Post by bruno on Sept 1, 2014 14:15:52 GMT
Since all of us here are published or wanna-be published writers and all of us no doubt have a bunch of stories in a 'Completed Story' folder on our laptop in need of a good home, I figure we might as well post links to story markets.
I'll start.
All of these are 'ongoing submissions' in that they're always looking for something and, hence, there are no real deadlines. Check out the links for more info.
flapperhouse.com/submit/
pithypages.net/submissions.php
midnightbreakfast.com/submissions/
www.pulpcore.de/info/
www.untiedshoelacesofthemind.com/index.php#Submissions
www.wickedwords.co.uk/submissions/
Wicked Words Quarterly is looking for previously unpublished works of science fiction, fantasy or horror with a twist.
Each quarterly magazine will include several pieces of flash fiction of any length up to 750 words. It will also include several short stories of between 1,000 and 7,500 words, and in the Winter edition it will include a Novella of between 7,500 and 15,000 words.
All writing will be paid at $0.01 per word up to a maximum of $150, all payments will be made by PayPal, this will be paid on the date of publication. Then if the issue your story is included in makes a net profit 50% of this net profit will be shared between the contributors on a per word basis.
www.shroudmagazine.com/info.html
lakesidecircus.com/submissions/
fantasyscrollmag.com/submissions/
I'll start.
All of these are 'ongoing submissions' in that they're always looking for something and, hence, there are no real deadlines. Check out the links for more info.
flapperhouse.com/submit/
FLAPPERHOUSE is quite eager to read your submissions. At this very moment, we’re in the darkest, quietest corner of the FLAPPERHOUSE attic, hunched in the glow of our laptops, giggling like maniacal dolphins, waiting to see what nubile pieces of literature will fall into our slobbering jaws.
FLAPPERHOUSE wants to publish lit that’s surreal, shadowy, sensual, and/or satirical. For examples, you can check out excerpts from either of our Spring 2014 Issue or our Summer 2014 Issue. You can also read this interview or read that interview or just keep clicking around our website.
SPECS:
Please send all submissions to FLAPPERHOUSE at gmail dot com
FLASH / SHORT FICTION: Up to 5,000 words. We’ll consider excerpts from longer works if they’re fairly self-contained; for now, we’re not looking to cliff-hang readers or publish novellas on the installment plan.
POETRY: Up to 1,000 words.
NON-FICTION / ESSAYS / REVIEWS: Up to 2,500 words. Keep in mind that FLAPPERHOUSE will be published once per season, so we’re not interested in non-fiction that’ll feel dated in three months.
COMICS / ARTWORK: Query us at FLAPPERHOUSE at gmail dot com
FLAPPERHOUSE wants to publish lit that’s surreal, shadowy, sensual, and/or satirical. For examples, you can check out excerpts from either of our Spring 2014 Issue or our Summer 2014 Issue. You can also read this interview or read that interview or just keep clicking around our website.
SPECS:
Please send all submissions to FLAPPERHOUSE at gmail dot com
FLASH / SHORT FICTION: Up to 5,000 words. We’ll consider excerpts from longer works if they’re fairly self-contained; for now, we’re not looking to cliff-hang readers or publish novellas on the installment plan.
POETRY: Up to 1,000 words.
NON-FICTION / ESSAYS / REVIEWS: Up to 2,500 words. Keep in mind that FLAPPERHOUSE will be published once per season, so we’re not interested in non-fiction that’ll feel dated in three months.
COMICS / ARTWORK: Query us at FLAPPERHOUSE at gmail dot com
pithypages.net/submissions.php
We want to read your work and view your art. We believe that there are many wonderful writers, poets, and artists who have written or produced marvelous and insightful pieces who need to be published and we want to be your publisher.
What are you waiting for? Submit your work today!
Short Stories & Flash Stories
Short Stories must be fiction of 3000-5000 words (will accept up to 6500, but note our maximum payment of $75.00)
Flash Stories must be fiction of 400-1000 words (may accept a few more if relevant to story, but note our maximum payment of $25.00).
