If your story doesn’t fit our submission guidelines we encourage you to consider these alternate podcast and digital magazine venues. Each one aligns with our goal of ensuring authors are compensated for their work.
This is only a representative sample; we strongly encourage active short fiction authors become patrons of the excellent Submissions Grinder for researching markets and tracking their submissions. There’s also a great list of the Hugo category semiprozine markets, curated by Neil Clarke.
The Escape Artists Podcast Network
- Escape Pod – scifi audio fiction
- PodCastle – fantasy audio fiction
- PseudoPod – horror audio fiction
YA / Middlegrade / KidLit Publications
- Cricket (ages 9-14) – Realistic contemporary fiction, historical fiction, science fiction and fantasy, folk tales, myths and legends, and humor
- Ember (ages 10-18) – Semiannual journal of luminous things. Publishes poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.
- Foreshadow (YA) – Original YA short fiction anthologies
- Refractions – Annual collection of short stories, essays, poems, puzzles and artwork for readers 14+
- Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide (ages 9-12) – An annual anthology, with submissions generally running in April/May supported by a summer Kickstarter
Digital Magazines and Podcasts
- Analog – Original science fiction
- Anathema – Original speculative fiction by queer people of color published tri-annually
- Andromeda Spaceways – Original science fiction, fantasy and supernatural horror
- Apparition Literary Magazine – New! Unpublished speculative fiction in quarterly themes
- Arsenika – Quarterly original poetry and flash fiction
- Asimov’s – Original science fiction and fantasy
- Augur – Canadian “literary” speculative fiction that defies categorization
- Bastion – Original science fiction
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies – Original literary adventure fantasy
- Clarkesworld – Original science fiction and fantasy
- Daily Science Fiction – Original flash fiction
- Diabolical Plots – Original speculative fiction
- Fantasy and Science Fiction – Original science fiction, fantasy and humor
- Fireside – Original speculative fiction
- Fiyah – Black speculative fiction, published in quarterly themes
- Flash Fiction Online – Stories under 1000 words of any genre
- Gallery of Curiosities – Market catering to the steampunk and retro-futurist niche
- Gamut – Neo-noir speculative fiction and poetry with a literary bent
- Glittership – LGBTQ science fiction and fantasy
- Grimdark Magazine – Original grimdark fiction (dark settings, grey characters, gritty, etc.)
- Holdfast – Speculative fiction that explores all things fantastic
- Kaleidotrope – Original speculative fiction, published quarterly
- Lightspeed – Science fiction and fantasy
- Luna Station Quarterly – Speculative fiction written by women-identified authors
- Metaphorosis Magazine – New! Beautifully made speculative fiction
- Nature Futures – Original fiction between 850 and 950 words
- Nightmare – Horror and dark fantasy
- Omenana – Original speculative fiction by writers from Africa and the African Diaspora
- Samovar – Quarterly magazine of and about speculative fiction and poetry in translation
- SQ Magazine – Quarterly magazine of internationally-oriented speculative fiction
- Story Seed Vault – Science-based micro fiction (140 character or less)
- Strange Horizons – Original speculative fiction
- Syntax & Salt – New! Speculative fiction with a literary bent
- The Dark – Original and reprint horror and dark fantasy
- The Future Fire – Social-political and progressive speculative fiction
- Toasted Cake – Idiosyncratic flash fiction
- Truancy – Revisions / retellings of folklore and mythology from marginalized voices
- Uncanny Magazine – Original speculative fiction
If you’d like to submit your publication for consideration on this list, please contact our editor, and include a link to your submission guidelines or market listing (Grinder, Ralan, Duotrope, etc.) containing your story payment details. Thanks!
Last updated April 2019