34 Orchard-
At 34 Orchard, we like dark, intense pieces that speak to a deeper truth. We’re not genre-specific; we just like scary, disturbing, unsettling, and sad. We like things we can’t put down and things that make us go “wow” when we’ve finished. But our main goal here at 34 Orchard is to publish the stuff we like to read, and you’re not in our heads. Poetry any style or length. No reprints.
Our reading period for the Spring Issue is January 1-January 31.
Our reading period for the Fall Issue is July 1-July 31.
Payment is $50 on the signing of the contract, usually shortly after acceptance.
Abyss & Apex-
At 34 Orchard, we like dark, intense pieces that speak to a deeper truth. We’re not genre-specific; we just like scary, disturbing, unsettling, and sad. We like things we can’t put down and things that make us go “wow” when we’ve finished. But our main goal here at 34 Orchard is to publish the stuff we like to read, and you’re not in our heads. Poetry any style or length. No reprints.
Our reading period for the Spring Issue is January 1-January 31.
Our reading period for the Fall Issue is July 1-July 31.
Payment is $50 on the signing of the contract, usually shortly after acceptance.
Abyss & Apex-
Abyss & Apex likes to see strong, emotionally resonant, literary-quality poetry with a clear speculative element (fantasy, science fiction, or surrealism in any combination. Although dark poems are encouraged, we DO NOT publish horror. There are no format or length restrictions for poetry, though we prefer lineated free verse or traditional form poetry with at least 9 lines, or prose poems at least 50 words in length, we will publish brilliant shorter work. So wow us with a sestina, or stun us in free verse. We admire poetry that exceeds our expectations in scansion, imagery, emotional impact and creative wordplay. We love language, and we like to see it worked for all it’s worth. Our love of poetry exceeds the space and funds we have to publish it, so we accept only the very best; amaze us! The two reading periods for poetry are:
May – ALL MONTH, unlike fiction which is only the first week.
November – ALL MONTH, unlike fiction
November – ALL MONTH, unlike fiction
Analog will consider material submitted by any writer, and consider it solely on the basis of merit. We are definitely eager to find and develop new, capable writers. We have no hard-and-fast editorial guidelines, because science fiction is such a broad field that I don't want to inhibit a new writer's thinking by imposing Thou Shalt Nots. Besides, a really good story can make an editor swallow his preconceived taboos. Basically, we publish science fiction stories. That is, stories in which some aspect of future science or technology is so integral to the plot that, if that aspect were removed, the story would collapse. Try to picture Mary Shelley's Frankenstein without the science and you'll see what I mean. No story! The science can be physical, sociological, psychological. The technology can be anything from electronic engineering to biogenetic engineering. But the stories must be strong and realistic, with believable people (who needn't be human) doing believable things–no matter how fantastic the background might be. We pay $1 a line for poetry, which should not exceed 40 lines.
You must be both queer and a person of color to submit your writing/art to Anathema.
We’re excited to read any original works of poetry by Queer Writers Of Color that are 10 pages or less. We’re open to any genre of writing so long as there is a speculative element to the story, however slight. Unfortunately, we can only consider work in English; however, we highly encourage international submissions and work in translation. If you’ve been previously published in Anathema, please wait for 4 issues before submitting again.
$50 per poem
Andromeda Spaceways is intended for a wide audience, so we don’t want anything more than M rated: no gratuitous sex or graphic violence. We want the overall tone of ASIM to be light as opposed to the dark-and-gritty style that characterises so many other SF mags this day and age. This does not mean we only publish light humour pieces, though. Our readers are just as keen on traditional fantasy and hard science fiction. We’re just not the best market for doom-laden go-nowhere stories that push the boundaries of the English language into new and unfortunate places. Given an otherwise even choice between angst and adventure, we’ll grab the adventure. Poetry, and Flash Fiction (under 1000 words): $10 per piece.
Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine is an established market for science fiction stories. We pay $1 a line for poetry, which should not exceed 40 lines. We buy First English Language serial rights plus certain non-exclusive rights explained in our contract. We do not publish reprints, and we do not accept “simultaneous submissions” (stories sent at the same time to a publication other than Asimov’s). Asimov’s will consider material submitted by any writer, previously published or not. We’ve bought some of our best stories from people who have never sold a story before.
Our perfect submission defies categorization—pieces that could be “too speculative” for CanLit or literary magazines or “not speculative enough” for speculative magazines. However, we also love a good genre romp, and will publish across many genres, including:
Fantasy
Science fiction (softer side)
Dystopia/utopia
Apocalypse/post-apocalypse
Slipstream
Fairytales
Fables
Fabulism
Magical realism (note: educate yourself before you claim this term)
Dreamy realism
Myth and folklore
We accept simultaneous submissions. Please email us ASAP to let us know if you have to withdraw a piece. We accept a maximum of one submission per category (that is, you may send one short story AND up to five poems, but NOT two short stories or two poem packages in one call).
