185 Literary Magazines Accepting Reprints

Updated 3/11/25

There is nothing quite like having your work published, especially after you have spent months sending your stories or poems to magazines that take forever to respond.

Sadly, the elation you feel when you have finally seen your work in print may be short-lived. Most stories and poems that make their way into literary journals have only a brief shelf-life. After readers have read your work and the issue has been archived, now what?

One good way to extend the life of your work is to send it to literary magazines that accept reprints.

Fortunately, there are a lot of literary magazines willing to accept work that has already been published. Very few of them pay, because reprints have little value in the literary marketplace. (Only the first magazine that publishes your work will be credited.) However, some venues, notably podcasts, pay competitive rates for work that has been previously published.

All of these publications accept reprints. Make sure you read their websites carefully to see if your work will be a good fit. And make sure that all rights have reverted to you when you submit to them. (Look at the contract you signed with the original publisher. It should say "All rights revert to author upon publication" or "All rights revert to author after X months.")

Also see: Where to submit reprints

(Image: "Drawing Hands" by M. C. Escher)

Publication	Submission Guidelines	Payment	Medium	Genres
50-Word Stories	http://fiftywordstories.com/submissions/	No	Electronic	All genres, Flash Fiction only See submission periods
The Phantom Pulse	https://www.thephantompulse.com/	$0.03 per word for unpublished fiction and $0.01 per word for reprints	Electronic?	Traditional horror, sci-fi horror, dark fantasy, and the weird. We have diverse reading tastes and are open to experimental forms and stories.
Apocrypha and Abstractions	https://apocryphaandabstractions.wordpress.com /submissions/	No	Electronic	All genres, Flash Fiction only (fewer than 500 words_
Story Unlikely	https://www.storyunlikely.com/#submit	$75 max	Electronic	"Good stories"
Academy of the Heart and Mind	https://academyoftheheartandmind.com/submit-your-work/	No	Electronic	Fiction
Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores	https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/ submissions/	2 cents/word for fiction reprints, 50 cents per line for poetry reprints, 2  - 8 cents/word nonfiction reprints	Electronic	Speculative Fiction Nonfiction and Poetry Submission periods
Bewildering Stories	http://www.bewilderingstories.com/ submissions.html	No	Electronic	Speculative Fiction Submission periods
Allegory	http://www.allegoryezine.com/submissions	$15	Electronic	Speculative Fiction
Murderous Ink Press:Crimeucopia	https://www.murderousinkpress.co.uk/ submissions.html	Up to £7.00	Print and ebook	Crime fiction
Aloka	https://eleeephant8.wordpress.com/submissions/	No	Electronic	Magazine for non-native English speakers and all those experimenting with language
The Hungur Chronicles	https://www.hiraethsffh.com/hungur-chronicles-guidelines	$12	Print	Horror. Vampires or creatures with vampiric themes Prose, poetry, art
Autumn Sky Poetry Daily	https://autumnskypoetrydaily.com/submission-guidelines/	No	Electronic	Poetry
Cadaverine Only open to writers under 30	https://thecadaverine.submittable.com/submit	No	Electronic	Poetry up to 50 lines and Fiction up to 5000 words Has submission periods
Temporal Lobe Literary	https://www.temporallobeliterary.com/submit	No	Electronic	Nonfiction or creative nonfiction prose and poetry
Canary	http://hippocketpress.org/submit_canary.php "Our theme is the environmental crisis and the losses of species and habitat that are a result of this ongoing disaster."	No	Electronic	Poetry, Essays, and Fiction (1500 words max)
Blue Lake Review	https://bluelakereview.weebly.com/submissions.html	No	Electronic	Fiction (no genre fiction)
Incensepunk	https://www.incensepunk.com/p/submissions	$25	Electronic	Sci-fi worlds that embrace the breadth of human religion Also accepts nonfiction
The Bond Street Review	https://inkpublications1.wixsite.com/mysite	No	Electronic (PDF file)	Poetry,  Flash Fiction
The Broadkill Review	https://www.broadkillreview.com/submissions	No	Electronic	Fiction, Reviews, Poetry
Greenprints	http://greenprints.com/writers-guidelines/	$150	Print	Gardening
Columbia Journal	https://columbiajournal.submittable.com/submit	No	Electronic Print	Poetry, Fiction, Art, Film, Music Reprints accepted for print journal only
The Margins	https://aaww.submittable.com/submit	No	Electronic	Every Tuesday, The Margins publishes the work of emerging and established Asian American and diasporic poets. We publish English-language poems and translations of poems.  See reading periods
The Broken City	https://www.thebrokencitymag.com/submissions.html	No	Electronic	Poetry, fiction, essays, illustrations and photography on themes
Brown Bag Online	https://brownbag.online/submission-guidelines/	No	Electronic	Poetry, fiction, essays, sound, film, audio, multimedia
Enrapturing Tales	https://knightwritingpress.com/open-and-upcoming-submissions/	Royalties	Electronic	Poetry, fiction, art on themes
Fusion Fragment	https://www.fusionfragment.com/submissions/	3.5 cents (CAD) per word	Electronic and Print	Speculative Fiction  See reading periods
Deep South Magazine	http://deepsouthmag.com/features/submission-guidelines/	No	Electronic	Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction about the deep South
Forever Magazine	http://forever-magazine.com/	No	Electronic	Speculative Fiction
Down in the Dirt	http://scars.tv/down-in-the-dirt.htm	No	Electronic and Print	Almost any genre
East Coast Literary Review	http://www.eastcoastliteraryreview.com /submission-guidelines.html	No	Print	Poetry, Flash Fiction, Short Stories (up to 8,000 words)
Cosmic Horror Monthly	https://www.cosmichorrormonthly.com/submissions/	1 cent per word for reprints	Electronic	Cosmic horror, Lovecraftian, Weird, and dark science fiction stories See reading periods
Crow & Cross Keys	https://crowcrosskeys.com/submit/	No	Electronic	Poetry, flash fiction and short stories with a speculative edge
Every Writer's Resource	http://www.everywritersresource.com/shortstories /submissions/	No	Electronic	Flash Fiction (500 words max)
Little Blue Marble	https://littlebluemarble.ca/submission-guidelines/	$0.01 CAD a word for reprints	Electronic and print	Speculative fiction that examines humanity's possible futures living with anthropogenic climate change.
Short Story Substack	https://shortstory.substack.com/about	$100 and 50% of subscription revenue	Electronic	Short story - publishes one story per month
Fabula Argentea	http://www.fabulaargentea.com/index.php /submissions/	$8 for short stories and poems, $3 for flash, $15 to $25 for longer stories	Electronic	Poems, flash fiction, short stories
Bullet Points	https://bulletpoints.nathantoronto.com/submissions	$30 for original stories and $20 for reprints	Electronic and Print	Speculative military fiction that is sensitive to the complexity, tragedy, and hope of warfare and violence in human (and nonhuman) society.  100 - 5000 words
Samovar	http://samovar.strangehorizons.com/submit/	$100	Electronic	Speculative fiction, nonfiction and poetry in translation
Chantarelle’s Notebook	https://chantarellesnotebook.com/submit/	No	Electronic	Flash fiction, poetry
datura literary journal	https://daturaliteraryjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines-proposer-vos.html	No	Print and Electronic	"A print and online journal of deviant and defiant work published randomly."
