These magazines publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They are a mix of literary and genre magazines. Not all of them are open through the month.

Uncanny Magazine
This award-winning genre magazine is open now for speculative poetry submissions (until 26^th August), and will open later in the month for speculative fiction submissions (25^th August to 8^th September 2025).
Reading period: See above
Length: Up to 5 poems, 750-10,000 words for fiction
Pay: $40/poem, $0.10/word for fiction
Details here. 

(And Haven Speculative, which publishes speculative fiction and poetry, is open for through August for Summer submission period for all writers. They also publish climate crisis focused Dry and Wet issues each year; scroll down on the guidelines page for these themes. Send up to 6,000 words for fiction, up to 5 poems. Pay is $0.08/word for fiction, $20/poem. The deadline is 31 August 2025; details here and here.

Also Orion’s Belt, a speculative flash fiction and poetry magazine, is open until 1^st September 2025. Their website says, “We specialize in the strange and poignant and awe-inspiring, stories that have a cosmic scale and intimate personal stakes.” They have detailed guidelines, including preferences and hard sells. They publish one story and one poem per month. Pay is $0.08/word for works up to 1,200 words; details here.)

Toronto Journal
This journal publishes in print and sound. You can read about them here. They accept short stories from anywhere in the world, and non-fiction pieces about local history (Toronto, the GTA, or surrounding areas – see guidelines). They are currently accepting submissions for their Winter 2026 issue.
Deadline: 1 September 2025
Length: Up to 7,500 words
Pay: $50
Details here.

(And The Cincinnati Review which publishes fiction, fiction translations, literary nonfiction, poetry, poetry translations, and art, opens for print magazine submissions on 1^st September, and will close when filled; they also accept submissions for their online flash feature called miCRo; send fiction up to 40 pages, nonfiction up to 20 pages, and up to 5 poems for print; they pay $25/page for prose in the journal, $30/page for poetry, $25 for miCRo contributions; details here and here.)

Augur and Tales & Feathers Magazines
Augur Magazine, as well as its sibling magazine Tales & Feathers, are reading submissions for Issue 9. Augur publishes sci-fi, fantasy, dreamy realism, and more, as well as speculative poetry; and Tales & Feathers publishes cozy and slice of life fantasy fiction. Both magazines are open for general submissions (i.e. from all writers) till 31^st August, and have extended submission windows for marginalized creators; Augur will remain open to submissions from trans, disabled, and/or BIPOC creators and creators residing in Canada/Turtle Island until September 15th, and Tales & Feathers will remain open to submissions from all trans, disabled, and/or BIPOC creators until September 15th, 2025. Also, Augur has separate submission categories for Canadian and international writers, please be sure to submit in the correct one.
Deadline: See above
Length: Augur – up to 5,000 words for fiction, up to 5 poems; Tales & Feathers – up to 2,500 words for fiction
Pay: $0.14 cents (CAD) per word for short fiction (800+ words), and a flat fee of $112.00 per flash fiction piece (800 words and under) for both magazines; CAD100 for poetry
Details here (guidelines for both magazines), here (submissions for Augur), and here (submissions for Tales & Feathers)

Rat Bag Literary
This is a new literary magazine. They will open for submissions on 15^th August and will stay open for fee-free submissions till 15^th September or till they reach a submission cap, whichever is earlier. “Fiction that crosses genres and blurs the lines between literary and genre. … Bold ideas, tight prose, snappy dialogue, speculative elements.” And, “Yes to aliens, alternate worlds, apocalyptic game shows, bigfoot, blue collar, cats, cemeteries, coming-of-age, cosmic, cryptids, cults, cursed objects, dark, dating fails, dystopian, elder millennials, embarrassing moments, female narrators, food service, gen x, ghosts, girl power, gothic, grim reapers, grumpy unicorns, fairytale revamps, found family, haunted mansions” and more. They accept drabbles, micros, flash, and short fiction, as well as nonfiction and poetry.
Opens on: 15^th August 2025
Length: Up to 3,500 for fiction, 500-1,000 words for nonfiction, up to 500 words for poetry
Pay: Up to $20 for fiction, up to $10 for nonfiction, $5 for poetry
Details here.

(And, Planet Scumm opened for fiction on 13^th August. They publish fiction, including flash fiction. They want sci-fi of all kinds, and speculative fiction, weird fiction, and slipstream. They pay $0.08/word for stories up to 5,000 words. Details here.)

Tales of Horror Magazine
They focus on stories and poems that are horrific and weird. They publish stories “from gothic horror to detective tales and adventures and sword and sorcery”.
Deadline: Open now
Length: Unspecified for fiction; up to 1 poem
Pay: $0.06/word for fiction; $40 for poetry
Details here (scroll down) 

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Bio: S. Kalekar is the pseudonym of a regular contributor to this magazine. She can be reached here.