Text submissions should be formatted as follows:
Standard manuscript format (.doc), preferably without your name (for anonymous reading), in size 12 Times or Times New Roman font; place content warnings under the title of your manuscript. Do not submit more than 5 poems, to a maximum of 10 pages of poetry. Submit all poems in one package, up to 5 poems. We pay $100.00 CAD per poem.
Finally, for grant purposes, please indicate if you have citizenship/residency in Canada/Turtle Island [CND/TI], are international [INT], or have a less clear-cut relationship with Canada [OTH]—for example, international students, individuals living here without citizenship, or any other relationship that is not easily defined.
Bog Matter is a speculative literary magazine published annually. It seeks to publish new short fiction, poetry, and graphic stories that could be described as science fiction, horror, fantasy, magical realism, slipstream, New Weird, utopian, dystopian, satirical, cross-genre, experimental, or exuding a general air of oddness.
Poems are paid at $0.02/word, with a minimum payment of $5 (if your combined accepted poems do not reach 250 total words), plus two copies of the print issue. You are welcome to submit up to ten poems as long as they collectively do not exceed 2000 words. Please format them together into one single document. Multiple accepted poems from one author may be split up and/or reordered when placed in the final print magazine. Submitted poems cannot have been previously published.
Dark Fantasy, Fabulism, Light Fantasy, Magic Realism, Slipstream. We accept most styles of poetry, although we are somewhat biased toward the lyrical over the narrative. Rhymed verse is not discouraged, but we know how difficult it is to do well. Send us poems that will have us feel the wood’s presences, material and immaterial, known but to be seen anew, or unknown and to be revealed. We want poems that will slip in under the skin, grasp us by the throat, and change the light in the room. Payment: $15/poem.
We will accept short fiction and poetry from 50 to 5,000 words. We pay $5 US via Paypal on publication, regardless of length. We are not Baen. Call it slipstream, call it science fiction with literary pretensions, call it whatever you like, just put it in your mouth and chew.
Cicada is a bimonthly for young adults. The magazine prints fiction and poetry ranging from realism and historical to science fiction and fantasy, alongside essays written by teens, illustrations and comics. Pays up to $3 per line and $24 minimum.
Corvid Queen-
We publish feminist fairy tales, folklore, myths, and legends on a rolling basis. We’re looking for original feminist tales, feminist retellings of traditional tales, and personal essays related to traditional tales. We accept fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and pieces that are in-between. We generally publish pieces that are 1,000-2,500 words, although we will consider shorter or longer pieces if we really love them. Please note that you do not need to be female or femme to submit a piece; writers of any gender identity and expression are welcome.
We accept simultaneous submissions. We only accept reprints from defunct blogs, magazines, and presses. You may submit one piece every six months.
We offer an honorarium of $5 for each accepted piece.
Cosmic Horror Monthly-
Cosmic-Horror is seeking original horror and dark fantasy stories, poems, and images (paintings, drawings, etc). Most types of horror and dark fantasy are welcome but we do prefer the work have a science fiction or otherwise cosmic philosophical leaning. 50 cents per line for poetry.
Corvid Queen-
We publish feminist fairy tales, folklore, myths, and legends on a rolling basis. We’re looking for original feminist tales, feminist retellings of traditional tales, and personal essays related to traditional tales. We accept fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and pieces that are in-between. We generally publish pieces that are 1,000-2,500 words, although we will consider shorter or longer pieces if we really love them. Please note that you do not need to be female or femme to submit a piece; writers of any gender identity and expression are welcome.
We accept simultaneous submissions. We only accept reprints from defunct blogs, magazines, and presses. You may submit one piece every six months.
We offer an honorarium of $5 for each accepted piece.
Cosmic Horror Monthly-
Cosmic-Horror is seeking original horror and dark fantasy stories, poems, and images (paintings, drawings, etc). Most types of horror and dark fantasy are welcome but we do prefer the work have a science fiction or otherwise cosmic philosophical leaning. 50 cents per line for poetry.
We are looking for well-written original work in science fiction, fantasy, myth, legend, fairy tales, and eldritch from around the world. We DON'T accept horror, hate, blood & guts, explicit language, excessive violence, angst-ridden romance, fan fiction, sex, axe-grinding, or stories that leave readers feeling they've had the energy and joy sucked out of them. Also, seems we have to say it, we don't take work that makes fun of grief, suffering, and death, whether of real, imaginary, or religious characters. For new poetry, we pay $1 a line, reprints would be 50 cents a line, up to 40 lines. We'll look at longer poems but that would be a harder sell, and words over 40 lines would be paid 6 cents a word. No simultaneous submissions. No multiple submissions. Reprints must not have been published elsewhere within the past year or be available for sale online except as part of an anthology.
We like stories that are strange, that have wacky, huge ideas, and are diverse in content and authorship. Poems should be no more than a page. Subject matter is open, though it should contain some speculative content, and you may submit up to five poems per submission. We pay $5.00 for each poem. Payment is through PayPal exclusively, unless other arrangements are made. Payment will be made within sixty days of publication. We pay the same rates for reprints that we do for original fiction. Send your submission in the body of a plain text email to submit[at]daikaijuzine[dot]org. Include the word "Submission" and the title of your submission in your subject line; otherwise, your submission may not make it to our editors. Submissions sent to any other Daikaijuzine address will not be considered. Your submission should be in the body of an email message. In your message, make sure you include your name, your address, your email address, the title of your story, your pen name (if you use one), and your word count. When pasting in the content of your manuscript, please leave a single blank line in between each paragraph of your story. Make sure you put the word "Submission", followed by the title of your submission in the subject line, e.g., "Submission: The Fox's Wedding".
