Speculative Poetry Markets
Last updated April 16, 2025
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.
Speculative Market Lists
- Duotrope's Digest
Subscription only. Submission tracker & markets database. - The Submission Grinder
Free submission tracker & markets database. - Horror Tree
Horror/spec markets guide.
Paying Markets for SF Poetry
$50 or $2 per line and above
- Anathema
$75 CAD per poem.
"You must be both queer/two-spirit and a person of colour/Indigenous/Aboriginal* to submit to Anathema" - Augur
$100 CAD per poem. - The Cosmic Background
$100 per poem
(New! April 7, 2025) - The Deadlands
$50 per poem. - Fantasy Magazine
$50 per poem
(New! April 7, 2025) - Fiyah
$50 per poem.
"By and about Black people." - Heartlines Spec
$60 CAD per poem
Poetry "focused on long-term relationships," publishes 50% Canadian poets - New Myths
$50 or more per poem. - On Spec
$100 CAD per poem. - Plott Hound Magazine
$50 per poem.
"animal-centric speculative poems"
(New! April 7, 2025) - Reckoning
$50 per page.
Environmental justice. - The School Magazine
$55 - $230 AUS per poem.
Poetry for ages 8-12
(New! April 7, 2025) - Small Wonders
$60 per poem - Strange Horizons
$50 per poem.
Between USD $25-49 or $1-$2 per line
- Analog
$1 per line. - Asimov's Science Fiction
$1 per line. - Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores
$1 per line, $0.50 per line for reprints. - Dreams and Nightmares
$15 - 30 per poem. - The Fabulist
$25 per poem.
Invitation only. - The Fairy Tale Magazine
$25 per poem. - Fantasy & Science Fiction
$0.08 - $0.12 per word. - Lucent Dreaming
£30 GBP per poem. - Merganser Magazine
$1 per line
(New! April 16, 2025) - Nightmare Magazine
$40 per poem
(New! April 7, 2025) - Orion's Belt
$0.08 per word. - PULP Literature
$25 - 50 per poem. - Solarpunk Magazine
$40 per poem. - Speculative City
$20-$55 "according to the category and length of the submission." - Trollbreath Magazine
$25 per poem
(New! April 7, 2025) - Uncanny
$40 per poem.
Up to USD $25 or $1 per line
- Abyss & Apex
$5.50 per poem. - Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
$10 AUD per poem. - The Beechwood Review
$5 per poem. - BFS Horizons
£20 GBP 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. - Eternal Haunted Summer
$5 per poem.
Mythic and pagan only. - Eye to the Telescope
$4 - $25 per poem. - The Fantastic Other
$5 per poem. - Foofaraw
$5 per poem. - The Future Fire
$10 per poem. - Gwyllion
£15 GBP per poem.
Welsh themes preferred. - Haven Speculative
$20 per poem. - Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
Up to $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. - Midnight Echo
$20 AUD per poem.
Australasian writers only. - Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine
$0.025 CAD per word. (That's 2.5 cents) - Night to Dawn
$2.50 per poem. - Not One of Us
$8 - $15 per poem
(New Website. April 7, 2025) - Penumbric
$10 per poem. - The Pink Hydra
$3 per poem
(New! April 7, 2025) - Polar Borealis/Polar Starlight
$10 CAD per poem.
Canadian authors only. - Pyre Magazine
$10 per poem.
(On hiatus until Spring 2025) - The Quarter(ly)
$5 per poem< - Radon Journal
$20 per poem. - Roses and Wildflowers
$5 per poem.
"Mythopoeic" poems - (s)crawl magazine
$20 per poem
"LGBTQIA+ voices, neurodiverse voices, female voices, BIPOC voices, disabled voices" only
(New! April 7, 2025) - Shoreline of Infinity
£20 GBP per poem. - Silver Blade
$8-15 per poem. - Space & Time
$5 per poem. - SpecPoVerse
$5 per poem
(New! April 2025) - The Sprawl Mag
$20 CAD per poem - Star*Line
$4 - $25 per poem. - Stygian Lepus
$5 per poem
(New! April 7, 2025) - Triangulation
25 cents per line - Utopia Science Fiction
$25 per poem.
Non-Paying Markets for Speculative Poetry
- 96th of October
- Altered Reality
- Aphelion
- Bewildering Stories
- Black Petals
- Bowery Gothic
- Carmina
- The Chamber Magazine
- The Collidescope
- Del Sol Review
- Eldritch Science
- Enchanted Living Magazine
- Fairy Tale Review
- The Flying Saucer Poetry Review
Poetry about UFOs. - Ghostlight
- Gramarye
Folklore, fairy tales, and fantasy. - The House of Zolo's Journal of Speculative Literature
- The Horror Zine
- Infinity Wanderers
- Jersey Devil Press
- Ligeia
- Lothlorien Poetry Journal
Fantasy focus - Moon Park Review
Prose poems only. - Spectral Realms
Weird poetry. (For submission information, see Facebook) - The Starlight Scifaiku Review
- Tales from the Moonlit Path
- View from Atlantis
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
- Raw Dog Screaming Press
Invite only. - Vraeyda Literary
- Weird House Press
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.org
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