the cherita	https://www.thecherita.com/submissions/	No	Electronic	Poetry
Fiction on the Web	http://www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/p /submissions.html	USD $15 / GBP £15 / EUR €15	Electronic	Short stories, all genres
Unstamatic Newsprint	https://unstamatic.com/submissions/	$10	Print	Prose of 500 words or fewer; Poetry of 25 lines or fewer; Visual art of any sort
The Font – A Literary Journal for Language Teachers	http://thefontjournal.com/submissions/	No	Electronic	Short stories, articles, essays, anecdotes, poems, cartoons and other forms of creative writing or visual art on the theme of language teaching or learning
FriGG	https://friggmagazine.submittable.com/submit	No	Electronic	Fiction, nonfiction, poetry - all topics
CommuterLit	https://commuterlit.com/for-writers/submission-guidelines/	No	Electronic	Fiction, poetry
Frontier Tales	http://www.frontiertales.com/submissions.php	No	Electronic and Print	Westerns
Geist	http://www.geist.com/writers/submit	Unknown	Print	Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, art, reviews either by Canadians or with a connection to Canada Previously published work accepted for Findings section
Ginosko	https://ginoskoliteraryjournal.com/guidelines/	No	Print	Short fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, social justice, literary insights
Dwarf Stars anthology	https://sfpoetry.com/ds/dsguide.html	No	Print	Speculative poetry  Opens April 1
Jersey Devil Press	http://www.jerseydevilpress.com/?page_id=71	No	Electronic and Print	Speculative fiction and poetry
Jewish Literary Journal	http://jewishliteraryjournal.com/submission-guidelines/	No	Electronic	Poetry, fiction, nonfiction - All submissions must be Jewish in nature See submission periods
Corvus Review	https://corev.ink/	No	Electronic	Flash Fiction, CNF, Poetry, Art
OTHERSIDE	https://othersidespec.com/guidelines/	$0.08/word for prose. $50 per poem. $100 for nonfiction and reprints	Electronic	Speculative fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by self-identified members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community At this time we are only looking for stories that cannot currently be read online for free: stories that are out of print, stories that were never available online, stories no longer online after the closure of the original publication venue, etc. Our goal is to provide a new home for hard-to-access stories.
White Enso	http://www.whiteenso.com/submit.html	$10 - $15	Electronic	Short fiction, essays, creative non-fiction and artwork that encapsulates the Japan experience.
The Archive	https://www.sanspress.com/submissions	€50	Electronic	We want the weird, the unexpected, the completely new. No theme, no genre, no need to be previously unpublished See submission periods
The Lascaux Review	http://lascauxreview.com/submissions/ On hiatus	No	Electronic	Poetry, Fiction, Essays
Micro Podcast	https://micropodcast.org/about/	No	Electronic	Micro Fiction
The Linnet's Wings	http://www.thelinnetswings.org/?pageno=2#	No	Electronic	Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction
Literally Stories	http://literallystories2014.com/submission-guidelines/	No	Electronic	Short stories, all genres (500 to 3000 words) Sometimes takes up to 4,000 words, but the work has to be "outstanding"
Defenestration	https://www.defenestrationmag.net/submissions/	No	Electronic	Humor: Short story, poetry, nonfiction, visual
Dishsoap Quarterly	https://dishsoap-quarterly.com/submissions	No	Electronic	Poetry, prose
Ephemeral Elegies	https://ephemeralelegies.com/submissions/	No	Electronic	Confessional poetry
The Lorelei Signal	http://www.loreleisignal.com/Guidelines.html	$2	Electronic and Print	Fantasy featuring strong, complex female characters
The Dark	https://www.thedarkmagazine.com/submission-guidelines/	5 cents/word for original fiction up to 6,000 words on publication for first world rights; and 1 cent/word for reprint fiction up to 6,000 words	Electronic and Print	Horror and Dark Fantasy 2,000 – 6,000 words
Lotus-eater	http://lotus-eatermagazine.com/submissions/	No	Electronic	Poetry, prose (up to 5000 words), nonfiction, book reviews
Trollbreath	https://magazine.trollbreath.com/submissions/	1/2 cent/word	Electronic	Speculative fiction nd poetry Also accepts nonfiction and art
Maniacal	http://maniacal.freezeframefiction.com /about.html	$2	Electronic and Print	"Twisted humor, funny horror, or anything else you think will disturb and amuse us."
Poetry Substack	https://poetica.substack.com/about	$10	Electronic	Accepts one poem per month
Farside Review	https://farsidereview.com/submit/	No	Electronic	Fiction, Poetry, CNF, art
Neon Hemlock: We're Here	https://www.neonhemlock.com/submissions	No	Electronic and Print	Queer science fiction
Flash Fiction Online	https://www.flashfictiononline.com/submission-guidelines-flash-fiction/	2c/word	Electronic	Flash fiction up to 1000 words See submission periods
The Missing Slate	https://themissingslate.com/submissions/	No	Electronic and Print	Fiction, poetry, essays, reviews and criticism
Uncharted	https://uncharted.submittable.com/submit	No	Electronic	Sci-ci, fantasy, horror, thriller/mystery/crime fiction
First Literary Review - East	http://www.rulrul.4mg.com/index_1.html	No	Electronic	Poetry
Occult Detective Magazine	http://greydogtales.com/blog/submissions/	£25.00	Print and electronic	Short detective stories dealing with the occult They rarely take reprints, but when they do they pay
Fragmented Voices Magazine	https://fragmentedvoices.com/submissions/	No	Electronic	Prose, poetry, creative non-fiction, and essays. They also accept translations in all these genres.
Tales from Between	https://talesfrombetween.wordpress.com/submissions/	REPRINT: £5 plus a physical copy of the issue.	Print	We’re looking for ‘strange stories’. That can be horror, fantasy, literary.
Penumbric	https://www.penumbric.com/subs.html	$10	Print and Electronic	Fiction, poetry, illustration, graphic narrative, animation, music, or combinations of these. Work that constitutes the ever-moving edge of its kind, as a place between light and dark, consciousness and un, today and tomorrow; work exhibiting the strange, the bizarre, that which is not of the world we know, but more of a twilight realm or even altogether alien place.
Germ Magazine	https://germmagazine.com/submit/	No	Electronic	Germ’s goal is to provide young people—high school age and beyond—an inclusive space to share their experiences on a wide variety of topics.
NonBinary Review	https://www.zoeticpress.com/submit	Semi-pro	Electronic	Themed issues
The Hellebore	https://thehellebore.com/submit/	No	Electronic	Flash Fiction, Short Stories
Van Gogh’s Ear: Best World Poetry, Prose & Art	https://theoriginalvangoghsearanthology.com/van-goghs-ear-volume-11-submission-guidelines/	No	Electronic	Poetry and prose. Poem length shouldn’t be more than 165 lines and prose length no more than 1,500 words.
After Dinner Conversation	https://www.afterdinnerconversation.com/submissions	$0.01 per word	Print	Children's, YA and Adult short stories
The Other Stories	https://theotherstories.submittable.com/submit CLOSED ?	No	Audio	Fiction (up to 4000 words)
Aftermath	https://www.aftermathmag.org/submissions.html	2 cents/word for short stories; 1 cent/word for everything else	Electronic	Humans are doing so much damage to the natural world that it can only end in a spate of perfect storms that will wreck our civilization. These inevitable apocalyptic events offer a wealth of inspiration.
