short fiction

Submissions are now open for the Winter 2027 issue of Hushmarrow Press, publishing in early February. Hushmarrow Press is an independent literary press based in New York City, created to make more room for fiction in a landscape that often favors memoirs, essays, and think pieces. Hushmarrow...

https://desperateliterature.com/product-category/literaryprize/eleven-stories/ ABOUT THE PRIZE: The aim of the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize is both to celebrate the best of new short fiction and to give winners the most visibility possible for their writing. That’s why we’ve teamed...

Here's a wee list of pro/semi-pro lit mags that publish SFF This is a TINY sample of the magazines out there, so please add more below. I'm only adding paying mags, but add non-paying ones cause those can be great too. Another great resource is Submittable. You can play around with their...

Litopians! Arise and submit! May is a great month for submitting your poetry, creative nonfiction, short stories, random musings, shopping lists, and yes! even whole manuscripts. There are over four dozen calls for submissions this month. All of these are paying markets! There are no submission...

Litro magazine welcomes submissions on a themed basis. I've just been reminded via Facebook memory jogger. Take a look Here They want short stories for November, on the theme 'Nightmares.' 4 000 words max, plus lots more. 2013 they published one of mine, online. That long ago, yikes. Joe's Ark