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January 2025 Open Markets

Contests


Autonomous Press (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (Theme: Polarities) (DeadLine: July 31, 2025)

FunEmployment Press (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (Theme: EndTimes OddBalls) (DeadLine: January 31, 2025)

GraveSide Press (AI Concerns) (Theme: GradeSide Stories)(Children's Horror)

Hollow Oak Press (Short(b)Reads Anthology) (No RePrints) (Deadline: January 10th, 2025)

GraveSide Press  (AI Concerns) (Theme: Illustrated Poetry) (October 1, 2024 - May 31, 2025) (Horror)

Parsec Ink -  (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (Theme: Dark Hearts) (DeadLine: January 31, 2025)

Wicked Shadow Press (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (Theme: Flash Of The Dead) (January, February)

Write Hive (No RePrints) (Theme: Surviving Humanity) (DeadLine January 31, 2025) (Speculative)


Disability


Magnets And Ladders (August 15 - February 15)


Disability (No RePrints) (NoPayMent)


Please See Me (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (November - January 15)
The Healing Muse (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (AI Concerns) (September 1 - April 15)

Drabble
 

100 Foot Crow (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) (December 15 - January 15, April 15 - May 15)
Apparition Literary Magazine (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (AI Concerns) (Monthly 1 - 4)
Emerge (No RePrints) (January 1 - February 15, April 1 - May 15, July 1 - August 15, October 1 - November 15)
Flora Fiction (December - January 8)
Flash Fiction Online (No Simultaneous) (Monthly 1 - 21)
Flash Point SF (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (January 15 - March 30, May 15 - July 31, October 15 - October 31)
Many Wor(l)ds (AI Concerns) (January, March, April, June, July, September, October, December)
Sophon (NoPayMent) (AI Concerns) (January)
The Horror Tree (No RePrints)  (No Simultaneous)  (January, April, July, October 1 - 15) also
  (Valentines - December - January)
  (Summer - April - July)
  (Halloween - August - October 13)
  (Christmas - November - December 7)
The Stray Branch (NoPayMent) (AI Concerns) (January, February, October, November, December)  


Drabble (No RePrints) (NoPayMent)


Antler Velvet (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (Theme - Yearling ) February, March, (Theme - Buck) April, May, June (Theme - Doe) August, September, (Theme - Fawn) November 15 - December)
Beaver (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (November 15 - February 15, April 30 - September 30)
Ink In Thirds (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (AI Concerns) (April 1 - July 31, October 1 - January 31)
Passages North (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (January - February 15, September 1 - October 15, (Poetry) September 1 - April 25)
Pidgeon Holes (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (January, April, July, October 1 - 15)
Raw Lit (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (January, July 1 - 7)
Strix (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (January, May, September)
The Hoolet's Nook (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (Monthly 1-21)
The MidNight Fawn Review  (No RePrints) (NoPayMent)  (December 1 - January 15, March 1 - April 15, June 1 - July 15, September 1 - October 15)


Fantasy


AstroLabe (No RePrints) (December 21 - January 21)
Augur (December 15 - January 31)
Gwyllion (January, February, July, August)
Imagitopia (No Simultaneous) (January, May, September)
In Another Time (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (January, February)
Lorelei Signal (January 15 - February 15, April 15 - May 15, July 15 - August 15, October 15 - November 15)
New Myths . Com  (No RePrints)  (January, February, June, July)
Space And Time  (No RePrints) (January 15 - 31, June 15 - 31)
Zooscape (No Simultaneous) (January)
 

Fiction

34 Orchard  (No RePrints) (January, July 1 - 15)
Alien Literary (No RePrints) (May 22 - August 5, November 27 - February 29)
Anvil Magazine (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (January, February, March, April, May, November, December)
Crow Name (NoPayMent) (Themed - Red) (August 2024 - March 2025)
Epistemic Lit (NoPayMent) (January)
Event Prose And Poetry (No RePrints) (January, August, September, December)
HeartLines Speculative (No RePrints) (January, May, September)
GenrePunk Magazine (NoPayMent) (January)
MSlexia (No RePrints) (January 9, March 6, April 10, June 5, July 10, October 9)
MythAxis (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) (January, April, July, October, 23 - 30)
Rock And A Hard Place (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (AI Concerns) (Themed) (January 1 - 25)
Split Lip Magazine (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) (January, March, May, August, September, November)
Stone's Throw Magazine (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (AI Concerns) (Themed - Minnow Among Sharks) (Monthly 1 - 4)
Story Unlikely (January 2 - September 29)
Terrain .Org - Fiction  (No RePrints) (January, February, March, April)
Terrain .Org - Poetry (No RePrints) (January, February, March,)
The Forge Literary Magazine (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) (Monthly 1 - 5)
The MetaWorker (NoPayMent) (January, February, April, May, July, August, October, November)
Winged Penny Review (November 25 - January 15)


