Welcome back for this month’s Submission Roundup! Lots of great opportunities in December, so polish up those stories and send them out into the world!

First a quick disclaimer, as always: I’m not a representative for any of these markets; I’m merely spreading the word. Please direct your questions to their respective editors!

And now onward with this month’s Submission Roundup!

Fantasy
Payment: .08/word for fiction; $40/flat for poetry
Length: up to 7,500 words for fiction (5,000 words or less preferred); up to six poems
Deadline: December 8th, 2020
What They Want: Open to a wide variety of fantasy fiction and poetry, including dark fantasy.
Find the details here.

Allegory
Payment: $15/flat
Length: Up to 5,000 words
Deadline: December 31st, 2020
What They Want: Open to a wide array of speculative fiction.
Find the details here.

We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020
Payment: .01/word
Length: up to 17,500 words
Deadline: December 31st, 2020
What They Want: Reprints of stories published in 2020 that deal implicitly or explicitly with queerness.
Find the details here.

FIYAH
Payment: .08/word for fiction; $50/flat for poetry
Length: Short fiction from 2,000 to 7,000 words & novelettes up to 15,000 words
Deadline: December 31st, 2020
What They Want: Open to Black authors, FIYAH is currently seeking fiction and poetry for their forthcoming unthemed issue.
Find the details here.

Planet Scumm
Payment: .02/word
Length: 2,000 to 6,000 words
Deadline: January 10th, 2021
What They Want: Guest edited by Hailey Piper, this issue of the magazine is seeking speculative fiction stories specifically from cisgender women, transgender women, transgender men, non-binary people, and genderqueer people.
Find the details here.

Triangulation: Habitats
Payment: .03/word for fiction; .25/line for poetry
Length: up to 5,000 words for fiction (3,000 words preferred); up to 100 lines for poetry
Deadline: February 28th, 2021
What They Want: Open to speculative fiction and poetry that deal with sustainable habitats.
Find the details here.

Happy reading, and happy submitting!