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Finding the Bacon Hi everybody, ROAD & TRACK Website: http://www.roadandtrack.com E-queries: No, mail a query letter. Contact: Ellida Maki Writers' guidelines online: No Pays: $0.50 to $1.00 per word Photos: Fee negotiated separately Rights: All Rights Description: This magazine is written for the automotive enthusiast and contains information about cars and driving. Circulation: 750,000 NEW ARCHITECT Website: http://www.newarchitectmag.com E-queries: Yes Contact: Allison Post Email: maggie@newarchitectmag.com Writers' guidelines online: No Pays: $0.20 to $0.35 per word Rights: All Rights Description: This magazine educates technology leaders with in-depth and objective analysis of the critical Internet software, hardware and services that help organizations achieve their business goals. Circulation: 140,000 MUZZLE BLASTS Website: http://www.muzzleblasts.com E-queries: No, mail a query letter. Contact: Eric Bye Writers' guidelines online: No Pays: $0.05 to $0.08 per word Photos: Negotiates payment individually. Rights: First North American Serial Rights Description: This is the membership magazine of the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association and is devoted to all aspects of the muzzle-loading sport. Circulation: 24,000 Notes: Sample copy is free from editorial address. WORKING MOTHER Website: http://www.workingmother.com E-queries: No, mail a query or the complete manuscript Contact: Christine Ford Writers' guidelines online: http://www.workingmother.com/writers.shtml Pays: $0.75 to $1.25 per word Rights: All Rights Description: This is a national women's magazine edited for the needs and interests of educated and affluent moms who are balancing careers with family life. Circulation: 750,000 Notes: The magazine is looking for articles (700 to 1500 words in length)
that help women in their task of juggling job, home, and family. PARENTS Website: http://www.parents.com E-queries: No, mail a query letter Contact: Mary Mohler Writers guidelines online: http://www.parents.com/other/writers_guidelines.html Pays: $0.50 to $0.75 per word Rights: All Rights Circulation: 2,000,000 Notes: "We're always looking for new talent to add to our pool of
writers." These markets are brought to you by Wooden Horse Publishing - a news and resource site for article writers at http://www.woodenhorsepub.com.
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************************ The Yukoner Magazine, Payment: average of $150 per story (USD$95) Rights: Not specified. Cottage Life Magazine Payment: Depending on the department and subject, pieces can range from 750 to 3500 words; payment upon acceptance ranges from $100 to $2,200 (USD$60- $1,300) depending on length and complexity of assignment. All payment will be agreed upon prior to final assignment. Kill fees offered on assigned pieces, usually up to 50%, and in rare circumstances, 100%. Rights: First English-language North American Notes: Interviews and thorough research are important components of successful Cottage Life articles. Authors are encouraged to keep the visual aspect of the story in mind; take note of people and places that would be good subjects to accompany your article, or check with the editor about submitting your own photography. Eureka Street: A Magazine of Public Affairs, The Arts and Theology Payment: about $200 (USD$110) per 1000 words Rights: Eureka Street owns copyright of the magazine itself and all contents as published; material is published non-exclusively. Author retains copyright of his/her work. 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. Contests Corner I'm
looking at the definition of contest from a different angle this month. Many
literary magazines exist, advertisement-free, to promote a particular type or
standard of writing and they don't offer payment, except perhaps of a copy or
two of the issue in which one's piece is published. Think of them as contests
with no entry fee, with no final deadline, and as offering the prizes of
publication and prestige. Many of these have very specific guidelines, and most
do not accept e-mailed submissions, but since this is an electronic 'zine, I've
only listed extracts from the websites of those that do. Cheers,
Moira So to
repeat, for all of these...
PRIZE:
Publication, prestige, and maybe some copies MOONDANCE "Moondance
- Celebrating Creative Women was founded six years ago as the first Internet
ezine "All
submissions of both written and artistic material must cover a topic or theme
that is relevant and sensitive to issues concerning women. However, female
authorship is not a prerequisite. We welcome the creative input of men also,
believing that balance is necessary in all things. Please note that, while all
editions do have a theme, topics are not required to be limited to that subject.
Variety is welcomed. There
are a number of different sections, one of which is Song and Story “Song
and Story celebrates women’s lives around the world and each issue offers a
few glimpses into this kaleidoscope. We welcome diversity in both content and in
form. Submissions should not exceed 1000 words and may include reviews,
personality profiles, opinion pieces, humour, fiction and verse. Please include
“Song and Story” in your subject line and send to songandstory@moondance.org.
