Thursday, September 1, 2016

37 Calls for Submissions in September 2016 - Paying Markets

There are more than three dozen calls for submissions with deadlines in September. All of these markets pay writers.

As always, there are calls for a wide variety of genres and styles. Short stories, essays, interviews, poems, and flash fiction are all welcome.

Note: For links to sites that regularly post calls for submissions - both paid and unpaid - go to Calls for Submissions.

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Skirt! Magazine

Genre: Personal essays. Theme: Stories about your big life, big moments, big thoughts and big dreams.

Payment: $200 per piece

Deadline: September 1, 2016

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On Second Thought: Sense of Place Issue 

"For the 2016 Sense of Place issue writers are invited to focus on images from Digital Horizons (digitalhorizonsonline.org). Digital Horizons is an online library that includes thousands of images, documents, videos, and oral histories depicting life on the Northern Plains from the late 1800s to today. Articles may focus on a specific image of the author’s choosing from the Digital Horizons library. Submissions can include historical analysis, critical reflections, or other approaches to understanding or interpreting images of the Northern Plains over time. However, we will also accept submissions not focused on Digital Horizons." Writers must have some connection to North Dakota.

Payment: $250 per piece

Deadline: September 1, 2016

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Timeless Magazine: Theme: The Snow Queen

Genre: Timeless Tales exclusively publishes retellings of fairy tales and myths. Must relate to theme

Payment: $20/story

Deadline: September 1, 2016

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Ligature Works

Genre: Speculative fiction, poetry

Payment: $25

Deadline: September 1, 2016

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|tap| literary magazine

Genre: Poetry and prose on trauma, mental health, social justice, and by marginalized voices

Payment: $25 per piece

Deadline: September 1, 2016

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Sirens Call: Alone With Your Fear

Genre: Stories that pit the main character against their own greatest fear

Length: 4,000 – 8,000 words

Payment: $25 per piece

Deadline: September 1, 2016

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Geometry

Genres: Poetry, prose, creative nonfiction

Payment: $10-$50 for poetry, and 1-3 cents per word for fiction and non fiction

Deadline: September 1, 2016

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Goblin Fruit

Genre: Fantastical poetry

Payment: $15

Deadline: September 1, 2016

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Briarpatch

"Briarpatch Magazine publishes writing and artwork on a wide range of topics, including current events, grassroots activism, electoral politics, economic justice, ecology, labour, food security, gender equity, indigenous struggles, international solidarity, and other issues of political importance."

Genre: Nonfiction

Payment: $50 - $150

Deadline: September 5, 2016

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Wayward Ink

Genre: GLBT speculative fiction

Length: 3000 - 15,000 words

Payment: $50 – $80

Deadline: September 9, 2016

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Genres: Fiction, poetry, essays

Payment: $50 per piece

Deadline: September 15, 2016

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Tanstaafl Press Anthology: Enter the Aftermath

Genre: Stories about the burnout or shortly after any type apocalypse

Payment: $0.01-0.08 per word

Deadline: September 15, 2016

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Horror Library

Genre: Horror

Payment: 3 cents per word

Deadline: September 15, 2016

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Inside The Bell Jar

Genre: Poetry, short stories and flash fiction of absolutely any genre. The only real requirement we have is that your piece is related to mental illness in some way; through a character, the general theme, something about the setting – you decide.

Payment: £15 per published short story. £10 per poem

Deadline: September 15, 2016

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Broken Pencil

Genre: Fiction, 3000 words max

Payment: $100

Deadline: September 15, 2016

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Behind the Mask: A Superhero Anthology

We’re more interested in the ordinary day-to-day challenges facing these extraordinary individuals: growing up, growing old, relationships, career struggles, parenting. How they cope with that age-old desire to fit in when, let’s face it, they don’t.

Genre: Fiction (3,000 - 6,000 words)

Payment: 3 to 8 cents per word

Deadline: September 15, 2016

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Eye to the Telescope: Ghosts Issue

"I am looking for more than thumps in the attic and pretty dead girls on a moonlit road. I want the unexpected, the unmeasured—I want poems that belie the limits of life and afterlife and what we think a ghost story should be. Give me phantoms and poltergeists, yes, bean-sidhe and È Guǐ, pathos or parody, space ship specters or transmigrating alien souls—I want any and all of it, as long the poem has meat on its bones. No restrictions on genre or form, though graphic violence or gore will be a hard sell. More than anything, I want to be moved."

Genre: Speculative poetry

Payment: US 3¢/word rounded to nearest dollar; minimum US $3, maximum $25. Payment is on publication.

