These magazines accept fiction up to 7,000 words, or more. Many also accept other genres, like nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid works. They are a mix of literary and genre magazines.
Many, but not all, are open for submissions now. Some pay writers.
Meetinghouse
“We welcome all forms of writing: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and work that falls between those categories. … We appreciate genre-bending and genre-blending. We believe trying and failing to work through difficult ideas and feelings is more worthwhile than staying comfortable in what you know. Asking questions is better than answering them. … All submissions will be considered for print and digital publication unless submitters request otherwise.” They also accept translations. Send prose up to 7,500 words. They pay $40-100. The deadline is 16 November 2025. Details here.
One Story
This print magazine accepts literary fiction, and accepts some reprints (see guidelines). They pay $500 and 25 contributor copies for stories of 3,000-8,000 words. They will open for submissions on 3rd November 2025, and will close when they hit their submission cap. Their submission portal will open during the reading period. Details here.
Press Pause Press
This is a print magazine and they accept fiction (up to 20-ish pages), as well as nonfiction, poetry, art, work on music, as well as pitches for work for ‘The Family Room’ section. They also publish work by at least one writer under 18 in each issue. Payment is contributor copies. Details here.
The Lorelei Signal
This is a quarterly SF/Fantasy magazine – one that features strong / complex female characters. “This does not mean your female character has to be the main hero or villain in the story.
What it does mean is no shrinking violets, or women who serve only to get into trouble so the male hero can rescue them.” They accept stories up to 10,000 words (prefer 2,500-5,000 words), as well as poetry. Details here.
Sink Hollow
This journal is affiliated with Utah State University. They accept fiction (up to 7,500 words), nonfiction, poetry, and art only from undergraduate students worldwide. The submission deadline is 18 November 2025. Details here and here.
Cold Caller Mag
Cold Caller is a Substack-based magazine; it is “a publisher of crime and mystery fiction, and we define those terms broadly. We’re looking for stories of bad decisions and worse consequences; unlucky losers who can’t catch a break; grifters and con men convinced they’re about to score big; good men and women who have very good reasons to do terrible things.” They’ve given a list of stories, as well as TV shows and movies, that match their vibe (see guidelines). And, “We lean toward noir and realism, so generally speaking we aren’t looking for cozy mysteries, spy thrillers, or for cross-genre work such as mystery-romance, mystery-science fiction, mystery-fantasy, etc.” They prefer stories of 2,000-6,000 words, and can accept up to 10,000 words. They pay $125. Details here.
Freedom Fiction Journal
They accept flash (up to 500 words) as well as short (1,000-12,000 words) fiction. “Fiction Short Stories of All Genres such as Literary, Pulp fiction, SciFi, Fantasy, Horror, Detective, Crime, Romance, Adventure, Western, Young Adult, Humour, Satire, etc. are welcome.” Details here.
Electric Lit: Recommended Reading
Electric Lit accepts fiction submissions of 2,000-10,000 words for its Recommended Reading section, and pay $300. They usually have short reading periods, when they open. Details here.
Bourbon Penn
They have detailed guidelines, including, “We are looking for highly imaginative stories with a healthy dose of the odd. Odd characters, odd experiences, odd realities. We’re looking for genre / speculative stories and are quite partial to slipstream, cross-genre, magic realism, absurdist, and the surreal.” They pay $0.04/word for stories of 2,000-7,500 words. Details here.
The Rappahannock Review
This magazine is affiliated with the University of Mary Washington. For fiction, they say, “We are looking for original, well written fiction. Pieces experimenting with form are encouraged. Although we are interested in a wide range of fiction, we will consider short, self-contained fiction (that is, no novel excerpts) that avoids cliché and experiments with the flexibility of its genre. Submissions may contain one piece up to 8,000 words or three pieces of flash, each containing 1,000 words or fewer.” They also publish creative nonfiction, poetry, audio, and visual art. Watch for their next submission period. Details here.