The Dirty Spoon	http://www.dirty-spoon.com/submissions/	$50	Electronic (Podcast and online journal)	Nonfiction: essays, interviews and articles about people who work in our consumable culture.
Pen Sword Magazine	https://penswordpress.submittable.com/submit	No	Electronic	Short form fiction and non-fiction that presents the military service experience
Pulp Literature	https://pulpliterature.com/submissions/submission-guidelines/	50% of rate for original fiction	Print	Pulp fiction up to 50 pages Submission periods
A Velvet Giant	https://www.avelvetgiant.com/submit/	$20	Electronic	All genres "We are especially interested in work by genderqueer & LGBTQ+ people, women, people of color, global writers, and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault."
Impspired	https://impspired.com/how-to-send-in-your-work/	No	Electronic	Open to many styles and approaches, covering different subject
The Journal of Undiscovered Poets	https://www.undiscoveredpoets.com/submit	No	Electronic	Poetry
Killing the Buddha	https://killingthebuddha.com/submit/	No	Electronic	Short fiction Magazine of religion, culture, and politics
parABnormal	https://www.hiraethsffh.com/parabnormal-magazine-guidelines	$7	Print	Fiction, nonfiction, poetry on the paranormal. "For us, this includes ghosts, spectres, haunts, various whisperers, and so forth. It also includes shapeshifters and creatures from various folklores."
Scrawl Place	https://scrawlplace.com/submit/	$35	Electronic	Your submission must be about or connected to or associated with a specific, physical place that someone could visit
The Voyage	https://thevoyagejournal.com/submit/	$200	Electronic	YA short stories and nonfiction up to 6,000 words
Light: a journal of light verse	https://lightpoetrymagazine.submittable.com/submit	No	Electronic	Light verse
Bullet Points	https://bulletpoints.nathantoronto.com/submissions	$20	Print and PDF	Speculative military fiction science fiction
r.kv.r.y.	http://rkvryquarterly.com/submission-guidelines/	No	Electronic	Poetry, short stories and nonfiction (3000 words max) relating to recovery
The Deadlands	https://thedeadlands.com/guidelines/	1¢/word	Electronic	Speculative fiction, poetry, and nonfiction about death. They publish work “about the other realms, of the ends we face here, and the beginnings we find elsewhere.”
Memoir Mixtapes	https://www.memoirmixtapes.com/about-	No	Electronic	Magazine of religion, culture, and politics.creative nonfiction and poetry inspired by the songs that make up the soundtracks to our lives.
Jay Henge anthologies	https://www.jayhenge.com/submissions.html	$5 USD per 1000 words	Electronic	Speculative fiction
StarShipSofa	http://www.starshipsofa.com/submissions/	$50	Audio	Speculative fiction
Misery Tourism	https://www.miserytourism.com/submissions/	No	Electronic	"Sad and upsetting content - strange, terrible shit. Use your imagination." Fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Sanitarium Magazine	https://www.thesanitarium.co.uk/submissions	Token payment	Electronic	Horror
Santa Fe Writers Project	https://santafewritersproject.submittable.com /submit	No	Electronic	Fiction, creative nonfiction, and book reviews
Northwest Indiana Literary Journal	https://northwestindianaliteraryjournal.wordpress.com/submissions/	No	Electronic	Short stories, flash fiction, poetry, humor, photography, and art.
Escape Pod	https://escapepod.org/guidelines/short-fiction/	8¢ per word for original stories, $100 for reprints	Audio	Science Fiction
Breath and Shadow	https://www.abilitymaine.org/submission-guidelines	?	Electronic	Breath & Shadow only accepts work from people with disabilities.
DreamForge	https://dreamforgemagazine.com/call-for-submissions/	$0.04/word Poems are paid at the rate of $25 to $100	Electronic	SF and Fantasy Has submission periods
Maryland Artist Micro Collections	https://www.artistsfrommaryland.org/guidelines/	$10	Electronic	Micro collections are collections of writing, visual art, or some middle-ground between the two that do not exceed 15 pages of content Maryland residents only
Grimdark Magazine	https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/submissions/	Reprints: AUD$0.01 per word	Electronic	Grimdark fantasy and sci-fi Submission periods
Short Fiction Break	http://shortfictionbreak.com/want-to-submit-a-story/	No	Electronic	Fiction (2000 words max)
The Short Humour Site	http://www.short-humour.org.uk/submissionguidelines /submissionguidelines.htm	No	Electronic and Print	Humorous short fiction and nonfiction (500 words max)
TDot Spec	http://tdotspec.com/submissions/	CAD 2c/word for originals; 50% rate for reprints	Electronic	Speculative fiction anthologies See themes and deadlines
Tales From the Moonlit Path	https://talesmoonlitpath.com/	$10	Electronic	Speculative fiction and poetry
Polar Borealis & Polar Starlight	http://polarborealis.ca/submission-guidelines/	$10	Electronic	Science Fiction, Fantasy, Weird Fantasy, Horror with SF aspects, Lovecraftian Horror Contributors must be Canadian, or at least reside in Canada. Has submission periods
Daikaijuzine	https://daikaijuzine.org/guidelines	$10 for fiction, $5 for poetry	Electronic	Speculative fiction, flash fiction, articles, and poetry
Dragon Soul Press	https://dragonsoulpress.com/anthologies/	Royalties	Electronic	Poetry and  fiction anthologies Drabbles All genres of fiction See deadlines
Shoreline of Infinity	https://www.shorelineofinfinity.com/submissions/	£40/1000 words for reprints published in another language	Electronic and Print	Science fiction and fantasy Has submission periods Poetry submissions open all year round
Space Squid	http://www.spacesquid.com/scifi-fantasy-mag/contributorguidelines/	$5	Electronic and Print	Scifi/humor. Flash fiction, short stories (2000 words max)
Mithila Review	https://mithilareview.com/submission-guidelines/	$10	Electronic	Fantasy, science fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Fractured Lit	https://fracturedlit.com/submit/	No payment for reprints Pays for original work	Electronic	Flash and micro fiction
Still Point Arts Quarterly	https://shantiartsllc.submittable.com/submit /30175/still-point-arts-quarterly-writing-submission	Token payment and 2 copies of issue	Print	Art, articles, essays, fiction, and poetry. Shanti Arts is focused on nature, art, and spirit.
Mesozoic Reader	https://farthertrees.wordpress.com/mesozoic-reader/	$10	Electronic and Print	Stories and poetry of any genre are welcome, so long as dinosaurs or other prehistoric creatures are a central element Has submission periods
Bulb Culture Collective	https://www.bulbculturecollective.com/submission-guidelines	No payment	Electronic	Poetry and prose (reviews, fiction, creative nonfiction, nonfiction, poetry); they want work that was “previously published (regardless of when it was published) by a journal that has since gone dark or if circumstances have made your work unavailable online for any reason. You must retain the rights of this work.”
House of Gamut	https://houseofgamut.moksha.io/publication/house-of-gamut/guidelines	Three cents a word for reprints. Poetry is $50 per poem for new work and $25 per poem for reprints	Electronic	1,000-5,000 words Speculative fiction, nonfiction, poetry
Poetry Super Highway	https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/poetry/submission-guidelines/	No	Electronic	Poetry
The Summerset Review	http://www.summersetreview.org/guidelines.htm	No	Electronic and Print	Literary fiction and nonfiction of up to 8,000 words, poets may submit up to five poems
Survivor's Review Open to cancer survivors, family members and caregivers	http://www.survivorsreview.org/submit.php	No	Electronic	Poetry, short stories, essays (up to 1000 words)
