Submissions - flash fiction & short stories

Click here for the main mixed format submissions page, or for Children’s, non-fiction, Novels, Poetry, Sci-fi, fantasy, horror etc., Scripts or Opportunities on this blog.

Below is a list of some outlets welcoming submissions of flash fiction and short stories (click here for other genres) – do let me know if you know of any others. Thank you.

Flash Fiction only (up to 1,250 words – those allowing more are listed below under ‘Short Stories’)

• 1000words – see below.
• http://13shotsofgrit.wordpress.com/snifters is especially for short flash fiction (longer pieces accepted too).
• www.alfiedog.com – see below.
• Would you like to see your stories published on an Android phone app? A FREE short story app called ‘A Quick Read’  is coming soon. The good news is, we’re not charging any writer to upload the stories on the app. The bad news is, we cannot pay writers a fee, as we’re starting the project as a hobby. However, if we mange to secure funding, we will be able to pay you. I’ll be sending out lots of press releases to raise publicity. The categories for fiction are: Crime, Mystery, Paranormal, Twist in tale, Heart-warming. The word count we require is 500-1,000 words. No swearing, no excessive violence, and no erotica, please. Also, we require a brief outline (one or two lines) about your story. Go to www.aquickread.net to view our website. ‘Terms and conditions for writers’ can be found under ‘Information’ on the drop down menu. It would be best if you sent us unpublished work. All writers retain copyright. You can also see how the app works on the website. Please e-mail your stories to me, Sharon at: keith.boothroyd@gmail.com.
• Astonishing Stories – see below.
• Backhand Stories – see below.
• BlinkInk is a quarterly magazine of short pieces.
• Bound Off – see below.
• Burrst.com is a great site for “short pieces of fiction – bursts of 1,250 words or less, both written and spoken” and welcomes new submissions.
• CAKE.shortandsweet – see below.
• The Casket welcomes flash fiction and short stories for three opportunities; Tube-Flash (<300 words) inspired by the London Underground, and general flash fiction (<300 words) and short stories (1,200 – 3,000 words), see the submissions page for full details.
• Clebran – see below.
• C,MMAS & C:l:NS is look for fiction and poems of 250 words or less. You can submit up to six of these per person.
• The Cobalt Review publishes short stories (fiction and nonfiction), plays, poetry, book excerpts, essays, etc. “We also feature art (drawings, paintings, graphic media, etc). We publish the works of authors regardless of whether they are established, or new or self-published. Unsolicited submissions are accepted year-round. There are no set guidelines as to content or length. All work must be original but can be previously published. If something is previously published, please let us know so that we can work through any copyright issues. All manuscripts must have the author’s name, address, phone number, and approximate word count at the top of the first page, and numbered throughout. All submissions are done online. We do not accept paper submissions at this time. All manuscripts must be written in English or Spanish. Translations are acceptable, but must be accompanied by a copy of the original text. Send your best work. You can submit several stories at a time. There is no submission fee. We will read and consider simultaneous submissions, on the condition that the author notify us immediately, by email, if the manuscript is accepted for publication elsewhere. We do not pay for any work of yours that we publish and you retain all of the rights to your work. This is a volunteer project and we are doing this for the love of literature and art. The editors aim to respond to manuscripts in a timely fashion, and ask that you wait a minimum of six months to send follow-up inquiries. Please send inquiries by email to editors at thecobaltreview@cemapublishing.com and include the phrase “Submissions Inquiry” in your subject line. Need further information? Email us at thecobaltreview@cemapublishing.com. http://www.cemapublishing.com/The-Cobalt-Review.html
• 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.
• Empirical Magazine – see below.
• Fairy Tale Magazine (Enchanted Conversation) – see below.
• Female First – see below.
• Fiction365 – see below.
• Fiction and Verse – see below.
• Flash Fiction Online welcome 500-1000 word stories especial sci-fi / fantasy. They pay $50 per accepted story – see http://flashfictiononline.com/main/submission-guidelines.
