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New Markets Update December 2020: Mermaids Monthly is Making a Splash ... and Other New Aswiebe's Market List Updates!
Merry Christmas and happy holidays! My family celebrated the Longest Night yesterday. If you haven't sat in a dark room and read by candlelight recently, I recommend it. Very soothing! Even if you live with someone who insists on watching the football game at the same time...
For writers, with the holidays and the end of the year also comes award nomination season and the "Best of" collections.
Every writer who gets something published this year should make an awards eligibility post. It might sound like a big scary deal, but it really isn't. Make sure it says "awards eligibility post" and "2020." Then list the things you've had published this year, by category (short story, novelette, novella, novel) along with a link to read them. Bonus points for a quick, one-sentence description that might make a casual reader decide they want to read them! If they're behind a paywall, mention it.
Beyond that, the Bram Stoker Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award all require that works be submitted to be considered. The
Nebula Award does not allow self-nomination, but it does allow you to submit your work for consideration to the SFWA readers/nominators.
Most "Best of" anthologies require you to submit your work that was published this year. By the way, many publication contracts give an exception to any exclusivity rules for the "Best of" anthologies! Due dates on these vary. Don't miss this chance! If you have something published this year that fits the requirements, submit it!
| Name |
Due Date |
Min Wordcount |
Max Wordcount |
What they want |
Website |
| Best Science Fiction of the Year, The ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/01 |
11/01/2020 |
0 |
|
SF |
http://neil-clarke.com/books/submission_guidelines/ |
| Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, The ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/01 |
12/01/2020 |
0 |
|
Horror and dark fantasy |
http://paulaguran.com/ |
| Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, The ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31 |
12/31/2020 |
0 |
17,499 |
Science fiction, fantasy, and horror with elements of the aforementioned, previously published in anthology year by an American or Canadian author |
https://johnjosephadams.moksha.io/publication/basff/guidelines |
| Best Indie Speculative Fiction (Bards and Sages) ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FULL |
12/31/2020 |
500 |
3,000 |
All speculative fiction, previously published by small press or self-published |
https://www.bardsandsages.com/contact_us/fiction_submission_guidelines |
| Year's Best Hardcore Horror ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31 |
12/31/2020 |
0 |
|
Horror, annual reprint, published in the same year |
http://www.redroompress.com/submission-guidelines/years-best-hardcore-horror/ |
| Best Vegan Science Fiction and Fantasy ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/1 - 2/28 |
02/28/2021 |
1,000 |
8,000 |
SF/F with only vegan products, published that year, reprints only |
http://books.metaphorosis.com/best-vegan-sff/vegan-sff-guidelines/ |
(Do you have a writing question? Send it to me, either by replying to this email or by using the comment form on my website, and it may get answered in the next newsletter.) What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
My short story, "In Their Image," has been released as a stand-alone ebook by After Dinner Conversation. Religion, and the desire to find purpose, and often paramount to
culture. In this work of philosophical short fiction, a priest
from earth is sent to another planet to continue the mission work of
her predecessor, only to discover the unsettling reason mission work has never succeeded there. This story, like all After Dinner Conversation stories, has suggested discussion questions at the end. Read: In Their Image: After Dinner Conversation Series
Since I was just talking about award season, I should add that "In Their Image" is not eligible for 2020 awards.
"The Dinosaur's Valentine," a story about love in a time of extinction, is my only award-eligible short story for 2020. I'm very proud of my tiny little story that could! It's available to read at Daily Science Fiction or to listen to at Centropic Oracle.
Things Shiny or Useful
R.L. Stine Writing Program (especially for kids and teachers): http://rlstine.com/writing-program
Step-By-Step Viral Giveaway Guide: https://sumo.com/stories/viral-giveaway/
Fantasy Worldbuilding Questions: https://www.pcwrede.com/fantasy-worldbuilding-questions/
Free software for USPS shipping: https://www.pirateship.com/features
Thread on word count for debut epic fantasy novels: https://twitter.com/SpecHorizons/status/1331623731429568513
7 Ways to Add Great Subplots to Your Novel: https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-fiction/7-ways-to-add-great-subplots-to-your-novel Upcoming Virtual Conventions
(Yes, it's a new section in the newsletter! Any registration fees are noted.)
Capricon, Feb 4 - 7, 2021 ($10): https://capricon.org/Boskone 58 (Feb 12 - 14, 2021, $25): https://boskone.org/Featured Market
Everything should in some way relate to merfolk. We are loose about
how you want to define that, and we will consider other aquatic
fantastical creatures to be on theme. Yes, kelpies and selkies and
kappas and nagas are all okay! We would love to see creative
interpretations of the theme, and we’re also extremely interested in
seeing work from writers of many backgrounds. Our staff includes BIPOC
and queer people who are excited to explore diverse mermaid bodies,
cultures, genders, abilities, religions, neurotypes, ethnicities, and
more.
We are interested in happy and sad, light and dark, funny and serious. Most of all, we want to see what you most want to share.
Basics: themed fantasy, 1 - 5,000 words, pays $.10/word, reprints okay. Submission window closes 01/09/2021. To 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 |
Notes |
| Cricket Magazine (Cricket Media) |
Fiction and nonfiction for kids ages 9-14, incl. SF, fantasy, folk tales, themed |
$0.250 |
|
https://cricketmag.submittable.com/submit |
|
| Spider Magazine (Cricket Media) |
Fiction and nonfiction for kids ages 6-9, themed |
$0.250 |
|
https://cricketmag.submittable.com/submit |
|
| Muse Magazine (Cricket Media) |
Science nonfiction and science fiction for kids, themed. |
$0.200 |
|
http://www.cricketmedia.com/muse-submission-guidelines/ |
Query first. |
| Mermaids Monthly |
Mermaid-themed |
$0.100 |
|
https://mermaidsmonthly.com/submissions/ |
ONE-TIME FIRST SUBMISSION PERIOD: 12/20/2020 - 1/9/2021 |
| Daily Science Fiction |
SF, fantasy, slipstream, dark fantasy but not pure horror, etc. |
$0.080 |
|
http://dailysciencefiction.com/submit/story/guidelines |
|
| Flame Tree Newsletter Flash Fiction |
Horror and sci-fi, themed. Subscribe to free newsletter for themes. |
$0.080 |
|
https://www.flametreepress.com/submissions/ |
SUBMISSION PERIOD: usually 2 weeks at the beginning of the month |
| Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness (Neon Hemlock) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/15/2021 |
Dark fiction themed to queer witches |
$0.080 |
|
https://www.neonhemlock.com/submissions |
|
| Dread Machine |
Dark SF, horror, dark fantasy |
$0.030 |
|
https://www.thedreadmachine.com/submit/ |
Reprints up to 7,500 words. |
| Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (Small Beer Press) |
All genres, especially speculative. |
$0.030 |
|
http://smallbeerpress.com/about/submission-guidelines/ |
No gore, sword and sorcery, or porn. Snail mail submissions only. Long response time. |
| Triangulation: Habitat ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/1-2/28 |
All spec-fic, themed. ONE-TIME 2020/2021 theme: Habitat. |
$0.030 |
|
http://parsecink.com/index.php/triangulation-submissions/ |
RIGHTS: North American rights, Spanish language rights, audio and electronic rights. |
| Extraordinary Visions: Stories Inspired by Jules Verne ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/1/2021 - 4/30/2021 |
SF inspired by Jules Verne |
$0.020 |
|
http://najvs.org/anthology.shtml |
|
| Crypt Online (Ghost Orchid Press) |
Dark flash fiction |
$0.010 |
|
https://ghostorchidpress.com/submission-guidelines/ |
|
| Dark Hearts (Ghost Orchid Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 2/28/2021 |
Horror themed to love |
$0.010 |
|
https://ghostorchidpress.com/dark-hearts/ |
|
| Kaleidotrope |
All genres, especially SF/F and the unconventional and weird. |
$0.010 |
|
http://www.kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/ |
Prefers 250 - 10,000 words. READING PERIOD: Feb, May, Aug, Nov |
| Three Crows Magazine |
SFF and weird, especially Slavic |
$0.010 |
|
http://threecrowsmagazine.com/submissions/ |
RIGHTS: buys translation and audio rights |
| Mike Resnick Memorial Award for Short Fiction, The ANNUAL CONTEST - DUE 1/1 - 4/30 |
SF short story by a new author |
|
$250.00 |
https://www.arcmanorbooks.com/resnick |
|
| Decades of San Cicaro (Thunderbird Studios) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 2/28/2021 |
Weird fantasy, fabulism, and the macabre, themed to San Cicaro CA 1930-1980 |
|
$175.00 |
https://tbirdstudios.com/news/open-call-decades-of-san-cicaro/ |
|
| Fantasist, The - ON LONG-TERM HIATUS, MAYBE DEAD |
Fantasy novellas, broadly defined |
|
$100.00 |
http://thefantasistmag.com/submissions-guidelines/ |
|
| Sexy Fantastic Magazine |
Sexy but not necessarily graphic fantasy and SF, themed |
|
$100.00 |
https://sexyfantasticmagazine.com/fictionsubmissions/ |
|
| Sherlock Holmes: Stranger Than Fiction ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31/2020 |
Sherlockian mysteries, may include SFFH |
|
$100.00 |
https://belangerbooks-sherlockholmes.blogspot.com/2020/09/call-for-submissions-to-two-new.html |
|
| Twisted Love (Jazz House Publications) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/8/2021 |
Horror themed to twisted, dark, despairing love |
|
$75.00 |
https://www.jazzhousepublications.com/twisted-love |
|
| Unspeakable (Nyx Publishing) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 2/20/2021 |
Queer gothic stories |
|
$53.31 |
https://www.nyxpublishing.com/submissions/ |
|
| Arcanist, The |
Flash SF/F/Horror |
|
$50.00 |
https://thearcanist.io/sa-call-for-submissions-244f646d25a4/ |
|
| Enchanted Conversation |
Fairy tale retellings, themed. ONE-TIME 2021 THEME: healers, midwives, and cunning folk. |
|
$50.00 |
https://enchantedconversationmag.blogspot.com/p/submissions-guidelines.html |
Submission periods: 1st - 3rd of every month. Occasional calls for longer works. |
| Noise of a Quiet House, The (DL Russell) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED |
Horror themed to childhood fears |
|
$50.00 |
https://dlrussellbooks.com/guidelines-%26-open-calls |
|
| Bear Creek Gazette |
Weird fiction set in fictional Bear Creek, written in newspaper format |
|
$30.00 |
https://www.welcometobearcreek.com/submit-to-us |
|
| Grey Rooms, The - Season Four ONE-TIME PODCAST ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/18/2021 |
Horror where the main character is killed in the end |
|
$25.00 |
https://thegreyrooms.com/season-4-submissions/ |
Radioplay format preferred. |
| Omen's Call, The (Devil's Rock Publishing) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 3/28/2021 |
Horror themed to omens |
|
$20.00 |
https://www.devilsrockpublishing.com/submissions |
|
| Mirror Dance |
Fantasy |
|
$5.00 |
http://mirrordancefantasy.blogspot.com/2008/01/submissions.html |
< 5,000 words preferred. |
| Other Stories, The (Podcast) |
Horror, themed |
|
$5.00 |
https://theotherstories.net/submissions |
ONE-TIME THEMES: Lost Civilizations, due 1/11/2021, Government Experiments, due 1/25/2021, Newly Discovered Creatures, due 2/8/2021 |
| Holiday Stories (Nyx Publishing) ONE-TIME SUBMISSION CALL UNTIL CLOSED |
Novellas and novels, themed to the holiday, ultimately uplifting |
|
|
https://www.nyxpublishing.com/submissions/ |
|
| Gallows Hill Magazine - DEAD MARKET |
Horror and dark fantasy |
|
$50.00 |
|
|
| Solarcide - DEAD MARKET |
Weird and dark |
|
$50.00 |
|
|
| Black Dandy - DEAD MARKET |
Strange and bizarre |
$0.022 |
|
https://blackdandy.co/submissions/ |
|
| East of the Web - Science Fiction Imprint - DEAD MARKET |
SF and F |
$0.050 |
|
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/scifiindex.html |
DOES NOT RESPOND IF REJECTED (ignore website stating response within 2 weeks - out-of-date) |
| Weird Tales Magazine - DEAD MARKET |
Horror, dark SF, dark fantasy, weird |
$0.100 |
|
http://www.jonathanmaberry.com/weirdtalessubmissionguidelines.cfm |
|
| Story Seed Vault - DEAD MARKET |
Science-based micro fiction |
|
$2.16 |
https://storyseedvault.com/submissions/ |
200 character limit. SUBMISSION PERIODS: 10th - 24th of every month. |
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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New Markets Update November 2020: Hellmark Anthology Wants Monsters to Ruin Your Holiday ... and Other New Aswiebe's Market List Updates!
I'd go farther and say that reading widely, especially things that are different from the type of thing that you write, will make you a better writer. Of course, you also need to read things similar to what you write so that you don't find yourself reinventing the wheel. This might sound like I'm saying, "Read anything!" Well. Yes. Read anything.
But also, pay attention to what you are already reading, and balance it by reading something else. Do you read a lot of SF? Read fantasy. Do you read a lot of fantasy and SF? Read a thriller or a romance. Do you read a lot of fiction? Read non-fiction. Do you read a lot of books by women? Read books by male authors. Do you read a lot of white American authors? Read something from a different culture. Do you read a lot of so-called "disposable" urban fantasy or paranormal romance books? Read something that won an award. Do you only read award-winners? Read something with five stars on Amazon and no awards.
