This page will be updated as regularly as time permits with current deadlines, reading periods, and other news pertaining to writing and publishing speculative poetry and fiction.
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Market news
- On Spec: permanently closed, Oct/Nov 2025
- Pyre: shutting down end of Oct 2025
- Circle of Salt: launched Sept 2025
Current submission deadlines
- 11/28/25: RDG Books (for horror novels)
- 11/30/25: 100 Word Project (monthly prompts) (Manawaker Studio)
- 11/30/25: Abyss & Apex (poetry)
- 11/30/25: Aspec Paranormal Anthology (Phenomena Press) (thanks Horror Tree)
- 11/30/25: Drabble Harvest Contest (theme: "Alien Guide Book for Visitors") (Hiraeth Publishing)
- 11/30/25: Flash Point Science Fiction (drabbles only)
- 11/30/25: Haven Spec
- 11/30/25: khōréōº (theme: "Revolutions")
- 11/30/25: parABnormal Magazine (Hiraeth Publishing)
- 11/30/25: Perseid Prophecies
- 11/30/25: Strange Quark Press
- 12/1/25: Eternal Haunted Summer (theme: "The Good Neighbors")
- 12/1/25: Ghostlight: The Magazine of Terror
- 12/14/25: The Quarter(ly) (theme: "Mood : Stark") (Quarter Press)
- 12/15/25: Uncharted Magazine Novel Excerpt Prize
- 12/19/25: Havok (theme: "Bingeworthy")
- 12/20/25: High Caliber Awards (Cannon Publishing) (thanks Horror Tree)
- 12/21/25: Dead of Winter Horror Fiction Writing Contest (Toasted Cheese)
- 12/31/25: Allegory
- 12/31/25: Curse of the Sword (deadline extended) (Dragon Soul Press)
- 12/31/25: Dracula Beyond Stoker (theme: "Van Helsing") (DBS Press)
- 12/31/25: DreamForge
- 12/31/25: Hawthorn & Ash (Iron Faerie Publishing)
- 12/31/25: Horror Anthology Volume IV and V (RDG Books) (thanks Horror Tree)
- 12/31/25: Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition (includes short story category)
- 12/31/25: Tales of Steel and Sorcery anthology (Oddity Prodigy Productions) (thanks Horror Tree)
- 12/31/25: The Black Beacon Book of Horror 2 anthology (Black Beacon Books)
- 12/31/25 (or until full): "TPK" Fantasy Anthology - Faewalk Shared Universe (Nat 1 Publishing)
- 12/31/25: We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction anthology (Neon Hemlock)
- 12/31/25: Wolfsinger Publications (for novellas/novels)
- 1/4/26: Sorra Books (Shaherazad Shelves)
- 1/10/26: Book Worms Horror Zine
- 1/15/26: Eye to the Telescope (theme: Immortality) (SFPA)
- 1/15/26: World Upside Down: Mind-bending Lovecraftian Tales anthology (Cross the Teas and Dot the Eyes) (thanks Horror Tree)
- 1/31/26: Cozy Fantasy anthology (Hollow Oak Press)
- 1/31/26: Elite anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 1/31/26: Thread of the Past anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 2/1/26: Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award
- 2/2/26: The Faerie Cat (Iron Faerie Publishing)
- 2/13/26: The Green Feather Awardº (Light Bringer Project)
- 2/13/26: The Tomorrow Prizeº (Light Bringer Project)
- 2/28/26: Splash anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 3/1/26: BSFS Poetry Contest
- 3/31/26: Pirate Cove anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 4/15/26: Rattle (theme: "Tribute to the Future")
- 4/30/26: PodCastle (Escape Artists)
- 4/30/26: Survival anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 5/31/26: Escape Pod (Escape Artists)
- 5/31/26: Faerie Contract anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 5/31/26: Slayer anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 5/31/26: The Fear Dealer anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 6/30/26: Sinister Dreams anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 7/31/26: Midnight Bites anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 8/31/26: Curses & Crystals anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 10/31/26: Flame Forger anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 12/31/26: Across the Ages anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 12/31/26: Back in Time anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 3/31/27: The Killing Spree anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 4/30/27: Oath Taker anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 5/30/27: Fable anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 5/31/27: Touch of Death anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 6/30/27: Magic Devils anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 7/31/27: Into the Dark anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 8/31/27: Blades & Baubles anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 10/31/27: Dawn of Dragons anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 5/31/28: Unlawful Deeds anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
º Limited submission eligibility; see publisher's guidelines
* All submissions become property of the publisher
Currently open - no posted deadline
- Aconyte Books: work-for-hire; tie-in fiction
- Aethon Books: novel-length only
- Altered Reality Magazine (general subs)
- Amazing Stories (for poetry)
- Argawarga Pressº (Autonomous Press)
- Beautiful Tragedies 4 - Anthology of Dark Poetry: open until full (Hellbound Books)
- Black Dawn Series (AK Press)
- Black Hare Press (for novels and collections)
- Black Spot Books: agented subs only, except for anthology calls
- Book Forge Press: open to novels; closed to short fic
- Calliope: rolling subs
- Castaigne Publishing: open to pitches (per pinned tweet)
- Cauldron of Blood anthology: open until full (Hellbound Books)
- Dark Dragon Publishing (for novels)
- DarkLit Press (for novellas/novels; closed to non-pirate subs until further notice)
- Dead Detectives Society anthology series (Monstrous Books)
- Dead Planet anthology: open until full (Shacklebound Books)
- Deathlehem anthology: open until full (Grinning Skull Press)
- Deep Anthology (placeholder; title TBD) (Death's Head Press)
- Defiler anthology: open until full (Shacklebound Books)
- Eidolotry (PsychoToxin Press)
- ergot.
