Writer Christmas Market! $1500 valued writing courses for just $70!
Authortunities #93 │December 21—January 18
🎄Merry Christmas Writers! I was invited by Daniel David Wallace to be one of the vendors at his new Christmas Market for Writers. 25 of us have gotten together to offer $1,500 worth of writer value for one price of $70. For $98 get TWO copies, of the market collection: one for you and one to gift! Visit the Christmas Market here.
Free subscribers, this is the last week to take advantage of your complimentary full subscription. It goes back to two weeks ahead (as opposed to the full month) on December 28.
🔎Also, the final six clues for the Book Fair Scavenger Hunt! Look through the Book Fair to find the answers. On December 28th there will be a form link to submit your answers. The first person to correctly answer all the clues will win a $50 Amazon gift card and be announced in the following issue.
Your final five clues are…
Search for the house with hands grasping below, Where courage and shadows together grow.
Find the cover with blooms in white and deep hue, Where dreams take flight and sleep renews.
Find the young girl who’s forced to roam, Leaving her tree and war-torn home.
Among the books, a game you’ll find, A world of play, one of a kind.
In this tale where danger lurks and waits, Death may be fatal—beware your fate!
🔎Find your answers in December’s Book Fair Scavenger Hunt here.
Submit your answers in next week’s Authortunities to win a $50 Amazon giftcard!
🌳What’s in this issue?
Daniel David Wallace’s Christmas Market: $1,500 worth of writer value for $70. Get one and give one for $98! Visit the Market here.
More gift giving opportunity, Substack has created gift subscriptions! Give the gift of weekly author opportunity here.(https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/32991418449940-How-can-I-promote-gift-subscriptions-during-the-holidays)
The first ever Discovery Editors' Choice Awards shortlist has been released. See who made it here.
I enjoyed this great post by
called “If You're Just Starting On Substack, Don't Make The Same Dumb Mistake I Did.” You can read that here.
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🟢 BookLife runs the Indie Spotlight feature, a thematic roundup of self-published books from a broad range of genres and topics, both online and in print in Publishers Weekly magazine. Each Indie Spotlight is open to all types of books as long as they match the month's topic. Submit your works of SELF-HELP/PERSONAL FINANCE until January 1.
https://booklife.com/about-us/booklife-s-indie-spotlight.html
🟢 DEC 21 · Reedsy Prompts is open until the following Friday for short fiction between 1,000 - 3,000 words based on one of five prompts. Writers have until the following Friday at 11.59 pm EST to enter. No fee to enter and have work posted. $5 fee to be eligible for the $250 cash prize. This week’s prompt is: Endings & Beginnings 📅.
https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
🟢 DEC 21 · Astrolabe is open for submissions until January 21 for fiction, creative nonfiction, and photography/art that explores themes of connection across boundaries, from the mystical to the imaginative. Submissions should total no more than 3,000 words for written pieces or up to five images for art. Payment is $50 per published piece.
https://www.astrolabe.ooo/submissions
⭐ DEC 21 · GoIndieNow presents The Indie Dozen Reveal Joe Compton unveils his personal favorites in Indie Movies and Books counting down from #12 to #6. Live at noon ET.
https://www.facebook.com/share/19jWEL6w9J/
⭐ DEC 22 · GoIndieNow presents This Year In Indies for 2024 with Joe Compton and SM Hillman counting down their Top 5 favorite Indie Books, Movies, and Games of the year. They will have some honorable mentions and name their pick for Indie Creator of The Year. CL Cannon will be along with a BRAND NEW Indie Connection with books you might like if you are a fan of Go Indie Now.
https://www.facebook.com/share/1ADxg8EsZC/
⭐🎤 DEC 22 · Rattlecast livestreams, is part interview and open mic with a prompt-based open mic. Hangout with Rattle editor Timothy Green and Katie Dozier. Each Rattlecast begins with an interview, a writing prompt, and poets reading from the last week’s prompt. | Rattlecast at 8 pm EST.
