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Taking Submissions: Roses & Wildflowers Autumn 2025 Issue

Submission Window: March 1st – July 15th, 2025
Payment: Short Stories: $20, Poetry: $10
Theme: An issue dedicated to hope. Solar-punk, hope-punk, envisioning a better future. Fantasy that explores hope and grace.

Spring 2025 Call for Submissions: MYTHO-ANARCHISM

An issue dedicated to hope. Solar-punk, hope-punk, envisioning a better future. Fantasy that explores hope and grace.

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Taking Submissions: It Was Paradise

Deadline: June 22nd, 2025
Payment: 15 cents per word for fiction and $75 per page for poetry and artwork.
Theme: In a world devastated by catastrophes, we need stories that confront these horrors.
Note: Prioritizing work by people with lived experience of war and conflict.

It’s time to announce the call for submissions to It Was Paradise*, a special issue of Reckoning edited by Sonia Sulaiman and with cover art by Moníca Robles Corzo. In a world devastated by catastrophes, we need stories that confront these horrors. This is all out war on the planet, on life itself. War and conflict are the themes for this volume of Reckoning. Probe into the heart of extinction, genocide, and climate crisis. Expose the exploitation of the earth. Show us how the world could be on the other side. Send us your stories of environmental justice, of violence, imperialism, fascism, and resistance, of destruction, survival, and of triumph.

It Was Paradise is open for submissions now through the summer solstice, June 22, 2025, with tentative release scheduled for October. Payment rate will be 15 cents (US) per word for prose, $75 per page for poetry and art. As always, we’re seeking submissions from Black, Brown, Indigenous, queer, trans, disabled, neurodivergent, imprisoned, impoverished, and otherwise marginalized human beings from everywhere, but in particular for this issue, we will be prioritizing work by people with lived experience of war and conflict. We’ll continue to accept submissions to our communication-themed regular issue, Reckoning X, throughout. Also, during this submission window only, we’re relaxing our usual rule about multiple submissions to allow folks to submit to both calls simultaneously.
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Ongoing Submissions: Jupiter’s Eye

Payment: Original Stories: $30.00, Reprint Stories: $15.00, Flash Fiction: 1 cent/word, Poems: $5.00, Articles and reviews: $10.00
Theme: Original science fiction stories about the exploration and settlement of other worlds

Jupiter’s Eye is a digest published three times a year, in April, August, and December, in print and digitally. It presents original science fiction stories about the exploration and settlement of other worlds. It also presents one or two original fantasy stories along that same theme. Although it does consider darker sf/f, it
does not present horror. It also presents a few original poems, again consistent with the overall theme.

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Ongoing Submissions: Incensepunk Magazine

Payment: $100 and royalties of the profits from the magazine
Theme: High tech, high church. A literary magazine on the intersection of faith and sci-fi.

Length: About 4,000 to 6,000 words

Pay: $100, plus lifetime “paid” subscription to Incensepunk Magazine. Stories included in annual anthology also receive pro-rata share of 50% of profits (each story’s author receiving a share from that 50% proportioned by the length of their contribution to the total length of the book) and a print copy of the anthology. See the sample contract for details.

Rights: First digital print plus one-time non-exclusive digital and print rights for the annual anthology.

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Taking Submissions: Dracula Beyond Stoker Issue 7

Submission Window: May 1st – June 30th, 2025
Payment: .05/word plus contributor’s copies
Theme: Mina Harker

Issue 7: Mina Harker(To Be Published November, 2025)
Mina is teacher, a wife, and the heart and the hero of the novel. Her spirit and intelligence keep her resilient even when darkness closes in. But who is Mina beneath the surface? Did her experiences leave her haunted? How did her connection to Dracula affect her view of the world or her family? Whether it’s before, during, or after the events of the novel, let’s explore her strength, her struggles, and her secrets.

Submissions open May 1, 2025-June 30, 2025. Submissions received earlier will be read and considered but will not be responded to until the window opens.

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Ongoing Submissions: Torch Literary Arts

Payment: $150 USD
Theme: Science Fiction and Fantasy stories or poetry by black women

Submission Guidelines

Reading Period

  • General submissions are accepted for Friday Features only.

  • We accept submissions on a rolling basis.

  • There is no submission fee. 


Simultaneous and Multiple Submissions

  • Simultaneous submissions to other journals are welcome as long as they are identified as such and we are notified immediately upon acceptance elsewhere.

  • Please submit one (1) entry to one (1) genre at a time. Wait until you receive a response on your submission before submitting again.

    • If accepted, please wait one (1) year after publication to submit to Torch again.

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Ongoing Submissions: Just Keep Up Magazine

Payment: $10
Theme: Science fiction and/or horror (preferably both)

Submissions should be sent to [email protected]

Submissions will be responded to within two to three months, if not sooner.

There are no reading fees.

Accepted pieces will be compensated as follows:

$10 a story

$10 a poem

Payment will be made upon publication and processed through PayPal, CashApp, or Venmo, whichever is preferred. Please include which method of payment you prefer in your submission. If you live in a country that does not accept these as forms of payment, we will attempt to mail you cash or a check.

Submissions are open to humans and other life forms of any nationality or planet of residence.

Stories should be science fiction and/or horror (preferably both) and 100-10,000 words long. Please send one story at a time. Please include the genre of your story in your submission.

Poems can be any length but the pieces you submit have to incorporate some element of science fiction and/or horror. Interpret this as you will. Send up to ten poems at a time.
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Ongoing Submissions: Fusion Fragment

Payment: 4 cents CAD per word
Theme: All science fiction but lean towards slipstream, cyberpunk, post-apocalypse, and anything with a little taste of the bizarre

What We Want

  • Science fiction or SF-tinged literary fiction stories and novelettes ranging anywhere from 2,000 to 15,000 words.
  • Although any science fiction subgenre is fair game, our tastes lean towards slipstream, cyberpunk, post-apocalypse, and anything with a little taste of the bizarre. FF prefers character-driven stories, and often skews towards quiet, reflective pieces. If the primary tone of your story is one of high adventure or humour, it’s probably not the right fit for FF. That said, quality always outstrips genre preference in terms of importance, so feel free to send us anything that even vaguely resembles science fiction.
  • We’ll be publishing reprints, but no more than one per issue, so expect acceptance rates to be accordingly lower.
  • Work written by humans. We have no interest in AI-written stories.
  • We’re always interested in publishing work by marginalized voices. If that’s you, and you feel comfortable doing so, please call this out in your cover letter.

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