- Eye Tales (PsychoToxin Press)
- Flash Digest (Hiraeth Publishing)
- Forever
- GORE 4 anthology (theme: "Demons and Possessions") (Poe Boy Publishing)
- Grendel Press: open to novel subs
- Happily Never After anthology: open until full (Shacklebound Books)
- HellBound Books (novels only; no novellas or single author collections)
- Hiraeth Publishing (novellas, novels, collections)
- Horrorsmith Publishing (for novellas & novels)
- House of Hallowes (for poetry collections) (Vræyda Literary)
- Indie Bites: rolling deadlines
- Interstellar Flight Press (for book-length nonfiction)
- Jupiter's Eye (Hiraeth Publishing)
- Katabatic Circus (Angry Gable Press)
- Little Fears (Little Ghosts Books)
- moth eaten mag: open for website subs
- Nightmare Narratives (Dark Holme Publishing)
- Nightmarish Novelettes Book Series (Night Terror Novels)
- Nightscribe (fka Creepypasta.org)
- Orbit Books: open to agented subs only
- Penumbra (Hippocampus Press)
- Phoenixº (Ouida Books)
- Rabid Otter Horror (for novellas/novels) (Riverfolk Publishing)
- Raven Tale Publishing (for "Creature Feature" novels only)
- Section 31 Productions (for novellas/novels)
- Shiraki Press (thanks Anathema Magazine)
- Small Wonders Magazine (for original flash fiction)
- Small Wonders Magazine (for original poetry)
- Small Wonders Magazine (for reprint flash fiction)
- Solaris Nova (Rebellion Publishing)
- Starward Shadows: open for flash; closed for longer fiction
- Strange Horizonsº (for fiction) (500 story cap)
- Tachyon Publications: submissions from agents only
- Tasavvurº
- TFW: Poetry from Gen Z anthologyº: closes when full (Ravens Quoth Press)
- Pharmacopeia Obscura: The August Doctor’s Notes anthology: open until full (JayHenge Publishing)
- The Horror Zine (fiction)
- The Horror Zine (poetry)
- The Were-Traveler: open until full (theme: "Curst & Twysted Tarot")
- The Wicked Library (theme: "Ghost Stories, Paranormal Events, & Mysterious Happenings")
- Unnerving (for novel/novella subs)
- Untitled Orc Erotica Anthology: open until full (Armoured Fox Press)
- Vræyda Literary (novels)
- Wild Hunt Books (agented subs only)
- Wild Hunt Magazine (agented subs only)
- Windmill Publishing (for novels)
- Zooscape
Monthly/regular contests & reading periods
- Anomaly: open 1st to 7th day each month (Shacklebound Books)
- Anomaly Monthly Drabble Contestº: open 1st to last day of each month; themed (Shacklebound Books)
- Apex Magazine Monthly Flash Fiction Contest: open 7th to last day of each month; themed
- Apparition Lit Monthly Flash Fiction Challenge: open 1st to 14th of each month (photo prompt)
- Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores: open 1st and 2nd day of each month
- Dark Descent Microfiction Competition: monthly contest; closes 25th of each month (Dark Holme Publishing)
- Dark Moments Monthly Challenge: monthly contest; themed (Black Hare Press)
- ev0ke: open 1st to 15th of each month; themed
- Flame Tree Fiction Newsletter: monthly submission windows, typically 2 weeks long; themed (Flame Tree Press)
- Flash Fiction Online: open 1st to 21st of each month (except Dec); will close if reaches 425 subs
- Galaxy's Edge: opens every Tues; closes when hits threshold
- L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest: Mar/June/Sept/Dec quarterly deadlines
- Patreon Monthly Challenge: monthly contest (Black Hare Press)
- Shallow Waters Flash Fiction Contest: monthly contest (Crystal Lake Entertainment)
- Sinister Society: monthly themed horror anthologies
- Sley House Publishing (Patreon subs): monthly open calls starting Dec 2025
- Stygian Lepus: open 1st to 25th of each month (Black Hare Press)
- The Crow's Quill: closes 10th of each month for fiction, 20th for poetry; monthly themes (Quill & Crow)
- Theatre Phantasmagoria anthology: open 1st to last day of each month; themed (Night Terror Novels)
- Wired Six-Word Sci-Fi*: monthly prompts
Upcoming contests & reading periods
- 100-Foot Crow: TBA
- 34 Orchard: Jan 1 to Jan 10 2026
- A Cup of Owls - Quarterly Online Anthologyº: Dec 1 to Dec 7 (or until 70 subs)
- A Cup of Owls Pressº (for novella subs): TBA
- Abyss & Apex (fiction): Feb 1 to Feb 7 2026
- AEscifi: TBA
- Aggadah Try Itº (Madness Heart Press)
- Android Press: TBA
- ANVIL Magazine: TBA
- Apex Book Company: TBA
- Aqueduct Press: currently closed; plans to reopen in a few months
- Augur Magazineº: TBA
- Aurealisº: Feb 1 to Feb 28 2026
- Baen Fantasy Adventure Award: Jan 20 to Apr 30 2026?
