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 Happy Holidays! I hope you are having a joyful Christmas Eve, if you celebrate it. Me, I like Iceland's idea of
Jólabókaflóð, the Yule Book Flood. In addition to our usual Christmas Eve festivities, I absolutely plan on settling in with some chocolate and a book this evening after the children are asleep.
If you are reading this after the holidays, perhaps because you've chosen to unplug for a while, go you! I hope you feel relaxed and refreshed.
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
I am embracing the idea of a writing session being a success even if you only write 3 sentences. It's removed a lot of the pressure, and so I feel less of an urge to procrastinate and end up writing more. Usually for me, it isn't the writing that's a problem, it's the starting to write. This helps, and I'm happy with how it's encouraging me to keep my mind in my project and to write every day. Because after all, I can do those ten urgent other things after I've written my 3 sentences, and if I feel like writing more once I get started (I usually do), then those ten other urgent things can wait a little longer.
Stories must meet two basic criteria. First, they must take place
over the span of five minutes. Second, they must take place at a
specific era, location, and time of day within the rooms or grounds of
the Hotel Stormcove.
In order to maximize ease of writing across genres, we are not
adhering to a strict Earth location and timeline. Contemporary writers
will find the current hotel equipped with modern amenities. Historical
fiction writers would be best writing generic stories in an era, but not
based on specific local events. Fantasy writers may find low or urban
fantasy easier with this theme, but I don’t doubt your ability to work
in high fantasy elements and hope you will enjoy the challenge. And
steampunk writers, well you can stage a whole mechanical speakeasy in
the cocktail lounge. Mystery has the gift of finding a dead body in the
hotel room, but you know, have fun with it. And so on.
Market List UpdatesTo see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.
| Name |
What they want |
Pay Per Word |
Flat Pay (Lowest) |
Website |
| Terraform (Motherboard) |
SF |
$0.200 |
|
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kbzxpa/how-to-submit-stories-to-terraform |
| Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/31/2018 |
All genres, themed to the hotel |
$0.060 |
|
https://www.atthisarts.com/stormcove/ |
| Flame Tree Newsletter Flash Fiction |
Horror and sci-fi, themed |
$0.060 |
|
https://www.flametreepress.com/submissions/ |
| Apotheosis 2 ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31/2018 |
Themed to human survival after the return of the Elder Gods |
$0.030 |
|
https://simianpublishing.wordpress.com/submission-guidelines-apotheosis-2-more-stories-of-survival-after-the-rise-of-the-elder-gods/ |
| Monsters Out of the Closet PODCAST |
Horror by LGBTQ+ creators |
$0.020 |
|
https://www.monstersoutofthecloset.com/submit/ |
| Crimson Streets |
Pulp, but not straight SF |
$0.010 |
|
http://www.crimsonstreets.com/submission-guidelines/ |
| StoryHack |
Action and adventure in any genre |
$0.010 |
|
https://www.storyhack.com/submissions/ |
| Wyrm's Gauntlet RECURRING CONTESTS |
Written to prompt,multiple rounds |
|
$150.00 |
http://wyrmsgauntlet.com/guidelines/ |
| Future Visions Anthology Series |
SF |
|
$100.00 |
https://www.futurevisions.io/for-authors/ |
| Asteroids ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 3/1/2019 |
SF, themed to asteroids |
|
$25.00 |
https://orenlitwin.com/calls-for-submissions/call-for-submissions-asteroids-science-fiction-anthology/ |
| Family ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 3/1/2019 |
Fantasy, themed to family |
|
$25.00 |
https://orenlitwin.com/calls-for-submissions/call-for-submissions-family-fantasy-anthology/ |
| Bloodbond (Alban Lake) |
Themed: vampires, werewolves, and shapeshifters |
|
$20.00 |
https://www.albanlakepublishing.com/bloodbond |
| Disturbed Digest (Alban Lake) |
Horror and dark fantasy |
|
$20.00 |
https://www.albanlakepublishing.com/disturbed |
| Outposts of Beyond (Alban Lake) |
SF/F |
|
$20.00 |
https://www.albanlakepublishing.com/outposts |
| FrostFire Worlds (Alban Lake) |
SF/F for readers of all ages |
|
$10.00 |
https://www.albanlakepublishing.com/frostfire |
| Chrome Baby |
Literary/dark SF |
|
$5.00 |
http://robindunn.com/chrome-submit.html |
| Penny Fiction (From the Depths Literary Magazine) |
Micro-fiction |
|
$3.00 |
https://manager.submittable.com/beta/opportunity/128291 |
| Orthogonal SF - DEAD MARKET |
Spec-fic, especially indefinable and experimental |
|
$100.00 |
http://www.orthogonalsf.net/?p=41 |
| Electric Athenaeum - DEAD MARKET |
Science fiction, fantasy, and horror, themed issues |
|
$67.37 |
http://csff-anglia.co.uk/ea/subs/ |
| 4 Star Stories - DEAD MARKET |
SF/F |
|
$10.00 |
http://www.4starstories.com/submissions.htm |
| WiFiles - DEAD MARKET |
All spec-fic |
|
$3.00 |
http://thewifiles.com/?page_id=8 |
| Something Wicked ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DEAD MARKET |
Science fiction and horror |
$0.010 |
|
http://www.somethingwicked.co.za/submissions/ |
| Worlds Without Master - DEAD MARKET |
Sword & sorcery and sword & planet |
|
$200.00 |
|
| Unsettling Wonder - DEAD MARKET |
Themed: folklore and fairytale |
$0.010 |
|
http://www.unsettlingwonder.com/submissions/ |
| Stoneslide Corrective, The - DEAD MARKET (no longer accepts unsolicited subs) |
All genres |
|
$125.00 |
http://www.thestoneslide.com/why/ |
| Leading Edge - DEAD MARKET??? (website suspended 11/24/2018) |
F/SF |
$0.010 |
|
http://www.leadingedgemagazine.com/?page_id=31 |
| Black Denim Lit - DEAD MARKET |
Literary, all genres except erotica and horror |
$0.010 |
|
http://www.bdlit.com/submissions.html |
Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!
Abra Staffin-Wiebe, Compiler of Lists
Aswiebe's Market ListAbra Staffin-Wiebe's Author WebsiteAswiebe's Market List Details* Aswiebe's Market List
is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science
fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example,
only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
* If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it.* To help prevent these from being flagged as spam, please add this email to your contacts. Thanks!
* If you're so moved, go ahead and link to Aswiebe's Market List on your blog or webpage. * To report a new paying market, go to my contact page.
* To unsubscribe, simply reply to this email with "unsubscribe" in the subject line.*Feel
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http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/markets.html
The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be after 12/15/2018.
Permanent link to this newsletter in the archives: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive2018.html#111918
Thoughts in Passing
As we approach the holidays, the publishing industry slooooooooowwwws way down. Many magazines close for the month of December. Very few new magazines choose to start up during this time (January is a different story). So if you have something you want to send out on submission, get it out now, before Thanksgiving happens in the United States. Skip sending out submissions in December, as many publications will be on hiatus anyway. Take a break, write new things, and spend time with family and friends!
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
This month, I performed at a couple of big reading events. It went well! One was for a new release that I have a couple of stories in, The Subverted Fairy Project, a collaboration between artists and writers. If you enjoy twisted fairy tales, art, or flash fiction, I recommend it!
Featured Market
Space Opera Libretti wants fun, light space opera.
We've decided there's enough grim and dark in the real world without creating more of it as entertainment.
And looking out on the publishing landscape we see a distinct shortage
of anthologies of light, happy, FUN SF/F. In fact, we can count the
number of such anthologies without resorting to two digits in binary.
That's right, there's just ONE. It's a very good anthology, but it's
carrying a heavy load.
To summarize, we need a more inclusive space opera. Fewer Nazis. No
Cthulhu. Better representation for women, especially women of color.
Better representation for the whole QUILTBAG-P+/-, Disabled persons.
#ownvoices. Sure, we like stories with white guys who fight off evil...
In space. Hey, who doesn't like space? You're living in it, you know.
But there are other stories. We'd like to read them. We'd like to PUBLISH them for others to read.
