Monday, October 28, 2024

November, 2024 Dark Fiction Short Story Markets

HWA L.A.: For November, 2024
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)


Out There (Sans. Press)
https://www.sanspress.com/submissions
Payment: €200 flat (abt. $215 U.S. (*which “may” ultimately calculate to a bit less than 5 cents a word)
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: November 21, 2024
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Short stories that engage with new ways of being, and that embrace unapologetic weirdness. Between literary and experimental, sci-fi and speculative, that are no rules as to how you interpret the prompt; be as metaphorical or literal as you wish – as long as you promise to take us on an unforgettable journey.


Shatter the Sun: Queer Tales of Untold Adventure (published by Neon Hemlock)
https://www.neonhemlock.com/submissions
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 6,000 words (preferred 1,000–4,000)
Deadline: Open between November 1, 2024 and January 15, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: up to 4 months
Description: Fantasy stories of queer heroes forged and tempered in the fire, fighting dark stars and bright suns, and overthrowing tyranny in all its forms. Sword and sorcery, sweat and sandals, souls and stars. (Open to all authors.)


Small Wonders
https://smallwondersmag.com/submissions/
Payment: 10 cents a word (1 cent a word for reprints)
Story Length: up to 1,000 words (or 1,100 words for reprints)
Deadline: Intermittent
Reprints?: Yes
Response: Unspecified, but according to online reports up to five months
Description: Non-themed short stories relating to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror.


TWO SEPARATE ANTHOLOGIES from Flame Tree Publishing
Payment:
8 cents a word (6 cents/ word for reprints)
Story Length: 3,000–4,000 words (soft range)
Deadline: November 24, 2024
Reprints?: Yes
Response: within 4 months of the submission deadline

Morgana le Fay: Fiction short stories about the Greek goddess, Aphrodite.
https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/aphrodite-submissions

Loki: Fiction short stories about the Norse mythological god, Loki.
https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/loki-submissions-0


Plott Hound Magazine
https://plotthoundmag.com/submissions/
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words (preferred 3,000–4,000); or flash fiction up to 999 words
Deadline: *Upcoming: Open between December 1 and December 15, 2024
Reprints?: No
Response: Unknown
Description: Stories with anthropomorphized animals as protagonists; Animal-centric speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction, horror).


Dracula Beyond Stoker: Issue 6: Jonathan Harker
https://www.dbspress.com/submissions
Payment: 5 cents a word
Story Length: 1,500–5,000 words
Open From: Open between November 1, 2024–December 31, 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: What happened on the way from the castle to the hospital in Buda-Pesth? What happens after the story ends? What is his relationship with his son? Jonathan is often perceived and portrayed as impish and weak, but he might just be one of the bravest characters in the book.



***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of the Month”

Weird Horror (Undertow Publications)
https://undertowpublications.com/weird-horror-magazine
Payment: 2 cents a word
Story Length: 500–5,000 words
Deadline: Open between November 2 and November 15, 2024
Reprints?: No
Response: Generally within 2 months
Description: Original (non-themed) horror and weird fiction short stories: The strange, the macabre, the eerie, the esoteric, the fabulist, and the gothic.


Interzone Magazine (TTA Press)
https://interzone.press/submissions/
Payment: 1.5 euros a word
Story Length: 2,000–17,500 words
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: usually within 5 weeks
Description: Fantastika fiction: non-themed, general audience, science fiction, fantasy, and horror.



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