Next year, I plan on intentionally widening my reading list by intentionally limiting my options.
(Do you have a writing question? Send it to me, either by replying to this email or by using the comment form on my website, and it may get answered in the next newsletter.) What I've been up to lately, writing-wise: I've been trying to do a severely shortened version of NaNoWriMo, and boy, even hitting that wordcount goal has been a huge challenge. I wince every time I look at my pacemaker.press wordcount chart, but I'm not giving up! Wait, what do you mean we only have nine more days?!?
My bittersweet little SF story about love and what we leave behind us is now available in audio! Listen to it here: http://centropicoracle.com/library/F0105_TheDinosaursValentine.php
Things Shiny or Useful
Basics: themed horror, 2,000 - 5,000 words, pays $.05/word, no reprints. Submission window closes 11/30/2020. To 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 |
Notes |
| Strange Horizons |
F/SF/Spec-fic |
$0.100 |
|
http://strangehorizons.com/submit/fiction-submission-guidelines/ |
ONE-TIME CLOSURE: 11/1/2020 - 12/31/2020. ### Submission periods (December varies): Mondays 1600 UTC - Tuesdays 1600 UTC = 10 AM CDT Mon - 10 AM CDT Tues (Winter, no daylight savings) |
| 1986 Anthology (Dread Machine) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 2/25/2021 |
Dread-filled stories set in 1986. |
$0.080 |
|
https://www.thedreadmachine.com/submit/submit-anthology/ |
|
| Asimov's Science Fiction |
Character-oriented SF, borderline fantasy, slipstream, surreal. No sword & sorcery. |
$0.080 |
|
http://www.asimovs.com/contact-us/writers-guidelines/ |
|
| Beneath Ceaseless Skies |
Literary adventure fantasy in secondary world settings. |
$0.080 |
|
http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/submissions/ |
Prefers under 15,000 but will look at longer |
| Cossmass Infinities |
SF and fantasy |
$0.080 |
|
https://www.cossmass.com/submit/ |
SUBMISSION PERIODS: 1st-7th of each month, alternating BIPOC/GLBTQ+ (Jan, Mar, May, Jul, Sep, Nov) and open to all (Feb, Apr, Jun, Aug, Oct, Dec). |
| Grimdark Magazine |
Grim, dark SF or medieval F |
$0.054 |
|
https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/submissions/ |
Up to 4,000 word stories for original work. Reprints up to 10,000 words, not currently available online. |
| Hellmark (Cemetary Gates Media) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/30/2020 |
Horror themed to monsters ruining the holidays |
$0.050 |
|
https://twitter.com/Gabino_Iglesias/status/1328396418101473286 |
|
| Stitched Lips (Dragon's Roost Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/30/2020 |
Horror themed to silence, by authors of an oppressed group incl. women / BIPOC / GLBTQ+ etc. |
$0.050 |
|
https://horrortree.com/taking-submissions-stitched-lips-early-listing/ |
|
| Apparition Lit |
Speculative fiction, themed. Separate monthly flash fiction contest. |
$0.030 |
|
https://apparitionlit.com/submissions/ |
Submission periods: 2/15 - 2/29, 5/15 - 5/31, 8/15-08/31, 11/15 - 11/30 |
| Common Tongue, The |
Dark fantasy |
$0.030 |
|
https://www.commontonguezine.com/guidelines-submissions/ |
|
| Alternative Deathiness ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 3/1/2021 |
All genres, especially fun spec-fic themed to the nature of death |
$0.020 |
|
https://bcubedpress.moksha.io/publication/alternative-deathiness |
|
| Alternative War ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 3/1/2021 |
Science fiction themed to different ways of war |
$0.020 |
|
https://www.bcubedpress.com/opencalls |
|
| Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, The ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31 |
Science fiction, fantasy, and horror with elements of the aforementioned, previously published in anthology year by an American or Canadian author |
$0.010 |
|
https://johnjosephadams.moksha.io/publication/basff/guidelines |
Reprints only. |
| Land Beyond the World |
All speculative fiction, especially F/SF. |
$0.010 |
|
https://landbeyondtheworld.com/submissions/ |
|
| Trenchcoats, Towers, and Trolls: Cyberpunk Fairy Tales ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 2/1/2021 - 2/28/2021 |
Cyberpunk fairy tales |
$0.010 |
|
https://www.worldweaverpress.com/blog/call-for-submissions-trenchcoats-towers-and-trolls |
|
| A Quiet Afternoon 2 (Grace & Victory Publications) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31/2020 |
Cozy speculative fiction |
$0.008 |
|
http://graceandvictory.ca/submissions.html |
|
| We Cryptids ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 3/1/2021 |
Urban fantasy |
|
$200.00 |
https://www.cuppateapublications.com/submissions |
|
| Nature Futures |
Hard SF |
|
$130.00 |
https://www.nature.com/nature/for-authors/other-subs#futures |
|
| Dark Dispatch |
Dark pop culture fiction |
|
$50.00 |
https://darkdispatch.com/submissions/ |
|
| Death Throes Magazine |
Dark fiction |
|
$20.00 |
https://deaththroeswebzine.com/ |
|
| Last Line, The |
Must end with provided last line |
|
$20.00 |
http://www.thelastlinejournal.com/submission.htm |
SUBMISSION PERIOD: submissions close 10/1 for the annual issue. |
| Flash Point Science Fiction |
All speculative flash fiction |
|
$10.00 |
https://flashpointsf.com/submissions/ |
|
| Tatterhood Review |
Fantasy and science fiction |
|
$10.00 |
https://tatterhoodreview.com/guidelines/ |
|
| Young Explorer's Adventure Guide WAS ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE 7/1 - 12/31 - DEAD MARKET |
Adventure SF with protagonist that 8-12 year old reader will identify with. |
$0.060 |
|
http://dreamingrobotpress.com/young-explorers-adventure-guide-submissions/ |
|
| Inwood Indiana - DEAD MARKET |
Small town surrealism/magic realism |
|
$1.50 |
http://inwoodindiana.com/submit/terms.php |
|
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 October 2020: Departure Mirror wants speculative fiction up to 20,000 words ... and Other New Aswiebe's Market List Updates!
When do you write? How do you know if it's the most productive time for you? Hint: it's when writing actually gets accomplished.  One way to figure out the best time to write is to experiment with a bunch of different times of day, trying each time of day for a week or so, and see what happens. That's for when you have the luxury of not enough structured time. The other way is to say, "Well, I'm too exhausted at the end of the day to write, so I guess that means I have to turn myself into an early bird writer."
I don't particularly recommend the latter approach, but that's where I'm at. I am not a morning person. I am SO NOT a morning person. But my goal is to get myself to that magical 5 AM wake-up-and-write that I've heard about. I'm not there yet. If you are trying to make the same transition, here are a few things that are helping me: 1. Gradual change. I set my alarm 15 minutes earlier. When I manage to wake up and stay up, three times, I adjust the alarm again. 2. Vitamin D + happy light as soon as I sit at my desk with my mug of tea.
3. Feeding the cats first thing, so they encourage me to get out of bed! I fear that this is not reversible. 4. Getting excited about what I'm going to do the next morning, before I go to sleep. It's a lot easier to wake up when you want to do something.
I have hopes that the end of daylight savings time will get me all the way to my goal.
(Do you have a writing question? Send it to me, either by replying to this email or by using the comment form on my website, and it may get answered in the next newsletter.)
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
Things Shiny or Useful
Upcoming Virtual Conventions
(Yes, it's a new section in the newsletter! I'm only including ones that charge no registration fees.)
Featured Market
Departure Mirror wants speculative fiction that reflects the world we're in now.
What we Publish: Original fiction and poetry,
all of which must be broadly “speculative fiction” (science fiction,
fantasy, alt-history, magical realism, slipstream, or in some other way
altered reality).
Astute readers should be able to see how your story addresses the world we live in right now.
Basics: all speculative fiction, up to 20,000 words, pays $.10/word with a $300 max, no reprints. Submission window closes 10/31/2020, reopens 1/2/2021. To 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 |
Notes |
| Departure Mirror Quarterly |
All spec-fic |
$0.100 |
|
http://departuremirror.com/guidelines/ |
|
| Jim Baen Memorial Writing ANNUAL CONTEST – DUE 10/01 - 02/01 |
Near future positive space exploration SF |
$0.080 |
|
https://www.baen.com/contest-jbmssa |
|
| Lightspeed Magazine |
Science fiction and fantasy |
$0.080 |
|
https://johnjosephadams.moksha.io/publication/lightspeed/guidelines |
Prefers < 5,000 words |
| Metastellar |
Fantasy, SF, and horror |
$0.080 |
|
https://www.metastellar.com/write-for-us/flash-fiction-story-submission/ |
NOTE: submission gives right of publication, even without a contract signing |
| Reinvented Heart, The ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/31/2020 |
SF romance by female and non-binary writers |
$0.080 |
|
http://www.kittywumpus.net/blog/2020/09/21/anthology-call-the-reinvented-heart/ |
|
| Don't Touch That ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/1/2020 |
SF themed to parenting |
$0.060 |
|
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sffparents/dont-touch-that-an-anthology-of-parenthood-in-sff/posts/2940307 |
NOTE: only accepting 2 stories from slush |
| Midnight From Beyond the Stars ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/1/2021 - 4/30/2021 |
Alien horror |
$0.060 |
|
https://www.silvershamrockpublishing.com/midnight-from-beyond-the-stars-anthology |
|
| Boneyard Soup |
Horror and dark fantasy |
$0.050 |
|
https://www.boneyardsoup.com/submit |
|
| Dark Moon Digest (Perpetual Motion Machine) |
Horror – dark, scary, or funny |
$0.030 |
|
https://perpetualpublishing.com/dark-moon-digest/ |
|
| Night Terrors (Scare Street) ANTHOLOGY SERIES |
Horror |
$0.010 |
|
https://scarestreet.com/submissions/ |
RIGHTS: takes audio rights |
| We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020 ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31/2020 |
All spec-fic published in 2020 related to queerness |
$0.010 |
|
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScIqO9QAYbInYIj4GZ2GrUpD-GiGpYtAqV_MN3YalFFzZSrFg/viewform |
|
| Distant Shore Publishing Novellas (see also Short Stories) |
Fantasy, sci-fi, and lit-RPG |
|
$2,500.00 |
http://distantshorepublishing.com/submissions/ |
|
| Distant Shore Publishing Short Stories (see also Novellas) |
Fantasy, sci-fi, and lit-RPG |
|
$150.00 |
http://distantshorepublishing.com/submit-a-short-story/ |
|
| Sexy Fantastic Magazine |
Sexy but not graphic fantasy and SF, themed |
|
$100.00 |
https://dreamtowermedia.com/sexyfantasticfictionsubmissions/ |
|
| Sexy Fantastic Magazine: The Erotic Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Dream Tower Media) |
All speculative fiction, especially that which includes human sexuality, themed |
|
$100.00 |
https://dreamtowermedia.com/sexyfantasticfictionsubmissions/ |
|
| Bouchercon 2021 ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/1/2020 |
Horror themed to second chances |
|
$75.00 |
https://www.bouchercon2021.com/anthology-information |
|
| ProleSCARYet: Tales of Horror and Class Warfare ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/1/2020 - 11/30/2020 |
Anti-capitalist horror, dark weird, and dark SF |
|
$75.00 |
https://prolescaryetanthology.com/ |
|
| Curiouser |
Surrealism, weird, fabulism, and near-future SF |
|
$50.00 |
https://curiousermag.com/submissions/ |
|
| Mysterium Tremendum (Silent Motorist Media) |
Weird fiction/horror, themed to the sacred or numinous |
|
$50.00 |
https://silentmotorist.media/mysterium-tremendum/ |
|
| If I Die Before I Wake Vol 5: Tales of the Otherworldly and Undead (Sinister Smile Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/27/2021 |
Horror themed to otherworldly (incl. aliens) or undead |
|
$40.00 |
https://www.sinistersmilepress.com/submissions-v5 |
|
| Inked in Gray Survival Anthology ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE12/30/2020 |
Fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and contemporary themed to survival |
|
$30.00 |
https://inkedingray.com/2020/10/01/2021-anthology-open-call/ |
|
| 99 Tiny Terrors ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/31/2020 |
Horror flash fiction |
|
$25.00 |
https://pulsepublishingsubmissions.moksha.io/publication/99-tiny-terrors/guidelines |
|
| Holiday Horrors Flash Fiction Contest (Apex Magazine) ONE-TIME CONTEST - DUE 11/15/2020 |
Horror themed to December holidays |
|
$25.00 |
https://apex-magazine.com/our-holiday-horrors-flash-fiction-contest-returns/ |
|
| Family (Terror Tract Publishing) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/1/2021 |
Horror themed to killing family |
|
$20.00 |
https://www.facebook.com/terrortract/posts/345772070122795 |
|
| The Periodical, Forlorn |
Off-kilter literary and all speculative fiction |
|
$15.00 |
https://www.periodicalforlorn.com/submission-guidelines |
|
| Flashpoint SF |
Science fiction, fantasy, and slipstream |
|
$10.00 |
https://flashpointsf.com/submissions/ |
|
| Kid's Ark, The - DEAD MARKET |
Kid's stories - Christian-friendly contemporary, historical, adventure, or SF. THEMED issues. |
|
$100.00 |
http://www.thekidsark.com/guidelines.htm |
|
| Dreams and Nightmares Magazine - DEAD MARKET |
SF/F/Horror poetry and short-short fiction |
|
$12.00 |
http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.com/guidelines.htm |
|
| Riddled With Arrows - DEAD MARKET |
All genres |
$0.030 |
|
http://www.riddledwitharrows.com/guidelines/ |
|
| Wyrd, The - DEAD MARKET |
Speculative, weird, and cross-genre fiction, or boundary-pushing |
|
$10.00 |
http://www.wyrdmagazine.com/submission-guidelines/ |
1,000-5,000 for not previously published. |
| Trigger Warning - DEAD MARKET |
Horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and crime |
|
$75.00 |
http://www.triggerwarningshortfiction.com/contact/ |
|
| Jack of No Trades Short Fiction Store - DEAD MARKET |
Horror, SF, Fantasy, Mystery, YA, and Romance reprints only |
$0.020 |
|
http://jackofnotradesproductions.com/submission-guidelines/short-fiction-store-guidelines/ |
RIGHTS: requires exclusive electronic rights for 3 years. |
| Perpetual Flash Fiction (Perpetual Motion Machine) - DEAD MARKET (SEE Dark Moon Digest instead) |
Dark |
|
$25.00 |
|
|
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,
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New Markets Update September 2020: Nightmare Mag Is Briefly Open, Global SF Convention This Weekend ... and Other New Aswiebe's Market List Updates!
http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/markets.html
The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be after 10/15/2020.
