Thank you, very helpful overall. Since my stories are about 5K - 8K on average, it's somewhat more difficult to find a good home for them - especially since they don't fit the most popular genres (such as Gothic, horror, sci-fi) Keep writing, keep publishing! 👍
Oh I've found that too. I tend to write pieces <3k but some of my longer stories reach 10k and it's much harder to find homes for them. I'm glad this was helpful though!
Considering I've never been paid for a bit of fiction, I think getting $10 for 1000 is pretty good! I do get what you're saying and in an ideal world, writers would be paid more. But you've got to remember that most lit mags don't pay at all, and getting published in them is often more about the prestige / audience building than just getting your writing online.
Sorry if this is aa dumb question, but I just finished a short story that is a smidge under 4000 words, so none of these (or others I've found) will accept it. Is 4000 not considered "short"? Are there any competitions etc that would accept a story of such length?
Sorry Joe only just seen this. Journals seem to set their own word counts, with most defining "short stories" as somewhere under 3000, 5000 or 10,000. I tend to write flash fiction (under 1000 words) which is why this list is skewed slightly towards that lower end, but I can definitely look out for mags accepting longer pieces for future lists. For now, I'd recommend looking at https://www.chillsubs.com/ - in their browse section, you can filter by word count, so you only see mags accepting pieces as long as yours. Hopefully this is somewhat helpful!
Thanks Lucy. And no worries about not seeing it, I appreciate the help. I ended up submitting the story to New2theScene. I won't find out until September if I get shortlisted, but here's hoping. I'll check out the link you sent as well!
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Thank you Lucy. As a newbie to publishing I find this list fabulous
You're welcome Tamsin! That's the reason I do it :)
Thank you, very helpful overall. Since my stories are about 5K - 8K on average, it's somewhat more difficult to find a good home for them - especially since they don't fit the most popular genres (such as Gothic, horror, sci-fi) Keep writing, keep publishing! 👍
Oh I've found that too. I tend to write pieces <3k but some of my longer stories reach 10k and it's much harder to find homes for them. I'm glad this was helpful though!
This is awesome, I’ll be submitting. Thanks!
Great - good luck!
This is so helpful thank you so much!!
Thank you. So helpful. You provide a great service.
this $0.01 per word stuff makes me sick. why even bother? I can make that publishing on Medium instead
Considering I've never been paid for a bit of fiction, I think getting $10 for 1000 is pretty good! I do get what you're saying and in an ideal world, writers would be paid more. But you've got to remember that most lit mags don't pay at all, and getting published in them is often more about the prestige / audience building than just getting your writing online.
Sorry if this is aa dumb question, but I just finished a short story that is a smidge under 4000 words, so none of these (or others I've found) will accept it. Is 4000 not considered "short"? Are there any competitions etc that would accept a story of such length?
Sorry Joe only just seen this. Journals seem to set their own word counts, with most defining "short stories" as somewhere under 3000, 5000 or 10,000. I tend to write flash fiction (under 1000 words) which is why this list is skewed slightly towards that lower end, but I can definitely look out for mags accepting longer pieces for future lists. For now, I'd recommend looking at https://www.chillsubs.com/ - in their browse section, you can filter by word count, so you only see mags accepting pieces as long as yours. Hopefully this is somewhat helpful!
Thanks Lucy. And no worries about not seeing it, I appreciate the help. I ended up submitting the story to New2theScene. I won't find out until September if I get shortlisted, but here's hoping. I'll check out the link you sent as well!
Best of luck!
What an amazing resource! Everyone say thank you Lucy
Hehe thank you!