Preference will be given to pieces that address the theme of the issue.” **************************************************** Potluck Children’s Literary Magazine "Potluck
has been publishing poetry, short stories, fables, book reviews and artwork by
today’s creative young writers and artists between the ages 8 to 16- some as
young as 6 years old- for over 5 years. Writers and artists from around the
world share fill each issue with an array of hopes and dreams, humor and
imagination. **************************************************** Mississippi
Review "Mississippi
Review is a national literary magazine published twice yearly in print, and
quarterly on the web. Among the writers MR has published in recent years are
Jamaica Kinkaid, Derek Wolcott, Tom Drury, John Barth, Rick Bass, Padgett
Powell, Barry Hannah, Martin Amis, Roddy Doyle, Will Self, Margaret Atwood,
Robert Olen Butler, Susan Minot, Thom Jones, Paul Auster, Kazuo Ishiguro, Tomaz
Salamun, William Gibson, and hundreds of others. While we continue to publish
well-known writers, we are also committed to finding new work in fiction and
poetry by emerging writers." URL:
http://www.mississippireview.com/about.html
**************************************************** MOSAIC "Mosaic
is a quarterly print publication dedicated to showcasing literature written by
Black and Latino writers. Mosaic focuses primarily on new writers, poets,
novelists, interviews, book reviews, essays, criticism, and the business of
publishing. "Started
in 1998 with a desire to showcase and honestly critique African American and
Hispanic literature, Mosaic is proud to be in the forefront of literature. In
our short history we have featured such new voices as Staceyann Chin, Colson
Whitehead, Mars Hill, R. M. Johnson, Marci Blackman, Brian Keith Jackson, Willie
Perdomo, Sandra Lee Gould, Nalo Hopkinson, Bernice McFadden, Myrlin Hermes, Bil
Wright, Colin Channer, Loida Maritza Perez, Roger Bonair-Agard, Camika Spencer,
Breena Clarke and many others. Mosaic has also interviewed notable writers,
Sonia Sanchez, E. Lynn Harris, bell hooks and Haki Madhubuti. "Mosaic
was preceded by the successful website, Mosaicbooks.com, which was founded in
1996. As one of the first literary sites on the Internet Mosaicbooks.com has
been on the forefront of African American literature, garnering praise from
Black Enterprise, Essence, Black Issues Book Review, The New York Times, The New
York Daily News, The Washington Post, Blackwriters.org, The BronxTimes, and many
others." URL
http://www.mosaicbooks.com/ **************************************************** FACETS "We
seek original, unpublished poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The
remarkable submissions we receive every day as well the steadily increasing
number of first-time visitors to this site convince us we are filling a need. In
addition to a place for original literary work, Facets is also developing into a
'cyberspace' where writers meet. "Briefly,
about our title: Facets alludes to the process of making art compared to the
formation of a jewel. To create a jewel, the earth is mined for raw stones,
which are then washed, cut, and polished until the previously hidden, inherent
brilliance of the stone itself shines through. Likewise, in a story, poem, or
memoir, we mine the earth of our experience, then clean, shape, and polish it.
This is what we can find in literature perhaps more than anywhere else: an
ability to perceive ourselves, to plumb interior depths, and to appreciate
myriad colorations in the facets of our human experience. URL: http://www.facets-magazine.com **************************************************** GOODFOOT "Good
Foot, a poetry magazine, appears biannually, publishing an eclectic mix of the
finest poetry written "We
created Good Foot to publish poems we admire—work we trust and believe in.
Also we thought URL:
http://www.goodfootmagazine.com **************************************************** 3RD
bed Publishes
absurdist fiction, poetry, translations, and art. Any mixture of these - push
the limits! **************************************************** RATTLE
"Features
poetry, translations, reviews, essays and interviews. "The
production of RATTLE has a simple purpose: the publication of the best in
contemporary poetry and conversations with people who are leaving a mark in
today’s literature. "RATTLE
accepts no advertising. Submissions are open to anyone. The typical issue of
RATTLE has selections from all cultures and walks of life. We receive over 7000
submissions a year and we look at all of them. The professor, student, convict,
bricklayer, and housewife all share our pages. We think this diversity gives
RATTLE a vitality found nowhere else. To see what RATTLE is all about, we offer
our back issues on the web for you to examine. Look them over and decide whether
RATTLE should be part of your world. " **************************************************** BLITHE
HOUSE QUARTERLY "A
quarterly literary magazine for gay short fiction. Every issue features 6 to 10
short stories. We publish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered fiction not
as a genre or ghetto, but as a literature that can stand by any other in its
quality and innovation "Blithe
House Quarterly considers unpublished short stories by emerging and established
gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered authors for publication. BHQ showcases
a diversity of style, tone, point of view and subject matter: submitted work
meets with no criteria other than the piece stands up as a well-written work of
literary narrative in short story form. We’re also interested in critical
essays on the lesbigay short story. Stories should be between 1500 and 7500
words in length. "We
prefer literary fiction. But we’ll let you know that, right now, we’d like
to see: more
short fiction by lesbian, bisexual and transgendered authors fiction
in innovative prose or narrative styles (not poetry!) fiction
that expands the thematic boundaries of gay literature short
fiction in the third person point of view short
fiction about gay and lesbian characters not otherwise featured in mainstream
gay fiction stories
with a strong narrative premise fiction
from writers outside of the US regionally-specific
queer fiction ethnically-informed
queer fiction working
class and small town fiction polished
fancy prose fiction classy
prose with pulp thrills something
we haven’t read before, something we haven’t read enough about, basically. We
like to be surprised." **************************************************** ON
THE PAGE "Publishes
fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and photo essays that shed light on selected
themes. "Upcoming
themes: men,
gossip, work, cities, suburbs, secrets, food, sports " **************************************************** SLOPE
- WHERE MOVEMENTS HAPPEN "Slope
is a quarterly, online journal devoted to poetry being written around the world.