NOTE: SUBMISSIONS SENT AS EMAIL ATTACHMENTS WILL BE DELETED UNREAD AND WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
We do not accept submissions written by AIs or assisted by AIs.
Buying 1st N. Am. serial rights unless state otherwise. Payment is $12 on acceptance + 2 contributor's copies. Contributors outside North America can instead receive a 3-issue subscription plus 2 copies.
We’re looking for hymns to Odin and Inanna and Sekhmet. Prayers to Hermes and Brigid and Asherah. Short stories featuring (or otherwise referencing) Lugh and Yinepu and Hekate. Every poetic form, from sonnet to rhyming couplet to free form, is acceptable. There is no set length. Any genre of short story is welcome, from mystery to fantasy to true lifeish to reimaginings of classic myths, provided the Deities and heroes are treated respectfully (no bashing someone else’s Gods, please!). EHS will pay a flat rate of $5 for an original piece.
Accepted poems will be paid for at the following rate: US 3¢/word rounded to nearest dollar; minimum US $3, maximum $25. Payment is on publication.
We believe poetry is a portal. We’re looking for poetry that gazes beyond the ordinary—work that dares, deviates, and dreams. Whether you write about interstellar grief, ghost mothers, quantum longing, or eco-hauntings—or none of the above—we want to read it. We celebrate both genre writers and genre-crossers. We love work that stretches the speculative: Afrofuturist elegies, fairy tale fragmentation, post-apocalyptic love poems, poems-as-hexes, and anything else that isn’t easily defined. We welcome emergent voices, genre writers, and those writing into/against genre. Show us something risky. Break the mold or shape a new one.
Send 2–6 poems per submission.
Shorter pieces are highly encouraged. (We don’t accept long-form poetry at this time—brevity invites mystery.)
Submit all poems in one document, unless instructed otherwise.
We pay a flat fee of $25 per poem, up to four poems total.
Take us for a journey through your Pan-African University for Gifted Mages. Give us the trials of alchemy professors positioning themselves for tenure. The boredom of a TA stuck monitoring the dragon eggs over holiday. Or the angst of conjuring gone wrong in the group project (there’s always that ONE person) while the clock is ticking toward deadline. A sorority that sends their new line of pledges to a nether dimension for, ahem, “orientation.” A time-traveling brass section in search of the perfect instrument for their next battle of the bands.
Black HBCU? We’re in. Summer of research for a hoodoo postdoc? Gimme. A substitute teacher left in charge of kindergarten witches? Yes, please. A home school collective’s escapades to ward off nosy neighbors? Say less.
Stories that examine and challenge hierarchical relationships in school will pique our interest. Non-Western settings for instruction (or means of education that subverts that structure) are welcome.
Random notes from DaVaun:
This issue will naturally lean toward fantasy, but genre bending is welcome if the idea takes you there!
Particularly interested in whimsy, joy, and humor. (If that’s not where your piece goes, submit with confidence!)
Stunning worldbuilding always makes me lean in—flat characters will make me reluctantly pass. Do your characters and relationships match the care you put into your worldbuilding and magic system?
What we want in speculative poetry is verse that struggles, reveals, instructs, comforts, and fights back. We are looking for weird, complex, honest and challenging work with a clear speculative element from Black authors. You can check out this post from our Poetry Editor for more on what we’d like to see in your poetry.
Additionally, poetry submissions should be no more than 1,000 words.
Poetry: $50 USD
The Future Fire welcomes submissions of speculative poetry with progressive, inclusive and socially aware disposition. We are particularly interested in feminist, queer, postcolonial and ecological themes, and we actively seek out submissions by under-represented voices, including but not limited to women, people of color, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities and writers from outside the English-speaking world.
We are flexible with regard to format and length, but prefer poems under about 60 lines.
The Future Fire offers payment of $10 per poem, regardless of length (to be paid via Paypal on publication).
We are flexible with regard to format and length, but prefer poems under about 60 lines.
The Future Fire offers payment of $10 per poem, regardless of length (to be paid via Paypal on publication).
As its name suggests, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly is a quarterly ezine dedicated to publishing heroic fantasy — in both prose and poetry. We are unrepentant in our goal of elevating unapologetic sword and sorcery to a rightful high place. We pay $100 for stories and $25 for poems, upon publication.
Horrific Scribes is an expanding online archive of dark short fiction (and some poetry) by various authors who share the Horrific Scribblings imprint’s dedication to the provocative, scary, and strange.