• 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 – see below.
• Mad Hatters’ Review is looking for poems, flash fiction, short interviews, reviews etc. especially writing that’s “edgy, risky, gutsy…”.
• Nanoism is “a place for twitter-fiction” (140 characters max!).
• New Pages – see below.
• 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.
• Pedestal – see below.
• Running out of Ink – see below.
• Rusty Nail – see below.
• Short Stories For Women – see below.
• Write Words has a great page for publishers of short stories.
• And of course I welcome Flash Fiction up to 1,000 words for Flash Fiction Fridays.

Short stories (see above for flash fiction)

• 1000words welcomes 100-1,000 word unpublished stories which it publishes on its blog if successful. See their submission guidelines.
• Absolute Write, as well as having a literary community, is a great resource for information across the spectrum.
• www.alfiedog.com launched in May offering short story downloads in multiple formats and already carry over 500 stories from more than 130 authors around the world. “We are always open to submissions. All work is read and edited before being accepted and we don’t accept everything which is submitted, although we do try to suggest areas for improvement where this is possible.”
• Arabesques Editions is an Algerian-based magazine publisher but takes a variety of English language submissions.
• Astonishing Stories takes submissions of speculative (science-fiction, fantasy, horror etc) fiction up to 4,000 words. It can have been published already but should, of course, be high quality. They can’t pay yet “but we like to think we could”.
• 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).
• Blackbird welcomes poetry, fiction and non-fiction.
• Bound Off is seeking “original literary fiction for our upcoming podcasts. Please send stories that are between 250 and 2500 words. Although we are an audio publication, we will evaluate manuscripts the old-fashioned way. We only consider stories submitted at the Bound Off Submishmash page.” Submissions taken only between 1st September and 31st May.
• CAKE.shortandsweet welcomes flash fiction and short stories (up to 2,200 words) for their magazine. They say “CAKE.shortandsweet is a brand new short story project to help unpublished writers get their work seen by the public. We take submissions of excellent stories from anyone and everyone who’s never published their writing. Every month we publish a few of the very best and distribute them to cafés and an independent library in Manchester. We strive to give detailed feedback on any stories that we don’t use, because we want to help writers grow and improve their work. The Portico Library has strong ties to the Manchester Literature Festival and also runs an annual young writers’ prize, so there are excellent opportunities for new writers getting involved with CAKE.shortandsweet.”. NB. You don’t have to live in Manchester, or even the UK, to submit. Also see their Facebook home page, Facebook events page and they’re also on Twitter.
• Candis magazine used to be more open to unsolicited short stories but do appear to prefer pieces from established authors (as does The Lady, which is a shame). Details of Candis’ guidelines are: minimum 2300, Maximum 2500 (we will not read anything longer or shorter than this). Who you’re writing for: Women aged 30-58 and their husbands/partners. What we’re looking for: Clever, keep ‘em guessing story lines; twist in the tale/tales of the unexpected style writing. Stories of modern love, romance, friendship, family life. Short, tightly written whodunits. Warm, likeable central characters. Original storylines that are all your own work and have not been published in the UK before. What we’re NOT looking for: Children’s fiction, Mills and Boon stories with predictable endings; (ouch) anything science fiction based or set in the future; stories written from an animal or ghost’s point of view; anything with detailed violence or graphic sexual descriptions. Short stories to be sent in the first instance by email to fiction@candis.co.uk. Fee: £300 payable by cheque or bank transfer. Once you receive written acceptance you will be asked to submit an invoice for payment. How to submit copy: By email as a .doc document or .rft (rich text format). Please do not send .docx documents as we can’t open them. Alternatively cut and paste your copy into the body of the email. When will I hear anything? Unfortunately the selection process takes time. Remember we can only select twelve short stories a year to print in Candis and we choose them from an average of six hundred stories sent to us each year. When we receive your story, it is put in a holding file until we can read it in batches to make our shortlist. Those that don’t make the shortlist will receive notice at this point. Short-listed stories are then held until they are sent, in batches of three, to our reader panellists for that month’s issue. If your story is chosen, we will send you confirmation that you’ve been successful and which issue your work will appear in – at this point you can send your invoice in. If your story isn’t selected the first time it’s sent to our reader panellists, it will go out again the next month to a different set of panellists. If it isn’t selected again, then you will receive notice that you haven’t been successful. As you can imagine, this process isn’t quick. We will, however, aim to get in touch either way, within four months of your first submission. Please note: Due to the sheer number of stories sent in, we are NOT able to give individual feedback on why your story wasn’t selected. Good luck!
