Fiction Markets
Alaska Quarterly Review
Editors encourage new writers. Accepts fiction, poetry, short plays, prose.
Electric Spec
Considers any story 250-7000 words with a speculative fiction element to it. Prefers science fiction, fantasy, and the macabre. Pays $20 per story.
Five Points
Accepts fiction, poetry, essays. Pays $15 per printed page (prose), $50 per poem, $250 for photographs and artwork plus complimentary copies and subscription. See guidelines for length requirements.
Fusion Fragment
Seeks science-fiction stories 1000 to 6000 words. Pays $20 for accepted stories.
Hub Magazine
Currently accepting flash fiction submissions of between 800 and 1,500 words. Pays $25 per flash fiction acceptance.
millenniumSHIFT
Seeks stories of all genres, 1500 words maximum. Pays $20 for each item they publish. Priority given to Canadian writers.
Tampa Review
Accepts submissions in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Pays $10 per published page for both prose and poetry, payable upon publication, one free copy of the review in which the work(s) appears, and a 40% discount on additional copies.
Wascana Review
Looking primarily for articles on contemporary short fiction and poetry. Pays $3.00 per printed page for prose plus a year’s subscription. Buys First North American Serial Rights.
The Sun
Accepts essays, interviews, fiction, and poetry. Maximum length 7000 words. No minimum word length. Pays $500-$1,500 for essays and interviews, $500-$1,000 for fiction, and $75-$250 for poetry, depending upon length and quality.
The Willows
Currently looking for short stories which would be told in a gentlemen’s lounge in turn-of-the-20th-century London, or Dublin, or New York City, or Prague. Pays $25 for four featured stories per issue.
Pine Magazine
Pine offers fiction, nonfiction, poetry, journalism and photography from new and emerging authors. Seeks submissions that are urgent and honest. Pays $30 CAN per printed page, up to $100 CAN.
The Big Ugly Review
The Big Ugly Review showcases emerging and established writers, photographers, filmmakers and musicians. Each issue includes fiction (short stories and flash fiction), creative nonfiction, poetry, photo-essays, short films of 5 minutes or less, and original, downloadable songs, all related to that issue’s theme. There is also a contest in each issue called “And So It Begins…” in which writers create a flash fiction story of up to 500 words that begins with a first sentence given on our website.”
New England Review
Seeks literary submissions. Pays $10/page ($20 minimum), and 2 copies for fiction. Pays $10/page ($20 minimum), and 2 copies for poetry.
African American Review
Seeks essays on African-American literature, theater, film, art and culture generally; interviews; poetry and fiction by African-American authors; book reviews.
Ladybug
Magazine for children ages 2-6. Ladybug needs imaginative activities based on concepts and interesting, appropriate nonfiction. Read-aloud stories, picture stories, original retellings of folk and fairy tales, multicultural stories. Length: 800 words maximum. Pays 25ยข/word ($25 minimum).
The Iowa Review
Triannual magazine accepting stories, essays, and poems for a general readership interested in contemporary literature. Pays $25 for the first page and $15 for each additional page, plus 2 contributor’s copies and a year-long subscription; additional copies 30% off cover price.
