New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)
Book Worms Horror Zine, Issue #10:
Apocalyptic Horror
https://rsaintclaire.com/2025/11/03/call-for-submissions-4/
Payment: 8 cents a word ($25
flat for poetry)
Story Length: up to 1,500 words
Deadline: January 10, 2026
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Original, non-themed
short stories of end-of-the-world dread, AKA: Apocalyptic Horror. We’re looking
for stories and poetry that dive into nuclear winters, climate catastrophes,
algorithmic uprisings, techno-anarchy, or whatever fresh brand of apocalypse
your twisted imagination can conjure.
**Note: This publisher accepts submissions ONLY via postal
mail
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: Open between December 1
and December 15, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: Unknown
Description: Stories with
anthropomorphized animals as protagonists; Animal-centric speculative fiction
(fantasy, science fiction, horror). (Also open to poetry and non-fiction.)
Adventitious e-Magazine
https://www.adventitious.net/submission-guidelines/
Payment: 8 cents a word (1
cent/word for reprints)
Story Length: up to 17,000 words
Deadline: Open between December 1
and December 5, 2025
Reprints?: Yes
Response: Within 8 weeks
Description: Stories that offer a
sense of wonder through their language, characters, plots, or all of the above.
Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and all speculative/surreal will always be welcomed, but we’re
also happy with stories that shock and delight right here on this plane of
existence.
Night Shades Magazine
https://www.nightshadesmag.com/submissions/
Payment: $65 flat rate
Story Length: up to 500 words
Opens: December 26, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Non-themed, original
speculative fiction. All types of Fantasy/ Science Fiction/ Horror. “Something
genuine and strange, that takes big swings with language, and that takes
advantage of the short form rather than strains against it.”
Rotting Leaf Magazine
https://www.briefecology.com/p/annoucement-rotting-leaf-magazine
Payment: 6 cents a word
Story Length: up to 1,500 words
Deadline: Open between December 1
and December 6, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Short stories of
Eco-Fiction (broadly defined), including: Eco-Horror; Eco-Gothic/Anti-gothic; Haunted/Unhaunted
Landscapes; Transcorporeality; Eco-Surrealism/Existentialism/Absurdism; etc.)
https://bcubedpress.moksha.io/publication/yes-this-is-the-more-alternative-liberties-portal-you-are-seeking/guidelines
Payment: 10 cents a word
Story Length: 1,500–3,000 words
(soft range)
Deadline: December 20, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Stories, poems, and
essays about the potential consequences of the 2024 Presidential election told
in current, near future or even similar situations where such a leader is in
power; stories of people who fight the change, endure the change, or embrace
the change. But key word is People. I want the stories to be about the People
(an maybe the animal liberation front in Springfield or a couch salesmen in
Ohio who knows things.
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of
the Month”
https://blackbeaconbooks.blogspot.com/p/submissions.html
Payment: $30 flat rate for
original stories ($10 flat for reprints)
Story Length: 3,000–9,000 words
(soft range)
Deadline: December 31, 2025
Reprints?: Yes
Response: Does not send rejections.
Acceptances sent by January 15, 2026.
Description: Non-themed quality
horror short stories.
https://drekdeathanddoom.com/submissions/
Payment: between 1–4 cents a
word
Story Length: 2,000–6,000 words
Deadline: December 25, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Original Valentine’s
Day Horror Stories Wanted (no horror comedy).
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