You can submit between October and May each year.
It particularly encourages new writers to submit-authors who have already been published in another paying market are actually at a disadvantage here!īoulevard doesn’t accept genre fiction, only contemporary literary fiction.
Pay: One-year subscription and a “nominal lump sum fee,” the amount of which isn’t made public.Ībout: Another longstanding, award-winning journal, Boulevard has been publishing contemporary short stories, poetry, and essays since 1985. Although it prefers contemporary fiction to strict category genres, magical realism and futuristic stories are encouraged-anything that pushes boundaries and encourages deep thought is embraced.īlack Warrior Review also accepts graphic novels and visual narratives. This literary magazine seeks to embrace diversity and risky fiction it welcomes both authors and stories with diverse backgrounds, including LGBTQ, (dis)ability, and people of color.
Pay: $10 per printed page for fiction, $20 per page for poetry, plus a year’s subscription to the magazine and several copies of the issue.Ībout: Black Warrior Review is the graduate English department publication of the University of Alabama and is produced twice a year. You can submit between September and May every year. There are two print magazines per year and other fiction is published online biweekly. It accepts poetry, short contemporary fiction, and some critical essays or other nonfiction.
Contemporary LiteratureĪbout: The literary magazine of Boston University, AGNI specializes in publishing emerging authors. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at 22 of the best paying markets we’ve found for short fiction and what they’re paying for submissions right now. Writers who are really interested in focusing on the short fiction opportunities out there might want to subscribe to Duotrope, Poets & Writers, or Writer’s Market to get more ideas of where to submit. There are new literary magazines opening all the time, especially online, and so it’s impossible to come up with a definitive list of all the paying markets currently accepting submissions-especially when you realize that there are dozens of venues for every imaginable genre.
Most literary magazines and fiction markets don’t pay much for short stories, but it never hurts to add another tool to your kit, giving you another distribution channel and a way to bolster your professional career. The truth is you can find a short story publisher if you know where to look. Selling short fiction into paying markets nets you exposure, new readers, and, oh yeah, some cash! Short stories are ways to explore new ideas and techniques and can serve as giveaways for our email newsletter readers, but they don’t pay the bills, right?įor a long time, short stories were actually a fiction writer’s best way to break into paying work, and they can still form a strong part of your author career.
But when we think of making money from our writing, we tend to get hung up on the idea of publishing a novel-or, better yet, a series of novels.