HWA L.A.: October, 2021
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)
Dark Void Magazine (*New
Market)
https://darkvoidmagazine.com/submissionguidelines
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: 3,000–4,000 words
Deadline: Intermittent
Reprints?: No
Response: Unknown
Description: Science Fiction Horror
short stories (note: Stories must take place OFF Earth).
https://darkmattermagazine.com/submission-guidelines/
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 1,000–5,000 words
Deadline: October 31, 2021
Reprints?: Yes (paid at 2 cents/word)
Response: up to 45 days
Description: Stories that explore
the shadow side of reality (mostly horror and/or science fiction).
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
http://www.alfredhitchcockmysterymagazine.com/contact-us/writers-guidelines
Payment:
5-to-8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 12,000 (but the shorter, the better)
Deadline: Intermittent
Reprints?: No
Response: Up to a year (though tracking status is utilized)
Description: Fiction Mystery: stories of detection of the classic kind,
police procedurals, private eye tales, suspense, courtroom dramas, stories of
espionage, and so on. Story must be about a crime (or the threat or fear of
one). Sometimes accept ghost stories or supernatural tales, but those also
should involve a crime (fresh, well told, and absorbing).
Flash Fiction Online
https://ffo.submittable.com/submit
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 500 to 1,000 words
Deadline: Open from the 1st
to 21st of each month (only)
Reprints?: Yes (payment at 2 cents/ word)
Response: Within eight weeks
Description: A very short but complete story of flash fiction. Strong,
interesting characters, in genres of dark sci-fi, fantasy, paranormal, crime,
horror, and even literary.
The Deadlands
https://thedeadlands.com/guidelines/#fiction
Payment: 10 cents a word (1 cent for reprints)
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
(preferably 3,000–4,000 words)
Deadline: ongoing or intermittent
(currently open)
Reprints?: Yes
Response: unknown
Description: Speculative fiction
stories about death, or what death may involve. EX: A ghost in a shadowed wood.
An afterlife discovered through a rusted door. An abandoned house in the middle
of a haunted field. A skeletal figure moving with intent toward something unseen.
Death personified; stories from a worldwide perspective, different cultures,
different approaches to death.
http://aanpress.com/submissions.html
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 1,000–3,000 words
Deadline: open between November
15–February 16, 2022
Reprints?: No
Response: April 30, 2022
Description: Reinterpretations of
the Orpheus/Eurydice myth in a variety of genres.
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of
the Month”
https://darkmoondigest.submittable.com/submit
Payment: 3 cents a word (1 cent/ word for reprints; also $30 flat for nonfiction)
Story Length: 1,500–7,000 words
Deadline: Until monthly quota is
filled
Reprints?: Yes (paid at 1 cent/
word)
Response: up to 9 months
Description: Fiction reminiscent of
The Twilight Zone, Black Mirror, Tales from the Crypt, and Tales from the
Darkside. We want stories with complex characters and ideas spun in ways
nobody’s ever conceived. Make our brains hurt. Make our hearts explode with
love and terror. Make us fear.
https://www.3lobedmag.com/submissions.html
Payment: $100 flat for short fiction ($30 for flash
fiction/ 1,000 words)
Story Length: up to 7,500 words
Deadline: Continually open
Reprints?: No
Response Time: within 3 months
Description: Non-themed, original
speculative fiction: horror, fantasy, and science fiction.
