The NoSleep Podcast is a horror anthology podcast seeking original horror fiction and audio scripts for adaptation.
Open to: Stories must be the submitter's own work, and the author must hold the rights to grant usage to The NoSleep Podcast; AI-generated stories are not accepted.
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Pays: $60 for flash fiction up to 1,199 words; $250 for regular stories of 1,200+ words; $500 for full-length productions over 90 minutes (approximately 15,000+ words). Payment is made in US dollars via PayPal, Wise, or Zelle (currently US only).
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Pays: $60 per flash-fiction story, paid in US dollars via PayPal, Wise, or Zelle (currently US only).
Fractured Lit publishes flash and micro fiction, including original and eligible reprint work, with year-round submissions and occasional themed prizes.
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Closes Nov 22Pays: $3,000 and publication for the winner; publication and $300 for second place; publication and $200 for third place.
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Pays: $75 for original Flash Fiction; reprints are unpaid.
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Pays: $50 for original Micro Fiction; reprints are unpaid.
WOW! Women on Writing runs quarterly global contests for flash fiction and creative nonfiction essays, with cash prizes and publication opportunities.
Open to: Open globally; entries must be in English; all ages
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Closes Oct 31Fee: $12 entry; $25 with optional critiquePays: Prizes include $500 for first place, $300 for second, $200 for third, and gift certificates for runners-up; winning essays are published.
Closes Nov 30Fee: $10 entry; $20 with optional critiquePays: Prizes include $400 for first place, $300 for second, $200 for third, and gift certificates for runners-up and honorable mentions; winning entries are published.
Rat Bag LIT is a paying market seeking weird, genre-blurring fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, with regular microfiction, drabble, flash, and short-story calls.
Open to: Submissions must be written in English; no AI-generated or AI-assisted work.
F(r)iction is a genre-inclusive literary magazine and publishing project accepting fiction, creative nonfiction, flash fiction, poetry, and related editorial work through several routes.
Open to: Work must be previously unpublished; AI-generated submissions are not accepted.
Horrorsmith Publishing accepts novel submissions for horror, thriller, and young-adult imprints, as well as horror and thriller short stories for monthly subscriptions and newsletters.
Open to: Work must not be AI-generated.
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Pays: 50/50 royalty share, with possible additional royalties from external projects and merchandise.
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Pays: 50/50 royalty share, with possible additional royalties from external projects and merchandise.
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Pays: 50/50 royalty share, with possible additional royalties from external projects and merchandise.
Fiery Scribe Review is a global literary journal seeking unusual, thought-provoking, strange, surreal, experimental, and socially engaged writing across multiple forms.
Open to: previously unpublished work is considered.
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Pays: A flat $15 Editor’s Choice prize is awarded to one work per issue; accepted contributors are not otherwise consistently compensated.
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Pays: A flat $15 Editor’s Choice prize is awarded to one work per issue; accepted contributors are not otherwise consistently compensated.
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Pays: A flat $15 Editor’s Choice prize is awarded to one work per issue; accepted contributors are not otherwise consistently compensated.
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Pays: A flat $15 Editor’s Choice prize is awarded to one work per issue; accepted contributors are not otherwise consistently compensated.
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Pays: A flat $15 Editor’s Choice prize is awarded to one work per issue; accepted contributors are not otherwise consistently compensated.
Whitaker Lyon Press publishes speculative-fiction anthologies and is accepting several themed short-fiction and flash-fiction submissions on stated schedules.
Sci-Fi Lampoon is a print and digital humor magazine seeking humorous speculative fiction, including science fiction, fantasy, and horror satire and parody.
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Pays: Token payment of $5.00 USD and a DRM-free ebook copy; the magazine requests non-exclusive worldwide serial rights for electronic and print publication.
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Pays: Token payment of $5.00 USD and a DRM-free ebook copy; the magazine requests non-exclusive worldwide serial rights for electronic and print publication.
The Hoolet's Nook is a literary magazine publishing fiction, poetry, and micro-poetry or haiku three times a year.
Open to: Writers must be at least 16 years old. Work must be unpublished in a curated publication and written by humans, though minor AI editing or polishing is allowed.
After Midnight is a literary magazine seeking fiction, flash fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, pedagogy, and book reviews for Issue II, themed “New Beginnings & Letting Go.”
Sunspot Literary Journal accepts unpublished fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts, translations, and genre or literary work through several paid, length-specific submission categories.
Open to: Works must be unpublished, except on a personal blog.
Mystery Tribune is a crime, mystery, noir, and suspense publication accepting fiction and nonfiction submissions for its online, mobile, and print editions.
Open to: Work must be written in English and previously unpublished.
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Closes Dec 31Pays: Honorarium for fiction accepted for the print edition; amount is discussed upon acceptance. Online publication payment is not stated.
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Closes Dec 31Pays: Generally unpaid.
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Closes Dec 31Pays: Unsolicited contributions are unpaid; commissioned nonfiction for print may receive an honorarium, with the amount discussed upon acceptance.
Trembling With Fear publishes dark speculative fiction, including horror, dark science fiction, and dark fantasy, in short-story, drabble, serial, themed, and unholy-trinity formats.
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Closes Oct 13Pays: $5 per story, paid by the time the annual anthology is released.
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Closes Oct 15Pays: $5 per story, paid by the time the annual anthology is released.
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Pays: $5 per story, paid by the time the annual anthology is released.
Propagule is an independently run literary magazine publishing experimental, transgressive, and surreal fiction alongside flash fiction and nonfiction.
Open to: previously unpublished material is accepted.
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Closes Dec 15Pays: $5 per 1,000 words for the first 2,000 words and $10 per 1,000 words thereafter, up to $30.
AntipodeanSF is an online and electronic-reader/audio publication focused on short-short speculative fiction, especially science fiction, fantasy, horror, surreal, humorous, and subversive stories.
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Pays: No cash payment; accepted writers receive web space, biographies, promotion via a weekly radio show and podcast, and links to their web and social pages.
HEXFILED is an independent literary magazine publishing science fiction and speculative fiction, including prose, poetry, nonfiction, and archival-format work.
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