All stories must have a well developed plot and character(s) and be a pleasure to read.
All stories must use proper grammar and form unless to do otherwise is endemic to the story or characters.
Most Genres are accepted (see "About Us" page), however we do not accept stories with political or religious agendas; erotic stories, stories with an excess of gore, blood, etc.; stories containing gratuitous sex, profanity, or violence; or stories that are overdone or boring.
We are looking for stories that will make you think, cry, ponder, laugh, renew your subscription and recommend Pithy Pages for Erudite Readers? to friends, acquaintances, and the stranger on the bus.
What are you waiting for? Submit your work today!
Short Stories & Flash Stories
Short Stories must be fiction of 3000-5000 words (will accept up to 6500, but note our maximum payment of $75.00)
Flash Stories must be fiction of 400-1000 words (may accept a few more if relevant to story, but note our maximum payment of $25.00).
All stories must have a well developed plot and character(s) and be a pleasure to read.
All stories must use proper grammar and form unless to do otherwise is endemic to the story or characters.
Most Genres are accepted (see "About Us" page), however we do not accept stories with political or religious agendas; erotic stories, stories with an excess of gore, blood, etc.; stories containing gratuitous sex, profanity, or violence; or stories that are overdone or boring.
We are looking for stories that will make you think, cry, ponder, laugh, renew your subscription and recommend Pithy Pages for Erudite Readers? to friends, acquaintances, and the stranger on the bus.
midnightbreakfast.com/submissions/
To get the best idea of what we’re looking for, we encourage you to read our back issues, which are conveniently available for free on this very website. We publish one issue per month, with six pieces per issue, which means we have to be a bit selective. On a practical level, we’re looking for unpublished work in the range of 1,000-10,000 words. On a conceptual level, we want to be wowed. Nothing excites us more than a good story with emotional depth. We believe everyone has a story to tell and we want to share as many of these, from as diverse a selection of experiences, as we can.
Fiction: We’re open to loose genre, though we tend to skew more towards literary and speculative fiction. We also love a good, well-written humor piece. What we’re not looking for: fan-fiction, erotica, or anything that requires excessive world-building (as much as we love Game of Thrones in these parts, that kind of work isn’t for us).
Fiction: We’re open to loose genre, though we tend to skew more towards literary and speculative fiction. We also love a good, well-written humor piece. What we’re not looking for: fan-fiction, erotica, or anything that requires excessive world-building (as much as we love Game of Thrones in these parts, that kind of work isn’t for us).
www.pulpcore.de/info/
pulpcore is a webzine for short genre fiction translated from English to German.
Our goal is to promote fresh and bold voices from the trenches of self-publishing and the small presses to a thrill-seeking German readership.
If you are a writer of ballsy crime, horror, mystery, noir, sci-fi or weird fiction, then by all means submit your short story (2000-6000 words) to pulpcore now!
Send your story to readme@pulpcore.de. Attach your story as a .doc file to the email, include a link to your website in the email body and wait for us to get back to you.
Every published story will be rewarded with a one-off payment of $20 (via PayPal).
Yes, we accept reprints but please make sure that there won't be copyright issues!
Please note that you do not give up any rights to your original work. You only allow us to translate your story to German and publish the translation here on pulpcore.
Our goal is to promote fresh and bold voices from the trenches of self-publishing and the small presses to a thrill-seeking German readership.
If you are a writer of ballsy crime, horror, mystery, noir, sci-fi or weird fiction, then by all means submit your short story (2000-6000 words) to pulpcore now!
Send your story to readme@pulpcore.de. Attach your story as a .doc file to the email, include a link to your website in the email body and wait for us to get back to you.
Every published story will be rewarded with a one-off payment of $20 (via PayPal).
Yes, we accept reprints but please make sure that there won't be copyright issues!
