Finding the Bacon
By Horatio Gonzalez
(Just checking!)
Really by Kimberly Ripley
(Editor's note: Very funny, Kimberly.  Does Horatio have his own bio?)

Greetings, avid freelancers, and welcome to this issue of Finding the Bacon. It’s sizzling this week with loads of freelance writing opportunities from college campuses around the country. Even though colleges publish these magazines, they do accept contributions from outside freelance writers. So dig out the yearbooks, query your alma mater—and while you’re at it, pack up a nice tailgating picnic for the football game next weekend.

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North Carolina Literary Review
English Dept.
East Carolina University
Greenville, N.C. 27858

Guidelines Online: No
http://www.ecu.edu/nclr

E-Mail Query: Yes
bauer@mail.ecu.edu

All articles submitted to the North Carolina Literary Review must somehow pertain to North Carolina. Nonfiction includes essays, book reviews, interviews, personal experience, general interest, history, humor, and travel. Length of non-fiction articles runs 500-5000 words. Fiction must be written by a North Carolina author or involve a story line that is set in North Carolina. Fiction runs a maximum of 5000 words.

North Carolina Literary Review is an annual publication, published in the fall. Query several months in advance of publication via e-mail or standard mail. Include published clips.

Buys 1^st North American Serial Rights

Pays: On publication. Up to $300.

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The Missouri Review
1507 Hillcrest Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211

Guidelines Online: No
http://www.missourireview.org

E-Mail Queries: Yes
Missouri_@missouri.edu

The Missouri Review is published three times per year. Features include contemporary fiction, interviews, personal essays, and book excerpts. Accepts both queries and complete manuscripts via standard or e-mail. Also has an online version separate from the print magazine, which features different content. Online magazine guidelines are available at the web site.

Buys First Rights .

Pays: On publication. Up to $750.

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Hayden’s Ferry Review
Arizona State University
Box 871502
Tempe, AZ 85287  

Guidelines Online: No
http://www.haydensferryreview.org

E-Mail Queries: No

Hayden’s Ferry Review is published twice yearly by the Arizona State University. Accepts quality nonfiction, including interviews, personal experience, and essays. Fiction includes experimental, humorous, and anything ethnic. Send complete manuscript rather than query letter—via standard mail only.

Will consider reprints.

Pays: On publication. Up to $100.

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Michigan Quarterly Review
3032 Rackham Building
915 E. Washington
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Guidelines Online: No
http://www.umich.edu/~mqr

E-Mail Queries: No

Anything submitted for consideration to the Michigan Quarterly Review must be geared toward an educated audience, although not specifically at professionals. Published more nonfiction than fiction, and likes material with an historical or cultural tone. Query for nonfiction, but send complete manuscript for fiction submissions. Send material via standard mail.

Buys First Serial Rights .

Pays: On acceptance. $100-$150.

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Ploughshares
Emerson College
Department M
120 Boylston St.
Boston, MA 02116

Guidelines Online: No
http://www.pshares.org

E-Mail Queries: No

Guest editors at this publication make competition tough. Accepts nonfiction essays up to 6000 words, and fiction of 300-6000 words. The magazine’s reading period runs from August through March.

Buys First North American Serial Rights

Pays: On publication. $50-$250.

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Kimberly Ripley is a freelance writer and published author from Portsmouth, NH. A wife and mother of five, her family's antics have led her to write books like ''Breathe Deeply, This Too Shall Pass," a collection of thirty tales of the trials and tribulations of parenting teens. She is the owner/publisher of Writerip Publishing, and editor of a newsletter and web site called ''Freelancing Later in Life,'' based on her book by the same name.  Visit her site at http://www.freelancing1.homestead.com.  

Air Mail Markets
By Amy Brozio-Andrews

Hello again and welcome to the latest issue of Air Mail Markets.  From Australia and Canada, Eidolon.net and Challenging Destiny are two fiction publications seeking fantastic fiction, science fiction and fantasy, while Britain's Best of British Magazine is
looking for articles celebrating the UK of yesteryear. Two of the three markets specifically require a SASE to be included with submissions, so it's important to include International Reply Coupons, or IRCs, instead of stamps from your home country if these are international markets for you.  Check with your local post office to find out about rates for IRCs. 