- Baffling Magazine: Dec 1 to Dec 15 2025 (Neon Hemlock)
- BAM Quarterly: TBA; currently closed (Broken Antler)
- Baubles from Bones: TBA
- Best of Utopian Speculative Fiction Anthology: TBA (Android Press)
- BFS Short Story Competition: Apr 1 to June 30 2026
- Big Smoke Pulp: TBA
- Black Beacon Books (for novels): TBA
- Blue Flame Review: Jan 15 to Mar 1 2026
- Bone Parade: TBA
- Brave New Weird Award: Oct 1 to Nov 1 2026 (Tenebrous Press)
- BSC Publishing Group: TBA
- Burial Books (for horror novels): TBA
- Carmen et Error: Feb 1 to Feb 15 2026 (The Braag)
- Carnage House: TBA
- Cast of Wonders: TBA; may reopen Jan 1 2026 (Escape Artists)
- CatsCast: TBA (Escape Artists)
- Channel the Dark anthology: TBA; currently closed to subs (Temple Dark Books)
- Chatoyant Magazine Writing Contest: Nov 30 2025 to Apr 30 2026 (theme: "Love in Life exploring regrets, chaos and toxicity using elements of horror") (see start date postponement announcement on Bluesky)
- Chilling Pen Award: TBA
- Chthonic Matter Quarterly: will reopen June 2026
- Classdoom: Tales of Terror from Teachers anthology: TBA (trying to raise funding)
- Cloaked Press: TBA
- Cold Open Stories: TBA
- Cold Signal: TBA later in 2025
- Corvid Queen: TBA (Sword & Kettle Press)
- Cosmic Chronicles Literary Prize: TBA; unclear if it will return in 2026 (SETI)
- Cosmic Horror Monthly: Jan 1 to Jan 7 2026
- Crab Tales Magazine: TBA
- Creative James Media: TBA (novels)
- Creature Publishing: TBA
- Crimson Quill Quarterly: reopens Apr 1 2026
- Crystal Cove Press: TBA
- Crystal Lake Publishing: TBA
- Cursed Dragon Ship Publishing: will reopen in Jan 2026
- Cursed Morsels Press (for short story collections): TBA
- Cursed Morsels Zine: TBA
- Cuttlefish Books (for speculative haiku collections): TBA
- Daikaijuzine: Dec 28 2025 to Jan 5 2026
- Dark Moon Digest: TBA (closes when reaches 300 subs; reopens 1st of the following month)
- Dead Sky Publishing: TBA
- Death's Head Press: TBA (Dead Sky Publishing)
- Depths of Love anthology: TBA (Cloaked Press / SFWG)
- Diabolical Plots: TBA
- Diceroll Magazine: TBA
- Die Laughing Magazine: TBA
- Disability Horror Anthology: TBA; will provide updates in 2026 (Graveside Press)
- Divinations Magazine: TBA; expects to reopen in early 2026
- dogleech books: TBA
- Drabblecast: TBA
- Dragon Gems: expects to reopen in 2026 (Water Dragon Publishing)
- Dragon's Roost Press: TBA; subs closed
- Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Writersº: TBA; ~ Apr 2026
- Dust & Dark: TBA
- Eccentric Orbits annual anthology: TBA (Dimensionfold Publishing)
- Eerie River Publishing: TBA
- Eidetic Quarterly: TBA (PsychoToxin Press)
- Epic Echoes: currently closed; expected to reopen in early 2025
- Erie Talesº: TBA; 2026 (GLAHW)
- Evolved Publishing: expected to reopen in Sept 2025
- Fairy Tale Review: TBA
- Fall Into Fantasy anthology: TBA; 2026 (Cloaked Press)
- Fantasy Magazine: TBA (Psychopomp)
- Farewell, Neverlandº: TBA (Sword & Kettle Press)
- FIYAHº: TBA; will reopen in 2026
- Flash Frog: July 1 to July 31 2026 (theme: ghost stories)
- Flash on the Fly Horror Writing Contest: TBA (Death Knell Press)
- Folklore Review: TBA
- Fraidy Cat Press: TBA
- Fraidy Cat Quarterly: TBA (Fraidy Cat Press)
- French Press Publishing: TBA
- Frivolous Comma: TBA
- Frost Zone Stories: TBA (thanks Almond Press)
- Gallery of Curiosities: TBA
- Ghoulish Books (for novellas, novels, story collections): TBA
- Ghoulish Tales: TBA (Ghoulish Books)
- Goblins & Galaxies: May 7 to May 14 2026
- Gradeside Stories anthology: closed per submission portal page; open per guidelines page (Graveside Press)
- Graveside Press (for general subs): reopens Feb 1 2026
- Grimoire: TBA
- Grindhouse Press: TBA
- Grinning Skull Press (novellas & novels): TBA
- Haunt Publishing: TBA; expects to reopen in late 2025 or early 2026
- Haunted Words Press: TBA
- Hearth Stories: Mar 1 to Mar 31 2026
- Heartlines Spec: Dec 24 to Dec 31 2025 (Jan 1 to Jan 31 2026 for general subs)
- Heathen: TBA; expected to reopen in early 2025
- Heroic Fantasy Quarterly: TBA; probably late 2025
- hex: TBA
- HOWL New Irish Writingº: will reopen in early 2026
