Submission info.

This page is packed with opportunities on other websites. If you’d like to take part in anything on this one, please email me for an information pack. Now to business…

If you’re like me you’d like to submit more often than you do but you’re not sure where to send it, some of these may be of use…

Children’s / YA

• New independent publisher Mythmaker is looking for new writers to submit original children’s and young adult fiction.
• Other opportunities for children’s authors include Undiscovered Voices.
• A brilliant resource is My Perfect Pitch.com which has a wonderful page of over 1,000 publishers currently accepting book submissions.

Flash Fiction (also see below for Short Stories)

• Backhand Stories welcomes flash fiction/short stories, essays and reviews. They don’t pay but it’s always lovely to see your work in ‘print’ (online).
• Welsh writing group Clebran welcomes short pieces including flash fiction (in Welsh and / or English). No payment but it gets your name out there and you can read all their publications for free online.
• Daily Science Fiction welcomes original science fiction and fantasy which is posted / emailed every weekday with shorter pieces Monday to Thursday then a longer piece on Fridays.
• Enchanted Conversation – see Fairy Tale Magazine.
• Fairy Tale Magazine (formerly Enchanted Conversation) accepts stories up to 3,000 words and poetry. No theme but submissions should “evoke the feel of classic pre-1900 fairy tales”.
• Fiction365 accepts stories up to 4,000 words. Payment: “small amount”.
• US-based Flashquake is a quarterly ezine publishing flash fiction/non-fiction (max 1000 words) and short poetry (max. 35 lines). Email submit@flashquake.org. Submissions not accepted in February, May, August or November. Payment is US$5 to US$25.
• www.joannemerriam.com/seven-by-twenty is a great opportunity for anyone who enjoys writing flash fiction – the maximum is 140 characters… about 20-25 words!
• Litro accepts short stories, flash fiction and creative non-fiction (max 3,000 words).
• UK-based Paragram is looking for poetry and flash fiction (max 500 words) for their anthologies. See the website for latest theme.
• Paragraph Planet publishes daily 75-word flash fiction.
• US-based online magazine Pedestal welcomes poetry of any length or form (max 6 submitted at one time) – payment US$40 per poem – and fiction max 4,200 words (one story per submission) or flash fiction (1,000 words max) – payment for fiction is US8c per word. Subscriptions to the magazine are free (currently c. 16,000 site visits per month). Genres covered include science fiction, horror, mystery and romance especially if character driven. Response c. 4-8 weeks. Pedestal publishes 4-5 times a year and includes c. 4 stories, 15 poems, reviews and interviews.
• Rusty Nail is a new magazine taking submissions of prose (<3,000 words), poetry, book reviews and artwork.
• Short Stories For Women takes, as the name would suggest, short women’s fiction (500-4,000 words).

