Speculative fiction and poetry market news

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

- Hawthorn & Ash: dropped pay rate from $5-15 to $1-5

Current submission deadlines

- 1/17/25: Havok (character prompt: "Zaivar (Zai) Witz")
- 1/19/25: Carnage House
- 1/19/25: Witch Craft anthology (Flame Tree Fiction)
- 1/28/25: The Ghastling
- 1/29/25: Baubles from Bones
- 1/31/25: Divinations Magazine (theme: "sleep")
- 1/31/25: Inner Worlds Zine
- 1/31/25: Drabble Harvest Contest (theme: "Hunting with the Wolves") (Hiraeth Publishing) (deadline extended)
- 1/31/25: Dumped the Wrong Stat anthology (theme: "Humorous; stories about culture shock or character not being qualified for what ever they are trying to do.") (Nat 1 Publishing)
- 1/31/25: Heartlines Spec
- 1/31/25: Mysterion
- 1/31/25: Noncorporeal III: Nightfall anthology (Inkd Publishing)
- 1/31/25: On Specº
- 1/31/25: Screw Turn Flash Fiction Competition (The Ghost Story)
- 1/31/25: Shacklebound Books newsletter (Shacklebound Books)
- 1/31/25: Space & Time
- 1/31/25: The Cellar Door anthology #6: Phantom Worlds (theme: "Looking for horror stories that take place when alternate realities invade our own.") (Dark Peninsula Press)
- 1/31/25: Triangulation annual anthology (theme: "Dark Hearts") (Parsec Ink)
- 2/1/25: Northodox Pressº
- 2/1/25: The Last Girls Club (theme: "Lost at Sea")
- 2/1/25: The Mike Resnick Memorial Award (Arc Manor, Dragon Con)
- 2/5/25: Sci Phi Journal
- 2/14/25: The Green Feather Award (Light Bringer Project)
- 2/14/25: The Tomorrow Prizeº (Light Bringer Project)
- 2/15/25: Because Space Dinos! anthology (title TBD) (additional details in editor's tweet)
- 2/15/25: The Lorelei Signal
- 2/24/25: We Can Always Tell anthology (The Laughing Man House) (thanks Horror Tree)
- 2/28/25: Gwyllion Magazine
- 2/28/25: In Another Time Magazine (optional theme: "illumination")
- 2/28/25: Lured into the Deep anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 3/1/25: Brave Knights: Heroic Courage anthology (Three Ravens Publishing)
- 3/15/25: Eye to the Telescope (theme: "Plants")
- 3/30/25: The Green Sheaf Spring Contestº (theme: "The serpent goddess")
- 3/31/25: Behind the Shadows III: Dark Secrets anthology (Inkd Publishing)
- 3/31/25: Island of Wak-Wak (Coffee Table Chapbook Series)
- 3/31/25: Occupying Bodies Body Horror Anthology (Black Hare Press)
- 3/31/25: Sea of Monsters anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 3/31/25: SNAFU anthology series (theme: "contagion") (Cohesion Press)
- 3/31/25: Spirit of the Wolf anthology (WolfSinger Publications)
- 4/1/25: Burial Books (for novellas)
- 4/1/25: Escape Plan: Earth anthology (Three Ravens Publishing)
- 4/30/25: Quantum Rising anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 4/30/25: Ravens Quoth Press
- 5/31/25: Beyond the Veil anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 5/31/25: Escape Pod (Escape Artists)
- 5/31/25: Illustrated Poetry Anthology (Graveside Press)
- 5/31/25: The Fear Driver anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 6/1/25: Smitten Land (theme: "televangelism") (The Laughing Man House)
- 6/30/25: Spells & Fangs anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 7/1/25: It Came From The Trailer Park Vol. 5 anthology (theme: "Creep Killer Clown") (Three Ravens Publishing)
- 7/31/25: Terror Reigns anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 8/31/25: Poisons & Potions anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 10/31/25: Curse of the Sword (Dragon Soul Press)
- 10/31/25: Fire & Ash anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 12/31/25: Hawthorn & Ash (Iron Faerie Publishing)
- 1/31/26: Elite anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 2/28/26: Splash anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 3/31/26: Pirate Cove anthology (Dragon Soul Press)
- 4/30/26: Survival 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)
- 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)