- Idle Ink: TBA; currently closed to subs
- If There's Anyone Leftº: June 1 to July 15 2026
- Improbable Press: TBA
- In Another Time Magazine: TBA
- Inner Worlds Zineº: Jan 1 to Jan 14 2026 (Jan 15 to Jan 31 for general subs)
- INSPIRATUS: TBA (nonfiction, art) (Morian Press)
- Interstellar Flight Press (for flash fiction): TBA
- Iron Fang Press: TBA; no current sub calls
- Island of Wak-Wak (Cabin Reading Series): TBA
- It Came From The Trailer Park: Volume 6 anthology: May 1 to July 1 2026 (theme: "Exiled/Outcast/Alien Prisoner") (Three Ravens Publishing)
- Jayhenge Publishing (for novels): closed; TBA
- JOURN-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature: Feb 1 to Feb 28 2026 (Mind's Eye Publications)
- Journal of Speculative Literature: TBA (House of Zolo)
- Kaleidotrope: TBA; 2026
- Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize: Aug 1 to Nov 2 2026?
- Lightspeed: TBA
- Luna Press Publishing: TBA
- Luna Station Quarterlyº: TBA
- Madness Heart Pressº (for novella/novel subs): TBA
- Max Blood's Mausoleum: TBA
- Meerkat Press: TBA
- MetaStellar Magazine: Mar 1 to Mar 31 2026 (for paid subs; open year-round for unpaid subs)
- Midnight Echo: TBA
- Midnight Machinations: TBA (Grinning Skull Press)
- Mirror World Publishing: TBA
- Monster Ivy Publishing: TBA
- Monstrous Magazine: TBA (Monstrous Books)
- More Than a Monster (Vol 2) anthology: TBA (Grendel Press)
- Myriad: TBA; possibly on indefinite hiatus (Hexagon Speculative Fiction Magazine)
- Mysterion: Jan 1 to Jan 31 2026
- Mythaxis Magazine: closed until 2026
- Necksnap: TBA
- Nefarious Bat Pressº: TBA
- Negative Space 3: The End of All Sanctuary anthology: Jan 1 to Jan 31 2026 (theme: "Survival horror") (Dark Peninsula Press)
- Neon Hemlock Novella Series: TBA
- Nerve-Janglers book series: TBA (Night Terror Novels)
- NESFA Science Fiction/Fantasy Short Story Contestº: TBA; ~ summer 2026
- NewMyths: Jan 1 to Feb 28 2026
- Night Terrors anthology series: TBA (Scare Street)
- Night to Dawn Books: TBA; currently closed to subs
- Night to Dawn Magazine: TBA; currently closed to subs
- NIGHTLIGHT: A Horror Fiction Podcastº (flash fiction): reopens Mar 1 2026
- NIGHTLIGHT: A Horror Fiction Podcastº (short non-flash fiction): reopens Feb 1 2026
- Nightmare: TBA; hopes to reopen in Jan 2026
- Nightmare Fuel anthology: TBA; 2026? (Cloaked Press / SFWG)
- Nocturne Magazine: expects to reopen Spring 2026
- Northodox Pressº: TBA
- Occult Detective Magazine: TBA (greydogtales)
- Old Moon Quarterly: TBA
- Omenanaº: TBA
- One Thousand Words of Horror Competition: TBA (Snake Bite Books)
- Orbit Works: expects to reopen Fall 2025
- Orion's Belt: will reopen in Mar 2026
- Outland Entertainment: TBA
- Outlook Springs: TBA; no current sub calls
- Paper Butterfly Flash Fiction: TBA; possibly reopening ~ Nov 2025
- ParSec: TBA
- Parsec Short Story Contest: Jan 1 to Mar 31 2026 (theme: "Metamorphosis")
- Pastel Pastoral Magazine: TBA
- Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag: Dec 15 2025 to Mar 15 2026 (closes for each month at 200 subs)
- Planet Scumm: TBA; expects to reopen in 2026
- Plott Hound Magazine: TBA
- Polar Borealisº (fiction): reopens in Oct 2026
- Polar Borealisº (poetry): reopens in Sept 2026
- Polar Starlightº: reopens in Sept 2026
- Polymath Press: TBA
- Potter's Grove Press: TBA
- Pseudopod (for 2026 reprints only; see guidelines): Mar 1 to July 31 2026 (Escape Artists)
- Pseudopod (for general subs): Aug 1 to Aug 11 2026 (Escape Artists)
- Psychopomp (novellas): TBA
- Quill & Crow (for novel subs): TBA
- Rakehell: TBA; subs closed
- Ram Eye: TBA
- Ravens Quoth Press: TBA
- Reckoning: expects to reopen in 2026
- Red Cape Publishing: TBA
- Roses and Wildflowers: TBA
- Rotting Leaf Magazine: Dec 1 to Dec 7 2025 (or until 50 subs received) (thanks Horror Tree)
- Sans. PRESS: no current sub calls
- Saros Speculative Fiction: TBA
- Scarlet Galleon Publications: currently closed to subs
- Scary Stories Whispered in the Rain: may reopen in 2025
- Sci Phi Journal: will reopen in Jan 2026
- Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition : Dec 1 2025 to Jan 31 2026 (The Ghost Story)
- SFPA Poetry Contest: ~ June 1 to Aug 31 2026