Market List UpdatesTo see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.
| Name |
What they want |
Pay Per Word |
Flat Pay (Lowest) |
Website |
| Future Science Fiction Digest |
SF |
$0.100 |
|
http://future-sf.com/submissions/ |
| Space Opera Libretti ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31/2018 |
Space opera |
$0.060 |
|
http://spaceoperalibretti.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html |
| Shock Totem |
Dark fantasy and horror |
$0.050 |
|
http://www.shocktotem.com/guidelines/ |
| Tales from the Lake Vol 6 ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/1/2019 |
Dark fiction, non-themed |
$0.030 |
|
http://www.crystallakepub.com/authorcentral/ |
| Unfit Magazine |
SF and fantasy, incl. steampunk and cyberpunk |
$0.030 |
|
http://unfitmag.com/submit/ |
| Steam and Lace ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/1/2019 |
Steampunk |
$0.010 |
|
http://www.springsongpress.com/submission-requirements-steam-and-lace-steampunk-anthology/ |
| Would But Time Await ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/15/2019 |
Folk horror themed to New England |
|
$75.00 |
https://www.facebook.com/groups/292913791503094/permalink/301538633973943/ |
| Bloody Valentine ONE-TIME CONTEST - DUE 2/1/2019 |
Dark, eerie fiction themed to relationships gone wrong |
|
$50.00 |
http://talesmoonlitpath.com/contest/ |
| Inklings Fantasy Anthology - ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31/2018 |
Fantasy |
|
$50.00 |
http://www.inklingspress.com/submissions.html |
| Unnamed Inklings Fantasy Anthology - ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31/2018 |
Fantasy |
|
$50.00 |
http://www.inklingspress.com/submissions.html |
| Strange Constellations |
Spec-fic |
|
$30.00 |
http://www.strangeconstellations.com/?page_id=8 |
| Dream Realms of Cthulhu ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 6/30/2019 |
Lovecraftian horror |
|
$25.00 |
https://www.albanlakepublishing.com/dream-realms-of-cthulhu |
| Animal Horror Anthology (Nightmare Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/1/2018 |
Animal-themed horror |
|
$20.00 |
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1946281795664651&id=1935900000036164 |
| Takwin |
Islamicate (Islam-friendly) SF |
|
$20.00 |
http://www.islamscifi.com/launching-takwin-a-magazine-of-islamicate-science-fiction/ |
| Vampires, Zombies, and Ghosts Oh My! ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/15/2018 |
Themed: supernatural beings |
|
$20.00 |
http://smokingpenpress.com/submissions-2 |
| Vampires, Zombies, and Ghosts, oh my! (Smoking Pen Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/15/2018 |
Themed to title |
|
$20.00 |
http://smokingpenpress.com/submissions-2 |
| Sub-saharan Magazine |
African (esp. Nigerian) fantasy |
|
$10.00 |
https://subsaharanmagazine.wordpress.com/submission/ |
| Liquid Imagination |
Spec-fic and literary. Also has a special flash fiction section. |
|
$8.00 |
https://liquidimagination.silverpen.org/submissions/ |
| Paper Butterfly |
Flash fiction |
|
$7.61 |
https://paperbutterflyflash.wordpress.com/2018/10/01/submit-your-flash-fiction-these-are-the-guidelines-2/ |
| Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/15 |
Fantasy, SF, and horror |
|
$54.33 |
http://www.robertnstephenson.com/anthology.html |
| Havok (Splickety Publishing) - DEAD MARKET |
Themed speculative flash fiction |
$0.020 |
|
http://splickety.com/submission-guidelines/ |
| SQ Mag - DEAD MARKET |
SF/F/H |
$0.010 |
|
http://sqmag.com/submissions/ |
Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!
Abra Staffin-Wiebe, Compiler of Lists
Aswiebe's Market ListAbra Staffin-Wiebe's Author WebsiteAswiebe's Market List Details* Aswiebe's Market List
is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science
fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example,
only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
* If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it.* To help prevent these from being flagged as spam, please add this email to your contacts. Thanks!
* If you're so moved, go ahead and link to Aswiebe's Market List on your blog or webpage. * To report a new paying market, go to my contact page.
* To unsubscribe, simply reply to this email with "unsubscribe" in the subject line.*Feel
free to share this newsletter with others by whatever means you like,
as long as you include all of it. * If you received this from a friend and want to subscribe to this email
newsletter, go here.
The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be after 11/15/2018.
Permanent link to this newsletter in the archives: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive2018.html#102518
Thoughts in Passing
This past week the kids had off from school, so our family headed to a cabin in the wilds of Wisconsin. No internet, no cellphone signal ... perfect. I didn't even burden myself with, "I should be writing a lot." It was the perfect way to get out of my own head and unwind. I enjoyed the autumn splendor, went for long walks in the woods, and read two books. Now I'm back and feeling less stressed and more connected, in a good way!
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
I have a short story in the next issue of F&SF, available at fine bookstores on November 1st.
My inner 13-year-old is SO happy right now!
And I've been preparing for readings at a couple of big events coming up.
Next Sunday I'll be performing at WordBrew, an annual showcase for Minnesotan F/SF writers. It's always a great time. Check it out if you're in town!
November 17th will be the grand book release party and fairy-themed extravaganza for The Subverted Fairy Project, an art and writing collaboration that I am part of. It's going to be amazing. Mark your calendar now!
https://www.facebook.com/events/485033022007029/
I haven't been reading many articles this month. However, I've been listening to the Writing Excuses podcast a lot. This season they're doing an excellent "What writers get wrong" series (about professions, conditions, hobbies, and all the multifaceted parts of a person's identity).
Featured Market
Rosalind's Siblings wants themed speculative fiction, pays super-pro rate.
Rosalind’s Siblings is an anthology of speculative stories about people
of marginalized genders/sexes who are scientists: scientists doing good,
changing the world, or just getting on with their work of expanding
human knowledge in a speculative context, presented in a positive light.
... We are happy to read works from any speculative subgenre: science
fiction, fantasy, horror, alternate history, magical realism, fabulism,
mythic work, Weird fiction and so on.
Market List UpdatesTo see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.
| Name |
What they want |
Pay Per Word |
Flat Pay (Lowest) |
Website |
| Future of Death, The (Gizmodo) ONE-TIME THEME - DUE 10/25/2018 |
SF themed to the future of death |
$0.500 |
|
https://io9.gizmodo.com/io9-wants-your-short-fiction-on-the-future-of-death-1829209247 |
| Rosalind's Siblings ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/01/2018 - 12/01/2018 |
SF themed to positively represented scientists with marginalized gender identities |
$0.105 |
|
https://galli-books.co.uk/2018/08/16/call-for-submissions-rosalinds-siblings/ |
| Alternate Peace (Zombies Need Brains LLC) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31/2018 |
Alternate history |
$0.060 |
|
https://jpskewedthrone.dreamwidth.org/496776.html |
| Dark Magazine, The |
Horror and dark fantasy, including outside regular categories |
$0.060 |
|
http://thedarkmagazine.com/submission-guidelines/ |
| DreamForge Magazine |
Positive SFF |
$0.060 |
|
https://dreamforgemagazine.com/10-best-futures-guidelines/ |
| DreamForge Magazine ONE-TIME THEME - Future Best - DUE 10/31/2018 |
Flash SF themed to optimistic futures |
$0.060 |
|
https://dreamforgemagazine.com/10-best-futures-guidelines/ |
| Horror/Humor Anthology (Bad Dream Entertainment) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31/2018 |
Humorous horror |
$0.060 |
|
http://www.baddreamentertainment.com/submissions/ |
| Portals (Zombies Need Brains LLC) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31/2018 |
Portal-themed SFF |
$0.060 |
|
https://jpskewedthrone.dreamwidth.org/496776.html |
| Temporally Deactivated (Zombies Need Brains LLC) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31/2018 |
Themed to title |
$0.060 |
|
https://jpskewedthrone.dreamwidth.org/496776.html |
| Moonlight: A Queer Werewolf Anthology ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/30/2018 |
Themed: queer werewolves |
$0.054 |
|
https://moonlightanthology.tumblr.com/submission |
| Helios Quarterly |
All spec-fic, themed |
$0.030 |
|
http://heliosquarterly.com/index.php/submissions/ |
| Write Ahead / The Future Looms |
Cyberpunk |
$0.030 |
|
https://www.writeaheadthefuturelooms.com/submission-guidelines/ |
| Vex Me No More ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31/2018 |
Horror themed to witches |
$0.020 |
|
https://www.thehorrorqueen.com/submissions |
| Cirsova |
Science fiction and fantasy, esp. pulp, sword & planet and heroic fantasy |
$0.013 |
|
https://cirsova.wordpress.com/cirsova-magazine/submission-guidelines/ |
| Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winter (World Weaver Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/1/2019 - 3/1/2019 |
Eco-conscious SF set in the winter |
$0.010 |
|
https://www.worldweaverpress.com/submit-anthologies.html |
| Not All Monsters ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/1/2018 UNTIL FULL |
Monster-themed horror by women writers |
$0.010 |
|
https://roosterrepublicpress.com/2018/09/17/strangehouse-books-seeks-women-writers-for-horror-anthology-not-all-monsters/ |
| Overcast Podcast, The |
All spec-fic |
$0.010 |
|
http://theovercast.libsyn.com/submissions-guidelines |
| Seasoned Meat (Splatter Club) ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31 |
Horror written by previously published authors |
$0.010 |
|
http://www.splatterclub.com/submissions/ |
| Black Labyrinth (Dark Regions Press) ONE-TIME CONTEST - DUE 1/31/2019 |
Horror themed to possession |
|
$800.00 |
https://horrortree.com/taking-submissions-black-labyrinth-anthology-i-possession/ |
| Curse the Darkness (Unlit Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31/2018 |
Horror/dark fiction themed to darkness |
|
$100.00 |
https://www.unlitpress.com/open-call-for-submissions-curse-the-darkness/ |
| Mechanical Miscreants ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/30/2018 |
Horror themed to the mechanical or electronic |
|
$25.00 |
https://villainouspress.submittable.com/submit/125617/mechanical-miscreants |
| Triskaidekaphilia Four: Haunted ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/30/2018 |
Themed: female ghosts and (non-ghost) romance |
|
$20.00 |
http://www.penandkinkpub.com/home/call-for-submissions/ |
| Neon Druid: An Anthology of Urban Celtic Fantasy ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/10/2018 |
Urban Celtic Fantasy |
|
$10.00 |
https://mtmisery.com/submissions/ |
| Nanoism |
Twitfic - up to 140 characters, all genres |
|
$1.50 |
http://nanoism.net/submit/ |
| Liminal Stories - DEAD MARKET |
Strange, unsettling, weird |
$0.060 |
|
http://liminalstoriesmag.com/submissions/ |
| Deciduous Tales - DEAD MARKET |
Horror and dark fiction with literary merit |
$0.030 |
|
|
| Iridium (Fiction) - DEAD MARKET |
QUILTBAG/GLBTQ+ genre fiction incl. SF/F etc. |
$0.030 |
|
https://iridiumzine.com/submissions/ |
| See the Elephant - DEAD MARKET |
Fantastic fiction |
$0.060 |
|
http://www.metaphysicalcircus.com/submissions/short-fiction/ |
| Lorelei Signal, The - DEAD MARKET |
Fantasy with complex characters |
|
$7.50 |
http://www.loreleisignal.com/Guidelines.html |
| Aliterate - DEAD MARKET |
Literary genre fiction. |
$0.060 |
|
https://www.aliterate.org/submit/ |
| Phantom Drift - DEAD MARKET (now charges sub fees) |
New weird, slipstream, fabulism |
$0.020 |
|
|
| Storyteller - DEAD MARKET |
All genres |
|
$100.00 |
|
Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!
Abra Staffin-Wiebe, Compiler of Lists
Aswiebe's Market ListAbra Staffin-Wiebe's Author WebsiteAswiebe's Market List Details* Aswiebe's Market List
is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science
fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example,
only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
* If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it.* To help prevent these from being flagged as spam, please add this email to your contacts. Thanks!
* If you're so moved, go ahead and link to Aswiebe's Market List on your blog or webpage. * To report a new paying market, go to my contact page.
* To unsubscribe, simply reply to this email with "unsubscribe" in the subject line.*Feel
free to share this newsletter with others by whatever means you like,
as long as you include all of it. * If you received this from a friend and want to subscribe to this email
newsletter, go here.
Summer is a hectic, not-so-productive time for me. Happy Autumn, everyone! And a blessed Autumn Equinox to those who celebrate it.
My autumn goals are always threefold: ease back into being more productive now that I have school mornings to myself; de-stress myself; and frantically try to catch up with everything that I fell behind on during the summer. This includes cleaning and meal-planning and paperwork, as well as my Very Long Indeed list of writing-related to-dos. That's not actual writing, mind you, just the many obligations and projects and bookkeeping related to being a writer!
Then my oldest got sick with pneumonia. He's doing a lot better now, thank goodness, but all my fine plans (and alone time!) went by the wayside for the last week and a half. Time to take a deep breath and remind myself that fifteen minutes at a time still makes a difference. It's time to focus on writing.
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
To get back into the swing of writing more, I've found Cold Turkey Writer incredibly useful. It takes over your whole computer and doesn't let you do anything else until you've written the amount of words or for the amount of minutes that you specify. Great for avoiding distractions!
(Prose can by stylish, but it doesn’t have to be. Characters can be
complex, except when a story demands them to be painted with a coarse
brush. But a driving narrative is a sine qua non.)
We love SF stories that carry characters from their beginning to
their end. That take the reader along on the journey of discovery (or
loss, or redemption, or whatever). And of course, they have to be
speculative. The name “Constellary” betrays our love for science
fiction, but we’re fans of fantasy too.
Market List UpdatesTo see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet
| Name |
What they want |
Pay Per Word |
Flat Pay (Lowest) |
Website |
| Constellary Tales |
SF/F |
$0.060 |
|
http://constellary.com/story-submissions/ |
| John Silence ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/30/2018 |
Themed: shared world, psychic people of color saving the earth from invisible monsters |
$0.060 |
|
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1080999837/john-silence/posts/2253948 |
| Bubble Off-Plumb ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/30/2018 |
Themed: things slightly off |
$0.030 |
|
https://feralcatpublishers.com/bubble-off-plumb-anthology |
| Tales From the Canyons of the Damned |
Dark SF, Horror, Slipstream |
$0.030 |
|
http://canyonsofthedamned.com/#eluid20a88705 |
| Machinations and Mesmerism ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/24/2018 |
Themed: strange, gothic, and fantastic fiction in the style of E.T.A. Hoffmann |
$0.020 |
|
https://www.facebook.com/ultharpress/posts/1431390520339803 |
| Nexxis Fantasy Biannual Anthology - BIANNUAL ANTHOLOGY DUE 7/1 & 1/1 |
SF, themed |
$0.010 |
|
https://nexxisfantasy.com/submissions/ |
| Steam and Lace ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/01/2018 |
Steampunk |
$0.010 |
|
http://www.springsongpress.com/submission-requirements-steam-and-lace-steampunk-anthology/ |
| Magical Mail Writing Contest ONE-TIME CONTEST - DUE 12/15/2018 |
Fantasy letters themed to mythological characters |
|
$500.00 |
https://www.legendaryletters.com/contest/ |
| Icarus ONE-TIME CONTEST - DUE 10/31/2018 |
Themed: Icarus |
|
$300.00 |
http://mythicbeaststudios.com/the-icarus-contest |
| No Sleep Podcast, The |
Horror |
|
$125.00 |
https://www.thenosleeppodcast.com/submissions |
| Recommended Reading Commuter, The (Electric Lit) |
Poetry, flash fiction < 1,500 words, graphics, and experimental narratives |
|
$100.00 |
https://electricliterature.com/submit-ebdd3b73083a |
| Zooscape |
Furry fiction |
|
$60.00 |
http://zooscape-zine.com/guidelines/ |
| Arcanist, The |
SF/F/Horror flash fiction |
|
$50.00 |
https://thearcanist.io/a-call-for-submissions-244f646d25a4 |
| Furious Gazelle's Halloween Writing Contest, The ANNUAL CONTEST - DUE 10/01 |
Themed: Halloween |
|
$50.00 |
http://thefuriousgazelle.com/submit/halloween-writing-contest/ |
| Lustcraftian Horror ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/21/2018 |
Erotica inspired by Lovecraft |
|
$25.00 |
http://www.hydramstar.com/infernal-ink-books-submission-guidelines.html |
| On Patrol (Otter Libris) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/15/2018 |
SF/F/H themed to eternal soldiers |
|
$25.00 |
http://otterlibris.com/open-projects/still-on-patrol/ |
| Forgotten Sidekicks (Grimbold Books) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/30/2018 |
Themed to forgotten sidekicks |
|
$19.73 |
https://petewsutton.com/2018/07/31/anthology-call-out/ |
| Lost Gods (Grimbold Books) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/30/2018 |
Themed to ancient, forgotten, lost gods |
|
$19.73 |
https://petewsutton.com/2018/07/31/anthology-call-out/ |
| Unexpected Heroines (Grimbold Books) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/30/2018 |
Themed to unexpected heroines |
|
$19.73 |
https://petewsutton.com/2018/07/31/anthology-call-out/ |
| Retro Future - DEAD MARKET |
Progressive, optimistic SF |
$0.060 |
|
https://www.galileogames.com/retro-future/ |
| Grievous Angel (Urban Fantasist) - DEAD MARKET |
Spec-fic flash fiction and poetry, especially weird tales, urban myths, folk tales |
$0.060 |
|
http://www.urbanfantasist.com/-submission-guidelines.html |
Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!
