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Markets and Contests

• 🏺 In Another Time is open to submissions of speculative short stories on the theme of “mythos”. Send them stories of up to 5,000 words, or up to three poems, before February 28th. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 🌚 Nyctalocos: A Collection of Night Terrors is a forthcoming collection of somnambular horror stories. Send them work between 2,000 and 6,000 words before February 28th. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 👑 Queen’s Quarterly is open to submissions of short stories, poems, and essays. Send them up to 3,000 words of prose writing or up to six poems. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 🌙 Nightwood Editions is open to submissions of full-length fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry manuscripts. Send them a query letter, synopsis, author bio, previous publication credits, and a 15-page sample. They “primarily” publish authors from Canada, but not exclusively. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!
• 📚 Wayfarer Books is open to submissions of full-length poetry collections, essay collections, and memoirs from traditionally underrepresented writers (for which they cast a fairly wide net, so have a look at their criteria). Send them poetry manuscripts of up to 85 pages, or creative nonfiction work of up to 60,000 words. They also have an online magazine open to submissions of shorter work. No submissions fee!
• 🌜 Moon Tide Press is open to submissions of full-length poetry collections. Their guidelines are rather sparse, so have a look at their previously published work. Note that this publisher only accepts hard copy submissions. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!
• 👾 Chaotic Merge Magazine is open to submissions of short fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Send them up to 5,000 words of prose writing, up to two poems, or plays of up to 10 pages before February 20th. No submissions fee!
• 🐑 Sheepshead Review is open to submissions of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Send them up to 3,000 words of prose writing, or up to three poems, before February 22nd. No submissions fee!
• 🐛 The Alchemy Spoon is open to submissions of poetry and essays on the theme of “Bugs”. Send them up to three poems or a single essay of any length before February 28th. No submissions fee!
• 🐲 Paper Dragon is open to submissions of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Send them a single work in any genre of up to 2,000 words. This call closes on February 28th. No submissions fee!
• 🦠 Metachrosis is open to submissions of flash fiction and poetry inspired by “the arts, sciences, and humanities”. Send them stories of up to 1,000 words or up to three poems before February 28th. Note that this call will close once they reach a maximum number of submissions. No submissions fee!
• 🪴 Down in the Dirt accepts short stories, essays, and poetry. Send them prose writing of up to 2,500 words or up to five poems. Note that they discourage hard genre writing. No submissions fee!

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