Passages North is a literary magazine publishing fiction, poetry, nonfiction, hybrids, and short-shorts, with an emphasis on innovative, experimental, and genre-diverse work.
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Open to: Work must be previously unpublished; AI-generated submissions are not accepted.
Incensepunk Magazine publishes speculative fiction and nonfiction focused on faith, religion, and emerging technology in future-oriented settings.
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Pays: $100 for original stories, plus a lifetime paid subscription; anthology-included stories may receive a prorated share of 50% of profits and a print copy. Reprints receive $25 per story.
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Pays: $25 for original stories, plus a lifetime paid subscription; anthology-included stories may receive a prorated share of 50% of profits and a print copy. Flash reprints receive no cash payment but receive a lifetime paid subscription.
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Pays: Not paid; nonfiction authors receive lifetime paid subscription benefits.
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.
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.
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.
Running Wild Press accepts full-length manuscripts for its 2028 catalog and submissions for novella and short-story anthologies across all genres and forms.
Sky Island Journal is an independent, international, free-access literary journal publishing original poetry, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction online.
Open to: Submitters must be at least 18 years old; work must be previously unpublished, written primarily (50% or more) in English, and created entirely by a human.
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