Deadline: September 15, 2016

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Syntax & Salt

Theme : Myths, Monsters, Legends and Fairy Tales

Genre: Short stories

Payment: $10

Deadline: September 15, 2016

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New Zenith Magazine

Genre: All genres and types of fiction as well as poetry, cartooning, illustrations/illustrated stories, short comics, photography on theme of holidays

Payment: All works 250 or less words will receive $5.00. Works of 251 words or more will receive $0.02 per word.

Deadline: September 15, 2016

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Janeland: Women Write More about Leaving Men for Women

"Six years have passed since the publication of Lambda Literary Award finalist Dear John, I Love Jane: Women Write about Leaving Men for Women, a groundbreaking exploration of sexual fluidity through intimate, firsthand stories. It’s time to update, extend, broaden, and strengthen the conversation."

Payment: Varies

Deadline: September 15, 2016

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Southward

Genres: Poetry, fiction

Payment: €30 per poem and €120 per short story

Deadline: September 15, 2016

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The Capilano Review

Genre: Prose and poetry

Payment: $50/page

Deadline: September 15, 2016

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3288 Review

Genre: Fiction, nonfiction and poetry

Payment: $25 - $50

Deadline: September 15, 2016

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Cicada YA

"CICADA YA lit/comics magazine is looking for fairy tales and folklore with a twist—we want you to take familiar stories and dress them up; dress them down; give them some bite; shine a different light on them. Tell us a dark and weird tale from your culture, or show us something new. Let the wolf win. Stick all of those tired old folktale tropes in a blender, add genre-savviness and a dash of hot sauce, and serve over ice."

Genre: Short fiction, poetry, essays, and comics for teen audience - pitches only

Payment: 10 to 25 cents per word

Deadline: September 20, 2016

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Splickety

Theme: Christmas in Crisis

Genre: Flash fiction.

Payment: 2 cents per word

Deadline: September 23, 2016

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The Letters Page

Genres: Stories, essays, poems written in the form of a letter

Payment: £100 per piece

Deadline: September 25, 2016

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The Puritan

Genres: Essays, fiction, poetry
Payment: $100 (essay), $50 (fiction), $15 per page (poem)

Deadline: September 30, 2016

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Genre: Articles about fishing in Alberta, Canada. Send queries only

Payment: $300-$500 per piece

Deadline: September 30, 2016

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Genres: Fiction, poetry, fairy tales

Theme: Ghosts

Payment: $30 per story, $10 per poem

Deadline: September 30, 2016

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Genres: Fiction, poetry

Payment: $100 for fiction, $25 for poetry

Deadline: September 30, 2016

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Genre: Stories about knights and all they are willing to do and endure for the sake of those they love and protect

Payment: $200

Deadline: September 30, 2016

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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Best Mom Ever!

"We’re looking for stories about moms of all ages, from young mothers to great-grandmothers, and everything in between. Let your mom or grandmother or stepmother or the mother of your children know that her hard work has been recognized and that without her, the kids wouldn’t be where they are today."


Payment: $200

Deadline: September 30, 2016

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Writer’s Chronicle

"The editors look for articles that demonstrate an excellent working knowledge of literary issues and a generosity of spirit that esteems the arguments of other writers on similar topics."

Genre: Nonfiction

Payment: $18 per 100 words

Deadline: September 30, 2016

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Patchwork Raven

"We are looking to create a book of diverse protagonists - stories from and about people all over the world from all kinds of cultures and sub-cultures. Don't get too hung up on "message", though - we want strong tales that will be gripping to kids, we just also want multiple kinds of voices in the book."

Genre: Bedtime stories for children between roughly 3-9 years old. Stories should be between 500 and 1500 words.

Payment: $25

Deadline: September 30, 2016

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Metphorosis

Theme: Gun control

Genre: Science fiction and fantasy

Payment: $.01/word

Deadline: September 30, 2016

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Tin House

Themes: True Crime and Rehab

Genre: Stories, essays, poems

Payment: $50 - $200

Deadline: September 30, 2016

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Fighting Monkey: Uncommon Minds

"We are seeking stories of exceptional intelligence, uncanny empathy, telekinesis, telepathy, or whatever else your UnCommon Mind can dream up. Is an UnCommon Mind a gift or a curse? You tell us. Better yet, show us the consequences of living with an UnCommon Mind. Happy and tragic endings are equally appreciated, but please refrain from submitting cliffhangers. While all genres are welcome, UnCommon anthologies tend to lean more toward magical realism."

Genre: Speculative fiction, magical realism

Payment: Royalties

Deadline: September 30, 2016

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