º Limited submission eligibility; see publisher's guidelines

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 fiction; open year-round for poetry)
- Android Press: open to novel/novella subs until full
Argawarga Pressº (Autonomous Press)
- Black Dawn Series (AK Press)
Black Glass: open until ~ Jan/Feb 2025, depending on submission volume (theme: "dynamics between survivors")
- 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)
Cloaked Press (novellas, novels, short story collections)
Cursed Morsels Pressº: open until full (for short story collections)
- Dark Dragon Publishing (for novels)
- DarkLit Press (for novellas/novels; closed to non-pirate subs until further notice)
- Deathlehem anthology: open until full (Grinning Skull Press)
Eidolotry (PsychoToxin Press)
- Evolved Publishing: currently open
- Eye Tales (PsychoToxin Press)
Fifty Shades of Dead anthology: open until full (Wicked Taxidermy Press)
- Flash Digest (Hiraeth Publishing)
Fusion Fragment (for unpublished fiction; expects to open for reprints in early 2025)
GORE 4 anthology (theme: "Demons and Possessions") (Poe Boy Publishing)
Gradeside Stories anthology (Graveside Press)
Grendel Press: open to novel subs
- 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)
- iSoldiers anthology (Shacklebound Books)
Katabatic Circus (Angry Gable Press)
- Little Fears (Little Ghosts Books)
Maids anthology: open until full (Armoured Fox Press)
- moth eaten mag: open for website subs
Nemesis Contest: no posted deadline (Wicked Taxidermy Press)
- Nightmarish Novelettes Book Series (Night Terror Novels)
- Nightscribe (fka Creepypasta.org)
- Orbit Books: open to agented subs only
- Penumbra (Hippocampus Press)
- Phoenixº (Ouida Books)
Professor Feiff's Trans-Dimensional Travelogue: open until full (JayHenge Publishing)
Quill & Crow (for novel subs)
Raven Tale Publishing (for "Creature Feature" novels only)
- Roar anthology: open until full (Wicked Taxidermy Press)
Section 31 Productions (for novellas/novels)
- Short Fantasy Stories anthology (Shacklebound Books)
Small Wonders Magazine (for original flash fiction) (thanks That Book Chikka)
Small Wonders Magazine (for original poetry) (thanks That Book Chikka)
Small Wonders Magazine (for reprint flash fiction)
- Solaris Nova (Rebellion Publishing)
Starward Shadows: open for flash; closed for longer fiction
- Tachyon Publications: submissions from agents only
- TFW: Poetry from Gen Z anthologyº: closes when full (Ravens Quoth Press)
The Apparatus Almanac: Gizmology and Technomancy anthology: open until full (JayHenge Publishing)
The Cosmic Backgroundº (fiction) (Palestinian writers only; will open for all writers soon)
The Eyes of Evil anthology: deadline TBA (Wicked Taxidermy Press)
The Horror Zine (fiction)
The Horror Zine (poetry)
- The Marrow (Broken Antler)
The Thing With Feathers anthology: open until ~ spring 2025 (Metaphorosis Books) (thanks Kevin David Anderson)
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) (thanks Erica Verillo)
Velox Books (for horror collections)
Vræyda Literary (novels)
Welcome to The Splatter Club Vol. III anthologyº: open until full (Blood Bound Books)
Wicked Taxidermy 1 anthology: open until full (Wicked Taxidermy Press)
Wild Hunt Books: only open to agented subs; expects to reopen for unagented subs in early 2025
- Windmill Publishing (for novels)


Monthly/regular contests & reading periods

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)
Dark Tales from the Tarot Contest: open 1st to 15th every other month; themed (Spindle House 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)
- Sley House Publishing (Patreon subs): open 1st to 3rd of listed months
Snake Bite Books Monthly Drabble Competition: open 1st to last day of each month; themed
- 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

