HWA L.A.: For October, 2023New or Reopening Market Listings/ NotesAt Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)
The Map of Lost
Places (Apex Book Co.)
https://www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontpage/anthology-submissions-call-the-map-of-lost-places
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: Open between December 1
and December 31, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: One month
Description: Stories about places
where weird things happen. Places that have strange histories, their own
traditions and customs, their own dangers. These can be based off real folk
tales or old wives tales.
https://www.planetscumm.space/submit
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: November 5, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Previously unpublished
short fiction that doesn’t lean heavily on genre tropes. Hard sci-fi, soft
sci-fi, sci-fi that melts in your mouth-brain not your hand-brain. Speculative
fiction, weird fiction, slipstream, glitterlit, analogpunk.
Assemble Artifacts Magazine (Assemble
Media)
https://www.assemblemedia.com/artifacts
Payment: 8–10 cents a word
Story Length: “at least” 5,000 words
(soft range)
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: Responses only for
acceptance. Assume rejection if no response after 90 days.
Description: Stories of wonder and
suspense that also reflect contemporary issues and incite meaningful
conversation. (*NOTE: Submitters, double-check the rights that are being sold
with work).
The Deadlands
https://thedeadlands.com/guidelines/
Payment: 10 cents a word (1
cent for reprints)
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
(preferably 3,000–4,000 words)
Deadline: November 30, 2023
Reprints?: Yes
Response: Two weeks
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.
Apparition Lit (upcoming)—Theme of
BLIGHT
https://apparitionlit.com/submissions/
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: 1,000–5,000 words
Deadline: Open between November 15–November 30, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: by the 15th day of the
following month after submissions close
Description: Quarterly Theme =
“Blight”. Any speculative fiction story related to this concept/ theme.
https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/submissions/
Payment: 8 cents/ word original; 2 cents/ word reprint (range for non-fiction)
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).
Also interested in non-fiction.
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of
the Month”
https://www.3lobedmag.com/submissions.html
Payment: $100 flat
Story Length: 1,000–7,500 words
Deadline: Ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response Time: within 3 months
Description: Non-themed, original
speculative fiction: horror, fantasy, and science fiction.
https://dmrbooks.com/submissions
Payment: 1 cent a word
Story Length: 4,000–8,000 words
Deadline: Open between November 1–November 30, 2023
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Unthemed, original
sword-and-sorcery short stories (i.e. generally combining swashbuckling
adventure with supernatural elements).
