Cast of Wonders is a podcast that features short stories for a young adult audience, think Harry Potter, or the Hunger Games. They pay $.06 cents per word, up to 6,000 words. That works out to a max of $360. According to their submission guidelines: “We prefer high fantasy — elves, dragons, secondary worlds, and…
The Whitehill prize offers $2,500 for the best unpublished essay on early American History, with a preference for New England. According to their submission guidelines: “This prize of two thousand five hundred dollars, established in memory of Walter Muir Whitehill, for many years Editor of Publications for the Colonial Society and the moving force behind…
Writers! Here’s a list of over 100 magazines that pay up to $300 per article – or more per article. Yes, this is a big list, but it just scratches the surface, in terms of the number of publishers available. If you’re not sure how to take advantage of these opportunities, your next step should…
The Writer’s Chronicle is currently seeking “appreciations” for their upcoming 50th anniversary edition. They pay up to $900 for these essays. According to their guidelines: “TheWriter’s Chronicle publishes appreciations of contemporary writers whose work came into prominence after 1965. Appreciations are not profiles or memoirs; instead, we seek close readings of an important author’s work…
The following 3 publishers are currently seeking short stories. All of them pay at least $200 per story. 1. Less Than Three Press is currently seeking submissions of romance stories their upcoming LGBTQIA anthology, A Fool For You. The stories must revolve around the theme of tricksters and have a happy ending. Payment is $200…
The following is a variety of prizes and contests with cash prizes of over $1,000. Most of these contests have specific entry requirements. All of them have deadlines approaching very quickly. 1. McMillan is hosting a first crime novel competition. The prize is a $10,000 advance. The deadline is December 12th. They accept electronic…