* All submissions become property of the publisher

Upcoming contests & reading periods

34 Orchard: Jan 1 to Jan 10 2026
A Cup of Owls Pressº (for novella subs): TBA
A Cup of Owls - Quarterly Online Anthologyº: Mar 1 to Mar 7 2025 (or until 70 subs)
- Abyss & Apex (for fiction): Feb 1 to Feb 7 2025
- Abyss & Apex (for poetry): May 1 to May 31 2025
- AEscifi: TBA
Africanfuturism anthology: TBA; 2025 (Flame Tree Fiction)
Aggadah Try Itº: Feb 1 to Mar 1 2025 (Madness Heart Press)
Allegory: May 1 to June 30 2025
Andromeda Spaceways Magazine: expects to reopen ~ Feb 1 2025
- Aqueduct Press: currently closed; plans to reopen in a few months
Augur Magazineº: TBA
Aurealisº: Feb 1 to Sept 30 2025 (AU/NZ writers); Mar 1 to Mar 31 2025 (all writers)
Bad Hand Books: expects to open for novella subs ~ Feb-May 2025
Baen Fantasy Adventure Award: Jan 20 to Apr 30 2025
Baffling Magazine: TBA (Neon Hemlock)
BAM Quarterly: TBA (Broken Antler)
- BFS Short Story Competition: Apr 1 to June 30 2025
- Black Annis Books: TBA (Pumpernickel House Publishing)
Black Beacon Books (for novels): TBA
Black Rose: TBA (Quill & Crow)
Bone Parade: TBA
Brave New Weird Award: TBA (Tenebrous Press)
- Carmen et Error: Feb 1 to Feb 28 2025 (The Braag)
Cast of Wonders: TBA (Escape Artists)
- CatsCast: TBA (Escape Artists)
Channel the Dark anthology: TBA; currently closed to subs (Temple Dark Books)
Chthonic Matter Quarterly: will reopen June 1 2025
Classdoom: Tales of Terror from Teachers anthology: TBA (trying to raise funding)
Cold Signal: TBA
- Corvid Queen: TBA (Sword & Kettle Press)
Cosmic Horror Monthly: Jul 1 to Jul 7 2025
- Creative James Media: TBA; 2024 (novels)
Daikaijuzine: Mar 30 to Apr 5 2025
Dark Holme Publishing: temp closed to anthology subs
Dark Moon Digest: TBA (closes when reaches 300 subs; reopens 1st of the following month)
- Dead of Winter Horror Fiction Writing Contest: Oct 1 to Dec 21 2025 (Toasted Cheese)
Depths of Love anthology: TBA (Cloaked Press / SFWG)
- Diet Milk Magazine: TBA (website down)
Diet Milk Magazine - Diet Milk Minis: May 1 to May 15 2025? (website down)
Diet Milk Magazine - In the Bleak Midwinter (micro & flash fic): TBA (website down)
Drabblecast: TBA
Dracula Beyond Stoker: May 1 to June 30 2025 (theme: Mina Harker) (DBS Press)
Dragon Gems: TBA; 2025 (Water Dragon Publishing)
- Dragon's Roost Press: TBA; subs closed
DreamForge: TBA
Eccentric Orbits annual anthology: TBA; 2025 (Dimensionfold Publishing)
Eidetic Quarterly: TBA (PsychoToxin Press)
Erie Talesº: TBA (GLAHW)
- Epic Echoes: expects to reopen in early 2025
Eternal Haunted Summer: May 1 to June 1 2025 (theme: "Music")
- Fall Into Fantasy anthology: TBA; 2025 (Cloaked Press)
Fantasy & Science Fiction: TBA; temp closed since July 2023
- Farewell, Neverlandº: TBA (Sword & Kettle Press)
FIYAHº: TBA
- Flash on the Fly Horror Writing Contest: TBA (Death Knell Press)
Flash Point Science Fiction: Feb 1 to Mar 31 2025
- Flickers of Fear: TBA (Off Limits Press)
Fraidy Cat Quarterlyº: Apr 1 to Apr 7 2025 (theme: "Growth") (Fraidy Cat Press)
Ghostlight: The Magazine of Terror: Sept 1 to Dec 1 2025
- Ghoulish Books (for novellas, novels, story collections): TBA
Ghoulish Tales: TBA (Ghoulish Books)
- Graveside Press: Feb 1 to Sept 30 2025 (for general subs)
- Grimoire: TBA
Grinning Skull Press (novellas & novels): TBA
Half-Light Press: TBA (Pumpernickel House Publishing)
- Haunt Publishing: TBA; expects to reopen in 2025
