HWA L.A.: For February, 2025
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)
New or Reopening Market Listings/ Notes
At Minimum Pro-Paying (5 cents+ per word)
Payment: 5 cents a word (1 cent/word for reprints)
Story Length: 1,500–5,000 words
Deadline: Open February 1 through February
28, 2025
Reprints?: Yes
Response: unknown
Description: Looking to update the
“mummy genre.” Diverse stories about “Modern mummies,” which could also mean a
modern-day person being mummified and its ramifications. We’d like you to think
about how social media or our politics might react to a “new wave” of
mummification. And what does that say about death in the modern era?
Payment: 8 cents a word (poetry at $1 USD per line)
Story Length: up to 2,000 words
Deadline: Currently open (no ending
date listed)
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description:
Story Length: up to 2,000 words
Deadline: Currently open (no ending
date listed)
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Strong prose and poetry
covering a wide range of material, whose work transcends disciplines and
genres.
The Cosmic Background
Payment: 10 cents a word (3 cents/word for reprints)
Story Length: up to 1,000 words
(soft range/ a bit over is okay)
Deadline: Currently open (no ending
date listed)
Reprints?: Yes
Response: unknown
Description: Slipstream/ speculative
flash fiction stories: character-focused writing, with an emphasis on voice.
Elder Things Expeditions (anthology)
Payment: 8 cents a word for the 1st 3,000
words and 3 cents a word thereafter
Story Length: 3,000–6,000 words
Deadline: March 31, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: 90 days
Description: Short horror
Lovecraftian-esque stories relating to exploration of Antarctica, and leading
to revelations about the nature of the denizens, normal and paranormal, residing
there.
Wrath Month (Bona Books)
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 6,000 words
Deadline: May 31, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: July 31, 2025
Description: Fantasy,
science-fiction, and horror short stories that embrace punk and queer rage:
Wrath lies at the heart of queer liberation—it can be a spur to action and the
only righteous response to a world that would prefer we didn’t exist. So crash
mainframes, collapse empires, and break normativity. Pride month is over.
It’s time for—Wrath Month!
Assemble Artifacts Magazine
(Assemble Media)
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).
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of
the Month”
Payment: 1 cent a word
Story Length: 3,000–5,500 wordsDeadline: March 31, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Horror stories of cryptids, folk characters, and legends; seeking to breathe new life into aged stories. So, ax re-telling, and focus on re-envisioning.
https://flashpointsf.com/submissions/
Payment: 2 cents a word
Story Length: 100–1,000 words
Deadline: Open February 1 through March 31, 2025
Reprints?: No
Response: 30 days
Description: Original speculative fiction short stories (may include science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, holiday, but NO Horror).
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