HWA L.A.: For April, 2024
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)
Solarpunk Magazine
https://solarpunkmagazine.com/submissions/
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 500–7,500 words (a
preference between 1,500–3,000)
Open From: April 1, 2024–April 14,
2024
Reprints?: No
Response: Generally within 60 days
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 harmony rather than in
conflict, etc. Also open to poetry and non-fiction.
Cursed Cooking: A Horror Community
Cookbook and Food Horror Anthology
https://www.cateyepress.com/submissions
Payment: 5 cents a word (1 cent/word for reprints)
Story Length: up to 4,000 words
Deadline: April 30, 2024
Reprints?: Yes
Response: unknown
Description: cookbook and food
horror anthology, featuring both real-world recipes and food horror fiction; tales
of haunted hamburgers, killer chocolate chip cookies, monstrous manicotti,
world-ending wontons, and everything in between. Cook up a story filled with
genetically modified grossness, fast-food freakiness, or homemade horrors. Get
creative. Get hungry. Think outside the pizza box. But also, send us the
recipes that you love, recipes that make your mouth water and have people
screaming for seconds (and thirds and fourths).
Offshoots: Humanity
Twigged (Third Flatiron)
https://thirdflatiron.com/
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: 1,500–3,000
words
Open From: April 1, 2024–April
21, 2024
Reprints?: No
Response: by June 15, 2024
Description: SF, fantasy, positive futures: The
dictionary defines “twig” as a shoot branching off a tree, the result or
descendant of something, or a style of fashion. How will humanity cultivate the
strongest branches from among myriad potential futures? Please give us your
science fictional and fantasy speculations. Possible subjects might include:
bioengineering, space exploration, future societies, magical futurism, and
extrapolation of trends (think Asimov’s Foundation or Loki’s Sacred Timeline).
Stories about effects of AI and virtual reality are fine, but they must be
written by people. Flash humor is welcome.
Reckoning Vol. 9
https://reckoning.press/reckoning-9-submission-call/
Payment: 10 cents a word
Story Length: up to 20,000 words
Deadline: September 22, 2024
Reprints?: Query first
Response: 1 to 6 months
Description: Creative writing about
environmental justice and social activism; any aspect of environmental justice,
from food sovereignty to ocean plastics to industrial cleanup to Indigenous
rights, we want to see it. 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.
Dracula Beyond Stoker: Issue 5:
Lucy’s Suitors - Quincey, Jack, and/or Arthur
https://www.dbspress.com/submissions
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: 1,500–5,000 words
Open From: May 1, 2024–June 15, 2024
Reprints?: Yes (if older than 10
years) (and paid flat rate of $55)
Response: Unknown, but reported as
generally between 30 and 60 days.
Description: The best new fiction
based on Stoker’s characters, locations, and themes. This issue: Let’s read
some stories of these men - together, individually, in combination - before,
during, and after the events of the novel?
https://ffo.submittable.com/submit
Payment: $100 flat
Story Length: 500 to 1,000 words
Deadline: Open from the 1st
to 21st of each month (or until reaching the cap of 1,000 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: APRIL’s SUBMISSION IS FOR SPECIAL ISSUE OF WEIRD
HORROR. Stories that engage with the unexplained and the unexpected, often
through an esoteric lens of mysticism and metaphysics.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N0nLj70ZKbZLiucLZyvC5ojpjhnE3JC43fip_nNZhSg/edit
Payment: $25 flat
Story Length: 500–4,000 words
Deadline: unclear (until full)
Reprints?: No
Response: 45 days
Description: carefully constructed
Horror stories with a focus on the oft-unclear distinction between a
scary-enough reality and our less-or-more-frightening imagination, both in
personal and social realms.
https://mailchi.mp/2ece83d25ded/children-of-the-blind-owl-submissions-page
Payment: $150 - $250 flat
Story Length: 3,000–6,000 words
Deadline: August 31, 2024
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Original weird tales
and essays set in the Middle East that explore the human (and inhuman)
experience through the lens of weird fiction and horror.
