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Clarkesworld★Work published here has won or been selected for: BSFA Award, Derringer Award, Aurora Award.Responds: ~2 days

Clarkesworld is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine publishing fiction, nonfiction, interviews, articles, and audio fiction.

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Pays: 15¢ per word
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Pays: 12¢ per word
Aurealis★Has a Wikipedia article.Responds: ~4 months

Aurealis is an Australian science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine publishing speculative fiction and related nonfiction.

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Opens Feb 1, 2027
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Opens Feb 1, 2027

Planetside is an online SFWA magazine seeking nonfiction pitches 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*LineResponds: ~3 weeks

Star*Line is a quarterly print and PDF journal publishing speculative poetry and related nonfiction, reviews, and essays by members and nonmembers.

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Pays: Articles and essays: 5¢ per word; book reviews: $7 flat.
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Pays: 7¢ per word, with a minimum of $7 and maximum of $30.
TasavvurResponds: ~3 weeks

Tasavvur is a magazine dedicated to South Asian and other BIPOC speculative fiction and nonfiction pitches.

nonfictionScience FictionFantasyHorrorEligibility requirements
Pays: $100 flat rate for commissioned pieces.
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Orion's BeltResponds: ~4 weeks

Orion’s Belt is a literary speculative magazine publishing microfiction, flash fiction, poetry, translations, and reviews.

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Pays: $45 flat per review
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Neon DystopiaResponds: ~4 weeks

Neon Dystopia publishes cyberpunk-focused fiction and nonfiction, including explorations of contemporary technology, culture, politics, and existential concerns.

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Pays: $20 via PayPal if accepted.
nonfictionScience Fiction
Pays: $20 via PayPal if accepted.
Perseid PropheciesResponds: ~2 months

Perseid Prophecies is a speculative fiction magazine accepting short stories, flash fiction, and factual science essays in specified submission months.

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Closes Nov 30Pays: Non-paying market.
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Closes Nov 30Pays: Non-paying market.
nonfictionScience Fiction
Closes Nov 30Pays: Non-paying market.

Spectrum Literary Journal is a University of California, Santa Barbara journal publishing inventive fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and hybrid work across genres and forms.

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Closes Dec 31
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Closes Dec 31
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Closes Dec 31
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Closes Dec 31
F(r)ictionResponds: ~7 months

F(r)iction is a genre-inclusive literary magazine and publishing project accepting fiction, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and related online writing.

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Closes Nov 30Pays: The winning story is published the following Thursday
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Closes Nov 30Pays: The winning story is published the following Thursday
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Fee: $2.50 per submissionPays: $25 per final printed page and two free contributor copies
flashScience FictionFantasyHorrorLiteraryMysteryRomanceHumorYoung Adult
Fee: $2.50 per submissionPays: $25 per final printed page and two free contributor copies
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Fee: $2.50 per submissionPays: $25 per final printed page and two free contributor copies
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Pays: Unpaid; accepted work will be published and advertised
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Fee: $2.50 per submissionPays: $25 per final printed page and two free contributor copies
AlchemicalResponds: ~6 weeks

Alchemical is a year-round literary journal seeking speculative short fiction and a broad range of nonfiction, with no submission fees and no payment.

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Pays: Not a paying market; favorite pieces may be nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net awards, and Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy.
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Pays: Not a paying market; favorite pieces may be nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net awards, and Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Corollary SFResponds: ~2 months

Corollary SF is a UK-based science fiction magazine publishing original short stories and considering factual articles and essays about science fiction.

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Pays: No payment.
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Enough TropeResponds: ~2 months

Enough Trope is an Australian literary magazine seeking commentary, essays, and reviews focused on Australian genre fiction.

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Pays: Payment upon publication.
nonfictionScience FictionFantasyHorrorMysteryRomanceEligibility requirements
Pays: Payment upon publication.
HEXFILED SF MagazineResponds: ~2 weeks

HEXFILED is an independent literary magazine publishing science fiction and speculative fiction, including stories, poetry, nonfiction, and archival artifacts for its serialized Parallel Biome sub-issue.

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Pays: Non-paying.
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Pays: Non-paying.
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Pays: Non-paying.
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Pays: Non-paying.
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Pays: Non-paying.
Leading EdgeResponds: ~3 months

Leading Edge is a student-run magazine at BYU publishing science fiction and fantasy short stories, poetry, nonfiction, and art from contributors worldwide.

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Pays: 1 cent per word, $10 minimum, $50 maximum
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Pays: Payment discussed upon acceptance
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Pays: Payment discussed upon acceptance
Savage PlanetsResponds: ~2 days

Savage Planets is a speculative-fiction publication accepting fiction, poetry, entertainment criticism, and two-sentence science-fiction messages.

Open to: Works must be in English.

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Pays: No compensation at this time.
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Pays: No compensation at this time.
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Pays: No compensation at this time.
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Pays: No compensation at this time.
STARFARER'S CAFEResponds: Turnaround times may be horrendous.

STARFARER'S CAFE is a digital science-fiction magazine seeking stories and nonfiction about humanity's spacefaring future, with a humanist and often hopeful outlook.

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Pays: No payment.
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Pays: No payment.
The Kismet MagazineResponds: ~2 months

The Kismet Magazine publishes speculative fiction, poetry, and nonfiction focused on speculative genres and ideas.

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Pays: No compensation; published authors receive complimentary first-run copies of the issue.
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Pays: No compensation; published authors receive complimentary first-run copies of the issue.
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Pays: No compensation; published authors receive complimentary first-run copies of the issue.
VectorResponds: ~2 days

Vector is a critical science-fiction and fantasy journal publishing accessible, intellectually stimulating articles, academic writing, reviews, interviews, and related nonfiction, but not fiction.

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Pays: Not a paying market; print contributors receive contributor copies.
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QuestResponds: ~4 weeks

Quest is an online science-fiction and fantasy magazine seeking speculative writing for themed issues.

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Opens Feb 15, 2027
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Opens Feb 15, 2027
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Opens Feb 15, 2027
SamovarResponds: ~4 months

Samovar is a triannual Strange Horizons magazine publishing speculative fiction and poetry in translation, alongside criticism and interviews about speculative fiction in translation.

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Opens Mar 1, 2027
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Opens Mar 1, 2027
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Opens Mar 1, 2027
Trollbreath MagazineResponds: ~2 months

Trollbreath Magazine is a quarterly journal publishing speculative fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, with interests including dark fantasy, hope punk, surrealism, slipstream, and fabulism.

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Opens Jan 1, 2027
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Opens Jan 1, 2027
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After MidnightResponds: ~4 weeks

After Midnight is a digital literary magazine publishing fiction, flash fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, book reviews, and pedagogy.

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Andromeda Spaceways MagazineResponds: ~3 months

Andromeda Spaceways Magazine publishes speculative fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, with submissions currently closed.

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GramaryeResponds: ~5 days

Gramarye is a peer-reviewed University of Chichester journal seeking scholarly and creative work on fairy tales, fantasy, Gothic, magic realism, science fiction, and speculative fiction.

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khōréōResponds: ~2 weeks

khōréō is a quarterly magazine of speculative fiction, nonfiction, and translations focused on immigrant and diaspora voices and experiences.

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Passing Strange: Queer Weird Arthurian Tales is an anthology seeking queer, speculative Arthurian fiction and narrative nonfiction.

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