New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
Mmeory (anthology, Air and Nothingness Press)
http://aanpress.com/submissions.html
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 1,500 words
Deadline: Open between July 7–August
15, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: September 15, 2025
Description: Stories of memory manipulation.
Examples include magic spells, cyborg memory edits, very unreliable narrators,
time travel gone horribly wrong; open to all genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction,
Urban Fantasy, Alternate History, Steampunk, Hopepunk, Solarpunk, and beyond...
https://www.diabolicalplots.com/guidelines/
Payment: 10 cents a word
Story Length: 3,500 words or less
Deadline: Open
between July 7– July 21, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response Time: One month after end of submission window
Description: Speculative fiction–science
fiction, fantasy, and horror. Everything should have a speculative element–that
includes horror. Feel free to mix in other genres at will–a fantasy mystery or
a science fiction romance.
Mysterion
(ezine)
https://www.mysteriononline.com/p/submission-guidelines.html
Payment: 8 cents a word (4 cents for reprints)
Story Length: up to 9,000 words
Deadline: Open
between July 1–July 31, 2025
Reprints?: Yes
Response: Four months
Description: Christian-themed
speculative stories and artwork—science fiction, fantasy, horror—with Christian
themes, characters, or cosmology; science fiction and fantasy, good ghost
stories, etc.; there's great fiction material hidden in the mysteries of
Christian theology—cherubim, leviathan, nephilim, visions, prophecy, and more.
The Orange & Bee
https://theorangebee.substack.com/p/submission-guidelines
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 4,000 words
Deadline: Open between July 1– July 14,
2025
Reprints?: No
Response: Within three weeks
Description: Fairy tale narratives:
Original works of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction that engage in a significant
way with the long history of fairy tales. We are interested in works that
stretch, expand, test, subvert, and challenge the fairy-tale tradition. We are
interested in works that are entertaining, but also in works that matter: that
is, in works that are both pleasurable to read and thought-provoking.
TWO SEPARATE ANTHOLOGIES: Romantic Fantasy from Flame Tree Publishing
https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/romantic-fantasy-first-submissions-0
Payment: 8 cents a word (6
cents/ word for reprints)
Story Length: 2,000–4,000 words (soft range)
Deadline: July 20, 2025
Reprints?: Yes
Response: within 4 months of the submission deadline
1. A Breath of Time: Lost loves, love discovered, love unreachable unless Time itself is
conquered, these and many other time-bending, time traveling, time feasting
themes can spark your imagination for stories of alternate history, of ancient
forests returning to haunt the present and great adventures through dreams and
timeless mountain tops, all with hearts beating to the rhythm of romance.
2. Of Love & Dragons: Dragons may be fierce but they are symbols
of great power, and the bond between human and dragon, once forged can never be
broken. Or can it? Can romance deal a deathly trail of vows abandoned, or
forgotten, can realms beyond our time conjure tales of Dragon Lords and warrior
princesses, of great rivalries and oceans yearning with desire and
determination, can you tempt the ancient ways into new meanings, and new
stories.
Mergnaser Magazine
https://mergansermagazine.com/about.html
Payment: 8 cents a word
($1/line for poetry)
Story Length: up to 2,000 words
(soft limit)
Deadline: No closing date listed
Reprints?: No
Response: Within two months
Description: Strong, well-written
pieces across a wide range of material, including fiction, creative
non-fiction, and poetry.
https://inner-worlds.ghost.io/submission-guidelines/
Payment: £0.02 (about US 3 cents a word)
Story Length: 500–2,500 words
Deadline: Open between July 15–August
31, 2025
Reprints?: Yes (if not available
online)
Response: Three weeks
Description: Science fiction,
fantasy, or supernatural horror prose with a strong emotional or psychological
focus.
https://sluggerfiction.com/submit/
Payment: $25 flat
Story Length: 1,000–4,000
words
Deadline: July 15, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: 45 days after close of
submissions
Description: Non-themed
horror; all subgenres of horror (dark fantasy, sci-fi, noir all accepted as
long as horror plays a central role).
