Where do you submit your writing?
Thank you to AuthorsPublish.com for sharing these opportunities.
Plott Hound
This is a magazine of speculative fiction and poetry starring animals.
Deadline: 15 December 2025
Length: 1,000-5,000 words (prefer 3,000-4,000 words) for fiction, up to 5 poems, 1,000-2,500 words for essay
Pay: $0.08/word for stories, $50 for poetry, $100 for essay
Details here and here.
Speck Magazine
This is a new magazine, and they’re reading for their first issue.
Please note, they can only publish work from writers in the US. Their tagline is, ‘Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature’.
Deadline: 21 December 2025
Length: Up to 2,500 words (see guidelines)
Pay: $5/page (up to $50)
Details here.
Blue Cubicle Press: Workers Write! Tales from the Concourse
“Issue 22 of Workers Write! will be Tales from the Concourse and contain stories and poems from airport and airline workers’ points of view.
(Blue Cubicle Press also publishes The First Line Journal, The Last Line Journal – which have announced their themes and deadlines for 2026 – as well as the Overtime series, and more.)
B Cubed Press: More Alternative Liberties
“Our sequal to the Alternative Liberties volume. We will be buying stories, poems, and esssays about the potential consequences of the 2024 Presidential election told in current, near future or even similar situations where such a leader is in power.
Deadline: 20 December 2025
Length: 1,500-3,000 words (see guidelines)
Pay: $0.10/word + royalties
Details here and here.
The New York Times: Modern Love
Modern Love is a nonfiction column of the New York Times. They want “honest personal essays about contemporary relationships.
Deadline: 31 December 2025
Length: 1,500-1,700 words
Pay: Unspecified
Details here.
River Glass Books: Writes of Nature
They are reading chapbook manuscripts (20-30 pages) till mid-January, in any genre or form. “We are interested in un-themed manuscripts as well as socio-environmental work for our new Writes of Nature series.” And, “Each manuscript will be considered for publication as a limited-edition chapbook in 2026 or 2027.
Deadline: 15 January 2026
Length: See above
Pay: $75 for chapbooks; anthology copy for shorter works
Details here.
Parsec Ink: 23rd Triangulation Anthology — Bad Romance
This is a speculative fiction and poetry anthology. “You know that friend who keeps falling for terrible people? That couple that not only fights all the time but makes each other a worse person, and they keep getting back together? Send us them.
Deadline: 31 January 2026
Length: Up to 5,000 words for fiction, up to 60 lines for poetry
Pay: $0.03/word for original fiction, 25 cents per line for original poetry
Details here.
Intrepid Times Travel Writing Competition
Their website says, “Write a true travel story about a moment of human connection.
Value: $300
Deadline: 10 December 2025
Open for: All writers
Details here.
Meridians: The Elizabeth Alexander Creative Writing Award
Meridians is a literary magazine affiliated with Smith College. This award is for short works – poetry, fiction and non-fiction, and play scripts.
Value: $500 each for poetry and prose, Residency
Deadline: 31 December 2025
Open for: Unspecified
Details here and here
A Few Places Seeking Submissions in November
WOW! Women on Writing hosts two quarterly contests: one for fiction writers and one for nonfiction writers:
Quarterly Flash Fiction Contest
Quarterly Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest
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Thanks to Winning Writers for these suggestions:
| Hudson Review Short Story Contest | 11/30/25 | Short Fiction | Active | $1,000.00 | Recommended | |
| Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers | 11/30/25 | Individual Poems |
Active | Highly Recommended |
| ServiceScape Short Story Award | 11/30/25 | Short Fiction & Creative Nonfiction | Active | $1,000.00 | Neutral |
| ServiceScape Short Story Award | 11/30/25 | Short Fiction & Creative Nonfiction | Active | $1,000.00 | Neutral |
Also:
Substack runs a monthly short story competition. Their mission is to “revive the art of the short story, support artists, and produce something wonderful.” Genre: Short story. Length: 6000- 10,000 words. Prize: $100 plus 50% of subscription revenue to be sent by Paypal, Zelle, or check. Deadline: November 30, 2025. Reprints are ok so long as you still have the rights to distribute.