Non-fiction

• Canadian print magazine ‘The Antigonish Review’ welcome poetry in any form (preferably 3-4, 8 max – payment US$30 per page), articles (1000-4000 words – payment US$100 flat rate) by post (Bonnie MsIsaac, Office Manager, PO Box 5000, St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada B2G2W5. Fiction (500-3000 words – payment US$100 flat rate) can be emailed (TAR@stfx.ca).
• Backhand Stories welcomes flash fiction/short stories, essays and reviews. They don’t pay but it’s always lovely to see your work in ‘print’ (online).
• New visual arts magazine Canned is looking for writers to comment on theories, trends, projects artists and artworks within the discourse of contemporary practice. For more information you can also email them.
• Classic Cars features are usually c.2,000 words (interview) and 2,5000 (single car feature).
• Dangerous Little Books only publish non-fiction.
• Delayed Gratification welcome non-fiction articles.
• Online literary magazine Dog Weed seek poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.
• Fifty Magazine welcomes articles aimed at those 50+.
• US-based Flashquake is a quarterly ezine publishing flash fiction/non-fiction (max 1000 words) and short poetry (max. 35 lines). Email submit@flashquake.org. Submissions not accepted in February, May, August or November. Payment is US$5 to US$25.
• Gardening articles are welcome at: Kitchen Garden, Gardens Illustrated, The English Garden, Gardener’s World, Garden Design Journal and Grow Fruit & Veg.
• Happy Homes USA welcomes “virtually anything you’ve got to say about your own home maintenance and improvement experience”.
• Should you be a gardener Home Farmer magazine is looking for submissions, especially those of a traditional nature. Contact: Home Farmer, The Good Life Press Ltd, PO Box 536, Preston, England PR2 9ZY (or e-mail editor@homefarmer.co.uk).
• Independent publisher Indigo Dreams are always on the lookout for quality work and are particularly seeking novels and non-fiction with a USP (unique selling point).
• Ink Byte welcomes new articles and ideas for articles. Drop Steve Beisner or Melinda Palacio a note at editors@inkbyte.com.
• Interlitq “accepts submissions for short fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. We do not accept any unsolicited material that has been previously published. If the material appears anywhere online, including your personal blog, we cannot consider it for publication.”
• Australian literary magazine Island publishes “quality short stories (Aus$100), poetry (Aus$60), extracts from forthcoming novels, and articles and essays on topics of social, environmental and cultural significance (Aus$100 per 1,000 words).”
• Itchy City magazine welcomes pieces about various cities around the UK, see www.itchycity.co.uk.
• Litro accepts short stories, flash fiction and creative non-fiction (max 3,000 words).
• Lonely Planet welcomes emailed travel articles.
• MG Owners Club welcome reports, reviews and articles. Details from MG Owners Club, Octagon House, Swavesey, Cambs CB24 4QZ.
• A brilliant resource is My Perfect Pitch.com which has a wonderful page of over 1,000 publishers currently accepting book submissions.
• Canadian publication The New Quarterly which takes submissions of short stories, poems, essays etc. See website or write to The New Quarterly, c/o St Jerome’s University, 290 Westmount Road North, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G3.
• Quarterly US print/electronic magazine ‘Ocean’ welcomes non-fiction stories, articles, essays, poems about the ocean (scientific, creative, environmental, recreational and spiritual).
• Photo Pro & Photo Professional Magazine welcome well-illustrated articles (sent an outline). Email editorial@bright-publishing.com.
• Irish broadcaster RTÉ invites contributions of original radio essays, reportage, appreciations, memory pieces, travel writing, personal accounts of events/happenings, and occasionally poetry for ‘Sunday Miscellany’, a radio and web programme.
• Sailing Today pays £125 each for the first three 2,200-word pieces. Yachting Monthly is another opportunity and you can email yachting-monthly@ipcmedia.com.
• 189 year old American bi-monthly magazine ‘Saturday Evening Post’ welcome anecdotes/photos, non-fiction (on home, pet finance, 45+, how-to topics) and fiction (preferably light humour), ideally 1,000 to 2,000 words. Payment from $25 to £400+. Target audience is mainstream middle-aged American. Simultaneous submissions accepted. Response time is just 3-6 weeks.
• Norfolk-based (UK) annual literary magazine ‘The Savage Kick’ seeks submissions that will “make readers sit up and listen”. Short stories / novel excerpts (<6000 words) or articles / interviews (<3000 words). Response times are quick (aim <2 weeks!) but payment rates low £20 stories / £15 articles/interviews. They recommend you read the magazine before submitting.
• Sollitary Magazine takes poetry, non-fiction, and fiction. Although Mexican, you don’t have to be.
• California-based Three Penny Review welcomes fiction (max 4000 words) and poetry (max 100 lines). Payment US$400 per story / article, US$200 per poem plus year’s free subscription.
• Canadian Tin House is looking for fiction (one story per submission), poetry (five poems max) and ‘economical, cultural and environmental’ non-fiction. Simultaneous submissions accepted.
• What The Dickens magazine is actively looking for fiction, poetry, non-fiction and articles.
• Other non-fiction opportunities include Kensington Review, Vintage, HerStoria, St Anthony Messenger Press, Weavings.

