{"id":3706,"date":"2016-11-22T10:22:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T18:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=3706"},"modified":"2016-12-01T16:31:26","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T00:31:26","slug":"7-short-story-publishers-that-pay-180-per-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/7-short-story-publishers-that-pay-180-per-story\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Short Story Publishers that Pay $180 Per Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is a list of short story publishers that pay up to $180 per story, and sometimes more.<\/p>\n

Some of the deadlines for these publishers are approaching quickly.<\/p>\n

The list is in no particular order.<\/p>\n

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  1. The New Quarterly<\/strong> is a Canadian literary journal. They accept submissions of short stories, poetry, and creative non-fiction. They don’t accept online submissions. They pay $250 per story, and $40 per poem.. To learn more, read their submission guidelines.<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. SLICE<\/strong> magazine is a literary journal that publishes short stories, creative non-fiction, and poetry. They pay $250 per story or essay. They seek to publish “anyone with a fresh voice and a compelling story to share\u2014basically any work that really knocks our socks off. ” Their current deadline is December 15th, 2016. To learn more, read their submission guidelines.<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. The forthcoming anthology Scandal in Gomorrah: Queering Sherlock Holmes <\/strong>is currently in need of submissions. They seek “Victorian-set period pieces that queer the familiar characters or stories of the Holmes canon.” They pay 3 cents per word, up to 6k words. The deadline to submit is January 1st, 2017. To learn more, read their submission guidelines.<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. The Binge Watching Cure<\/strong>, a forthcoming anthology to be published in 2017, is currently seeking submissions of short stories. They pay $200 for short stories under 5,000 words, and $500 for stories that are longer. Read their submission guidelines.<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. C.H.U.D. Tribute Anthology Series is seeking submissions of short stories for Tales from the Lake: Volume 4<\/strong>. They want “Non-themed short horror stories that arrests<\/em> readers and leave them haunted for months to come.” They accept stories up to 10k words and pay 3 cents per word.\u00a0 The deadline is December 31st. Read their submission guidelines.<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Dreaming Robot Press<\/strong> is currently seeking submissions for the 2018 Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide. They want short sci-fi\/speculative fiction stories aimed at a middle grade audience (8-12 years old.). They pay 6 cents per word. Stories should be 3,000 to 6,000 words. The deadline is January 31st, 2017.\u00a0 Submission Guidelines.<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. TAANSTAAFL<\/strong> Press is calling for submissions to their upcoming anthology “Enter the Rebirth,” the third in a series of post-apocalyptic anthologies of short stories. They pay up to 8 cents per word, averaging 3 cents per word. Stories can be up to 8,000 words. The deadline is December 15th, 2016.\u00a0 Submission guidelines.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The following is a list of short story publishers that pay up to $180 per story, and sometimes more. Some of the deadlines for these publishers are approaching quickly. The list is in no particular order. The New Quarterly is a Canadian literary journal. They accept submissions of short stories, poetry, and creative non-fiction. They…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3708,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions\/3708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}