Paying speculative fiction drabble markets

This post is an update to the list of horror & sci-fi drabble markets posted December 2023.

The markets below are currently open to speculative drabbles (100-word stories). All offer payment.

• 100-Foot Crow: deadline 5/15/24
• Crepuscular: no deadline; first 7 days of each month reserved for underrepresented voices
• Dark Moments Monthly Challenge (Black Hare Press): monthly contest; deadline 4/30/24; theme: "You can't pick your family"
• Drabble Harvest Contest (Hiraeth Publishing): deadline 5/31/24; theme: "Interstellar Archives"
• Hawthorn & Ash (Iron Faerie Publishing): deadline 12/31/24
• Nocturne Magazine: deadline 4/30/24
• Patreon Monthly Challenge (Black Hare Press): monthly contest; deadline 4/30/24
• Skull & Laurel (Tenebrous Press): deadline 5/31/24
• The Fear Doctor anthology (Dragon Soul Press): deadline 5/31/24; submit 5-15 drabbles
• Troopers (Shacklebound Books): deadline 4/30/24
• Utopia Science Fiction: optional themes; each theme has its own deadline

Also some paying sci-fi, fantasy, and horror drabble markets that are temporarily closed to submissions:

• A Cup of Owls - Quarterly Online Anthology: reopens 6/1/24; only publishes writers from under-represented/marginalized backgrounds/communities
• All Words Wayfarer: next submission window TBA
• Daily Science Fiction: currently closed; next submission window TBA
• Deadly Drabble Tuesdays (Hungry Shadow Press): reopens 7/1/24
• Flash Point Science Fiction: reopens 5/15/24
• Frozen Wavelets: closed to submissions since 2021
• Hexagon Speculative Fiction Magazine: reopens 5/1/24
• Shacklebound Books newsletter: next submission window TBA
• Stupefying Stories Showcase: expects to reopen 6/1/24
• The Deadlands: reopens 5/1/24 for Palestinian writers only
• The Maul: next submission window TBA
• Upbeat Tales: next submission window TBA