Permanent link to this newsletter in the archives: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive2020.html#091520
Thoughts in Passing
This Wednesday evening, John Scalzi and
former International Space Station Commander and Air Force Colonel Terry Virts will have a discussion on Facebook Live.
Virts
is the author of How to Astronaut, a "wildly entertaining" account of
the rules, lessons, procedures and experiences of space travel. (This sounds like a book that would be great for any science fiction author, so keep that in mind even if you aren't interested in the talk.) Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/942067042911317 This weekend, September 17th - September 20th, FutureCon is hosting a massive virtual global SF convention, with an amazing list of guests, that takes place around the world and around the clock. https://www.futureconsf.com/home
(Do you have a writing question? Send it to me, either by replying to this email or by using the comment form on my website, and it may get answered in the next newsletter.)
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
Edits. So many edits (and critiques). I'm slowly working my way through novel revisions. And I took a break from novel revisions to do some !!extreme!! editing to two short stories so that I could submit them to a couple of very shiny publications. I cut Story 1 from 6,709 words to 2,962 words. Story 2, I took from 8,553 words to 5,972 words. Don't try this at home, kids. I'm a professional on a closed course. The hardest part of this was that both the stories contain humor, and humor needs room to breathe.
Things Shiny or UsefulFeatured Market
Nightmare Magazine has a new editor and a limited submission window that closes 9/21/2020.
Nightmare is a horror and dark fantasy magazine. In Nightmare’s pages,
you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and
haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.
...
featuring a variety of authors—from the bestsellers and award-winners
you already know to the best new voices you haven’t heard of yet. When
you read Nightmare, it is our hope that you’ll see where horror comes from, where it is now, and where it’s going.
Basics: horror and dark fantasy, less than 7,500 words, pays $.08/word, no reprints. Limited submission window closes 9/21/2020. To 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 |
Notes |
| Constellation / Constelación Magazine |
Spanish or English speculative fiction, themed |
$0.080 |
|
https://www.constellationmagazine.com/submissions |
ONE-TIME SUBMISSION PERIOD: 10/15/2020 - 11/01/2020. THEME: "The Bonds that Unite Us / Los lazos que nos unen" |
| Derelict (Zombies Need Brains) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31/20 |
SF/F/H featuring abandoned ships |
$0.080 |
|
https://www.patreon.com/posts/40888189 |
|
| Escape Pod (Podcast) |
SF |
$0.080 |
|
http://escapepod.org/guidelines/ |
An Escape Artists publication. Reprints 1,500 - 7,500 words. |
| Flame Tree Press |
Frequent themed anthologies. ONE-TIME THEME for 8/28/20 - 8/30/20 submission period: terrifying ghosts. |
$0.080 |
|
http://blog.flametreepublishing.com/blog |
|
| Mercedes Lackey Fantasy Quarterly |
Fantasy |
$0.080 |
|
https://pulsepublishingsubmissions.moksha.io/publication/mercedes-lackey-fantasy-quarterly/guidelines |
|
| Modern Deity's Guide to Surviving Humanity, The (Zombies Need Brains) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31/20 |
Urban fantasy with a deity as the story focus. |
$0.080 |
|
https://www.patreon.com/posts/40888189 |
|
| Nightmare Magazine |
Horror/dark fantasy |
$0.080 |
|
https://adamant.moksha.io/publication/nightmare/guidelines |
Prefers < 5,000 words. |
| Podcastle (Podcast) |
Fantasy fiction |
$0.080 |
|
http://podcastle.org/guidelines/ |
An Escape Artists publication. Original fiction up to 6,000 words, reprints up to 17,000. |
| Pseudopod (Podcast) |
Horror and dark fantasy |
$0.080 |
|
http://pseudopod.org/submissions/ |
An Escape Artists publication. |
| When Worlds Collide (Zombies Need Brains) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31/20 |
SF/F with culture clashes |
$0.080 |
|
https://www.patreon.com/posts/40888189 |
|
| Unmasked (WordFire Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/1/2020 - 10/31/2020 |
Spec-fic themed to masks |
$0.060 |
|
https://www.pagespineficshowcase.com/submissions--supporters.html |
|
| Lost Contact ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31/20 |
Horror/SF themed to lost contact |
$0.050 |
|
http://perpetualpublishing.com/2020/08/24/lost-contact-a-new-horror-anthology-open-for-submissions/ |
|
| Mythulu |
Fantasy, "original myths" |
$0.040 |
|
https://mythulu.com/emagazine-submission-call/ |
|
| Mycelia |
Eerie, weird literary fiction |
$0.026 |
|
https://www.hederafelix.com/submissions/ |
|
| Planet Scumm |
SF and weird fiction |
$0.020 |
|
https://www.planetscumm.space/submissions |
|
| Speculative North Magazine (Tdotspec) |
Speculative fiction |
$0.011 |
|
http://tdotspec.com/submissions/ |
|
| Dread Imaginings |
Contemporary horror and weird fiction |
$0.010 |
|
http://www.dreadimaginings.com/submission-guidelines.html |
|
| Far From Home ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/1/2020 |
Adventure horror |
$0.010 |
|
https://www.offlimitspress.com/far-from-home |
|
| Page & Spine |
All genres, incl. SF/spec fic/H |
$0.010 |
|
https://www.pagespineficshowcase.com/submissions--supporters.html |
|
| Welkin |
Fantastic literature |
$0.010 |
|
https://welkinmag.com/submit/ |
|
| Gravity Award ANNUAL CONTEST - DUE 9/6 - 12/31 |
SF, fantasy, and horror |
|
$200.00 |
http://www.centerfieldofgravity.com/2020/09/04/center-field-of-gravitys-second-annual-gravity-award-announcement-and-guidelines/ |
|
| Fallen Gods Anthology (Jazz House Publications) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/3/2021 |
Tragic same-gender romance with main characters who are gods |
|
$100.00 |
https://www.jazzhousepublications.com/fallen-gods-submission-details |
|
| Multiplicity of Stories, A ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/15/2020 (EST.) |
SF |
|
$75.90 |
https://amultiplicityofstories.wordpress.com/submit/ |
NOTE: creative commons rights means no exclusive rights will be available to creators after this. |
| Krampus Tales: A Killer Anthology (Jazz House Publications) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/30/2020 |
Winter holiday horror |
|
$75.00 |
https://www.jazzhousepublications.com/krampus-tales-submission-details |
|
| Of Mistletoe and Snow (Jazz House Publications) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/30/2020 |
All genres, YA, themed to cozy winter holiday romance |
|
$75.00 |
https://www.jazzhousepublications.com/of-mistletoe-and-snow-submission-details |
|
| Art of Being Human, The (FableCroft) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/1/2020 |
All speculative fiction, themed to the arts |
|
$72.84 |
https://fablecroft.com/submissions/ |
|
| Dread Machine |
Dark SF, horror, dark fantasy |
|
$50.00 |
https://www.thedreadmachine.com/submit/ |
|
| Resist With Every Inch and Every Breath (Lonely Cryptid Media) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31/2020 |
SF themed to the revolution |
|
$25.00 |
https://lonelycryptidmedia.com/fiction-and-poetry-submissions/ |
|
| Were-Traveler, The |
Speculative fiction, themed issues |
|
$15.00 |
https://the-were-traveler.weebly.com/submissions-call.html |
Reprints - sometimes accepted. |
| Wondrous Real Magazine, The |
Fabulism |
|
$10.00 |
https://www.wondrousrealmag.com/submissions |
|
| Buckshot Magazine - DEAD MARKET |
Flash fiction, all genres |
|
$25.00 |
https://buckshotmagazine.com/submit |
RIGHTS: non-exclusive digital, first print rights |
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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New Markets Update August 2020: Event This Sunday, New Non-Pro Writer Contest ... and Other New Aswiebe's Market List Updates!
All these suddenly-online science fiction and fantasy conventions are a wonderful opportunity! But as a friend said to me today, the pro ("There's so much!") is also the con ("There's so much!"). I haven't found a good comprehensive, continually updated list of current virtual conventions yet. The closest is the Locus list: https://locusmag.com/conventions/ . It's a good list of conventions, but I advise clicking through to see what the convention is doing currently. Several conventions listed as canceled are doing something virtual instead. For example, this weekend I'm enjoying NASFic online: https://columbus2020nasfic.org
(Do you have a writing question? Send it to me, either by replying to this email or by using the comment form on my website, and it may get answered in the next newsletter.)
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
Preparing to do a reading at one of those virtual cons!
Come to this free online event, enjoy some good stories, and see what
happens when I discover that I can add video effects to a recorded
reading. Did I tempt fate? Maybe. Bwa-ha-ha-ha! But seriously, I
expect this to be a great reading, and the Q&A at the end offers the
opportunity for some interesting discussions.
Enjoy performances by science fiction, mystery, and fantasy authors as part of CONvergence Online. Free, but registration is required:
https://convergence-con-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pCdcCtxXSXeW8v1SKEigmg And if you're interested in learning more about how to do a reading yourself, consider this Part 1 of "How to Do a Reading." I'm presenting Part 2, a discussion of the nitty-gritty of preparing and performing a reading, in a couple of months.
Things Shiny or UsefulFeatured Market
Dream Foundry has launched an exciting contest for beginning science fiction and fantasy professionals!
This contest is for writers who are relatively new to paid or
incoming-earning publication of speculative short fiction in English. To
be eligible for this contest, all three rules below must be true of you:
- You have published a total of less than 4,000 words of paid or income-earning speculative fiction in English.
- You have earned a total of less than USD 320 from those words.
- You have never been nominated for any award listed here as a major award in speculative fiction.
We are looking for short speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy,
weird fiction, etc.) Please don’t send us stories that have no
speculative element (mainstream, contemporary, romance, westerns,
historical fiction etc.).
