Open fiction calls that accept previously published work, checked against each publisher’s official guidelines.
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Fiction
Copytext Magazine publishes fiction in the context of revision: each piece appears with an early draft and a middle draft alongside the final version. This call takes up to three prose pieces of 750 words or less each, submitted as one package through Submittable, and is open for Issue Three, to be published in Winter 2026.
Fiction
Moonday Mag is a Los Angeles-based quarterly speculative literary magazine for work that is fantastic and fantastically strange. Its fiction call takes one piece under 4,000 words, is open year-round through Subfolio subject to a monthly cap, charges no fee and pays no compensation, and accepts reprints at least a year after original publication.
Fiction
The Dark is a monthly online magazine of horror and dark fantasy that avoids graphic, violent horror; it reads fiction of 2,000 to 6,000 words by email on an ongoing basis and charges no entry fee.
Fiction
The Future Fire publishes speculative fiction with a progressive, inclusive and socially aware disposition. This call accepts stories up to 17,500 words, including reprints and translations, and pays $20 per story ($10 for flash up to 1,000 words).
Flash Fiction
Fractured Lit publishes flash fiction with emotional resonance and characters who come to life through their actions. Its flash category covers 401 to 1,000 words, is free and open year-round, allows simultaneous submissions and reprints (unpaid), and pays $75 for original flash fiction.
Science Fiction/Fantasy Short Story
Uncharted Magazine publishes short fiction offering escape, new worlds and speculative exploration. This science fiction/fantasy call wants stories of 1,000 to 5,000 words that imagine the future of technology and science or explore the world through a speculative lens, open year round with no fee.
Short Fiction
Escape Pod is a science fiction audio magazine; this call takes original and reprint stories suited to audio, submitted anonymously, and is currently open.
Short Fiction
Etherea Magazine is an Australian publication seeking fantasy and science fiction short stories, with little interest in horror or grimdark. Its main short fiction call wants stories of 2,000 to 5,000 words, though longer work will be accepted, and it also accepts reprints in the same range.
Short Fiction
Trampset is a literary journal seeking short fiction, flash fiction and excerpts from longer works, open to all styles though shorter pieces tend to get more love. Prose is capped at 3,000 words with up to three flash or micro pieces per document, a permanent free category is available, and it pays $30 per accepted piece.
Summaries come from each publication’s official guidelines. Read the guidelines before you submit. Please don’t copy the directory in bulk.