🟡 Limited window🟡 Research onlyCanada
The /tEmz/ Review
Fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry
- Pay
- $20 per piece≈ $14 USD
- Words
- Prose up to 10,000 words
- Eligible
- No nationality restriction stated
- Verified
- 2026-09
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🟡 Limited window🟡 Research onlyUnited States
Chicken Soup for the Soul
True first-person story or story-poem
- Pay
- $250 if published
- Words
- Recommended maximum 1,200 words; no official minimum. Longer pieces are rarely read.
- Eligible
- Official FAQ: they publish English-language stories from people around the world
- Verified
- 2026-10
🟡 Opens soon🟡 Research onlyCanada
khōréō
Speculative short fiction or flash
- Pay
- 10¢ per word
- Words
- Under 5,000 words (prefer under 3,500)
- Eligible
- Official: submit if you identify as an immigrant or member of a diaspora in the broadest definitions — including first- and second-generation immigrants, refugees, people displaced by colonialism/imperialism, and anyone whose heritage includes ‘here and elsewhere’
- Verified
- 2026-08
🟢 Rolling submissions🔵 SubmittedNigeria
The Lagos Review
Personal essay
- Pay
- $250 per published essay
- Words
- Up to 1,500 words
- Eligible
- The official call does not state a nationality restriction
- Verified
- 2026-08
🟡 Opens soon🟡 Research onlyUnited Kingdom
Granta
Fiction and non-fiction
- Pay
- Pays contributors — rate not stated
- Words
- No set maximum or minimum; most submissions run 3,000–6,000 words
- Eligible
- Official: committed to offering a home to writing by those who are marginalised or underrepresented — writers of colour, working class or low-income writers, queer, transgender, non-binary and gender-nonconforming writers, and writers with disabilities
- Verified
- 2026-10
Best paid
Highest stated pay, open now
Ranked on the figure the publication itself states, converted to USD only for comparison.
🟢 Currently accepting🟡 Research onlyUnited States
WIRED
Features & tech
- Pay
- $2,500+ per feature
- Words
- ~5,000 words
- Eligible
- No stated country restriction; strong reporting required
- Verified
- 2026-09
🟢 Currently accepting🟡 Research onlyAustralia
Kill Your Darlings
Short fiction
- Pay
- Minimum $1,000≈ $720 USD
- Words
- 2,000–5,000 words
- Eligible
- Official and restrictive in a way that costs money: "We only accept fiction submissions from KYD Members
- Verified
- 2026-09
🟢 Currently accepting🟡 Research onlyUnited States
New Lines Magazine
World journalism, essays
- Pay
- $600–$800
- Words
- Not stated as a hard limit
- Eligible
- No stated country restriction — it publishes writers from around the globe, with Africa-focused editorial
- Verified
- 2026-09
🟢 Currently accepting🟡 Research onlyUnited Kingdom
Pellicle
Feature, long read or photo essay
- Pay
- £375–£675 per commission≈ $507–$913 USD
- Words
- 1,500–2,500+ words depending on format
- Eligible
- No nationality restriction stated
- Verified
- 2026-09
🟢 Currently accepting🟡 Research onlyUnited States
Longreads
Personal essay
- Pay
- $500
- Words
- No hard personal-essay limit stated. Official guideline for most published features: 2,000–6,000 words — a guideline, not a rule.
- Eligible
- Official page: pitches and original nonfiction from writers and journalists around the world
- Verified
- 2026-08
🟢 Currently accepting🟡 Research onlyUnited States
Longreads
Longform nonfiction
- Pay
- $500 (personal/critical essays); reading lists $350
- Words
- Most features 2,000-6,000 words (guideline, not a rule)
- Eligible
- Worldwide — no stated geographic restriction
- Verified
- 2026-09
🟢 Currently accepting🟡 Research onlyUnited States
The Drift
Essays, criticism, fiction, poetry
- Pay
- $2,000 essays; $500–$1,000 stories; $150 poems; $25 Mentions
- Words
- Essays: 2–4 paragraph pitch; fiction: no word limit; Mentions: 150-word reviews
- Eligible
- No stated country restriction
- Verified
- 2026-10
🟢 Currently accepting🟡 Research onlyUnited States
Boston Review
Long-form essays, book review essays, interviews, analysis and occasional reporting
- Pay
- Around $500 for web pieces; modest honorarium for other writers
- Words
- Most essays run 2,500–5,000 words
- Eligible
- No stated country restriction
- Verified
- 2026-09
No country restriction
Open to writers anywhere
Publications whose own guideline places no geographic restriction on who may submit.
