Mainstream Science Fiction

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. 42.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

The Dread Literary Review is an independent online literary magazine focused on displaying poems and fictions crafted around the themes of horror, mystery, and speculation.
Genres:     Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 72.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 6.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

HEXFILED started because the boxes did not fit. You cannot fit a hexagon into a square. It sits uncomfortably between shapes. Rougher around the edges than a circle. Less rigid than a square. Even given the same perimeter, a hexagon holds less area than one and more than the other. It occupies an unstable middle ground, never fully realized on either side. When a story straddles this liminal in-between, it risks invisibility. This is what we collect. This is what we file away…
Genres:    Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths:     Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 14.1 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 21.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

The Jersey Devil is a creature of legend, lurking in the shadows of the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey, revealing itself only to wreak havoc on some small town, snack on some poor, unsuspecting chicken or goat, and, occasionally, if it’s feeling a little randy, to hit on mermaids down the Jersey shore…
Genres:      Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths:   Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 81.6 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 5.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

Storm is a brand-new digital-first publisher. We’re starting small, but we have BIG plans and are looking for writers to be part of an innovative, author-focused new business. Storm Publishing is a new company, but our team are highly experienced – with over 100 years of publishing between them, working for some of the biggest names in the industry.
Genres:       General, Fantasy, Mystery/Crime, Romance, Science Fiction, Suspense/Thriller.
Lengths: Novel.
Payment: + Unknown advance. Unknown royalties.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 27.0 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

A journal of speculative fiction shaped by the fleeting summers and long winter dark of New England.
Genres:    Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths:    Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 15.2 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 31.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

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. 29.9 days.
Acceptances: Average. 5.3% of fiction submissions accepted.