- Shacklebound Books newsletter: TBA (Shacklebound Books)
- Shatter the Sun: Queer Tales of Untold Adventure anthology: fall 2025 (Neon Hemlock)
- Shoreline of Infinity: TBA
- Short Reads: Dec 1 to Dec 31 2025 (Black Hare Press)
- Shortwave Magazine: TBA (Shortwave Publishing)
- Shush Booksº: Apr 14 to June 14 2026 (Shaherazad Shelves)
- Silence & Starsong: TBA
- Silver Blade Magazine: Dec 1 2025 to Jan 31 2026
- Skull & Laurel: TBA (Tenebrous Press)
- Sley House Publishing (for novellas & novels): TBA
- SLUGGER: TBA
- Smitten Land: TBA (The Laughing Man House)
- SNAFU anthology series: TBA (Cohesion Press)
- Snake Bite Books (novellas/novels): TBA
- Solarpunk Magazine: Jan 1 to Jan 14 2026
- Space and Time: Jan 15 to Jan 31 2026
- Space and Time Flash: TBA
- Space Cat Press: TBA (for novels & poetry collections)
- SpecPoVerse: TBA; reopens Feb 1 2026?
- Speculative City: TBA
- SPLIT SCREAM – Novelette Split Series: TBA (Tenebrous Press)
- Spooky House Press: TBA
- Spring Into SciFi annual anthology: TBA; late 2025? (Cloaked Press)
- Starlite Pulp Review: TBA
- Strange Aeon: TBA
- Stygian Press: TBA; 2026
- Sublimation: a Magazine of Speculative Poetry and Art: Feb 15 to Mar 15 2026 (theme: "Steam Power and Clockwork") (Island of Wak-Wak)
- Summer of Speculation anthology: TBA (Cloaked Press)
- Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy: TBA (Parallel Universe Publications)
- Tales & Feathers Magazineº: TBA
- Tales from the Crosstimbers: expects to reopen in Dec 2025
- Tales to Terrify: subs closed; TBA
- The Braagº: June 15 to July 31 2026
- The Cosmic Background (fiction): reopens Jan 1 2026
- The Cosmic Background (poetry): reopens Jan 1 2026
- The Dead Horse: TBA (Disaster Tourism Games)
- The Deadlands (fiction): reopens Dec 1 2025 (Psychopomp)
- The Deadlands (poetry): Dec 1 to Dec 21 2025 (Psychopomp)
- The Dread Machine: currently closed; TBA
- The Fabulist (for fiction; poetry by invitation only): expects to reopen for a week in Fall 2025
- The Fairy Tale Magazine: TBA
- The Final Girl Review: TBA (thanks Almond Press)
- The Flying Saucer Poetry Review: TBA (Starship Sloane Publishing)
- The Ghastling: TBA
- The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award: Feb 15 to Apr 30 2026 (The Ghost Story)
- The Green Sheafº: TBA; after spring 2025 contest issue
- The Last Girls Club: TBA
- The Lorelei Signal: Jan 15 to Feb 15 2026
- The Marrow: TBA; currently closed (Broken Antler)
- The Mike Resnick Memorial Award: Nov 1 2025 to Feb 1 2026 (submission portal not open yet) (Arc Manor, Dragon Con)
- The Orange & Bee: TBA; will reopen in 2026
- The Quiet Ones: July 1 to July 31 2026
- The Salam Award for Imaginative Fictionº: TBA; next deadline July 31 2026
- The Scythian Wolf: TBA
- The Sirens Call eZine: TBA
- The Starlight SciFaiku Review: TBA (Starship Sloane Publishing)
- The Vanishing Point: TBA
- The Wyrmhole: TBA
- These Haunted Highlands: TBA (Night Terror Novels)
- Thin Veil Press - Dark Reads: TBA
- Thin Veil Press - Magazine: TBA
- Three-Lobed Burning Eye: Jan 1 to Jan 16 2026
- Timber Ghost Press (flash & poetry): TBA
- Timber Ghost Press (novels, novellas): TBA
- Toil & Trouble: Aug 1 to Aug 31 2026
- Torrid Waters: expected to open to subs in Aug 2025 (novellas/novels) (Crystal Lake Entertainment)
- Translunar Travelers Lounge: Mar 15 to Apr 15 2026
- Tree and Stone Magazine: TBA
- Trembling With Fear (for short stories): Jan 1 to Jan 15 2026 (Horror Tree)
- Trollbreath Magazine: closed until Mar 2026
- Twin Pies Literary: TBA
- Uncanny Magazine (fiction): TBA
- Uncanny Magazine (poetry): TBA
- Underland Arcana: TBA
- Underland Press: TBA
- Unnerving (for magazine): TBA; 2026
- Unréal: TBA (AEscifi)
- Views from the Overlook anthology: Mar 1 to Mar 2 2026 (thanks Horror Tree)
- Violent Vixens Vol. 2 anthology: TBA 2026 (theme: "Revenge") (Dark Peninsula Press)
- Violent Vixens Vol. 3 anthology: TBA 2027 (theme: "Final Girls") (Dark Peninsula Press)
- Violet Lichen Books: TBA (Apex Book Company)
- warning lines literaryº: closed to subs; TBA
- Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) Small Press Award: reopens Jan 2026?
