This is a page dedicated to sharing links for writing markets. As a writer I’ve collected many places over the years that are open to submissions. Some of these places have published my work, some I’m still trying to crack. There are online and print magazines listed here. The majority of these are for short stories as that’s one of my favourite mediums. I love writing and reading short stories and always get a buzz when someone does me the honour of publishing something I’ve written. There are some places here open to novels and some open to both novels and short stories.
The sites listed are a mixture of pro, semi-pro and FTL markets. That means places that pay professional rates for your work, places that pay nominal amounts and places that don’t pay at all (FTL means For The Love). There are also a wide variety of submission guidelines – make sure that whenever you visit a new market and consider sending them your work that you read the submission guidelines carefully. The first way to get your work ignored is to not follow the specific guidelines of any given market. They won’t even bother to read your story.
Also, bear in mind that I’m a speculative fiction writer, so most of these links are to markets that prefer fantasy, sci-fi and horror. But not all of them, so take the time to have a look.
First off, here are some digest sites that list many more markets than I’ve put on this page. If you want a really broad range of potential sales avenues, spend some time at these sites:
Ralan.com
duotrope’s digest
Semiprozine Directory
There are more places like the three listed above, so have a search around the net for them.
Aussie authors, you have a very special page available in Inkspillers, which is reguarly updated with markets, anthologies and competitions:
Below are some of the markets that I’ve found during my time as a writer that have published my work or that I would like to publish my work, or some that I think publish good work even though I haven’t tried them. Where possible I’ve linked directly to submission guidelines.
52 Stitches – weekly installments of flash horror
Aberrant Dreams
Abyss & Apex
Albedo One – one of the big print markets (Ireland)
Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine – regular Australian print market
Antipodean SF – Australian based flash fiction webzine
Apex Book Company
Arcane Magazine
Asimov’s Science Fiction
Aurealis Magazine
Bards & Sages
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Bewildering Stories
Black Static
Brimstone Press
Chizine
Clarkesworld
Crowded Magazine – Aussie pro-rate paying e-mag
Daily Science Fiction
Damnation Books
Dark Discoveries
Dark Tales
theDF_underground Dark Fiction Portal
The Drabblecast – weird fiction podcast market
Escape Pod – sci-fi podcasting
Every Day Fiction – daily flash fiction
Everyday Weirdness – sci-fic, fantasy & horror flash
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Flash Fiction Online – SFWA market for flash fiction
Flashes In The Dark
Flash Me Magazine
Gryphonwood Press – publisher of my novels
Horror Bound Magazine
House Of Horror
Ideomancer
Innsmouth Free Press
Interstellar Fiction
Interzone
Kasma SF
Lightspeed Magazine
Lore
M-Brane SF
Meanjin
Midnight Echo – magazine of the AHWA
New Myths
(Michael Moorcock’s) New Worlds Magazine
Nightmare Magazine
Not One Of Us
The Oddville Press
One Buck Horror
On Spec
Penumbra
Plasma Frequency Magazine
Port Iris
Prime Books
Pseudopod – horror fiction podcasts
The Red Penny Papers
Sci Phi Journal
Seizure
Shimmerzine
Smokelong Quarterly
Space And Time Magazine
Spinetinglers
Strange Horizons
Stupefying Stories
Ticon4
Ticonderoga
Tor.com
Tower Of Light
Tweet The Meat – 140 character horror on Twitter
Wet Ink
Wildside Press
Wily Writers
Withersin
These links barely scratch the surface of all the markets out there, but it’s a good start if you’re trying to crack traditional publishing for your fiction. If you know of any other good markets that you think I should include here, drop me an email to let me know – alan (at) alanbaxteronline (dot) com
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