Please note that you do not give up any rights to your original work. You only allow us to translate your story to German and publish the translation here on pulpcore.
www.untiedshoelacesofthemind.com/index.php#Submissions
We love mind benders and stories that make you think
We pay $0.03/word for the first 1,000 words (payment caps at $30 USD)
We generally prefer less than 2,000 words
Paypal is preferred, but we mail postal orders too
To Submit: Register, and use the online submission form
Submit up to three stories at once
If you have any problems submitting please email me at geoffporter@yahoo.com (please include as much information about the bug as possible, and use a good subject line in your email).
We pay $0.03/word for the first 1,000 words (payment caps at $30 USD)
We generally prefer less than 2,000 words
Paypal is preferred, but we mail postal orders too
To Submit: Register, and use the online submission form
Submit up to three stories at once
If you have any problems submitting please email me at geoffporter@yahoo.com (please include as much information about the bug as possible, and use a good subject line in your email).
Wicked Words Quarterly is looking for previously unpublished works of science fiction, fantasy or horror with a twist.
Each quarterly magazine will include several pieces of flash fiction of any length up to 750 words. It will also include several short stories of between 1,000 and 7,500 words, and in the Winter edition it will include a Novella of between 7,500 and 15,000 words.
All writing will be paid at $0.01 per word up to a maximum of $150, all payments will be made by PayPal, this will be paid on the date of publication. Then if the issue your story is included in makes a net profit 50% of this net profit will be shared between the contributors on a per word basis.
www.shroudmagazine.com/info.html
Shroud has been publishing long and short fiction for almost seven years. In that time its contributors have been nominated for and received a number of awards to include the Bram Stoker Award, the British Fantasy Award, and more. In 2008, two of Shroud's anthologies made the long-list for the Bram Stoker award, with "Beneath the Surface" garnering the nomination. Shroud has also published several popular novellas, The Scandalous Misadventures of Hiram Grange, and twelve print issue and two digital issues.
Shroud Quarterly publishes literary speculative fiction with a dark orientation from 500 to 6000 words. Submissions may now include horror, suspense, mystery, noir, fantasy, science fiction, humor, long-form poetry, bizarro, or other forms of intelligent, experimental writing. We are interested in writing with an edge, but not interested in writing that is gratuitously violent, sexual, or graphic. If these elements occur within a story, we insist that they be an integral part of that story. In most cases, we prefer stories that rely on mood, atmosphere, well-crafted dialogue and sensory details to tell a well-thought-out tale.
Shroud now publishes a quarterly eBook edition for the leading eBook readers (Kindle, iBooks, Nook). Each year we compile the year's stories into a print omnibus edition.
Our entire print catalog is currently available.
Simultaneous submission are OK
Reprints are OK, but not preferred.
Up to two submissions per submission period are OK
Payment
500 - 1000 words: $25
2000 - 5000 words: $50
5000+ words: $65
We buy First Worldwide Serial and Electronic rights. Your rights revert back upon publication. Payment is upon publication and we do not offer a kill fee.
All submissions now go through SUBMITTABLE
Shroud Quarterly publishes literary speculative fiction with a dark orientation from 500 to 6000 words. Submissions may now include horror, suspense, mystery, noir, fantasy, science fiction, humor, long-form poetry, bizarro, or other forms of intelligent, experimental writing. We are interested in writing with an edge, but not interested in writing that is gratuitously violent, sexual, or graphic. If these elements occur within a story, we insist that they be an integral part of that story. In most cases, we prefer stories that rely on mood, atmosphere, well-crafted dialogue and sensory details to tell a well-thought-out tale.
Shroud now publishes a quarterly eBook edition for the leading eBook readers (Kindle, iBooks, Nook). Each year we compile the year's stories into a print omnibus edition.
Our entire print catalog is currently available.
Simultaneous submission are OK
Reprints are OK, but not preferred.
Up to two submissions per submission period are OK
Payment
500 - 1000 words: $25
2000 - 5000 words: $50
5000+ words: $65
We buy First Worldwide Serial and Electronic rights. Your rights revert back upon publication. Payment is upon publication and we do not offer a kill fee.