• Carve Magazine publishes short fiction quarterly and “is seeking good honest fiction in the form of short stories. We want emotional jeopardy, soul, and honesty. Craft and control are tantamount to our connection to the characters. We highly recommend reading recent stories to get an idea of what we’re looking for. We accept submissions year-round. Please submit only one short story at a time. Wait for a response before you send another. Please see sidebar for current response times.” No minimum, max 10,000 words.
• The Casket welcomes flash fiction and short stories for three opportunities; Tube-Flash (<300 words) inspired by the London Underground, and general flash fiction (<300 words) and short stories (1,200 – 3,000 words), see the submissions page for full details.
• 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’ ).
• 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.
• 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.
• damselfly press seeks fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
• Online literary magazine Dog Weed seek poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.
• Duotrope is one of the best resources for submission opportunities around.
• echook welcome short stories from 750 to 2,500 words,
• Empirical magazine invites submissions of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, art and photographs.
• 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).
• Female First online magazine is seeking shorts & poetry from female & male authors.
• Fiction365 accepts stories up to 4,000 words. Payment: “small amount”.
• Fiction Magazine & Journal is calling for contributions: will publish work from leading writers, nationally and internationally, both established authors and first time writers.
• Launched in August 2012, Fiction and Verse ”is a website dedicated to Fiction and Poetry. If we think a piece is an amazing read, we will do our upmost to secure the honour of publishing it here. Our aim is to publish amazing Short Stories, Flash Fiction, and Poetry here for anyone to read and enjoy for free. We also aim to place a spotlight on self-published authors. Their wonderful novels and collections are so often over looked. We will endeavour to find these gems and bring them to your attention by laying down a challenge to their Authors. This challenge can be found in our ’The Hook’ section. Please enjoy what we have to offer. Kind Regards. The Editorial Staff.”
• Short Story Submission Guidelines for ‘The Fiction Desk’ can be found here.
• fourthirtythree is an audio magazine where authors read their own stories & you can just listen.
• Glimmer Train welcomes unpublished stories.
• Grass Roots Magazine welcomes ‘New Love Stories’.
• The Incongruous Quarterly “publishes the unpublishable” and is currently seeking submissions of fiction and poetry (check site for current theme).
• 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).”
• Weekly magazine The Lady is not currently taking short story submissions (as mentioned on jbwb) and haven’t for some time (although they have periodically published established writers’ stories) but if I hear differently I will update this page.
• 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.
• Literary Submission Helper.com has various opportunities including their short story page. You get a sample for free but have to pay to see all 500+ across the genre range.
• 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.
• Mighty Creatives: job opportunities based in the Midlands area, UK.
• 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 page of publishers currently accepting book submissions.
• The Mystery Place welcomes short stories from 2,500-8,000 words (occasionally <12K).
• My Weekly women’s magazine guidelines can be found on http://www.jbwb.co.uk/weekly.htm and http://womagwriter.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/my-weekly.html. For longer stories you might like to consider their Pocket Novels and Sally Quilford has information on those here, as does Womagwriter.
• Poland-based New Europe Writers welcomes unpublished fiction and poetry based on set themes. Max 4000 words.
• New Pages lists literary magazines and their Classifieds/calls page has a variety of opportunities in varying genres.
