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• Markets and contests with submissions open or opening soon.
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Win Over Editors Using Tension

Markets and Contests

• 🌟 Sally Port Magazine is open to submissions of family-friendly short stories. They’re looking for sci-fi and fantasy for young readers, and fantasy only for adult readers. Word counts vary by age group. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 🌱 Claudine is open to submissions of microfiction and creative nonfiction of up to 400 words. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 📝Twenty-Two Twenty-Eight is open to submissions of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Send them between 500 and 2,000 words of prose writing, or between five and seven poems. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• ☄️ Clarkesworld has reopened for submissions (after closing due to a deluge of AI) of short sci-fi and fantasy stories between 1,000 and 22,000 words. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 📚 Burton Mayer Books is open to submissions of full-length novels. They ask for an email query up front; if the query is of interest, three chapters and a synopsis. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 📖 Fahrenheit Press is open to submissions of crime and thriller novels. Their guidelines are pretty sparse, so go with a query letter, synopsis, and full manuscript. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 📃 Short Story is a Substack journal looking for (you guessed it) short stories. Send them work of up to 10,000 words. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 🐎 Centaur is open to submissions of short hybrid writing of up to 400 words. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 🧗🏻‍♀️ Cliffhanger! Magazine is open to submissions of “pulp-inspired adventure” from 2,500 words up to serialised novels. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 📰 The Drift is open to submissions of short stories, poetry, and pitches for potential essays. Send them a single short story, up to six poems, or pitches of two to four paragraphs. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
• 🖼️ Abundance Literary Magazine is looking for ekphrastic stories, personal essays, and poems. Send them up to 4,000 words of prose writing, or up to five poems, before June 20th. No submissions fee!
• 🐚 Exacting Clam is open to submissions of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. They have no hard word count guidelines. No submissions fee!
• 📇 Ciphertext is open to submissions of “a reasonable quantity” of short stories, personal essays, and poems. No submissions fee!
• 🐿️ Ratatosk’s is looking for submissions of writing on the theme of “Origins”. Send them up to 5,000 words or prose writing, or poetry of up to 1,200 words, before June 20th. No submissions fee!
• 🍾 Bottle Rocket is open to submissions of flash fiction and creative nonfiction of up to 1,000 words. No submissions fee!
• 🪦 Doubleback Review is open to submissions of writing that has been previously published in now-defunct literary journals. Send them up to 4,000 words of prose writing, or up to five poems. No submissions fee!

Nostalgia Sells: Writing Coming-Of-Age Horror, June 26

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