Stories
The Note-Takers by Vanessa Gebbie
When The Man Comes Around by Jeff Somers
Mommy Says I’m Pretty on the Insides by Lucy Alibar-Harrison
Markets
Southerly is Australia’s oldest literary magazine. It pays a minimum of $100 for short stories. Considers short stories of many styles and genres, and the fiction published covers a very wide range of topics and themes. However, they tend not to publish science fiction, fantasy, horror, or popular romance stories. The maximum word length for fiction submissions is 5,000. There is no minimum. You may submit up to three stories at a time.
Cafe Irreal pays one cent per word. Accepts unsolicited fiction up to 2,000 words in length. Translations are welcome. There is no minimum length.
Whirligigzine pays $15.00 for short shorts and flash fiction, $25 for short stories. Payment for longer work — novel excerpts, novellas — is negotiable. Pays $10 per poem. Seeks noir, erotica, slipstream, weird horror (Lovecraftian, for example), and “spirit of the Beats” to 10,000 words, though shorter is preferred. Also SF and modern psychological and occult fantasy; no enchanted sword/wizard/quest stories are desired at this time.
What are you reading/writing this week?
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The FreeLancer Encyclopedia is offering $50 to writers willing to complete any given volume (Letters A, E, R, S, N are already taken, though)
The Angst Cafe pays bus-fare for every five-part trilogy.
Modern Cat Hermit pays you a can of Whiskas for stories involving 3 or more cats.
The Norske SkogLunder pays six herrings for every 5,000 word Viking Saga. (Bonus pay for extra umlauts).
Friar’s last blog post..Dancing in the Summer Rain
Reading the opening paragraph of Vanessa Gebbie’s The Note-takers, I thought at first it was about a compulsive busy person and then–
Lightning struck.
A choir of angels descended.
And my muse arrived lugging a bulging suitcase full of Hawaiian shirts and sporting a lei.
She was kinda angry at me bitching about her on this site and after hitting me a dozen times on the head, announced she doesn’t know how long she’ll stay. But for now, she’s here and my short story can rev up its engine again. Thanks Amy for giving the links that induced her to come back!
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LOL. Thanks, Friar. I think I’ll tackle “X” in the Freelancer Encyclopedia. That $50 will really be worth my time.
Amy: How do you put up with him?
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Friar — Rebecca already claimed X. That was the letter I wanted. *throws tandtrum*
Seriously, last night I was thinking I’m going to have to stop doing Fiction Friday’s because I’m having a really hard time finding markets that pay anything at all. I found several last night that pay $5 or $10 for a 1000+ word story. Most pay nothing. I’m not sure which is more insulting.
Kate — YAY!! Glad she came back, and I hope for your sake she sticks around (without getting too violent).
Rebecca — You stole my letter. Meanie. LOL
@Amy
The Widget Factory will pay between $1000-$2000 a week for writing technical and administrative documents.
The only downside is you have to write whatever they randomly throw at you. And sit at a rickety desk in one of their decrepit buildings while you do it.
Oh, yeah. And you have to sell your soul to them.
But otherwise, it’s a pretty good writing gig!
Friar’s last blog post..Dancing in the Summer Rain
Freelance and contract technical writers can make pretty good money too. Fiction writing for literary magazines and such? Totally different story.
I’ve just read so many vague and odd ads on Craigs List that for a moment I thought Friar’s find was real-LOL! I thought, “Well how nice-he’s added to the market post!” It’s obviously been a long week:-)
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Kara, don’t feel bad. I’m pretty sure at least one of those has been advertised on craigslist. LOL
Amy, you are the Queen of Enticing Titles (oops almost did a typo, can you guess what you were almost queen of…heeheehehehee). Kara’s post made me giggle because yep, some of the weird stuff that comes up this could have been real! Well, one thing’s for certain people really can’t let of that whole starving artist thing!
Geez, no wonder everyone has become a “copywriter.”
Hey Karen! I get to be the queen of titties? Yay! So, um, wait. Now I have to become a copywriter? *wanders off and cries at how much longer this invisible to-do list is getting*
Too bad, Amy. If you were Xtra fast, you wouldn’t Xactly be where you are right now, would you? Xylophone.
Rebecca Smith’s last blog post..CreateAthon: Creativity for a good cause
Xenophobe!
No more Fiction Friday? Nooooooo!!
The stories you posted really helped a lot in getting my creative juices flowing. Here’s a site that I think can help you in searching for markets quite easily: Duotrope’s Digest. Hope it helps!
I’ve also sent appropriate thanks to you for inspiring me in my post.
Kate’s last blog post..Reconnecting with your Muse- Links for Writers
Hi Kate, thanks for the link to DD!
I will have to take a look through their listings. It’s finding ones that pay high enough to list that has been a problem, so it’ll be interesting to see what they have listed in the way of paying markets. Once I run out of markets I might go back to posting links to stories, if folks want me to do that. How is your story coming?
Hi Amy - thanks for sharing these markets. I’m going to check them out. Maybe it will encourage me to work on the short story I started four months ago.
I love that cartoon about the rejection slips by the way.
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Thanks for asking. It’s coming along great. I’m not merely writing it for the sake of writing. The muse is very demanding though now after muse therapy. She’s got awful timing. For example, I might be doing something for class. Then one of those -aha! moment comes and I have to stop in the middle of whatever task I’m doing at the moment and just get the words on paper. Once I do that, the words just flow and it continues to flow for a long time and I forgot what I was doing in the first place. I’ve got the introduction and some middle parts done for the moment. Does that happen to you too?
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Cath — Hey! That’s one of my favorites too. (the cartoon) I totally want to read your story now, so I hope you finish it and get it published someplace so I can read it.
Kate — That’s awesome! Are you going to post it when you’re finished, or send it off to be published someplace? I usually write the end first, then the beginning. But yes, same concept I think.
Cath, I just love your 43 Amazing Resources for Writers. It seemed to cover almost everything you need. Gonna check out some pretty soon.
Hey, Amy we have the same sort of style! I usually write the ending and then the beginning . But when I’m reading a book I never ever want to read the ending. It’s murder for me.
Once the short story’s finished I’ll probably post parts of it and send my baby off to either contests or magazines. It’s sort of the same vein as your novel –the theme of leaving the corporate world. I’ll be sure to send you a copy if you’re interested.
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ouch.
Rebecca Smith’s last blog post..CreateAthon: Creativity for a good cause
Rebecca — Do you need an X-ray?
Kate — I never read the end of books first either. I just write that way.
And yes, I would love to read it. Yay!
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