Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine is now accepting submissions of mystery stories for their magazine.

They’re an award winning magazine that has been around a very, very long time. In fact, they’re the oldest “mystery magazine” in the game. They are well distributed, and available in newsstands around the country.

According to their website, they pay $.05-$.08 a word for short stories. The maximum length is 8,000 words.

Their publisher, Penny Publications, publishes a number of highly successful fiction magazines, reaching almost 5 million readers every month.

According to their website:

Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine welcomes submissions from both new and established writers. We publish every kind of mystery short story: the psychological suspense tale, the deductive puzzle, the private eye case—the gamut of crime and detection from the realistic (including the policeman’s lot and stories of police procedure) to the more imaginative (including “locked rooms” and “impossible crimes”).

To learn more, and to submit, read their submission guidelines.