- Water Dragon Publishing: expects to reopen in 2026
- Weird Horror: TBA; expects to reopen Fall 2025 (Undertow Publications)
- Weird Little Worlds: TBA (for novellas & novels)
- Whisper House Press: expects to reopen Jan/Feb 2026 for a new anthology
- Wild Ink Publishing: TBA (open to agented subs only)
- Winter of Wonder annual anthology: TBA (Cloaked Press)
- Wireworm: TBA
- Witch House: expects to reopen ~ summer solstice 2026
- WonderBird Press: expects to open to subs for new projects in Nov 2025
- Wyngraf (for short fic; flash fic series is on indefinite hiatus): TBA
Open year-round
- Acorns (Hollow Oak Press)
- Apex Magazine: open year-round except Dec
- Aphelion
- Cosmic Crime Stories (Hiraeth Publishing)
- Crepuscular (1st 7 days of each month reserved for underrepresented voices)
- Drabbun (Hiraeth Publishing)
- Electric Spec (quarterly deadlines)
- Gaslamp Pulp Zine (rolling deadlines; themed issues) (Nat 1 Publishing)
- Grim & Gilded (guidelines say open year-round; submission form has rolling deadlines)
- Illumen (Hiraeth Publishing)
- Interstellar Flight Press (for essays; doesn't read Dec 15 to Jan 15)
- midnight & indigoº (annual speculative issue)
- Not One of Us (temp URL; having a problem w/ its website)
- Samovar
- Scifaikuest (Hiraeth Publishing)
- Shelter of Daylight (Hiraeth Publishing)
- Spaceports & Spidersilk (Hiraeth Publishing)
- Spectral Realms (Hippocampus Press)
- Star*Line (SFPA)
- Strange Horizons (for poetry)
- Tabi's Flash Tuesdays (Litmora Literary Magazine)
- Tamarind
- Tenebrous Press (for novellas/novels): open year-round except Jan
- The Dark
- The Dark Door (Ill-Advised Records)
- The Evil Cookie Publishing (novellas/novels)
- The Fifth Di... (Hiraeth Publishing)
- The HLK Quarterly (West of Canon Press)
- The Hungur Chronicles (Hiraeth Publishing)
- The Other Stories (rolling deadlines)
- Trembling With Fear (always open for drabbles & serials) (Horror Tree)
- Uncharted Magazine (thanks Mariah's Workshop)
- Voidz Magazine (rolling deadlines)
On hiatus / closed for an extended time
- 4 Horsemen Publications: temp closed; no ETA
- Alien Dimensions: temp closed; will possibly return in 2027
- All Worlds Wayfarer: TBA; temporary hiatus
- Almond Press: not currently accepting manuscripts
- Amazing Stories (for fiction): on hiatus
- Anathema: Spec from the Marginsº: on hiatus; hoping to return in 2026
- Anterior Skies anthology: TBA; sub page not updated since at least early 2024 (Strange Elf Press)
- Bad Hand Books: TBA; not currently considering unsolicited manuscripts
- Bear Creek Gazette: closed indefinitely
- Bitterleaf Booksº: currently closed to subs
- Black Rose: TBA; web page gone (Quill & Crow)
- Black Shuck Books: not currently open to subs
- Black Telephone Magazine: currently closed to subs (CLASH Books)
- Blackwarren Books: temp closed
- Bleached Butterfly: appears to be on hiatus / closed
- Bleed Error: on hiatus (Paradox Ghost Press)
- Bleeding Edge Books: closed to novella/novelette subs since Oct 2021
- Blood Bound Books: currently closed to subs
- Blood Knife: currently closed to fiction subs; open to nonfiction
- Cemetery Dance: currently closed; unsure when will reopen
- Cirsova: TBA; no unsolicited subs for 2026
- Clan Destine Press: not currently open to unsolicited subs
- CloisterFoxº: TBA; had expected to reopen Apr 5 to May 31 2024
- Constelación Magazine: submission portal closed until further notice
- Constraint 280: closed to subs since at least 2022 (microverses)- Corpus Press: currently closed to subs
- Crone Girls Press: no open anthology calls
- Crushing Hearts and Black Butterfly Publishing: not currently open to outside subs
- Curious Corvid Publishing: currently closed to book subs
- Daily Science Fiction: submissions page taken down; looks like website is being re-launched
- Dark Dispatch: no current sub calls; last one was in 2022
- Dark Recesses Press: currently closed to novel, novella & single-author collection subs
- Dark Recesses Press Digital Magazine: temporarily suspended
- Dark Recesses Press Print Magazine: temporarily suspended
- Dark Regions Press: currently closed to subs
- Dead Fish Books: currently closed to subs
- Dead Ink Books: not currently open to general subs
- Deadite Press: currently closed to subs (Eraserhead Press)
- Deadly Drabble Tuesdays: on hiatus; possibly canceled (announcement) (Hungry Shadow Press)
- Death Knell Press: currently closed to all subs
- Devilfish Review: currently closed