 

Fiction (Poetry) (No RePrints) (NoPayMent)


An Inkslinger’s Observance (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (No Simultaneous) (January - February 18)
Counter Clock (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (AI Concerns)  (November 28 - January 15)
Creation Magazine (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (January 26 - April 25, June 20 - August 5, September 25 - December 1)
Glint Literary (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (AI Concerns) (November - April)
HalfWay Down The Stairs (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (AI Concerns) (Theme) ((Oil Water) March, April, ( ) June, July, ( ) September, October, (FairyTale FolkLore) December, January)
Meniscus  (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (November - January 15, June - August 15)
MidWay Journal (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (January - May)
Moss Puppy Magazine (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (January - March, July - September)
New World Writing (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (January, April, July, October 1 - 14)
Pigeon Review (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (Monthly 16 - 30)
Salt Hill Journal (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (January, July, August, December)
StrayLight (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (No Simultaneous) (January, February, March, April, August, September, October, November, December)
WaxWing (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (January, April, June, July, August, December)
Y2K Quarterly  (No RePrints) (NoPayMent) (January, April, July, October)


Fiction (No RePrints) (NoPayMent)


New World Writing (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (January, April, July, October 1 - 14)
Rock Salt (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (January, June, July, December)
Surely  (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (December - January 15, 2025)


Horror
 

Burial Books (No RePrints)  (AI Concerns) (January - March)
Cosmic Horror Monthly (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) (January, July 1 - 7)
Dusty Attic (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) (January)
Pyre Magazine (No RePrints) (January 17 - February 28, August 17 - September 18)

 

Poetry


Consililence (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (AI Concerns) (Change - January 6 -12), (Chaos March 32 - April 6), (Waves June 30 - July 6), (Tension) September 29 - October 5)
Ink And Marrow (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (January, April)
Juniper Poetry (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (January, May, September 1 - 7)
Last Leaves (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (January, June, July, December)
Only Poems (Monthl
y 1 - 14)


Science Fiction


Astral (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) (January and July 7 - 28)
Apex Magazine (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (January 15 - November)
Cosmic Roots And Eldritch Shores (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (AI Concerns)(Monthly 1 - 2)
Escape Pod (No Simultaneous) (AI Concerns) (October - May)
Fusion Fragment (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) ()
Shoreline of Infinity (No ReP
rints) (January 6 -12)


Speculative Fiction
 

Electric Spec (No RePrints)  (January 1 - January 15)
Hexagon (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (AI Concerns) (January, March, May, July, September, November 1 - 7)
Inner Worlds (AI Concerns) (January, April, July, October  15 - 30)
MoonDay Magazine (NoPayMent) (AI Concerns) (January, February, March, April, May, June)
Penumbric (No RePrints) (June 15 - September 15, December 15 - March 15)

January 2024 Open Markets

Drabble

Antler Velvet (No RePrints) (No PayMent)

(Theme - Religion - Yearling) February, March,

(Theme - Buck) April, May, June

(Theme - Doe) July, August, September,

(Theme - Fawn) October, November, December)


Flora Fiction (NoPayMent) (December - January 8, February 22 - April 7)
Flash Fiction Online (No Simultaneous) (AI Concerns) (Monthly 1 - 21)
Flash Point SF (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous)(January 15 - March 30, May 15 - July 31, September 15 - November 30)
Ink And Marrow (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (Poetry)(January)
Ink In Thirds (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (April 1 - July 31, October 1 - January 31)
Juniper Poetry (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (Poetry) (January 1 - 14)
Last Leaves (No RePrints) (No PayMent)(Poetry) (June, July, December, January)
Limp Wrist (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (Poetry) (June, July, August 1 - 15, December, January)
Many Wor(l)ds (AI Concerns) (January, March, April, June, July, October, December)