🟢 DEC 21 · Astrolabe opens to fiction, creative nonfiction, and photography/art for $50 USD flat rate with free submissions until January 22, 2025.
https://www.astrolabe.ooo/submissions
🔴 DEC 26 · The Ex-Puritan is closed for interviews, essays, reviews, fiction, poetry and experimental work for their February issue. Payment ranges from $35 CAD per page for poetry to $200 CAD for essays.
https://puritan-magazine.submittable.com/submit
🔴 DEC 27 · Every Day Fiction closes for winter and holiday stories up to 1000 words. Payment is $3 USD. “All fiction genres are acceptable, and stories that don’t fit neatly into any genre are welcome too.”
https://everydayfiction.submittable.com/submit
🔴 DEC 27 · Rattle Magazine’s “Poets Respond” challenge calls for poems inspired by “a news story or public event from the previous week, and has been written in the time since.” Selected poems will appear as the Sunday poem at Rattle.com which appear to over 10,000 people via RSS feed and daily email service. Poets will receive $100 and a free print magazine subscription. Each week's deadline is Friday midnight PST.
https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/30232/poets-respond-online
⭐🎓 DEC 27 · Rattle Magazine’s livestream Poetry Critique of the Week Rattle's editor hosts a livestreamed poetry critique on YouTube and Facebook, offering suggestions and feedback. The viewing audience is encouraged to participate. The goal is to help us all become better poets through the honest sharing of our reactions, similar to the experience of an MFA roundtable workshop. Critique of the Week at 4 pm EST.
https://www.youtube.com/@RattlePoetry/featured
🟢 DEC 27 · Reedsy Prompts calls for short fiction between 1,000 - 3,000 words based on one of five prompts. Writers have until the following Friday at 11.59pm EST to enter. No fee to enter and have work posted. $5 fee to be eligible for the $250 cash prize. New prompt every Friday.
https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/
⭐🎤 DEC 29 · Rattlecast livestreams, is part interview and open mic with a prompt-based open mic. Hangout with Rattle editor Timothy Green and Katie Dozier. Each Rattlecast begins with an interview, a writing prompt, and poets reading from the last week’s prompt. | Rattlecast at 8 pm EST. This week’s guest is Rex Wilder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odjayZvKcdg&list=PLD_fMFokoxAEbUzqLMIldRifEYrWK7w9-&index=1
⭐ DEC 29 · GoIndieNow presents This Week In Indies for 2024 a weekly Sunday chat show that covers issues relevant for Indie artists and the scoop on who is publishing what and where you can get it. Broadcasting every Sunday at Noon ET/11a CT/10a MT/9a PT.
🔴 DEC 31 · Shallow Waters Flash Fiction Contest, from Crystal Lake, is closed for “story that captures the essence of liminal spaces” for their monthly flash fiction contest. The winner will receive $0.03 per word, publication in an upcoming Hotel Macabre anthology, and an Author Spotlight on our newsletter and Patreon page. The second-place winner will receive $0.02 a word, and the third place winner $0.01 per word. The winner will also have the option of hosting the following month’s contest for an additional $50. Free to enter. Need not be a Patreon member to enter.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-flash-theme-115408722
🔴 DEC 31 · Spooky Magazine is closed for submissions for their Spring/Summer 2024 issue, seeking cozy, classic, and whimsical horror stories with a twist. Stories should be under 5,000 words, with a sweet spot around 2,500-3,000 words. Payment is $0.01 per word, plus a contributor’s copy. Horror-themed haiku submissions are also welcome. Payment is .01 USD per word.
https://spooky-magazine.com/submission-guidelines/
🔴 DEC 31 · Variant Literature Journal is closed for flash fiction or flash nonfiction (1200 words or less) or a connected series of THREE micros (250 to 400 words each). Payment is $10 per accepted story, poem, or micro series.
https://variantlit.com/submit/
🔴♻️ DEC 31 · Short Story on Substack is closed for short stories from 6- 10,000 words in any genre. Payment is $100 + 50% of subscription revenue to be sent by Paypal, Zelle, or check. Selected story to be announced on the 15th. Reprints welcome.
https://shortstory.substack.com/
🔴 DEC 31 · Arc Poetry is closing for poetry on any subject or form, and for pitches of 250-500 words for both essays and interviews with poets. Payment is $50 per poem, or printed page. Poets based in the USA must pay a small submission fee of $2 per poem.