The Future Fire	http://futurefire.net/guidelines/index.html	$10 - $20	Electronic	Fiction and poetry that focuses on the social-political elements of imaginary, futuristic, fantastic, horrifying, surreal or otherwise speculative universes
Shelter of Daylight	https://www.hiraethsffh.com/shelter-of-daylight	Reprint Stories: $15.00	Electronic and Print	Science fiction and fantasy stories that are upbeat and positive in their mood, articles, and poetry
Tales of the Zombie War	http://www.talesofworldwarz.com/submit.php	Semi-pro	Electronic	Zombies! (In poetry and prose)
Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built + Natural Environments	http://www.terrain.org/submit/regular-submission-guidelines/	No	Electronic	Poetry, essays, fiction, articles, artwork, videos, and other contributions
THEMA	http://themaliterarysociety.com/submissions.html	Token	Print	Poetry and prose - themed issues
The Stray Branch	http://www.thestraybranch.org/	No	Electronic	Fiction, poetry, photography, and art
Flame Tree Publishing	https://blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic/topic/call-for-submissions	4 pence for reprints	Electronic and Print	Speculative fiction anthologies See deadlines
Glint	https://glintjournal.wordpress.com/glint-12-submissions/	No	Electronic	Poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, book reviews, visual art. "We’re especially fond of hybrids. That terms encompasses form as well as content. We appreciate lyric essays, prose poems, flash fiction, collaborations, visual poetry, graphic fiction, literary fantasy, excerpts from verse novellas or verse biographies."
Tall Tale TV Podcast	https://talltaletv.com/submission-guidelines/	Unspecified	Audio	Science fiction and fantasy
The Phlogiston Press	https://thephlogistonpress.substack.com/about?utm_source=menu-dropdown	Royalties	Electronic	"We’re looking for short form speculative fiction, old style, slipstream, horror, fantasy, science fiction, literary, poetry, flash with a maximum length of 8,000 words - or even a longer story to serialise over a few newszines."
House of Zolo’s Journal of Speculative Literature	https://houseofzolo.com/submit-to-hoz/	$25 CND for poems and between $50 and $75 CND per short story	Electronic	Speculative poetry, fiction "We do consider previously published work, but we do not consider reprints that are currently available for free online." See themes
Nostos: Poetry, Fiction, and Art	https://www.longshippress.com/	No	Electronic	Poetry, Fiction, and Art See submission periods
Fixator Press	https://fixatorpress.home.blog/submission-guidelines/	No payment.	Electronic	Free-verse and experimental/off-beat poetry Accepts reprints as long as they have not appeared anywhere in the last 12 months
MetaStellar	https://www.metastellar.com/write-for-us/	No	Electronic	Speculative fiction
Underwater New York	http://underwaternewyork.com/submit/	No	Electronic	Fiction, nonfiction, art, music and poetry inspired by the underwater objects and phenomena that surround New York City
Unlikely Stories: MarkV	http://www.unlikelystories.org/mission.shtml	No	Electronic	Activist prose, music and poetry (They have the longest guidelines in the world...)
Small Wonders	https://smallwondersmag.com/submissions/	Original flash fiction: $0.10/word Reprint flash fiction: $0.01/word or $10, whichever is more Poems: $60 Art: $125 for reprint rights	Electronic	Speculative fiction and poetry with elements not of this world: fantasy, science fiction, horror 1000 words max for prose
East of the Web	http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/index.php?p=submissions/20131_1	5 cents/word	Electronic	Science Fiction
Toyon	https://www.toyonliterarymagazine.org/submission-guidelines.html	No payment	Electronic	Poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, art, audio, and translations
Nightlight  (Podcast)	https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/nightlight-black-horror-fiction-podcast-dV3fG	$50	Podcast	Horror up to 3000 words We only accept reprints that have not been published in audio format previously At least one of your birth parents must be Black
Alaska Parent	https://alaskaparent.com/write_for_us.html	$25-$40	Electronic and Print	Parenting in Alaska
Wordgathering	https://wordgathering.syr.edu/submission-guidelines/	No	Electronic	Disability literature
Workers Write!	http://www.workerswritejournal.com/	Semi-pro	Print	Working class fiction - themed issues
Chesapeake Family Life	https://www.chesapeakefamily.com/writers-guidelines/	$35	Print and electronic	Nonfiction about family life in Maryland
The Piker Press	https://www.pikerpress.com/submissions/submissions.php	No	Electronic	The Press accepts fiction, nonfiction, essays and art, in a broad variety of topics and genres.
Hudson Valley Parent	https://hvparent.com/Pages/WritersGuidelines.aspx	$25	Electronic	Parenting in the Hudson Valley of New York
The Writing Disorder	https://writingdisorder.com/submit-work/	No	Electronic and Print	Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction, Art, Reviews, Interviews, Comic Art and Experimental work Youth Imagination
Western New York Family Magazine	https://www.wnyfamilymagazine.com/writer-s-guide/writer-s-guidelines	$40-$150	Electronic and Print	Parenting in Western New York
WritersWeekly	https://writersweekly.com/writersweekly-com-writers-guidelines	$30	Electronic	Nonfiction about the business of writing
Poetry Pacific	https://poetrypacific.blogspot.com/	No	Electronic	Poetry
The Drabblecast	http://www.drabblecast.org/submissions/	Semi-pro	Audio	Weird stories (4000 words max)
GlitterShip	http://www.glittership.com/submission-guidelines/	Semi-pro	Audio	LGBTQ stories (6000 words max)
Ladybug	https://cricketmedia.com/ladybug-submission-guidelines	Not specified	Print	Stories, nonfiction, activities and poems for children 3 - 6 years old
Spider	https://cricketmedia.com/spider-submission-guidelines	Not specified	Print	"Fresh and engaging literature, poems, articles, and activities for newly independent readers."
The Dirty Spoon	http://www.dirty-spoon.com/submissions/	$50 (?)	Podcast	Essays, interviews and articles about people who work in our consumable culture. See submission periods
Braided Way	https://braidedway.org/submissions/	No payment	Online	Spiritual journeys
Hourglass Books	https://www.facebook.com/notes/2820174548307810/	No	Online?	Fiction anthologies
Poetry Super Highway	https://www.poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/poetry/submission-guidelines/	No	Online	Poetry
Pseudopod	https://pseudopod.org/submissions/	$.08/word for original fiction, $100 flat rate for short story reprints, and $20 flat rate for flash fiction reprints (stories below 1500 words).	Podcast	Horror
Cast of Wonders	https://castofwonders.submittable.com/submit	$.06/word for original fiction, a $100 flat rate for Short Fiction reprints, and a $20 flat rate for Flash Fiction reprints	Podcast	YA, High fantasy, Science fiction
Cricket	https://cricketmedia.com/cricket-submission-guidelines	Not specified	Print	Fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction for children aged 9 to 14
Reckoning	https://reckoning.press/submit/	2 cents/word	Digital	Creative writing on environmental justice.
Funds for Writers	http://fundsforwriters.com/submissions/	$10-$15	Digital newsletter	Practical tools and information related to getting paid to write
Riggwelter	https://riggwelterpress.wordpress.com/submissions/	No	Electronic	Poetry, short fiction, visual art and experimental media.
