Planet Scumm
https://www.planetscumm.space/submit
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Deadline: OPENS August 13, 2026. Unknown when it will close.
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Previously unpublished short fiction that doesn’t lean heavily on genre tropes. Hard sci-fi, soft sci-fi, sci-fi that melts in your mouth-brain not your hand-brain. Speculative fiction, weird fiction, slipstream, glitterlit, analogpunk.
https://www.havenspec.com/submit/
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 5,000 words
Open From: August 1–August 31, 2026
Reprints?: No
Response: within ten weeks
Description: Fantasy, science fiction, horror, weird, etc. stories, poems, and non-fiction, that balance a sense of wonder with a bold plot and emotional depth.
TWO SEPARATE HORROR ANTHOLOGIES (Flame Tree Publishing)
Payment: 8 cents a word (6 cents/ word for reprints)
Story Length: 2,000–4,000 words (soft range)
Deadline: August 9, 2026
Reprints?: Yes
Response: within 4 months of the submission deadline1. Cosmic Horror: New tales that give a nod to Lovecraft mythos while presenting new settings, characters, cultures and concepts, pushing the boundaries of the surreal, the impossible, the liminal, the shapeless, and the creeping dread – but always on a vast, incomprehensible, cosmic level.
https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/cosmic-horror-short-stories-call-for-submissions2. Zombie World: Stories to explore the folkloric roots, interpretations and definitions, historical manifestations, symbolism, origin tales, new scenarios, and the many iterations of undead who could all be defined as 'zombies'.
https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/zombie-world-call-for-submissionsUtopia SF Magazine
https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/submit
Payment: 8 cents a word
Story Length: up to 4,000 words (up to 1,000 words if for flash fiction)
Deadline: Regularly Open. See list of THEMES and associated deadlines.
Reprints?: No
Response: Up to four months
Description: See site for quarterly themes! Fiction to be “enthralling stories set in a future we want to believe in.” Mag is also interested in poetry, non-fiction, and art, all science-fiction related.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/submission-85137677
Payment: 10 cents a word
Story Length: up to 250 words
Deadline: Ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: undeclared (seems to average less than one month)
Description: Microfiction stories exploring places, characters, and questions buried in the gray areas between this and that, here and there, night and day, alive and dead, evil and good, feminine and masculine, up and down, real and unreal. If you're not quite sure what that means, lean into that feeling... While we lean toward speculative pieces, we have a love for those in-betweeny pieces that blur genre. We accept horror (both spec and non), fantasy, science fiction, general/literary fiction, and everything in between.
http://www.asimovs.com/contact-us/writers-guidelines
Payment: 8+ cents a word
Story Length: 1,000–20,000 words (generally less than 7,500 words)
Deadline: Continually open
Reprints?: No
Response: Five weeks
Description: Character-oriented Science Fiction stories that is serious, thoughtful, yet accessible (occasional humor), including borderline fantasy, slipstream, and surreal fiction (and some poetry).###
***Non-PRO-Paying Market, but Eric J. Guignard’s “Pick of the Month”
https://tychebooks.com/submissions
Payment: $50 flat rate
Story Length: 1,000–5,000 words
Deadline: August 31, 2026
Reprints?: No
Response: unknown
Description: Original speculative fiction (sci-fi, horror fantasy, space opera, humor, etc.) short stories and poetry reexamining sports.
https://www.menace-mag.com/submit
Payment: $50 flat rate
Story Length: up to 10,000 words
Deadline: ongoing
Reprints?: No
Response: Within one month
Description: Work that encapsulates the dark, the transgressive, the gross (including horror). While not strictly a space for the speculative, M E N A C E seeks the “literary weird”—work that would be rejected from big literary magazines for being too genre. Open to: Fiction, Essay, Memoir, Poetry, etc.
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