Markets for your short stories, essays, memoir, humour pieces, etc ~ and some of them pay

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Pure Slush is looking for contributions to their anthology, Marriage – Lifespan Volume 6. Stories and essays should run 150–1,000 words; submit a maximum of 3 prose pieces. Poems should run 80–1,000; submit a maximum of 5 poems.

Deadline: July 31, 2022. Full submission guidelines here.

Volume 7 of Pure Slush’s proposed 12-volume Lifespan series will be on Home. The submission period will open up sometime after July 31.

 

Canadian Notes and Queries considers a wide variety of non-fiction (literary and cultural criticism, essays, memoir, humour) written either from a Canadian perspective, or about Canadian subjects, for publication. 

Please include with your pitch or submission a brief biography and attach or link to other relevant work. Like everyone else, “CNQ aims for diversity in the voices it publishes, so if you are a member of what you believe is an underrepresented cohort, feel free to identify yourself as such (though identification is no guarantee of publication).”

Pays 10 cents a word to a maximum of $200, plus a one-year subscription to the magazine.

Full submission guidelines here.

Femke magazine targets a mostly Canadian audience that ranges from 19 to 35 years old, that’s creative forward-thinking, body-positive, and loves fashion, music, and their environment. 

Femke publishes pieces online two or three times a week and publishes a print magazine once a year.

They’re accepting pieces for these categories and sections:

That’s Random – Relevant, creative pieces from 200–2,500 words.

#FridayFeminist – short profile, birthday must land on the Friday, humanitarian focus, 200–500 words

#StyleMania – relevant, creative pieces, 200–1,000 words

#WorthIt – short, relevant book, theatre, film, and music reviews, 200–500 words

Femke Magazine – fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, 50–2500 words

Pays: $0.06 cents per word, $40 for poems, $50 per page for comics, $25–$200 for illustrations

Submission period: Anytime. Full submission guidelines here.

TheDalhousie Review is a literary journal published tri-annually by Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. They invite submissions from both established and emerging writers in Canada and around the world.

Poetry submissions may consist of up to five poems on any subject and in any style.

Fiction submissions may be up to 8,000 words in length, and no submission may consist of more than one story.

Nonfiction submissions may be up to 4,000 words in length, and no submission may consist of more than one essay.

Reviews may be up to 1,000 words in length, but please contact the Review Editor for guidelines before submitting unsolicited reviews. Publishers may also submit copies of new titles on the understanding that no review is guaranteed.

Contributors receive two free copies of the Review.

Full submission guidelines here.

 

Canadian author Elaine Cougler (www.elainecougler.com) is seeking contributions for an anthology to be published in 2023 in time for the July 1 Canada Day celebrations. 

The book length publication will feature unique and true stories of people who escaped their homeland and settled in Canada as a result of the Second World War or because of other warring troubles in their home countries. The publication will show that our country is made up of amazingly strong people who escaped something bad and created something good.

The submissions may be written by the participant or by relatives or friends of the participants. This is a chance to shine the light on true family stories which may not ever have been told in a formal way.

Submissions should be fully edited short stories, book chapters, short novellas or narrative poems written by the person submitting about people who ended up in Canada.

Deadline November 1 2022. Full details 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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