https://arcpoetry.ca/resources/general-submissions/
🔴♻️ DEC 31 · Workers Write! is closing for submissions of “fiction and poetry about the people who clean up after everyone, such as maids, janitors, custodians, waste management workers, crime scene cleaners, and even laundromat owners.” Payment is $5-50, “depending on length and rights requested.”
http://www.workerswritejournal.com/index.htm
🔴 DEC 31 · Moth Poetry Prize is open for a single unpublished poem on any subject with no line limit. The winner receives €6,000, three runners up receive €1,000 each and eight “commended” awards of €250. Open worldwide to poets at least 16 years of age. The entry fee is €15 per poem.
https://www.themothmagazine.com/a1-page.asp?ID=9324&page=49.
🔴 DEC 31 · Lilith’s Annual Fiction Contest is closing for “quality short stories with heart, soul, and chutzpah.” First prize receives $300 and publication. Welcoming feminist and Jewish nuance, especially from writers of color and emerging writers.
https://lilith.org/contact/writing-for-lilith/
🔴 DEC 31 · The John Ridland Poetry Prize is closing for submissions of “an unpublished book-length manuscript of 48-100 pages” from a US poet 55 years and older. The winner receives $500, publication by Gunpowder Press, and 10 author copies. Entry fee of $20.
https://gunpowderpress.com/poetry-prizes/john-ridland-poetry-prize/
🔴 DEC 31 · The 2024 Society of Classical Poets International Poetry Competition is closing for “One to three poems on any topic.” First Prize is $2,000. Poems must contain meter. Rhyme and other traditional techniques encouraged but not required. You can enter up to three submissions, each containing one to three poems, not exceeding 108 lines in total per submission. Each submission requires the standard entry fee of $20, which includes a free subscription to their monthly e-Newsletter.
🔴 DEC 31 · The 2024 SCP International High School Poetry Competition is closing for “One to three poems on any topic.” First Prize is $200. Poems must contain meter. Rhyme and other traditional techniques encouraged but not required. You can enter up to three submissions, each containing one to three poems, not exceeding 108 lines in total per submission. Each submission requires the standard entry fee of $5, which includes a free subscription to their monthly e-Newsletter.
https://classicalpoets.org/2024/08/31/the-2024-scp-international-high-school-poetry-competition/
🔴♻️ DEC 31 · Lascaux Prize in Short Fiction is closing for submissions of previously published or unpublished short fiction up to 10,000 words. Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Winner receives $1,000, a bronze medallion, and publication in The Lascaux Review. Entry fee is $15 USD.
https://lascauxreview.com/contests/
🔴 DEC 31 · Flash Fiction 500 Competition is closing for original flash fiction up to 500 words. First place winner receives £300, second place winner receives £200, and third place winner receives £100. Entry fee is £5 for one story, £8 for two stories, £11 for three stories, £14 for four stories.
https://flash500.com/flash-fiction/
🔴 DEC 31 · Rattle Magazine’s Ekphrastic Poetry Challenge closes for ekphrastic poetry in response to selected visual art posted on their page. Two winners receive $100 and publication online.
https://www.rattle.com/ekphrastic/
🔴 DEC 31 · The Other Stories Podcast closes for 2,000 word speculative fiction on the theme of FOUND FOOTAGE. Bring us stories from lost tapes, forgotten diaries, old film, banned video games, or wherever else you might find strange echoes in lost media.” Payment is $15 GBP.
https://theotherstories.net/submissions/
🔴💰 JAN 1 · Poetry Society Of America Annual Awards is closing entries for nine separate poetry contests with prizes ranging from $250 to $2,500. Awards include the The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award, Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, Lyric Poetry Award, Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, George Bogin Memorial Award, and the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award. Poetry Society of America members can enter all awards for free. Non-Members of the Poetry Society can enter each contest for a fee.
https://poetrysocietyofamerica.submittable.com/submit
🟢 JAN 1 · Last Girls Club is open until February 1 for feminist horror short stories and poems. Payments for short story-2,500 words or less is $0.015 USD per word ($37.50 USD max); Flash Fiction-less than 1,000 words $0.015 USD per word ($15 USD max); Poems-less than 200 words $10.
