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Markets and Contests

• 🧟‍♀️ The Monstrous & The Divine is a forthcoming anthology of mythological retellings from a feminist and sapphic perspective. Send them flash fiction or poetry of up to 1,000 words, or short stories between 2,500 and 5,000 words, before July 31st. Note that this call is only open to female and non-binary identifying authors. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰

• 🕵🏻‍♂️ Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine is open to submissions of — you guessed it — mystery stories. Send them work of up to 12,000 words. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰

• 🚀 Analog’s Science Fiction and Fact is open to submissions of short fiction, articles, poems, and serialised novels and novellas. Send them articles of up to 4,000 words, up to six poems, and stories anywhere between 1,000 and 100,000 words. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰

• 🌊 Dark Waters is open to submissions of crime and horror stories for audio adaptation. Send them work of up to 7,000 words before August 1st. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰

• 📕 Pride Award for Emerging LGBTQIA+ Crime Writers is open to entries of mystery and crime fiction. The winning writer receives a $2,000 grant to further their writing career. Entries can be a short story or an opening chapter between 2,500 and 5,000 words. Submit your writing, along with a cover letter, before July 31st. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰

• 🌾 Masque & Spectacle is open to submissions of writing on the theme of “harvest”. Send them up to 7,500 words of prose writing, up to five poems, or playscripts of up to 10 pages before July 31st. They also accept submissions of audio and visual media. No submissions fee!
• ❌ Ivo Review is open to submissions of writing on the theme of “Failure” including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama, and everything in between. Send them up to 3,000 words of prose writing, or up to five poems, before July 30th. No submissions fee!
• ✏️ Redivider is open to submissions of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Send them up to 6,000 words of prose writing or up to five poems. No submissions fee!

• 🌛 MoonPark Review is open to submissions of flash prose writing including stories, essays, and prose poems. Send them work of up to 750 words. They don’t list a firm deadline, but they’re currently reading for their fall issue. No submissions fee!

• 🫖 The Disappointed Housewife is open to submissions of literary flash fiction, personal essays, and poems. Send them up to 1,000 words of prose writing, or up to three poems. No submissions fee!

• 🌺 Hibiscus is open to submissions of flash fiction, “essayettes”, and poetry. Send them up to 1,000 words of prose writing, or poems of any length. No submissions fee!

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