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Asimov’s Science Fiction is an established science fiction magazine publishing character-oriented speculative fiction and poetry.

Uncanny Magazine is a science fiction and fantasy magazine seeking speculative fiction and poetry, though it is currently closed to all submissions.

Eye to the Telescope is an online speculative poetry publication of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association.

Abyss & Apex is a Hugo-nominated magazine publishing human-written speculative fiction and poetry.

FIYAH is a quarterly speculative-fiction magazine featuring stories by and about Black people of the African Diaspora.

The Deadlands is a death-focused magazine publishing speculative and literary fiction, nonfiction essays, and speculative poetry.

Superheroes, Super Problems is an original anthology seeking superhero-centered fiction and poetry across several speculative and genre categories.

WordFire Press is seeking original superhero-centered fiction and poetry for the Superheroes, Super Problems anthology.

Star*Line is the quarterly official journal of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, publishing speculative poetry and related articles, reviews, and essays.

Solarpunk Magazine publishes speculative fiction and other writing centered on solarpunk themes, including ecological balance, mutual aid, radical imagination, resistance, and repair.

Open to: Original, unpublished work in English; translations previously published in languages other than English are accepted, but unsolicited reprints are not.

OTHERSIDE is a paying speculative magazine publishing fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by self-identified 2SLGBTQIA+ writers.

Open to: self-identified members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community may submit; past contributors must wait two issues or six months from publication.

Spec Colorways In Verse is a zine and community space publishing queer BIPOC speculative poetry.

Worldsmyths is seeking speculative stories and poetry inspired by paintings from Inna Vjuzhanina’s The Coven collection for the Books of Rot and Bloom anthology.

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

Open to: Translators must acquire permission from the author or copyright holder and provide their contact information.

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.

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.

Okay Donkey is a paying literary magazine seeking odd, experimental, surreal, funny, and genre-bending poetry and flash fiction.

Haven Spec Magazine publishes science fiction, fantasy, speculative horror, poetry, and nonfiction, with submissions scheduled in monthly demographic, general, and closed windows.

Open to: October is reserved for authors of color, LGBTQIA+ writers, and writers belonging to other underrepresented groups; November is open to anyone. English-language submissions

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.

Teach. Write. is a literary journal for writing teachers that publishes fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, dramas, screenplays, and writing-prompt-inspired work.

Open to: The required third-person bio must explain the submitter's experience as a writing teacher or the impact a writing instructor has had on them.

Northern Shadows Magazine is a speculative fiction and poetry magazine seeking dark, dreamlike, and nightmarish work.

Carmina Magazine publishes myth-inspired poetry and prose, including reimaginings and retellings from mythological traditions across cultures and eras.

Open to: Work must be inspired by some kind of mythological tradition; AI-generated work is not accepted.

Call Me [Brackets] invites fantastical prose and poetry exploring whimsy, magic, strange adventures, and imaginative worlds.

Timeless Reflections is a semiannual online and print anthology seeking themed short stories and poetry for Volume 8.

Enchanted Living welcomes writers to submit original enchanting articles, stories, poetry, and excerpts for forthcoming themed issues.

Alliteration’s Forgotten Ground Regained seeks alliterative poetry for its Winter 2027 issue.

Emerald City Ghosts publishes paranormal ghost stories, flash fiction, short stories, poetry, and reviews, with general submissions always open and themed calls opening monthly.

Open to: Submitters must be subscribed to Emerald City Ghosts.

Bitterleaf Books publishes fantasy anthologies and accepts short stories, flash fiction, and poetry submissions.

Gaslamp Pulp is a year-round, non-paying venue accepting short stories and poetry for high-school readers and older, with issues focused on fantasy, science fiction, and special themes.

Open to: Works must be appropriate for high school readers and up (ages 15+); submissions must be original and not previously published by Nat 1, Gaslamp Pulp, or Audience Askew.

HEXFILED is an independent literary magazine publishing science fiction and speculative fiction, including prose, poetry, nonfiction, and archival-format work.