All submissions now go through SUBMITTABLE
Lakeside Circus publishes very short fiction in several formats, as well as non-fiction essays exploring speculative literature and genre.
Fiction
We want speculative fiction, particularly science fiction (hard, soft, near-future, etc), urban fantasy, magic realism, mad science, and apocalypse tales. Whether prose or poetry, we’re looking for the same kind of almost-weird fiction we publish in our anthologies. We like fiction with layers of meaning; stories that are odd or different without being too strange to understand. We enjoy interstitial, genre-bending, and “literary SF/F” writing. Your work has to encapsulate a complete moment; more than a vignette, each submission must have a beginning, middle, and end. Something has to change along the way, but parts of the story can happen off stage. As always, we want beautiful, dark, unusual, and meaningful.
We rarely like sword and sorcery type fantasy, aren’t interested in “slasher” type horror, don’t care for religious themes (which includes demons/the devil) as the sole plot of the story, and please! Do not send us a romance, no matter what setting it is in, as that just wastes your time and ours.
We encourage diversity in publishing: authors are chosen regardless of sex, gender, race or ethnicity. Non-US authors, or authors who usually work in a different genre, are also welcome.
DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME/ADDRESS INFORMATION IN THE SUBMITTED FILE ITSELF. USE THE ONLINE FORM TO SUBMIT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. We use a blind submissions process and the only way to make that work is if the story/poem doesn’t have your name on it.
Flash: Stories of less than 1,000 words. Must have a beginning, middle, and end, even if some of that happens outside of the story (as long as we can imagine what that is). No vignettes. Submit here
Short Fiction: Stories of 1,001 to 2,500 words. Top word count limit is firm. Submit here
Fiction
We want speculative fiction, particularly science fiction (hard, soft, near-future, etc), urban fantasy, magic realism, mad science, and apocalypse tales. Whether prose or poetry, we’re looking for the same kind of almost-weird fiction we publish in our anthologies. We like fiction with layers of meaning; stories that are odd or different without being too strange to understand. We enjoy interstitial, genre-bending, and “literary SF/F” writing. Your work has to encapsulate a complete moment; more than a vignette, each submission must have a beginning, middle, and end. Something has to change along the way, but parts of the story can happen off stage. As always, we want beautiful, dark, unusual, and meaningful.
We rarely like sword and sorcery type fantasy, aren’t interested in “slasher” type horror, don’t care for religious themes (which includes demons/the devil) as the sole plot of the story, and please! Do not send us a romance, no matter what setting it is in, as that just wastes your time and ours.
We encourage diversity in publishing: authors are chosen regardless of sex, gender, race or ethnicity. Non-US authors, or authors who usually work in a different genre, are also welcome.
DO NOT PUT YOUR NAME/ADDRESS INFORMATION IN THE SUBMITTED FILE ITSELF. USE THE ONLINE FORM TO SUBMIT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. We use a blind submissions process and the only way to make that work is if the story/poem doesn’t have your name on it.
Flash: Stories of less than 1,000 words. Must have a beginning, middle, and end, even if some of that happens outside of the story (as long as we can imagine what that is). No vignettes. Submit here
Short Fiction: Stories of 1,001 to 2,500 words. Top word count limit is firm. Submit here
Fantasy Scroll Mag is seeking original science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories, regardless of sub-genre. We want great stories and grand characters!
Here are the lengths we currently accept:
Microfiction: < 500 words
Flash Fiction: 500 – 1500 words
Short Stories: 1500 – 5000 words
At this point we are not accepting any stories longer than 5,000 words, so please only submit word counts within the specified limits.
Here are the lengths we currently accept:
Microfiction: < 500 words
Flash Fiction: 500 – 1500 words
Short Stories: 1500 – 5000 words
At this point we are not accepting any stories longer than 5,000 words, so please only submit word counts within the specified limits.