I just updated my list of Short Fiction Markets, so take a look and prep your work. There’s a lot of opportunity out there!
If you’ve got something at hand, there are a few fab magazines open right now but closing soon:
- Prism is open on the theme of “Revelry” till June 15th (prose to 4000 words)
- Grain is open till June 16th (prose to 3500 words
- The Malahat Review is open till June 30th (prose to 8000 words)
A few others are just about to open for submissions — time enough to polish a work in progress:
- The Walrus opens in June (fiction to 5000 words)
- Freefall opens in June (fiction to 4000 words);
- The White Wall Review opens in June (fiction to 6000 words)
- Blank Spaces is free to submit to in June (fiction up to 3000 words}
- The/tEmz/Review opens in June (fiction to 10,000 words)
- Augur opens briefly in July (fiction to 5000 words)
- Event opens in July (fiction to 4000 words)
- Fusion Fragment opens in July (speculative fiction)
- The New Quarterly opens in July (fiction to 6000 words)
- Yolk opens in July for submissions to their print issue (fiction to 4000 words)
And there are several magazines that are almost always open:
- Agnes and True (fiction to 3500 words)
- DarkWinter Literary Magazine (fiction to 2000 words)
- The Dalhousie Review (fiction to 8000 words)
- Dreamer’s Creative Writing (fiction to 2500 words)
- Nunum (flash fiction to 500 words)
- The Ex-Puritan (fiction to 10,000 words)
- The Queen’s Quarterly (fiction to 3,000 words)
- Riddle Fence (fiction to 3000 words)
- Spadina Literary Review (fiction to 2000 words)
If you’re not ready to submit just yet, check out my full list of Short Fiction Markets later in the year. There’s always something opening up.
Before you submit, check the guidelines on each litmag website to make sure your work is a good fit and to learn their preferred formatting. And while you’re there, subscribe to their newsletters to get the word on new issues, contests, and submission calls. And subscribe to a magazine or two, to support the enormous work required to bring a few good stories into the world.
Remember that my list is for Canadian fiction writers, and not even all of them, only those I’m eligible to submit to. You might be eligible for litmags that publish stories from other demographics (like Ricepaper or Plenitude). And there are many other magazines that publish poetry or non-fiction. Search them out. Or find them handily listed on the National Magazine Awards website.
Good luck!
Catherine Austen 