HWA L.A.: September, 2021
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)
Midnight In the Stagecoach (anthology,
Silver Shamrock Publishing)
https://www.silvershamrockpublishing.com/midnightinthestagecoachanthology
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: 2,500–6,000 words
Deadline: April 30, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Original splatterpunk
western short stories set in the late 1800s Old West. Any horror trope is fair
game.
https://www.jackcalverley.com/cozy-crime-mystery-anthology-submission.html
Payment: 10 cents a word
Story Length: 2,000–5,000 words
(soft range)
Deadline: October 31, 2021
Reprints?: No
Response: By December 31, 2021
Description: All-new crime and
mystery stories: Fictional tales of bad neighbors and what becomes of them. The
focus is more on “cozy” mysteries, but open to all dark fiction/ horror/
mystery sub-genres.
DreamForge Magazine
https://dreamforgemagazine.com/call-for-submissions/
Payment: 6 cents a word
(slightly less for reprints or online-only option)
Story Length: up to 4,500 words
Deadline: Open between November 15–November
30, 2021
Reprints?: Yes (less pay, 3 cents a
word)
Response: 6–9 weeks
Description: Positive (and “clean”)
science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction. Hope and advancement.
Solarpunk Magazine
https://solarpunkmagazine.com/submissions/
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 500–7,500 words
Deadline: Open between November 1–November
14, 2021
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Stories that strive for
a utopian ideal, that are set in futures where communities are optimistically
struggling to solve or adapt to climate change, to create or maintain a world
in which humanity, technology, and nature coexist in harmoney rather than in
conflict, etc.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/55341297
NOTE: These are successfully-funded Kickstarter campaigns open for
public submissions.
All 3 anthologies:
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: to 7,500 words
Deadline: December 31, 2021
Reprints?: No
Response: March 31, 2022
Tone for all: Range of tones, from humorous all the way up to dark; Not
looking for torture porn, nor gratuitous violence of any kind.
1. Noir
Description: science fiction, fantasy, or urban fantasy stories with a
detective/private investigator set-up and a noir atmosphere.
2. Shattering the Glass Slipper
Description: stories of known fairy tales that have been upended,
gender-bent, or twisted around in some way.
3. Brave New Worlds
Description: science fiction stories set along the pathway of us leaving
Earth for the stars.
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of
the Month”
https://www.weirdpunkbooks.com/submissions
Payment: 2 cents a word
Story Length: 2,500–5,000 words
Deadline: Open between November 1–November
30, 2021
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Stories about the
complex relationships between artists and models. Weird, horror, dysfunctional,
anything.
https://sciencefictionery.com/submissions
Payment: 3 pence a word
(converts to about 4 cents/ word)
Story Length: 300–5,000 words
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Stories from every
Science Fiction subgenre. Also interested in non-fiction and poetry.
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