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

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Open to: Original, unpublished work in English; translations previously published in languages other than English are accepted, but unsolicited reprints are not.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Open to: Work must be previously unpublished; AI-generated submissions are not accepted.

Horrific Scribes is an online archive seeking provocative, scary, strange, and unconventional dark short fiction and some poetry.

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.

Crooked Spine is a quarterly horror magazine publishing paid fiction and poetry in themed submission windows.

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.

After Brunch Journal is an online, volunteer-based journal publishing experimental, haunting poems, fiction, essays, and hybrid work worldwide.

The Best Horror of the Year is an all-reprint anthology seeking horror stories and poetry published during 2026 for Volume Nineteen.

Open to: material published in 2026; reprints

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.

Dark Moon Rising Publications is accepting submissions for multiple horror, dark romance, fantasy, poetry, and young-adult anthologies, generally by email and often accepting reprints.

Open to: female authors

Black Petals is a quarterly horror and science-fiction magazine seeking dark, bizarre, unusual fiction and chilling poetry, particularly from new talent.

Cul-de-sac of Blood publishes horror-focused poetry, prose, essays, and other writing, with a particular interest in queer, radical, and socially engaged perspectives.

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

Homunculi publishes original speculative fiction and poetry by people involved in STEM fields, accepting submissions on a rolling basis.

Open to: Submitters must be involved with the STEM fields, including students, educators, communicators, academics, industry professionals, and medical workers.