September, 2018
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)
Cosmic Roots and
Eldritch Shores
Payment: 6 cents a word original; 2 cents a word reprint
Story Length: 1,000–40,000 words (focus on shorter form)
Deadline: Open 1 week only: September 21 to September 28, 2018
Reprints?: Yes
Response: abt. 2 months
Description: Well written original stories in science fiction, fantasy, myth, fairy
tales, and eldritch; in written, podcast, video, and/or graphic story form, and
from around the world. We care about character, plot, ideas, and storytelling
ability. We accept both serious and humorous work (no horror).
Constellary Tales (Magazine
AND Podcast) (*New Market)
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: 1,000 – 3,500
words
Deadline: Intermittent
Reprints?: No
Response: 1 month
Description: Science Fiction
and fantasy stories (no straight horror).
“Storytelling across time and space… i.e. any great speculative fiction
stories.”
Clarkesworld
Magazine
Payment: 10 cents per word
for the first 5,000 words, 8 cents for each word over 5,000
Story Length: 1,000–16,000 words
Deadline: Intermittent.
Reprints?: No
Response: Unknown
Description: Science fiction
and fantasy (include. All associated sub-genres); Science fiction need not be
"hard" SF, but rigor is appreciated. Fantasy can be folkloric,
contemporary, surreal, etc. Horror can be supernatural or psychological, so
long as it is frightening.
Daily Science Fiction
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: to 1,500 words (prefer less than 1,000)
Deadline: Continually open
Reprints?: No
Response: 1 month
Description: Speculative fiction, such as science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, etc.
Daily publishings! Great market...
Ellery Queen's
Mystery Magazine
Payment: 5-8 cents a word
Story Length: 2,500 – 8,000 words soft range (additionally, ‘Minute Mysteries’ of as
little as 250 words)
Deadline: Ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: Three months
Description: (Not Horror, but Mystery and Crime) -- Every kind of mystery short
story: the psychological suspense tale, the deductive puzzle, the private eye
case—the gamut of crime and detection from the realistic (including the
policeman's lot and stories of police procedure) to the more imaginative
(including "locked rooms" and "impossible crimes"). We need
hard-boiled stories as well as "cozies."
Dreamers &
Makers ezine (Sanguine Press)
Payment: $120
flat
Story Length: up to 3,000 words
Deadline: June 30, 2016
Reprints?: No
Response: Two months
Description:
Sci-fi, Fantasy, or Horror. Theme = Defiance/Obedience. What is the cost of
defiance and who really ends up paying? What do we give up in unquestioned
obedience, and is it tantamount to capitulation? Story characters must be
predominantly People of Color.)
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of the Month”
Future Visions (Camton
House Publishing)
https://www.futurevisions.io/for-authorsPayment: $150 flat
Story Length: 2,000 – 7,000
words
Deadline: Always Open
Reprints?: No
Response: 4–6 weeks
Description: Stories in the
realm of The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror that explore larger
questions using any and all of the popular science fiction tropes: new
technology, exploration, nightmarish dystopians, alien species, baffling
utopias, etc.
Perpetual Motion
Machine Publishing Newsletter (ed. Max Booth III)
Payment: $25 flat payment
Story Length: up to 1,000 words
Deadline: Ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: Less than 1 month
Description: Dark fiction in the horror, science fiction,
crime, and noir genres to be published in monthly e-newsletter.
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