I am thrilled that the 2022 Clarion West workshop is back in person, and a new cohort of writers gets to travel to Seattle and write, read & discuss speculative short fiction for 6 weeks. Congratulations & best wishes to all of them!
And to celebrate, I’m participating in the online Clarion West Write-a-Thon again. Both to get some serious writing done and to help to fundraise for the future Clarion West workshops.

My writing goals
My goal for this Write-a-Thon is to make progress on my current writing projects. That’s all. These projects include my neuroscience-inspired thriller and a handful of short stories, since I always juggle multiple manuscripts. Anything counts: words added to the manuscript, notes in a notebook, tweaks to an outline.
In addition, every day, I will feature a different speculative short fiction magazine, with links to their website and to their listing on the Submission Grinder.
Speculative short fiction magazines
There are so many excellent magazines out there, publishing amazing flash, short stories, novelettes, and novellas, that I decided to highlight only the newer, smaller ones. The order is random. (I literally wrote down the magazine names on pieces of paper and drew one name for each day.)
- Translunar Traveler’s Lounge (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Metaphorosis (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Bourbon Penn (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Flash Fiction Online (Submission Grinder listing here)
- After Dinner Conversation (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Solarpunk Magazine (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Etherea Magazine (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Dread Machine (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Radon Journal (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Fusion Fragment (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Cossmass Infinities (Submission Grinder listing here)
- The Colored Lens (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Utopia Science Fiction (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Mysterion (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Proton Reader (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Hexagon (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Aurealis (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Neon (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Electric Spec (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Assemble Artifacts Magazine (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Little Blue Marble (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Mermaids Monthly (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Kaleidotrope (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Augur Magazine (Submission Grinder listing here)
- The Future Fire (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Medusa Tales (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Factor Four Magazine (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Abyss & Apex (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Orion’s Belt (Submission Grinder listing here)
- The Dark (Submission Grinder listing here)
- HyphenPunk (Submission Grinder listing here)
- The Deadlands (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Metastellar (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Diabolical Plots (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Reckoning (Submission Grinder listing here)
- The Fifth Di… (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Dark Matter Magazine (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Andromeda Spaceways (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Zooscape (Submission Grinder listing here)
- Three-Lobed Burning Eye (Submission Grinder listing here)