Haven Spec: TBA
Hearth Stories: Mar 1 to Mar 31 2025
- Heathen: TBA; expects to reopen in early 2025
- Heroic Fantasy Quarterly: TBA; expects to reopen in Mar 2025
- hex: TBA
Hexagon Speculative Fiction Magazine: Mar 1 to Mar 7 2025
- HOWL New Irish Writingº: will reopen in early 2025
Idle Ink: TBA; currently closed to subs
- INSPIRATUS: TBA (nonfiction, art) (Morian Press)
- Interstellar Flight Press (for flash fiction): TBA
- Jayhenge Publishing (for novels): closed; TBA
JOURN-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature: Feb 1 to Feb 28 2025 (Mind's Eye Publications)
- Journal of Speculative Literature: TBA (House of Zolo)
Kaleidotrope: July 1 to July 31 2025?
khōréōº: Mar 1 to Mar 31 2025
- Killer Shorts Horror Short Screenplay Competition: reopens June 2025 (includes short story category)
- Landing Zone Magazine: TBA (often reopens for short windows)
Landing Zone Magazine Fiction and Poetry Contest: TBA (often reopens for short windows)
Landing Zone Magazine Winter Flash Fiction Contest: TBA (often reopens for short windows)
Lethe Press: TBA
- Lightspeed: TBA
- Little Ghosts Books (for horror novellas): TBA
Lost Boys Press: TBA (for "romantasy" novels)
- Lucent Dreamingº (poetry): TBA
Madness Heart Press: Feb 1 to Mar 1 2025 (for novella/novel subs)
MetaStellar Magazine: Mar 1 to Mar 31 2025 (for paid subs; open year-round for unpaid subs)
Midnight Machinations: TBA (Grinning Skull Press)
Modern Mummies Anthology: Feb 1 to Feb 28 2025 (Cat Eye Press)
- Monster Anthology: opens Apr 1 2025 (Graveside Press)
Monster Uprising Lit Magazine: will open to subs in Feb 2025 (website in progress)
- Monstrous Magazine: TBA (Monstrous Books)
Myriad: TBA (Hexagon Speculative Fiction Magazine)
- Mystery and Horror, LLC: currently closed to novella/novel/story collections; has occasional anthology submission calls
Mythaxis Magazine: Jan 23 to Jan 30 2025
Necksnap: TBA; expects to open sometime in winter 2024/2025
Negative Space 3: The End of All Sanctuary anthology: opens fall 2025 (theme: "Survival horror stories where characters are trapped in an isolated setting--specifically the "siege" sub-theme") (Dark Peninsula Press)
Neon Hemlock Novella Series: likely not reopening until June 2025
Nerve-Janglers book series: TBA (Night Terror Novels)
- Night Terrors anthology series: TBA (Scare Street)
Nightmare: TBA
- Nightmare Fuel anthology: TBA; 2025 (Cloaked Press / SFWG)
Nocturne Magazine: reopens Apr 1 2025
Occult Detective Magazine: TBA (greydogtales)
Omenanaº: TBA
Orion's Belt: reopens Mar 1 2025
- Outlook Springs: TBA; no current sub calls
- Paper Butterfly Flash Fiction: expected to reopen late summer or early fall 2024
parABnormal Magazine: Feb 1 to Mar 31 2025 (Hiraeth Publishing)
- ParSec: TBA
Planet Scumm: subs open Jan 29 2025
- Plott Hound Magazine: Mar 1 to Mar 15 2025 (thanks Horror Tree)
PodCastle: reopens Mar 1 2025 (Escape Artists)
Polar Borealisº (fiction): reopens Oct 1 2025
Polar Borealisº (poetry): will reopen Sept 1 2025
Polar Starlightº: will reopen Sept 1 2025
- Pseudopod: reopens Aug 1 2025 (Escape Artists)
- Psychopomp (novellas): TBA
- Pumpernickel House: TBA (Pumpernickel House Publishing)
Quiet horror anthology: expected to open later in 2024 (Bag of Bones Press)
Rabid Otter Horror: TBA (Riverfolk Publishing)
- Rakehell: TBA (website down)
- Ram Eye: TBA
Red Cape Publishing: TBA; early 2025
