June 2026 Monthly Market Report
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.
FICTION
New Markets
Baneberry Literary Horror Annual
Deep Cut Magazine (Upcoming)
Portals (Upcoming)
The Submission Pit Substack
Markets Currently Open for Submissions
Apex Monthly Flash Fiction Contest (Recently Opened)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Clarkesworld Magazine
Crepuscular Magazine
Democratic Futures Prize
Escape Pod (Recently Opened)
Flame Tree Fiction Newsletter
Flash Fiction Online (FFO) (Originals) (Recently Opened)
Gavagai
If There’s Anyone Left (Recently Opened)
Night Shades (Recently Opened)
Reckoning
Story Unlikely
The No Sleep Podcast
The Tomorrow Prize
Thyme Travellers Anthology Series
Torch Literary Arts
Uncharted Magazine
Markets Recently Closed for Submissions
Anomaly
Apex Magazine
Book Worms
Cast of Wonders
Haven Spec Magazine
The Book of Demons (Permanent)
Were- Anthology Series (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.
Augur‘s Submission Window begins and ends soon.
Baneberry Literary Horror Annual temporarily closes soon.
Diabolical Plots‘s Submission Window begins soon.
Escape Pod‘s “Democratic Futures” Theme ends soon.
Flash Fiction Online (FFO) (Originals)‘s Submission Window ends soon.
Flash Fiction Online (FFO) (Originals)‘s “Aftermath” Theme begins soon.
Haven Spec Magazine‘s Limited demographic submission window: authors of color, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and other underrepresented groups begins soon.
If There’s Anyone Left‘s Submission Window ends soon.
khoréo magazine (khoreo)‘s Submission Window begins soon.
Mysterion‘s Submission Window begins soon.
Otherside (Originals)‘s Limited Demographic Submission Window: BIPOC, trans, and/or disabled authors who are self-identified members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community begins and ends soon.
Otherside (Originals)‘s Submission Window begins and ends soon.
Plott Hound Magazine‘s Submission Window begins and ends soon.
Portals opens soon.
The Orange & Bee‘s Submission Window begins and ends soon.
POETRY
New Markets
Exquisite Undead: An Anthology of Vampires
Portals (Upcoming)
Queer Little Daydreams
Skywater Publishing Cooperative
Markets Currently Open for Submissions
Augur (Recently Opened)
BSFS Poetry Contest
Dreams & Nightmares
MENACE
NewMyths.com (Recently Opened)
Radon Journal
Reckoning
Spec Colorways In Verse
Strange Horizons
The Green Sheaf
The Neurodiversiverse: Bridging Worlds
The Quiet Ones (Recently Opened)
Torch Literary Arts
Trollbreath Magazine
Markets Recently Closed for Submissions
Alocasia
Assembly Press
Book Worms
Haven Spec Magazine
Heartlines Spec
Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
Roses & Wildflowers
Tales From the Cryptids (Permanent)
The Skull & Laurel: Magazine of New Weird Fiction (Permanent)
Upcoming Market Changes
Augur‘s Submission Window begins and ends soon.
Haven Spec Magazine‘s Limited demographic submission window: authors of color, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and other underrepresented groups begins soon.
Otherside (Originals)‘s Limited Demographic Submission Window: BIPOC, trans, and/or disabled authors who are self-identified members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community begins and ends soon.
Otherside (Originals)‘s Submission Window begins and ends soon.
Portals opens soon.
The Orange & Bee‘s Submission Window begins and ends soon.
The Quiet Ones‘s Submission Window ends soon.
The Dream Foundry Market Report is compiled by David Steffen, editor of Diabolical Plots and The Long List Anthology series, and administrator and co-founder of the Submission Grinder. Diabolical Plots was the publisher of “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything” by Effie Seiberg, which is a finalist for the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and you can read it for free! You can support Diabolical Plots and the Submission Grinder on PayPal or Patreon or by buying books or merch.