These magazines publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They’re a mix of literary and genre magazines. Not all of them are open through the month.
The Stinging Fly
This well-regarded Ireland-based magazine will open for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry later in May. They also accept translations. Please see their submission FAQ. Their submission portal will open when the reading period begins.
Reading period: 15 – 29 May 2024
Length: One prose piece; up to three poems
Pay: Fiction and nonfiction: €45 per magazine page, with a minimum/maximum payment of €325/€1200; flash fiction/shorter essays (1 – 2 pages): €150; Poetry: €45 per magazine page, but with a minimum payment of €70 per poem; Featured poet: €425
Details here.
Escape Pod
This online magazine and podcast, from the Escape Artists suite of magazines, publishes science fiction. They have detailed guidelines, including, “We are fairly flexible on what counts as science (superheroes! steampunk! space opera! time travel!) and are interested in exploring the range of the genre. We want stories that center science, technology, future projections, and/or alternate history, and how any or all of these things impact individuals and society.
Escape Pod leans in the direction of escapism, hopepunk and optimism rather than grimdark and gloom.” They also accept translations and reprints.
Deadline: 31 May 2024 (see their schedule)
Length: 1,500-6,000 words for original stories; longer for reprints (see guidelines)
Pay: $0.08/word for originals
Details here and here.
(– And, The Sengkang Sci-FI Quarterly, a new Singapore-based magazine, is open for “bold speculative fiction and adjacent genre stories.” You can read more about them here. They accept submissions from all writers, and especially encourage writers from the Global South to submit. They also accept translations – see guidelines. They want stories of 1,000-10,000 words SGD0.05/word, up to SGD300. They have rolling deadlines, with cut-off dates for issues. The deadline for the first issue is 8 May 2024. Submission is via a form Details here and here.)
Baltimore Review
They publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Some editor preferences are in the bios on their Staff page.
Deadline: 31 May 2024
Length: Up to 5,000 words for prose, up to 3 poems
Pay: $50 (via a gift certificate or PayPal, if preferred)
Details here and here.
Tenebrous Press: Skull & Laurel
The Skull and Laurel is a quarterly magazine of New Weird short fiction by Tenebrous Press. They want Weird Horror, Dark Fantasy, and Dark Science Fiction. They also accept translations and reprints. The press publishes works of other lengths, too (novels, novellas, and novelettes, some of which were open at the time of writing – see guidelines).
Deadline: 31 May 2024 for short fiction
Length: 100 to 7,499 words
Pay: $0.03/word for originals
Details here and here.
The Cincinnati Review
This literary magazine accepts fiction, fiction translations, literary nonfiction, poetry, poetry translations, and art. They also have a weekly online Flash feature called miCRo. See their editors’ preferences. They accept online submissions only, except from writers with disabilities or those who are incarcerated. They opened for print submissions on 1st May, and will accept submissions until a cap is reached. For miCRo, submissions are ongoing.
Deadline: Until filled for the print issue
Length: Fiction up to 40 pages, non-fiction up to 20 pages, and up to 5 poems for print
Pay: $25/page for prose in the journal, $30/page for poetry, $25 for miCRo contributions
Details here and here.
Bio: S. Kalekar is the pseudonym of a regular contributor to this magazine. She can be reached here.
