Speculative Poetry Markets
Last updated September 17, 2023
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
CAD $60 per poem. - The Deadlands
$50 per poem. - The Fairy Tale Magazine
$50 per poem.
Formerly Enchanted Conversation. - Fiyah
$50 per poem.
"By and about Black people." - Heartlines Spec
CAD $60 per poem
Poetry "focused on long-term relationships," publishes 50% Canadian poets
(New listing! September 12, 2023) - Lucent Dreaming
GBP £100 per poem. - New Myths
$50 or more per poem. - On Spec
CAD $100 per poem. - Strange Horizons
$50 per poem. - Vastarien
$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. - Fantasy & Science Fiction
$0.08 - $0.12 per word. - Frivolous Comma
$0.08 per word. - Little Blue Marble
$0.11 CAD per word.
Climate-focused science fiction. - Orion's Belt
$0.08 per word. - PULP Literature
$25 - 50 per poem. - The Quiet Ones
$25 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) - Bleed Error
CAD $15 per poem. - Broken Antler Quarterly
USD $10-20 per poem. - Chrome Baby
$5 per bairn. - 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
$12 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
$5 - $10 per poem. - Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
Up to $25 per poem. - Illumen
$1 to $15 per poem. - Illustrated Worlds Magazine
$10 per poem. - 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. - Leading Edge
Poem payment "will be discussed." (Pay for fiction is $0.01 per word.) - Midnight Echo
AUD $20 per poem.
Australasian writers only. - Mirror Dance
$5 per poem.
Fantasy. - Mithila Review
$10 per poem. - Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine
CAD $0.025 per word. - Night to Dawn
$2.50 per poem. - Not One of Us
$5 per poem. - Outlook Springs
$10 per poem.
"Tinged with the strange." - ParABnormal
$6 per poem. - Penumbric
$10 per poem. - The Periodical, Forlorn
$15 per poem. - Polar Borealis/Polar Starlight
CAD $10 per poem.
Canadian authors only. - Pyre Magazine
$10 per poem. - The Quarter(ly)
$5 per poem< - Radon Journal
$20 per poem, $10 for reprints. - Riddled with Arrows
$5 - $25 per poem.
Metafiction, ars poetica, and writing about writing only. $5-$25 per poem. - Roses and Wildflowers
$5 per poem.
"Mythopoeic" poems
(New listing! September 12, 2023) - Scifaikuest
$1 - $2 per poem. $15 for featured poet.
Scifaiku, haibun, senryu, and tanka only. - Shoreline of Infinity
GBP £20 per poem. - Silver Blade
$10 per poem. - Space & Time
$5 per poem. - Speculatief
Up to $10 per poem.
Dutch-language, reprints only. - 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
New listing! (September 12, 2023) - Utopia Science Fiction
$25 per poem. - Weirdbook
$0.05 per 1000 words.
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
- Cyäegha
- Dark Onus Lit
"Dark themed" - The Dark Sire
- Del Sol Review
- Dissections
- 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
- Gyroscope Review
- horror senryu journal / @horrorsenryu
- The House of Zolo's Journal of Speculative Literature
- The Horror Zine
- I Become the Beast
- Infinity Wanderers
- Insignia Instincts
Asian speculative poems. - Inter Et Inter
- Jersey Devil Press
- Ligeia
- Line Break
Audio only. - Lothlorien Poetry Journal
Fantasy focus - Luna Luna
- Moon Park Review
Prose poems only. - Prismatica Magazine
LGBTQ+ poets only. - Rune Bear Weekly
- Sage Woman
Mythic, pagan only. - The Sirens Call
- The Space Cadet Science Fiction Review
- Spectral Realms
Weird poetry. - The Starlight Scifaiku Review
- Tales from the Moonlit Path
- View from Atlantis
Speculative Poetry Presses
- At Bay Press
"Short poetry collections" (5-10 poems)
(New listing! September 12, 2023) - Aqueduct Press
- Cemetery Dance Publications
Agented submissions only. - Dark Onus Press
"dark-themed" - 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
(New listing! September 12, 2023) - 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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