We want dark, transgressive fiction, mostly horror (all subgenres, bloodless to extreme, nothing off limits as long as you really have a good story not driven by hate, e.g. racism, homophobia, etc.) but also the horror-adjacent, e.g. dark fantasy, dark sci-fi, and surreal and experimental work with dark edges. However you’d classify it, it should be unconventional, challenging, and worth thinking about.
Submissions should be in .doc or .docx file format.
Simultaneous submissions are okay, but please let us know if your submission is accepted elsewhere. Multiple submissions are not okay: one submission per author at a time, please.
You may include a small group of short poems or a couple of mid-length poems in a single submission. Prose fiction is what Horrific Scribes emphasizes, but good dark poetry is good dark poetry.
We pay $25 for an accepted submission.
The Hunger Chronicles presents short stories, poems, articles, and illustrations related in some way to vampires, especially those on other worlds. Blood is an addiction as well as food for vampires, but in other cultures on other worlds, some other substance may be the object of their desire and need. You may recall an episode of Deep Space Nine in which a woman had a need for, and knew ecstasy from, ideas. The object of desire on some worlds might be vegetation, or a mineral, or water (perhaps on a desert world). In The Skylark of Space by E. E. “Doc” Smith, the salt in human blood was the desired substance. In “Tree Hugger” (available from our Shop), the substance was sap.
We will also consider stories of vampires on Earth. However, most of those stories have already been done, in one way or another, and we are not interested in recycling old ideas. To make an Earth-based vampire story work, it must have something fresh and new. Something with an unexpected twist. It need not be gaudy; simple often works. Just different and unexpected.
The Hunger Chronicles is published on Walpurgisnacht (or 1 May) and Samhain (or 1 November). The first issue will be released on Walpurgisnacht 2021.
We’re looking for original poems, preferably shorter than 100 lines. We will use up to three, and no more than four, in an issue. The pay for a poem is $5.00.
Jupiter’s Eye is a digest published three times a year, in April, August, and December, in print and digitally. It presents original science fiction stories about the exploration and settlement of other worlds. It also presents one or two original fantasy stories along that same theme. Although it does consider darker sf/f, it does not present horror. It also presents a few original poems, again consistent with the overall theme.
Jupiter’s Eye wants original stories with plot, tension, suspense, conflict, and character development. Remember, if readers do not care what happens to your main character[s], they won’t read the story. The narrative should maintain a sense of wondering what’s going to happen next; of what’s lurking just around the corner. Showing is better than telling. Frex, instead of telling the reader that it’s cold, show your character shivering, stomping feet, or having ice form on beard or hair. The inner thoughts and emotions of your character[s] are just as important.
Poetry submitted to Jupiter’s Eye should be from about ten to a hundred lines. Please submit no more than three poems at a time, and wait for the response before submitting more. Again, we hope to keep the response time down to two months. If you haven’t heard from us in three months, please query.
Submit your poems as rtf or .doc attachments or IBOE to jupiterseyedigest at gmail dot com
Kaleidotrope tends very heavily towards the speculative — towards science fiction, fantasy, and horror — but we like an eclectic mix and are therefore interested to read compelling work that blurs these lines, falls outside of neat genre categories. Man does not live on space ships, elves, and ghostly ax murderers alone, after all. We will consider all forms [of poetry]. Humor is encouraged, if tricky. Rhyming is not actively discouraged — done well, it can be terrific — but be careful about overly simple, sing-song-like structures. Individual haiku, or other very short poems, may be a tougher sell. For poetry, we offer a flat rate of $5 USD per accepted piece.
Poetry should reflect both literary value and popular appeal and should deal with science fiction- or fantasy-related themes. $10 for poems.
The Literary Hatchet is a journal devoted to provocative fiction (short stories) and thoughtful poetry and prose. We are interested in well-written but easy to read works in any genre. We will consider previously published material but prefer original works. We are looking for high-quality extraordinary poems (both serious and humorous) that explore the human condition. Personal pieces that offer a self-reflection are acceptable. There are no publication deadlines. We publish three times a year. We prefer poetry under 100 lines. Up to 100 lines — $5
We are looking for horror stories meant to entice the reader and leave lasting impressions. Submissions can be poetry, short stories, etc., but there must be an element of horror. Art submitted to the magazine can be photography, digital art, and drawings, but we are not limited to these mediums. Each issue will revolve around a certain binding theme. Though it is not mandatory that entries fit this theme, stories and art that connect to the theme will be favoured for submissions.
Submissions should be written in English and up to 3,500 words. Work toward the upper limit will be held to a higher standard of craft. All submissions of written work must be formatted to Shunn Manuscript standard and sent as a DOCX attachment.
Accepted original submissions (stories and art) will receive $50.00 USD, and there is no fee to submit.
We are not able to offer payment for reprints.
Standard format is strongly preferred. We prioritize:
Strong writing
Unique concepts
Generation of interesting discussion
We encourage you to read the magazine for further insight on what has been accepted before.
We pay every accepted author the SFWA pro rate of $0.08 USD per word and $1 USD per line for poetry. We believe writers deserve fair pay.
We are interested in quality Dark Poetry (no epics, please). Pays $.30 per line (if printed in the PRINT magazine). Expect to be edited.
