Cosmic Horror Monthly is a magazine specializing in cosmic horror and weird fiction published by Randolph Literary Press. They are looking for weird and cosmic fiction under 5,000 words, and are not always open to submissions. They do not take unsolicited reprints. According to their submissions page, they pay 3 cents (USD) per word for original fiction. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Fairy Tale Magazine is an online lit magazine that publishes two full issues per year and one bonus mini-issue for their Prose & Poetry Contest. They seek fairy tale stories and poems from and about a wide range of backgrounds. They accept only previously unpublished stories and poems and welcome unsolicited submissions. Short stories should be between 900-2,000 words and poetry has a 500 word limit. They pay all writers; payment rates are not mentioned. To learn more, refer to this page.
Augur is a literary magazine that makes room for writing from uncommon perspectives, and brings together the often disparate realms of literary and genre fiction. They are not always open to submissions, and are looking for sci-fi, fantasy, and dreamy realism. According to their submissions page, they pay $0.14 cents (CAD) per word for short fiction (800+ words), and a flat fee of $112.00 per flash fiction piece (800 words and under). They pay $100.00 CAD per poem. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Threepenny Review is an American literary magazine founded in 1980. Maintaining a quarterly schedule, it offers fiction, memoirs, poetry, essays and criticism to a readership of 10,000. They only accept submissions through January 1 to April 14. According to their guidelines, they pay $400 per story or article, and $200 per poem or Table Talk piece. To learn more, refer to this page.
EPOCH publishes fiction, poetry, essays, comics, and graphic art. In continuous publication since 1947, the magazine is edited by students and faculty of the MFA Program in Creative Writing, in Cornell University’s Department of Literatures in English. They are open for electronic submissions only during the months of August and January. Each submission costs $3, but there is a free-submission weekend during each submission period. According to their guidelines, they presently pay between $100 and $500 for poetry, prose, and comics, depending on length. To learn more, refer to this page.
Ploughshares has published quality literature since 1971 and has been based at Emerson College in downtown Boston since 1989. They welcome unsolicited submissions of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction during their Regular Reading Period. Ploughshares is published four times a year: blended poetry and prose issues in the winter and spring, a prose issue in the summer, and a special longform prose issue in the fall. They accept up to 6,500 words of prose, and 1-5 pages of poetry. If you are submitting to their Fall Longform issue, they accept up to 15,000 words. According to their guidelines, they pay $45/printed page, $90 minimum per title, and $450 maximum per author. To learn more, refer to this page.
Bennington Review is a national biannual print journal of innovative, intelligent, and moving poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and film writing, housed at Bennington College. They are not always open to submissions, and during their last reading period, they were open for poetry and fiction submissions only. According to their guidelines, they pay contributors $120 for prose of six typeset pages and under, $250 for prose of over six typeset pages, and $25 per poem. To learn more, refer to this page.
Escape Pod is a science fiction podcast magazine. They are fairly flexible on what counts as science and are interested in exploring the range of the genre. They want stories that center science, technology, future projections, and/or alternate history, and how any or all of these things impact individuals and society. Short stories for original fiction should be between 1,500-6,000 words. According to their guidelines, they pay USD $0.08 per word for original fiction and USD $100 per story for reprint fiction, and cover any transaction fees. To learn more, refer to this page.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine publishes all kinds of mystery short stories. The preferred length of their stories is 2,500 to 8,000 words. However, they sometimes use stories of up to 12,000 words and feature one or two short novels (of up to 20,000 words) every year. They also consider shorter stories that are as little as 250 words. According to their guidelines, they pay 5 to 8 cents per word and at times more to established writers. To find out more, refer to their writer's guidelines.
The Dark is an online magazine published every month. They publish horror and dark fantasy pieces of 2,000 to 6,000 words. They ask their writers to not “be afraid to experiment or to deviate from the ordinary.” It is important to remember that despite its name, The Dark is not a magazine for “graphic, violent horror.” According to their guidelines, they pay 5 cents per word for original fiction of up to 6,000 words and 1 cent per word for reprint fiction of up to 6,000 words. For further information, refer to their submission guidelines.