Gore is great, peril and torment are great–continuing the horror tradition of fetishistically brutalizing women is not.” They also accept poetry and comics. We want your creepy gorefests! Don’t be afraid to get explicit with it, just don’t send us anything too mean-spirited. Think Junji Ito, Grady Hendrix, and Eric LaRocca. Their guidelines say, “we want to see pulp horror of all kinds – think Friday the Thirteenth, Psycho Goreman, and Glorious. They are reading submissions for their third issue. Pay: $0.08/word for original stories, $100 for reprintsĭetails here (guidelines overview), here (detailed guidelines), here (submission portal), and here (schedule). Length: 1,500-6,000 words for short fiction, longer for reprints

Escape Pod is from the Escape Artists suite of magazines (see links on the top of the page for their other magazines, and see individual schedules for open and forthcoming submission periods). We want stories that center science, technology, future projections, and/or alternate history, and how any or all of these things impact individuals and society.Įscape Pod leans in the direction of escapism, hopepunk and optimism rather than grimdark and gloom.” They have extensive guidelines. “We are fairly flexible on what counts as science (superheroes! steampunk! space opera! time travel!) and are interested in exploring the range of the genre. This is the science fiction online magazine and podcast. They pay $25/page for prose, $30/page for poetry, and $25 for their online feature, miCRo. The Cincinnati Review, too, opened for literary fiction, fiction translation, nonfiction, poetry, and poetry translation submissions for their print magazine on 1 st May, and will stay open until filled. They pay $500 for literary fiction, including translations and some reprints, of 3,000-8,000 words. One Story also opened for fiction submissions on 1 st May, and will stay open until they reach their quota. They pay $100-400 for stories up to 6,000 words. They will stay open until 7 th May or until they reach their quota, whichever is earlier. Cutleaf opened on 1 st May for literary fiction submissions, as well. Length: up to 10 pages of poetry, up to 15 pages of prose They accept poetry, fiction, criticism, excerpts, audio, mixed media, and various mediums of art. The pay $0.08/word for fiction, $40 per poem, $75 for essays. The deadline is for fiction of and poetry, nonfiction is open on an ongoing basis. They also accept translations, nonfiction, and artwork. They are still accepting submissions for a themed issue, ‘ Solarpunk Myth’, too. Solarpunk is open for unthemed solarpunk stories and poetry during the first two weeks of May.

They pay 3.5 Canadian cents per word, up to CAD300, for stories of 2,000-15,000 words. The submission portal will open during the reading period. Fusion Fragment will open for science fiction and SF-tinged literary fiction submissions for one day only, on 13 th May. They’ll open for science flash fiction submissions later, too. Lightspeedis also open for the first week of May, for fantasy short story submissions of 1,501-10,000 words, and pays $0.08/word.

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