Get Published: February 9, 2024
Get Published: February 9, 2024
Writing this while pondering my finances (seemingly a never-ending headache) in relation to the current living situation vs. renting a new place
I woke up to two rejections for two different pieces from two different publications.
LOL
Oh well, that’s creative writing life for you. And despite the rejections, I still want a piece of it! So, what did I do? I got up and sent my pieces to a few other pubs, LOL.
My Submittable list is now sporting a mix of dark navy (Received), royal navy/cyan (In-Progress), and gray (declined/rejected) status tags, heh.
Speaking of, is there anyone who doesn’t know what Submittable is or how it works? Should I write a short tutorial or something? Let me know!
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Opportunities
Opportunities focus on literary publications and magazine writing. (Click the links for submission guidelines.)
ADI: They’re now accepting fiction submissions through Feb 29. It’s a themed submission call: Disobedience to orthodoxies of all kinds. Pay: $200 - $500.
The Rumpus: They’re accepting essay submissions through Feb 29. They have two types of essays they accept; the regular essay and essays for their ongoing series “Enough” for women and non-binary writers. Pay: They pay albeit little, $20-$40 on average.
Chestnut Review: They’re open for prose, poetry, and art submissions all year. Pay: $120.
Copper Nickel: They’re now accepting fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions through Mar 1. Pay: $30 per printed page.
Hippocampus: They have a contest going on for short-short nonfiction (250 words, max). Deadline: Feb 29. Pay: One winner receives $250, and two runner-ups receive $100 each.
Joyland: They accept submissions for fiction and nonfiction prose year-round. Pay: Paid market, amount unknown.
Alien: They’re now accepting fiction submissions through Feb 29. (They accept nonfiction submissions year-round.) Pay: $20.
Variant Lit: They’re open for poetry submission until Feb 29. Pay: $10.
Passages North: They don’t pay and I don’t really like unpaid markets. Even when a magazine pays just 20 bucks, it tells me that they’re at least trying. But well, Passages North happens to be a rather prestigious magazine, so I suppose we get to turn a blind eye… As hard as it is for creative writers, I suppose it is just as hard for creative writing publishers to make money. Oh well, if only we lived in a fair world… They’re now accepting nonfiction prose submissions through Apr 15. Pay: nada.
New Delta Review: Another quality magazine that doesn’t pay. Oh well. They’re open for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art submissions until Mar 15. Pay: None.
Write or Die: They’re open for fiction submissions according to their newsletter. You have to use this form to submit. Pay: $200.
Ninth Letter: They open for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions. Web edition theme: Caretaking. Their web edition submissions will close on Mar 31. However, their print edition submission will close on Feb 29. Pay: $25 - $100.
Forge: Send your fiction or nonfiction prose by Mar 1. Pay: $100.
Ecotone: They’re accepting fiction, nonfiction, and poetry through Mar 1. Pay: Unsure. Couldn’t find this info anywhere, but word on the grapevine is that they pay… a little.
Flash Fiction Online: Last minute but I only found out about it today, so… Anyhow, send them something by Feb 21. Naturally, it has to be flash fiction (500 - 1,000 words). They have a special submissions call for Weird Horror as well. That submission window will be open until Apr 21 or until they have 1,000 submissions.
Lolwe: Black artists only (African, Caribbean, diaspora) opportunity! Send your fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by Feb 29. Pay: Paying market, amount unknown.
Mother Jones: Maddie Oatman—senior editor of MJ—is looking to assign 2,500-word essays and profiles. Email her with your pitch to moatman@motherjones.com. Read this entire Twitter thread for the kind of stories they want. Pay: $2/word.
Sentient: They’re looking for reported stories that focus on the impact of factory farming on food, climate, politics, etc. Email your pitches to jenny@sentientmedia.org. Pay: $300 and up.
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*** Note: I cannot always vet each of these publications, unfortunately. So, please do your due diligence and research. See if their values align with yours, if there are conditions/restrictions to who can or cannot pitch/submit, whether or not they’re a paying market, how much they pay, etc., if these things matter to you.***
That is all. It was a long list today, hah!
Anyhow.
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