Basics: all spec fic, less than 10,000 words, pays $1,000 - $250 prizes, no reprints. Submissions close October 11, 2020. To 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 |
| Fireside Fiction (short stories) |
All genres, explicitly including spec-fic |
$0.125 |
|
https://firesidefiction.com/submissions |
| Addition Magazine |
All genres, themed, esp. inl. SF |
$0.080 |
|
https://additionmag.com/submissions/ |
| Apex Magazine |
SF, fantasy, and horror |
$0.080 |
|
https://apex-magazine.com/submission-guidelines/ |
| Cemetery Gates Flash Horror Anthology ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/26/2020 |
Horror flash fiction themed to Cemetery Chillers, Spook Houses, Supernatural Slashers, Witchcraft, or Within the Woods |
$0.080 |
|
https://cemeterygatesmedia.com/2020/08/07/untitled-flash-horror-anthology/ |
| khōréō |
Fantasy, SF, and horror themed to authors and stories of immigration and diaspora |
$0.080 |
|
https://khoreomag.com/submissions/ |
| Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, The ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31 |
Science fiction, fantasy, and horror with elements of the aforementioned, previously published in anthology year by an American or Canadian author |
$0.060 |
|
https://johnjosephadams.moksha.io/publication/basff/guidelines |
| Best Science Fiction of the Year, The ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/01 |
SF |
$0.060 |
|
http://neil-clarke.com/books/submission_guidelines/ |
| Chiral Mad 5 ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/31/2020 |
All spec-fic by female, BIPOC, GLBTQ+, or otherwise underrepresented authors. |
$0.060 |
|
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/chiral-mad-5#/ |
| Fusion Fragment |
SF |
$0.023 |
|
http://www.fusionfragment.com/submissions/ |
| Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021 edition) (Dark Moon Books) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/15/2020 - 12/15/2020 |
Dark fiction themed to haunted buildings (not houses) |
$0.020 |
|
http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/Submissions.html |
| Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 3, The: A Miscellany of Monsters ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/1/21 - 1/31/21 |
Horror themed to monsters |
$0.013 |
|
https://alchemypress.wordpress.com/submissions/the-alchemy-press-book-of-horrors-3/ |
| Wyldblood Press |
Fantasy, science fiction, and literary |
$0.013 |
|
https://wyldblood.com/submissions-2/ |
| Blue Light Special ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/15/2020 |
Modern LGBTQ retellings of folktales |
$0.010 |
|
https://bluelightanthology.info/submission-requirements/ |
| Legendary Tales |
All speculative fiction |
$0.010 |
|
http://legendarytalesmagazine.com/submissions/ |
| Underland Arcana |
Mildly speculative and weird fiction |
$0.010 |
|
https://www.underlandarcana.com/submissions/ |
| Weird Horror Magazine |
Pulpy, weird fiction and horror |
$0.010 |
|
https://undertowpublications.com/weird-horror-magazine |
| Dream Foundry ANNUAL CONTEST - DUE 8/10 - 10/11 |
Speculative fiction by non-pro authors |
|
$1,000.00 |
https://dreamfoundry.org/contest-rules/ |
| Breathe Fiyah (Tor.com and Fiyah Magazine) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/26/2020 - 8/28/2020 |
Spec-fic flash fiction by black authors |
|
$250.00 |
https://www.tor.com/2020/08/13/announcing-breathe-fiyah/ |
| Mantid Magazine |
Speculative fiction, ONE-TIME THEME: by women from intersectional backgrounds |
|
$75.00 |
http://www.mantidmagazine.com/#!call-for-submissions/q938a |
| In Need of a Laugh (Shoreline of Infinity) ONE-TIME CONTEST - DUE 9/12/2020 |
Funny sci-fi |
|
$65.42 |
https://www.shorelineofinfinity.com/flash-fiction-competition-for-shoreline-of-infinity-readers-2020/ |
| Cast of Wonders Flash Fiction Contest ONE-TIME CONTEST - DUE 8/31/2020 |
YA speculative flash fiction |
|
$40.00 |
https://www.castofwonders.org/2020/08/the-2020-cast-of-wonders-flash-fiction-contest-is-here/ |
| Water: Selkies, Sirens, and Sea Monsters (Tyche Books) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/30/2020 |
Fantasy themed to magical water creatures |
|
$37.83 |
https://niteblade.submittable.com/submit/170590/water-selkies-sirens-and-sea-monsters |
| No Ordinary Mortals (Rogue Blades) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/22/2020 (Deadline extended) |
Themed: Superheroes |
|
$30.00 |
https://www.rogue-blades.com/RBE-Submissions |
| Best Indie Speculative Fiction (Bards and Sages) ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FULL |
All speculative fiction, previously published by small press or self-published |
|
$25.00 |
https://www.bardsandsages.com/contact_us/fiction_submission_guidelines |
| It Came From Her Purse (Hiraeth Publishing) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/31/2020 |
SF, fantasy, and dark fiction, themed to title |
|
$25.00 |
https://www.hiraethsffh.com/it-came-from-her-purse |
| Kentucky Fried Horror ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/1/2020 |
Kentucky-themed horror |
|
$25.00 |
https://www.facebook.com/nightmarepress1/photos/a.1938454763114021/2343685135924313/?type=3&theater |
| McCoy's Monthly |
All genres, incl. literary and SF |
|
$20.00 |
https://www.mccoysmonthly.com/submit |
| Strange Aeon 2020 ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/31/2020 or when filled |
Cosmic horror |
|
$20.00 |
https://mkeatonauthor.blogspot.com/2020/07/official-updated-lovecraft-anthology.html |
| Utah Horror Writers ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/31 |
Horror with an author or story connection to Utah, themed. ONE-TIME 2020 THEME: witches |
|
$20.00 |
https://utahhorror.org/submissions/ |
| It Calls From the Sea ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/15/2020 |
Horror themed to water |
|
$15.00 |
https://www.eerieriverpublishing.com/open-submission |
| Hoot |
All genres, flash, twitterfic |
|
$10.00 |
http://www.hootreview.com/submissions/ |
| Nightmares and Phantasms PODCAST |
Horror |
|
$5.00 |
https://www.lompublishing.com/submission-call |
| Constraint 280 (microverses) |
Speculative micro-fiction |
|
$2.80 |
https://microverses.net/submissions |
| Devilfish Review - DEAD MARKET |
All genres, esp. SF/F/H |
|
$10.00 |
|
| Space Squid - DEAD MARKET |
Spec-fic humor |
|
$5.00 |
http://www.spacesquid.com/scifi-fantasy-mag/contributorguidelines/ |
| Selene Quarterly - DEAD MARKET |
Speculative romance, mystery, and alternate history |
$0.060 |
|
https://selenequarterly.com/submissions/ |
| Strange Constellations - DEAD MARKET |
Spec-fic |
|
$30.00 |
http://www.strangeconstellations.com/?page_id=8 |
| Gehenna and Hinnom - DEAD MARKET |
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/ |
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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New Markets Update July 2020: New flash fiction pub Baffling Magazine wants SF, fantasy, and horror with a queer bent ... and Other New Aswiebe's Market List Updates!
I've been wrangling my two young kids through distance-learning summer school, and it has left me exhausted and drained and uncreative at the end of the school day.
You know what helps?
A nap.
No, seriously. If you are exhausted and having trouble focusing, take a nap. I've found it to be marvelously restorative. When so many of us are dealing with overwhelm, stress, and trauma, a nap can be pretty damn magical.
"Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,
The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.”
- Shakespeare
... The only problem is that then you may be off-sync with the rest of your household. Also (if you are a heavy sleeper like me), waking up from a nap may be challenging. Scheduling the nap to be an hour or less before a can't-miss appointment helps with that. For me, that means setting my alarm to "get up and cook dinner or your children will starve" o'clock. Any optional scheduling for naps will fail horribly for me!
(Do you have a writing question? Send it to me, either by replying to this email or by using the comment form on my website, and it may get answered in the next newsletter.)
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
I've been recovering from one of those "elective" surgeries. My miscreant gallbladder has been evicted, and not losing 4+ hours 1-2x/week to pain-so-bad-I-can't-do- anything-but-stream-cooking-shows has been wonderful. Depending on where you are, this might be your window to take care of dental work, elective surgery, optometry, preventive maintenance etc. for the next 6 months. If your region isn't peaking, get it done now. Seriously. (That Twilight Zone broken-glasses episode may have left a permanent impression on my extremely-short-sighted self.)
While recovering from surgery, I caught up on a *lot* of email. Sooooo... there may be more links than usual. They're good, I promise!
Things Shiny or UsefulFeatured Market
Baffling Magazine wants flash-length science fiction, fantasy, and horror with a queer bent.
What we want to see: We are looking for speculative stories that explore science fiction, fantasy, and horror with a queer bent. We want queer stories and we want trans stories and we want aro/ace stories. We want indefinable stories. We welcome weird, slipstream, and interstitial writing. What we don’t want to see: We’re not interested in unexamined bigotry or sexual violence; pieces that include such should be nuanced or looking at the post-event experience of the survivors.
Basics: all spec fic, < 1201 words, pays $.08/word, no reprints. To 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 |
| Unfit Magazine |
SF |
$0.160 |
|
http://unfitmag.com/submit/ |
| Unreal Magazine |
Fantasy |
$0.160 |
|
http://unrealmag.com/submit/ |
| Alfred Hitchcock's |
Mystery, including paranormal |
$0.080 |
|
https://www.alfredhitchcockmysterymagazine.com/contact-us/writers-guidelines/ |
| Baffling Magazine |
All speculative fiction |
$0.080 |
|
https://www.bafflingmag.com/submissions |
| Fantasy Magazine |
Fantasy and dark fantasy |
$0.080 |
|
http://www.fantasy-magazine.com/ |
| Fiyah |
Speculative fiction by authors from the African diaspora |
$0.080 |
|
http://www.fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/ |
| If There's Anyone Left ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 7/31/2020 |
Science fiction and speculative fiction by marginalized authors |
$0.080 |
|
https://www.iftheresanyoneleft.com/submission-guidelines |
| Jim Baen Memorial Writing ANNUAL CONTEST – DUE 10/01 - 02/01 |
Near future positive space exploration SF |
$0.080 |
|
http://www.baen.com/baenmemorialaward |
| No Police = Know Future (Amazing Stories) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/15/2020 |
SF themed to the future of not-policing |
$0.080 |
|
https://submission.amazingstoriesmag.com/no-police/ |
| Upon a Once Time (Air and Nothingness Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 2/28/2021 |
All genres, and cross-genre, themed to fairy tale mash-ups |
$0.080 |
|
https://twitter.com/aanpress/status/1277662293053132800 |
| Wild Hunt, The (Air and Nothingness Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 2/28/2021 |
All genres, themed to the wild hunt |
$0.080 |
|
http://aanpress.com/submissions.html |
| Zoetrope: All-Story |
All genres, literary |
$0.080 |
|
https://www.all-story.com/about |
| Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine |
Mystery of all types |
$0.050 |
|
https://www.elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/contact-us/writers-guidelines/ |
| Dear Leader Tales ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 7/31/2020 |
All genres themed to autocratic leaders. |
$0.030 |
|
https://feralcatpublishers.com/dear-leader-tales-anthology |
| Chillfiltr |
Literary fiction and fantasy |
$0.020 |
|
https://chillfiltr.com/write-for-chillfiltr/ |
| Neo-Opsis |
SF/F |
$0.018 |
|
http://www.neo-opsis.ca/guidelines.htm |
| After Dinner Conversation |
Discussion-provoking stories, all genres |
$0.010 |
|
https://www.afterdinnerconversation.com/submissions |
| Fix the World (Other Worlds Ink.) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/30/2020 |
Near future positive SF |
$0.010 |
|
https://www.otherworldsink.com/submissions/?cn-reloaded=1 |
| Hypnos Magazine |
Weird fiction and cosmic horror |
$0.010 |
|
http://www.radiumtownpress.com/guidelines.html |
| Mystery Weekly Magazine |
Mystery, including paranormal |
$0.010 |
|
https://mysteryweekly.com/submit.asp |
| Overcast Podcast, The |
All spec-fic |
$0.010 |
|
http://theovercast.libsyn.com/submissions-guidelines |
| Scare Story |
Horror themed to ghosts, monsters, the supernatural etc. |
$0.010 |
|
https://scarestreet.com/submissions/ |
| Scare Street ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 7/25/20 |
Horror |
$0.010 |
|
https://scarestreet.com/submissions/ |
| Slashertorte: An Anthology of Cake Horror (Sliced Up Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/01/2020 |
Cake-themed horror |
$0.010 |
|
https://sliceduppress.com/submissions-2/ |
| Year After, The |
Fantasy, literary, and science fiction |
$0.010 |
|
https://www.theyearaftermag.com/submissions |
| Imagining Indigenous Futures ANNUAL CONTEST - DUE 12/1 |
Indigenous SF |
|
$1,000.00 |
https://www.fantastic-arts.org/2020/announcing-the-11th-annual-imagining-indigenous-futurisms-award-call-for-emerging-writers/ |
| Electric Literature |
Literary, all genres, incl. experimental. The Commuter takes flash fiction. Recommended Reading takes short stories. |
|
$300.00 |
https://electricliterature.submittable.com/submit |
| Voyage |
YA, all subgenres |
|
$200.00 |
https://thevoyagejournal.com/ |
| On Spec |
All spec-fic, Canadians preferred |
|
$148.07 |
https://onspecmag.wpcomstaging.com/submissions/ |
| Annorlunda Enterprises |
All genres except horror and erotica |
|
$100.00 |
http://annorlundaenterprises.com/books/information-for-authors/ |
| Worldbuilding Fantasy Anthology (Lagrange Books) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/01/2020 |
Fantasy themed to politics as story conflict. |
|
$100.00 |
https://lagrangebooks.com/calls-for-submissions/call-for-submissions-worldbuilding-fantasy-anthology/ |
| Weird Christmas Flash Fiction ANNUAL CONTEST - DUE 11/1 |
All genres, themed to "weird Christmas" |
|
$50.00 |
https://weirdchristmas.com/category/contest/ |
