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Edd Vick's Guide to Finding Short Speculative Fiction Markets

Not all magazines buy stories all the time. • Duotrope full featured, Some get overstocked, some have set charges a fee so I don't use it periods when they look at new stories, and • Ralan bare bones, but di- some set a limit on how many stories they'll vides markets up by kind and payment accept and close when it's reached. Check guidelines carefully to see what they want, If you don't have a story to sell, but are when they'll accept it, and how they want it looking for an interesting subject to write formatted. Unless an editor has specifically about, the following let you know about requested you not send a cover letter, a new anthologies open now or coming short, friendly note is appreciated. soon. Of the eighty-some-odd lists I follow, these are the most useful. Many of these I When I've finished a science fiction, fantasy, follow via their RSS feeds. or horror story, here are the places I look • Absolute Write Forums for markets. You can find each magazine or anthology's guidelines by searching on the (click on Paying Markets) name of the market plus "submission" or • Angie's Desk "guidelines". I have links in my browser for • Cathy's Comps & Calls well over a hundred magazines. However, if it seems like a good fit for one of the big • Dark Markets three print magazines, I send it there first. • The Horror Tree • Analog wants more • Jeanne's Writing Desk hard science, usually upbeat fiction. Slow response time. • My Little Corner • Asimov's wants more character-oriented stories, a good market for humor. Moderate response time. Finally, a few specialty market listings. • Fantasy & Science Fiction I subscribe to Pamelyn Casto's monthly tends toward a more literary audience. email list of flash fiction resources. Send an Quick response. email message with a blank subject line to FlashFictionFlash-Subscribe@yahoogroups. The following online magazines are tough com. sells, but pay very well. • Clarkesworld If you're interested in selling reprint rights • Daily Science Fiction (stories up to 1500 to foreign markets for your genre stories, words) check out Douglas Smith's page at writer.com/foreign_market_list.htm> He • Nature: Futures (850–950 words, hard sf) tells you which ones pay. Most of them will • Strange Horizons do the translating.

The following aggregators list as many For poetry, there's a good list of markets at markets as they can find. Some places will be on one but not the others. Some offer a tracker so you can keep on top of which There are quite a few podcasts that record stories have gone to which markets. I have short fiction, some of them paying, some links to forty or so aggregators, but follow- of them accepting reprints. Do a search on ing are the ones I use 90% of the time. starshipsofa, the drabblecast, escape pod, • Aswiebe's Market List frequently updated Excel list of markets, so you can sort it and Good luck! If you have interesting market find the perfect market resources you'd like to share with me, feel • The Grinder com> my favorite, maintains bar graphs of response times