The SFWP Literary Awards Program is an international English-language competition seeking fiction and creative nonfiction, with publication opportunities and cash prizes.
Planetside is SFWA’s online magazine publishing nonfiction articles about craft, industry, and topics relevant to professional and professionalizing science fiction and fantasy writers.
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Pays: $0.10 per word on the final-draft word count.
Star*Line is the quarterly official journal of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, publishing speculative poetry and related articles, reviews, and essays.
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Pays: 5¢ per word for articles and essays; payment is made on publication.
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Pays: Book and chapbook reviews pay a flat $7; payment is made on publication.
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Pays: 7¢ per word, with a minimum of $7 and maximum of $30; payment is made on publication.
Samovar is a triannual Strange Horizons magazine publishing speculative fiction and poetry in translation, along with nonfiction about speculative works and communities from non-Anglophone countries.
Pays: Newly translated stories: US$0.08 per English-language word to the author and US$0.08 per word to the translator, up to 3,750 words; longer pieces may be considered with payment capped at US$300 each. Reprints: US$100 each to the author and translator.
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Open to: Work must be previously unpublished; AI-generated submissions are not accepted.
Enough Trope is an Australian literary magazine focused on commentary, essays, and reviews of Australian genre fiction, including horror, romance, crime, science fiction, and fantasy.
HEXFILED is an independent literary magazine publishing science fiction and speculative fiction, including prose, poetry, nonfiction, and archival-format work.
Leading Edge is a student-run magazine at BYU publishing science fiction and fantasy short stories, poetry, nonfiction, and art from contributors worldwide.
Moonday Mag is a speculative magazine seeking surreal, wondrous, macabre, fantastic, strange, and otherworldly writing, with fiction open seasonally and other written categories open year-round.
Vector is a BSFA critical journal seeking accessible, intellectually stimulating writing about science fiction and fantasy, science, technology, and related subjects for online and print publication.
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Pays: Not a paying market; print contributors receive contributor copies.
Quest is an online speculative-fiction magazine examining present-day systems through science fiction and fantasy, with themed issues and payment for accepted work.
Quills & Tales is a monthly email magazine featuring new short fantasy fiction, fantasy-themed artwork, and articles on worldbuilding and character creation, currently on pause for the foreseeable future.
Gramarye is a peer-reviewed University of Chichester journal seeking scholarly and creative writing on fairy tales, fantasy, Gothic, magic realism, science fiction, and speculative fiction.
khōréō is a quarterly speculative-fiction magazine publishing fiction, translations, nonfiction, and art, with a focus on immigrant and diaspora voices and migration-related themes.
Phantom Drift is an annual literary journal devoted to fabulist, fantastic, surreal, and new-weird literature, publishing fiction, poetry, and nonfiction that explore imaginative alternatives to conventional realism.
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