- Diet Milk Magazine: TBA (website down)
- Diet Milk Magazine - Diet Milk Minis: TBA (website down)
- Diet Milk Magazine - In the Bleak Midwinter (micro & flash fic): TBA (website down)
- Dread Imaginings: expected to reopen to subs sometime in 2023
- Dreadnought SF: currently closed to subs (Starship Sloane Publishing)
- Epic Publishing: currently closed to all but agented subs
- Eraserhead Press: currently closed to subs
- Erewhon Books: currently closed to unsolicited subs
- Exploding Head Fiction: currently closed to subs
- Eyedolon: not currently open to subs (Broken Eye Books)
- Fantasy & Science Fiction: TBA; temp closed since July 2023
- Far Fetched Fables: currently closed to subs
- From the Farther Trees: planned to reopen in fall 2023 (Farther Trees Press)
- Frozen Wavelets: closed to subs since Sept 2021; expected to reopen later in 2024
- Future Science Fiction Digest: closed to fiction & art since Nov 2022; open to nonfiction
- Galaxy: guidelines coming soon (Starship Sloane Publishing)
- Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine: TBA (Starship Sloane Publishing)
- GigaNotoSaurus: currently closed to subs
- Gloom House Publishing: not currently open to subs
- Grimdark Magazine: not currently accepting subs
- Grey Matter Press: currently closed to subs (since Feb 2022)
- Gwyllion Magazine: on hiatus
- Hellmouth Press: TBA; guidelines page not updated since 2024
- Hexagon Speculative Fiction Magazine: indefinite hiatus
- Horrific Tales Publishing: currently closed to subs
- Horror Garage: closed to fiction subs until further notice (since 2015)
- horror senryu journal: on hiatus; will return in 2026
- IFWG Publishing: closed to unsolicited subs; may open for brief periods
- Ink and Fable Publishing: currently closed to subs
- Inked in Gray Press: currently closed to general queries
- Jitter: all Prolific Press journals currently closed to subs (Prolific Press)
- Kaleidoscope – A Queer Anthology: expected to reopen Jan 2024 (Cloaked Press)
- Little Blue Marble: on hiatus
- Lycan Valley Press Publications: not currently open to unsolicited subs
- Medusa Tales: subs currently on hold
- Mermaids Monthly: temp closed to subs; Moksha portal archived; latest news on website is from 2022 (checked 9/2/24)
- The Mesozoic Reader: on indefinite hiatus (Farther Trees Press)
- Mithila Review: closed to fiction/poetry subs since Sept 2021 (open to nonfiction subs)
- Montag Press: currently closed to subs
- Mouthfeel Fiction: TBA; last sub call ended in 2023
- Mystery and Horror, LLC: on hiatus
- Myth & Lore: currently closed to subs
- Mythic Delirium: on indefinite hiatus since 2018
- Neon: on indefinite hiatus
- New Edge Sword and Sorcery: currently closed; may open to subs at some point
- NewCon Press: not currently open to unsolicited subs
- Nightfire: closed to subs since June 2021
- Octavos: closed to subs since at least 2022 (microverses)
- Patreon Science Fantasy Anthology: TBA; site down (Tree and Stone Magazine LLC)
- Phantom Drift: no current sub calls; guidelines page not updated since 2022
- Phantom Kangaroo: expected to reopen Jan 2024; last issue posted is from Oct 2023
- PS Publishing: closed to subs until further notice; since 2021
- Pulp Modern: last sub window closed July 2022 (Uncle B. Publications)
- Pulp Modern Flash: currently closed to subs (Uncle B. Publications)
- Queen of Swords Press: hoped to reopen in late 2023
- Queer Blades: A Queer Sword and Sorcery Romance Anthology: planned to reopen in early 2023 (Farther Trees Press)
- QueerSciFi.com Flash Fiction Contest: on hiatus
- Raw Dog Screaming Press: currently closed to all subs
- Red Room Press: closed to novel/novella subs & Year's Best Hardcore Horror subs until further notice
- Redstone Science Fiction: on hiatus; closed to general fiction subs
- Redwood Press: no current sub calls
- Salt Heart Press: currently closed to subs
- Sciencefictionery: closed? website is no longer up
- Sigil House Productions: not currently accepting subs
- Silent House Press: not currently taking subs
- Simultaneous Times: temp closed; working through backlog (Space Cowboy Books)
- Sinister Grin Press: currently closed to subs
- SmashBear Publishing: expected to reopen in 2023
- Solar Press: subs closed since Sept 2023
- Space Cowboy Books: closed to manuscript subs
- Speculate This: submission window page hasn't been updated since 2021
- Speculatief: currently closed to subs
- Speculative North: no open sub calls since 2022 (tdotSpec)