Red Line: Chicago Horror Stories anthologyº: Feb 1 to Feb 28 2025 (From Beyond Press)
- Sans. PRESS: no current sub calls
- SFPA Poetry Contest: June 1 to Aug 31 2025
Short Reads: Mar 1 to Mar 31 2025 (Black Hare Press)
- Shortwave Magazine: TBA (Shortwave Publishing)
Shush Booksº: Apr 14 to June 14 2025 (Shaherazad Shelves)
Silence & Starsong: plans to reopen in Jan 2025
- Silk & Sinew anthologyº: June 1 to June 30 2025 (Bad Hand Books)
Silver Blade Magazine: Mar 1 to Apr 30 2025
- Skull & Laurel: TBA (Tenebrous Press)
- Sley House Publishing (for novellas & novels): TBA
- Sley House Publishing (for podcast shorts): TBA
- Sliced Up Press: TBA; no current sub calls
Solarpunk Magazine: Apr 1 to Apr 14 2025
Sorra Books: Oct 4 2025 to Jan 4 2026 (Shaherazad Shelves)
- Space Cat Press: TBA (for novels & poetry collections)
- SpecPoVerse: Feb 1 to Mar 31 2025 (thanks Horror Tree)
Spindle House Press (for novelettes): temp closed; TBA
Spring Into SciFi annual anthology: TBA; 2025 (Cloaked Press)
Strange Aeon: TBA; 2025?
Strange Horizons (for fiction): will reopen in 2025
- Stupefying Stories: TBA; may not reopen
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 from the Crosstimbers: expects to reopen mid-Mar 2025
- Tasavvurº: reopens Feb 1 2025
The Braagº: will reopen Summer 2025
- The Dead Horse: TBA (Disaster Tourism Games)
The Deadlands (fiction): Apr 1 to June 30 2025 (Psychopomp)
The Deadlands (poetry): Feb 1 to Feb 21 2025 (Psychopomp)
- The Fabulist: TBA (for fiction; poetry by invitation only)
- The Fabulist Flash: TBA; expects to reopen in 2024
The Flying Saucer Poetry Review: TBA (Starship Sloane Publishing)
The Ghost Story Supernatural Fiction Award: Feb 15 to Apr 30 2025 (The Ghost Story)
- The Green Sheafº: TBA; after spring 2025 contest issue
- The Maul: TBA
The Orange & Bee: Apr 1 to Apr 14 2025
The Phantomicon: Imaginings and Images of the Ghost anthology: TBA late 2024 / early 2025 (Mind's Eye Publications)
The Quarter(ly): TBA; next deadline will be Mar 16 2025 (theme: "This is Where We are Now") (Quarter Press)
- The Quiet Ones: July 1 to Aug 1 2025
The Starlight SciFaiku Review: TBA (Starship Sloane Publishing)
The Vanishing Point: TBA; expects to reopen in early 2025
These Haunted Highlands: TBA (Night Terror Novels)
- Timber Ghost Press (flash & poetry): TBA
- Timber Ghost Press (novels, novellas): TBA
Toil & Trouble: Aug 1 to Aug 31 2025 (theme: memory)
- Torrid Waters: TBA (novella/novel subs) (Crystal Lake Entertainment)
Translunar Travelers Loungeº: Mar 15 to Mar 21 2025 (open for general subs Mar 22 to Apr 15 2025)
Trembling With Fear (for short stories): Apr 1 to Apr 15 2025 (Horror Tree)
Trollbreath Magazine: Apr 1 to Apr 30 2025
- Troopers: TBA (Shacklebound Books)
- Uncanny Magazine (fiction): TBA
Uncanny Magazine (poetry): TBA
Unnerving (for magazine): Feb 15 to May 31 2025
Unréal: TBA (AEscifi)
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 literary: closed to subs; TBA
Weird Horror: TBA
- Weird Little Worlds: TBA (for novellas & novels)
- Wild Ink Publishing: TBA (open to agented subs only)
- Winter of Wonder annual anthology: TBA (Cloaked Press)
Wireworm: TBA (website down)
Wolfsinger Publications (for novellas/novels): Oct 1 to Dec 31 2025
- WonderBird Press: expects to open to subs in Nov 2024
- Wyldblood Press: TBA (open for nonfiction & art)
Wyngraf (for short fic; flash fic series is on indefinite hiatus): TBA
Xanax Hamster: Feb 2025 (From Beyond Press)

