Last updated July 29, 2025

Market Lists | Paying Markets | Non-Paying Markets | Presses | Rules for Listings

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What's On this Page?

• Listings are for markets that explicitly seek or publish speculative poetry and do not charge for submissions.
• A listing on this page is not an endorsement by SFPA.
• Listed markets may not currently be open to submissions.
• Note: Unless otherwise specified, pay rates are in USD.

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Speculative Market Lists

• Duotrope's Digest
  Subscription only. Submission tracker & markets database.
• Horror Tree
  Horror/spec markets guide.
• The Submission Grinder
  Free submission tracker & markets database.

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Paying Markets for SF Poetry

USD $50 / $2 per line / 8 cents per word and above

• Augur
  CDN $100 per poem.
• Cosmic Background
  $100 per poem.
  (New listing! July 2025)
• The Deadlands
  $50 per poem.
• Dreamforge
  $25-100 per poem.
  (New listing! July 2025)
• Fairy Tale Review
  $50 per poem
  (Pay updated! July 2025)
• Fantasy
  $50 per poem.
  (New listing! July 2025)
• Fantasy & Science Fiction
  $0.08 - $0.12 per word.
  (Note: as of July 2025 there are serious issues with the F&SF contract, per Writer Beware)
• Fiyah
  $50 per poem.
  "By and about Black people."
• Heartlines Spec
  CDN $60 per poem
  Poetry "focused on long-term relationships," publishes 50% Canadian poets
• Impossible Worlds
  $100 per poem
  (New listing! July 2025)
• New Myths
  $50 or more per poem.
• Old Moon
  $50 per poem.
  Sword and sorcery.
  (New listing! July 2025)
• On Spec
  CDN $100 per poem.
• Orange and Bee
  $50 per poem.
  (New listing! July 2025)
• Orion's Belt
  $0.08 per word.
• Plott Hound
  $50 per poem.
  Animal-themed poetry.
  (New listing! July 2025)
• Small Wonders
  $60 per poem
• Strange Horizons
  $50 per poem.

Between USD $25-49 / $1-$2 / 5 to 8 cents per line

• Analog
  $1 per line.
  (Note: as of July 2025 there are serious issues with the Analog contract, per Writer Beware)
• Asimov's Science Fiction
  $1 per line.
  (Note: as of July 2025 there are serious issues with the Asimov's contract, per Writer Beware)
• Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores
  $1 per line, $0.50 per line for reprints.
• Eye to the Telescope
  5 cents per word (up to $25) per poem.
• The Fabulist
  $25 per poem.
  Invitation only.
• Lucent Dreaming
  £30 per poem.
• Merganser Magazine
  $1 per line.
  (New listing! July 2025)
• PULP Literature
  $25–50 per poem.
• Radon Journal
  $25 per poem.
• Reckoning
  $30 per page.
  Environmental justice.
• Solarpunk Magazine
  $40 per poem.
• Star*Line
  5 cents per word (up to $25) per poem.
• Tales of Horror
  $40 per poem.
  (New listing! July 2025)
• Uncanny
  $40 per poem.
• Utopia Science Fiction
  $30 per poem.

Up to USD $25 / $1 / 5 cents per line

• 4LPH4NUM3R1C
  $15 per poem.
  (New listing! July 2025)
• Abyss & Apex
  $5.50 per poem.
  (Note: As of July 2025, Abyss & Apex sometimes uses AI-generated art)
• Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
  $10 AUD per poem.
  (Note: final issue is December 2025, no longer open to submissions)
• Andromeda’s Scifibuns: A Journal of Speculative Haibun
  £5 per poem.
  (New listing! July 2025)
• Baubles from Bones
  $10 per poem.
  (New listing! July 2025)
• BFS Horizons
  £20 per poem
  Fantasy or horror
• Broken Antler Quarterly
  $10 - $20 per poem.
• Chrome Baby
  $5 per poem.
• Corvid Queen
  $5 per poem.
• Daikaijuzine
  $5 per poem.
• Dark Dead Things
  $10 per poem.
  (New listing! July 2025)
• Eternal Haunted Summer
  $5 per poem.
  Mythic and pagan only.
• The Fairy Tale Magazine
  Unknown payment per poem
  (Note: as of July 2025, Fairy Tale Magazine does not list its pay rate.)
• The Fantastic Other
  $5 per poem.
• Foofaraw
  $5 per poem.
• The Future Fire
  $10 per poem.
• Gwyllion
  £15 per poem.
  Welsh themes preferred.
  (Note: As of July 2025, they are on hiatus.)
• Haven Speculative
  $20 per poem.
• Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
  $25 per poem.
• Illustrated Worlds Magazine
  $10 per poem (but " the chances of poetry being accepted are not high.")
• James Gunn's Ad Astra
  $10 per poem.
• Kaleidotrope
  $5 per poem.
• Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
  $10 per poem.
  Postal subs only.
• Last Girls Club
  $10 per poem.
  Feminist horror.
• Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine
  CAD 2.5 cents per word.
• Not One of Us
  $8–$15 per poem
• Penumbric
  $10 per poem.
• The Pink Hydra
  $3 per poem
• Polar Borealis/Polar Starlight
  $10 CAD per poem.
  "Open only to Canadians, long-term foreign residents living in Canada, landed immigrants, or Canadians currently living outside Canada."
• The Quarter(ly)
  $5 per poem
• Roses and Wildflowers
  $15 per poem.
  "Mythopoeic" poems
• (s)crawl magazine
  $25 per poem
  "LGBTQIA+ voices, neurodiverse voices, female voices, BIPOC voices, disabled voices" only
• Shoreline of Infinity
  £20 GBP per poem.
• Space & Time
  $5 per poem.
• SpecPoVerse
  $5 per poem
• The Sprawl Mag
  $20 CAD per poem
• Stygian Lepus
  $5 per poem
• Triangulation
  25 cents per line

Non-Paying Markets for Speculative Poetry

• 96th of October
• Altered Reality
• Aphelion
• Bewildering Stories
• Bowery Gothic
• Carmina
• The Collidescope
• Del Sol Review
• Eldritch Science
• Enchanted Living Magazine
• Gramarye
  Folklore, fairy tales, and fantasy.
• The Horror Zine
• Infinity Wanderers
• Jersey Devil Press
• Lothlorien Poetry Journal
  Fantasy focus
• Moon Park Review
  Prose poems only.
• Sublimation
  (New listing! July 2025)
• Tales from the Moonlit Path
• View from Atlantis

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Speculative Poetry Presses

• At Bay Press
  "Short poetry collections" (5-10 poems)
• Aqueduct Press
• Cemetery Dance Publications
  Agented submissions only.
• Hippocampus Press
• Interstellar Flight Press
• Island of Wak Wak
  (New listing! July 2025)
• Raw Dog Screaming Press
  Invite only.
• Weird House Press

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Rules for Listings

If you are a publisher of speculative poetry and would like to be listed on this page, you are welcome to email us and be added to the list. Listed markets must meet the following criteria:

• Your guidelines explicitly ask for speculative poetry. (Magazines that describe themselves as literary/speculative are also okay.)
• You have a working, up-to-date website.
• You are not permanently closed or on indefinite hiatus.
• You have published an issue within the last year, or intend to publish your first issue soon.
• You do not charge for submissions. (Fees for contests are okay.)

If you have demographic, geographic, or content restrictions, please include these in your email.

Delisting Criteria and Contact Information

Markets with nonworking websites, no updates for over a year, or which describe themselves as "on indefinite hiatus" or permanently closed will be removed.

Send new markets and corrections to sfpaweb@sfpoetry.com