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Science Fiction

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Asimov's Science Fiction

From its earliest days in 1977 under the editorial direction of Isaac Asimov, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine has maintained the tradition of publishing the best stories, unsurpassed in modern science fiction, from award-winning authors and first-time writers alike. In recent years, Asimov's has placed more stories on the Final Hugo Ballot than all of its competitors combined, and more than twice as many as its closest competitor…
Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.08-$0.10/word.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 37.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Betascape Magazine

Betascape Magazine [is] an interactive digital literary journal dedicated to the raw anatomy of storytelling. We are an open-market publication welcoming everything from Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Action-Adventure to Mystery and Crime, Suspense and Thrillers, and General or Literary fiction. Our name comes from the landscape of beta reading—the critical, deeply analytical phase of development where a story is tested, refined, and shaped for the world…
Genres: General, Action-Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $50.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 32.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.7% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Bourbon Penn

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. 39.5 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 1.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

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The Fantastic Other

A place for the discussion of dreams, the analyses of fantasies, the prodding of popular larks.
Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Token. Details: USD $5.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 47.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Horned Lark Press Wildcard

We’re a small press in Canada, eh? Obviously we love birds, but we also love dogs and tacos and kind people. And books! SO MANY BOOKS. We read in all genres, but we want to publish fantasy and science fiction novellas. But we do have a focus born of our antifascism…
Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Novella.
Payment: + Semi-pro advance. >=15% royalties. Details: CAD $2,000 advance; 10% royalties on print & 50% on ebooks.

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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. 8.7 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.7% 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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MoonPark Review

MoonPark Review is an online literary journal devoted to publishing compelling, imaginative short prose that breaks our hearts, haunts us, makes us laugh, or gives us hope. We love flash fiction, prose poems, and hybrid forms.
Genres: General, Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 56.9 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Unsolicited Press

Unsolicited Press is small press located in Portland, Oregon. We focus on literary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.
Genres: General, Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Novella, Fiction Collection, Novel.
Payment: + No advance. Unknown royalties.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 229.1 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Velox Books

At Velox Books, we’re passionate about bringing the most chilling, weird, and captivating horror tales to readers who crave the extraordinary. With over a decade of independent publishing experience, we’re a small press with an enormous appetite for horror, specializing in collections of horror, weird fiction, and intriguing tales that push the boundaries of the imagination. Our roster includes Amazon bestsellers and top-voted authors from Reddit’s horror story community, NoSleep.
Genres: Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Fiction Collection, Novel.
Payment: + Unknown advance. Unknown royalties.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 29.0 days.
Acceptances: Average. 5.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

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