Bonne chance!

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Eidolon.net: Australian SF on the Web
PO Box 225
North Perth
Western Australia 6906

Website: http://eidolon.net 
Email: submissions@eidolon.net 

Snapshot:  Eidolon publishes a broad spectrum of what it calls “fantastic fiction,” which may include hard science, sword and sorcery, romance, magical realism and psychological horror.  To get a better idea of what sort of fiction the magazine publishes, see their web site.

Writers’ Guidelines Online: Yes, at http://eidolon.net/guidelines 
E-Queries: Accepts
Payment: $20 and contributor’s copy of the issue in which your work appears
Rights: Not specified

Notes: This market only publishes work by Australians and Australian residents.  Submissions may be between 500 and 10,000 words. Responses to submitted material can be received as early as two to ten weeks after receipt of material (see submission guidelines for more detailed information on selection process).

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Challenging Destiny
47 Bridgeport Rd E
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada N2J 2J4

Website: http://home.golden.net/~csp/previews/index.htm 
Editor: David Switzer
Email: csp@golden.net 

Snapshot:  Challenging Destiny is a Canadian publication of science fiction and fantasy in the broadest sense.  Specifically, the magazine seeks submissions in which violence is not used as a means to solve problems, and in which political, religious and philosophical themes may be explored. International writers are encouraged to submit; previously published works have been accepted from as far away as Russia and Japan.

Writers’ Guidelines Online: Yes, at http://home.golden.net/~csp/guidemag.htm 
E-Queries: No
Payment: $0.01 per word upon publication, plus two contributor’s copies of the issue in which your work appears
Rights: First North American Serial

Notes: Writers usually hear a response on submissions within four weeks after the magazine receives materials.  New writers are encouraged to submit short stories to Challenging Destiny.  Most accepted work is between 2000 and 10,000 words.   Simultaneous submissions are accepted; reprints aren’t usually accepted, but will be considered if the previous publication isn’t likely to have overlapping readership with Challenging Destiny.  Non-Canadian writers are welcome to submit material; however you must remember to include an IRC (International Reply Coupon – available from your local post office) with your SASE.  E-mail submissions will not be accepted. Submissions of poetry and horror are not considered.

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Best of British Magazine
Bank Chambers, 27a Market Place
Market Deeping Lincs PE6 8EA
England

Website: http://www.bestofbritishmag.co.uk/ 
Tel/Fax:  01778 342814
Editor: Ian Beacham
Email: mail@bestofbritishmag.co.uk 

Snapshot:  A UK monthly celebrating British heritage and nostalgia from the 1930s to the 1960s for the over-50 reader.  Additionally, some contemporary pieces on the Britain and Britons of today are accepted.

Writers’ Guidelines Online: No
E-Queries: No
Payment: Not specified, but “modest” freelance rates are indicated in the writers’ guidelines.
Rights:  Not specified.

Notes:  Maximum length of submitted material is 1,000-1,500 words.  Including accompanying illustrations increased the chances your submission will be considered; color transparencies and prints are acceptable. The writers’ guidelines include more
information on illustrations and photography. Including a SASE with your submission is required. Please use post/e-mail for primary correspondence, as the editor is the staff.  It’s highly recommended that writers become familiar with the magazine through its web site before submitting queries.

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Amy Brozio-Andrews is a freelance writer living in New York;  she writes on a variety of topics for print and online publications, and is hard at work on her first novel.  Please feel free to check out her website at www.penpadandpixel.com, and e-mail her at amy@penpadandpixel.com. 

Frequent Flyer Fiction
By Christina Hamlett  

Time.  Who among us hasn't longed for the ability to speed it up, turn it back, or make it stand still?  Even the concept of a 'virtual vacation'  holds mass appeal-- the chance to view ancient or futuristic realms through contemporary eyes.  Until technology makes such options available, of course, we have the power of the pen and the availability of three distinctly different genres--romance, fantasy, and sci-fi--  to make time travel an enjoyable escape.

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