J. F. Powers Prize for Short Fiction. Genre: Short fiction. Prize: $500. Deadline: November 30, 2025.
A Few Places Seeking Submissions in October
Thanks to the prolific Michael Barrington of the California Writers Club for sharing these.
The Suburban Review
The Suburban Review is an Australian literary magazine, and they want submissions on the Untrue theme. “In a time of fake news and counterfeits, scammers and artificial intelligence, tell us how you’re sifting through the layers of conceit. Send us your most suspicious stories, fallacious arguments, and prose that teeters between fact and fiction.
What have you been covering up? Which appearances are deceiving? Is there something that rings false? We’re itching for unreliable characters, fabricated worlds, and deceptive turns of phrase. Is it time to come clean, or will you be keeping up the poker face?” They also take comics and art.
Deadline: 26 October 2025 (5 p.m. AEDT)
Length: 500-2,500 words for fiction, 1,250-2,000 words for nonfiction, up to 3 poems
Pay: Up to AUD450 for fiction, up to AUD550 for poetry, AUD400 for nonfiction
Details here and here.
(Also, Full Bleed, an annual print and online journal devoted to the intersection of the visual and literary arts, wants submissions on the Inheritance theme: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, critical essays, visual art, and hybrid, genre-bending works. Length guidelines are up to 4,000 words for prose; up to 3 poems, and they pay $25-50. The deadline is 1 November 2025. Details here and here.)
Inner Worlds Zine
They publish “Speculative stories about our inner lives”. They want “Science fiction, fantasy, or supernatural horror prose with a strong emotional or psychological focus. We are mainly interested in fiction, but we’re open to speculative memoir or creative non fiction, as long as it has speculative elements.” They have detailed guidelines. They also accept reprints. Submission is via a form.
Deadline: 31 October 2025
Length: 500-2,500 words
Pay: £0.02/word
Details here.
Banshee
This is the literary magazine of Banshee Press. They accept fiction (including flash), nonfiction, and poetry. “Banshee welcomes submissions from both Irish and international writers of any background, including first-time writers. We welcome work from members of groups or communities typically under-represented within literature, whether or not the work addresses this.”
Deadline: 31 October 2025
Length: Up to 5,000 words for prose, up to 4 poems
Pay: €300 for a story/essay; €100 for flash fiction; €75 per poem (see ‘We believe in paying writers’ on their guidelines page)
Details here.
Metastellar
They accept flash fiction – science fiction, fantasy, and horror, for which they pay. They also accept other formats (reviews, essays, reprints, book excerpts) for which there is no payment.
Deadline: 31 October 2025
Length: Up to 1,200 words
Pay: $0.08/word
Details here.
The Speculative Detective Agency Anthology
This is an interconnected fiction anthology, in which each story is a case completed by one of the agency’s detectives – who are created by you, the authors. Please read their detailed guidelines for the premise. Some stories are invited via the open call. The Kickstarter for this call has been funded. See the call on BlueSky here.
Deadline: 31st October 2025
Length: 4,000-5,000 words
Pay: $300
Details here.
FIYAH
They only accept submissions from Black writers of the African Diaspora. They accept speculative fiction and poetry. Submission is via a form.
Deadline: 1 November 2025
Length: 2,000-15,000 words for fiction, poetry up to 1,000 words
Pay: $0.08/word for fiction, $50 for poetry
Details here.
(And Neon Hemlock Press, which publishes queer speculative fiction, are accepting novellasfrom all writers (science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural, slipstream, & weird, hybrid work, prefer works that explore some element of queer experience, 17,500–40,000 words)till 30thOctober 2025, see here – scroll down).
Utopia Science Fiction
They publish utopian science fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art. They have detailed guidelines, please read them carefully. Their next upcoming theme is Alien Celebrations – “Bring us tales of celebrations from the far reaches of the galaxy!” This is also their Art special issue (see guidelines).
Deadline: 1 November 2025
Length: 100-4,000 words preferred for fiction, up to 6,000 words for nonfiction, up to 5 poems
Pay: $0.08/word for fiction, $30 for nonfiction, $30 per poem
Details here.
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