https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/last-girls-club-lImp7
🟢 JAN 1 · Rattle Magazine’s Ekphrastic Poetry Challenge opens until the last day of the month for ekphrastic poetry in response to selected visual art posted on their page. Two winners receive $100 and publication online.
https://www.rattle.com/ekphrastic/
🟢 JAN 1 · Electric Spec is open until January 15 for speculative fiction stories of “science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre” between 250 and 7000 words for their February issue. Payment is $20 per piece.
http://www.electricspec.com/Submissions.html
🟢 JAN 1 · Strange Horizons is open until January 31 with Vanessa Jae as January’s editor for speculative poetry. Payment is $50 USD per poem, regardless of length or complexity.
http://strangehorizons.com/submit/poetry-submission-guidelines/
🟢 JAN 1 · The Hudson Review is open until March 31 for nonfiction submissions. Payment is 2.5 cents per word for prose. Submissions should be mailed with a self-addressed stamped envelope.
https://hudsonreview.com/about-us/submission-guidelines/
🟢JAN 1 · 34 Orchard is open until January 15 for submissions of short fiction from 1000 to 5000 words and poetry of any genre/length. Payment is $50 USD.
https://34orchard.com/guidelines/
🟢 JAN 1 · Flame Tree Fiction Newsletter calls for monthly themed submissions from newsletter subscribers only (free to subscribe) up to 1k words for $0.08 per word USD for original fiction.
https://www.flametreepress.com/submissions/
🟢 JAN 1 · The Other Stories Podcast is open until January 31 for 2,000 word speculative fiction on the theme of WEIRD. “Bring us the bizarre, the unexplainable, the surreally beautiful. Old weird. New weird. Bizarro. Whatever. Bear in mind — we still want good stories with satisfying endings.” Payment is $15 GBP.
https://theotherstories.net/submissions/
🟢 JAN 1 · Rattle Magazine’s Ekphrastic Poetry Challenge opens until the last day of the month for ekphrastic poetry in response to selected visual art posted on their page. Two winners receive $100 and publication online.
https://www.rattle.com/ekphrastic/
🟢💰 JAN 1 · PEN America’s U.S. Writers Aid Initiative is open for applications until January 31 for the PEN America Writers Emergency Fund, which offers grants for “writers in the United States facing acute financial need following an emergency situation.” Applications received on or before the following quarterly deadlines will be reviewed before the last day of that month. (For example, an application received on or before January 1, 2024 will be reviewed before January 30, 2024.)
https://pen.org/us-writers-aid-initiative/
🟢 JAN 1 · The Threepenny Review opens for submissions of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction until April 30. Payment is $400 per story or article, and $200 per poem or Table Talk piece.
https://www.threepennyreview.com/submissions.html
🟢💰 JAN 1 · The Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing is open to June 7 for outstanding debut nonfiction literary works by first-generation immigrants. The winner receives $10,000 and publication by Restless Books. There is no entry fee.
https://restlessbooks.org/prize-for-new-immigrant-writing-guidelines-and-eligibility
🟢 JAN 1 · Solarpunk Magazine is open for submissions until January 14 for fiction, poetry, and art. They are seeking works that imagine a sustainable future and highlight themes of community and resilience. Fiction submissions should be 1,500-7,500 words, with preference for 1,500-3,000 words. Payment rates include $0.08 per word for fiction (minimum $100), $40 per poem, and $100 for original cover art.
https://solarpunkmagazine.com/submissions/
🟢 JAN 1 · Cosmic Horror Monthly is open until January 7 for weird and cosmic fiction under 5,000 words. Payment is 3 cents USD per word.
https://cosmichorrormonthly.com/submissions/
🟢♻️ JAN 1 · The Lascaux Prize in Flash Fiction is open until June 30 for submissions of previously published or unpublished flash fiction. True stories are welcome as long as they’re written in a narrative style. Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Winner receives $1,000, a bronze medallion, and publication in The Lascaux Review.