Neo-Opsis-
We are more likely to publish stories that are less than 6000 words and fit a science fiction or fantasy theme. We tend not to publish horror.
Poem: The kind of poem that is more likely to be accepted, for publication in Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, is the kind of poem that will appeal to a wide range of people.
Payment: (upon publication) First North American serial rights for accepted stories and poems are purchased at 2.5 cents (Canadian) per word, to a maximum of $125.00. Contributors will also receive one copy of the issue their contribution appears in. Contributors may also purchase extra copies of their issue at a contributor discount, as long as their issue is still in stock. Discount varies depending on cost of publishing and cost of mailing.
Neo-Opsis-
We are more likely to publish stories that are less than 6000 words and fit a science fiction or fantasy theme. We tend not to publish horror.
Poem: The kind of poem that is more likely to be accepted, for publication in Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, is the kind of poem that will appeal to a wide range of people.
Payment: (upon publication) First North American serial rights for accepted stories and poems are purchased at 2.5 cents (Canadian) per word, to a maximum of $125.00. Contributors will also receive one copy of the issue their contribution appears in. Contributors may also purchase extra copies of their issue at a contributor discount, as long as their issue is still in stock. Discount varies depending on cost of publishing and cost of mailing.
NewMyths.com publishes speculative fiction of every stripe except graphic horror. We like each issue to have an eclectic variety of stories: funny, frightening, hard and soft sci-fi, adventure, thoughtful, etc. Every issue includes at least one nonfiction piece dealing with some aspect of science, myth, folklore, or literature as it relates to speculative fiction, usually of the well-researched essay variety rather than opinion or editorial. Speculative poetry is welcome. We tend to receive a lot of free verse and not enough "form" poetry. Please no more than 5 at a time, any length. Be sure there is a science fiction or fantasy element or they will not be considered. Poems (any length):$20.
Nocturne Magazine accepts work that may *sort of* fit into the genres of horror, dark fantasy, or speculative. However, we can be convinced of branching out as long as there’s something deeply unsettling about your submission.
We want something that makes us stay awake at night. Or have strange dreams. Or wake up still thinking about your piece while we drink our morning coffee. We don’t just want “eww,” or “yikes.” We want to scroll through your submission with trembling fingers.
We vibe with Stephen King’s weird dream scenes, Shirley Jackson’s “castles” and murderous young women, and Grady Hendrix’s fierce vampire-fighting book club, and anything else surreal, unusual, or downright terrifying.
Errata: Do you have a poem-ish piece? Something that we don’t yet have a name for or that doesn’t fit into any category? Send here. Submit up to 5 pieces totaling 5000 words or less in a single document.
Payment upon publication is $10 per contributor and $25 for the cover art.
The editorial philosophy of the magazine reflects my own personal taste in genre fiction. To me the scariest and most deeply moving horror stories are not about monsters or about good vs. evil, but rather about the reader’s own fears and discomforts. Similarly, for Not One of Us, fantasy isn’t about pseudo-medieval worlds, science fiction isn’t about space opera or funny-sounding names, Westerns are not about gunfights. In our magazine, it’s all about the characters. $5 plus one copy for poems.
We are seeking 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.
We are interested in works in which the relationship between your writing and the fairy-tale tradition is complex and thoughtful. Works that—ideally, though this is a Big Ask—open up our hearts and minds, offering us a new way to think or feel about the fairy-tale tradition as well as broader themes and issues.
The Orange and Bee welcomes all styles of poetry, including form, free verse, and experimental. There are no hard limits on length or presentation (barring our technical skills/the formatting capacity of Substack!), however, our sweet spot is 50 lines or fewer.
Poetry: flat rate $US50.00 per poem
We’re looking for previously unpublished speculative poems. Our tastes are varied—we like free verse and fixed forms, experimental and traditional poems, and everything in between. With poetry, feel free to interpret “speculative” broadly. While we’re happy to read poems about spaceships and quests, we’d also love to read poems that experiment with genre and subvert our expectations. Science-fictional, fantastical, slipstream, weird, literary: send it our way, and please don’t self-reject!
You can submit up to three poems at a time. Please format your poems in one document, each with its own title and each starting on its own page, and include your name on the first page. Including the number of lines somewhere on the page would be appreciated. The editors prefer that you use a font other than Courier.
We accept .rtf, .doc, .docx or PDF files through Moksha only. If you have a poem with experimental formatting and would like to submit a PDF or another alternative format, email us at submissions@othersidespec.com first so we can be sure we can make that work online!
Pay Rate: $50/poem (USD). We prefer to pay via PayPal if possible (and we cover all applicable transaction fees).
Length: Any, though poems over 100 lines are probably a harder sell.
Rights: We buy first world publication rights and nonexclusive anthology rights. We are not looking for poems previously published elsewhere, including on Patreon or in a newsletter. See our sample contracts for more details.
Simultaneous submissions: Yes, but please withdraw your submission promptly if your poem is accepted by another market. And congratulations! If you need to withdraw a single poem from a set of multiple poems, please email us at submissions@othersidespec.com.