| If I Die Before I Wake Vol 4: Tales of Nightmare Creatures (Sinister Smile Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/29/2020 |
Creature horror |
|
$40.00 |
https://www.sinistersmilepress.com/submissions-v4 |
| Outlook Springs |
Fiction tinged with the strange |
|
$25.00 |
https://outlooksprings.submittable.com/submit |
| Timeworn Literary Journal |
Historical fiction, esp. incl. genre and speculative elements |
|
$25.00 |
https://www.timewornlit.com/submit |
| Other Side, The: A Horror Anthology ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/30/2020 |
Horror themed to death and the beyond |
|
$20.00 |
https://www.devilsrockpublishing.com/submissions |
| Ghastling, The |
Psychological or quiet horror, ghost stories, themed |
|
$18.70 |
https://theghastling.com/submit/ |
| Toasted Cake (Podcast) |
Speculative flash fiction |
|
$15.00 |
http://toastedcake.com/submissions.html |
| Gwyllion Magazine |
All science fiction, fantasy, and horror, especially fun. |
|
$12.38 |
http://gwyllionmagazine.com/submissions/ |
| Dogbumps Academy of Wayward Wixards (Thurston Howl Publications) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/1/20 |
Fantasy, themed to a diverse wizard school. |
|
$10.00 |
https://weaselpress.submittable.com/submit/168067/thp-dogbumps-academy-of-wayward-wixards |
| From the Farther Trees |
Fantasy |
|
$10.00 |
https://farthertrees.wordpress.com/submissions/ |
| Howling Dead, The (Weasel Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/15/2020 |
Horror themed to zombies with at least one furry character |
|
$10.00 |
https://weaselpress.submittable.com/submit/168068/thp-bound-tales-the-howling-dead |
| Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag |
Speculative fiction, esp. edgy or idealistic |
|
$10.00 |
http://penumbric.com/subs.html |
| Liquid Imagination |
Spec-fic and literary. Also has a special flash fiction section. |
|
$8.00 |
https://liquidimagination.silverpen.org/submissions/ |
| Cryptic Chronicles, The (DBND Publishing) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/25/2020 |
All genres, themed to cryptids. |
|
$5.00 |
https://dbndpublishing.com/submissions |
| Luna Station Quarterly |
Fantasy, science fiction, creepy horror by women writers only |
|
$5.00 |
http://lunastationquarterly.com/submissions |
| Every Day Fiction |
All flash fiction |
|
$3.00 |
http://www.everydayfiction.com/submit-story/ |
| Nightfire (Tor/Forge's Horror Imprint) |
Horror novels and novellas |
|
|
https://nightfire.moksha.io/publication/nightfire/guidelines |
| Lonely Riot, A - DEAD MARKET |
All genres, literary |
|
$20.00 |
http://alonelyriotmag.com/submit |
| Scout - DEAD MARKET |
Near-future SF |
$0.080 |
|
|
| Ruthless Peoples Magazine - DEAD MARKET |
All genres |
|
$100.00 |
http://www.ruthlesspeoples.com/node/11 |
| Lovecraft Ezine, The - DEAD MARKET |
Lovecraftian and Cthulhu-mythos stories |
|
$50.00 |
http://lovecraftzine.com/submissions/ |
| Shock Totem - DEAD MARKET |
Dark fantasy and horror |
$0.050 |
|
http://www.shocktotem.com/guidelines/ |
| Book Smugglers Novella Initiative - DEAD MARKET |
Spec-fic novellas |
|
$500.00 |
http://thebooksmugglers.com/book-smugglers-publishing/the-novella-initiative-open-call |
| Sub-Q - DEAD MARKET |
Interactive fiction |
$0.090 |
|
https://sub-q.com/about/submissions/ |
| Bronzeville Bee - DEAD MARKET |
Crime, SF, fantasy, horror, and YA |
$0.050 |
|
http://www.bronzevillebee.com/contribute/ |
| Pantheon Magazine - DEAD MARKET |
All genres, themed to myth and gods |
$0.060 |
|
|
| Ares Magazine - DEAD MARKET |
All spec-fic, plus adventure. Action-adventure preferred. |
$0.060 |
|
http://aresmagazine.com/ |
| Spectral Book of Horror (Tickety Boo Press) ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DEAD MARKET |
Contemporary horror |
$0.010 |
|
http://www.ticketyboopress.co.uk/spectral-book-of-horror-stories-4-and-5/ |
| Skelos Press - DEAD MARKET |
Weird, dark fantasy, horror, and slipstream. |
$0.010 |
|
http://skelospress.com/2016/09/14/submission-information-for-issue-4/ |
| Phantaxis - DEAD MARKET |
SF/F |
$0.004 |
|
http://phantaxis.com/ |
| DeadLights Magazine - DEAD MARKET |
Horror |
|
$50.00 |
|
| Black Girl Magic Lit Mag - DEAD MARKET |
Spec-fic with black female protagonist |
|
$50.00 |
http://www.blackgirlmagicmag.com/submit/ |
| Double Feature Magazine - DEAD MARKET |
SF/Horror |
|
$25.00 |
|
| Nefarious Thoughts - DEAD MARKET |
Dark |
|
$25.00 |
http://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/nemesis/nemesis-no.-1 |
| Ligature Works - DEAD MARKET |
Speculative or fantastic fiction |
|
$25.00 |
|
| Story Quest Short Story Contest - ANNUAL CONTEST DEAD MARKET |
All speculative fiction, themed. |
|
$15.00 |
https://sqmag.com/story-quest-contest/ |
| Freeze Frame Fiction - DEAD MARKET |
All genres, flash fiction |
|
$10.00 |
https://freezeframefiction.com/write/submission-guidelines-faq/ |
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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New Markets Update June 2020: Welcome Dark Matter Magazine, a New Pro-Paying SF Market ... and Other New Aswiebe's Market List Updates!
The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be after 7/15/2020.
Permanent link to this newsletter in the archives: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive2020.html#061920
Thoughts in Passing
When you have a lot of unstructured time ... or, on the other side, when you have very little time ... it's easy to say that you'll write sometime. When the time feels right. When you have a moment. When you feel inspired.
If the time hasn't been right for a while, it might be time to make a schedule. Start with a basic list of the absolutely necessary things you have to do in your life. Add writing. Figure out what gets done when, and then give it a try for a week. Adjust as needed. Everything else that is nonessential can get done when the time feels right.
(Do you have a writing question? Send it to me, either by replying to this email or by using the comment form on my website, and it may get answered in the next newsletter.)
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
Let's see. I watched TorCon panels. I did critiques and exchanged them for feedback on the beastie-in-progress that I need to edit. I continued to write to the #vss365 prompts. And I figured out that I need to schedule my writing time (see above) now that my kiddos are back in (distance learning) summer school at home, so I kind of know what my schedule is going to look like. Of course, I'm scheduled for gallbladder surgery in about two weeks, so everything's going to need to get readjusted during the recovery period for that. See "adjust as needed" above!
Things Shiny or UsefulFeatured Market
Dark Matter Magazine's Kickstarter succeeded! They want science fiction and pay $.08/word on acceptance (this is a big deal, FYI).
Sub Genres: Afrofuturism, Alternate Universe,
Apocalyptic, Cyberpunk, Dark Humor or Satire, Dying Earth, Dystopia,
Hard Boiled, Hard SF, Near Future, Pulp, Occult SF, SF Fantasy, SF
Horror, Slipstream, Space Opera, Theological, Weird SF
Memorable Characters
Science fiction has often been called the genre of ideas, but we want stories that are more than just
interesting in concept. We want stories that explore how human beings
(or other sentient creatures) interact with and/or are shaped by the
story’s central conceit. Time travel is interesting, but we want to know
how time travel affects a specific person (your character) and the
world they inhabit.
Polished Story Structures
We look for traditional
one-act or three-act structures. We welcome stories that play around in
these storytelling sandboxes, but we most likely won’t accept a story
that outright rejects them. We love epistolary formats and we welcome
them as submissions. Diary entries can still have an act structure,
after all.
Science!
Yes, we want character-driven stories
with traditional story arcs, but those stories still have to be science
fiction. If your story can exist without the science element, we
probably won’t be interested. For example, we would reject Shakespeare
himself if he submitted Romeo and Juliet to us with the only
difference being that it was set aboard a space station. The science
doesn’t have to be 100% accurate, and you don’t need a PhD in physics to
submit to us. You just need to write about the way science, both real
and imagined, affects the characters and worlds in your story.
Basics: SF, 1,000 - 5,000 words, pays $.08/word, no reprints. To 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 |
| Dark Matter Magazine |
Science Fiction |
$0.080 |
|
https://darkmattermagazine.com/submission-guidelines/ |
| Love Letters to Poe |
Gothic flash fiction |
$0.050 |
|
https://loveletterstopoe.com/submit-a-story/ |
| Aftermath |
Realistic apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic environmental fiction |
$0.020 |
|
https://www.aftermathmag.org/submissions.html |
| Muskeg Press Coronavirus Story Collection, The ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 6/30/2020 |
Entertaining stories *not* about coronavirus |
|
$350.00 |
https://muskegpress.com/pages/call-for-submissions |
| Heroic Fantasy Quarterly |
Heroic fantasy, sword & sorcery |
|
$100.00 |
http://www.heroicfantasyquarterly.com/?page_id=39 |
| Worldbuilding Fantasy Anthology (Lagrange Books) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/01/2020 |
Fantasy themed to politics as story conflict. |
|
$100.00 |
https://lagrangebooks.com/calls-for-submissions/call-for-submissions-worldbuilding-fantasy-anthology/ |
| Bicycles & Broomsticks (Bikes in Space Series) ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE 9/1 |
All speculative fiction, themed to witches and bicycles |
|
$30.00 |
http://takingthelane.com/2020/05/18/call-for-submissions-bicycles-broomsticks/ |
| Vampire Anthology (Nightmare Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 7/12/20 |
Vampire-themed |
|
$25.00 |
https://www.facebook.com/626104237/posts/10158540823829238/ |
| Mythaxis Magazine |
All spec-fic |
|
$20.00 |
https://mythaxis.co.uk/submission.htm |
| Satyr Central |
All genres, esp. weird and genre-nonconforming fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, superhero, horror, comedy |
|
$20.00 |
https://www.satyrcentral.com/submissions |
| Terraforming Earth for Aliens ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 6/30/2020 |
SF/H themed to global warming causing/exacerbating an epidemic |
|
$20.00 |
https://www.cli-fi.org/ |
| With Blood and Ash (Eerie River Publications) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/1/2020 |
Dark fantasy themed to elemental magic |
|
$17.92 |
https://www.eerieriverpublishing.com/open-submission |
| Incendiary ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/7/2020 |
Horror themed to rage |
|
$15.00 |
https://weaselpress.submittable.com/submit/165975/incendiary |
| Hexagon Magazine |
All speculative fiction (SF/F/H) |
|
$7.35 |
https://hexagonmagazine.wordpress.com/submit/ |
| Twisted Anatomy ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 7/11/2020 |
Body horror |
|
$7.00 |
https://www.scifiandscary.com/twisted-anatomy-a-sfs-body-horror-anthology/ |
| Beneath the Misty Surface (Pub 518) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/31/2020 |
Short stories and flash fiction, all genres, themed to ... mistiness |
|
$5.00 |
https://www.pub518.com/submit-to-us |
| Night's End, The PODCAST |
Horror |
|
$5.00 |
https://www.nightsendpodcast.com/ |
| Blind Spot - DEAD MARKET |
English or French SFF |
$0.080 |
|
http://blindspot.pub/guidelines/ |
| Kferrin - DEAD MARKET |
Fantasy flash fiction and short stories |
$0.100 |
|
http://www.kferrin.com/submission-guidelines/ |
| Martian Magazine - DEAD MARKET |
SF drabbles |
$0.100 |
|
https://themartianmagazine.wordpress.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,
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New Markets Update May 2020: Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores Opens June 1st ... and Other New Aswiebe's Market List Updates!
 Do what you can. That's my big thought for the month. Do what you can. If you can only do a tiny bit of writing, do that tiny bit. Congratulations, you did something!
If being even that active feels exhausting, figure out something that you can do passively that will work towards your goal of being a better writer. Maybe that's listening to a good writing podcast. Maybe that's attending a virtual convention (::waves::). Maybe that's rereading a favorite book and thinking about what makes it a favorite for you.
And if you're more productive than ever right now, good for you!
We're all doing what we can, and that's enough.
(Do you have a writing question? Send it to me, either by replying to this email or by using the comment form on my website, and it may get answered in the next newsletter.)
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
I've attended two online conferences in a row! As I type this, I am watching the Guest of Honor speeches at Wiscon online. Last week, I attended the Flights of Foundry virtual conference, which was fabulous. I recommend you to go sign up for the newsletter so that you get notified about the panel videos once they are released ( https://flights-of-foundry.org/newsletter/). My writing-related TBR pile has grown enormously!
If you can't attend a virtual convention, I've included a link below to a YouTube video of me running a cyberpunk story-building activity at the last Fargo CoreCon! I had fun doing it; hopefully you'll also have fun watching it.
Recently, I've started doing the #vss365 micro-stories/writing prompt/freewriting on Twitter, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. This is my favorite so far. I'll probably expand it into a full story a bit down the line.
Things Shiny or UsefulFeatured Market
Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores wants science fiction and fantasy of all lengths, pays $.06/word. Note their new submission periods.
We are looking for: well written original work in science fiction, fantasy, myth, legend, fairy tales, and eldritch, in written, podcast, video, and/or graphic story form, and from around the world. We care about character, plot, ideas, and storytelling ability. We accept both serious and humorous work. We like science fiction in all its states of matter, from solid to gaseous to plasma, i.e., from hard as steel to as insubstantial as interstellar space. If you use real existing science, please get it right.