Novels

• Avon Impulse invites submissions of various length in all sub-genres of romance.
• Circalit “enables novelists, screenwriters and playwrights to showcase their writing to film producers, book publishers and literary agents”.
• Empirical magazine welcomes submissions of poems, short stories and novel extracts.
• H2Open Magazine invites articles about open water swimming.
• Independent publisher Indigo Dreams are always on the lookout for quality work and are particularly seeking novels and non-fiction with a USP (unique selling point).
• “Are you an aspiring author looking to upload your work, start or continue to build your readership, sell your books online, join a community of like-minded people, connect with readers looking for new stories, receive feedback to help you prove and improve your writing? iWriteReadRate is here to help you in your quest, to support you on your journey, and to give you a place to call your own. We’re writers just like you, so everything we’re doing is with your best interests at heart. We’re here to help you navigate the waters of eBook publishing, and we’re based in the East Midlands as well!” See www.iWriteReadRate.com for info.
• Linen Press – exceptionally fine writing by women, for women.
• A brilliant resource is My Perfect Pitch.com which has a wonderful page of over 1,000 publishers currently accepting book submissions.
• Rickshaw Publishing is “on the hunt for quality submissions to entertain and enthral our in-house team. So all you unpublished wordsmiths out there: fire up you Interweb machines, read our submissions policy and get sending. We’re looking for authors that show bags of potential – without necessarily having a finished book – but please think how to give your projects the best chance of getting picked up”. Their submissions page is here.
• Norfolk-based (UK) annual literary magazine ‘The Savage Kick’ seeks submissions that will “make readers sit up and listen”. Short stories / novel excerpts (<6000 words) or articles / interviews (<3000 words). Response times are quick (aim <2 weeks!) but payment rates low £20 stories / £15 articles/interviews. They recommend you read the magazine before submitting.
• Wink Publishing only publishes eBooks from unpublished writers and “wants to help new writers find their readers”.
• Other novel opportunities include Comet, Wild Wolf Publishing.