Multiple submissions: You may submit a maximum of three poems per submission window in one document. Refer to the note above for information about submitting to multiple categories.
Here’s what we want: poems that ooze with sonic pleasure. (Please, just remember to wipe the ooze off before submitting.) Poems that stagger from line-to-line with an animated corpse’s lingering bravado. As with our fiction, we’re interested in strangely human, humanly strange pieces, that captivate and scintillate. We want language that surprises us. Language with strong enough voltage to shock us back to life. Send us your finest work. That’s all we ask. Poets will be paid $10 per poem in addition to one contributor's copy total.
ParABnormal-
The subject matter of parABnormal Magazine is, yes, the paranormal. For us, this includes ghosts, spectres, haunts, various whisperers, and so forth. It also includes shapeshifters and creatures from various folklores. If your story also has science fiction or fantasy elements, we regard that as a plus.
Creatures like vampires, werewolves, and zombies are not paranormal. Shapeshifters, for the purpose of this magazine, refer to the spiritual shift, not the physical. Think Native American shaman. Paranormal activity centers around the human, not the creature.
Please, no stories that involve excessive blood, gore, digestive tracts, and so forth. If you write a dark story, make sure it is spooky. Makes sure it is a story that should be read with all the lights on, with the reader looking over his or her shoulder while turning the pages.
However, we are not interested in zombie stories for this publication. No ghouls, no zombies.
We are looking primarily for original works. We will consider story or article reprints, but no more than 1-2 per issue, and please query first, before sending reprint materials.
Poem length should be from 1-25 lines. Query for longer. If some words require italics, please italicize them. Do not underline them or indicate them with symbols. Original poems only, please.
We pay $6.00 for each poem.
2020 submissions open Feb 1 – Mar 31, Jun 1 – Jul 31, Oct 1 – Nov 31.
The subject matter of parABnormal Magazine is, yes, the paranormal. For us, this includes ghosts, spectres, haunts, various whisperers, and so forth. It also includes shapeshifters and creatures from various folklores. If your story also has science fiction or fantasy elements, we regard that as a plus.
Creatures like vampires, werewolves, and zombies are not paranormal. Shapeshifters, for the purpose of this magazine, refer to the spiritual shift, not the physical. Think Native American shaman. Paranormal activity centers around the human, not the creature.
Please, no stories that involve excessive blood, gore, digestive tracts, and so forth. If you write a dark story, make sure it is spooky. Makes sure it is a story that should be read with all the lights on, with the reader looking over his or her shoulder while turning the pages.
However, we are not interested in zombie stories for this publication. No ghouls, no zombies.
We are looking primarily for original works. We will consider story or article reprints, but no more than 1-2 per issue, and please query first, before sending reprint materials.
Poem length should be from 1-25 lines. Query for longer. If some words require italics, please italicize them. Do not underline them or indicate them with symbols. Original poems only, please.
We pay $6.00 for each poem.
2020 submissions open Feb 1 – Mar 31, Jun 1 – Jul 31, Oct 1 – Nov 31.
In terms of genre, I am looking for work that constitutes the ever-moving edge of its kind, as a place between light and dark, consciousness and un, today and tomorrow; work exhibiting the strange, the bizarre, that which is not of the world we know, but more of a twilight realm or even altogether alien place. Not necessarily science fiction, not necessarily fantasy, not necessarily horror, and not necessarily not these things. In short, ideally edgy. Maybe even idealistically edgy. I am NOT looking for porn.
Fiction or poetry must be fewer than 10,000 words; please double-space unless you are indicating a specific layout for your piece. Format: PDF, Word document, plain text, rich text format.
There is a limit of one short story or 5 poems per submission. NEW: We accept only one such submission per author per three-month submissions period.
Payment for contributors is US$10 for non-exclusive worldwide periodical rights and the right to publish the work in the annual anthology (online and possibly in a "print" version to be available on Amazon, and possibly other online venues). We are also buying the right to continue to display your work on our website for an indefinite period of time. If you are published in the anthology, you will be paid royalties amounting to a percentage of profits (that percentage determined at the time the anthology is created and based on the number of works in the anthology, but at least 2%).
Contact us at submissions[at]penumbric[dot]com.
A themed weird fiction magazine. We’re looking for a dozen original pieces, ten stories and two poems, of any length up to two thousand words. A few hundred words over is fine but no novellas please. Submissions are welcome from anyone, anywhere, and we’re interested in work from outside the USA. We pay 8 cents a word or $25, whichever is greater, plus a print copy of the magazine. We use a standard writers contract in which the rights to your story revert to you after one year, though we retain the right to anthologize or republish your work in perpetuity. All correspondence can go to hellophobos[at]gmail[dot]com.
What We’re Looking For:
-Stories with anthropomorphized animals as viewpoint characters and protagonists
-Animal-centric speculative fiction (fantasy, science fiction, horror)
-Underrepresented voices (BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled, neurodivergent) that engage with animal myths, tales, and futures
-Stories with uncommonly written about animals as protagonists
-Stories that dig deep into the senses and experience of animals
-Stories that explore the cultures and societies of animals, not just cultures and societies with animals. Think of rabbit language and warren infrastructure in Watership Down, or the clans and warrior code of feral cats in Warriors.
