Short Story is only available to read through a paid monthly subscription. The idea is that subscribers support the authors published in Short Story and help to keep the craft of story writing alive.

Authors of short stories may submit fiction of almost any length (6 to 10,000 words). They accept short stories in any genre. They also accept reprints.

Short Story accepts submissions year-round. They collect submissions throughout each month, and then announce the month’s chosen story on the 15^th of the following month. Each month is like a short story competition with one winner chosen each time.

Short Story accepts submissions via email, not through an online submission manager or by post. They only accept submissions that follow the guidelines they’ve posted online. Please read these guidelines in full before submitting.

If you’d like to learn more or submit to Short Story, please visit their website here.

Bio: Ella Peary is the pen name for an author, editor, creative writing mentor, and submission consultant. Over the past five years, she’s written hundreds of articles for Authors Publish, and she’s also served as a copywriter and copy editor for a wide range of organizations and individuals. She is the author of The Quick Start Guide to Flash Fiction. She occasionally teaches a course on flash fiction. You can contact her at ellapeary@gmail.com.

5 Prince Publishing is a small press. They are upfront about the fact that they are primarily digital and  print with Ingram’s print- on-demand platform, which means they have limited distribution.

It is founded and run by Bernadette Soehner, who started it as a self- publishing venture in 2011 but they have since expanded to publish other authors. They are still relatively small with three employees listed, beside Bernadette Soehner. One of the three employees is also published with them, and because one of the other employees’ images is obscured on the site, it’s possible they also write for 5 Prince under a pen name.

They primarily publish contemporary romance and are open to submissions in this genre all year round. They are open to submissions of Contemporary Valentine’s Day Romances till August 5th, 2022, and Contemporary Spring Romance till September 5th, 2022, as well as Contemporary Christmas Romance, till June 5th, 2022. All Contemporary Romance Novels, themed or unthemed, should ideally be between 50,000 and 65,000 words in length.

They also publish Fantasy novels, including High Fantasy, Lit RPG (which stands for literary role playing game, a literary genre combining the conventions of computer RPGs with science-fiction and fantasy). Work should ideally be be between 50,000-80,000 words and cannot exceed 100,000 words. They are open to this work year round.

Their covers vary from good in the context of the genre they are in, to very cheap and dated. They publish a lot of authors repeatedly, which tends to be a good sign. Their website is geared towards readers, not writers, which is often a good sign.

There’s not very much recent information about how they treat their authors online, so if you have worked with them, please reach out to us at support@authorspublish.com. We keep all information anonymous.

They will reply to your submissions sent in on Monday through Friday within 48 hours. If they do not respond they say it may be because you have not followed their guidelines.

To learn more, or to submit please go here.

Emily Harstone is the author of many popular books, including The Authors Publish Guide to Manuscript Submissions, Submit, Publish, Repeat, and The 2021 Guide to Manuscript Publishers.

Solarpunk Magazine
This is a new magazine of solarpunk. They publish fiction, nonfiction (reviews, interviews, reports, articles, essays, and general audience-aimed overviews of academic papers relevant to solarpunk), poetry, and artwork. They have detailed guidelines on their submissions page for each category, please read them before submitting. The reading periods for 2022 are up on their website, including for themed issues. The next submission window is in March.
Deadline: 14 January 2022
Length: 500-7,500 words for fiction; up to 5 poems (see guidelines); 1,000-2,000 words for nonfiction
Pay: $0.08/word for fiction (minimum $100), $40/poem, $75/essay
Details here (general guidelines and schedule) and here (detailed guidelines and submissions system).

Nashville Review
They publish fiction (short stories, flash pieces, novel excerpts), poetry, nonfiction (memoir excerpts, essays, imaginative meditations), translations, and comics. Their guidelines say, “From expansive to minimalist, narrative to lyric, epiphanic to subtle: if it’s a moving work of art, we want it.” They read submissions in January, May, and September, and category-wise submissions may close early if volume demands; art and comics are received year-round.
Deadline: 31 January 2022; may close earlier if cap is reached
Length: Up to 8,000 words for prose; up to three poems (up to two poems in case of translation)
Pay: $25 per poem, $100 for prose and art pieces
Details here.
(The literary magazine MudRoom is also open for submissions of fiction, essays, essays in translation, and poetry; pay is $15, and submissions for their Spring issue are open until 31 January 2022. Submissions are also open for A Public Space, for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translations, until 31 January 2022, and writers are paid an honorarium; they’re also accepting applications of a New York based Editorial Fellow, and pay for that is $10,000.)

NewMyths
This magazine publishes speculative fiction of every kind, except graphic horror. They also accept nonfiction, poems, reviews (query first), and artwork with speculative fiction themes.
Deadline: 28 February 2022
Length: Unspecified
Pay: 1.5c/word for prose and poetry, a minimum of $30; and $30 for reviews
Details here.

Southword Literary Journal
This well-regarded literary journal, from the Munster Literature Centre, publishes poetry and fiction.
Deadline: 28 February for poetry; 31 March 2022 for fiction
Length: Up to 4 poems; up to 5,000 words for fiction
Pay: €40 per poem; €250 for fiction
Details here.

Bio: S. Kalekar is the pseudonym of a regular contributor to this magazine. She is the author of 182 Short Fiction Publishers. She can be reached here.