Subgenres: Speculative Fiction

Autumn House Press

Autumn House Press is a nationally renowned nonprofit publisher based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, whose mission is to publish and promote poetry and other fine literature. The press believes literature is an affirmation of the... Read more

Reading Periods: 
Jan 1 to Feb 28
Mar 1 to Apr 30
May 1 to Jun 30
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Political, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry

The Common

The Common is a print and digital literary journal published biannually, in the fall and spring. Inspired by the role of the town common, a public gathering place for the display and exchange of ideas, The Common seeks to deepen... Read more

Reading Periods: 
Mar 1 to Jun 1
Sep 1 to Dec 1
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Translation
Subgenres: 
BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Historical, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Nature/Environmental, Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Regional, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation, War

Hunger Mountain

Hunger Mountain is created by the faculty and students in the Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. The editors share VCFA’s belief that the arts are central to the human experience and have the ability not only to reflect... Read more

Reading Periods: 
Sep 1 to Nov 30
Feb 1 to Apr 30
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Subgenres: 
BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Fiction, Flash Fiction, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Prose Poetry, Speculative Fiction, Translation

Duvall Osteen

United Talent Agency
888 Seventh Avenue
Seventh Floor
New York, NY 10106

After Happy Hour

After Happy Hour’s tastes are broad and lean toward the weird. They consider fiction in any and all genres and blurs/blends thereof, and prefer poetry with strong emotion and/or a sense of narrative over straight plays with language. For... Read more

Reading Periods: 
Nov 1 to Jan 31
Mar 1 to Apr 30
Jul 1 to Aug 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Subgenres: 
Cross-genre, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Graphic/Illustrated, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Poetry, Prose Poetry, Speculative Fiction

Stillhouse Press

Stillhouse Press publishes surprising, gutsy fiction, nonfiction, and poetry that can’t or doesn’t want to find a home in big publishing. The editors are drawn to the strange, the unconventional, the transcendent, the risky. They’re looking for... Read more

Reading Period: 
Nov 1 to Feb 1
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction

About Place Journal

About Place Journal is the literary publication of the Black Earth Institute. BEI is dedicated to art serving the causes of spirit, earth, and society. Issues are guest-edited by fellows of the Institute. Themes (titles of issues) are... Read more

Reading Periods: 
Jan 1 to Mar 1
Jun 1 to Aug 1
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Subgenres: 
BIPOC Voices, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Formal Poetry, Graphic/Illustrated, Literary Fiction, Lyric Essay, Nature/Environmental, Poetry, Political, Prose Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Speculative Poetry, Visual Poetry

JONAHmagazine

JONAHmagazine is comprised of stories. Stories of journeys, in space, in time, in the heart, or in the mind. Beginnings, endings, triumphs and frustrations, odysseys of the spirit. Poetry, prose, true stories, memoir. Tales humorous or... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir, Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Humor, Love, Magical Realism, Nonfiction, Poetry, Short Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation

Eastern Iowa Review

Eastern Iowa Review especially likes lyric essays and prose poetry, but check their guidelines for genres accepted during specific reading periods. They have occasional print issues every few years, usually as a collection of select... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Feb 28
Genres Published: 
Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir, Cross-genre, Experimental, Feminist, Flash Fiction, Literary Fiction, Nature/Environmental, Pop Culture, Prose Poetry, Regional, Speculative Fiction

Lanternfish Press

Lanternfish Press, founded in Philadelphia in 2014, publishes literature of the rare and strange: fiction that crosses the boundary between literary and speculative; real or imagined tales of characters at the margins of history; essays rooted in... Read more

Reading Period: 
Jun 1 to Jun 30
Genres Published: 
Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
Subgenres: 
Autobiography/Memoir, BIPOC Voices, Commercial Fiction, Cross-genre, Experimental, LGBTQ Voices, Literary Fiction, Narrative Nonfiction, Speculative Fiction, Translation

Pages

Subscribe to Speculative Fiction