Plott Hound publishes 1-3 poems per issue. We’d love to see animal-centric speculative poems in all forms, from free verse to a sonnet to a canto in terza rima.
-Send 1-5 poems/up to 5 pages in a single document.
-Maximum submission length: please send no more than 5 pages (i.e. if you have a single 5-page poem, please send only one poem).
-Format: 12 pt serif font (Courier, Times), single space. See Shunn’s poetry manuscript format.
-Pay rate: $50 USD
-Reprints, simultaneous submissions, and other logistics: see Prose Submission Guidelines above
Cover letter do’s and don’ts:
-Include author name, name of submission, word count, best 2-3 publishing credits (if applicable, we don’t want an entire resume)
-Include any personal or educational experience pertinent to the story. (For example, if you are a marine biologist and your story features marine animals, do mention that!)
-Inclusion of content warnings is optional, but appreciated.
-Please keep the cover letter polite and concise. Author bio is only needed upon acceptance of the piece.
-Payment: Paypal is highly preferred, though we can discuss alternative methods of payment upon acceptance.
Because our title says “Pulp” Literature, some authors assume we want guns and blood. The “pulp” in our title refers to cheap pulp paper, which we someday hope to use. We want our magazine to include a balance of all genres, including fantasy, romance, mystery, literary, etc. Reprints, poetry and illustration at variable rates.
Reckoning Press-
The short version: fiction preferably at least a tiny bit speculative, nonfiction preferably more creative than journalistic, poetry tending towards the narrative and preferably with some thematic heft, art your guess is as good as mine. But the heart of what I want is your 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, as a consequence of humanity’s relationship with the earth.
Simultaneous submissions are ok. Multiple short poetry submissions is ok; with longer submissions, please send just one at a time. Feel free to submit again after you hear back. Query for reprints. Length: 0 – 45,000 words, inclusive. Response time has ranged from one to three months. Payment is six cents a word for prose, twenty dollars a page for poetry, art minimum twenty-five dollars per piece.
Reckoning Press-
The short version: fiction preferably at least a tiny bit speculative, nonfiction preferably more creative than journalistic, poetry tending towards the narrative and preferably with some thematic heft, art your guess is as good as mine. But the heart of what I want is your 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, as a consequence of humanity’s relationship with the earth.
Simultaneous submissions are ok. Multiple short poetry submissions is ok; with longer submissions, please send just one at a time. Feel free to submit again after you hear back. Query for reprints. Length: 0 – 45,000 words, inclusive. Response time has ranged from one to three months. Payment is six cents a word for prose, twenty dollars a page for poetry, art minimum twenty-five dollars per piece.
What we are looking for: At Dark Forest Press, we want to publish the wonderfully weird and bizarre, along with the dark and horrific. We want the erotic and the transgressive as well as stories that haunt us at random moments, weeks after putting them down. We want stories that feel big and stories that force the reader to confront the darker sides of reality.
Poetry submissions:
Line Count: up to 60
Reprints: No
Payment: $25
Simultaneous Submissions: Yes
Target Age Group: Mature Audiences
Rights: World English first rights in print, electronic, and ebook, and a six month exclusivity period. All copyrights belong to the author.
Do not send first drafts. Please only send work that has been edited and polished. We want to see your absolute best work.
Please only submit 1-3 poems for consideration.
Please format the subject line of your email like this: Scattered Poetry Submission – Title – Author Name
Attach your manuscript to the email as a Word document (.docx)
Simultaneous submissions okay, just let us know if your work is accepted elsewhere ASAP.
Only submit a max of two poems.
Seaside Gothic publishes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction of high quality that meet the criteria of seaside gothic literature. Submissions should be a single piece of fiction, a single poem, or a single piece of nonfiction attached as a Word (.doc or .docx) or PDF document in Times New Roman size 12. Simultaneous submissions are accepted, but multiple submissions are not. Submissions should contain one piece only. Please inform Seaside Gothic as soon as possible if submissions are accepted elsewhere. The pay rate is currently £0.01 per word. Payment is offered for accepted submissions via PayPal within two weeks of publication. If revenue increases or additional funding is secured, then this figure will increase universally for all accepted submissions. Contributors will receive a print copy of the Issue containing their submission, along with a complimentary copy of The Totem, sent by Royal Mail. Contributors will also receive access to a lifetime digital subscription to Seaside Gothic and a permanent 25% discount on all Issues ordered in addition to any other discounts or promotions, effective from the date the Issue in which their work is first published becomes available to publicly order ahead of publication.
The concept of solarpunk horror lives in the tension between the world we’re building and the forces—internal or external—that threaten to unravel it. It’s not grimdark, and it’s not nihilism. Instead, it asks: What scares us in a future where we’ve chosen healing? Solarpunk horror imagines communities striving toward ecological balance, mutual aid, and decentralized power, and then explores the shadows created by that very light. The fear in solarpunk horror doesn’t come from the collapse of society, but from the fragility of hope, the difficulty of sustaining utopia, and the unexpected consequences of living in an intimate relationship with the natural world.