Poetry

• Canadian print magazine ‘The Antigonish Review’ welcome poetry in any form (preferably 3-4, 8 max – payment US$30 per page), articles (1000-4000 words – payment US$100 flat rate) by post (Bonnie MsIsaac, Office Manager, PO Box 5000, St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada B2G2W5. Fiction (500-3000 words – payment US$100 flat rate) can be emailed (TAR@stfx.ca).
• Best Poems is an annual print Anthology – free to submit.
• Bloodaxe Books welcome new authors with full-length collections.
• Dahlia Publishing, founded in 2010 and based in Leicester, aims to push the boundaries on creativity and diversity and engage BME readers. They’re keen to work with regional writers and talented young people to open the door to a career in publishing. If you’re writing a book or are a writer based in the region. Their submission guideline page says their looking for ‘Chick lit, Crime, Historical, Romantic, Multicultural, Young Adult and Children’s’ but not ‘Sci-Fi, Weird, Erotica, Horror, Gothic’. They ‘happy to accept poetry and short stories, when presented as a coherent collection’ and are ‘keen to publish first time authors’.
• Online literary magazine Dog Weed seek poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.
• Empirical magazine welcomes submissions of poems, short stories and novel extracts.
• French-based Equinox seeks contemporary poetry.
• Fairy Tale Magazine (formerly Enchanted Conversation) accepts stories up to 3,000 words and poetry. No theme but submissions should “evoke the feel of classic pre-1900 fairy tales”.
• Farragos Wainscot is a quarterly journal of the literary weird in fiction, poetry, and experimental wordforms. Unfortunately they no longer take submissions but this may change in the future so do keep looking from time to time (plus it’s an interesting site).
• Firebird Poetry is where poets can upload their poetry for free.
• Interlitq “accepts submissions for short fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. We do not accept any unsolicited material that has been previously published. If the material appears anywhere online, including your personal blog, we cannot consider it for publication.”
• Australian literary magazine ‘Island’ publishes “quality short stories (Aus$100), poetry (Aus$60), extracts from forthcoming novels, and articles and essays on topics of social, environmental and cultural significance (Aus$100 per 1,000 words).”
• The Leading Edge is a semi-professional speculative fiction magazine produced at Brigham Young University, (Utah, USA). You can submit <10,000 words, payment is 1 cent per word ($10 min) + 2 mag copies. They also accept sci-fi/fantasy poetry. Payment is $10 for the first 4 pages, $1.50 for each subsequent page of published poetry. Two contributor copies are also provided. They also buy illustrations.
• The Moth is a quarterly arts & literature magazine features poetry, short fiction and pictures by established and up-and-coming writers and artists from Ireland and abroad.
• A brilliant resource is My Perfect Pitch.com which has a wonderful page of over 1,000 publishers currently accepting book submissions.
• Poland-based New Europe Writers welcomes unpublished fiction and poetry based on set themes. Max 4000 words.
• Canadian publication The New Quarterly which takes submissions of short stories, poems, essays etc. See website or write to The New Quarterly, c/o St Jerome’s University, 290 Westmount Road North, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G3.
• Founded in 1988, New Welsh Review is Wales’ leading literary quarterly and welcomes poetry and fiction submissions. They pay £28 per poem (6 max per 6-month period) or c £80 per short story (one per 6m). Post to Kathryn Gray, Editor, New Welsh Review, PO Box 170, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 1WZ or email submissions@newwelshreview.com. Feature proposals to editor@newwelshreview.com. Allow up to 3 months for a reply.
• Quarterly US print / electronic magazine ‘Ocean’ welcomes non-fiction stories, articles, essays, poems about the ocean (scientific, creative, environmental, recreational and spiritual).
• UK-based Paragram is looking for poetry and flash fiction (max 500 words) for their anthologies. See the website for latest theme.
• US-based online magazine Pedestal welcomes poetry of any length or form (max 6 submitted at one time) – payment US$40 per poem – and fiction max 4,200 words (one story per submission) or flash fiction (1,000 words max) – payment for fiction is US8c per word. Subscriptions to the magazine are free (currently c. 16,000 site visits per month). Genres covered include science fiction, horror, mystery and romance especially if character driven. Response c. 4-8 weeks. Pedestal publishes 4-5 times a year and includes c. 4 stories, 15 poems, reviews and interviews.
• Poet and Geek seeks experimental and thoughtful poetry.
• Poetry is the Poetry Foundation’s magazine and accepts submissions of up to 4 poems.
• Poetry24 seeks news-related and topical poetry.
• Poetry Ireland Review welcome unsolicited submissions worldwide.
• Irish broadcaster RTÉ invites contributions of original radio essays, reportage, appreciations, memory pieces, travel writing, personal accounts of events/happenings, and occasionally poetry for ‘Sunday Miscellany’, a radio and web programme.
• Rusty Nail is a new magazine taking submissions of prose (<3,000 words), poetry, book reviews and artwork.
• Sollitary Magazine takes poetry, non-fiction, and fiction. Although Mexican, you don’t have to be.
• California-based Three Penny Review welcomes fiction (max 4000 words) and poetry (max 100 lines). Payment US$400 per story / article, US$200 per poem plus year’s free subscription.
• Canadian Tin House is looking for fiction (one story per submission), poetry (five poems max) and ‘economical, cultural and environmental’ non-fiction. Simultaneous submissions accepted.
• What The Dickens magazine is actively looking for fiction, poetry, non-fiction and articles.
• Other poetry opportunities include Acumen Literary Journal, Carcanet, FlippedEye, Flambard Press, Penned in the Margins, South Poetry Magazine.

Sci-fi / fantasy / horror specific

• Clarksworld Magazine, a monthly online sci-fi / fantasy / horror mag. Each issue (currently no. 57) contains work from established authors and at least two pieces of original fiction, and annually printed in an anthology entitled ‘Realms’. Word count is 1,000-4,000 max. Payment is $0.10 per word. Response time c. 50 days. E-mail enquiries / submissions to clarkesfiction@gmail.com either within the body of the e-mail or as an .rtf file attachment. Include cover letter with contact details, publishing history and relevant personal info.
• Crossed Genre take science-fiction and fantasy.
• Daily Science Fiction welcomes original science fiction and fantasy which is posted / emailed every weekday with shorter pieces Monday to Thursday then a longer piece on Fridays.
• Escape Pod is “the premier science fiction podcast magazine. Every week we bring you short stories from some of today’s best science fiction stories, in convenient audio format for your computer or MP3 player. We pay our authors, but we will always be 100% free.” (they rely on donations and sponsorship). Their submission guidelines are on http://escapepod.org/guidelines.
• Kasma Magazine invites original and intelligent science fiction of 500-4,000 words.
• The Leading Edge is a semi-professional speculative fiction magazine produced at Brigham Young University, (Utah, USA). You can submit <10,000 words, payment is 1 cent per word ($10 min) + 2 mag copies. They also accept sci-fi/fantasy poetry. Payment is $10 for the first 4 pages, $1.50 for each subsequent page of published poetry. Two contributor copies are also provided. They also buy illustrations.
• A brilliant resource is My Perfect Pitch.com which has a wonderful page of over 1,000 publishers currently accepting book submissions.
• Salt Publishing imprint Proxima is dedicated to science-fiction, fantasy and horror.
• Rune Wright welcomes SF, fantasy, horror and paranormal.
• Salon Futura is an online and eBook magazine dedicated to speculative fiction.
• The Tiny Globule seeks short stories for a new series of sci-fi, horror and fantasy anthologies. 3,000 words max.
• Other sci-fi, fantasy and / or horror opportunities include Darwin’s Evolution, Dragon Dreamz, SFX, Trembles Magazine.