One Story	https://one-story.com/write/submit-a-story/	$500	Print	If a story has been published in print outside of North America, it will be considered
Podcastle	http://podcastle.org/guidelines/	$20 - $100	Audio and text	Fantasy
Aromatica Poetica	https://www.aromaticapoetica.com/submissions/	No payment	Electronic	Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art–images, video, audio–that engage with smell and taste. Submissions periods
Dark Horses	https://darkhorsesmagazine.mystrikingly.com/	No payment	Electronic	Weird fiction  up to 10,000 words
Folded Space	https://www.foldedspacepodcast.com/submissions/	$0.02 USD per word for original work that has never been published and $0.01 USD per word for reprints	Podcast	Speculative fiction
Azure: A Journal of Literary Thought Published by Lazuli Literary Group	http://www.lazuliliterarygroup.com/ submissions.html	No	Electronic	Complex literary fiction
The Moth Ireland	http://www.themothmagazine.com/a1-page.asp?ID=1972	No	Print	Poetry and short stories
Quail Bell Magazine	http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/submit.html	No	Electronic	Short stories, art, multi-media, poetry
Abstract	https://abstractmagazinetv.com/submissions/	No	Electronic	Poetry, flash fiction, creative nonfiction essay or memoir, in addition to multimedia submissions featuring audio or video content.   Abstract will consider work previously published in small-circulation journals, websites, or blogs
Manawaker Studios	http://www.manawaker.com/ffp-submissions/	$3	Podcast	Flash fiction
Craft	https://www.craftliterary.com/submit/	No	Electronic	Fiction and nonfiction
Dodging The Rain	https://dodgingtherain.com/submissions/	No	Electronic	Poetry
Carrier Pigeon	https://guttenbergarts.squarespace.com/submit	No	Print	Fiction, flash fiction, poetry All accepted submissions are illustrated
Eunoia Review	https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/submissions/	No	Electronic	Fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction
The Rising Phoenix Review	https://therisingphoenixreview.com/submissions/	No	Electronic	Poetry
Remington Review	https://remingtonreview.wixsite.com/remingtonreview	No	Online	Poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction Has reading periods
The Lake	http://www.thelakepoetry.co.uk/submit/	No	Electronic	Poetry
The Road Not Taken	https://journalformalpoetry.com/	No	Electronic	Formal Poetry
Defuncted	https://medium.com/defuncted/why-defuncted-c7e361266000	No	Electronic	They are looking for work that was previously published but is no longer available to read online because the journal it was published in has gone defunct.
Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy	https://adamant.moksha.io/publication/basff/guidelines	?	Print	Stories must be by a writer who is American or Canadian, or who has made the US or Canada their home. Story length must be 17,499 words or less.
Zooscape	https://zooscape-zine.com/guidelines/	$20 for reprints	Electronic	All stories must be furry.
Lighten Up Online	https://www.lightenup-online.co.uk/index.php/submissions	No	Electronic	Poetry
Empty House Press	https://www.emptyhousepress.com/submit	No	Electronic	"We are willing to read work that has appeared on an author’s personal site or blog or at an online venue that has closed provided that the work is otherwise no longer available or appears in a significantly different form and appropriate acknowledgements are included."
The Rye Whiskey Review	https://ryethewhiskeyreview.blogspot.com/p/submissions.html	No	Electronic	Fiction and poetry
No Sleep Podcast	https://www.thenosleeppodcast.com/submissions	Yes (various rates)	Podcast	Horror
Doubleback Review	http://doublebackreview.com/guidelines/	No	Electronic	"We only publish previously-published work from journals that no longer exist; we do not publish previously unpublished work nor previously published work that is still available online or in active print circulation."
Hedgerow	https://hedgerowhaiku.com/submissions/	No	Electronic	Poems, art          Work previously published on social media permitted
Random Sample Review	https://randomsamplereview.com/submit/	No payment	Electronic	Poetry, prose We will consider work that has been previously published as long as you let us know where it was published, and that publication allows for republishing. Submission periods
Our Day's Encounter	https://adaysencounter.wordpress.com/about/	No payment	Electronic	Art, photographs, poems, creative writings (if it’s poetry, please send three poems), thoughts, journal entries, just about anything written
The Collidescope	https://thecollidescope.com/submit/	No payment	Electronic	Art, fiction, poetry, critical essays, reviews, interviews, novel excerpts, and the unclassifiable. We gravitate mostly toward magical realism and the surreal/slipstream.
Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness Monthly Features	https://www.tangledwilderness.org/submissions	$200	Print	Radical anarchist writing, all forms and genres
Afterpast Review	https://www.theafterpastreview.com/submissions.html	No payment	Electronic	Feminist literary magazine dedicated to uplifting underrepresented voices. We accept poetry, prose, and dramatic writing from all writers.
Screen Door Review	https://www.screendoorreview.com/submit/	No payment	Electronic	Poetry and flash fiction authored by individuals belonging to the southern queer (lgbtq+) community of the United States
Scribes*MICRO*Fiction	https://www.fairfieldscribes.com/submission-guidelines.html	$1	Electronic	Fiction and poems between 90 and 110 words (excluding title)
Sparks of Calliope	https://sparksofcalliope.com/submission-guidelines/	No payment	Electronic	Poetry
A Midnight Kind of Place	https://www.amidnightkindofplace.com/submissions/	£10	Print	Horror anthologies 1,000 – 10,000 words
Jupiter’s Eye	https://www.hiraethsffh.com/jupiter-s-eye-guidelines	$15	Electronic and Print	Speculative, fiction and poetry about the exploration and settlement of other worlds
Mixtape Review	https://theofficialmixtape.wixsite.com/the-mixtape-review/submit	No payment	Electronic	Poetry and prose - all genres  Submit your writing with a song.
Birdy	https://www.birdymagazine.com/submissions/#SubmitGuidelines	No payment	Electronic and Print	Short stories, poetry, prose, comedy, humor, satire, interviews, exposés, essays, narratives, opinion articles, commentaries, fiction, nonfiction, flash, activist pieces, historical pieces, research, infographics, how-tos, and more
Woodsqueer	https://www.woodsqueerlit.com/about-6-1	No payment	Electronic	Eco-poetry, fiction, and essays as well as art and photography.
Sybil	https://www.sybiljournal.com/submit	No payment	Electronic	Fiction, essays, poetry, comics, and visual/hybrid art
Wordswell	https://www.wordswelljournal.org/submissions.html	No payment	Electronic	Poetry, prose, video, art
Plott Hound	https://plotthoundmag.com/submission-guidelines/	$20 - $100, depending on length	Electronic	Speculative fiction and poetry starring animals
StarShipSofa	http://www.starshipsofa.com/submissions/	$50	Print and podcast	Science Fiction
Vellum Mortis	https://www.mementomoriinkmag.com/vellummortissub	$5	Electronic	Dark flash fiction
OTHERSIDE	https://othersidespec.com/guidelines/	$100	Electronic	Publishes speculative fiction, poetry, and nonfiction by self-identified members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
Folkloric	https://www.folkloricmag.com/submissions	£10	Print	Short stories and artwork that have a definite and striking speculative element
Table Cell	Table Cell	Table Cell	Table Cell	Table Cell

