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Note that many if not most mainstream journals welcome speulative-themed work.

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Paying Markets for SF Poetry

Abandoned Towers Pays $5 per poem for print; no payment for online. Abyss & Apex Pays $5. Poems of any length. Ad Astra Pays selected contributors $20 minimum. AMAZE: The Cinquain Journal Pays $1. Cinquains, cinquain cycles, etc. Analog Pays 6–8¢/word. Rarely accepts poetry. Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Pays A$10. Poems up to two pages. Aoife's Kiss Pays $5 for new poems, less for reprints or short forms. Poems up to 100 lines. Apex Magazine Pays 25¢ per line or $5 per poem, whichever is greater. Asimov's Science Fiction Pays $1 per line. Poems up to 40 lines. Astropoetica Pays $5. Poems of any length. Bête Noire $10 US flat for each accepted work plus a PDF version of the issue. Beyond Centauri $2 for new poems, $1 reprints. Poems up to 50 lines ("loose maximum"). For children 10+. Big Pulp Pays $5 per poem. Submit up to 3 poems, 50 lines total. Bull Spec $5 minimum for new poems; $1 minimum for reprints. Cast Macabre £5 maximum. ChiZine Pays $10. Poems up to 50 lines "are infinitely preferred." Dark Metre Pays £2.50; accepts reprints. Dreams and Nightmares Pays $12. Poems up to two single-spaced pages. Electric Velocipede $20 for one poem, $35 for two poems, and $50 for three or more poems. Enchanted Conversation $25 Amazon certificate. Must be a follower. Eternal Haunted Summer Pays $5. Mythic and Pagan only. Fantastique Unfettered Dead; may publish annual antho. The Fifth Di... Pays $5. No length limit specified. The Gloaming Pays $5 CDN per poem. 3-page limit. CURRENTLY CLOSED.

Goblin Fruit Pays $5 for new poems, $2.50 for solicited reprints. No length limit specified. Greatest Uncommon Denominator Pay variable. CURRENTLY CLOSED. Heliotrope $50 per poem. CURRENTLY CLOSED. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly Pays $25. Editor David Farney says, "We prefer the longer stuff." Hungur Magazine Pays $4; $2 for reprints. Poems up to 100 lines. 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. Kaleidotrope Typically pays $5 per piece. Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet "We do not pay much." Leading Edge $10 for poems. 4–6 months response time. Liquid Imagination $8 for poems, +$2 via PayPal. Lisette's Tales of the Imagination $4 per poem; submit online. 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. 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. The Pedestal Magazine Pays $40. Poems of any length. Polu Texni Pays $20 per poem. Quantum Realities Min $5. Poems on a case-by-case basis. Scheherezade's Bequest CURRENTLY CLOSED. Scifaikuest Pays $1–2, $10 for featured poet. Scifaiku, haibun, senryu, and tanka only. Shock Totem 5¢ per word. Silver Blade $5 per poem. Sorcerous Signals Pays $2 per poem. No length limit specified. Sounds of the Night Pays $4 for new poems, $2 for reprints. Prefers poems under 100 lines. Space and Time $5 per poem. Spaceports and Spidersilk Pays $2 for each accepted original submission, $1 for reprints. Space Westerns 10 lines or less: $1; 11 to 50 lines: $2; over 50 lines: 4¢/line. 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 CURRENTLY CLOSED. Through the Gate Pays $5. Weird Tales ?

Non-Paying Markets for SF Poetry

Abandoned Towers online Aphelion Bewildering Stories Black Petals Cemetery Moon Collective Fallout Devilfish Review Fairy Tale Review Farther Stars than These FemSpec Subscribers only may submit.

Focus: martin@martinmcgrath.net Published by the British Science Fiction Association. Fungi The Golden Key Indigo Rising (UK) International Speculative Fiction Midnight Screaming Mirror Dance Themed issues.

Mystic Nebula Themed issues. New Fairy Tales Closed. Premonitions The Speculative Edge Static Movement Twisted Tongue Universe Magazine Unspoken Water Veil: Journal of Darker Musings Versus Literary Journal

SF Poetry Presses

Cemetery Dance Publications Creative Guy Publishing Dark Regions Press Dastardly Books Gromagon Press

Hilltop Press Mayapple Press $10 reading fee. Night Shade Books P’rea Press

Raven Electrick Ink Sam's Dot Publishing Upper Rubber Boot Books Van Zeno Press

Other Market Resources

Green Genre Poetry

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