• 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). See http://www.one-story.com/index.php?page=submit for submission guidelines. Payment is $250 and 25 free copies.
• Open Pen is London’s first ‘open literature’ magazine, completely comprised of reader-submitted creative writing.
• Open to Interpretation seeks themed poetry, fiction or non-fiction.
• 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.
• One of the longest running and most respected (and hardest to get into!) women’s magazines in the UK is The People’s Friend. Their guidelines are very specific.
• Planet Magazine welcomes short stories, poems and proposals for articles and reviews.
• Riverside Writers are looking for short stories and poems for their free eBook anthology. Deadline August 2013. “Please note there is no payment for use of any accepted work for this anthology, which will be distributed as a FREE ebook.  Contributors will retain full copyright ownership of their individual contributions, and are free to publish it elsewhere if they wish.”
• Running Out of Ink is “a new webzine that will be launching on 1st November 2012 at www.runningoutofink.com. We accept short stories of all genres as variety is going to be a focus of our webzine – no story too short, no plot too off the wall as we counter balance it with other stories within the issue. The stories do have to be kept under 2500 words however. We don’t yet pay our writers unfortunately, but feel this is a fantastic opportunity for new writers to gain a voice and experienced writers to add to their CV. One thing that does pull us apart from other markets and may make your followers keen is that we are interested in having recurring writers throughout our issues, so if we really like you we will request you back. This can really help in building a following for writers as readers from the site will go on to see Joe Bloggs’ latest story and knowing that they consistently enjoy them, they may look elsewhere to see what he’s done. Submissions are emailed to submit@runningoutofink.com and our Facebook page is www.facebook.com/runningoutofinkwriting, as the website is not yet running.
• 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.
• Scintilla Press welcomes fiction, non-fiction, poetry and book reviews.
• Sentinel Literary Quarterly seeks poetry, short stories, essays, plays, reviews and interviews.
• Short Stories For Women takes, as the name would suggest, short women’s fiction (500-4,000 words).
• Shroud Magazine prefer fiction (<5,000 words) but will consider non-fiction in horror, dark mystery, dark fantasy and suspense.
• Slice Magazine welcome short fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
• Sollitary Magazine takes poetry, non-fiction, and fiction. Although Mexican, you don’t have to be.
• Online poetry and short story magazine Sparkbright is for international writers and welcome submissions.
• 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”.
• Take a Break no longer run short stories in their weekly magazine but has continued their dedicated monthly Fiction Feast. They have various slots: Put Your Feet Up, From The Heart, Spine Chiller, Tale with a Twist, and want 750-3000 words, though once you’ve sold them a few they’ll consider longer stories as well, postal submissions only, response should be in 12 weeks, but if you haven’t heard, email Norah McGrath (the fiction editor) stating the name of the story, date submitted and a 2-line plot outline and she’ll get back to you. All stories are read by Norah McGrath. Promising stories are then read by other members of the department including the editor of FF, whose word is final. If you get a rejection and ‘SR’ is pencilled in the corner, you know it got to the second read stage. A rejection is a rejection, not an invitation to tweak and re-sub it. No feedback is given. Pay remains at £200 for 1 page rising to £400 for 3000 worders. Send seasonal stories six months in advance. Submission address: Norah McGrath, Fiction Editor, Fiction Feast, 24-28 Oval Road, London NW1 7DT. Thank you to http://womagwriter.blogspot.com for that.
• 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.