Strange Horizons
They have issued a call for speculative fiction stories from indigenous authors only; submissions will open on 3rd November 2025, and will close when they reach a submission cap. See the call here, their general fiction submission guidelines here, and their submission guidelines for all genres are here. Strange Horizons pays $0.10/word for stories up to 10,000 words. Pay varies for other genres.
Uncanny Magazine
This award-winning speculative fiction magazine accepts stories, from flash to novelette length (750-10,000 words) – they announce their reading periods for stories of various lengths/genres on their website. They also accept poetry. Their submission portal opens during the reading period. They pay $0.10/word for fiction and $40 for poetry. Watch for their next submission period. Details here and here.
Golgonooza Magazine
“Golgonooza Magazine is a new venture from our artistic collective dedicated to the exploration and innovation of The Weird as an artistic philosophy. (Seeking more information on what exactly we consider Weird? See our mission statement.)” They want fiction (up to 15,000 words), poetry, essays, and visual art “that summon the speculative, the horrible and marvelous, the numinous, and the strange for our first issue. We are also open to any other medium that could feasibly be published on a website! If your work squirms away from category, peels at the cracks in the surface of the world or sleeps deeply with unseen things, consider submitting to our magazine.” The deadline is 14 December 2025. Details here.
Short Story, Long
They accept fiction submissions. Each story is paired with original artwork. Length guidelines are 2,000-8,000 words (3,000-5,500 words preferred), and they pay $100. Watch for their next submission period. Details here.
Black Moon Magazine
They accept fiction (1,000-8,000 words), as well as poetry and visual art for their biannual issues. They also accept interviews and reviews for their blog. The deadline is 31 December 2025 for the January issue. Details here.
The Ex-Puritan
This Canadian magazine publishes fiction (1,000-10,000 words), nonfiction, experimental/hybrid work, interviews, reviews, poetry, and poetry in translation. They read submissions throughout the year, with cut-off dates for issues, and accept a limited number of fee-free submissions every month. They pay CAD150 for fiction; CAD50 per poem (capped at CAD100); CAD200 per essay; CAD100 per interview or review; CAD50+ per experimental or hybrid work, at an increasing scale depending on the nature of the piece. Details here and here.
Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
This magazine is “dedicated to publishing heroic fantasy — in both prose and poetry. We are unrepentant in our goal of elevating unapologetic sword and sorcery to a rightful high place.” And, Tolkienesque (as in really long) poetry will most likely be treated — and paid — like fiction. “Similarly, prose pieces of fewer than 1,000 words will be paid at poetry’s standard rate of $25.” They pay $25-100 for fiction of up to 10,000 words, $12.5-25 for poetry. A note on their website says they will likely reopen for submissions toward the end of 2025. Details here.
Psychopomp Lit
This is a literary magazine of the students of CUNY Graduate Center. They accept fiction up to 10,000 words, as well as nonfiction, poetry, and translations. They’re reading submissions for Issue 2. Details here.
Sundial
This is a literary magazine of historical fiction; they publish works up to 20,000 words, as well as poetry. They are currently open only for art; all other genres are closed. Details here.
New Maps
This magazine publishes deindustrial fiction. They have detailed guidelines, including, “As New Maps uses the term, deindustrial fiction is:
Fiction that takes into account the effects of resource depletion and environmental damage on the future of the world, and the existence of hard limits to what humankind can do to mitigate these effects.
Fiction that takes place in the world that you and I live in: that is, an Earth that obeys the same physical laws as the real Earth.
Stories may include elements of the metaphysical, supernatural, or paranormal, but only to the extent that you, the author, find it plausible that these things may actually happen in our world as you understand it.” They pay a quarter cent a word for stories and rarely publish works above 10,000 words. Details here.
confetti
confetti is the magazine of the Westchester Writing Workshop and they accept submissions from around the world. They publish fiction, from microfiction to novelette-length, as well as nonfiction and poetry. The deadline for their Spring edition is 1 March, and for their Fall edition, it is 1 September. Details here.
