These magazines pay for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They’re a mix of literary and genre magazines. Not all of them are open through the month.
Extra Teeth
This Scottish magazine is open for fiction and creative nonfiction. They champion Scottish writers, but also accept international submissions. They want work for their print magazine, for which they pay £140, and also select pieces for their Substack, for which they pay £100. They also offer one or two free mentorships per issue – you have to apply for these via a form on their guidelines page.
Deadline: 14 June 2025 (midnight BST)
Length: 800-4,000 words
Pay: £100-140
Details here.
Matter Press: The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
They publish fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as fiction and creative nonfiction prose poetry, as long as it is compressed in some way. They have two reading periods; March 15 to June 15, and September 15 to December 15.
Deadline: 15 June 2025
Length: Up to 600 words
Pay: $50
Details here and here.
The Ex-Puritan
This Canadian literary magazine publishes fiction, nonfiction, experimental/hybrid work, interviews, reviews, poetry, and poetry in translation. The deadline is 25 June, or until filled, for the next issue; they accept a limited number of fee-free submissions every month, and read year-round.
Deadline: 25 June 2025, or until filled
Length: Varies
Pay: CAD200 per essay; CAD150 for fiction; CAD100 per interview or review; CAD50 per poem, capped at CAD100; CAD50+ per experimental or hybrid work, at an increasing scale depending on the nature of the piece.
Details here and here.
(And, The Paris Review is also open for fiction and creative nonfiction submissions through June, as well as translations in these genres. They accept work through Submittable until they reach a cap, and by post thereafter – submissions postmarked after 30th June 2025 will not be considered, details here.)
The Deadlands
This is a speculative fiction magazine. “The Deadlands exists in liminal spaces between life, death, and elsewhere. We are looking for fiction that concerns itself with death—but also everything death may involve.” They have detailed general guidelines, please read them carefully. And this will be a guest edited issue, you can read more about that here. They publish fiction, fiction reprints, poetry, art, and nonfiction, but are accepting fiction only, during June; do not send work in any other genre.
Deadline: 30 June 2025
Length: Up to 5,000 words for fiction
Pay: $0.10/word for fiction
Details here.
(– And, Dirty Magick Magazine is also open for submissions. They publish fiction – urban fantasy, sword and sorcery, gothic and supernatural horror; please read their guidelines to see how they define these genres. They pay $50 for stories of 2,000-12,500 words, and the deadline is 30 June 2025; details here.
— Also, Cosmic Horror Monthly will open briefly, from 1st to 7th July, for weird and cosmic fiction; they pay $0.03/word for stories up to 5,000 words; their submission portal will open during the reading period; details here.)
Chestnut Review
They accept fee-free submissions of certain categories for all writers, like flash prose, up to 3 poems, and art. Also, Black and Indigenous authors can also submit longer prose (1,000-5,000 words) fee-free. They read throughout the year, with cut-off dates for issues.
Deadline: 30 June 2025 for the Autumn issue
Pay: $120
Details here and here.
Bio: S. Kalekar is the pseudonym of a regular contributor to this magazine. She can be reached here.
