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Here are three dozen literary magazines that pay $100 and up for fiction and personal essays. (Poetry rates vary.) Some charge submission fees. Nearly all have reading periods, so check their guidelines carefully.
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Boulevard
"Boulevard strives to publish only the finest in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. While we frequently publish writers with previous credits, we are very interested in less experienced or unpublished writers with exceptional promise. If you have practiced your craft and your work is the best it can be, send it to Boulevard." Submissions accepted between November 1 and May 1. $3 to submit online. No charge for postal submissions.
Payment: Prose minimum is $100, maximum is $300. Poetry minimum is $25, maximum is $250.
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Capilano Review
The Capilano Review is a Canadian journal that publishes art, poetry, fiction, essays and interviews commissioned by the editor, as well as a small selection of unsolicited poetry and prose. See reading periods. Also runs a writing contest for which there is an entry fee.
Payment: $50 per published page to a maximum of $200.
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The Sun Magazine
"We publish essays, interviews, fiction, and poetry. We tend to favor personal writing, but we’re also looking for provocative pieces on political and cultural issues." They rarely run anything longer than seven thousand words; there’s no minimum length. Simultaneous submissions are discouraged.
Payment: Personal Essays $$200 and up; Fiction $200 and up.; Poetry $200 and up.
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West Branch Magazine
West Branch Magazine is a publication of Bucknell University. They publish personal essays, poetry and fiction. They pay upon publication. See submission periods.
Payment: $100 per poem, 10 cents per word for prose with a maximum payment of $200.
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AGNI
Accepts poetry and prose. "We look for writing that catches experience before the crusts of habit form—poetry and prose that resist ideas about what a certain kind of writing “should do.” We seek out writers who tell their truths in their own words and convince us as we read that we’ve found something no one else could have written." See submission periods. Has begun charging a fee for online submissions. No fee for snail mail.
Payment: $10 per printed (or printed-out) page for accepted prose, and $20 per page for accepted poetry, up to a maximum of $150.
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Colorado Review
Accepts poetry of any style, personal essays, and fiction. Submit no more than five poems with a maximum of 15 pages. Colorado Review prefers short stories and essays that are somewhere between 15 and 25 manuscript pages. Has begun charging a fee for online submissions.
Payment: $100 for poetry and $300 for short stories and essays.
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Grain
Poems, sequences, or suites of poems up to a maximum of six pages or fiction or nonfiction of no more than 3,500 words. See reading periods. Has a monthly submittable cap. Writers submitting from outside of Canada will incur a $5.00 CA reading fee.
Payment: $50 per page to a maximum of $250.
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Nashville Review
Accepts fiction and poetry. "Nashville Review seeks to publish the best work we can get our hands on, period. From expansive to minimalist, narrative to lyric, epiphanic to subtle—if it’s a moving work of art, we want it." See reading periods.
Payment: $100/story, $25/poem.
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Highlights Magazine
Highlights is a magazine for children ages 6-12. Genre: Poems up to 10 lines, especially non-rhyming and/or humorous poetry. No poems with nature or seasonal themes or poems about dogs. Also publish short stories (see guidelines for current themes), puzzles, articles, activities, and cartoons. Note: Writers relinquish all rights, including copyright, upon publication. See reading periods.
Payment: $40 and up for poems, crafts, and puzzles, and $175 and up for fiction and nonfiction.
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The Ex-Puritan
The Ex-Puritan is one of Canada’s premier online literary magazines. Based in Toronto, and founded in late 2006, The Ex-Puritan is committed to publishing the best in new fiction, poetry, interviews, essays, reviews, and more, from both Canada and abroad — and has published many of today’s finest literary talents. See reading periods.
Payment: $100 per interview, $200 per essay, $100 per review, $150 per work of fiction, and $50 per poem (or page, capped at $80 for poems running four pages or more).
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The Threepenny Review
The Threepenny Review is a respected literary magazine publishing fiction and poetry. Their nonreading period is April 15 through December 31. Payment: $200/poem, $400/story.
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VQR
"VQR strives to publish the best writing we can find. While we have a long history of publishing accomplished and award-winning authors, we also seek and support emerging writers." Has very narrow yearly submission windows. Note: Genre fiction not accepted.
Payment: $200 per poem, up to 4 poems; for a suite of 5 or more poems, payment is $1,000. For short fiction, $1,000. For other prose, such as personal essays and literary criticism, $1,000 and above, at approximately 25 cents per word, depending on length. Online content is generally paid at $100-$200, depending upon genre and length.
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The Georgia Review
Founded in 1947, The Georgia Review is the University of Georgia’s journal of arts and letters. The journal has twice taken a top prize in the annual National Magazine Awards competition, winning out over the likes of the Atlantic, Esquire, the New Yorker, and Vanity Fair, and has been a finalist twenty times in various categories. Reading period from August 15 to May 15.
Payment: $50 per printed page for prose and $4 per line for poetry. Essay-reviews and standard reviews earn $50/printed page. In addition, all contributors receive a one-year subscription to The Georgia Review. No fee to submit by regular mail. Fee to submit online, no fee by post.