Abra Staffin-Wiebe, Compiler of Lists
Aswiebe's Market ListAbra Staffin-Wiebe's Author WebsiteAswiebe's Market List Details* Aswiebe's Market List
is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science
fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example,
only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
* If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it.* To help prevent these from being flagged as spam, please add this email to your contacts. Thanks!
* If you're so moved, go ahead and link to Aswiebe's Market List on your blog or webpage. * To report a new paying market, go to my contact page.
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Permanent link to this newsletter in the archives: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive2018.html#081518
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Oops! I've had so much on my plate lately that I completely blanked on the last Aswiebe's Market List update, so this is a double shot.
The End of Our World anthology is seeking thoughtful SF themed to climate catastrophe and end of the world. Due 8/31/2018!
Contemporary warnings of impending doom, the rapidly approaching end of
our overdeveloped and unsustainable world, are based on reality and
science, on cold, hard facts, matters of projection rather than
prediction. And we are already seeing the end beginning. The signs are
everywhere: environmentally and socially (check our fact sheet for
details). We are going down, and most of us know, perhaps not
consciously, not clearly spelled out, but we know, deep inside,
that we are going down, in spite of all the comforting lies told by
those who are profiting from our downfall and want us to go meekly.
This contest is meant to raise people's awareness of what is happening
to our (natural) world right now and what this may mean for the near
future. We are looking for short stories dealing with the many
existential issues facing us. No nonsense, no wild, impossible fantasies
but strong, intelligent stories, based on facts, cautionary tales,
speculative, plausible and thought-provoking.
Market List UpdatesTo see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.
| Name |
What they want |
Pay Per Word |
Flat Pay (Lowest) |
Website |
| Cockroach Conservatory, The ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/15/2018 |
SF/weird, themed |
$0.060 |
|
http://cockroachconservatory.blogspot.com/2018/07/submission-guidelines-for-volume-2.html |
| Crossed Genres |
SFF |
$0.060 |
|
http://crossedgenres.com/submissions/magazine/ |
| Futures (Radix Media) ONE-TIME SERIES - DUE 9/1/2018 |
Literary SF |
$0.060 |
|
https://radixmedia.org/call-for-submissions-futures/ |
| Hard Universe |
SF |
$0.060 |
|
http://www.harduniverse.com/submission-guidelines.html |
| Release the Virgins ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/1/2018 |
All genres, must contain the phrase, "Release the Virgins!" |
$0.050 |
|
https://michaelaventrella.com/2018/06/25/release-the-virgins-open-for-submissions/ |
| Concrete Dreams (Prospective Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/01/2018 |
Urban fantasy with magic and gears feel |
$0.040 |
|
http://prospectivepress.com/submissions.html |
| Tales From the Old Black Ambulance (Prospective Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/1/2018 |
Horror and weird themed to the dead. |
$0.040 |
|
http://prospectivepress.com/submissions.html |
| Crash Code (Blood Bound Books) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/01/2018 |
Cyberpunk |
$0.030 |
|
http://bloodboundbooks.net/bloodboundbooks/submissions/ |
| Havok (Splickety Publishing) |
Themed speculative flash fiction |
$0.020 |
|
http://splickety.com/submission-guidelines/ |
| End of Our World, The ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/31/2018 |
Thoughtful SF themed to climate catastrophe and end of the world. |
|
$1,000.00 |
http://www.aftermathmag.org/contest.html |
| Worlds Without Master |
Sword & sorcery and sword & planet |
|
$200.00 |
http://www.worldswithoutmaster.com/submissions/ |
| Shoreline of Infinity ONE-TIME CONTEST - DUE 9/30/2018 |
SF themed to "Moon" |
|
52.56 |
https://www.shorelineofinfinity.com/flash-fiction-competition-shoreline-infinity-readers/ |
| Midnight Breakfast |
All genres, especially literary or spec-fic. ONE-TIME August 2018 theme: America and Other Nightmares |
|
$50.00 |
http://midnightbreakfast.com/submissions/ |
| Spectacle |
All spec-fic, esp. relevant with good visuals |
|
$50.00 |
https://spectacle.com/submissions/ |
| Gathering Storm |
Spec-fic, themed, plus odd tidbits |
|
$25.00 |
http://www.gatheringstormmagazine.com/guidelines |
| Three Crows Magazine |
SFF, especially Slavic |
|
$25.00 |
http://threecrowsmagazine.com/submissions/ |
| Wicked Words Quarterly |
SF/F/H with a twist |
|
$20.00 |
http://www.wickedwords.co.uk/quarterly/submissions/ |
| 13 Postcards From Hell ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/31/2018 |
Fantasy/horror, themed |
|
$10.00 |
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=860303730832994&set=gm.652518981773019&type=3&theater |
| Kill Switch ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/31/2018 |
Horror themed to technology |
|
$10.00 |
https://horroraddicts.wordpress.com/2018/07/22/submission-call-tech-horror-kill-switch-4/ |
| Trickster's Treats #3 (Things In The Well) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/31/2018 |
Horror, themed |
|
$6.00 |
http://thingsinthewell.webs.com/submissions |
| Shimmer Magazine - DEAD MARKET |
All spec-fic, mostly contemporary fantasy (no historical/high fantasy) |
$0.050 |
|
http://www.shimmerzine.com/guidelines/fiction-guidelines/ |
Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck!
Abra Staffin-Wiebe, Compiler of Lists
Aswiebe's Market ListAbra Staffin-Wiebe's Author WebsiteAswiebe's Market List Details* Aswiebe's Market List
is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science
fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example,
only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
* If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it.* To help prevent these from being flagged as spam, please add this email to your contacts. Thanks!
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  Want to know what gave me the most trouble? Figuring out the grammatically correct use of articles with a term I made up myself (turns out it's complicated).
Ah, writers. We do it to ourselves.
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
See above. I have a novella coming out soon! July 17th! Soon, The Unkindness of Ravens will be available in print for pre-order. The ebook is already available for pre-order on non-Amazon sites, with a special low pre-order price (Kindle coming soon).
I'm also going to two local writing conventions in the next month. I'm at 4th Street Fantasy, June 22 - June 24th (I'm there now!). And I'm at CONvergence July 5 - July 8. I'll be doing a reading (with donuts if they're allowed in the room) first thing in the morning on Friday! That same day I'll be on these panels: Kids Ask a Writer, Keeping Creatively Energized, and Next Big Monster. On Saturday, I'm part of the group book signing (look for my origami tree) and the Writing Violence in Violent Times panel.
Sins and Other Worlds is a reprint dark SF anthology by Shacklebound Books.
All submissions must be science fiction in nature. Any sub-genre is
acceptable, but the stories must have have a science fiction element and
must be dark in tone or atmosphere.
Market List UpdatesTo see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.