🟢 Currently accepting🔴 RejectedNigeria
The Republic
Personal Essay
- Pay
- ₦100,000≈ $76 USD
- Words
- 2,001–3,000 words
- Eligible
- The official submissions page does not state a nationality restriction
- Verified
- 2026-08
🟢 Rolling submissions🟡 Research onlyNigeria
Oriire
Long-form, folktales, essays, interviews, heritage reviews, listicles, encounters
- Pay
- ₦10,000 per article; ₦5,000 per codex entry≈ $3.78–$11 USD
- Words
- Not publicly stated
- Eligible
- The official submissions page does not state a nationality restriction
- Verified
- 2026-08
🟢 Rolling submissions🔵 SubmittedNigeria
The Lagos Review
Personal essay
- Pay
- $250 per published essay
- Words
- Up to 1,500 words
- Eligible
- The official call does not state a nationality restriction
- Verified
- 2026-08
🟢 Rolling submissions🟡 Research onlyUnited States
Adi Magazine
Again column (book reflection)
- Pay
- $300
- Words
- Up to 1,500 words
- Eligible
- The official submissions page does not list countries
- Verified
- 2026-08
🟢 Currently accepting🟡 Research onlyUnited States
Longreads
Personal essay
- Pay
- $500
- Words
- No hard personal-essay limit stated. Official guideline for most published features: 2,000–6,000 words — a guideline, not a rule.
- Eligible
- Official page: pitches and original nonfiction from writers and journalists around the world
- Verified
- 2026-08
🟢 Currently accepting🟡 Research onlyUnited States
Longreads
Reading list
- Pay
- $350
- Words
- Not publicly stated
- Eligible
- Official page: original nonfiction from writers and journalists around the world
- Verified
- 2026-08
🟢 Currently accepting🟡 Research onlyUnited States
Longreads
Reported feature
- Pay
- From 50 cents per word
- Words
- No hard limit stated. Official guideline for most published features: 2,000–6,000 words — a guideline, not a rule.
- Eligible
- Official page: original nonfiction from writers and journalists around the world
- Verified
- 2026-08
🟢 Currently accepting🔴 RejectedUnited States
Noema Magazine
Essay, reported feature, interview, short fiction
- Pay
- Not publicly stated on the official pages checked
- Words
- Official sweet spot 2,500–4,000 words; pitches must be at least 500 words
- Eligible
- The official Pitch Us page does not list countries
- Verified
- 2026-10
Opens later
Reopening on a stated date.
Closed today, with the publication naming when it reopens. Worth a diary note.
- 2026-11-01 — American Poetry Journal · The February 2027 issue window runs 1 November 2026 to 30 November 2026; the October 2027 window opens 1 July 2027
- 2026-11-01 — khōréō · Next fiction window runs 1–30 November 2026 (themed submissions)
- 2026-12-01 — Extra Teeth · Submissions closed. Next open call 1–14 December 2026.
- 2026-12-01 — Granta · Granta opens four windows in 2026: 1-31 March, 1-30 June, 1-30 September and 1-31 December. The September window closed on 30 September 2026; the next opens at 10 a.m. UK time on 1 December and closes at midnight UK time on 31 December 2026. Poetry is closed, though Granta says it aims to reopen soon. Re-checked 1 October 2026.
- 2026-12-01 — EVENT · Fiction and poetry are accepted in January, July, August and December only. Canadian Fiction and Canadian Poetry (August 2026) hit their caps and closed. Non-fiction comes mainly through the annual Non-Fiction Contest, deadline 15 October.
- 2026-12-15 — Black Warrior Review · Reads in two windows a year, predominantly 15 December to 1 March and 1 June to 30 September - so the summer window closed on 30 September 2026 and the winter window opens 15 December 2026. The page warns the dates are liable to change as the masthead turns over
- 2027-01-04 — Bennington Review · The next reading period runs 4 January 2027 to 5 March 2027
- 2027-02-01 — Aurealis · Two reading periods a year. Australian writers and subscribers from anywhere: 1 February to 30 September. Anyone anywhere: 1-14 March only. The 2026 window closed on 30 September 2026; the next opens 1 February 2027, and a writer who is neither Australian nor a subscriber has only 1-14 March 2027. Re-checked 1 October 2026.
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