Basics: SF and fantasy, all lengths, pays $.06/word, accepts reprints, submission windows 1st and 2nd of each month. To 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 |
| Weird Tales Magazine |
Horror, dark SF, dark fantasy, weird |
$0.100 |
|
http://www.jonathanmaberry.com/weirdtalessubmissionguidelines.cfm |
| Apex Magazine |
SF, fantasy, and horror |
$0.080 |
|
https://www.apex-magazine.com/were-coming-back/ |
| Cossmass Infinities |
SF and fantasy |
$0.080 |
|
https://www.cossmass.com/submit/ |
| Dark Matter Magazine |
Science Fiction |
$0.080 |
|
https://darkmattermagazine.com/submission-guidelines/ |
| Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores |
SF/F nonfiction, fiction, videos, and graphic novels. |
$0.060 |
|
http://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/submissions/ |
| Motherland (Lethe Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/28/20 |
Weird fiction themed to a dying lesbian community |
$0.060 |
|
https://www.lethepressbooks.com/call-for-submissions.html#/ |
| Pulp Literature |
All genres, not just pulp, especially genre-breaking work |
$0.050 |
|
http://pulpliterature.com/submissions/submission-guidelines/ |
| Women of the Woods (Fabled Collective) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 6/30/2020 |
Dark fantasy and quiet horror themed to women living in the woods. |
$0.010 |
|
https://www.fabledcollective.com/anthology-submissions.html |
| Enchanted Conversation |
Fairy tale retellings, themed. ONE-TIME 2020 THEME: angels and winged beings. |
|
$100.00 |
https://enchantedconversationmag.blogspot.com/p/submissions-guidelines.html |
| Something Good to Eat ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/21/2020 |
Horror themed to Halloween |
|
$100.00 |
https://demondream.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/submissions-something-good-to-eat/ |
| Sumanguru ONE-TIME DEADLINE - 6/7/2020 |
Fantasy adventure and science-fantasy adventure |
|
$100.00 |
http://nearzone.com/submissions/ |
| Tales From OmniPark ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 6/30/2020 |
Shared-world weird fiction |
|
$100.00 |
https://houseblackwood.net/tales-from-omnipark/ |
| Under the Hooded Monster ONE-TIME CONTEST - DUE 8/31/2020 |
YA fantasy themed to overcoming a monster |
|
$100.00 |
https://www.underthehood.net/2020/05/under-hooded-monster-contest.html |
| Paranoid Tree |
Microfiction |
|
$50.00 |
https://www.paranoidtree.com/ |
| Unsung Stories |
SF, fantasy, horror, and weird |
|
$30.92 |
http://www.unsungstories.co.uk/short-fiction |
| Kanstellation Magazine |
General fiction and SF, themed |
|
$30.00 |
https://www.kanstellation.com/submissions.html |
| If I Die Before I Wake Vol 3: Tales of Deadly Women and Their Retribution (Sinister Smile Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED |
Horror themed to female retribution |
|
$25.00 |
https://www.sinistersmilepress.com/submissions |
| Tales to Terrify Flash Fiction ONE-TIME CONTEST - DUE BY 6/15/2020 |
Flash fiction, themed to picture prompt |
|
$25.00 |
https://talestoterrify.com/flashcontest/ |
| We're the Weird Aliens ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 6/30/2020 |
SF, themed to humans as weird aliens |
|
$25.00 |
https://maralynnjohnstone.com/anthology-open-call-for-submissions-we-re-the-weird-aliens |
| Electric Spec |
All spec-fic |
|
$20.00 |
http://www.electricspec.com/Submissions.html |
| Fabled Journal |
Myth, folklore, gothic, paranormal, and historical flash fiction. |
|
$10.00 |
https://www.fabledcollective.com/journal-submissions.html |
| Halloween Horror Vol 2 (DBND Publishing) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 7/21/2020 |
Halloween-themed horror |
|
$10.00 |
https://dbndpublishing.com/submissions |
| Hookman (DBND Publishing) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 6/5/2020 |
Horror themed to urban myth of the Hookman |
|
$10.00 |
https://dbndpublishing.com/submissions |
| Asylum Diaries, The |
Cosmic horror or body horror |
|
$9.63 |
https://www.oscillatewildlypress.net/submissions-1 |
| Aurora Wolf Magazine |
Uplifting PG-rated fantasy and SF |
|
$5.00 |
http://aurorawolf.com/guidelines/ |
| Cirsova - DEAD MARKET |
Science fiction and fantasy, esp. pulp, sword & planet and heroic fantasy |
$0.013 |
|
https://cirsova.wordpress.com/cirsova-magazine/submission-guidelines/ |
| Book Smugglers, The - DEAD MARKET (no longer accepts fiction) |
SFF, themed |
$0.080 |
|
https://www.thebooksmugglers.com/ |
| Mad Scientist Journal - DEAD MARKET |
First person fiction themed to mad science |
|
$20.00 |
|
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!
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New Markets Update April 2020: Going Viral Anthology Wants SF Extrapolations of Current Events ... and Other New Aswiebe's Market List Updates!
Wow, things are changing fast. When I was first going to write this newsletter, I thought I'd write a little bit about how to prepare for working for home, possibly with another person who is also working from home. Then schools in Minnesota were closed, followed swiftly by a bunch of other movement restrictions. These are good things. Our governor is doing an excellent, competent job. But things have been changing awfully fast, and now I'm running a one-room schoolhouse for my kindergartner and third grader. I am exhausted and stressed by the end of the day. I haven't been getting any real writing work done (see: this newsletter is massively late) ... and I'm not being hard on myself for it. Stress and anxiety can actively cripple creativity.
We all do what we can.
On the other hand, writing does help relieve stress and anxiety. It doesn't have to be great writing, either. Sometimes just putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboard helps. So here are some things that are helping me cope, and that might help you.
1. Freewriting. Choose a random word, a song lyric, a picture on the internet, or some combination of those. Set a timer for 3 minutes, and write without stopping something inspired by it or describing what's happening. I have gotten many of my story ideas from daily freewriting. And even if you don't have the time or bandwidth to write a lot, look, you did something! When I can't write for extended periods of time, this helps keep the pipes from freezing.
2. Gamification. 4 the Words ( https://4thewords.com/) allows you to battle monsters and achieve goals by writing. Games are good escapism, and even better if they combine getting words written.
3. Reduce the choices you have to make. Decision fatigue is a thing, especially when people are stressed, grieving, or sick. Make a list of the things you have to do that are of equal priority. I have different lists for writing-related things, other tasks, and the most urgent things I need to do (taxes, bills, this newsletter  ). I use the Pomodoro method for how long I work on things. Roll the dice or use an online number generator to see what number item you are going to work on next. I like the Tiny Decisions app, which lets you spin a wheel to choose what to work on next. Once I know what I'm doing, I work on it for 25 minutes, take a 5 minute break, and then spin the wheel again. Make sure to add something fun or relaxing to your to-do list!
4. Connect through podcasts, message boards, virtual meetings and classes. Right now you might be feeling isolated, both in general and from the writing community. If you don't have a lot of time, listening to writing podcasts, like Writing Excuses, is a way to connect passively. If you have time, Camp NaNoWriMo is running right now, and that's a good way to connect through message boards. MinnSpec, a writing group that I'm a member of, is hosting virtual writing events: https://www.meetup.com/MinnSpec/events/. And there are many online writing classes, as well as many conventions that are switching to virtual panels and socializing. Maybe you could try out a convention (like The Nebula Awards) that you wouldn't have been able to afford travel and hotel costs for before!
5. Read. Reading is a great way to escape into another world, and reading good fiction will also help you improve your own writing. I recommend the Long List Anthology, which collects runners-up for the Hugo Awards.Want to know what's good and new? Here you go: https://www.amazon.com/Long-List-Anthology-Stories-Nomination-ebook/dp/B081HDC5SQ/(Do you have a writing question? Send it to me, either by replying to this email or by using the comment form on my website, and it may get answered in the next newsletter.)
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
I have a new flash fiction story out! "The Dinosaur's Valentine" in DailySF is my story about love in a time of extinction. It's very short, sweet, sad, and hopeful.This story was inspired by Hugo-award-nominated master craftswoman Elise Mattheson, who used this titular pair of earrings as a writing challenge. The flower on the earrings is the flower at the end of the story.
Featured Market
In the middle of all of this, black market businesses have begun to
operate: underground hair salons, photography studios, businesses once
completely legitimate and now illegal simply for operating.
If I’d written this call a year ago, it would stop there–but that’s
no longer speculative fiction. That’s happening. So instead, Impulsive
Walrus is asking for stories about the long haul. What does our world
look like if the quarantine just…stays? We’re looking for near-future
science fiction stories exploring the comedy, horror, and human drama of
a life spent six feet away from each other, and a world where our
interaction is done digitally, lest we be ravaged by disease.
Basics: hard SF, 2,000 - 8,000 words, pays $.02/word, accepts reprints, submission window 5/5/2020 until full. To 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 |
| Uncanny |
SF/F |
$0.100 |
|
https://uncannymagazine.com/submissions/ |
| Cast of Wonders Podcast |
Clean YA SF/F/H |
$0.080 |
|
http://www.castofwonders.org/submissions/ |
| Grantville Gazette |
alternate history in the Grantville cannon |
$0.060 |
|
https://grantvillegazette.com/submissions-to-the-gazette/ |
| Vastarien |
Literary horror and dark surrealism |
$0.050 |
|
https://vastarien-journal.com/submission-guidelines/ |
| Bludgeon Tools (Evil Cookie) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 6/1/2020 UNTIL FILLED |
Horror themed to tools |
$0.030 |
|
http://theevilcookie.com/open-calls/ |
| Brewtality (Evil Cookie) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 5/1/2020 |
Horror themed to alcohol |
$0.030 |
|
http://theevilcookie.com/open-calls/ |
| Lamplight |
Dark literary, horror, dark spec-fic, and noir |
$0.030 |
|
http://lamplightmagazine.com/submissions/ |
| Red Sun Magazine |
Science fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative, esp. military SF |
$0.030 |
|
https://noselloutproductions.com/guidelines/ |
| Translunar Travelers Lounge |
Fun speculative fiction |
$0.030 |
|
https://translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/ |
| Bourbon Penn |
Odd and imaginative, slipstream, cross-genre, magic realism |
$0.020 |
|
http://www.bourbonpenn.com/submissions.php |
| Going Viral (Impulsive Walrus) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 5/5/2020 UNTIL FULL |
SF themed to life in a permanent state of social distancing as per current events |
$0.020 |
|
http://impulsivewalrusbooks.com/?p=182 |
| Augur |
Literary SF/F |
$0.015 |
|
http://www.augurmag.com/submissions/ |
| Shoreline of Infinity |
SF |
$0.013 |
|
http://www.shorelineofinfinity.com/submissions/ |
| Cosmic Horror Monthly |
Horror, dark SF, dark fantasy |
$0.010 |
|
http://cosmic-horror.net/submissions/ |
| Occult Detective Magazine |
Themed: occult detectives |
$0.010 |
|
http://greydogtales.com/blog/occult-detective-magazine/ |
| Quickfic (Digital Fiction Pub) |
Speculative fiction, pro/semi-pro reprints only |
$0.010 |
|
https://dfpcorp.submittable.com/submit |
| Space and Time Magazine |
Science fiction, fantasy, and horror |
$0.010 |
|
http://spaceandtime.net/submissions-fiction/ |
| Decoded ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/30/2020 |
Queer spec-fic by queer authors |
|
$200.00 |
https://bitchesoncomics.com/submit-to-decoded/ |
| Futures |
Hard SF |
|
$130.00 |
http://www.nature.com/nature/authors/gta/others.html#futures |
| GPS Annual Writing Contest - ANNUAL CONTEST - DUE 01/01 - 05/01 |
Spec-fic short stories, poetry, and graphic novels by amateur writers, multiple age categories |
|
$75.00 |
https://geekpartnership.org/programs/writing-contest/ |
| Queer Sci Fi's Flash Fiction Contest ANNUAL CONTEST - DUE 3/1 - 4/10 |
Queer speculative flash fiction, themed |
|
$75.00 |
https://queerscifi.com/flash-contest-rules/ |
| And Lately, The Sun ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 6/30/2020 |
SF themed to climate change futures |
|
$50.78 |
https://latelythesun.com/ |
| James Gunn's Ad Astra |
Science fiction |
|
$50.00 |
http://www.adastrasf.com/submissions/short-fiction-submission-guidelines/ |
| Mithila Review |
All SF/F and interstitial and literary speculative fiction, especially culturally diverse |
|
$50.00 |
http://mithilareview.com/submission-guidelines/ |
| No Ordinary Mortals (Rogue Blades) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/1/2020 |
Themed: Superheroes |
|
$30.00 |
https://www.rogue-blades.com/RBE-Submissions |
| We Who Are About to Die (Rogue Blades) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 5/16/2020 |
Themed: heroism and self-sacrifice |
|
$30.00 |
https://www.rogue-blades.com/RBE-Submissions |
| Fifth Di, The |
SF/F and spooky horror |
|
$25.00 |
https://www.hiraethsffh.com/fifth-di |
| Fill the Void ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 5/29/2020 |
Apocalyptic flash fiction |
|
$25.00 |
https://www.facebook.com/105199147804217/photos/a.105205674470231/105204827803649/ |
| First Line, The |
All genres, themed issues |
|
$25.00 |
http://www.thefirstline.com/submission.htm |
| If I Die Before I Wake: Tales of Deadly Women and Retribution ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 6/30/2020 |
Horror with a protective female main character |
|
$25.00 |
https://www.sinistersmilepress.com/submissions-v3 |
| Martian Wave, The |
SF/F themed to exploration and settlement |
|
$25.00 |
https://www.hiraethsffh.com/martian-wave |
| Pixies, Fae, Sprites: A Mythical Rebellion ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/30/2020 |
Fantasy themed to rebellious pixies and fae |
|
$25.00 |
http://www.corrugatedsky.com/anthology-submissions/ |
| Six Guns Straight From Hell Vol 3 ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 6/30/2020 |
Western horror |
|
$25.00 |
https://steampunktrails.blogspot.com/ |
| Three Crows Magazine |
SFF, especially Slavic |
|
$25.00 |
http://threecrowsmagazine.com/submissions/ |
| Future Fire, The |
All speculative fiction |
|
$20.00 |
http://futurefire.net/guidelines/fiction.html |
| Smoking Pen Press Time Travel Anthology - ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/30/2020 |
Time-travel stories |
|
$20.00 |
http://smokingpenpress.com/submissions-2 |
| Kasma Magazine |
SF |
|
$19.41 |
http://www.kasmamagazine.com/submit.cfm |
| Outsiders Within ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 5/1/2020 - 6/26/2020 |
Lovecraftian horror with a misfit protagonist |
|
$18.68 |
https://davidjhiggins.wordpress.com/submission-calls/call-for-submissions-outsiders-within/ |
| Toasted Cake (Podcast) |
Speculative flash fiction |
|
$15.00 |
http://toastedcake.com/submissions.html |
| A-Z of Horror ANTHOLOGY SERIES - DUE UNTIL FILLED |
Horror, themed |
|
$12.45 |
https://redcapepublishing.com/submissions/ |
| Alien Dimensions |
Spec-fic with aliens, esp. hard SF |
|
$10.00 |
http://aliendimensions.com/submission-guidelines/ |
| Haunts & Hellions ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 10/31/2020 |
Romantic gothic horror |
|
$10.00 |
https://horroraddicts.wordpress.com/2020/01/03/submission-call-haunts-and-hellions-a-gothic-romance-anthology/ |
| Sub-saharan Magazine - DEAD MARKET (no longer lists pay) |
Africa-based (esp. Nigerian) fantasy |
|
$10.00 |
https://subsaharanmagazine.wordpress.com/submission/ |
| Whetstone |
Pulp sword and sorcery |
|
$10.00 |
https://whetstonemag.blogspot.com/p/submissions.html |
| Silver Blade |
F/SF |
|
$8.00 |
https://www.silverblade.net/submissions-2/ |
| Luna Station Quarterly |
Fantasy, science fiction, creepy horror by women writers only |
|
$5.00 |
http://lunastationquarterly.com/submissions |
| Mantid Magazine - DEAD MARKET |
Speculative fiction encouraging diversity |
|
$25.00 |
http://www.mantidmagazine.com/#!call-for-submissions/q938a |
| Ravenwood - DEAD MARKET |
Weird fiction, horror, dark fantasy |
$0.010 |
|
https://ravenwoodquarterly.wordpress.com/about/submissions/ |
| GigaNotoSaurus - DEAD MARKET |
Science fiction and fantasy, especially long |
|
$100.00 |
|
| 87 Bedford - DEAD MARKET |
All genres, especially spec-fic |
$0.010 |
|
https://87bedford.com/submission/ |
| Thrilling Words - DEAD MARKET |
Two linked speculative flash fiction pieces |
|
$160.00 |
|
| Occult Detective Quarterly - DEAD MARKET, now Occult Detective Magazine |
Themed: occult detectives |
$0.010 |
|
|
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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New Markets Update February 2020: $.15/wd speculative fiction ... and other Aswiebe's Market List updates!