| Name |
What they want |
Pay Per Word |
Flat Pay (Lowest) |
Website |
| School Magazine, The |
Children's fiction, mainstream or fantasy, themed |
$0.060 |
|
https://theschoolmagazine.com.au/contributors/writers |
| Burnt Fur ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/1/2018 |
Furry horror |
$0.030 |
|
http://bloodboundbooks.net/bloodboundbooks/burnt-fur-submission-call/ |
| Corpus Press Horror Anthology ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/15/2018 |
Horror |
$0.030 |
|
https://www.corpuspress.com/call-for-submissions/ |
| Augur |
Literary SF/F |
$0.015 |
|
http://www.augurmag.com/submissions/ |
| Blood Bath Literary Zine |
Horror, themed issues |
$0.013 |
|
https://bloodbathlitzine.com/ |
| Children of Ashton Clark Smith, The ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/31/2019 |
Fantasy in the style of Clark Ashton Smith |
$0.010 |
|
https://atlanteanpublishing.wordpress.com/2018/04/24/call-for-submissions/ |
| Cirsova |
Sword & planet and heroic fantasy |
$0.010 |
|
https://cirsova.wordpress.com/cirsova-magazine/submission-guidelines/ |
| Prequel Short Stories for Beastly Comic - ONE-TIME DUE DATE 8/1/2018 |
Shared world cryptozoology capture stories |
$0.010 |
|
https://horrortree.com/taking-submissions-prequel-short-stories-for-ongoing-cryptozoology-comic/ |
| Sins and Other Worlds ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED |
Dark SF, reprints only |
$0.010 |
|
https://shackleboundbooks.wordpress.com/submissions/ |
| Unlocking the Magic ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/1/2018 |
Fantasy with self-care and realistic mental illness depictions |
|
$300.00 |
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1962286285/unlocking-the-magic-a-fantasy-anthology/posts/2203758 |
| Life After All (Less Than Three Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/30/2018 |
Romantic post-apocalyptic LGBTQIA+ fiction |
|
$150.00 |
https://www.lessthanthreepress.com/anthology-submissions/ |
| American Psychos (Red Room Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/01/2018 |
Horror themed to non-supernatural serial killers |
|
$100.00 |
http://www.redroompress.com/submission-guidelines/american-psychos/ |
| Spooky Samhain Stories 2018 Contest (Oklahoma Pagan Quarterly) ONE-TIME CONTEST - DUE 8/31/2018 |
Scary stories that are supernatural experiences, tall tales, or entirely fictional |
|
$100.00 |
https://oklahomapaganquarterly.com/samhain2018/ |
| James Gunn's Ad Astra |
Science fiction |
|
$50.00 |
http://www.adastrasf.com/submissions/short-fiction-submission-guidelines/ |
| Old Sins ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/1/2018 |
Themed to debunked conspiracy theories |
|
$50.00 |
https://www.facebook.com/oldsins/posts/1502384789890181 |
| Swords and Sorcery |
High fantasy and historical fantasy |
|
$10.00 |
http://www.swordsandsorcerymagazine.com/submissions.html |
| Toasted Cake (Podcast) |
All genres, flash fiction |
|
$10.00 |
http://toastedcake.com/submissions.html |
| Influence of the Moon ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31/2018 |
All genres (no erotica), themed to the moon. |
|
$5.00 |
http://www.pub518.com/submit-to-us.html |
| Sanitarium Magazine |
Horror |
|
$5.00 |
http://sanitariumpublishing.com/submissions/ |
| Milkfist - DEAD MARKET |
All genres, weird and radical |
|
$10.00 |
http://www.milkfist.com/submission_guidelines |
| Cucurbical (Paper Golem Press) ANTHOLOGY SERIES - DEAD MARKET |
All spec-fic, themed |
$0.010 |
|
http://www.papergolem.com/new/guidelines/ |
| Mythic Delirium - DEAD MARKET |
Poetry and speculative fiction |
$0.020 |
|
|
| Red Room Magazine - DEAD MARKET |
Extreme horror and dark crime |
$0.030 |
|
http://cometpress.us/redroom/guidelines/ |
| Uninvited, The - DEAD MARKET |
Horror and weird fiction |
$0.010 |
|
http://www.theuninvitedmagazine.com/submissions/ |
Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck! Abra Staffin-Wiebe, Compiler of Lists
Aswiebe's Market ListAbra Staffin-Wiebe's Author WebsiteAswiebe's Market List Details* Aswiebe's Market List
is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science
fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example,
only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
* If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it.* To help prevent these from being flagged as spam, please add this email to your contacts. Thanks!
* If you're so moved, go ahead and link to Aswiebe's Market List on your blog or webpage. * To report a new paying market, go to my contact page.
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I've been doing a lot of writing-related stuff, don't get me wrong! I've been prepping my novella for independent release, updating things to reflect recent short story sales (I am *so* excited to tell you about one of these once it's out!), updating market lists, recording podcast interviews, doing audio narration, working on the final read-aloud copyedit of the novella, and a millionty other things. But simply sitting down and *writing*, for a large chunk of time, producing brand-new words, not so much. I don't know why it always takes me so long to realize that I SHOULD BE WRITING. I've been writing for years, in large part because when I wasn't writing, I wasn't okay. And yet, I keep forgetting!
This is a problem. I have a *lot* of writing-related things to do in the next few months. I need to teach a class on writing contemporary/urban fantasy (at least I'll get to write in class!), getting my novella properly birthed, and prepping for convention panels. (Yes, I prepare compulsively for panels. I am aware that some people don't.) Summer vacation is coming up, which means my non-napping 4-year-old is going to be home with me all day.
Insanity meter: yellow.
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
Stuff! Free stuff for you!
My Goodreads giveaway is live. Lots of people have already signed up to win a copy. I am so pleased (and relieved) to see that readers are interested in my little high fantasy novella!
I recently did the narration for "We Are Sirens" by L.S. Johnson, published by PodCastle. I loved this story and how the Americana and fantasy elements blended together.
Reminded me of some of Seanan McGuire's short stories. Highly
recommended.
Let me read you the story here: http://podcastle.org/2018/05/08/podcastle-521-we-are-sirens/
A Punk Rock Future anthology wants punk speculative fiction, pays $.06/wd.
We’d like to see dystopias, utopias, or something in-between;
anything with a punk rock sensibility/ethos; alternative history; the
promise of punk; the failure of punk; music-inspired stories; science
fiction; fantasy; or horror. No matter the genre label, stories must
have a speculative element. This isn’t an anthology of steampunk,
solarpunk, silkpunk, ecopunk (those are all fine genres), or whatever punk. We won’t rule out stories that touch on those niches but be warned: Stories should be the real deal, punk punk.
Surprise and amaze us. A punk strain runs through SFFH so we know
that great stories are out there. Want a recent fantastic example? The Big So-So by Erica Satifka. Unfortunately, you can’t get Satifka’s short story online but you might pick up this issue of Interzone to see what we like. Or read Sarah Pinsker’s 2015 Nebula Award winner Our Lady of the Open Road, published in Asimov’s. It, too, has the vibe we want.
Basics: themed science fiction, fantasy, or horror, 350 - 6,000 words, query for reprints, pays $.06/word. Due 8/15/2018. Guidelines: https://zsenonpublishing.com/.
Market List UpdatesTo see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.
| Name |
What they want |
Pay Per Word |
Flat Pay (Lowest) |
Website |
| Kferrin |
Fantasy flash fiction and short stories |
$0.100 |
|
http://www.kferrin.com/submission-guidelines/ |
| Martian Magazine |
SF drabbles |
$0.100 |
|
https://themartianmagazine.wordpress.com/submissions/ |
| Eyedolon (Broken Eye Books) |
Weird fiction - science fiction and fantasy, themed |
$0.080 |
|
https://www.brokeneyebooks.com/submissions.html |
| Punk Rock Future, A ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/15/2018 |
Punk rock SF/F/H |
$0.060 |
|
https://zsenonpublishing.com/ |
| Sword & Sorceress ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE 04/23 - 05/13 |
PG-13 sword & sorcery with strong female protagonist, contemporary okay |
$0.060 |
|
http://www.mzbworks.com/guidelines.htm |
| Shimmer Magazine |
All spec-fic, mostly contemporary fantasy (no historical/high fantasy) |
$0.050 |
|
http://www.shimmerzine.com/guidelines/fiction-guidelines/ |
| Glittership Podcast |
All spec-fic, queer protagonist, prefers reprints |
$0.030 |
|
http://www.glittership.com/submission-guidelines/ |
| Lamplight |
Dark literary, horror, dark spec-fic, and noir |
$0.030 |
|
http://lamplightmagazine.com/submissions/ |
| Stupefying Stories |
All genres |
$0.015 |
|
https://stupefyingstories.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html |
| Realm of British Folklore, The (Spectre Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/31/2018 |
Fantasy or horror themed to British folklore |
$0.013 |
|
https://atlanteanpublishing.wordpress.com/2018/04/24/call-for-submissions/ |
| Not One of Us |
About outsiders, misfits, all genres |
$0.003 |
|
https://not-one-of-us.pub/about/guidelines/ |
| Earth Day Short-Fiction Contest (Sapiens Plurum & Future of Life Institute) ANNUAL CONTEST - DUE 4/22 - 6/1 |
SF, themed. ONE-TIME 2018 theme: history and future technology |
|
$1,000.00 |
http://sapiensplurum.org/contest.html |
| Glimmer Train |
All genres, including spec-fic – literary |
|
$700.00 |
http://www.glimmertrain.com/pages/writing_guidelines.php |
| Worlds of Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror Vol IV (Altair Australia Pty Ltd) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/15/2018 |
Science fiction, fantasy, and horror |
|
$56.37 |
http://www.robertnstephenson.com/anthology.html |
| Mirror Dance |
Fantasy |
|
$5.00 |
http://mirrordancefantasy.blogspot.com/2008/01/submissions.html |
| Spirit's Tincture - DEAD MARKET |
Fantasy |
$0.060 |
|
|
| Short-Story.me! - DEAD MARKET (now non-paying?) |
F/H/SF and mystery |
$0.000 |
|
http://www.short-story.me/submission-guidelines.html |
| Man's Story 2 - DEAD MARKET |
Pulp-style adventure stories |
|
$25.00 |
|
| Bosley Gravel's Cavalcade of Terror - DEAD MARKET |
Horror flash fiction |
|
$5.00 |
http://dreadfullittlepress.com/cavalcade/?page_id=2 |
| WiFiles, The - DEAD MARKET |
All spec-fic |
|
$3.00 |
http://thewifiles.com/ |
| Vitality - DEAD MARKET |
All genres, queer protagonist. |
$0.050 |
|
http://readvitality.com/final-issue/ |
Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck! Abra Staffin-Wiebe, Compiler of Lists
Aswiebe's Market ListAbra Staffin-Wiebe's Author WebsiteAswiebe's Market List Details* Aswiebe's Market List
is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science
fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example,
only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
* If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it.* To help prevent these from being flagged as spam, please add this email to your contacts. Thanks!