8 Agents Seeking Science Fiction

Updated 1/2/25

Here are 8 agents currently seeking science fiction manuscripts. All are from reputable agencies.

If you want to know more about a particular agent, you can check him or her out at Absolute Write, a forum where writers freely discuss their experiences with agents and publishers.  (To avoid jumping through hoops, just type the name of the agent and "absolute write" into a google search.)

Query Tracker is another good site for finding information about agents (such as who they represent).

ALWAYS check the agency website before submitting. Agents may switch agencies or close their lists, and submission requirements may change.

If these agents do not suit your needs, you can find a comprehensive list of new and established agents seeking clients here: Agents Seeking Clients.

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1. Ms. Kate Davids of Arc Literary Management

Kate joined Arc Literary in 2022 after 3 years working at Simon & Schuster as part of their Organic Growth Initiative. She uses her background in market research and digital marketing strategy to help her clients find new audiences and better appeal to the audiences they may already have. Prior to working in publishing, Kate worked in marketing strategy and research in a variety of industries for brands like Weight Watchers and Unilever. She loves exploring different cultures, including subcultures. For her, books enable readers to explore new and different perspectives, with authors as the all-important guides and gateways.

What she is looking for: In fiction, Kate has a soft spot for science fiction and fantasy that has great action and world building that leverages real world cultures or histories. She loves fiction that represents diverse cultural backgrounds in their settings and characters. 

How to submit: You can submit your work via her QueryManager form.

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2. Mr. Jack Mozley of Perez Literary & Entertainment

The son of a mining engineer and a poet, Jack naturally ended up with a doctorate in quantum physics and a love of Science Fiction, each using, as they do, a little of the extraordinary to understand the everyday.

When not squinting at a spreadsheet, Jack can be found with his nose in a book or graphic novel. He is a huge fan of classic SF, especially Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov, as well as Iain M. Banks and China Miéville. Growing up, he devoured every issue of 2000 AD and remains an Alan Moore devotee.

Jack holds a PhD in Quantum Physics from École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France and an MPhys from the University of Oxford. He is fluent in French, speaks basic Spanish, and has lived in four countries.

What he is seeking: Jack is currently open to Science Fiction queries only.

How to submit: Use his querymanager HERE.

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3. Evan Gregory (Ethan Ellenberg Literary)

"I will not respond to your email unless interested. If you do not hear back from me after two weeks from sending your submission, you can safely assume that I am not interested in that project. You may submit to me again if you have a new project you think might interest me or the agency, but please do not submit the same project to the agency multiple times, and please do not submit more than one project at a time."

What he is looking for: “Action-oriented SF, military SF, space opera, but also looking for that weird stuff which really pushes the envelope.”

How to submit: Please send submissions to agent [at] ethanellenberg.com to the attention of Evan. “For email submissions, we ask that you paste all materials into the body of the email in the order mentioned below. For example, if you were submitting fiction you would begin with a brief query letter, followed by your synopsis, followed by the first 50 pages of your manuscript. We will not open attachments.”

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4. Sara Megibow (Megibow Literary Agency)

About Sara: Sara is a literary agent with nine years of experience in publishing. She specializes in working with authors in middle grade, young adult, romance, erotica, science fiction and fantasy and represents New York Times bestselling authors Roni Loren and Jason Hough and international bestselling authors Stefan Bachmann and Tiffany Reisz. Sara is LGBTQ-friendly and presents regularly at SCBWI and RWA events around the country.

How to submit: To submit, please email a query letter and the first 10 pages of your manuscript along with your author website if you have one to saraquery@megibowliterary.com

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5. Kimberly Peticolas of The Rudy Agency

Kimberly is a recent addition to the Rudy Agency. She has worked in the publishing industry for nearly a decade and comes to the agency after working as an editor and publishing consultant, as well as previously running a boutique publisher. She has a passion for immersive fiction, and content-rich non-fiction. She also has a soft spot for military history. She earned an MA in Museum Studies.

What she is seeking: Non-fiction: Business, Leadership, Self-Help, Lifestyle, History, Military History, Children's. Fiction: Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Historical, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller, YA, Children's Books.


How to submit:  Use her form HERE.

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6. Lynnette Novak (Seymour Agency)

Prior to joining The Seymour Agency, Lynnette spent seventeen years freelance editing. She worked with new writers, advanced writers, as well as New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors. Lynnette earned a bachelor of education degree from the University of Manitoba, where she specialized in English and French. She excelled in Advanced Creative Writing in university and studied writing for children and teens through the Institute of Children’s Literature. 

She is seeking science fiction in young adult and middle grade fiction only.

How to submit: To query Lynnette, use her form HERE.

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7. Rena Bunder Rossner (Bradford Literary Agency)

Rena Rossner (she/her) joined Bradford Literary in 2026, after 15 years of agenting experience as both a foreign rights co-agent and a literary agent at The Deborah Harris Agency. Rena has sold over 170 books over the course of her career, from picture book, middle grade and young adult fiction to adult fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She was born in Miami Beach, Florida, but has spent her life living between two countries. She is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University’s Writing Seminars program, Trinity College, Dublin, and holds a MA in history from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She is a mom to five children and a rescue pup named Diego Rivera, she loves sunflowers, making cocktails, cooking gourmet meals and working in her ceramic studio. She currently lives in Jerusalem.

What she is seeking: Rena is interested in representing Literary and Upmarket Women’s Fiction, Historical Fiction, Thrillers, Horror, and Science Fiction and Fantasy. She has a particular love for novels in verse. She accepts queries for Adult, Young Adult, Middle Grade and Picture Books projects and also works with illustrators.

How to submit: Closed to queries.

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8. Eddie Schneider (Jabberwocky)

Eddie is an Iowa graduate, where he studied fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. He has an M.S. in Publishing from New York University, and his client list includes Hugo, Andre Norton, Philip K. Dick, and Bram Stoker Award winners, as well as New York Times bestselling authors Brandon Sanderson, Daniel José Older, and Alison Wilgus.

What he is looking for: “I love science fiction, especially SF set in the near future, often with social or cultural commentary, as well as the occasional space opera. Two examples of (non-client) novels that I enjoyed in this vein are Ursula K. LeGuin’s classic THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS and Octavia Butler’s PARABLE OF THE SOWER.  I am very much interested in SF written from non-Western cultural perspectives, and one good non-client example of that is G. Willow Wilson’s ALIF THE UNSEEN.”

How to submit: Queries should be sent to query eddie [at] awfulagent.com. Please include the first five pages of your manuscript, and paste them below your query letter, in the body of your email. 1-3 page synopses may also be included at the very bottom, but aren’t mandatory. Queries with unsolicited attachments will be deleted, unread. Use this formula for the subject line: “Query: Title (Genre)”.

The 2015 Smashwords Survey - Best price for your book, preorders, and top genres

Smashwords is an ebook distribution platform for self-publishers founded in 2008. Despite the dominance of Amazon, the company has enjoyed considerable success. Smashwords published 336,000 books by over 100,000 authors in 2014.

The CEO of Smashwords, Mark Coker, is a man who is dedicated to the idea of democratizing publishing. His insights are enormously helpful for writers breaking into the publishing scene, and Smashwords' annual surveys provide valuable information about strategies for epublishing success.

Below are some of the findings from the 2015 Smashwords survey. You can read the full survey (with an informative slide show) HERE.

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Key Findings of the 2015 Smashwords Survey

1.  Wow, preorders.  For the first time we analyzed the percentage of books born as preorders (as opposed to simply uploaded the day of release) and compared the sales of preorder-birthed books to non-preorder books.  During the survey period, less than 10 percent of books were born as a preorder, even though this feature has been available to Smashwords authors since mid 2013.  Yet despite the low usage, two thirds of our top 200 bestselling titles were born as preorders.

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2.  Series with free series starters earn more money.  For the first time we analyzed the difference in sales between series with free series and starters and series without free series starters.  We looked at our 200 bestselling series with a free series starter and our 200 bestselling series without free series starters.  Then we added up the numbers and compared them.  First we looked at the average.  The free series starter group earned 66% more

3.  Free still works to build readership.  For each survey year, we've looked at how free ebook downloads compare to paid downloads using iBooks as our apples to apples comparison each year (bad pun, sorry!).  In the 2014 Survey, we found that free books got 39 times more downloads than priced books, down dramatically from 91x in 2013 and 100X in 2012.   I expected the power of free to fall further this year, given that this secret - which I've been advocating for nearly eight years - helps authors earn more money.  The result for 2014?  41x.  The effectiveness of free increased despite the glut of free books.