Do you have so much stuff to do that just trying to decide where to start is exhausting? Gamify it! I recently discovered this little app called Tiny Decisions. You put in all your chores (or writing projects) and it creates a colorful wheel that you get to spin to find out what you work on next. Combine this with the Pomodoro Method of working intensely on something for 25 minutes and then taking a 5 minute break, and you have a new method to defeat choice paralysis!
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
Let's just say that sometimes writing this section of the newsletter has me looking back at what I wrote about *last* month and seeing that not much has gotten done in the meantime. ::facepalm::
I did finish the audio narration on a science fiction story for Escape Pod, so if you want to listen to me reading you a bedtime story and find out how I imitated a synthesized voice, you can download that here:
http://escapepod.org/2020/01/30/escape-pod-717-listening/Things Shiny or Useful
What the coronavirus forcing me in lockdown's taught me about cooking; plus, how to make Mantou (馒头): https://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/comments/f0qjm9/what_the_coronavirus_forcing_me_in_lockdowns/
10 Ways to Start Your Story Better: https://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/10-ways-to-start-your-story-better
How to Write Faster: https://kindlepreneur.com/how-to-write-faster/
The Compelling Emotional Complex Sentence: https://writerunboxed.com/2020/01/17/the-compelling-emotional-complex-sentence/
Featured Market
The New Modality is looking for fiction and non-fiction contributors, pays 2x pro rate for SF (or an honorarium).
Many people in our core audience are in the tech industry or are tech-adjacent. So science fiction that digs into tech extrapolations and questions of scale is fun and give us ideas to chew on (e.g. Newitz, Naam, Ryman). Also, a bunch of our audience is into spirituality, consciousness, and mythology (different authors on the above list obviously have different approaches here, but Pollack is amazing, as are Palmer and Chiang in their own ways). Governance is a beloved theme (e.g. Dickinson, Anders, Le Guin) and so are different cultural perspectives (e.g. Okorafor, Ryman, Liu) — and of course stunningly beautiful, poetic writing is always thrilling (e.g. El-Mohtar/Gladstone).
To 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 |
| New Modality, The |
Speculative fiction and non-fiction |
$0.150 |
|
http://thenewmodality.com/contributor-commitments-rates-guidelines/ |
| Unfit Magazine |
SF |
$0.140 |
|
http://unfitmag.com/submit/ |
| Unreal Magazine |
Fantasy |
$0.140 |
|
http://unrealmag.com/submit/ |
| Unidentified Funny Objects ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/1 - 4/30 |
Funny F/SF |
$0.100 |
|
http://alexshvartsman.com/ufo-unidentified-funny-objects/ |
| Deep Magic |
Family-friendly F/SF |
$0.080 |
|
http://deepmagic.co/submissions/# |
| Disturbia (Bronzeville Books) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/4/2020 |
Mundane horror |
$0.080 |
|
http://www.bronzevillebooks.com/writers/anthology-submissions/ |
| Historic Fantasy (87 Bedford ) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/30/2020 |
Historic fantasy |
$0.080 |
|
https://87bedford.com/anthology-historic-fantasy/ |
| Lovecraft Mythos (Flame Tree Fiction) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 2/24/2020 - 3/15/2020 |
Lovecraftian fiction |
$0.080 |
|
http://blog.flametreepublishing.com/blog |
| Reckoning Magazine |
All genres, preferably speculative, themed to humanity's relationship to the earth |
$0.080 |
|
https://reckoning.press/submit/ |
| Rigor Morbid 2 (Bronzeville Books) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 6/6/2020 |
Horror themed to Halloween |
$0.080 |
|
http://www.bronzevillebooks.com/writers/anthology-submissions/ |
| Strange Lands (Flame Tree Fiction) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 3/15/2020 UNTIL FULL |
Gothic fantasy themed to strange lands |
$0.080 |
|
http://blog.flametreepublishing.com/blog |
| Third Flatiron Press |
Science fiction, fantasy, horror, themed issues. Flash fiction, no theme required. |
$0.080 |
|
http://www.thirdflatiron.com/liveSite/pages/submissions |
| Tor.com Novellas |
SF/F novellas, themed submission periods |
$0.080 |
|
http://www.tor.com/submissions-guidelines/ |
| Untitled Local Lore (Cemetary Gates) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 8/1/2020 |
Horror themed to local lore |
$0.050 |
|
https://cemeterygatesmedia.com/2020/01/10/2020-anthology-submission-guidelines/ |
| Black Static |
Horror and dark fantasy |
$0.030 |
|
http://ttapress.com/blackstatic/guidelines/ |
| In Darkness, Delight: Fear the Future (Corpus Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 11/15/2020 |
Future horror (not apocalyptic) |
$0.030 |
|
https://www.corpuspress.com/call-for-submissions/ |
| Interzone |
Science Fiction and Fantasy |
$0.030 |
|
http://ttapress.com/interzone/guidelines/ |
| Future // Tense: Love ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 5/1/2020 |
SF themed to love in the future |
$0.025 |
|
https://hybrid.ink/submit/anthologies/future-tense/love/ |
| Future // Tense: Sex ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 3/1/2020 - 6/1/2020 |
SF themed to sex in the future |
$0.025 |
|
https://hybrid.ink/submit/anthologies/future-tense/sex/ |
| Stelliform |
Speculative fiction novellas, novels, and short story collections |
$0.015 |
|
https://www.stelliform.press/index.php/submissions/ |
| Oxygen Leaks |
Hard SF |
$0.010 |
|
https://oxygenleaks.com/page/short-fiction-submission-guidelines |
| The Half That You See: Nightmares, Deliriums, and Illusions (AM Ink Publishing) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/1 - 4/30/2020 |
Literary horror, themed to dreams and delusions |
$0.010 |
|
https://aminkpublishing.com/open-calls |
| Worst Laid Plans (Grindhouse Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 5/15/2020 |
Horror, themed to vacations gone wrong |
$0.010 |
|
https://grindhousepress.com/2020/02/08/call-for-submissions |
| Monster Told Me Bedtime Stories, A (Soteira Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/30/2020 |
Sleep-themed horror |
|
$0.00 |
https://soteirapress.com/submissions/ |
| Story Brewing PODCAST |
All genres, exciting |
|
$5.00 |
https://storybrewingpodcast.com/story-submissions/ |
| Electric Sewer (THP Bound Tales Books) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 3/15/2020 |
Cyberpunk |
|
$10.00 |
https://weaselpress.submittable.com/submit/153486/thp-bound-tales-books-electric-sewer |
| Ghost Stories (DBND Publishing) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 2/27/2020 |
Ghost stories |
|
$10.00 |
https://dbndpublishing.com/submissions |
| New Accelerator |
SF |
|
$13.05 |
http://thenewaccelerator.com/submissions/submission-guidelines/ |
| Dead Awake ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/1/2020 |
Horror |
|
$25.00 |
https://authornicholascatron77.wordpress.com/2020/01/20/dead-awake-submissions/ |
| Dead of Winter (Toasted Cheese Literary Journal) CONTEST – ANNUAL, due 10/1-12/21 |
Horror set in autumn or winter, themed |
|
$25.00 |
http://tclj.toasted-cheese.com/dead-of-winter/ |
| Strange Days: Midnight Street 4 ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 2/28/2020 |
Spec-fic themed to the threat of human extinction |
|
$65.23 |
https://midnightstreetpress.com/submission-guidelines |
| Binge-Watching Cure III, The ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 7/1/2020 |
SF |
|
$100.00 |
http://bingewatchingcure.com/submissions/ |
| Non-Binary Stars ONE-TIME CONTEST - DUE 1/1/21 |
Speculative fiction with underrepresented characters |
|
$100.00 |
http://www.jayhenge.com/contest.html |
| 10th Muse 2020 Interactive Fiction ONE-TIME CONTEST - DUE 2/16/2020 |
Interactive paranormal romance |
|
$650.00 |
https://www.sanainteractive.com/writing-contest |
| Menda City Review - DEAD MARKET |
all kinds |
|
$4.20 |
http://mendacitypress.com/submissions.html |
| Turn to Ash - DEAD MARKET |
Horror, themed issues |
$0.010 |
|
https://turntoash.com/submissions/ |
| Dreamers & Makers Zine (Sanguine Press) - DEAD MARKET |
Themed sci-fi, fantasy, and horror featuring PoC main characters |
|
$120.00 |
|
| Wee Tales (Golden Fleece Press) - DEAD MARKET |
Kids stories for ages 7-12 |
|
$50.00 |
|
| L0w L1f3 - DEAD MARKET |
Cyberpunk |
|
$20.00 |
https://l0wl1f3.wordpress.com/submission-guidelines/ |
| Between Worlds - DEAD MARKET |
YA and new adult themed to alternate worlds |
|
$7.31 |
|
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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New Markets Update January 2020: Compelling Science Fiction is Back! ...And Other Aswiebe's Market List Updates
I recently had a Valentine's Day-themed story accepted by Daily Science Fiction. Hurray! I submitted it in late October, it was accepted in early January, and it will likely be published mid-February. This is the sort of timeline that you're looking at when you consider submitting short stories that work well for a particular holiday. (Submitting around December adds a couple of weeks to the time, because most editors take time off around the winter holidays.) Also bear in mind that odds are good the first place you submit to is probably not going to be the one that publishes the story. So when should you start shopping around a seasonal story?
At least 3 months earlier.
So right now, you should be polishing up that St. Patrick's Day or Easter story and getting ready to send it out. Note that holiday stories don't have to take place on that named holiday, but every holiday comes with certain themes that make great story inspiration.
Chinese New Year - 1/1 - submit in early October
Valentine's Day - 2/14
- submit in late October
Mardi Gras - 2/25 - submit in early December
St. Patrick's Day - 3/17
- submit in early January
Easter - 4/12
- submit in January
Mother's Day - 5/10
- submit in early February
Juneteenth - 6/19
- submit in early March
Father's Day - 6/21
- submit in March
4th of July - 7/4
- submit in March
Halloween - 10/31
- submit in late July
Thanksgiving - 11/26
- submit in late August
Winter Holidays - 12/25
- submit in early September
New Year's Eve - 12/31
- submit in early September
(Do you have a writing question? Send it to me, either by replying to this email or by using the comment form on my website, and it may get answered in the next newsletter.)