* If you're so moved, go ahead and link to Aswiebe's Market List on your blog or webpage. * To report a new paying market, go to my contact page.
* To unsubscribe, simply reply to this email with "unsubscribe" in the subject line.*Feel
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New Markets Update April 2018: The Working Zealot's Guide to Gaining Capital in Pre-Apocalyptic America
If I ever figure out The One System To Rule Them All, I'll let you know!
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
Working on getting everything lined up. I'll have a couple of things to announce in May!
Cockroach Conservatory Vol. 1: The Working Zealot's Guide to Gaining Capital in Pre-Apocalyptic America pays $.06/wd for ...
Weird stories about cults, capitalism, working stiffs, and weirdos. We like bizarro. We like horror. We like our sci-fi and fantasy on the weirder side. We like humor. Think Joe R. Lansdale. Think Victor Pelevin. Think Brian Keene. Think Jessica McHugh. Really. This is a loosey-goosey guideline. The title obfuscates as much as it reveals. We know. It was done on purpose. Cults! Murder! Capitalism! Take it and run.
Market List UpdatesTo see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.
| Name |
What they want |
Pay Per Word |
Flat Pay (Lowest) |
Website |
| Galaxy's Edge |
SF and fantasy |
$0.070 |
|
http://www.galaxysedge.com/submissions/ |
| Working Zealot's Guide to Gaining Capital in Pre-Apocalyptic America, The ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 6/5/2018 |
All genres, esp. SF/F/H, themed to capitalism, weird, bizarro, and cults |
$0.060 |
|
https://cockroachconservatory.blogspot.com/search/label/Updated%20Guidelines |
| Vastarien |
Horror and dark surrealism |
$0.050 |
|
https://vastarien-journal.com/submission-guidelines/ |
| Dread: A Furry Horror Magazine ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 6/1/2018 |
Flash fiction horror with anthropomorphic main characters |
$0.020 |
|
https://www.sinisterstoat.com/ |
| Bizarro Sideshow Podcast, The |
Entertaining and weird, all genres |
$0.010 |
|
https://bizarrosideshow.wordpress.com/blog/ |
| Nexxis Fantasy Biannual Anthology - BIANNUAL ANTHOLOGY DUE 3/1 - 7/1 & ?? |
SF |
$0.010 |
|
https://nexxisfantasy.com/ |
| Year's Best Hardcore Horror ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31 |
Horror, annual reprint, published in the same year |
$0.010 |
|
http://cometpress.us/submission-guidelines/years-best-hardcore-horror/ |
| Beyond the Infinite (Things in the Well Series) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 5/31/2018 |
SF and dark SF |
|
$38.51 |
http://thingsinthewell.webs.com/submissions |
| Crossbones & Crosses (Rogue Blades Entertainment) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE FALL 2018 |
Swashbuckling stories themed to pirates and/or crusaders |
|
$30.00 |
https://roguebladesentertainment.submittable.com/submit |
| Wizards in Space |
All genres of writing |
|
$30.00 |
https://wizardsinspacemag.com/submit/ |
| Changelings & Fairy Rings ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 6/1/2018 |
Fairy-themed |
|
$5.00 |
https://threedropspoetry.co.uk/submissions/call-for-submissions-changelings-fairy-rings-an-anthology-of-nature-spirits-elemental-creatures/ |
| Luna Station Quarterly |
Fantasy, science fiction, creepy horror by women writers only |
|
$5.00 |
http://lunastationquarterly.com/submissions |
| Schrodinger's Mouse - DEAD MARKET |
Hard SF or SF themed to ethics |
$0.020 |
|
|
| Sockdolager, The - DEAD MARKET |
Adventure fiction in all genres |
$0.020 |
|
http://www.sockdolager.net/submission-guidelines/ |
Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck! Abra Staffin-Wiebe, Compiler of Lists
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is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science
fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example,
only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
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We live in the Age of Distractions! How do we still manage to focus and write?
For me, it comes down to a few principles.
1. Avoid temptation instead of resisting temptation.
Turn off push notifications on your phone applications. On your writing device, consider installing a browser extension like Leechblock that stops you from
2. Create focused time.
Try something like the Pomodoro Method or The Most Dangerous Writing App, or go to a different location that is where you only write. Schedule writing-only time.
3. Figure out what you need to do in focused time, and what you can do even when you're distracted.
Writing might be something you have to do in solid chunks of time. Maybe you can do market research or editing or read writing newsletters during time when you are more distracted, whether the distraction is being around other people or your kids or simply during a time of day when you have trouble concentrating.
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
Deadlines, deadlines, all the deadlines! I'm giving a talk to some college students on Monday, I've promised feedback to a couple of writer friends, I did taxes, I'm getting this newsletter out, I am doing some narration work, and I'm writing three short stories for a collaborative fairy project. There are other things on my list, too. Did I say list? I mean spreadsheet. :)
Unidentified Funny Objects 7 anthology wants humorous SF/F, offers $.10/word. We’re looking for speculative stories with a strong humor element.
Think Resnick and Sheckley, Fredric Brown and Douglas Adams. We welcome
quality flash fiction and non-traditional narratives. Take chances, try
something new, just make sure that your story is funny.
Puns and stories that are little more than vehicles for delivering a punch line at the end aren’t likely to win us over.
Market List UpdatesTo see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.
