Welcome to the monthly market report brought to you via a collaboration between Dream Foundry and the Submission Grinder. You can check here for new reports and an archive of past ones, or sign up to receive them in your inbox through our Market Report Newsletter.

To be included here, each market must meet The Submission Grinder’s standards for a full listing, minimal standards for payment set by Dream Foundry, and publish speculative fiction or poetry. We may be making tweaks to the inclusion/exclusion criteria in the coming months to ensure we’re meeting our goal of including markets that meet our basic standards for professionalism in their business practices. Inclusion in this list is not an endorsement. If you have reason to believe a market doesn’t meet a basic threshold for professionalism, please report that to The Submission Grinder. If you think there’s an issue with the criteria used to curate the list, reach out to us here at Dream Foundry.

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Fiction

Markets Currently Open for Submissions

Al Blanchard Award (Recently Opened)
Apex Monthly Flash Fiction Contest (Recently Opened)
Asimov Press
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Clarkesworld Magazine
Crepuscular Magazine
Escape Pod
Flame Tree Fiction Newsletter
Flash Fiction Online (FFO) (Originals) (Recently Opened)
Gavagai
Haven Spec Magazine (Recently Opened)
PodCastle
Reckoning (Recently Opened)
Story Unlikely (Recently Opened)
The Daily Tomorrow
The No Sleep Podcast
The Tomorrow Prize
The Tributary (Recently Opened)
They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd)
Torch Literary Arts
Uncharted Magazine
Utopia Science Fiction
What Elegant Stars: Queer Tales of Impossible Style

Markets Recently Closed for Submissions

100-Foot Crow
Anomaly
Apex Magazine
Book XI
Cursed Morsels Zine
Infinite Horrors (Permanent)
Infinite Worlds (Permanent)
Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast
Mysterion
Night Shades
Nightmare Magazine
Strange Horizons
Summer in the City (Permanent)

Upcoming Market Changes

Anomaly‘s Submission Window begins and ends soon.
Apex Magazine‘s Submission Window begins soon.
Apex Monthly Flash Fiction Contest‘s Submission Window ends soon.
Apex Monthly Flash Fiction Contest‘s Submission Window begins soon.
Cast of Wonders‘s Submission Window begins and ends soon.
Cast of Wonders‘s “Halloween” Theme begins and ends soon.
Cast of Wonders‘s “Solstice/Christmas/New Year” Theme begins and ends soon.
Flash Fiction Online (FFO) (Originals)‘s Submission Window ends soon.
Flash Fiction Online (FFO) (Originals)‘s “Tiny Gods” Theme begins soon.
Haven Spec Magazine‘s Submission window ends soon.
Metastellar (Originals)‘s Submission window begins soon.
Orion’s Belt‘s Submission Window begins soon.
Plott Hound Magazine‘s Submission window begins and ends soon.
PseudoPod‘s Submission Window For Reprints that originally appeared in 2025 Anthologies and Collections begins soon.
The Tributary‘s Submission Window ends soon.

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Poetry