Fiction on the Web
They’re accepting submissions for online and audiobook publication, in these genres:
- funny stories – for when you need a laugh
- creepy stories – to make your hair stand on end
- fantastic stories – ghosts, swords, magic and fantasy
- futuristic stories – many worlds of science fiction
- criminal stories – crooks and detectives
- real life stories – everyday life and relationships
Submissions should be between 1,000 and 10,000 words”. Details here.
West Branch
They accept fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and translation. West Branch is affiliated with Bucknell University. Send up to 30 pages of prose or up to 6 poems. Pay is $100 per submission of poetry, $.10/word for prose up to $200. They read submissions between 1st August and 1st April. Details here.
MENACE
They publish work that “encapsulates the dark, the transgressive, the gross. While not strictly a space for the speculative, M E N A C E seeks the “literary weird”—work that would be rejected from big literary magazines for being too genre.” They particularly want work from BIPOC speculative fiction writers, though they welcome work from all writers. You can read more about them here. They accept fiction (up to 10,000 words), creative nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, art, film, video, sound, as well as queries for (not completed submissions of) reviews and critique. Details here.
Dirty Magick Magazine
They publish fiction – urban fantasy, sword and sorcery (not high fantasy), as well as gothic and supernatural horror. Please read their guidelines to see how they define these genres, and also see the sub-genres they are interested in. They pay $50 for stories of 2,000-12,500 words. They’ll reopen in May 2026. Details here.
Black Cat Weekly
Black Cat Weekly publishes mystery, as well as science fiction and fantasy fiction. They have distinct guidelines for each genre. For mystery, they say, “stories must include a crime. It isn’t a mystery if it doesn’t have a crime.We prefer traditionally plotted stories rather than experimental or literary fiction. Think Agatha Christie, Dick Francis, John D. MacDonald, etc. The good stuff. We prefer not mixing fantasy with mystery. Werewolves, ghosts, talking cats, etc. are fantasy. … No gimmick stories, no surprise endings. PG-13 rating.”
Please note, they have one portal for submitting mystery, and another for submitting science fiction and fantasy. They prefer stories of 1,500-15,000 words, but can accept up to 45,000 words. Pay is $0.01/word up to $50. Details here (mystery guidelines), here (sf & f guidelines), and here (submission portals).
Interzone
Interzone is a Europe-based magazine that accepts fantastika of up to 17,500 words. And, “Translations are accepted, even if the story has been published previously in a language other than English – please include the name of the translator.” They pay EUR1.5¢/word. Details here.
Zooscape
They publish anthropomorphic fiction of up to 10,000 words; query for longer. “All stories must be furry. That means an anthropomorphic animal figure should be significantly featured in your story — it could be anthropomorphic in body or only intelligence. We’ll consider any type of furry fiction from secret life of animals to fox in Starbucks. We love science-fiction with animal-like aliens and fantasy with talking dragons, unicorns, or witch familiars.” They also accept reprints. They pay $0.08/word for original stories up to 1,000 words, and $80 for longer. They will reopen for submissions on 1st February 2026. Details here.
The Masters Review: New Voices
“Our New Voices category is open year-round to any new or emerging author who has not published a novel-length work of fiction or narrative nonfiction with a major press. Authors with published short story collections are free to submit. … The Masters Review pays a flat rate of $100 for flash-length stories (1,000 words or fewer) and $200 for longer stories (up to 7,000 words).” Details here.
Neon Hemlock Press
They publish queer speculative fiction, and are accepting novellas from all writers (science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural, slipstream, & weird, hybrid work, prefer works that explore some element of queer experience, 17,500–40,000 words) till 30th October 2025, see here – scroll down. (That page also has details of all of Neon Hemlock Press’s open / forthcoming calls.)
Bio: S. Kalekar is the pseudonym of a regular contributor to this magazine. She can be reached here.