| Name |
What they want |
Pay Per Word |
Flat Pay (Lowest) |
Website |
| Unidentified Funny Objects ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/1 - 4/30 |
Funny F/SF |
$0.100 |
|
http://alexshvartsman.com/ufo-unidentified-funny-objects/ |
| Mysterion |
SF, fantasy, and horror with Christian themes |
$0.060 |
|
http://www.mysteriononline.com/p/submission-guidelines.html |
| Podcastle (Podcast) |
Fantasy fiction |
$0.060 |
|
http://podcastle.org/guidelines/ |
| Visions |
SF and spec fic, themed |
$0.060 |
|
https://www.readvisions.com/submission-guidelines |
| Blood Bound Books Best of ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 5/31/2018 |
Horror |
$0.050 |
|
http://bloodboundbooks.net/bloodboundbooks/submissions/ |
| SNAFU (Cohesion Press) ANTHOLOGY SERIES |
Military SF/horror, themed |
$0.031 |
|
https://cohesionpress.com/snafu-submissions/ |
| Innsmouthbreathers (Martian Migraine Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 7/31/2018 |
Humorous horror featuring rabid Lovecraft fans |
$0.023 |
|
http://martianmigrainepress.com/innsmouthbreathers-cautionary-fables-of-mythos-fandom/ |
| Monstrous Outlines (Martian Migraine Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/31/2018 |
Horror and weird fiction themed to camouflage |
$0.023 |
|
http://martianmigrainepress.com/monstrous-outlines |
| Gehenna and Hinnom |
Weird fiction and cosmic horror, themed |
$0.020 |
|
https://gehennaandhinnom.wordpress.com/2018/03/07/call-for-submissions-novellas-novelettes-and-chapbooks-weird-fiction-and-cosmic-horror/ |
| Haunted Are These Houses ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/28/2018 |
Gothic horror |
$0.010 |
|
https://unnervingmagazine.submittable.com/submit |
| Unbound (Science Fiction and Fantasy Publications) Anthology Series |
Themed SF/F |
$0.010 |
|
https://daowenpublications.ca/unbound-submission-form/ |
| Twelfth Planet Novella Series ONE-TIME CALL - DUE 9/1/2018 - 11/30/2018 |
SF/F/H and crime |
|
$300.00 |
http://www.twelfthplanetpress.com/news/advance-notice-novella-series |
| Future Visions Anthology Series |
SF |
|
$150.00 |
https://www.futurevisions.io/for-authors/ |
| Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space) (Queen of Swords Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 5/15/2018 |
All genres except erotica, pirate-themed |
|
$100.00 |
https://queenofswordspress.com/about-queen-of-swords-press/submissions/ |
| Abyss & Apex |
SF/F, slipstream, no horror, especially flash fiction |
|
$75.00 |
http://www.abyssapexzine.com/submissions/ |
| Blood in the Rain 4: Erotic Vampire Tales (Cwtch Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 5/30/2018 |
Vampire erotica with plot and some horror elements |
|
$75.00 |
http://www.cwtchpress.com/current-calls.html |
| Queer Sci Fi Flash Contest ANNUAL CONTEST - DUE 3/1 - 4/1 |
Queer spec-fic flash fiction |
|
$50.00 |
https://queerscifi.com/flash-contest-rules/ |
| Ye Olde Magick Shoppe (Oren Lit) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 6/1/2018 |
Fantasy themed to magic shops. |
|
$25.00 |
https://orenlitwin.com/calls-for-submissions/call-for-submissions-ye-olde-magick-shoppe-fantasy-anthology/ |
| Battery Pack III ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED |
Micro-fiction |
|
$3.46 |
http://www.neonbooks.org.uk/guidelines/ |
| Polluto - DEAD MARKET |
Dark counterculture, themed |
$0.063 |
|
http://www.polluto.com/submissions.html |
| Persistent Visions - DEAD MARKET |
Edgy SF and fantasy |
$0.070 |
|
https://persistentvisionsmag.com/guidelines |
| Unshattering - DEAD MARKET |
Stories leading to a better future |
$0.100 |
|
http://unshattering-kathryncramer.nationbuilder.com/guidelines |
Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck! Abra Staffin-Wiebe, Compiler of Lists
Aswiebe's Market ListAbra Staffin-Wiebe's Author WebsiteAswiebe's Market List Details* Aswiebe's Market List
is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science
fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example,
only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
* If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it.* To help prevent these from being flagged as spam, please add this email to your contacts. Thanks!
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For the last couple of weeks, I haven't been writing new fiction words. I took a break after finishing a major revision project. I did a fair amount of catch-up housecleaning (not that anyone who doesn't live with me would be able to tell there's an improvement!). I caught up on miscellaneous non-writing, writing-related things like submissions and website updates. I did some keyword and category updates for my post-apocalyptic steampunk alternate history book. I did narration for StarShipSofa, an SF podcast. You'll be able to hear that in a little bit! My children had a number of no-school days, including a rare-for-Minnesota snow day, and I really can't do any immersive writing or editing while they're home and awake.
...I got a little squirrelly.
This happens when I don't write. My brain gets bored and goes looking for other things to be creative about. (This is not a good thing.)
It has reminded me of the importance of doing little bits of freewriting every day. I didn't do that and I regret it. Between taxes and a major photography project coming up, I'm not going to have solid writing time for a while. Bah humbug.
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
I have a book giveaway over on Goodreads, because I wanted to take advantage before they changed their terms. This runs until March: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/273408-a-circus-of-brass-and-bone. I also put A Circus of Brass and Bone into Kindle Unlimited, so go forth and check it out!
The Hamthology is hungry for your ham sandwich-related stories, pays up to $10.
We are interested in:
- comedies, horrors, and horror/comedies featuring a ham sandwich
- science fiction or fantasy stories featuring a ham sandwich
- serious literary fiction (with ham sandwich)
- explorations of the human experience through the prism of the ham sandwich
- romantic and/or erotic ham sandwich fiction
- creative fiction, possibly told in the form of advertisements or recipes for ham sandwiches
- actual recipes for ham sandwiches
- vegan screeds against the ham sandwich, or carnivore celebrations of
the virtues of the ham sandwich or, generally, moral debates within the
realm of ham sandwich
- ham sandwich poems
- ham sandwich personal essays
- ham sandwich philosophical or academic essays (e.g. the ham sandwich theorem)
Market List UpdatesTo see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.
| Name |
What they want |
Pay Per Word |
Flat Pay (Lowest) |
Website |
| Speculative Masculinities ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/15/2018 |
Speculative fiction themed to different modes of masculinity. |
$0.113 |
|
https://galli-books.co.uk/2018/01/15/call-for-submissions-speculative-masculinities/ |
| War on Christmas (ChiZine) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 3/4/2018 |
Dark or weird, themed to Christmas |
$0.065 |
|
https://chizinepub.moksha.io/publication/war-on-christmas/guidelines |
| Amazing Stories |
SF, esp. optimistic or humorous |
$0.060 |
|
http://submission.amazingstoriesmag.com/guidelines/ |
| Apex Magazine |
SF, fantasy, and horror |
$0.060 |
|
http://www.apex-magazine.com/submission-guidelines/ |
| Apex Magazine ONE-TIME THEMED Zodiac issue - DUE 5/1/2018 |
SF, fantasy, and horror themed to the zodiac |
$0.060 |
|
https://www.apex-magazine.com/apex-magazine-welcomes-guest-editor-sheree-renee-thomas/ |
| Baen Fantasy Adventure Award ANNUAL CONTEST - DUE 1/22 - 4/30 |
Fantasy adventure |
$0.060 |
|
http://www.baen.com/baenfantasyaward2018 |
| Deep Magic |
Clean F/SF |
$0.060 |
|
http://deepmagic.co/submissions/# |
| Twisted Book of Shadows, The ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 2/28/2018 |
Horror |
$0.060 |
|
http://www.twistedbos.com/submission-guidelines/ |
| Gallery of Curiosities Podcast |
Weird fiction, steampunk, horror, retro-futurism, pre-1950s vibe |
$0.030 |
|
https://gallerycurious.com/fiction/ |
| Midnight Before Christmas (Midnight Hour) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 5/1/2018 |
Holiday-themed horror, dark spec-fic, and cyberpunk |
$0.020 |
|
http://www.midnighthourmedia.com/submissions |
| Midnight Hour Anthologies |
Horror, dark spec-fic, and cyberpunk |
$0.020 |
|
http://www.midnighthourmedia.com/submissions |
| Midnight Hour Vol 1 & 2 ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 5/1/2018 |
Horror, dark spec-fic, and cyberpunk |
$0.020 |
|
http://www.midnighthourmedia.com/submissions |
| Schrodinger's Mouse |
Hard SF or SF themed to ethics |
$0.020 |
|
https://schrodingersmouse.com/ |
| Best Vegan Science Fiction and Fantasy ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/1 - 2/28 |
SF/F with only vegan products, published that year, reprints only |
$0.010 |
|
http://books.metaphorosis.com/best-vegan-sff/vegan-sff-guidelines/ |
| Not One of Us ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/6/2018 |
SF reprints themed to aliens on earth |
$0.010 |
|
http://neil-clarke.com/not-one-of-us-call-for-submissions/ |
| Monsters of Any Kind ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 7/10/2018 |
Horror themed to monsters/creatures. |
|
$100.00 |
https://www.independentlegions.com/submissions.html |
| Mithila Review |
All SF/F and interstitial and literary speculative fiction, especially culturally diverse |
|
$50.00 |
http://mithilareview.com/submission-guidelines/ |
| Bikes in Space 6: Dragons ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/1/2018 |
Feminist bicycle science fiction. |
|
$30.00 |
http://takingthelane.com/2017/10/25/call-for-submissions-bikes-in-space-6-dragons/ |
| Electric Spec |
All spec-fic |
|
$20.00 |
http://www.electricspec.com/Submissions.html |
| Hamthology, The ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/1/2018 |
Themed to ham sandwiches |
|
$10.00 |
https://davidfshultz.com/the-hamthology/ |
| Drabblecast (Podcast) - DEAD MARKET |
Humorous, bizarre, badass, or disturbing F/SF |
$0.030 |
|
http://www.drabblecast.org/submissions/ |
| The Binnacle, Annual Ultra-Short Competition RECURRING CONTEST – DUE 12/1 – 3/15 - DEAD MARKET |
All genres |
|
$50.00 |
http://binnacle.machias.edu/ |
Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck! Abra Staffin-Wiebe, Compiler of Lists
Aswiebe's Market ListAbra Staffin-Wiebe's Author WebsiteAswiebe's Market List Details* Aswiebe's Market List
is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science
fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example,
only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
* If you find it useful, please consider donating via PayPal to help support it.* To help prevent these from being flagged as spam, please add this email to your contacts. Thanks!