What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
Well, I didn't get that handwritten story typed up in time to submit (There's a lot of it! How long is this thing, anyway??), so I'm still working on that. And I've also got a couple of short stories, as well as my last novel, in the "gathering critiques" phase. And a few more that are in revisions. While I'm mentioning this, I'm also looking for a couple of specific readers to give feedback on a short story: a Deaf person, and a drag queen. If one of those is you, let me know! Compensation: the price of a cup of coffee, a developmental critique, and/or a 30-minute professional photoshoot (Minneapolis only).
Featured Market
The stories we accept almost always:
- illustrate at least one interesting concept,
- are engaging, and
- clearly explain the science/technology in the story.
The ‘concept’ referenced in point (1) can be
anything from new engineering ideas to novel social constructs to
abstractions that help illustrate basic properties of reality. Point (2)
is far more subjective, although as long as your story consistently
moves forward it will probably be engaging. Point (3) is hard to attain
without some knowledge of basic science/engineering; we encourage you to
learn as much as you can about your subject matter. If your story is
very strong in one of the above areas, we will sometimes accept weakness
in the other two. Ultimately we are looking for science fiction that is
entertaining, scientifically plausible, self-consistent, and
technically detailed when appropriate. We have a preference for positive
stories, to act as a counterweight to the currently popular
post-apocalyptic genre. We certainly won't dismiss a well-written
dystopian future, but we have a bias toward stories that depict
technological advancement rather than decay. We do not publish fantasy
stories (although we enjoy them!). For more information about what we
look for, please reference my plausible science fiction blog post.
To 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 |
| Muse Magazine (Cricket Media) |
Science nonfiction and science fiction for kids, themed. |
$0.200 |
|
http://www.cricketmedia.com/muse-submission-guidelines/ |
| Clubhouse Magazine |
Christian fiction for 8-12-year-olds, specifically incl. SF/F |
$0.150 |
|
https://www.focusonthefamily.com/clubhouse-magazine/about/submission-guidelines/ |
| Clarkesworld Magazine |
SF and fantasy, likes language |
$0.100 |
|
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/submissions/ |
| Little Blue Marble |
SF themed to climate change, especially hopeful |
$0.084 |
|
https://littlebluemarble.ca/submission-guidelines/ |
| Compelling Science Fiction |
Hard SF |
$0.080 |
|
http://compellingsciencefiction.com/guidelines.html |
| AE Micro ANNUAL CONTEST - DUE 1/15 |
SF, themed |
$0.077 |
|
https://aescifi.ca/submit/ |
| Amazing Stories |
SF, esp. optimistic or humorous |
$0.060 |
|
https://submission.amazingstoriesmag.com/ |
| Hybrid Fiction |
Speculative cross-genre fiction |
$0.060 |
|
https://www.hybridfiction.net/submissions |
| Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, The ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/01 |
Horror and dark fantasy |
$0.060 |
|
http://paulaguran.com/ |
| Curiosities and Gallery of Curiosities Podcast |
All spec fic, especially weird fiction, steampunk, horror, retro-futurism, pre-1950s vibe |
$0.040 |
|
https://gallerycurious.com/fiction/ |
| Inverted Fairy Tales & Folklore ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 2/16/20 |
Fairytale-themed furry fiction |
$0.040 |
|
https://www.goalpublications.com/short_story_submission_calls.html |
| Multispecies Cities (World Weaver Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/1/2020 - 2/1/2020 |
SF including non-human species, esp. in the Asia-Pacific region |
$0.030 |
|
https://www.worldweaverpress.com/submit-anthologies.html |
| Acethetic (Hybrid Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 3/1/2020 |
All genres, with asexual main character |
$0.025 |
|
https://hybrid.ink/submit/anthologies/acethetic/ |
| Future // Tense: Gender ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/1/2020 |
SF themed to gender |
$0.025 |
|
https://hybrid.ink/submit/anthologies/future-tense/gender/ |
| Small Loves ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 2/1/2020 |
All genres, PG, themed to queer/marginalized identities |
$0.025 |
|
https://hybrid.ink/submit/anthologies/small-loves/ |
| City. River. Tree. |
All genres |
$0.020 |
|
https://cityrivertree.com/submissions/ |
| 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/ |
| Clockwork, Curses, and Coal: Steampunk and Gaslamp Fairy Tales (World Weaver Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 2/1/2020 - 3/31/2020 |
Steampunk fairy tales |
$0.010 |
|
https://www.worldweaverpress.com/submit-anthologies.html |
| Irreal Magazine |
Fabulist fiction |
$0.010 |
|
http://cafeirreal.alicewhittenburg.com/index.htm |
| Metaphorosis |
SF and F, broadly defined |
$0.010 |
|
http://magazine.metaphorosis.com/guidelines/ |
| Omens (Antimony and Elder Lace Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 7/25/2020 |
All genres, themed to omens |
$0.010 |
|
http://aelpress.com/calls-for-submissions/ |
| To Live Again ... (Antimony and Elder Lace Press) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 12/25/2020 |
All genres, themed to resurrection |
$0.010 |
|
http://aelpress.com/calls-for-submissions/ |
| Sunshine Superhighway (JayHenge Publishing) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED |
Optimistic SF |
$0.005 |
|
http://www.jayhenge.com/callforstories.html |
| Whigmaleeries & Wives' Tales (JayHenge Publishing) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE UNTIL FILLED |
Spec-fic themed to the origins of superstitions |
$0.005 |
|
http://www.jayhenge.com/callforstories.html |
| Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award ANNUAL CONTEST - DUE 12/13 |
All genres |
|
$39,248.00 |
https://www.shortstoryaward.co.uk |
| Gravity Award ANNUAL CONTEST - DUE 9/6 - 12/31 |
SF, fantasy, and horror |
|
$200.00 |
http://www.centerfieldofgravity.com/2019/09/06/center-field-of-gravitys-inaugural-gravity-award/ |
| Apex Publications |
SF/F/H novels and novellas |
|
$100.00 |
http://www.apexbookcompany.com/pages/apex-books-guidelines |
| Three-Lobed Burning Eye |
All speculative – especially Horror Dark Fantasy and Magic Realism |
|
$100.00 |
http://www.3lobedmag.com/submissions.html |
| TSS Microfiction Competition ONE-TIME FOUR-PART CONTEST - DUE DATE VARIES BUT ENDS IN 2021 |
Microfiction, all genres, themed |
|
$98.06 |
https://theshortstory.co.uk/competitions/microfiction-competition/ |
| Infinite Worlds Magazine |
SF |
|
$75.00 |
https://www.infiniteworldsmagazine.com/submissions |
| Kanstellation Magazine |
General fiction and SF, themed |
|
$60.00 |
https://www.kanstellation.com/submissions.html |
| Capricious |
Literary SF/F/H |
|
$50.00 |
https://www.capricioussf.org/submissions/ |
| Gothic Blue Book Vol 6 ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 7/5/2020 |
Gothic fiction themed to Krampus, Christmas, monasteries, castles, or convents. |
|
$50.00 |
https://burialdaybooks.submittable.com/submit/6171/burial-day-gothic-blue-book-6-a-krampus-carol |
| Negative Space: An Anthology of Survival Horror ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/31/20 |
Horror themed to survival video games |
|
$50.00 |
https://www.darkpeninsulapress.com/negative-space.html |
| Society of Misfit Stories, The (Bards and Sages Publishing) |
All spec-fic, mysteries, and thrillers |
|
$50.00 |
https://www.bardsandsages.com/contact_us/fiction_submission_guidelines |
| Bards and Sages Quarterly |
Spec-fic |
|
$30.00 |
http://www.bardsandsages.com/contact_us/fiction_submission_guidelines |
| Genderful (Hybrid Ink) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 3/1/2020 |
Themed: non-cisgender furries |
|
$25.00 |
https://hybrid.ink/submit/anthologies/genderful/ |
| Seven Deadly Sins ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 4/21/2020 |
Horror and extreme horror themed to the seven deadlies |
|
$20.00 |
https://horrortree.com/taking-submissions-seven-deadly-sins/ |
| Tales from Dry Gulch II (SFT Publishing) ONE-TIME ANTHOLOGY - DUE 1/31/2020 |
Western and weird western |
|
$20.00 |
http://steampunktrails.blogspot.com/ |
| New Gothic Review |
Gothic fiction, including SF and weird |
|
$15.00 |
http://newgothicreview.com/ |
| Pulp Modern |
Crime, science fiction, fantasy, horror, western pulp |
|
$15.00 |
http://pulp-modern.blogspot.com/ |
| Rune Bear Quarterly - QUARTERLY CONTEST |
All genres, themed |
|
$10.00 |
https://runebear.com/submit/ |
| Theme of Absence |
SF/F/H |
|
$5.00 |
http://www.themeofabsence.com/submission-guidelines/ |
| Bad Apple Zine - DEAD MARKET |
Spec-fic, especially YA and New Adult |
|
$21.22 |
|
| Creepy Campfire Quarterly Publication - QUARTERLY ANTHOLOGY - DEAD MARKET |
SF horror |
|
$35.00 |
|
| Great Tomes Series (Bards and Sages) ANTHOLOGY SERIES - DEAD MARKET |
Themed |
|
$30.00 |
|
| Story Emporium - DEAD MARKET |
Adventure SF, steampunk, and weird Westerns set 1800-1900s. |
|
$20.00 |
|
| Tor.com - PERMANENTLY CLOSED TO UNSOLICITED SHORT STORY SUBS - DEAD MARKET |
All spec-fic |
$0.250 |
|
|
| Digital Fantasy Fiction (Digital Fiction Pub) - DEAD MARKET |
Fantasy fiction, pro/semi-pro reprints only |
$0.010 |
|
|
| Digital Horror Fiction (Digital Fiction Pub) - DEAD MARKET |
Horror fiction, pro/semi-pro reprints only |
$0.010 |
|
|
| Digital Science Fiction (Digital Fiction Pub) - DEAD MARKET |
Science fiction, pro/semi-pro reprints only |
$0.010 |
|
|
| Speculate! (Evil Girlfriend Media) - DEAD MARKET |
Dark speculative fiction |
|
$100.00 |
|
| World Unknown Review - DEAD MARKET |
All genres, literary, especially spec-fic |
|
$15.00 |
|
| Recompose - DEAD MARKET |
Interstitial spec-fic flash fiction and poetry |
$0.060 |
|
|
| Bracken - DEAD MARKET (no unsolicited fiction) |
Most genres, esp. magic realism, themed to the woods |
$0.020 |
|
|
| Division By Zero ANTHOLOGY SERIES - DEAD MARKET |
All spec-fic |
$0.010 |
|
http://www.mifiwriters.org/submissions/ |
| Cyclopean - DEAD MARKET |
Spec-fic |
$0.010 |
|
http://www.cyclopeanpress.com/#submissions |
| Dirge Magazine - DEAD MARKET |
Dark fantasy and horror, themed issues |
$0.060 |
|
https://dirgemagazine.submittable.com/submit/46550 |
| Fiction Vortex - DEAD MARKET |
SF and fantasy |
|
$50.00 |
http://www.fictionvortex.com/submissions/submit-a-short-story/ |
| Farstrider Magazine - DEAD MARKET |
Fantasy, especially lighter stories |
$0.030 |
|
http://www.farstridermag.com/submit.html |
| Domain SF - DEAD MARKET |
Hard SF themed to environment change |
$0.010 |
|
|
| Cicada - DEAD MARKET |
YA comics, fiction, and art, all genres including SF/F, themed issues |
$0.100 |
|
|
| Odd Tree Press - DEAD MARKET |
All spec-fic |
|
$20.00 |
|
| Vine Leaves Literary Journal - DEAD MARKET |
All genres, vignettes |
|
$3.76 |
|
| Gernsback Writing Contest (Amazing Stories) ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY - DUE 7/1 - 7/31 - DEAD MARKET |
SF, themed |
$0.060 |
|
|
| Flash Forge - DEAD MARKET |
Horror, bizarro, weird, etc. |
|
$10.00 |
|
| Manor House - DEAD MARKET |
All horror and dark fantasy |
|
$20.00 |
|
| Weird City - DEAD MARKET |
Themed: strange things in densely populated places |
|
$50.00 |
|
| Encounters Magazine - DEAD MARKET |
Contemporary or dark/urban fantasy, SF, horror, and paranormal |
$0.003 |
|
|
| Polychrome Ink - DEAD MARKET |
All genres, written by or starring diverse people |
|
$25.00 |
|
| Xnoybis (Dunhams Manor Press) - DEAD MARKET |
Weird fiction |
|
$25.00 |
|
| Gold Shader - DEAD MARKET |
Game fiction - fiction inspired by games of all sorts |
$0.010 |
|
|
| Beyond Science Fiction - DEAD MARKET |
SF/F |
$0.001 |
|
|
| Pornokitsch - DEAD MARKET |
All genres, especially SF/F |
|
$50.00 |
|
| StoryHack - DEAD MARKET |
Action and adventure in any genre |
$0.010 |
|
|
| Refractions (Golden Fleece Press) - DEAD MARKET |
Stories for ages 13 and up |
|
$50.00 |
|
| Factor Four Magazine - DEAD MARKET |
SF, fantasy, superhero, and supernatural |
$0.100 |
|
http://factorfourmag.com/submissionsinfo/ |
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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