Fiction
Northern Shadows Magazine
Closes 1 Jan 2027
- Length
- 500 to 5,000 words
- Pay
- 10.00 USD flat
- Fee
- Not stated
- Simultaneous
- Allowed
- Reprints
- Original only
What they accept
Northern Shadows Magazine is an online magazine of dark speculative fiction. Its current themed call, Where Dreams & Nightmares Collide, is open from October 1, 2026 through January 1, 2027 and takes original short stories of 500 to 5,000 words in dark fantasy, science fiction, and horror, submitted as anonymous manuscripts; it pays $10 per story for stories published in Issue #2 and forward.
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- Anonymous reading
- Remove your name from the manuscript
- Query after
- 120 days
- AI policy
- Northern Shadows Magazine does not accept AI-generated content.
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