4.  Longer books sell better than shorter books.  This finding is consistent with each of the prior year's surveys, though as I mention in the presentation, this year's finding comes with a lot more caveats.  In a nutshell, I suspect the rise of multi-author box sets, often at deep discount prices, is probably throwing off the data this year, and as I discuss in the presentation, some of the dynamics will cause it to understate impact of longer books and some will cause it to overstate it.

5.  $3.99 remains the sweet spot for full length indie fiction.  For the third year in a row, authors sold more units and earned more overall income with books priced at $3.99.  This is significant because it counters the concern of some authors that the glut of high-quality will lead to ever lower prices.  For great authors, readers are still willing to pay.  The pricing, earnings and unit sales data we share has been remarkably consistent now for four years, especially when you consider how this translates to a competitive advantage for indie ebook authors compared to traditionally published ebook authors. 

6.  99 cents is still good for building readership, but not as good as $2.99 and $3.99.  And from an earnings perspective, 99 cents underperforms the average of all other prices by about 65%.

7.  Avoid $1.99.   For the fourth year in a row, $1.99 was a black hole in terms of overall earnings.  On a unit sales basis, although $1.99 books outperformed all books priced $5.00 and above, it dramatically underperformed on overall earnings, earning 73% less than the average of all other price points.

8.  Bestselling authors and social media.  Bestselling authors are more likely to have a presence on Facebook and Twitter, and more likely to have a blog.  Not a huge surprise, though it's worth noting there are plenty of successful authors who have minimal presence on social media.

9.  Top 10 Fiction categories during the one year period:  1.  Romance.  2.  Erotica.  3.  YA and teen fiction.  4.  Fantasy.  5.  Mystery & detective.   6.  Gay and lesbian fiction.  7.  Science fiction.  8.  Historical.  9.  Thriller & suspense.   10.  Adventure.

10.  Top 10 Non-fiction categories during the one year period:  1. Biography.  2.  Health, wellbeing and medicine.  3.  Business & economics.  4.  Self-improvement.  5. Religion & spirituality.  6.  Relationships and family.  7.  Sports and outdoor recreation.   8.  Education and study guides.  9.  New age.  10.  Computers & Internet.

You can read the full survey along with an informative slide show HERE.

Top 10 Publishing Posts of 2015

This is the first year I have looked back at my posts. (Normally, once they are up I simply move on to the next exciting idea.)

But, stats are important for various reasons. They tell us what people like to read. They also tell us what people need. Blog posts that provide answers to questions, that inform, and that explain are bound to be popular.

And for writers, anything that answers the question, "How do I get published?" will be warmly received.

(I promise that in 2016 I will continue to provide answers to that question.)

So, without further ado, here are my top ten posts - in reverse order.



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#10 10 Awards for Self-Published Books (1569 views)

#9 Should You Hire a Professional Book Cover Designer? (1948)

#8 Publisher Pan Macmillan Accepting Unsolicited Manuscripts - No Agent Needed (2129 views)

#7 Fantasy and Sci-fi Reviewers  Accepting Self-Published Authors (2616 views)

#6 2 New Agents Seeking Writers (2630 views)

#5 23 Poetry Publishers Accepting Unagented Manuscripts (2729 views)

#4 Speculative Fiction Magazines Accepting Submissions (4127 views)

#3 2 New Agents Seeking Writers: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Nonfiction, Thrillers and more (4727 views)

#2 234 Hashtags for Writers (5759 views)

And my top post was (drum roll)...

#1 HarperCollins Seeking Submissions - No Agent Required (15,973 views)

2016 - Your Year to Get Published!

I consider New Year's resolutions to be a culturally sanctioned form of torture, providing false hope for a week or two before plunging us all into a bottomless well of guilt for the remainder of the year.

Because I dislike psychological abuse, I have kept my writing resolutions quite reasonable over the years.

In 2013, I resolved to research my market. That was an excellent resolution, and one which I am still trying to fulfill. The obvious purpose behind researching my market was to develop a marketing plan well in advance of publication. It was a practical, if unexciting, resolution. One day I mean to keep it.

In 2014, I went for something more thrilling. I resolved to get more rejections than C. S. Lewis. He got 800, so it was a tall order to fill. Nonetheless, I am proud to say I did manage to get well over a hundred rejections (and I am still getting them!). I reasoned that by inoculating myself with repeated rejections, my work would eventually get accepted somewhere.

This year, I have set my sights even higher. My goal is to get published, come hell or high water. That means getting more stories published, writing essays, reviews, hmm ... I'll thrown in some irate letters to the editor - and while I'm at it, I'll publish my book.

Here is my plan. Feel free to join me.

Submit stories to publications that actually want them. Last year, I submitted my stories all over the place, and they racked up an impressive number of rejections. But, the literary magazines that eventually published my stories did so because what I sent them was exactly what they were looking for. This year, rather than blitz the market, I will spend more time reading the publications I am wooing in order to make sure they are a good fit. (Here is a list of 217 paying markets. Among those, there should be several that will provide good homes to our little darlings.)

Query agents who are looking for my genre - and style. Agents often list books they have enjoyed on their bios. They also give interviews. It's worth doing a bit of research before querying.

Submit to publishers directly. Once I have exhausted my list of agents, I will submit to publishers. I have assembled quite a list of publishers that accept manuscripts directly from writers.

Go about submissions systemically and doggedly. I used to submit to a few places and stop when I was turned away. My last year's resolution is still racking up the rejections, so by now my skin is nice and thick. I will not let rejections deter me.

Let's finish our projects, submit them, and get them published! This is our year!

Bookmark this post! When you get your story or article (or book) published, leave a comment.

13 Calls for Submissions: January 2016 - Speculative fiction, poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, children's lit

The new year is (nearly) upon us, and with it come publishing opportunities!

Here are thirteen magazines and anthologies looking for writers.

As usual, there is a wide array of genres: speculative fiction, children's literature, poetry, flash fiction, short stories, dramatic monologues, and creative nonfiction.

All of these are paying markets.

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ChappyFiction LLC: Time travel anthology

"The anthology will contain new short stories centered around time travel. How does it affect our society, our humanity, or the characters? We want new stories. Create paradoxes. Make us laugh. Make us cry. If you have a killer reprint, query us first before submitting." Simultaneous submissions are okay.

Genre: Science fiction/fantasy

Length: Under 7,000 words

Payment: 6 cents a word

Deadline: January 1, 2016

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Mom for the Holidays: Stories of Love, Laughter and Tantrums

Genre: Personal essays, stories, poems

Payment: $25-$200 per piece

Deadline: January 1, 2016

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No Shit, There I Was

"The intention is to cover a wide range of subgenres to show the versatility of a single opening line comedies, tragedies, and everything in between are welcome in the slush pile. That said, Rachael is not terribly interested in horror, and erotica is right out. Salty language is okay, gratuitous violence, gore, or sex is not."

Genre: Speculative fiction beginning with the line "No Shit, There I Was"

Length: 2,000-7,500 words

Payment: 6 cents a word

Deadline: January 6, 2016

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The Big Day

Babybug seeks rhymes and stories celebrating big days and first experiences. Meeting someone new, visiting an unfamiliar place, taking a step, discovering the word no—what makes a baby or toddler’s day extraordinary? We are looking for playful writing that begs to be read aloud.

Genre: For ages 0–3

Length: Please keep it short—Babybug poems are generally no longer than eight lines, and stories can be up to 6 sentences.

Payment: Up to 25 cents per word for prose; up to $3.00 per line; $25.00 minimum for poetry

Deadline: January 6, 2016

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Monsters

What if Cyclops went to school with Godzilla? What would a kraken bring in its lunchbox? Cricket and Spider are on the prowl for stories, poetry, and nonfiction exploring the theme of Monsters. We’re interested in work that taps in to kids'  fascination with all things monstrous in myth, fantasy, sci fi, and as figures for beastly power in our daily lives. Monster stories give kids a space to play with strong feelings, huge life changes, the annoying rules of the grown-up world, and the occasional impulse to smash the Tokyo skyline.

