Category: Pro

Pro Rates

Anthology / Events / Pro

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Taking Submissions: Mmeory

Submission Window: July 7th – August 15th, 2025
Payment: 8 cents per word
Theme: Memory manipulation – Examples include magic spells, cyborg memory edits, very unreliable narrators, time travel gone horribly wrong.

We are seeking stories for an anthology to be titled Mmeory which will collect stories of memory manipulation. To be published in late autumn of 2025 by the Air and Nothingness Press. All stories requested to be 2000 words or less.

Theme: Memory manipulation – Examples include magic spells, cyborg memory edits, very unreliable narrators, time travel gone horribly wrong.

We are open to all genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Urban Fantasy, Alternate History, Steampunk, Hopepunk, Solarpunk, and beyond….

Submission Dates
Submissions open: July 7th, 2025
Submissions close: August 15th, 2025
Reading/Review begins: August 16th, 2025
Reading/Review ends: September 1st, 2025
All authors will be contacted by: September 15th, 2025

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Events / Magazine / Pro

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Taking Submissions: khōréō July 2025 Window

Submission Window: July 1st – 31st, 2025
Payment: 10 cents per word
Theme: Fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and any genre in between or around it, as long as there’s a speculative element.
Note: You must identify as an immigrant or member of a diaspora in the broadest definitions of the terms. This includes, but is not limited to, first- and second-generation immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, persons who identify with one or more diaspora communities, persons who have been displaced or whose heritage has been erased due to colonialism/imperialism, and anyone whose heritage and history includes ‘here and elsewhere’.

khōréō is a quarterly publication of stories, essays, and art: fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and any genre in between or around it, as long as there’s a speculative element. We’re especially interested in writing and art that explore some aspect of migration, whether explicitly (themes of immigration, colonialism, etc.), metaphorically, or with a sly nod and a wink. Most importantly, we’re a new magazine and we’re still finding our identity: therefore, please don’t self-reject because you’re not sure if your work is a good fit. We won’t know until we see it, so please give us a chance to look!

See submission requirements & how to submit at the following pages:

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Events / Magazine / Pro / Reprints Allowed / Semipro

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Taking Submissions: Cosmic Roots And Eldritch Shores July 2025 Window

Submission Window: July 1st-2nd, 2025
Payment: 8 cents per word for original, 2 cents for reprints, For artwork: $10 for the non-exclusive right to use each image, for as long as the site is online.  If we publish a print collection we will pay a pro-rata share for each image used.
Theme: Well written original work in science fiction, fantasy, myth, legend, fairy tales, and eldritch, in written, podcast, video, and/or graphic story form, and from around the world.
Note: Reprints welcome

 

 

Submissions Schedule

The first and second day of every month, 12 am of the 1st to 12 am of the 3rd, E.S.T.

For reading impaired individuals, our submissions manager and ‘forget password’ have a captcha compatible with screen readers.

We pay 8¢ per word for new fiction, 2¢ per word for fiction reprints, 2 – 8¢ per word for new fact-based work, 1- 4¢ per word for reprinted fact articles.
For new poetry, we pay $1 per line, and for reprints we pay 50¢ a line  We’re looking for poems up to 40 lines. We’ll consider longer poems but that would be a hard sell, and words over 40 lines would be paid at 8¢ per word.

We sponsor The Kepler Award to recognize and encourage writers of excellent science fiction and fantasy stories that creatively extrapolate on known science in constructive and exciting ways. You can learn aboutThe Kepler Award here.

You can read a copy of our standard contract here.   It can be varied as needed to include the rights of translators, voice actors, etc.

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Events / Flash / Flat Amount / Magazine / Poetry / Pro / Reprints Allowed

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Taking Submissions: Solar Punk Magazine July 2025 Window

Submission Window: July 1st – 14th, 2025
Payment: Fiction: 1500-7500 words ($.08 per word, $100 minimum), Poetry: One poem of up to three pages ($40 per poem), Nonfiction: 1000-2000 words ($75 per essay or article), Cover Art: $100 for reprints, $200 for original unpublished, Interior Art: $50 for reprints, $100 for original unpublished
Theme: Solar Punk that stir readers with themes of defiance, change, and achievement

All submissions to Solarpunk Magazine are done via Moksha. Any submissions received via email will be deleted without a response. Please don’t email us to describe your story and ask if it’s something we’d be interested in before submitting. We appreciate the consideration, but its easier if you just submit the story through Moksha.

In 2024, we are particularly looking for stories between 1,500 and 3,000 words. While our word limit remains 7,500, stories that fall between 1,500 and 3,000 will have a better chance of being selected for at least the first few submission periods in 2024.

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Events / Flash / Flat Amount / Magazine / Poetry / Pro

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Taking Submissions: The Orange & Bee July 2025 Window

Submission Window: July 1st – 14th, 2025
Payment: Poetry: $50 per poem, Flash: $80, Short fiction/non-fiction: $0.08 per word
Theme: Original and contemporary short stories, poems, and essays that explore, expand on, and subvert the rich traditions of international folklore, with a strong focus on fairy tales (though we also sometimes dabble in other forms of folklore, such as fables, myths, and legends)

“No matter what you write, you actually can’t help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.” ~Catherynne M. Valente

2025 submission windows

NB: Please note that all dates/times are AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time)

  • 9:00 am 1 January to midnight 14 January
  • 9:00 am 1 July to midnight 14 July
  • 9:00 am 1 October to midnight 14 October

We do not accept multiple submissions (one piece per submission window, please!), simultaneous submissions, or previously published work (reprints).

Submitting your work

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Artwork / Events / Flash / Online / Pro / Reprints Allowed / Semipro

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Taking Submissions: Mysterion July 2025 Window

Submission Window: July 1st – 31st, 2025
Payment: 8 cents/word and 4 cents/word for reprints
Theme: Speculative stories–science fiction, fantasy, horror–with Christian themes, characters, or cosmology
Note: Reprints Welcome

We are looking for speculative stories–science fiction, fantasy, horror–with Christian themes, characters, or cosmology, and for artwork for this site.

Fiction Guidelines
Technical details
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Events / Flash / Magazine / Pro

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Taking Submissions: SmokeLong – Dark Fantasy and Psychological Thriller Call

Deadline: August 15th, 2025
Payment: $300
Theme: Dark Fantasy prose that explores our darkest fears

Beginning May 11th, SmokeLong will be searching for prose that is troubling, that explores our darkest fears. We’re not quite sure we’re ready for this to be honest, but that’s part of the appeal. We are looking for literary prose. We do not want to weather gratuitous violence or cruelty, but we do–or at least we think we do–want to feel fright, unease, a racing heart. If you are a writer of stories that do this, this call is for you. Think Shirley Jackson.

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Anthology / Events / Pro / Royalties

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Taking Submissions: Skull X Bones

Deadline: June 30th, 2025
Payment: 0.08 USD / word and royalties
Theme: Science Fiction or Fantasy pirate stories

Avast, ye scurvy dogs! It’s time to plunder! Pirates have enchanted and haunted readers for generations, from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island to the ill-fated Firefly. Whether it’s Blackbeard, Mal, or Han Solo, we love our swashbucklers, our One-Eyed Willies, and our scruffy-looking nerfherders. In SKULL X BONES, we want writers to give us their best science fiction or fantasy pirates, whether they be on the sailing ships of the deep wide ocean or the spaceships of the black void!

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