https://lascauxreview.com/contests/
🔴 JAN 3 · Rattle Magazine’s “Poets Respond” challenge calls for poems inspired by “a news story or public event from the previous week, and has been written in the time since.” Selected poems will appear as the Sunday poem at Rattle.com which appear to over 10,000 people via RSS feed and daily email service. Poets will receive $100 and a free print magazine subscription. Each week's deadline is Friday midnight PST.
https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/30232/poets-respond-online
🟢♻️ JAN 3 · The Indieverse Awards is open until January 13 (January 31 for paid categories) for independently published works in categories that “revolve around representation, vibes, characters, tropes, storylines, etc..”
https://www.indieverseawards.com/
⭐🎤 JAN 5 · Rattlecast livestreams, is part interview and open mic with a prompt-based open mic. Hangout with Rattle editor Timothy Green and Katie Dozier. Each Rattlecast begins with an interview, a writing prompt, and poets reading from the last week’s prompt. | Rattlecast at 8 pm EST.
🔴 JAN 7 · Cosmic Horror Monthly is closed for weird and cosmic fiction under 5,000 words. Payment is 3 cents USD per word.
https://cosmichorrormonthly.com/submissions/
🔴 JAN 10 · Rattle Magazine’s “Poets Respond” challenge calls for poems inspired by “a news story or public event from the previous week, and has been written in the time since.” Selected poems will appear as the Sunday poem at Rattle.com which appear to over 10,000 people via RSS feed and daily email service. Poets will receive $100 and a free print magazine subscription. Each week's deadline is Friday midnight PST.
https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/30232/poets-respond-online
⭐ JAN 12 · Inspirational Indie Authors podcast with the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) and Howard Lovy. Dive deep into personal stories of indie authors, understanding their pathways to success, challenges faced, and lessons learned. 1 pm GMT.
https://www.allianceindependentauthors.org/inspirational-indie-author-interviews-podcast/
⭐🎤 JAN 12 · Rattlecast livestreams, is part interview and open mic with a prompt-based open mic. Hangout with Rattle editor Timothy Green and Katie Dozier. Each Rattlecast begins with an interview, a writing prompt, and poets reading from the last week’s prompt. | Rattlecast at 8 pm EST.
🔴 JAN 15 · Space and Time: Celebrating 50 Years of Speculative Fiction Kickstarter ends. You are invited to be part of this extraordinary legacy with our Kickstarter project, Space & Time: Celebrating 50 Years of Speculative Fiction. Together, we’ll create a stunning archival-quality book that captures the spirit of Space and Time with exclusive stories, behind-the-scenes insights, and interactive features that bring history to life. This is more than a book—it’s your chance to honor the past, celebrate the present, and inspire the future. Join us in building something timeless.
🎓 JAN 16 · How to Get Published—Land a Book Deal in 2025 with Jane Friedman, hosted by Writer’s Digest. This intensive and information-filled 120-minute live webinar helps you think like an industry insider who makes decisions every day on what work merits print publication. You’ll get practical advice and tools to help you develop strong pitch letters and proposal materials for both fiction and nonfiction—plus back-door methods for networking with agents and editors. Don’t embark on the submission process in 2025 without being fully educated about how the industry works. Class costs $99.99 USD.
https://writersdigestuniversity.mykajabi.com/how-to-get-published-2025
⭐ JAN 16 · First Friday - Third Thursday Quick Read features 6 authors each reading a selection of speculative fiction for 8 minutes. There will be time for questions & answers at the end and a giveaway from the authors. This free event hosted by Strong Women - Strange Worlds features Aimee Kuzenski, Lauren Bolger, Lauren Teffeau, ML Dumars, Nora B. Peevy, Kay Malady and emcee/host Sarah Smith along with support from authors Anne Nydam and Terri Bruce. Pre-register.
https://strongwomenstrangeworlds.weebly.com/
🔴 JAN 17 · Rattle Magazine’s “Poets Respond” challenge calls for poems inspired by “a news story or public event from the previous week, and has been written in the time since.” Selected poems will appear as the Sunday poem at Rattle.com which appear to over 10,000 people via RSS feed and daily email service. Poets will receive $100 and a free print magazine subscription. Each week's deadline is Friday midnight PST.
