The Cutleaf Reader
Open to BIPOC writers who live in or hail from rural or semi-rural locales in the U.S. and whose short stories feature characters living or working in rural or semi-rural spaces. Annual print anthology looking for:
Literary Nonfiction – October 1 to October 31, 2024
Poetry – November 1, 2024.
“There is no fee to submit. Cutleaf will pay from $100 to $400 for published prose and from $50 to $100 per published poem.”
For full details visit: https://eastoverpresscutleafjournal.submittable.com/submit
Trollbreath Magazine
Trollbreath Magazine is a journal of speculative fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, publishing electronic issues on a quarterly schedule.
September 1st, 2024 – September 30th, 2024 (Spring 2025 issue)
December 1st, 2024 – December 31st, 2024 (Summer 2025 issue)
“Trollbreath Magazine will consider original short stories from 1500 words up to 7500 words. Our preference is for stories between 4,000 and 5,000 words”
4 cents (United States currency) per word for original works, and 1/2 cent per word for reprints at the time of publication
For full details visit: https://magazine.trollbreath.com/submissions/
To submit a market open to submissions, please visit this thread in the forum.
NOTE: As always, research the publisher and read the rules and terms. Protect your intellectual property. Listings here do not indicate support by Forward Motion for Writers, and are offered only as information.
The Forward Motion Discord Server has officially taken over as the live chat space for our merry band of writers! For those who would like to join the fun, the invite link is: 
The chat software we’d been using was overall nice. However, I kept getting complaints from some FMers that were having trouble with it. Either not connecting on whatever device they were using, not formatting correctly, or other small problems. So, I’ve been keeping my eye out for a good alternative. Which was surprisingly difficult.