Speculative Poetry Markets
Last updated February 20, 2024
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
More than USD $50 or $2 per line
- Anathema
$75 per poem.
"You must be both queer/two-spirit and a person of colour/Indigenous/Aboriginal* to submit to Anathema" - Apparition Lit
$50 per poem. - Augur
CDN $60 per poem. - The Deadlands
$50 per poem. - Fiyah
$50 per poem.
"By and about Black people." - Gamut
$50 per original poem, $25 per reprint - Heartlines Spec
CDN $60 per poem
Poetry "focused on long-term relationships," publishes 50% Canadian poets - New Myths
$50 or more per poem. - On Spec
CDN $100 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. - The Fabulist
$25 per poem.
Invitation only. - The Fairy Tale Magazine
$25 per poem. - Fantasy & Science Fiction
$0.08 - $0.12 per word. - Frivolous Comma
$40 per poem. - Lucent Dreaming
GBP £30 per poem. - Orion's Belt
$0.08 per word. - PULP Literature
$25 - 50 per poem. - Reckoning
$30 per page.
Environmental justice. - Small Wonders
$60 per poem - Solarpunk Magazine
$40 per poem. - Uncanny
$40 per poem.
Up to USD $25 or $1 per line
- Abyss & Apex
$5.50 per poem. - Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
AUD $10 per poem. - The Beechwood Review
$5 per poem. - BFS Horizons
GBP £20 per poem
Fantasy or horror
(Higher pay! September 12, 2023) - Broken Antler Quarterly
USD $10-20 per poem. - Chrome Baby
$5 per poem. - Constraint 280
$2.80 per poem.
Up to 280 characters per poem. - Corvid Queen
$5 per poem. - Daikaijuzine
$5 per poem. - The Dread Machine
$10 per poem. - Dreams and Nightmares
$15 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. - The Future Fire
$10 per poem. - Gwyllion
£10 per poem.
Welsh themes preferred. - Haven Speculative
$20 per poem. - Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
Up to $25 per poem. - Illumen
$1 to $15 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.
Closed until 2024. - Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
$10 per poem.
Postal subs only. - Last Girls Club
$10 per poem.
Feminist horror. - Midnight Echo
AUD $20 per poem.
Australasian writers only. - Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine
CDN $0.025 per word. - Night to Dawn
$2.50 per poem. - ParABnormal
$6 per poem. - Penumbric
$10 per poem. - Polar Borealis/Polar Starlight
CDN $10 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, $10 for reprints. - Roses and Wildflowers
$5 per poem.
"Mythopoeic" poems - Scifaikuest
$1 - $2 per poem. $15 for featured poet.
Scifaiku, haibun, senryu, and tanka only. - Shoreline of Infinity
GBP £20 per poem. - Silver Blade
$8-15 per poem. - Space & Time
$5 per poem. - Speculative City
$20-$55 "according to the category and length of the submission." - The Sprawl Mag
$20 CAD per poem - Star*Line
$4 - $25 per poem. - Tower Magazine
€20 per poem - Triangulation
25 cents per line - Utopia Science Fiction
$25 per poem.
Non-Paying Markets for Speculative Poetry
- 96th of October
- AHF Magazine
- Altered Reality
- Aphelion
- Bewildering Stories
- Black Petals
- Bowery Gothic
- Carmina
- The Chamber Magazine
- The Collidescope
- The Dark Sire
- 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. - Granfalloon Magazine
- horror senryu journal / @horrorsenryu
- The House of Zolo's Journal of Speculative Literature
- The Horror Zine
- I Become the Beast
- Infinity Wanderers
- Jersey Devil Press
- Ligeia
- Line Break
Audio only. - Lothlorien Poetry Journal
Fantasy focus - Moon Park Review
Prose poems only. - Prismatica Magazine
LGBTQ+ poets only. - The Sirens Call
- 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. - Dark Regions Press
- Hippocampus Press
- Interstellar Flight Press
- P’rea Press
- Prismatica Press
LGBTQ+ poets only. - Raw Dog Screaming Press
Invite only. - Trouble Department
Poetry collections (30-150 pages)
Pays $200-$500 advance - 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.com
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