Smart Search Novellas

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Note: These are the results of a previous Smart Search of the Day. Today's Smart Search is Fantasy Short Stories

Today's Smart Search of the Day is: Novellas. Check back tomorrow for a new list.

Andromeda Spaceways Magazine

Andromeda Spaceways Magazine [is] Australia’s home of awesome speculative fiction.
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: Token payment (under 1 US cent per word) to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Token to Professional. Details: AUD $0.01/word, min. $20, max. $100; $10 for flash.
Avg. Response: 48.0 days.
Acceptances: 3.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

The Future Fire

The Future Fire (TFF) is our flagship online magazine, always open to submissions of beautiful and useful short stories and poetry in Social-political and Progressive Speculative Fiction, Feminist SF, Queer SF, Eco SF, World SF and Cyberpunk, and an experiment in and celebration of new writing.
Genres: Open to all/most Genres, including General, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: Token payment (under 1 US cent per word) to Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $10 for flash fiction; $20 for short stories.
Avg. Response: 32.5 days.
Acceptances: 2.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

Interzone

Interzone publishes fiction and non-fiction from all over the planet. It was founded in 1982 by David Pringle, John Clute, Alan Dorey, Malcolm Edwards, Colin Greenland, Graham Jones, Roz Kaveney, and Simon Ounsley. It was published by TTA Press and edited by Andy Cox from 2004 to 2022 and is now published by MYY Press and edited by Gareth Jelley.
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) Semi-pro. Details: EUR €0.015/word.
Avg. Response: 6.1 days.
Acceptances: 0.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

Nat 1 Publishing

Here at Nat 1 Publishing, we like the strange, quirky, and unique. Our origins were the product of a string of jokes and shitposts that went too far; they went so far that half a dozen novellas later we thought, “Well, damn. Might as well legitimize this monstrosity.”
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths: Novelette, Novella.
Payment: No monetary advance + >= 15% royalties No advance. >=15% royalties. Details: 50% royalties on novelettes and novellas.
Avg. Response: 59.0 days.
Acceptances: 38.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

Ploughshares Charges fees for some submissions

Ploughshares has published quality literature since 1971. Our award-winning literary journal is published four times a year; our lively literary blog publishes new writing daily. Since 1989, we have been based at Emerson College in downtown Boston.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) (Provides free copy/copies) Semi-pro to Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $45 per printed page, with a $90 minimum and $450 maximum.
Avg. Response: 53.2 days.
Acceptances: 0.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

A Public Space

A Public Space—an independent magazine of art and argument, fact and fiction—was founded in 2006 to give voice to the twenty-first century.
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella, Novel Excerpt.
Payment: Unknown payment Unknown.
Avg. Response: 107.8 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in fiction.

Reckoning: creative writing on environmental justice

Reckoning: an imperfect means of navigation by which one determines where they’re going using only where they’ve been. Reckoning: a settling of scores; justice. Environmental justice: the notion that the people responsible for shaping the ways humanity collectively values and interacts with all ecosystems, forms, and sources of life have not historically been the people who suffer the consequences of those choices, and that needs to change.…
Genres: Open to all/most Genres, including General, Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Professional. Details: USD $0.15/word.
Avg. Response: 78.7 days.
Acceptances: 3.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

Silver Blade Magazine [Silver Pen Writers]

No description available.
Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: Token payment (under 1 US cent per word) Token. Details: USD $3-$5 for flash; $8-$10 for short stories; $15-$17 for longer stories.
Avg. Response: 93.3 days.
Acceptances: None reported yet in fiction.

World Castle Publishing Wildcard

World Castle Publishing is a new publisher of ebooks, and trade paperback novels. It is our utimate goal to produce top quality novels for all readers. World Castle Publishing is a royality paying publisher. We PUBLISH, PROMOTE and PAY our Authors.
Genres: Action-Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Romance, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller, Western.
Lengths: Novella, Novel.
Payment: No monetary advance + Unknown royalties No advance. Unknown royalties.
Avg. Response: 52.9 days.

Writers of the Future Contest [L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future]

The L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest is an ongoing competition designed to discover new and amateur writers of science fiction and fantasy, present certificates of merit when earned and award monetary prizes to the winners. All types of science fiction, fantasy and dark fantasy are welcome.
Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Winner's Prize: Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Professional. Details: USD $1,000.
Avg. Response: 77.6 days.
Acceptances: 5.7% of fiction submissions accepted.