{"id":7181,"date":"2019-09-10T07:54:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=7181"},"modified":"2019-09-10T07:55:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T14:55:47","slug":"10-fiction-markets-paying-100-to-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/10-fiction-markets-paying-100-to-500\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Fiction Markets Paying $100 to $500"},"content":{"rendered":"

These markets pay $100-500 for fiction. A few also accept other genres, like poetry and non-fiction. They are open now, or will open in a few days for submissions. Deadlines for some of these outlets are approaching quickly. \u2013 S. Kalekar<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shenandoah
\n<\/strong>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adThis literary magazine publishes stories, essays, creative non-fiction, excerpts of novels in progress, poems, comics, and translations of all of the above. Their current submission window is for prose submissions, not poetry. They accept comic submissions and translations throughout the year.
\nDeadline: 15 September 2019; can accept only 800 submissions per month
\nLength: Up to 8,000 words for fiction and creative non-fiction; up to 5 poems
\nPay: $100 per 1,000 words of prose up to $500, $50 per page of comics up to $500, $100 per poem
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Southampton Review
\n<\/strong>This literary magazine can accept a limited number of free fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and artwork submissions during the reading period. All submissions will be considered for their print as well as online issues; print contributors are paid cash, and online contributors get a year\u2019s subscription to the magazine. They accept flash fiction, short stories and novel excerpts. In non-fiction, they read creative non-fiction, memoir, personal essay, and traditional essay. They encourage submissions from unpublished authors.
\n<\/strong>Deadline: 15 September 2019 (extended)
\nLength: Up to 7,500 words for prose, up to 5 poems
\nPay: $100+ for prose, $75 per poem, $100 per page for illustrations, and $200 for art portfolios of up to 12 images
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

LampLight
\n<\/strong>This is a magazine of dark fiction, both short stories and flash fiction. They want work that is dark, literary — creepy, weird, and unsettling. Their guidelines say, \u201cNo specific sub-genres or themes, just good stories. For inspiration, we suggest \u201cThe Twilight Zone\u201d, \u201cThe Outer Limits\u201d,\u201d \u2013 and also the first volume of their stories.\u00a0They do not want work about vampires, zombies, werewolves, serial killers, hitmen, excessive gore or sex. They also accept reprints. They can accept only 300 submissions a month during their reading period.
\nReading period: 15 September-15 November 2019
\nLength: Up to 7,000 words
\nPay: $0.03\/word, up to $150
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Carrion Blue 555: Seasons of Rot
\n<\/strong>They want horror, fantasy, scifi, experimental, and bizarro fiction, poetry, and art for four seasonal volumes, collectively called \u2018Seasons of Rot\u2019. These hope to explore seasonal themes in unique, surreal, and festering ways. Their guidelines say, \u201cSpring is cancer blossoming in new growth, a single breath of moist soil. Summer begets overripe fruit in Persephone\u2019s withered right hand. True decay is beautiful and clashing in the cordyceptic autumn. All of winter flinches beneath the Wicker King\u2019s gaze, intimidating even the light of day.\u201d Also, \u201cInterpretations of seasons are purposefully elastic for your artistic benefit. A season\u2019s atmosphere is just as gripping as its setting.\u201d
\nDeadline: 31 December 2019
\nLength: No length guidelines, but will cap payment at 5,000 words
\nPay: $0.02\/word, up to $100
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Epoch Magazine
\n<\/strong>\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adThis literary magazine is edited by faculty at Cornell University. They publish fiction, poetry, essays, cartoons, screenplays, graphic art, and graphic fiction. They only accept mailed submissions. They will read unsolicited submissions from 15 September. They read work submitted by literary agencies year-round.
\nReading period: 15 September 2019 – 15 April 2020
\nLength: No guidelines for prose; up to 5 poems
\nPay: Up to $150 for stories, more for long stories and novellas, and those submitted by literary agencies; $50\/poem
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Antioch Review
\n<\/strong>This literary magazine opened its submission period on 1 September. They accept fiction, non-fiction and poetry. For fiction, it is \u201cthe story that counts, a story worthy of the serious attention of the intelligent reader, a story that is compelling, written with distinction. Only rarely do we publish translations of well-known or new foreign writers.\u201d They also accept a chapter of a novel, but only if it can be read complete in itself as a short\u00a0story. Submissions have to be sent by post.
\nDeadline: 31 May for prose, 30 April 2020 for poetry
\nLength: Accepts up to 5,000 words of prose; can accept no more than 8,000 words
\nPay: $20\/page
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

GlitterShip
\n<\/strong>For this podcast, stories and poetry must be speculative and must have some queer content.
\nDeadline: Open now
\nLength: Up to 7,500 words of prose; up to 5 poems
\nPay: $0.03\/word for fiction, $10 per poem
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Planet
\n<\/strong>This Welsh magazine was established with the aim of creating a forum for debate about Wales in English, as well as encouraging a dialogue between English-speaking Wales and Welsh-speaking Wales. They publish unsolicited fiction and poetry. They also accept pitches for articles. Their guidelines also say, \u201cWe are particularly interested in seeing work that connects in some way with the broad range of issues and concerns of the magazine.\u201d
\nDeadline: Rolling
\nLength: 1,500-2,500 words for fiction in the print magazine; 4-6 poems; 600-1,000 words for online material
\nPay: \u00a340 per 1,000 words for prose (or part thereof), \u00a330 per poem for the print magazine; \u00a330 for online material
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Big Click
\n<\/strong>This is a bimonthly electronic journal of crime fiction. They are interested in publishing work under the broad umbrella of crime. They are especially interested in noir, tales of the criminal lifestyle, confessional fiction, peculiar literary specimens, and great characters, and are somewhat less interested in tales of pure ratiocination, police procedurals, and any story whose title includes a colon followed by \u201cA Firstname Lastname Investigation\/Mystery\/Case.\u201d They do not want outright supernatural fiction, science fiction stories that use mystery-detection plots simply to tour the future, stories about killing pedophiles, or tales of frustrated writers of short stories who kill their obese wives, or vampire stories.
\nDeadline: Rolling
\nLength: Unspecified
\nPay: $100
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

St Anthony Messenger
\n<\/strong>This is a Catholic monthly magazine. Apart from articles, they also accept fiction and poetry. Their guidelines say, \u201cStories that sound more like essays or monologues with no dialogue or interaction on the part of the characters will not succeed.\u201d Also, \u201cDialogue should move the story forward and sound real\u2014the way people speak in real life.\u201d For features they want pitches, not unsolicited submissions.
\nDeadline: Rolling
\nLength: 2,000-2,500 words for fiction; up to 2,000 words for features; up to 20 lines for poetry
\nPay: $0.20\/word for prose ($500 for 2,500 words), $2\/line for poetry
\nDetails here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These markets pay $100-500 for fiction. A few also accept other genres, like poetry and non-fiction. They are open now, or will open in a few days for submissions. Deadlines for some of these outlets are approaching quickly. \u2013 S. Kalekar Shenandoah \u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adThis literary magazine publishes stories, essays, creative non-fiction, excerpts of novels in progress,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7181","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\/7181","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=7181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7184,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181\/revisions\/7184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}