Thanks! I'll check it out.Andromeda Spaceways is always on the lookout for humour, and they take stories up to 10K (up to 20K if you're from Australia or NZ).
Thanks! I'll check it out.Andromeda Spaceways is always on the lookout for humour, and they take stories up to 10K (up to 20K if you're from Australia or NZ).
Aislinn and JustSarah,
I’m wondering whether you subscribe to Duotrope, which could give you lots of options via its search function, including multi-genre info.
Submission Grinder is free, but isn’t as thorough: Not as many markets and you need to click each market’s guidelines to see its multi-genre info. Both let you screen for genre, electronic submissions, length, style, paying vs. non-paying, etc.
Best wishes,
Peter DiChellis
I'm not really sure where to send this one. After finishing it on the forth draft, I've reached about 4K. It is about four college students who leak top secret technology to experience an electronic dream-like state, where they encounter a sentient consciousness that wants to blackmail them in order to absorb their consciousness. For rating, I'm not real sure. I don't really have any cursing, but I do have suggestive (but not explicit) sexual themes.
The biggest problem is it crosses over between science fiction, contemporary fiction, and horror. Which makes it a bit difficult to place.
I'm working on a short story of around 5,000 words with strong fantasy elements. It is a feminist reinterpretation of a little-known Siberian fairytale. I am wondering if anyone knows of any markets that are specifically interested in fairytale re-imaginings, especially with unusual non-Western sources.
I actually want to do a series of stories with similar roots - would it be a better idea to pitch them to magazines individually or pitch them to a children's/YA publisher as a potential collection of stories?
So, here's my story. It's got 498 words (yes, I know it's a five hundred word story, but I was truly proud of coming in under 500; I've never managed it before). As an aside, do we include the title in that? If not, it's 496.
The story is about sexual abuse. And it has a talking cat (aargh). But the cat has to talk; it's really the linchpin of the whole story. And no other animal would be as believable in context. If I did it right, you'll wonder if the cat really talked at all, to echo the self questioning of the female protag, who is about to head into blame-the-victim hell.
Aside from the talking cat, the story has no other fantasy element.
And other than the fact that I'm proud of it and would like to publish, the main point of trying is to have something to say on the bio line when I send out queries for a novel. So I don't care if they pay me five bucks for it. Or even if I don't get paid at all, as long as it's not a publication which would do more harm than good on the bio line.
And I've basically been writing in a cave, and I read novels, so I don't know squat about the short fiction market. I used to read Asimov's and F & SF back in the eighties, and liked maybe half of the stories, but never kept the magazines longer than six months, (bookshelf space, you know, only the best can be kept).
I did an internet search and came up with Interzone, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Shimmer, and Heroic Fantasy Quarterly.
Does anyone have any advice for me? I'm basically starting from scratch here.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
Any recommendations for a short story of 2700 words about the choices that two women make when they find themselves at an abortion clinic at the same time. It's a delicate subject, but that is treated with much respect. Any suggestions?
That sounds like a topic most literary magazines would be interested in--particularly if the story is written non-didactically.
Ok guys, I've got one. It's about 2k words. It's fantasy, it involves witches I suppose, but not magic potions and the like, only slight fantastical elements. A little humorous, I'd maybe call it a little quirky, but has a sad ending. Has a romantic element to it. I've sent it out to two markets and one of the rejections was "It's just a little bit too fairy tale for us" or something like that, so I guess it's a little bit like a fairy tale.
Any recommendations?
Have you tried Shimmer? This sounds like something that might tickle their fancy.