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Market/Link Genre(s) Description
The Back Alley Hard Boiled and Noir Fiction If you're unsure of what Hard Boiled and Noir are, this website gives a detailed definition.

Pays up to $20.00.

Blazing Adventures Magazine Action/Adventure, Drama/Suspense, Fantasy/SF, Articles Stand alone or serial shorts. Must be old style 'Pulp' stories. See guidelines for specifics.

Short stories limited to 5000. Serial Stories limited to 2500 to 3000 words per chapter (query first).

Pays $5.00.

Clonepod Fantasy & Science Fiction A podcast (audio) market for short fiction from 2000 to 7000 words. 

Pays $25.00 for fiction above 2000 words.  Will consider shorter fiction but will not compensate other than a link.
Crime and Suspense Detective/Mysteries Accepts reviews, articles, short stories and flash fiction. Pays $2.00 to $5.00. 

See detailed guidelines for specifics.

Escape Velocity Magazine Science Fiction This market desires hard SF stories with a slant toward the future human condition, or stories with future science as a main theme. Time travel, space exploration adventure, discovery or invention, if it's fresh, send it.

Accepts 1500 to 7500 word length, but the longer the piece, the harder the sell. Pays $10.00 + 1 contributor copy for fiction. In addition to print, one time rights for podcast are sought for some stories.
Fear and Trembling Horror/Suspense, Dark Fiction

Prefers fiction under 3000 words. Submissions over 4000 words are considered very long by this market.

See guidelines for specific needs and content for this market.

Pays $5.00 for fiction and for poetry.

A Fly in Amber Fiction and NonFiction Accepts flash fiction (up to 1000 words) and short fiction (1000 to 10,000 words)

For NonFiction, seeking essays and articles that present unique insight into unique issues. Looking for articles that make readers feel or think in ways they haven’t before.

Pays a flat rate of $10.00 per piece.

Flashing Swords Fantasy A quarterly ezine looking publish the finest heroic fantasy, sword and sorcery, sword and planet and swashbuckling historicals.

They pay 1-2 cents per word for fiction (2000 to 6000 words) and $10.00 for flash fiction (1000 words or less)

Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine Mystery This market is switching to an annual anthology.

Will open to submissions for the anthology July 15, 2009 and will pays a flat rate based on word count (to be determined). If sales go over 2000 copies, then royalties will be paid in addition to the initial payment.

Check the FMAM web site in April 2009 for more info.

GlassFire Magazine Open Genre and Poetry A quarterly ezine with an anthology. 

Welcomes all genres but they are not looking for R rated material, so don't submit erotica or stories with unnecessary language or violence.

Pays 1 cent per word (up to 3000 words) but there isn't a word limit to submissions.  Pays $5.00 flat rate for poetry.
Haruah: Breath of Heaven Literary and Mainstream, and exceptional historical, romance and mystery An inspirational ezine which also publishes a monthly print edition.

Haruah accepts  flash fiction (under 1000 words), poetry, inspirational stories (up to about 5000 words) and personal essays.

Haruah is a paying market for stories and poetry.
Current rates are:
$5.00 - All stories, including flash and historical/true to life.
$2.00 - Poetry of any length.
joyful! Mainstream, Inspirational Seeks fiction and articles up to 2500 words and poetry up to 100 lines.

Has some themed issues.

Pays $5.00 for story/article/picture and up to $5.00 per poem (depending on the length)

Midnight Echo Horror, Dark Fantasy and Macabre fiction A magazine supported by the Australian Writers Association.

Accepts fiction up to 5000 words and pays 1 cent per word.

MindFlights SF and Fantasy A merger of Double-Edged Publishing's The Sword Review and Dragons, Knights and Angels.  Seeking Fantasy and Science Fiction stories and poetry.  Accepting submissions and begins publication in January of 2008

Pays 1/2 of a cent per word up to $25.00. Prefers works under 5000 words.

Necrotic Tissue Horror Accepts horror fiction, including dark humor.

Pays 1 cent per word (5 cents per word for best story per issue up to $250.00) (plus a T-Shirt).