• New online community totally4women.com is looking for contributors. Enthusiastic and articulate female writers are needed to contribute to a dynamic, evolving, and interactive website aimed at women in their 40s,50s and beyond. Previously unpublished writers are welcome. The site was founded in November 2012 by a 52 year old ex-lawyer and writer Carolyn Lazarus. What does the Site Offer? A space for like-minded women to share their authentic voices; Substantive original content, well presented, by the target market for the target market-fun, lively, different; The new women’s network: a dynamic powerful community built upon real personal connections; A site truly for women in their 40s, 50s and beyond-a forgotten sector; Women will be participants not consumers; An independent site for independent women. Content is different and always authentic, for example: original fiction (short stories, novel extracts) and poetry, descriptions of place, jottings on life, wit and humour, women making a difference, women in sport, women and music, women in business, women changing their lives, women studying, women in dialogue, women’s wisdom, what teenagers think about us and them, and… oh yes, a token man. Please join us for free at www.totally4women.com. If you are interested in contributing an article please indicate your interest on sign up and we will get back to you. For further information please contact: Karen Marriott @ kmarri3414@aol.com.
• 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.
• Vintage Script seeks historical articles and short stories.
• Weave Magazine seeks poetry, fiction, non-fiction.
• Part of the DC Thomson chain (which also produces People’s Friend and My Weekly), The Weekly News is a little known about and much underrated opportunity for short story authors. Womagwriter blogged their guidelines back in February 2011, as did Sarah Evans.
• 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, photos, 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 information and guidance on writing women’s magazines. The How To website also has some great advice. Also see ‘My Weekly’, ‘People’s Friend’ and ‘Take a Break’ above as well as ‘Woman’s Weekly’, ‘You South Africa’ and ‘Yours’ below.
• Women’s magazine Woman’s Weekly guidelines are online but I had real trouble (I have a Mac and use Safari) seeing the page. I finally got them by opening Firefox so to save you the hassle, here they are: We regret we can’t accept stories by email. Please include an sae in case we have to return your manuscript. Fiction is a vital ingredient of Woman’s Weekly, the place where readers can escape and switch off. This doesn’t mean predictable plots or old-fashioned romances. Escapism means getting involved in a really gripping tale with believable characters. Above all, we are looking for originality and a wide variety of themes and moods, such as mystery, humour, relationships and family issues, with warmth still an important factor. Try to be subtle in your writing and remember the maxim: “Show don’t tell”. We recommend you read several issues of Woman’s Weekly and Woman’s Weekly Fiction Special to get a feel for our audience. Unfortunately, we can’t offer criticism, but if your writing shows promise, we will contact you. What we are looking for: For the weekly magazine: Short stories of 1,000 and 2,000 words. Serials in 3 or 4 parts of 3,300 words each. For Fiction Special (At least 20 stories 12 times a year): Stories of 1,000 to 8,000 words. General tips: ° We read only typescripts. Handwritten work can’t be considered. ° Double line spacing on one side of the paper only and wide margins. ° Number each page and make sure your name is at the top of each page. ° If sending stories from abroad, please enclose an international reply coupon. ° If you would like us to acknowledge receipt of your manuscript, enclose a stamped, addressed postcard. ° Please note that it can take up to sixteen weeks for manuscripts to be considered, and that we are unable to enter into any correspondence by email. Please send stories/serials to: Fiction Department, Woman’s Weekly, IPC Media, Blue Fin Building, 110 Southwark Street, London, SE1 0SU.
• 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.
• The Yellow Room welcomes submissions of short stories by UK women writers.
• You South Africa’s short story guidelines are here. Note they (unusually for a magazine) prefer to receive electronic submissions. These can be e-mailed to cvanzyl@media24.com. Alternatively post to YOU, PO Box 7167, Roggebaai 8012 and mark them for the attention of C van Zyl.
• Yours is always looking for good articles and short stories, but before you send them in, please download the guidelines or email admin@yours.co.uk for the Submission Guidelines. Every submission is read but we receive more than a hundred manuscripts a month and are able to publish only one or two short stories and articles per issue. Please allow up to six months for reply and enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope if you would like your manuscript to be returned.
• Other short story opportunities include The Fiction Circus, Stand Magazine, CrimeFactory, Beat To A Pulp, Needle, Pulp Ink, A Twist Of Noir, and Noir Nation.
• 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.

Do let me know if you know of any others. Thank you.