Category: Magazine

Magazines and eZines

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Taking Submissions: Tractor Beam Volume 3

Deadline: July 21st, 2025
Payment: $1,000
Theme: Speculative Fiction, Soilpunk

YOUR FICTION, OUR FUTURE.
We are looking for original written and graphic works that have actionable soil-based technologies as their premise.
For our upcoming issues, we’re specifically seeking stories celebrating decay and rot, ice and snow (the frozen earth), the ocean and soil under water, fashion and style, soil as tech, soil as the origin of life and anti-apocalyptic futures. Literal or abstract, near term or on distant horizons: worlds can take inspiration from innovations or alternative practices in earth and material science, regenerative agriculture, food, microbiology, and more.
A perfect Tractor Beam story gets readers thinking: “What if this really could happen?” “What’s the soil science behind it?” “What do I need to learn to be a part of a thriving planet?”
Think optimism! Think cross-genre submissions. A soilpunk romance, spy thriller, coming of age story. Interrogate what it would actually mean for us to successfully take on the climate crisis. What would that world look like? What technology would have to exist? We’d love to see people look at the latest soil science and dream.

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Events / Flash / Flat Amount / Magazine / Token Payment

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Taking Submissions: Stygian Lepus Magazine July 2025 Window

Submission Window: July 1st – July 25th, 2025
Payment: $5
Theme: Dark fiction, Serialized dark fiction, Creative non-fiction

At the Stygian Lepus Magazine, we are passionate about sharing the unique voices and stories of our contributors. As a boutique publisher, we are a small team working hard to bring these projects to life.

We are proud to provide a complimentary digital copy of the published magazine to all our contributors. Additionally, we now offer a small token payment of $5 USD for each accepted submission.

As a growing press, we rely heavily on sales to fund our operations and improve what we can offer contributors in the future. While we are unable to provide discounted print copies at this time due to the additional manual workload, we deeply value every story we publish and the trust our authors place in us to bring their work to readers.

Thank you for being part of our journey. Your creativity and collaboration mean everything to us, and we look forward to building something meaningful together.

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Taking Submissions: Diabolical Plots 2025 Window

Submission Window: July 7th-21st, 2025
Payment: 10 cents per word
Theme: Science fiction, fantasy, horror (everything must have a speculative element, even horror).

Submissions will be open from July 7-21, 2025!

Please do not query about when our next submission window will be. When we know when our next submission window will be, the first place we mark it is here. So if it is not noted here, then we do not know yet.

David Steffen is the editor, who you may also know from reading The Long List Anthology series or from the Submission Grinder, which you can use to find markets for your writing and track your submissions.  Diabolical Plots is a SFWA-qualifying market, so if you have a personal goal to join SFWA, making a sale here would help you toward that goal.

If you have already read our guidelines and are ready to submit, you can SUBMIT HERE.

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Taking Submissions: Carnage House Issue 8

Deadline: July 14, 2025
Payment: $5
Theme: Splatterpunk and extreme horror stories

This is your last chance to get into “The Best of Carnage House Year Two!” But to have a shot at making our second Best of… anthology, you first need to get into Issue #8 of the Carnage House e-zine, which is open for submissions through July 14.

We are looking for splatterpunk and extreme horror stories that run the gamut from humorous to gore to smut. Be creative, be wild, be plot-driven with solid character, but most of all, DO NOT be boring—save that for your English Lit survey class. If you can do all this stuff, you can make a whole $5.00 USD and don’t spend it all in one place.

We want solid, entertaining writing that evokes feelings. Carnage House is a splatter friendly web ’zine—so nothing against cozy, but cozy, we’re not.