Over My Dead Body! Mystery Related Fiction and Nonfiction Accepts anything from Cozy to Hardboiled and anything in between.

Fiction: 750 to 4000 words. Pays 1 cent per word

Nonfiction: 500+ words. Pays $10.00 to $25.00.

Panverse Publishing Fantasy/Science Fiction Seeks works from 15,000 to 40,000 words. (one of few novella markets)

Will accept slipstream, alternate history, dark fantasy, and magic realism.

Pays $60.00 plus two contributor copies.
Parade of Phantoms Haunting Fiction Prefers Short Fiction from 1500 to 5000 words.

Pays $20.00 per short story.
Ramble Underground Literary A quarterly ezine that accepts poetry and fiction under 4000 words (preferred).

Pays $15.00 for short fiction.
Ray Gun Revival Science Fiction (including nonfiction/reviews and poetry) This market focuses on space opera and golden age science fiction. The content should be equivalent to PG-13.

Payment is $5.00 per story under 1500 words and $15.00 for over 1500 words. Poetry and nonfiction pays $5.00.

Shimmer Speculative Fiction This online market is interested in  urban fantasy, magical realism, fairy tale retellings, character-driven SF, cyberpunk, and horror stories.

They pay 1 cent per word, with a minimum of $10.00 and a maximum of $30.00.  They strongly prefer stories of 5000 words or less.

Shred of Evidence Mystery, Crime and Suspense Fiction The categories of fiction accepted include all subgenres and cross-genre stories.

Accepts flash fiction (under 1000 words), short fiction (1000 to 21,000 words with 2000-6000 words are ideal) and serials (22,000 or more).

Pays $10.00 for short fiction, $5.00 for flash and reprints, and $30.00 to $50.00 for serials.

Sinister Tales Literary Horror/Gothic Tales, Poetry Accepts flash fiction to 20,000 words, but prefers 5000 to 7000 words.

Pays lead Story $125.00 and lead Poetry $25.00 via paypal only. All other works published earn exposure only.

Sorcerous Signals Fantasy An online market that publishes a print anthology.

Accept fiction up to 10,000 words and poetry. Pays $5.00 for 1000+ word fiction and $2.00 for flash fiction and poetry. Pays $10.00 for works selected for the anthology.

Sotto Voce Literary, Mainstream Will consider genre fiction with a mainstream appeal.

Pays up to $40.00 for short fiction (up to 5000 words), and $20.00 for flash fiction and poetry.

Talebones Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy A print market that accepts fiction up to 6000 words. Does not want horror.  Pays 1-2 cents per word.

For poetry pays a flat rate of $10.00

Third Order Mainstream, Experimental, Speculative Fiction Seeks fiction that deals with religion and faith. See guidelines for specifics.

Pays $20 for fiction up to 4000 words and $30.00 for fiction up to 10,000 words.

The Storyteller All Genres It is a family magazine and submit accordingly in fiction, non-fiction, essays and poetry.

Accept shorts up to 2500 words and acquires first North American rights only.

Send complete manuscript with cover letter. Please include your name, address and phone number on the first page of manuscript, along with an accurate word count.

Pays ¼ cent per word.

The Thrilling Detective Mystery This market seeks fiction up to 10,000 words, with 7000 to 8000 being about right for them (most of the time).

The story must be about a Private Eye. See guidelines for specifics, including 'thundering clichés'.

Pays $15.00 for fictional stories.

The Town Drunk Lighthearted Humor (Various Genres) This market publishes lighthearted and humorous short stories that contain an element of science fiction, fantasy, horror or the supernatural.

Length of the work must be from 500 to 5000 words. Payment is a flat rate of $35.00.

Wayfarer's Journal Science Fiction This market seeks to publish quality science fiction with a spiritual dimension (mainly Christian)

Pays:
$10 for works from 50 to 1000 words
$10 to $20 works from 1000 to 5000 words
$10 to $40 for works from 8000 to 20,000 words

Accepts reprints and pays about 1/2 rate offered for previously unpublished works.

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