Genre: Fiction and poetry for ages 6–9 (Spider) and ages 9–14 (Cricket)

Payment: Up to 25 cents per word for prose; up to $3.00 per line ($25.00 minimum) for poetry

Deadline: January 6, 2016

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Qu

Qu is a publication of Queens University of Charlotte.

Genres: Contemporary prose, drama. and poetry

Length: Up to 8K words for prose. Submit up to three poems per poetry submission.

Payment: $100 per prose piece, $50 per poem

Deadline: January 15, 2016

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Liminal

"We like stories that are strange and unsettling, sharp-edged and evocative.  Although we will consider any genre, we have a soft spot for weird fiction, magical realism, soft sci-fi, and those uncatagorizable stories that straddle the line between genres."

Genre: Fiction

Length: Up to 10,000 words

Payment: 6c/word

Deadline: January 15, 2016

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Great Weather for MEDIA Annual Anthology

"Our focus is on the fearless, the unpredictable, and experimental but we do not have a set theme for our anthologies."

Genres: Poetry, flash fiction, short stories, dramatic monologues, and creative nonfiction

Payment: One contributor copy, plus $10 for writers based in USA. International writers receive two copies.

Deadline: January 15, 2016

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Specter Spectacular III: 13 Uncanny Tales

We hope to expand on the previous volumes of “ghostly” tales and “deathly” tales by delving into the realm of “uncanny” tales. The idea of the uncanny opens up possibilities: creepy doppelgängers, too-close-to-human robots, changeling intruders, cryptid animals, jarring juxtapositions.The essence of the uncanny is an unsettled feeling, a sense that something isn’t quite right, often coupled with an inability to articulate exactly why. Our tastes lean more toward the psychological than toward gore, especially for this volume. We’re looking for a wide range of interpretations and a balance of styles and tones (serious, humorous, modern, historical, futuristic, mythological, gothic, etc.).

Length: Under 10,000 words.

Payment: $10 + paperback copy of the anthology.

Deadline: January 15, 2016

Reprints accepted.

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Rattle Magazine

Restrictions: Poems must be written by those who have lived at least half their lives in the Greater Los Angeles Area.

Genre: Poetry.

Payment: $50

Deadline: January 15, 2016

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Wordrunner eChapbooks: Devices

The theme for this year's annual themed anthology is Devices: Technology’s impact on our lives and relationships. "The technology could be as old as the invention of writing, false teeth, the printing press, or something not yet invented; it might be your first TV, your grandfather's model T, or augmented reality eyeware. What are the stories and the emotional dynamics? We are looking for the human component, regardless of device or genre."

Genres: "Fiction on this topic can be contemporary, historical, or speculative science fiction. We'd like to see personal memoir or creative nonfiction about family history." 

Length: Submit up to three poems or a short story, novel or memoir excerpt, or personal essay (1,000 to 5,000 words)

Payment: $100 for collections ($5 to $20 for single pieces in anthologies)

Deadline: January 31, 2016

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Damsels in Success

"We’ve all read the stories and fallen in love with the movies: the girl needs saving, the boy rescues girl, they fall in love, and they lived happily ever after. But what if the boy was in distress or the girl had dreams that didn’t involve falling in love? Those are the kinds of stories we’re looking for to include in our next anthology. If you have a fantasy story about a strong female character who made her own way or a story that takes a twist on a classic tale, send it our way!"

Length: Up to 10,000 words.

Payment: $5.00 per story. There will be an editor’s choice winner that will get placed at the front of the book, have the cover designed specifically with that story in mind and the author will receive a small bonus.

Deadline: January 31, 2016

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Tesseracts Twenty: Compostela

"Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) is an anthology of hard and soft science fiction stories that best represent a futuristic view of the sciences and how humanity might be affected (for better or worse) by a reliance in all things technological. For more than 1,000 years, Santiago de Compostela (Compostela means “field of stars”) has attracted pilgrims to walk to the cathedral that holds St. James the apostle's relics. The stories in this anthology in their own way tell the tale of futuristic travelers who journey into the dark outer (or inner) reaches of space, searching for their own connections to the past, present and future relics of their time."

Restrictions: Open to Canadians only

Genre: Science Fiction

Length: 5,000 words max

Payment: Payment for short poetry is $20.00. Payment for short stories is prorated as follows: $50 for stories up to 1,500 words, rising to a maximum of $150 for stories up to 5,000 words

Deadline: January 31, 2016

5 Writers' Conferences in January 2016

Winter is in full swing above the 40th parallel, which is why it is not entirely surprising that half of January's conferences are in Florida.

While there isn't a lot going on the first month of the year, these conferences offer as much as they do in the summer: pitch sessions with agents, workshops, presentations, readings, and ample opportunity to hobnob with writers and industry professionals (hopefully, on a beach).

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Key West Literary Seminar, January 7 - 15, 2016, Key West, Florida. The seminar, January 7 - 10, offers readings, lectures, and conversations with poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. The 2016 theme is “Shorts: Stories, Essays & Other Briefs.” The writers' workshop offers workshops and craft discussions for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers. The faculty includes poet Billy Collins; fiction writers Ann Beattie, Kristen-Paige Madonia, Daniel Menaker, and Antonya Nelson; and nonfiction writer Diana Abu-Jaber. The cost of the seminar is $575; the cost of the writers’ workshop is $550.

Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway, January 15 - 18, 2016, Galloway, New Jersey. Workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as craft talks, one-on-one tutorials, featured readings, and open mics. The faculty includes poets Stephen Dunn, Thomas Lux, Laura McCullough, and James Richardson; fiction writers Carol Plum-Ucci and Pamela Swallow; and creative nonfiction writers Barbara Hurd and Mimi Schwartz. Tuition, which includes some meals, ranges from $490 to $690, depending on the workshop; lodging is not included.

Eckerd College Writers’ Conference, January 16-23, 2016, St. Petersburg, FL. Workshops, roundtables, panel discussions, Q&As, readings book signings, and receptions. Faculty and guests include: Pulitzer Prize winner Gilbert King, MacArthur “Genius Grant” Poet Campbell McGrath, Andre Dubus III, Ann Hood, Dennis Lehane, Laura Lippman, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Stewart O’Nan, Les Standiford, Scott Ward, Sterling Watson, and more.

Palm Beach Poetry Festival, January 18-23, 2016, Delray Beach, Florida. Eight poetry workshops taught by Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Carl Dennis, Denise Duhamel, Carol Frost, Thomas Lux, Tom Sleigh, Mary Szybist and Kevin Young. Participant tuition includes workshop participation, and admission to all festival events. Special Guest is Robert Hass, U.S. Poet Laureate (1995-1997), Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner. Other featured poets include Dominique Christina and Marc Kelly Smith, and conference faculty, Sally Bliumis-Dunn, and Ginger Murchison.  $795 includes all events, one gala seat; $395/auditor. Accepted participants may schedule a one-on-one conference at additional cost.

Write on the Red Cedar, Jan 22 - 23, 2016, East Lansing MI. Workshops, speakers, panels, manuscript reviews, networking, and pitch appointments with literary agents Carly Watters and Ann Byle. Regular Registration $120 ($140 after Dec. 20) Includes Friday night cocktail party and full slate of workshops on Saturday. Full Conference $195 ($225 after Dec. 20).