| Market/Link |
Genre(s) |
Description |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Coyote Wild |
Speculative Fiction |
An ezine that
seeks speculative fiction containing science
fiction, fantasy, horror, or magical realism elements.
Pays 1 cent per word. Podcast rights are
negotiable. |
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Crime and Suspense |
Detective/Mysteries |
Accepts reviews, articles, short
stories and flash fiction. Pays $2.00 to $5.00.
See detailed guidelines for
specifics. |
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Dreams & Visions |
Most Genres |
Part of Skysong Press, this
magazine seeks mainly spiritual works, but is open to a good story.
Prefers 2000 to 8000 word length.
Pays 1 cent per word, up to a
maximum of $50.00. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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) |
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Futures Mystery
Anthology Magazine |
Mystery |
This market publishes
both print and downloadable PDF editions and offers a strong mixture
of new and seasoned authors each issue.
FMAM considers stories
from 500 to 10,000 words in length. Pays a flat rate of $5.00 per
story. (Currently closed to submissions) |
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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. |
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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. |
|
Lunch Hour Stories |
Literary and Mainstream |
Seeks works from 4000 to 8000 words in
length. Some mild genre acceptable.
Pays $50.00 plus 5 copies |
|
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. |
|
Mouth Full of Bullets |
Mystery |
An ezine that
publishes both fiction and poetry that is branching out into paper
as well as online editions of each issue. Prefers works from 500 to
3000 words.
This market prefers
mystery/suspense including police procedural, private eye, amateur
sleuth, cozies and hardboiled. Basically, if it involves a crime and
it's within the guidelines, don't hesitate to send it.
Payment is $10.00 to
$20.00 for
short stories, $3.00 to $10.00 for flash fiction and $2.00 to 5.00 for poetry.
(Starting in
November 2008, will reopen with new rates, starting at $25.00 per
short story) |
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Necrotic Tissue |
Horror |
Short Fiction up to 5000 words
maximum. Pays $10.00 to $25.00 (plus a T-Shirt).
Does not accept reprints. |
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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. |
|
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 $10.00 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. |
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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. |
|
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 |
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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. |
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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. |