Scripts

• Circalit “enables novelists, screenwriters and playwrights to showcase their writing to film producers, book publishers and literary agents”.
• WAC Theatre accepts unsolicited theatre script submissions.

Short stories (see above for flash fiction)

• Bound Off usually welcomes submissions for their short story podcast but they’re currently closed until 1st September 2012.
• Carve Magazine publishes short fiction quarterly.
• Welsh writing group Clebran welcomes short pieces (in Welsh and / or English). No payment but it gets your name out there and you can read all their publications for free online.
• Comma Press accepts one (two maximum) short stories for their bi-annual new writer showcase.
• Dahlia Publishing, founded in 2010 and based in Leicester, aims to push the boundaries on creativity and diversity and engage BME readers. They’re keen to work with regional writers and talented young people to open the door to a career in publishing. If you’re writing a book or are a writer based in the region. Their submission guideline page says their looking for ‘Chick lit, Crime, Historical, Romantic, Multicultural, Young Adult and Children’s’ but not ‘Sci-Fi, Weird, Erotica, Horror, Gothic’. They ‘happy to accept poetry and short stories, when presented as a coherent collection’ and are ‘keen to publish first time authors’.
• Daily Science Fiction welcomes original science fiction and fantasy which is posted / emailed every weekday with shorter pieces Monday to Thursday then a longer piece on Fridays.
• Online literary magazine Dog Weed seek poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.
• echook welcome short stories from 750 to 2,500 words,
• Empirical magazine welcomes submissions of poems, short stories and novel extracts.
• Enchanted Conversation – see Fairy Tale Magazine.
• Fairy Tale Magazine (formerly Enchanted Conversation) accepts stories up to 3,000 words and poetry. No theme but submissions should “evoke the feel of classic pre-1900 fairy tales”.
• Farragos Wainscot is a quarterly journal of the literary weird in fiction, poetry, and experimental wordforms. Unfortunately they no longer take submissions but this may change in the future so do keep looking from time to time (plus it’s an interesting site).
• Fiction365 accepts stories up to 4,000 words. Payment: “small amount”.
• Short Story Submission Guidelines for ‘The Fiction Desk’ can be found here.
• US-based Flashquake is a quarterly ezine publishing flash fiction/non-fiction (max 1000 words) and short poetry (max. 35 lines). Email submit@flashquake.org. Submissions not accepted in February, May, August or November. Payment is US$5 to US$25.
• Glimmer Train welcomes unpublished stories.
• Grass Roots Magazine welcomes ‘New Love Stories’.
• Interlitq “accepts submissions for short fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. We do not accept any unsolicited material that has been previously published. If the material appears anywhere online, including your personal blog, we cannot consider it for publication.”
• Iota Magazine welcomes submissions of short fiction in any genre, including life writing and memoir for consideration for the second fiction issue. Please send short stories of between 2,000 and 6,000 words. All stories must be the original work of the author. We accept translations as long as they are identified as such. All work must be typed and double spaced. Please also send proposals (150 words) for features or essays. We also accept new fiction, biography and life writing for review, and copies should be sent to the Fiction Reviews Editor at the address below. Please email submissions and proposals to fiction@iotamagazine.co.uk.
• Australian literary magazine ‘Island’ publishes “quality short stories (Aus$100), poetry (Aus$60), extracts from forthcoming novels, and articles and essays on topics of social, environmental and cultural significance (Aus$100 per 1,000 words).”
• The Leading Edge is a semi-professional speculative fiction magazine produced at Brigham Young University, (Utah, USA). You can submit <10,000 words, payment is 1 cent per word ($10 min) + 2 mag copies. They also accept sci-fi/fantasy poetry. Payment is $10 for the first 4 pages, $1.50 for each subsequent page of published poetry. Two contributor copies are also provided. They also buy illustrations.
• Litro accepts short stories, flash fiction and creative non-fiction (max 3,000 words).