- Splatter Ink Publishing: temp closed; personal issues
- Star Traveler Press: guidelines coming soon (Starship Sloane Publishing)
- Stelliform Press: TBA; last listed sub call was in 2023
- Strangely Funny: on hiatus (Mystery and Horror, LLC)
- Stupefying Stories: TBA; may not reopen
- Tales from the Magician's Skull: no current sub calls
- Tales of the Unanticipated: defunct? closed to subs since 2014, website down, on indefinite hiatus per Duotrope
- tdotSpec: no open sub calls; guidelines pg not updated since 2022
- Temple Dark Books: currently closed to novel subs
- Thaumatrope: currently closed
- The Arcanist: temp closed to catch up on reading
- The Chamber Magazine: on hiatus
- The Dark Sire: on hiatus since 10/31/23; expected to reopen Spring 2024
- The Evil Cookie Publishing (anthologies): no current anthology sub calls
- The Grey Rooms: on indefinite hiatus since 10/31/22
- The Hallowzine: temp closed to subs
- The Overcast: closed to submissions for the foreseeable future; website down
- The Seventh Terrace: currently closed to subs; may reopen in 2025
- The Space Cadet Science Fiction Review: not currently accepting subs (Starship Sloane Publishing)
- Three Crows Magazine: closed to fiction; open to nonfiction & art
- Three Ravens Publishing: currently closed to novel subs
- Thuggish Itch: TBA; last sub call ended in 2023 (Gypsum Sound Tales)
- Titan Books: not open to general subs, but seeking writers to work on licensed fiction
- Trigger Warning annual anthology: planned to reopen to subs in Feb 2023 (theme: curses) (Madness Heart Press)
- Undertow Publications: closed to subs for the foreseeable future
- Unidentified Funny Objects annual anthology: TBA; last sub window was in 2022 (UFO Publishing)
- Upbeat Tales: currently on hiatus; possibly defunct
- Urban Pigs Press: hopes to open for novel subs soon
- Vastarien: on indefinite hiatus (Grimscribe Press)
- Weird Tales: not currently open to subs
- Weirdpunk Books: currently closed to novella subs, unlikely to reopen soon
- Whetstone: closed to subs indefinitely
- Whimsical Press: subs currently closed
- Wicked Taxidermy Press: website remains online as an archive; unlikely to publish new works or hold new contests
- Word Horde: closed to new subs since Apr 2022
- WordFire Press: closed to unsolicited subs
- Worlds of IF: currently invitation-only; submission guidelines & portal coming soon (Starship Sloane Publishing)
- Wretched Creations Magazine: currently closed
- Wyldblood Press: TBA; may reopen later in 2025
Unsure of status
- Alien Sun Press: possibly defunct; website down as of 9/1/25
- Aphotic Realm: TBA (as of 1/9/25 - website is down, no tweets since May 2024, no FB posts since June 2024, Patreon page is under review by the Trust and Safety team)
- Black Ink Fiction Monthly Daily Drabbles: none published since June 2023
- D&T Publishing: new website; no guidelines page
- Deathcap and Hemlock: believed defunct by Duotrope; last sub call was in 2023
- Disturb Ink Books (split off from Unsettling Reads)
- eSpec Books: no guidelines on site
- freeze frame fiction: no open calls on Submittable page during submission period; no tweets since 2022; no blog posts since 2021
- Fungasm Press (Eraserhead Press)
- Infested Publishing: website still down
- Inky Bones Press (split off from Unsettling Reads)
- Jolly Horror Press: last anthology sub call (canceled) was in 2023; no tweets since 2022
- Landing Zone Magazine: unsure of status; website down
- Landing Zone Magazine Fiction and Poetry Contest: unsure of status; website down
- Landing Zone Magazine Winter Flash Fiction Contest: unsure of status; website down
- Lost Boys Press: website down; defunct per Duotrope
- Mandragora Books: more info coming soon; no guidelines on site yet
- Part Eight: website is now private
- Pumpernickel House: open to subs per guidelines pg but closed per Submittable; latest blog post was July 2024 (Pumpernickel House Publishing)
- Space Fantasy Magazine: subs closed since 2022; no tweets since 2022; believed defunct per Duotrope
- Stranger with Friction (St Rooster Books)
- The Maul (website down)
- The Shuddering Gazette (website down)
- Tiger Lily Publishing Company (for novels): website down
- Tower Magazine: TBA (website down)
- Troopers: no longer listed on publisher's submissions page (Shacklebound Books)
- Underbelly Books: Twitter account no longer exists; no website
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