Months To Years (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (January 15 - February 30, April 15 - May 30, July 15 - August 30, October 15 - November 30)
Pidgeon Holes (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (January, April, July, October 1 - 15)
The Horror Tree (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (January, April, July, October 1 - 15) also
   (Valentines - December - January)
   (Summer - April - July)
   (Halloween - August - October 13)
   (Christmas - November - December 7)


The Shore (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (Poetry) (January, February, April, May, July, August, October, November)


Disability

Magnets And Ladders (August 15 - February 15)
Months To Years (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (January 15 - February 28, April 15 - May 30, July 15 - August 30, October 15 - November 30)
The Healing Muse (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (September 1 - April 15)


Fantasy

AstroLabe (No RePrints) (March 20 - April 20, June 21 - July 21, September 22 - October 22, December 21 - January 21)
Augur (December 15 - January 31)
Imagitopia (No Simultaneous) (January, May, September)
Lorelei Signal (January 15 - February 15, April 15 - May 15, July 15 - August 15, October 15 - November 15)
New Myths. Com  (No RePrints) (January, February, June, July)
Space And Time (No RePrints) (January, July)
The Coop Anthology - Rabbit Hole - Not From Here (November 1 - April 30)


Fiction

34 Orchard (No RePrints) (1 - 15 January)
Alien Literary (No RePrints) (May 22 - August 5, October 3 - January 13)
An Inkslinger’s Observance (January - February 19)
Counter Clock (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (November 28 - January 15)
Glint Literary (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (November - April)

HeartLines (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) (January, May, September)

Many Worlds (December 1 - January 31)
Meniscus  (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (November - January 15, June - August 15)
MidWay Journal ((No RePrints) (No PayMent) (January - May)
Moss Puppy Magazine (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (January - March, July - September)
MSLexia (No RePrints)
   (Theme - Cats) (January 10 - March 11)
   Issue 102 - (January 10 - April 8)    
   (Theme - Red) (January 10 - June 10)

 

MythAxis (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) (23 - 30, January, April, July, October)
New World Writing (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (January, April, July, October 1 - 14)
OverHeard (January 1 - 30)?
Raw Lit (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (January, July 1 - 7)
Rock And A Hard Place (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (AI Concerns) Themed  (Monthly 15 - 30)
Split Lip Magazine (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) (January - June, August - December)
Stone's Throw Magazine (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (AI Concerns) Themed  (Monthly 1 - 7)
Story Unlikely (January 2 - September 29)
Terrain .Org - Fiction (No RePrints) (October 1 - March 31)
Terrain .Org - Poetry (No RePrints) (October 1 - January 31)
The Broken City (January 1 - May 30)
The Forge Literary Magazine (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) (Monthly 1 - 5)
Unfortunately (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (January, April, July, October)
WaxWing (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (August - April)
Winged Penny Review (November 25 - January 15)


Horror

Cosmic Horror Monthly (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) (January, July 1 - 7)


Science Fiction

Apex Magazine (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (January 15 - November)

Astral (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) (January and July 7 - 28)
Cosmic Roots And Eldritch Shores (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (Monthly 1 - 2)
Escape Pod (No Simultaneous)  (AI Concerns) (September - May)
Fusion Fragment (January 29 - ?)
Luna Station (December 15 - February 15)


Speculative Fiction

Archive Of The Odd (December 1 - February 1)
Electric Spec (No RePrints) (January 1 - January 15)
Hexagon (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (January, March, May, July, September, November 1 - 7)
Inner Worlds (AI Concerns) (January, April, July, October  15 - 30)
Penumbric (No RePrints) (June 15 - September 15, December 15 - March 15)
Puzzling Anthology (No RePrints)   (January)
Reckoning (No RePrints) (January 1 - September 21)
Solar Punk (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) (1 - 14 January, July, October)

January 2024 Open Markets

Drabble

Antler Velvet (No RePrints) (No PayMent)

(Theme - Religion - Yearling) February, March,

(Theme - Buck) April, May, June

(Theme - Doe) July, August, September,

(Theme - Fawn) October, November, December)