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Clarkesworld Magazine
Clarkesworld Magazine is a Hugo, World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine that publishes short stories, interviews, articles and audio fiction. Issues are published monthly in ebook format, and via electronic subscription. All original fiction is also published in our trade paperback series from Wyrm Publishing. Currently open for art, non-fiction and short story submissions. No simultaneous submissions.
Payment: 14¢ per word. Length: 1000-22000 words, no exceptions.
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Litmag
Accepts poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. "What We Look For: Work that moves and amazes us.We are drawn to big minds, large hearts, sharp pens." Length: Print: 15,000 words; Online: 4,000 words. See submission periods.
Payment: Print: $300 for full-length fiction or nonfiction (5,000+ words); $150 for fiction or nonfiction (2,500-4,999 words); $100 for a short short (flash); $100 for a poem or group of short poems. LitMag Online: Upon acceptance, $100.
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Bennington Review
Fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, film writing, and cross-genre work. "We aim to stake out a distinctive space for innovative, intelligent, and moving fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, film writing, and cross-genre work. In the spirit of poet Dean Young’s dictum that poets should be “making birds, not birdcages,” we are particularly taken with writing that is simultaneously graceful and reckless." See reading periods.
Payment: $120 for prose of six typeset pages and under, $250 for prose of over six typeset pages, and $25 per poem, in addition to two copies of the issue in which the piece is published and a copy of the subsequent issue.
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The Audacity
This newsletter features an emerging writer twice a month. "I define emerging writer as someone with fewer than three article/essay/short story publications and no published books or book contracts.Please submit your best nonfiction and nonfiction only. I am interested in literary essays and memoir. Please submit only one essay at a time. Essays should be between 1500 and 3000 words." Nonfiction only. .
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Chicken Soup for the Soul
"A Chicken Soup for the Soul story is an inspirational, true story about ordinary people having extraordinary experiences. It is a story that opens the heart and rekindles the spirit. It is a simple piece that touches our readers and helps them discover basic principles they can use in their own lives. These stories are personal and often filled with emotion and drama. They are filled with vivid images created by using the five senses. In some stories, the readers feel that they are actually in the scene with the people."
Payment: $200.
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Contemporary Verse 2
"Contemporary Verse 2 is a quarterly literary journal that publishes poetry and critical writing about poetry, including interviews, articles, essays, and reviews. It is our policy to publish new writing by both emerging and established poets. The writing we encourage reflects a diversity representing a range of social and cultural experience along with literary excellence." See reading periods. Free submissions for Canadians only. $3 submission fee for everyone else.
Payment: $35 - $150.
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One Story
"One Story is seeking literary fiction. Because of our format, we can only accept stories between 3,000 and 8,000 words. They can be any style and on any subject as long as they are good. We are looking for stories that leave readers feeling satisfied and are strong enough to stand alone." See submission periods. Closes when they reach their cap.
Payment: $500.
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Escape Pod
Science fiction - audio and text. "We are fairly flexible on what counts as science (we’ll delve into superheroes or steampunk on occasion) and are interested in exploring the range of the genre. We want stories that center on science, technology, future projections, and/or alternate history, and how any or all of these things intersect with people." Length: 1500-6000 words. See reading periods.
Payment: $0.08 per word for original fiction; $100.00 flat rate for reprints of any length.
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Woods Reader
"Woods Reader is a publication for those who love woodland areas: whether a public preserve, forest, tree farm, backyard woodlot or other patch of trees and wildlife. Our readers like to hear about others’ experiences and insights, especially those that make an impression that they think about long after they have finished the article. Submitted content should center around trees and woodlands."
Length: They accept essays of 500-1,000 words and occasionally may serialize work of 2,000-5,000 words. They also accept fiction/fantasy, poetry, and cartoons.
Payment: $35 to $100.
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Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope magazine creatively focuses on the experiences of disability through literature and the fine arts. This publication expresses the experience of disability from the perspective of individuals, families, friends, healthcare professionals, educators and others.
"The material chosen for Kaleidoscope challenges and overcomes stereotypical, patronizing, and sentimental attitudes about disability. We accept the work of writers with and without disabilities; however the work of a writer without a disability must focus on some aspect of disability. The criteria for good writing apply: effective technique, thought-provoking subject matter, and in general, a mature grasp of the art of story-telling. Writers should avoid using offensive language and always put the person before the disability."
Kaleidoscope accepts electronic (website and email) submissions. Electronic submissions should be sent as an attachment when submitted both on the website and within an email. Please include complete information-full name, postal and email address and telephone number(s)
Payment is made upon publication, and varies from $10 to $100.
Payment: Body Shots pays $150 for works of 5000+ words, $75 for works of 2500 to 5000 words, and $35 for works of 2500 words or less. For photographs, they pay $150 per photo.
And what else? Writers deserve for their work to be evaluated independently of any preexisting platform. Big Score wants to publish your work, not your social media numbers.
Meaning we read our submissions with the author’s identity hidden.
Finally? Lest we forget, narrative has the power to define not only our personal lives, but also, at the world scale, the age in which we live. Perhaps because the pursuit of meaningful work has blurred too much with a corporate-infused mentality—that snake devouring its own tail—we seem to have collectively forgotten somewhere along the way that there really can be no such thing as a great author without great criticism. That’s why Big Score pays for critical work at the same level as we do fiction and narrative prose. (And we’re not skimping for poetry either.)

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