HWA L.A.: July, 2021
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)
CRAFT Fiction (online literary journal)
https://craft.submittable.com/submit
Payment: $100 for flash fiction.
$200 for longer pieces.
Story Length: up to 6,000 words
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: possibly
Response: unknown
Description: Short stories OR standalone excerpts from
longer works; Fiction that shines because of its exploration of craft. All
genres and styles are welcome; our only requirement is that you show excellence
in your craft. We want to be wowed. Bend genres, experiment with structure, and
write your heart out. Each selected piece will include an editor’s introduction
as well as a craft note from the author.
Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores
https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/submissions/
Payment: 6 cents/ word original; 2 cents/ word reprint
Story Length: 1,000–40,000
words (focus on shorter form)
Deadline: Opens the 1st and 2nd day only of each
month.
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).
https://www.themysteryplace.com/eqmm/guidelines/
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: (No 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."
Things with Feathers:
Stories of Hope (Third Flatiron)
https://thirdflatiron.com/2021_TF_WP/
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 1,500–3,000
words
Deadline: August 2, 2021
Reprints?: No
Response: by October 1, 2019
Description: SF/Fantasy/light horror: Stories need
not be exclusively positive. For example, after the long pandemic, you might
recall the old proverb, “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.” Sharpen your
Sharpies and tell us where you think hope will get us.
Reckoning Vol. 6
https://reckoning.press/submit
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: up to 20,000 words
Deadline: September 22, 2021
Reprints?: Query first
Response: 1 to 4 months
Description: Creative writing about
environmental justice. Diverse fiction stories (and poetry) including a
speculative element: Searingly personal, visceral, idiosyncratic understanding
of the world and the people in it as it has been, as it is, as it will be, as
it could be, as a consequence of humanity’s relationship with the earth.
https://www.analogsf.com/contact-us/writers-guidelines
Payment: 8–10 cents a word (9
cents a word for non-fiction)
Story Length: up to 20,000 words
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: 2–3 months
Description: Science fiction stories
in which some aspect of future science or technology is so integral to the plot
that, if that aspect were removed, the story would collapse.
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of
the Month”
https://vautrin.pub/submissions/
Payment: $130 flat above
2,000 words; $65 flat below 2,000 words
Story Length: up to 6,000 words
Deadline: September 1, 2021
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Stories that are
“Gritty Urban” or “Crime-Mystery” or “Ghost Stories”. Also interested in
non-fiction essays (different pay structure).
https://smallbeerpress.com/about/submission-guidelines/
Payment: 3 cents a word
Story Length: up to 6,000 words
Deadline: ongoing/ intermittent
Reprints?: No
Response: within 6 months
Description: NOTE: PAPER SUBMISSIONS
ONLY (no email): Non-themed literary speculative fiction (no gore, sword and
sorcery, or erotica).
