HWA
L.A.: For April, 2023
New
or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum
Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)
Reckoning Vol. 8
https://reckoning.press/submit
Payment: 10 cents a word
Story Length: up to 20,000 words
Deadline: September 22, 2023
Reprints?: Query first
Response: 1 to 4 months
Description: Creative writing about
environmental justice and social activism. 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.
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 (or until reaching the cap of 425 submissions) (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 DARK (monthly online e-magazine)
http://thedarkmagazine.com/submission-guidelines
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: 2,000–6,000 words
Deadline: Currently open, but intermittent
Reprints?: Yes
Response: between 1 day to 1 week
Description: Unique Horror and Dark Fantasy (No graphic/ violent
content); fiction that may fall out of “regular” categories (Tons of great
authors publish here).
Calliope Interactive
https://calliopeinteractive.com/open-call
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: 100–4,000 words
Deadline: Month XX, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: estimated within 2 months
Description: Unthemed genre fiction;
anything to do with high fantasy, operatic sci-fi, heart-stopping action,
that’s our jam.
Orion’s Belt (online magazine)
https://www.orions-belt.net/submissions
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 1,200 words
Deadline: September 1, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: generally within one week
Description: Bold, experimental
literary science fiction and fantasy stories that blur the line between “genre”
fiction and literary fiction.
https://littlebluemarble.ca/submission-guidelines
Payment: 11 cents a word
(Canadian; translates to about US 8 cents/word)
Story Length: up to 2,000 words
(reprints allowed up to 5,000 words at <1 cent/ word)
Deadline: Intermittent (currently
set to close “in Summer, 2023”)
Reprints?: No
Response: up to 12 weeks
Description: Speculative fiction
that examines humanity’s possible futures living with anthropogenic climate
change. We prefer fiction with a hopeful outlook, but the occasional dystopia
might fit too.
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of
the Month”
https://pressfuls.com/about
Payment: 3 cents a word
Story Length: 2,000–3,000 words
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: 6 weeks
Description: Original horror,
Fantasy, Sci-fi, and Crime/Mystery short stories.
https://www.aliensunpress.com/
Payment: $50 flat
Story Length: 3,000–6,000 words
Deadline: June 1, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Weird Fiction; Complex
tales; rewritten mythology; unique and clever Horror stories involving cursed
or dangerous films, etc.