https://rattle.submittable.com/submit/30232/poets-respond-online
⭐🎓 JAN 18 · PARSEC, Pittsburgh’s premier Science Fiction & Fantasy Organization, welcomes the public to their monthly meetings held the third Saturday of each month beginning at 12:30 pm EST. Virtual Zoom meetings are available for those unable to attend in person.
https://parsec-sff.org/monthly-meetings/
Always Open ♾️
♾️🟢 · Bad Day Book is currently accepting poetry and prose submissions with themes specified on their site. They offer payment ranging from $40 to $75, depending on length.
https://thebaddaybook.com/faq/
♾️🟢 · New Orleans Review is always open for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions. Payment is $300 for nonfiction and fiction prose and $100 for poetry regardless of word counts.
https://www.neworleansreview.org/submit/
♾️🟢 · Griffith Review is always open for nonfiction and fiction submissions on the theme "No Place Like Home," what it means to us, why it matters and how it shapes our sense of self. Payment is $0.75 AUD per word for fiction and nonfiction, $200 AUD per poem and $500 per piece AUD per work commissioned for GR Online.
https://www.griffithreview.com/submit-to-griffith-review/
♾️🟢 · Breath & Shadow is always open for submissions from people with disabilities, broadly defined, encompassing physical, mental, emotional, cognitive, or sensory impairments that significantly affect major life functions. They welcome poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama on any topic, with a focus on disability-related academic or article-type nonfiction. Payment is $20 for poetry and $30 for prose.
https://www.abilitymaine.org/submission-guidelines
♾️🟢 · Craft is always open for “fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as craft essays and interviews.” They offer free submissions with fast response times for BIPOC and other mis- and underrepresented writers. Craft pays $100 for flash and $200 for short fiction and creative nonfiction.
https://craft.submittable.com/submit
♾️🟢 · Every Day Fiction is always open for flash fiction up to 1000 words. Payment $3 USD. “All fiction genres are acceptable, and stories that don’t fit neatly into any genre are welcome too.”
https://everydayfiction.submittable.com/submit
♾️🟢 · The Gay & Lesbian Review is always open for “unsolicited manuscripts and proposals on all LGBT-related topics.” Payment is $250 for features.
https://glreview.org/writers-guidelines-for-submission/
♾️🟢 · Reappropriate, an Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) race advocacy and feminism blog is always open for pitches on topics such as race, gender, identity, Asian American history, and current events. They pay $75-150 for 800 to 2,500 words.
http://reappropriate.co/submit-writing/
♾️🟢 · Tagg Magazine, a US-based queer women's publication, is always open for pitches on various themes, including personal essays, listicles, dating advice, and fashion-related content. Articles are 350-1,000 words long and pay $75-175. They also welcome pitches for article ideas.
https://taggmagazine.com/contribute/
♾️🟢 · Torch Literary Arts is always open for creative writing by Black women for their Friday Features. “We are interested in work that challenges and disrupts preconceived notions of what contemporary writing by Black women should be” in fiction, hybrid works, poetry, and drama, including pieces accompanied by video or dramatic audio. Payment is $150.
https://torchliteraryarts.submittable.com/submit
♾️🟢 · Solarpunk Magazine is always open for nonfiction that will “stir readers with themes of defiance, change, and achievement.” Payment is $75 for nonfiction.
https://solarpunkmagazine.com/submissions/
♾️🟢 · Bourbon Penn seeks “highly imaginative stories with a healthy dose of the odd” from 2000 - 7500 words for 4¢ / word.
https://www.bourbonpenn.com/submissions
♾️🟢 · Orion's Beau is open until September 10 for LGBTQ science fiction, fantasy, paranormal, and dark fantasy in fiction, poetry, and art. Payment is $3.
https://www.orionsbeau.com/arts-and-literary-submissions
♾️🟢 · Electric Spec closes to speculative fiction stories of “science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre” between 250 and 7000 words for their next issue. Payment is $20 per piece.