We invite LGBTQIA and BIPOC themes, and we encourage authors from diverse backgrounds to submit to us.
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Taking Submissions: khōréō July 2025 Window

Submission Window: July 1st – 31st, 2025
Payment: 10 cents per word
Theme: Fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and any genre in between or around it, as long as there’s a speculative element.
Note: You must identify as an immigrant or member of a diaspora in the broadest definitions of the terms. This includes, but is not limited to, first- and second-generation immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, persons who identify with one or more diaspora communities, persons who have been displaced or whose heritage has been erased due to colonialism/imperialism, and anyone whose heritage and history includes ‘here and elsewhere’.

khōréō is a quarterly publication of stories, essays, and art: fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and any genre in between or around it, as long as there’s a speculative element. We’re especially interested in writing and art that explore some aspect of migration, whether explicitly (themes of immigration, colonialism, etc.), metaphorically, or with a sly nod and a wink. Most importantly, we’re a new magazine and we’re still finding our identity: therefore, please don’t self-reject because you’re not sure if your work is a good fit. We won’t know until we see it, so please give us a chance to look!

See submission requirements & how to submit at the following pages:

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Taking Submissions: Cosmic Roots And Eldritch Shores July 2025 Window

Submission Window: July 1st-2nd, 2025
Payment: 8 cents per word for original, 2 cents for reprints, For artwork: $10 for the non-exclusive right to use each image, for as long as the site is online.  If we publish a print collection we will pay a pro-rata share for each image used.
Theme: Well written original work in science fiction, fantasy, myth, legend, fairy tales, and eldritch, in written, podcast, video, and/or graphic story form, and from around the world.
Note: Reprints welcome

 

 

Submissions Schedule

The first and second day of every month, 12 am of the 1st to 12 am of the 3rd, E.S.T.

For reading impaired individuals, our submissions manager and ‘forget password’ have a captcha compatible with screen readers.

We pay 8¢ per word for new fiction, 2¢ per word for fiction reprints, 2 – 8¢ per word for new fact-based work, 1- 4¢ per word for reprinted fact articles.
For new poetry, we pay $1 per line, and for reprints we pay 50¢ a line  We’re looking for poems up to 40 lines. We’ll consider longer poems but that would be a hard sell, and words over 40 lines would be paid at 8¢ per word.

We sponsor The Kepler Award to recognize and encourage writers of excellent science fiction and fantasy stories that creatively extrapolate on known science in constructive and exciting ways. You can learn aboutThe Kepler Award here.

You can read a copy of our standard contract here.   It can be varied as needed to include the rights of translators, voice actors, etc.

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Taking Submissions: Inner Worlds, July 2025 Window

Submission Window: July 1 – 14 Members of marginalised groups only. July 15 – 31 General submissions.
Payment: £0.02 per word
Theme: Science fiction, fantasy, or supernatural horror prose with a strong emotional or psychological focus.

What to submit

  • Science fiction, fantasy, or supernatural horror prose with a strong emotional or psychological focus. We are mainly interested in fiction, but we’re open to speculative memoir or creative non fiction, as long as it has speculative elements. Please see ‘What We Like’ below for some examples.
  • Stories in English, between 500 and 2,500 words.
  • Please send only one story at a time.
  • Simultaneous submissions (when you send your story to more than one magazine at once) are welcome, please just let us know straight away by emailing us at ourinnerworlds[at]protonmail.com if your story is accepted elsewhere and you need to withdraw it.
  • Reprints are welcome, as long as they’re not already available somewhere free to read online.

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Events / Flash / Flat Amount / Magazine / Poetry / Semipro

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Taking Submissions: Last Girls Club Fall Issue 2025 (Early)

Submission Window: July 1st – 15th, 2025
Payment: Short Story-2,500 words or less. $0.015 USD per word/$37.50 USD max, Poems-less than 200 words $10, Flash Fiction-less than a 1,000 words $0.015 USD per word/$15 USD max
Theme: Monkey’s Paw/Answered Prayers

The Last Girls Club Magazine is a quarterly feminist horror magazine that publishes international short stories and poems from the female gaze. It is an homage to the scary comics and zines of the late 20th century.

This season’s theme is Monkey’s Paw/Answered Prayers. You’ve got everything you ever wanted and it’s awful. More tears have been shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. Show us the folly of wishes. Terrify us with consequences. Keep us up at night dreading a knock on the door or an envelope in the mail.
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