SFWA Market Report – January 2023

Welcome to the January edition of the SFWA Market Report.

Please note: Inclusion of any venue in this report does not indicate an official endorsement by SFWA. Those included on this list pay at least $0.08/word in at least one category of fiction. This compilation is not exhaustive of all publication opportunities that pay our recommended minimum professional rate. Additionally, SFWA adheres to our DEI Policy when making selections for this report. We strongly encourage writers to closely review all contracts and consult our resources on best contract practices.

New Markets

Kangas Kahn Halloween Anthology

Markets Currently Open for Submissions

Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Asimov’s Science Fiction
Assemble Artifacts Magazine
Augur (Recently Opened)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Clarkesworld Magazine
Escape Pod
Factor Four Magazine
Flame Tree Fiction Newsletter
Flash Fiction Online (FFO) (Recently Opened)
Frivolous Comma
Gargantua
Infinite Horrors
Infinite Worlds
Islandia Journal
Issues in Earth Science
khoréo magazine (khoreo) (Recently Opened)
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast (Recently Opened)
Mysterion (Recently Opened)
Nature: Futures
Old Moon (Recently Opened)
Reckoning
Samovar
The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread
Uncharted Magazine
Zooscape (Recently Opened)

Markets Recently Closed for Submissions

Artifice & Craft (Permanent)
Baffling Magazine
Book Worms
Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores
Dragonesque (Permanent)
Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF)
Fantasy Magazine
FIYAH
Future Science Fiction Digest
Game On! (Permanent)
Martian Magazine
Never Wake (Permanent)
Pride Quarterly
Solar Flare (Permanent)
The Deadlands

Upcoming Changes

Augur‘s Submission Window ends soon.
Augur‘s Limited Demographic Submission Window: Black, Indigenous, People of Colour, Disabled, and/or Trans, who are also Canadian citizens/permanent residents and/or who are living within the settler-defined borders of the land colonially known as Canada begins and ends soon.
Cast of Wonders‘s “Seasonal Holidays” theme begins soon.
Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores‘s Submission Window begins and ends soon.
Cossmass Infinities‘s Limited Demographic Window: Black, Asian, Latin, LGBTQ+ and other under-represented authors begins and ends soon.
Cossmass Infinities‘s Open Submission Window begins soon.
Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF)‘s Closed For Submissions ends soon.
FIYAH‘s “Carnival” Theme begins soon.
Flash Fiction Online (FFO)‘s Submission Window ends soon.
Flash Fiction Online (FFO)‘s Submission Window begins soon.
Gargantua‘s Submission Window ends soon.
khoréo magazine (khoreo)‘s Submission Window ends soon.
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast‘s Submission window ends soon.
Mysterion‘s Submission Window ends soon.
Old Moon‘s Submission Window ends soon.
The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread permanently closes soon.


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