http://www.electricspec.com/Submissions.html
♾️🟢 · Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern is open to unpublished fiction up to 10k words. Snail mail submissions. Payment is $400.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/pages/guidelines-for-quarterly-submissions
♾️🟢 · Star*Line, the official print journal of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA), is a literary venue for speculative (including science-fiction, fantasy, and horror) poets and poetry enthusiasts, and features interviews, articles, reviews, member news and letters, association business, and poetry. Star*Line is open for submissions year-round. Payment for poetry: 4¢/word rounded to next dollar, minimum $4. Nonfiction, 1¢/word rounded to the next dollar. Reviews pay a flat fee of $4.
https://www.sfpoetry.com/starline.html
♾️🟢♻️· Samovar, published by Strange Horizons, seeks speculative fiction, review-essays, poetry, interview/conversations, and reprints in translation. Payment for fiction is 8 US cents per word to the author, and 8 US cents per word to the translator. Payment for reprints is a flat $100 USD to the author and $100 USD to the translator. Payments for poetry is $40 USD to the author and $40 USD to the translator. Payment for interview/conversations is $40 USD to each participant. Payment for review-essays is $40 USD.
http://samovar.strangehorizons.com/submit/
♾️🟢♾️ · Strange Horizons is open for speculative poetry submissions year-round, including at times when Strange Horizons is closed to fiction submissions. The editors operate on a rotation system, so the person who reads and replies to your poem will depend on when you send it. Payment is $50 USD per poem, regardless of length or complexity.
http://strangehorizons.com/submit/poetry-submission-guidelines/
♾️🟢 · The SFWA Blog is open to pitches for original nonfiction articles on topics that might be of interest to new and/or established creators of science fiction and fantasy. SFWA welcomes pitches from both members and nonmembers. Black, Indigenous, and other writers of color, and writers of other under-represented identities, are encouraged to submit article pitches. Payment is 10 cents per word.
https://www.sfwa.org/sfwa-publications/sfwa-blog-guidelines/
♾️🟢♻️ Fusion Fragments is open for unpublished science fiction or SF-tinged literary fiction stories and novelettes ranging anywhere from 2,000 to 15,000 words. Their “tastes lean towards slipstream, cyberpunk, post-apocalypse, and anything with a little taste of the bizarre. FF prefers character-driven stories, and often skews towards quiet, reflective pieces.” Payment is “unpublished work and reprints pay 4 cents (CAD) per word, up to a maximum of $400 (CAD) per story.”
https://www.fusionfragment.com/submissions/
♾️🟢♻️ · Chicken Soup for the Soul is always open for stories or poems on a variety of themes posted on their drop down menu. Payment is $250 to be paid “one month after publication of the book and ten free copies.”
https://www.chickensoup.com/story-submissions/submit-your-story/
♾️🟢 · Lilith Magazine is always open for “high-quality, lively, original writing: reporting, analysis, opinion pieces, memoir, fiction and poetry with a feminist take on subjects of interest to Jewish feminists.” Writers and artists are paid for their work in Lilith, in print and on the blog.
https://lilith.org/contact/writing-for-lilith/
♾️🟢 · Bourbon Penn is always open for 2000-7500 word “highly imaginative stories with a healthy dose of the odd… looking for genre / speculative stories and are quite partial to slipstream, cross-genre, magic realism, absurdist, and the surreal." Payment is .04 cents per word.
https://www.bourbonpenn.com/submissions
♾️🟢 · BFS Horizons Poetry is always open for original short stories, poetry in various forms and creative, engaging images depicting fantasy, Sci-Fi, or horror scenes. Payment: £20 per poem, piece or artwork per issue.
https://britishfantasysociety.org/get-in-touch/bfs-horizons/
♾️🟢 · Asimov Press is always open for Long Reads, Columns, and Fiction exploring scientific progress and its impact on climate, energy, medicine, and more. Writers with expertise in science or journalism are encouraged to pitch.
💰 Payment: $1,000 for fiction, $1,500 for articles under 2,500 words and $2,000 for longer pieces.
https://press.asimov.com/about
Angela, RE: Kinsman Q: Poetry and prose wanted of the Asian Diaspora. Entries must be original, unpublished works in English, highlighting Asian cultures. Winners receive up to $500 USD and publication within the Winds of Asia anthology.
Submit before 2/28/24
No entry fee required. kinsmanquarterly.org