PODCAST 21: Write Better Right Now

Jody’s Collection

All magazines listed below pay for stories.   

Google the magazine and look for the submission guidelines which will include the types of stories wanted, page length, payment, how to submit, when to submit and any special instructions.  Please note:  The magazines listed below were operational in 2023 and had no submission fees, but things can change quickly. 

 

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine

American Short Fiction

Babybug

Bear Deluxe

Boulevard

Brevity

Carve

Chicken Soup for the Soul  

Clarkesworld Magazine

Confrontation

Country Magazine

Cracked

Crazyhorse

Cricket

Dame

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

Extra Crispy

Farm and Ranch Living

Fast Fiction (aka Fiction Feast) (Australia)

Flash Fiction Online

Funny Times

Grain Magazine (Canada)

Harper’s

Highlights (for children)

Hoot

Ladies' Home Journal

Metro Fiction

The New Haven Review

One Story

Over My Dead Body! (Online mystery magazine.)

The People’s Friend (UK)

Pif

Queen’s Quarterly (Canada)

Reader’s Digest

Real Simple RWR or Romance Writers Report, a trade magazine for Romance Writers of America, RWA

Sasee

The Saturday Evening Post

Shades of Romance Magazine (SORMAG)

Slice

Spider

The Stoneslide Corrective

Story Houston

The Strand

The Sun

The Threepenny Review

True Confessions

True Story

Vestal Review

The Weekly News (UK)

Woman’s World

Writers Digest

You (South Africa)

Yours (UK)

Zoetrope

Also check out the Publishing and Other Forms of Insanity newsletter.  Always full of paying markets and current writing contests. 

For non-fiction submissions go to: 

www.freedomwithwriting.com/freedom/uncategorized/51-magazines-that-pay-writers-250/

“Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.’ — Ray Bradbury