Flora Fiction (NoPayMent) (December - January 8, February 22 - April 7)
Flash Fiction Online (No Simultaneous) (AI Concerns) (Monthly 1 - 21)
Flash Point SF (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous)(January 15 - March 30, May 15 - July 31, September 15 - November 30)
Ink And Marrow (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (Poetry)(January)
Ink In Thirds (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (April 1 - July 31, October 1 - January 31)
Juniper Poetry (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (Poetry) (January 1 - 14)
Last Leaves (No RePrints) (No PayMent)(Poetry) (June, July, December, January)
Limp Wrist (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (Poetry) (June, July, August 1 - 15, December, January)
Many Wor(l)ds (AI Concerns) (January, March, April, June, July, October, December)

Months To Years (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (January 15 - February 30, April 15 - May 30, July 15 - August 30, October 15 - November 30)
Pidgeon Holes (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (January, April, July, October 1 - 15)
The Horror Tree (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (January, April, July, October 1 - 15) also
   (Valentines - December - January)
   (Summer - April - July)
   (Halloween - August - October 13)
   (Christmas - November - December 7)


The Shore (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (Poetry) (January, February, April, May, July, August, October, November)


Disability

Magnets And Ladders (August 15 - February 15)
Months To Years (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (January 15 - February 28, April 15 - May 30, July 15 - August 30, October 15 - November 30)
The Healing Muse (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (September 1 - April 15)


Fantasy

AstroLabe (No RePrints) (March 20 - April 20, June 21 - July 21, September 22 - October 22, December 21 - January 21)
Augur (December 15 - January 31)
Imagitopia (No Simultaneous) (January, May, September)
Lorelei Signal (January 15 - February 15, April 15 - May 15, July 15 - August 15, October 15 - November 15)
New Myths. Com  (No RePrints) (January, February, June, July)
Space And Time (No RePrints) (January, July)
The Coop Anthology - Rabbit Hole - Not From Here (November 1 - April 30)


Fiction

34 Orchard (No RePrints) (1 - 15 January)
Alien Literary (No RePrints) (May 22 - August 5, October 3 - January 13)
An Inkslinger’s Observance (January - February 19)
Counter Clock (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (November 28 - January 15)
Glint Literary (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (November - April)

HeartLines (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) (January, May, September)

Many Worlds (December 1 - January 31)
Meniscus  (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (November - January 15, June - August 15)
MidWay Journal ((No RePrints) (No PayMent) (January - May)
Moss Puppy Magazine (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (January - March, July - September)
MSLexia (No RePrints)
   (Theme - Cats) (January 10 - March 11)
   Issue 102 - (January 10 - April 8)    
   (Theme - Red) (January 10 - June 10)

 

MythAxis (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) (23 - 30, January, April, July, October)
New World Writing (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (January, April, July, October 1 - 14)
OverHeard (January 1 - 30)?
Raw Lit (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (January, July 1 - 7)
Rock And A Hard Place (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (AI Concerns) Themed  (Monthly 15 - 30)
Split Lip Magazine (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) (January - June, August - December)
Stone's Throw Magazine (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (AI Concerns) Themed  (Monthly 1 - 7)
Story Unlikely (January 2 - September 29)
Terrain .Org - Fiction (No RePrints) (October 1 - March 31)
Terrain .Org - Poetry (No RePrints) (October 1 - January 31)
The Broken City (January 1 - May 30)
The Forge Literary Magazine (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) (Monthly 1 - 5)
Unfortunately (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (January, April, July, October)
WaxWing (No RePrints) (No PayMent) (August - April)
Winged Penny Review (November 25 - January 15)


Horror

Cosmic Horror Monthly (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) (January, July 1 - 7)


Science Fiction

Apex Magazine (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (January 15 - November)

Astral (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) (January and July 7 - 28)
Cosmic Roots And Eldritch Shores (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (Monthly 1 - 2)
Escape Pod (No Simultaneous)  (AI Concerns) (September - May)
Fusion Fragment (January 29 - ?)
Luna Station (December 15 - February 15)


Speculative Fiction

Archive Of The Odd (December 1 - February 1)
Electric Spec (No RePrints) (January 1 - January 15)
Hexagon (No RePrints) (No Simultaneous) (January, March, May, July, September, November 1 - 7)
Inner Worlds (AI Concerns) (January, April, July, October  15 - 30)
Penumbric (No RePrints) (June 15 - September 15, December 15 - March 15)
Puzzling Anthology (No RePrints)   (January)
Reckoning (No RePrints) (January 1 - September 21)
Solar Punk (No RePrints) (AI Concerns) (1 - 14 January, July, October)

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