More markets for your short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry and for your sci-fi stories, novellas and novels

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The New Quarterly publishes short fiction, poetry and nonfiction. The New Quarterly limits the number of submissions it reads for each of its reading periods. The reading periods run Sept 1 – Feb 28 and March 1 – Aug 31. So if the closer you submit to the start of either reading period, the better the chance of your piece being read. 

The New Quarterly pays $275 for fiction and nonfiction; $50 for poems and postscripts.

The New Quarterly also runs three annual writing contests: The Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest (deadline end of February), The Edna StaeblerPersonal Essay Contest (deadline end of March), and The Peter Hinchcliffe Short Fiction Award (deadline end of May). 

Full submission guidelines here.

 

Yolk is a Montreal-based literary journal with a print edition (open to residents of Canada only) and a digital publication (open to international submissions) for digital publication. Yolk publishes fiction, art, and poetry. 

Theme for the 3.2 print publication: Solastalgia: Tightening at the smell of smoke. Recoiling at the sight of receding glaciers. Close the news app. Shudder in a foreign home. I’m sorry for the heat. I’m sorry for the mercury. This is a new kind of grief, with a nascent voice. Speak to it. 

Pays: $100CAD honorarium for digital publication. For print, $30 per page, regardless of genre, up to a maximum of $200. $200 for print cover art. 

Deadline: August 14, 2023 for print publication. In the subject line include: “3.2 Print Publication Submission.” International contributors should include “Digital Publication Submission” in the subject line. Guidelines here.

 

Carte Blanche is a Quebec-based online literary magazine publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, translations. comics, and photography, with a focus on Quebec-based artists. 

Pays but "modestly." 

Deadline: August 21, 2023. Guidelines here.

 

Pseudopod is a horror magazine in audio format. If you have a horror story you’d like to hear narrated, send it to them. They looking for flash fiction under 1,500 words, preferably 500–1,000 words, and short stories 1,500–6,000 words, preferably about 4,500 words. Pseudopod wants everything from grim realism or crime drama, to magic-realism, to blatantly supernatural dark fantasy.

“We publish highly literary stories reminiscent of Poe or Lovecraft as well as vulgar shock-value pulp fiction. We don’t split hairs about genre definitions, and we do not observe any taboos about what kind of content can appear in our stories. Originality demands that you’re better off avoiding vampires, zombies, and other recognizable horror tropes unless you have put a very unique spin on them. What matters most is that the stories are dark and compelling.”

Pays $0.08 US per word for original fiction. $100 US per story for reprint fiction and $20 US for reprints of flash fiction (under 1,500 words). 

Deadline: August 21, 2023. Guidelines here.  

 

Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine is a long-established market for science fiction stories and serialized novellas and novels, nonfiction pieces, and poetry, with both print and digital editions.

Pays 8–10 cents US per word for short fiction (up to 20,000 words), 6 cents US per word for serials (40,000–80,000 words) 9 cents US per word for fact articles, and $1 US per line for poetry.

Pays $1,200 US for color cove art and $125 US for black and whiter interiors.

Fact articles should be about 4,000 words and should deal with topics at the present frontiers of research whose likely future developments have implications of wide interest.

{Unlike almost all literary journals} Analog considers material submitted by any writer solely on the basis of merit.

Submission guidelines here.

 

Quick Brown Fox welcomes 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.

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