• Interactive fiction is now available on mobile phones. Mobile books or ‘moooks’ are designed for instant viewing across a wide range of mobile networks worldwide, with first service availability in the UK.  This new interactive storytelling concept is the brainchild of mifiction; a Surrey based company with a mission to introduce interactive books, ‘moooks’ across the mobile platform. The interactive nature means that the reader has the power to decide what happens in the story. At a number of points within each chapter, the reader has a choice of options to determine the outcome, giving an immense number of possible story variations. With more interactive fiction books in the pipeline, mifiction is keen to receive submissions from budding new authors, who can obtain further information by emailing contact@mifiction.co.uk. To find out more about mifiction go to www.mifiction.co.uk, where an example chapter of “The Three Tears” is available for anyone to try for free; simply enter your email address, create a password and explore interactive fiction for yourself.
• The Moth is a quarterly arts & literature magazine features poetry, short fiction and pictures by established and up-and-coming writers and artists from Ireland and abroad.
• A brilliant resource is My Perfect Pitch.com which has a wonderful page of over 1,000 publishers currently accepting book submissions.
• The Mystery Place welcomes short stories from 2,500-8,000 words (occasionally <12K).
• Poland-based New Europe Writers welcomes unpublished fiction and poetry based on set themes. Max 4000 words.
• Canadian publication The New Quarterly which takes submissions of short stories, poems, essays etc. See website or write to The New Quarterly, c/o St Jerome’s University, 290 Westmount Road North, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G3.
• Founded in 1988, New Welsh Review is Wales’ leading literary quarterly and welcomes poetry and fiction submissions. They pay £28 per poem (6 max per 6-month period) or c £80 per short story (one per 6-month period). Post to Kathryn Gray, Editor, New Welsh Review, PO Box 170, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 1WZ or email submissions@newwelshreview.com. Feature proposals to editor@newwelshreview.com. Allow up to 3 months for a reply.
• One Story is a non-profit seeking 3,000-8,000 word fiction (submissions 1 Sept-31 May only).
• UK-based Paragram is looking for poetry and flash fiction (max 500 words) for their anthologies. See the website for latest theme.
• Paraxis is a new online publisher of short stories. “We relish fiction with elements of the strange, uncanny or fantastic. We will be featuring new stories, reprints, artwork and essays.”
• US-based online magazine Pedestal welcomes poetry of any length or form (max 6 submitted at one time) – payment US$40 per poem – and fiction max 4,200 words (one story per submission) or flash fiction (1,000 words max) – payment for fiction is US8c per word. Subscriptions to the magazine are free (currently c. 16,000 site visits per month). Genres covered include science fiction, horror, mystery and romance especially if character driven. Response c. 4-8 weeks. Pedestal publishes 4-5 times a year and includes c. 4 stories, 15 poems, reviews and interviews.
• Rusty Nail is a new magazine taking submissions of prose (<3,000 words), poetry, book reviews and artwork.
• 189 year old American bi-monthly magazine ‘Saturday Evening Post’ welcome anecdotes/photos, non-fiction (on home, pet finance, 45+, how-to topics) and fiction (preferably light humour), ideally 1,000 to 2,000 words. Payment from $25 to £400+. Target audience is mainstream middle-aged American. Simultaneous submissions accepted. Response time is just 3-6 weeks.
• Norfolk-based (UK) annual literary magazine ‘The Savage Kick’ seeks submissions that will “make readers sit up and listen”. Short stories / novel excerpts (<6000 words) or articles / interviews (<3000 words). Response times are quick (aim <2 weeks!) but payment rates low £20 stories / £15 articles/interviews. They recommend you read the magazine before submitting.
• Short Stories For Women takes, as the name would suggest, short women’s fiction (500-4,000 words).
• Sollitary Magazine takes poetry, non-fiction, and fiction. Although Mexican, you don’t have to be.
• California-based Three Penny Review welcomes fiction (max 4000 words) and poetry (max 100 lines). Payment US$400 per story / article, US$200 per poem plus year’s free subscription.
• Canadian Tin House is looking for fiction (one story per submission), poetry (five poems max) and ‘economical, cultural and environmental’ non-fiction. Simultaneous submissions accepted.
• Untied Shoelaces Of The Mind is an online magazine that acquires fiction in many genres and pays USc3 per word (up to US$30). Submissions via the website’s form only, not by email or post.
• What The Dickens magazine is actively looking for fiction, poetry, non-fiction and articles.
• The Yellow Room welcomes submissions of short stories by UK women writers.
• Other short story opportunities include The Fiction Circus, Stand Magazine.

