These magazines pay for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and are a mix of literary and genre markets. Not all of them are open through the month.
LampLight
This is a
magazine of dark fiction, both short stories and flash fiction. They want work
that is dark, literary – creepy, weird, and unsettling. Their guidelines say, “No specific sub-genres or themes, just good stories.
For inspiration, we suggest “The Twilight Zone”, “The Outer Limits”,” – and
also the first volume of their stories. They do not want work about vampires,
zombies, werewolves, serial killers, hitmen, excessive gore or sex. They also
accept reprints. They can accept only 300 submissions a month during their
reading period. For this submission
period, their deadline has been extended.
Deadline: 15 December
2019
Length: Up to 7,000 words
Pay: $0.03/word, up to $150
Details here.
Escape Artists: Cast of
Wonders
This intersectional feminist YA podcast is open for
submissions. They want “Stories that evoke a sense of wonder, have deep
emotional resonance, and have something unreal about them. We aim for a 12-17
age range: that means sophisticated, non-condescending stories with wide
appeal, and without gratuitous or explicit sex, violence or pervasive obscene
language. Think Harry Potter or The
Hunger Games.” They publish fantasy, sci-fi, horror (psychological,
comedic, or situational – not visceral), comedy, steampunk,
age-appropriate paranormal romance, superheroes and many other genres.
They also accept reprints.
Deadline: 15 December 2019
Length: Up to 6,000 words
Pay: $0.08/word
Details here.
Frozen Wavelets
This is a
speculative flash fiction and poetry e-zine. They have a list of editor
preferences and topics that are hard sells. They also accept very short work (Twitterfiction,
Drabbles), and reprints. They
love haiku, tanka, senryu, and short poetry, and also welcome proposals on
speculative art.
Deadline: 15 December 2019
Length: Up to 750 words for fiction (500-1,500 for reprints), up to 10 lines
for poetry
Pay: $0.08/word for fiction, $1/line of poetry
Details here.
Shenandoah
They are open now for poetry, translation, and comic (both black & white
and color) submissions. For poetry, they like work that has “power, surprise, intelligence, big-heartedness,
complicated craftiness, mystery, and risky strangeness.” Also look at
the Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginia
Poets, which has no entry fee. Fiction and nonfiction submissions are
currently closed.
Deadline: 15 December 2019 for poetry; translation and comic submissions are
accepted year-round
Length: Up to 5 pieces and no more than 10 pages for poetry
Pay: $100 for poems, $100 per 1,000
words of prose up to $500, and $50 per page of comics up to $500.
Details here and here.
The Cincinnati Review
This literary magazine accepts fiction, literary nonfiction,
poetry, poetry translations, and art. Query for drama submissions. They also
have a weekly online Flash feature called micro (payment for this is a digital
contributor copy). They accept online submissions only, except from writers
with disabilities or those who are incarcerated. See guidelines for editors’ preferences.
Deadline: 1
March 2020
Length: Fiction can be up to 40 pages, nonfiction up to 20 pages, and up to 5
poems
Pay: $25/page for prose in the journal, $30/page for poetry
Details here.
Author Bio: S. Kalekar is the pseudonym of a regular contributor to this magazine. She is the author of 182 Short Fiction Publishers. She can be reached here.
