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Mainstream Science Fiction

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Dragon Soul Press Short Story Anthologies

We have your best interests at heart. Dragon Soul Press provides high-quality anthologies with a broad audience reach.
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: No monetary payment. Royalties. Details: Share of 30% royalties for the first year.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 35.3 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 43.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Escape Pod

Escape Pod is the premier science fiction podcast magazine, founded in 2005 by Serah Eley, and presently co-edited by Mur Lafferty and Valerie Valdes. Every week we bring you short stories from some of today’s best science fiction, in convenient audio and text formats. Escape Pod is a science fiction market. We are fairly flexible on what counts as science (superheroes! steampunk! space opera! time travel!) and are interested in exploring the range of the genre…
Genres: Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.08/word; $100 flat rate for reprints.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 23.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Flame Tree Press

Flame Tree Press is the trade fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing, with editorial offices in both London and New York. We’ll publish globally in the English language, in print and ebook formats, with a focus on excellent writing in horror and the supernatural, crime and mystery thrillers, and science fiction and fantasy. Our aim is to explore beyond the boundaries of the everyday, finding new pathways for the imagination, with tales from both award-winners and original voices…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Novel.
Payment: + Unknown advance. Unknown royalties.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 157.9 days.
Acceptances: Average. 5.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Hell Itself

There’s a bit of advice we give to writers: “Keep submitting your story until hell itself won’t have it.” (I first heard this advice associated with The Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, but I sadly do not know its true origins). The unfortunate truth is that there are more humans out there producing great short stories than there are venues to publish them. And, thus, Hell Itself was born…
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: Token. Details: USD $5 per story.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 15.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Horrific Scribes Mature

Horrific Scribes is an expanding online archive of dark short fiction (and some poetry) by various authors who share the Horrific Scribblings imprint’s dedication to the provocative, scary, and strange. Most of the stories will have elements of horror, ranging from bloodless slow burns to raucous extreme romps, but related genres–dark fantasy, dark sci-fi, surrealist and other experimental writing with dark tendencies–are likely to appear…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $25 per story.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 8.8 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Infinity Wanderers Magazine Wildcard

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Infinity Wanderers is a new magazine dedicated to promoting alternate history and the associated genres of Science Fiction, Steampunk, Historical Fiction and Fantasy. In addition we aim for between 1/3 and 1/2 real history and writers of Historical features are welcome to submit.
Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.

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Intrepidus Ink

Our stories are gutsy. An alarmingly individual spirit defines us. Achievement-oriented. Tales of those who struggle, risk everything, lose everything, gain it back—and overcome. Confidence. Emotion. Our words fearlessly and unapologetically fascinate.
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General, Action-Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.02/word for 300-1,000 words; $30 for 1,500-2,500 words.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 1.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Kaleidotrope

Kaleidotrope publishes predominantly speculative fiction and poetry—science fiction, fantasy, and horror, but also compelling work that blurs the lines between these and falls outside of neat genre categories. (Man does not live on space ships, elves, and ghostly ax murderers alone, after all.)
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.01/word.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 11.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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MetaStellar

MetaStellar is an online publication focusing on horror, fantasy and science fiction, launched in September 2020, founded by a dozen speculative fiction writers, editors and artists from around the world.
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novel Excerpt.
Payment: to Pays occasionally, up to Professional. Details: USD $0.10/word for original flash fiction submitted during specific periods; no payment outside of that.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 86.3 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 12.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

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StarShipSofa

StarShipSofa is one of the top SF podcasts in the multiverse that delves into the world of SF. There are a number of shows that fall under the Sofa's wing.
Genres: Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: $50.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 69.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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