. Deadline: November 1, 2024.
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