We publish only new, original and previously unpublished poems. Contributors
hail from countries including Australia, England, South Africa, Nigeria, France,
Tunisia, Wales, Slovenia, Canada and the United States. We encourage new
writers, while continuing to publish award-winning and established poets. We are
proud to be the first exclusively-online journal to be anthologized in The Best
American Poetry series (2002, for Charles Bernstein’s '12[2]' in Issue 11-12). "Slope
occasionally features 'sampler' issues. Recent examples include 'Slovenia: At
This Moment' (Issue 14), New African Poetry (Issue 13) and Recent Australian
Poetry (Issue 11-12); upcoming issues include Hypertext Poetry, New European
Translations and our groundbreaking American Sign Language Poetry feature. Poets
featured and/or forthcoming in Slope include Forrest Gander, Caroline Knox,
Charles Bernstein, Eleni Sikelianos, Ron Silliman, Franz Wright, Heather McHugh,
Matthew Rohrer, James Tate, Gillian Conoley, Joe Wenderoth, Nin Andrews, Dara
Wier, Eric Pankey, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Denise Duhamel, Ross Martin, Bruce
Beasley, Margot Schilpp, Rachel Loden, John Kinsella, Mary Jo Bang, Pam Brown,
Kevin Hart, Lee Upton, John Latta, Peter Minter, Tomaz Salamun, Brian Henry,
Katy Lederer, Drew Milne, Mark Bibbins, Bob Hicok, David H.W. Grubb, Susan
Schultz, Karen Volkman, Louis Armand, Christine Hume, Tessa Rumsey, Timothy
Donnelly, Matthea Harvey, Ales Debeljak and many others." **************************************************** PAPERPLATES "Paperplates
is a literary quarterly published in Toronto. We make
no distinction between veterans and beginners. Some of our contributors have
published several books; some have never before published a single line. "Like
most magazines, paperplates has a front, a middle, and a back section. In the
front section ('homeplate') we put short personal essays, memoirs, and travel
accounts. The tone expected is that of an informal letter, although the subject
itself need not be light. The average length is 2,500 words. "In
the middle section we put short stories, one-act plays, musical scores, poems
short and long, extended travel pieces, formal essays, interviews, and
reminiscences. (These categories are not exclusive.) The maximum length for the
prose works is 7,500 words, for the poems 1,500 words (give or take a few
couplets). We prefer not to serialize, particularly when the subsequent parts
have yet to be written. "In
the back section we put reviews of theatre, films, and books. The average length
is 2,500 words. We have some fine regular reviewers, but noone holds tenure
here. We welcome opinionated writing. "We
also welcome photos and drawings for display throughout the magazine. We publish
one or two cartoons in each issue." URL:
http://www.paperplates.org **************************************************** OYSTER
BOY REVIEW "Print
& Online Journal of Fiction & Poetry "Because
Oyster Boy Review is published four times a year, the editors can accept only a
limited number of submissions. As a result, most submissions must be turned
down. Rejecting a writer’s best effort is an unpleasant but necessary task. To
simplify and to expedite the submission process, the editors request that
authors follow these guidelines. "Due
to a backlog, the editors may periodically close submissions. Prior to sending
work, please visit the Web site to verify that submissions are open and to check
for any updates to these guidelines. "Rejected
submissions are issued a standard letter of reply. Submissions that pique our
interest may receive additional comments, but editors cannot comment on every
story read, regardless of its merits. Please do not confuse the submission
process with a reading service. URL:
http://www.oysterboyreview.com/ **************************************************** FEMINISTA!
"Feminista!
aspires to be an online journal of such quality that we are known regionally,
nationally and internationally for our content and networking capacity.
Feminista! is a journal of art, literature, social commentary, philosophy, wit,
humor, and respect, and is currently published on the first of each month.
"Each
month we publish feminist essays, editorials, fiction, poetry, interviews, and
book and movie reviews. Are you unsure about what to submit? Just go to our archives,
and read past issues to give yourself a taste of what we are all about." I have been an accountant for a very long time, but I always wanted to be a
writer when I grew up. I realised a year or so back that there's not that
many decades left for me get grown up, and so I'm working part time at learning
how to be a writer. Besides my column here, I write a weekly article on
Women Abuse for Suite101.com - not a pretty subject, but if you have the
stomach, check it out at http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/women_abuse
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