Markets for your short fiction, personal essays, reviews, poetry and stories for kids

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The Masters Review accepts submissions for their New Voices feature year round. This is open to any new or emerging author who has not published a work of fiction or narrative nonfiction of novel length with a wide distribution. Authors of short story collections are free to submit as are authors with books published by Indies presses.

Pays: $200 for short fiction and narrative nonfiction (7,000 words max); $100 for flash-length narratives (1,000 words max).

See submission guidelines and check out previously published New Voices pieces here. 

Submissions for The Masters Review Anthology Prize are now open. Every year, The Masters Review opens submissions for its anthology. Their aim is to showcase ten writers in a nationally distributed book. Accepts previously unpublished fiction and narrative nonfiction (maximum 7,000 words) from emerging writers only.

Prizes: Each chosen writer receiver $500 U.S.  Entry fee: $20 U.S.

Deadline March 27, 2022. Guidelines here.

The Masters Review also accepts book reviews, interviews, and editorial pieces to publish on The Masters ReviewBlog. They want reviews of forthcoming books from debut authors. Reviews should include quotes from the text, comparisons to other titles and are typically 700–1,200 words.

The General guidelines for The Master’s Review here.

 

Big City Lit is an online literary journal that publishes short fiction, and flash fiction, personal essays, book reviews, poetry, and novel excerpts if they can stand alone. Prose pieces must be under 5,000 words (under 1,000 for flash fiction. For poetry, send up to five pages of poems, with not more than one poem per page. 

Guidelines here.

 

Short Kid Stories is a web site that publishes stories for young people, any age from babies to teens. Maximum 2,000 words.

Always open for submissions from authors and illustrators. Guidelines here.

 

Devour: Art & Lit Canada is dedicated to the Canadian voice and aims to present some of Canada’s finest authors, photographers, and artists in every issue. Devour publishes twice yearly, summer and winter. Currently Devour is seeking poems, photographs, and book reviews.

Deadline May 15, 2022. Guidelines here.  

Quick Brown Fox Quick Brown Fox welcomes your book reviews and your short stories, poems, and essays about reading, writing, favourite books, and libraries. Read a few essays on the blog to get a taste of what other writers have done (see here and scroll down).

Quick Brown Fox also welcomes reviews of any kind and of anything, anywhere or anybody. If you want to review your favourite coffee shops or libraries, babysitters or lovers (no real names please), go for it. See examples of book reviews here (and scroll down); other reviews here (and scroll down).

Submit to: brianhenry@sympatico.ca

Include a short bio at the end of your piece and attach a photo of yourself if you have one that’s okay.

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