Send up to 5 poems or 5 pages of poems, whichever is shorter. Prose poetry is fine, but if you are in doubt, submit it as fiction.
If possible, please remove all identifying information (your name, email address, etc.) from your submission file. Your submission won’t be rejected if your manuscript is not anonymous but we prefer to form our initial impressions on the work alone.
Simultaneous submissions: Yes, but please let us know immediately if your submission gets accepted elsewhere before you hear from us.
Multiple Submissions: No, not within each category. But you can enter one submission per category per submission period. For example, you can submit one short story, poetry, and a nonfiction article all in the same submission window using each individual submission portal.
Poetry: $50 per poem
Please note that poems should be no longer than a single, standard 8.5 by 11-inch page, and must be of a speculative nature — either science fiction, fantasy, horror, or any combination thereof will do. No simultaneous submissions or reprints; multiple submissions okay within reason (don’t send more than three poems at a time) and include complete contact details on the document. Payment made upon publication and is a flat $5.00 per poem.
In January 1978, Suzette Haden Elgin founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association, along with its two visible cornerposts: the Rhysling Awards and the association's newsletter, Star*Line. Star*Line has become not only an SFPA forum and networking tool, but a literary magazine for poets of the genre persuasion: imaginative poetry from hard science fiction to high fantasy, from the macabre to straight science, and from rigid formalism to experimental and surrealist works. For Star*Line, ideally, you would send 3–5 poems at a time, single-spaced, pasted into the body of one e-mail, no oftener than once per month. Payment for poetry: 3¢/word rounded to next dollar, minimum $3. One copy to all contributors.
We're looking for high-quality SF, fantasy, horror, and slipstream poetry. We're looking for modern, exciting poems that explore the possible and impossible: stories about human and nonhuman experiences, dreams and reality, past and future, the here-and-now and otherwhere-and-elsewhen. We want poems from imaginative and unconventional writers; we want voices from diverse perspectives and backgrounds. We want poems that understand "literary" does not have to equal "boring"; poems that know how to write strange without being senseless; poems that balance inventiveness with traditional structures. We like mischievous poems, pensive poems, and everything in between. We don't see nearly enough true science fiction or formal poetry. However, poems must substantiate their forms; a rhymed weak concept is still a weak concept. Sonnet plus spaceship is not enough. Pay rates for new poetry will be $40 per poem, regardless of length or complexity.
Poems may be in any form. Free Verse is neither required nor given special preference. Formal poetry is recognized and welcomed. Translations are welcome if the translator has permission from the owner of the copyright. Poems may be of any length, though an epic may not get read for quite a while. Read our motto: "Good poetry is meant to be understood, not decoded." If your poetry can only be understood by you or your close group of friends, share it with them. Payment is ten dollars, for first publication in Strong Verse and nonexclusive reprint rights.
Trollbreath Magazine is a journal of speculative fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, publishing electronic issues on a quarterly schedule. Our interests are as varied as the endless amount of genres, from dark fantasy to hope punk to surrealism, and everything in between. We have a particular fondness for slipstream and fabulism in all their delightful forms, but what motivates us most are great stories by wonderful authors eager to share their visions of the past, the future, the in between, and everything that lies outside the margins. Coloring beyond the lines encouraged. Raging against the machine expected. Feel free to review our already published stories and poetry to get an idea of what we like.
Our submission period for fiction/poetry is as follows:
January 1st – October 31st: OPEN FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS
November 1st – December 31st: CLOSED
Trollbreath Magazine is open to original, unpublished poetry of any length that falls within the bounds of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction means science fiction, fantasy, horror, fabulism or slipstream, etc.
Pay Rate and Rights – We pay a $25 flat fee for any poem we purchase at the time of publication. In exchange, we are asking for the right for first printing in English for three months from the date the quarterly issue your poem appears in is published, as well as inclusion in any yearly anthology of original works we publish.
Uncanny Magazine is seeking passionate, diverse SF/F fiction and poetry from writers from every conceivable background. We want intricate, experimental stories and poems with gorgeous prose, verve, and imagination that elicit strong emotions and challenge beliefs. Uncanny believes there’s still plenty of room in the genre for tales that make you feel. Uncanny is looking for original, unpublished speculative poetry of any length. Payment is $30 per poem.
We welcome solicited and unsolicited submissions for fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and art. We publish science-fiction poetry. There's no style or content we're looking for in particular, though we prefer more lyrical and evocative poetry.
Please submit up to five short poems OR one long poem.
LENGTH: A short poem is one page or less in size 12 Garamond font with 1.5 spacing.
If the total length of two (or more) poems does not exceed one page, they will be counted as a single poem.
PAY: $30 for each accepted poem
Weird Fiction Quarterly is not generally an open-call publication, but if you have an idea or example of work that would fit within our pages, feel free to reach out to us at inquiries[at]weirdfictionquarterly[dot]com.
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