Songwriting

• Red Hot Velvet welcome features on new bands, interviews and articles.

Mixed

• Arabesques Editions is an Algerian-based magazine publisher but takes a variety of English language submissions.
• Baen Books is after non-fiction and fiction.
• Carina Press take a variety of books in a variety of genres.
• Cerise Press welcome photography, art, fiction and poetry.
• Character i welcomes short stories, poetry and art in first person point of view (hence the ‘i’ ).
• damselfly press seeks fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
• Fiction Magazine & Journal is calling for contributions: will publish work from leading writers, nationally and internationally, both established authors and first time writers.
• Mighty Creatives: job opportunities based in the Midlands area, UK.
• A brilliant resource is My Perfect Pitch.com which has a wonderful page of over 1,000 publishers currently accepting book submissions.
• New Pages list of literary magazines.
• Open to Interpretation seeks themed poetry, fiction or non-fiction.
• Planet Magazine welcomes short stories, poems and proposals for articles and reviews.
• Rusty Nail is a new magazine taking submissions of prose (<3,000 words), poetry, book reviews and artwork.
• Scintilla Press welcomes fiction, non-fiction, poetry and book reviews.
• Sentinel Literary Quarterly seeks poetry, short stories, essays, plays, reviews and interviews.
• Shroud Magazine’s reading period is 1st May to 31st July.
• Slice Magazine welcome short fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
• Still Crazy has opportunities for writers aged 50+.
• The Subterranean Literary Journal welcomes prose (short stories, essays, reviews), poetry, art and illustrations… and “everything else, we love to be surprised and we’ll consider publishing almost anything”.
• Summersdale seek quotes, quips and witticisms.
• Vintage Script seeks historical articles and short stories.
• Weave Magazine seeks poetry, fiction, non-fiction.
• What The Dickens magazine is “always looking for submissions of not only fiction and poetry but also non-fiction and articles. I even accept artwork, photo’s, book reviews, film reviews and so on. I do set a theme for each issue though can be flexible around the non-fiction side of things. There are also competitions and give-aways which are all free to enter”.
• Womagwriter’s blog http://womagwriter.blogspot.com is one of the best places I know for women’s magazine guidelines.
• http://writersguidelines.blogspot.com does what it says on the tin; is packed with submission info.
• WritersReadersDirect welcomes fiction and non-fiction in a variety of formats.
• www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk/services/opportunities is a great list of opportunities.
• Xenith is open to “most forms and genres of writing: poetry (5 max per submission), fiction (max 8000 words), flash fiction (5-500 words), plays, creative nonfiction, graphic novels, comics and comic strips, unsent letters, experimental, sci-fi, literary mainstream, whatever”. Essays, articles and columns also welcome. Submit by email (no attachments) to patrick.nathan@gmail.com.
• Other mixed opportunities include The Beat, Bust, Cezanne’s Carrot, The Corner Club Press, Dead Drunk Dublin, The Literary Bohemian, The Long & The Short of It, New Orleans Review, New Welsh Review, Novel Magazine, The Ofi Press, Pentimento Magazine, Persimmon Tree, The Pygmy Giant, The Shine Journal, Splinter Generation, Step Away, The Waiting Room, Wet Ink, WritingRaw, Xenith.

If you do have any more information that could go on this page or find any broken links, old information etc., please email me.