* If you're so moved, go ahead and link to Aswiebe's Market List on your blog or webpage. * To report a new paying market, go to my contact page.
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January is a traditional time to reflect on the previous year and to make goals for the next one. Well, one out of two ain't bad!
First, a moment of silence for those publications I learned were dead in the ordinary course of updating the market list this year. I sold a story I quite liked to one of these; there are others that I hoped to be published in, but never got the chance. Rest in peace.
Space and Time Magazine, Ember Journal,
AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review, (no recent updates
following return from hiatus),Wumpus Tales, Cosmos Magazine, (no
longer accepts fiction), Spacesuits and Sixguns, These Terrible
Times, Blue Dream Magazine, Onirismes, Dark Highlands Anthology,
Science Fiction Trails, Crimson Pact, Phantasmacore, Trembles, Sci-Fi
Short Story, Damnation Books, Red Penny Papers, The, Hazard Cat,
Death Rattle, Plutonian Times, Darker, Sam's Dot Drabble, The Sleep
Club, Hazard Cat, Flagship, Literary Hatchet, Roar and Thunder,
Inscription Magazine, Lakeside Circus, Plasma Frequency Magazine,
Tales from New Babbage, (see Gallery of Curiosities), Novel Fox
Shorts, The, Bad Dream Entertainment (short fiction), (indefinite
hiatus), Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, The, Short Sharp Shock, Arct
Magazine, Smash Cake Magazine, Grendelsong, Full Armor Magazine,
Dreadful Cafe - Anthologies, Black Ink Horror, TheDF_Underground,
This Mutant Life, Untied Shoelaces of the Mind, Red Sun Magazine,
Unlikely Story, (indefinite hiatus), Unsung Stories, Fantasy Scroll
Mag, Gamut Magazine, Triptych Tales, InfectINk, Bull Spec, Fiction
Silicon Valley, Shattered Prism, Betwixt, Solarpunk, Phobos Magazine,
(indefinite hiatus), Strangelet, Goldfish Grimm's Spicy Fiction
Sushi, Blood Reign, Monster Corral Monthly Contest, Interfictions
Online: A Journal of Interstitial Art, Dark Discoveries, The Night
Land, Mothership Zeta (Escape Artists) Podcast (indefinite hiatus)
This year marks the first time since I started the market list when the number of publications in the total list of the dead outnumber the ones that are still ongoing. My dead list has 466 entries (not including anthologies or other limited-time publications). My active market list has 367. Some of this is because I checked a whole bunch of old entries and removed the ones that were obviously dead.
What does obviously dead mean, you ask? Your first clue might be when you go to the URL and a Japanese website pops up, trying to sell you ... something? It might be a parked domain trying to get you to buy the URL. It might be a website that has kept the basic structure of the previous website but filled the whole thing with crappily written paid content. It might have completely vanished from the internet. It might even say on the submissions page that it's closed! (I didn't, however, do the in-depth check on recent issue dates and submission responses to be sure that the publication website wasn't abandoned as-is, without notification. That happens more often than you might think.)
I thought the longevity results were interesting, so I made pie charts. Pie for everyone! Bear in mind, this data is based on very old, un-updated publication listings (mostly pre-2014, when dinosaurs roamed the internet). If a magazine boosted its pay rate, or widely spread the news of its demise, it isn't in this data set. Dead pro markets are unlikely to be included in this, because people talk when those go under.
Dead Markets
All Markets, Dead and Surviving
Surviving Markets
Surviving Markets by Genre
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
Poking at pie charts when I should be writing? I have some rewriting I need to get done on a project that I want to submit this month, but I've edited this project so many times that I'm really, really sick of it.
The first appearance of my work in 2018 is also a personal first! A very short story of mine is part of a winter art installation, the Art Shanties on frozen Lake Harriet in Minneapolis. Expect pictures, because that's how I roll.
Killing It Softly 2, an anthology that contains one of my horror short stories, has won 2nd place for Best Anthology in the Preditors & Editors Readers Choice Poll. I have a little digital plaque to put on my website and everything.
Though our scientific knowledge has increased exponentially alongside technological development, there remains much about the natural world we still do not understand. Stories for Force of Nature should involve nature and the weird at their core; how the author wishes to interpret these themes is entirely up to them. Comedic stories will be a tougher sell but by all means, if you have a story that otherwise fits the guidelines, don’t hesitate to submit it. Try to avoid anything that is overtly cautionary. While the idea for the anthology was significantly inspired by climate change and the impact wrought on the planet by human habits, I don’t want stories that lecture. That said, I’m not opposed to stories in which the human factor gets served the short end of the stick. While I don’t want a collection full of quiet stories, I will mention here that I am a big fan of the sublime. Wordsworth with a modern sensibility. Or just Wordsworth.
Market List UpdatesTo see all the details about these new listings and what they're looking for, as well as hundreds of other listings, go to Aswiebe's Market List and download the latest version of the spreadsheet.
| Name |
What they want |
Pay Per Word |
Flat Pay (Lowest) |
Website |
| Craft Literary |
Literary, with a focus on writing craft |
$0.100 |
|
https://www.craftliterary.com/submit/ |
| Analog Science Fiction and Fact |
Science Fiction |
$0.080 |
|
http://www.analogsf.com/contact-us/writers-guidelines/ |
| Force of Nature (Weird Nature) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 3/31/2018 |
All genres, themed to the environment and nature |
$0.070 |
|
https://lynnejamneckdiaries.blogspot.gr/2017/12/submission-guidelines-weird-nature.html |
| Grievous Angel (Urban Fantasist) |
Spec-fic flash fiction and poetry |
$0.060 |
|
http://www.urbanfantasist.com/-submission-guidelines.html |
| Internet is Where Robots Live Now, The (Paper Dog Books) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/1/2018 |
SF and fantasy themed to internet, AI, robots |
$0.060 |
|
https://www.paperdogbooks.com/pages/the-internet-is-where-the-robots-live-now-anthology |
| Mysterion |
SF, fantasy, and horror with Christian themes |
$0.060 |
|
http://www.mysteriononline.com/p/submission-guidelines.html |
| Nightmare Magazine |
Horror/dark fantasy |
$0.060 |
|
https://johnjosephadams.moksha.io/publication/nightmare/guidelines |
| Hex Gunslinger ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 3/01/2018 |
Weird western |
$0.010 |
|
http://radiantcrownpublishing.com/tag/weird-western/ |
| Leading Edge |
F/SF |
$0.010 |
|
http://www.leadingedgemagazine.com/?page_id=31 |
| Unnerving Magazine |
Horror, dark SF, dark fantasy |
$0.010 |
|
https://unnervingmagazine.submittable.com/submit |
| Centropic Oracle, The (PODCAST) |
SF and Fantasy |
$0.008 |
|
http://www.centropicoracle.com/mainpages/subguide.php |
| Foreshadow: A Serial YA Anthology |
YA |
|
$250.00 |
https://foreshadowya.com/#post-25 |
| Untitled Darkwater Syndicate ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 3/1/2018 |
Horror, themed to abandoned communities |
|
$50.00 |
http://www.darkwatersyndicate.com/blog/open-call-for-short-horror-submissions |
| Beneath the Waves ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 2/28/2018 |
Horror, themed to beneath the waves |
|
$39.43 |
http://thingsinthewell.webs.com/submissions |
| Nightscript (recurring anthologies) |
Subtle, weird literary horror |
|
$20.00 |
https://chthonicmatter.wordpress.com/nightscript/ |
| Academy of Inventive Literature |
All genres, especially speculative |
|
$15.00 |
https://www.acadlit.org/submissions |
Keep writing, keep submitting, and good luck! Abra Staffin-Wiebe, Compiler of Lists
Aswiebe's Market ListAbra Staffin-Wiebe's Author WebsiteAswiebe's Market List Details* Aswiebe's Market List
is a searchable, sortable spreadsheet of paying fantasy, science
fiction, and horror markets. This way it's easy to find, for example,
only horror markets that accept reprints greater than 10,000 words. For more information on what it is and how to use it, see About Aswiebe.com's Market Spreadsheet.
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