Open year-round

Apex Magazine: open year-round except Dec
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 (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)
- Lucent Dreamingº (novels)
MetaStellar Magazine (for unpaid publication)
- midnight & indigoº (annual speculative issue)
- Not One of Us (temp URL; having a problem w/ its website)
- Scifaikuest (Hiraeth Publishing)
- Shelter of Daylight (Hiraeth Publishing)
- Spectral Realms (Hippocampus Press)
Strange Horizons (for poetry)
Tabi's Flash Tuesdays (Litmora Literary Magazine)
Tenebrous Press (for novellas/novels): open year-round except Jan
- 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)
- 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
Alien Sun Press: no current sub calls
All Worlds Wayfarer: TBA; temporary hiatus
Anterior Skies anthology: TBA; sub page not updated since at least early 2024 (Strange Elf Press)
- Apex Book Company: not currently accepting subs
- Apocalypse Confidential: closed to subs for 2024
- Bear Creek Gazette: closed indefinitely
- Bitterleaf Booksº: currently closed to subs
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; no new issues planned for 2023 (Paradox Ghost Press)
- Bleeding Edge Books: closed to novella/novelette subs since Oct 2021
Blood Bound Books: closed to novella/novel subs
- Blood Knife: currently closed to fiction subs; open to nonfiction
Cemetery Dance: currently closed; unsure when will reopen
- Cirsova: last sub call closed Aug 2023
- Clan Destine Press: not currently open to unsolicited subs
CloisterFoxº: TBA; had expected to reopen Apr 5 to May 31 2024
Compelling Science Fiction: currently closed to subs
Constelación Magazine: submission portal closed until further notice
Constraint 280: currently closed
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
- Crystal Lake Publishing: currently closed to manuscript subs
Curious Corvid Publishing: currently closed to book subs
- D&T Publishing: currently closed to subs
- Daily Science Fiction: not currently accepting subs
- Dark Alley Press: currently closed to novel subs
- Dark Dispatch: no current sub calls
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
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)
Fairy Tale Review: TBA; last sub call was in 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; expects 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)
- Hollow Oak Press: no current sub calls
Horrific Tales Publishing: currently closed to subs
- Horror Garage: closed to fiction subs until further notice (since 2015)
- 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: planned to reopen in May 2023 (Farther Trees Press)
- Midnight Bites: currently closed to subs (Crone Girls Press)
Mithila Review: closed to fiction/poetry subs since Sept 2021 (open to nonfiction subs)
- Montag Press: currently closed to subs
- 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
NIGHTLIGHT: A Horror Fiction Podcastº: closed to subs; unsure when will reopen
Octavos: currently closed
Orchid's Lantern (journal): TBA; last sub period was in 2023
Orchid's Lantern (press): TBA; last sub period was in 2023
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)
Pyre Magazine: on hiatus on until spring 2025
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)
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
- Sinister Smile Press: no current sub calls; latest ones were in 2023 (thanks Angela Yuriko Smith
SmashBear Publishing: expected to reopen in 2023
- Solar Press: subs closed since Sept 2023
- Space Cowboy Books: closed to manuscript subs
Space Fantasy Magazine: TBA; planned to reopen in late 2022 / early 2023
- 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
- Stygian Press: currently closed to subs; expected to reopen sometime in 2023
Tales from the Magician's Skull: no current sub calls
Tales of the Unanticipated: defunct? closed to subs since 2014
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 Dark Sire: on hiatus since 10/31/23; expected to reopen Spring 2024
The Deeps: indefinite hiatus (Spindle House)
- 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
- 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 Shadow Press: no current sub calls
- Word Horde: closed to new subs since Apr 2022
- WordFire Press: closed to unsolicited subs
- Worlds of IF: submission guidelines & portal coming soon (Starship Sloane Publishing)
Wretched Creations Magazine: currently closed

Unsure of status

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
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
Mandragora Books: more info coming soon; no guidelines on site yet
Part Eight: website is now private
- Stranger with Friction (St Rooster Books)
Tiger Lily Publishing Company (for novels): website down
Underbelly Books: Twitter account no longer exists; no website


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