Science Fiction

Bourbon Penn is a print and online magazine featuring stories of imagination and the odd. We are looking for highly imaginative stories with a healthy dose of the odd. Odd characters, odd experiences, odd realities. We want character. For us, stories live and die by their characters. We’re looking for fully drawn characters who surprise us with their honesty, complexity, and contradictions. We want mysterious…
Genres:     Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.05/word.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 39.2 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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. 24.5 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $10 for flash fiction; $20 for short stories.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 25.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

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. 8.7 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

My mother recently told me that when I was a wee little thing, my nursery school teacher asked me what was my mummy’s real name. I was a confident child, and knowing the answer, I announced to the entire classroom that my mummy’s name was Rat Bag. After I recovered from the fit of laughter that overtook me upon hearing this, I asked my mother why I had given that answer. It turns out that my father, a good humored Scotsman, had given my mother the affectionate nickname as a joke…
Genres:     General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $1-$20 depending on length; reprints paid at half rate.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 9.6 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 17.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

Send us your best fantasy, sci-fi, and horror themed humor. We’re looking for flash and short fiction, as well as high-res art, lampoon classifieds, and ads. We accept humorous speculative fiction, an umbrella genre encompassing narrative fiction with supernatural or futuristic elements. This includes, but is not limited to, science fiction, fantasy, superhero fiction, science fantasy, horror, utopian and dystopian fiction, supernatural fiction as well as combinations thereof. Humor. Satire…
Genres:    Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $5.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 11.8 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

Founded July, 2019, we are a growing science fiction magazine dedicated to publishing quality science fiction short stories, science articles, and poetry. We want enthralling stories set in futures we might want to live in. Counter to the recent dystopian craze, we publish stories that shine with a more optimistic future, one we want to believe in, one we would fight for.
Genres: Science Fiction.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.08/word.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 106.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

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. Details: USD $1,000.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 95.7 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 4.9% of fiction submissions accepted.