SPeculative Poetry Markets

Market Lists | Paying Markets | Non-Paying Markets | Presses

Listings are for venues specifically receptive toward SF poetry.
Note that many if not most mainstream journals welcome speulative-themed work.

Speculative Market Lists

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Paying Markets for SF Poetry

Abyss & Apex Pays $5. Poems of any length. Ad Astra Pays selected contributors $20 minimum. Analog Pays 6–8¢/word. Rarely accepts poetry. Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Pays A$10. Poems up to two pages. Apex Magazine Pays 25¢ per line; 200 lines max. Asimov's Science Fiction Pays $1 per line. Poems up to 40 lines. Bête Noire $10 US flat for each accepted work plus a PDF version of the issue. Big Pulp Pays $5 per poem. Submit up to 3 poems, 50 lines total. Bloodbond $4/poem, $2 reprints. Vampire/werewolf/shapeshifter. Bull Spec $5 minimum for new poems; $1 minimum for reprints. Devilfish Review $5/poem. Disturbed Digest $4/poem, $2 reprints. 12–100 lines, dark fantasy/horror. Dreams and Nightmares Pays $12. Poems up to two single-spaced pages. Enchanted Conversation $25 Amazon certificate. Must be a follower. Enlighten 2 cents per word for original poems [min. $3]. 1 cent per word for reprints. $1.00 for scifaiku and related forms. Featured poets will be paid a flat $15. Eternal Haunted Summer Pays $5. Mythic and Pagan only. FrostFire Worlds $3/poem, $2 reprints. Poems for younger readers, 12–100 lines. Goblin Fruit Pays $5 for new poems, $2.50 for solicited reprints. No length limit specified. Grievous Angel $1/line. Heliotrope $50 per poem. CURRENTLY CLOSED. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly Pays $25. Editor David Farney says, "We prefer the longer stuff."

Ideomancer Pays $6. "Just don’t send epic-length sagas that run to pages and pages." Illumen Pays 2¢/word for new poems, 1¢/word for reprints. Prefers no longer than 100 lines. Inkscrawl $3 per poem, 10 lines or less. Interfictions: A Journal of Interstitial Arts Genre-crossing and experimental poetry. $20/poem. The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts $50 for triptychs. Kaleidotrope Typically pays $5 per piece. Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet "We do not pay much." Lakeside Circus 1¢/word, min. $10. Leading Edge $10 for poems. 4–6 months response time. Liminality $10 for poems. Liquid Imagination $8 for poems, +$2 via PayPal. Lontar The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction. $10 SGD per poem. Lorelei Signal Pays $2. No length limit specified. The Magazine of Speculative Poetry Pays 3¢ per word, $7 minimum, $25 maximum. Poems up to three pages. The Martian Wave Pays $5. Poems must revolve around the colonization and exploration of space. Midnight Echo $15 for up to 50 lines, and $25 for poems up to 100 lines. Mythic Delirium Pays $5. No length limit specified. Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine Pays 2.5¢ per word to a maximum of C$125. No length limit specified. New Fables $20 per poem. “… use anthropomorphic animal characters to tell basic human stories.” New Myths Pays $20 per poem. No length specified.

Niteblade Pays $5 per poem plus ad-free PDF of issue. Not One of Us Pays $5 per poem. Prefers 40 lines or less. On Spec Pays C$50. Poems of 4–100 lines. Outposts of Beyond $4/poem, $2 reprints. Poems 12–100 lines. Paper Crow $5 minimum per poem. The Pedestal Magazine Pays $40. Poems of any length. Plunge Oueer/women/genre. Pays $5 per poem. Polu Texni Pays $20 per poem. Scheherezade's Bequest Themes; $15 per poem. Scifaikuest Pays $1–2, $10 for featured poet. Scifaiku, haibun, senryu, and tanka only. Shock Totem 5¢ per word. Silver Blade $8 per poem. Songs of Eretz Poetry E-zine Pays $20 per poem; $5 reprints. Sorcerous Signals Pays $2 per poem. No length limit specified. Space and Time $5 per poem. Star*Line 3¢/word rounded to next dollar, minimum $3. Stone Telling $5 per poem; $20 for over 120 lines. Strange Horizons Pays $20. Prefers poems under 100 lines. Strong Verse Pays $10. Poems of any length. WARNING: rarely responds. Sybil's Garage Pays $15. 50 lines or fewer. CURRENTLY CLOSED. Tales of the Talisman Pays $4 per poem. Poems up to 50 lines. Reading periods begin January 1 and July 1. Tales of the Unanticipated Check sub windows. Through the Gate Pays $5. Trysts of Fate $4/poem, $2 reprints. Paranormal romance

Non-Paying Markets for Speculative Poetry

Aphelion Atlantean Publishing Various ’zines. Bewildering Stories Black Petals Devilfish Review Fairy Tale Review Farther Stars than These FemSpec Subscribers only may submit. Fever Dreams The Golden Key Themed issues.

Hogglepot Sometimes publishes narrative poems. International Speculative Fiction Mirror Dance Themed issues. Mystic Nebula Themed issues. Pavor Nocturnus Phantom Kangaroo Planet Magazine Slippage

Songs of Eretz Poetry Review Spectral Realms Print; weird poetry. Submit to editor at stjoshi45@hotmail.com Stinkwaves 50 lines max. Suitable for kids. Tigershark Unspoken Water Veil: Journal of Darker Musings Versus Literary Journal

Speculative Poetry Presses

Aqueduct Press Cemetery Dance Publications Creative Guy Publishing Dark Regions Press Dark Renaissance Books Dastardly Books Elektrik Milk Bath Press

Gromagon Press Hilltop Press Hippocampus Press Mayapple Press $10 reading fee. A Midsummer Night's Press NightBallet Press Nomadic Delirium Press

Popcorn Press P’rea Press Raven Electrick Ink Raw Dog Screaming Press Upper Rubber Boot Books vanZeno Press

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