Open fiction calls whose guidelines were checked within the last 14 days.
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Recommended Reading, Electric Literature's weekly fiction magazine, accepts previously unpublished fiction between 2,000 and 10,000 words and pays $300. It and The Commuter are open November 2-8, 2026, or until their submission caps are reached.
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Epiphany's general submissions for its Spring/Summer print issue are open November 1 through December 15, 2026, through Submittable. Fiction is capped at 7,500 words and pays $175 for print publication ($150 for online-only publication); a submission fee applies, with waivers available on request for financial hardship.
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Fugue's general submissions are open September 10 through November 15 and are accepted through Submittable only, with a $3.00 fee per submission and a fee-free option on request for financial hardship. Fiction submissions must not exceed 3,000 words, and pieces of 1,000 words or less should be sent to the flash prose call.
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Long River Review is open September 15 to December 15 for original, unpublished fiction up to 4,000 words (flash fiction submitted individually, up to 5 pieces), accepts simultaneous submissions, and gives contributors two copies of the issue with no payment.
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Nenta Literary Journal publishes work exclusively from Ghanaian writers and accepts fiction submissions of fewer than 5,000 words, with submissions open from 1 February to 15 November. It charges no submission fee and pays writers a token of Gh¢150 for curated works.
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The Oxford Review of Books publishes fiction alongside reviews, essays, interviews, and poetry, and its online submissions are currently open for full pieces or pitches by email; as a student publication it does not compensate writers, and it states no fiction word limit on its submissions page.
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Superlative's open journal submissions take one short story of any genre or theme, up to 5,000 words and previously unpublished, for a £9.00 submission fee; the portal states £100 contributor prize money.
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The Sanctuary Magazine, Susquehanna University's genre fiction magazine, is open for prose submissions by email, up to three pieces of no more than 3,000 words each. Simultaneous submissions are accepted if disclosed in the submission.
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Uncertain Stories, a partner publisher of The Fiction Desk, publishes short stories with a light supernatural or speculative edge in anthologies, and submissions through The Fiction Desk's form are considered for both publishers. Its winter call is open until midnight UK time on January 31, 2027, for stories of 1,000 to 15,000 words; it pays £25 per thousand words plus six printed copies and charges a £5 fee per story.
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Alchemical is a literary journal of the speculative, publishing literary fiction delivered through science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Its short fiction call takes one piece of 1,000 to 5,000 words by email, year-round, with no submission fees and no payment to contributors; it aims to respond within 45 days.
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Genesis is the literature and art magazine of IUPUI and accepts submissions year-round from enrolled undergraduate and graduate IUPUI students, with its portal open for the Spring 2027 issue through a February 1 deadline. Fiction is limited to 5,000 words per story with up to two stories per submitter, submissions are judged anonymously, and $100 Best of scholarships are awarded per category including fiction.
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New Limestone Review is the literary journal of the University of Kentucky's MFA in Creative Writing Program and is currently accepting fiction for an issue themed Afterglow. Fiction must be 2,500 words or less, simultaneous submissions are permitted, previously published work is not accepted, a $3.00 fee applies, and no payment is offered at this time.
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Speck Magazine is a Rune Press (Minnesota Science Fiction Society) magazine of science fiction and fantasy literature. Its Volume 2 call, themed Masks, seeks fiction of 2,500 words or less in English from writers aged 18 and over who reside in the United States, closing December 21, 2026; it pays $5 per page up to $50 and provides two print copies.
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The Fiction Desk is a short story publisher specialising in regular anthologies of new short fiction, and its winter call, which includes its annual ghost story call, is open until 31 January 2027. It publishes stories of 1,000 to 15,000 words, pays £25 per thousand words plus contributor copies, and charges a £5 submission fee per story.
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Bending Genres seeks experimental fiction that blends genres and blurs lines, in hybrid writing. Its FICTION call asks for one story of 1,000 words or less, with the word count included on the document.
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AGNI reads fiction with no word limits from September 1 to December 15 and January 15 to May 31, charging a $3 fee for online submissions while mail submissions are free. It accepts simultaneous submissions but not previously published work or revisions of work already considered.
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Analog publishes science fiction in which the science or technology is integral to the plot, paying 8 to 10 cents per word for short fiction up to approximately 20,000 words.
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Australian magazine of speculative fiction publishing science fiction, fantasy and horror. This call wants unpublished, engaging stories, up to 10,000 words for most authors and up to 20,000 words for subscribers and Australian/New Zealand authors, with all personal information removed from the manuscript.
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Another Chicago Magazine publishes fiction that is personal and political and had to be written now. This call takes one fiction piece at a time, up to 5,000 words, through Tally, with a deadline of December 1; a submission fee applies for some genres and is waived for BIPOC writers and for its Palestinian Voices and Ukrainian Voices series.
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Asimov's publishes character-oriented science fiction; it seldom buys stories shorter than 1,000 words or longer than 20,000 words and reads year-round through its online submissions system.
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies publishes literary adventure fantasy set in secondary worlds; this call takes original stories up to 15,000 words by email year-round.
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Blackbird, VCU's online journal, pays a flat $200 per story and asks writers to query before sending prose over 8,000 words, with no hard length cap. Submissions are currently open, though the journal reserves the right to close early when it reaches its maximum number of submissions.
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Bourbon Penn publishes highly imaginative speculative stories with a healthy dose of the odd, strong characters, and suspenseful plotting. This call wants stories of 2,000 to 7,500 words and pays 5 cents per word.
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Clarkesworld publishes science fiction and fantasy fiction of 1,000 to 22,000 words, favoring stories that read well on screen and in audio; horror is not a fit, though dark SF/F is welcome.
Summaries come from each publication’s official guidelines. Read the guidelines before you submit. Please don’t copy the directory in bulk.