All those new gadgets out there have created a new market for short stories. Beside reading stories on a screen you can now listen to them with your ipod or whatever gadget you're holding in your hand these days. Listed below are a few markets that are open for submissions and all are open for your listening pleasure. So, if you don't have to time to read, you can still enjoy short stories by just plugging in during your travel, exercise, or washing dishes times.
Courtesy of Cynthia Sterling's newsletter is The Dunesteef Audio Fiction Magazine. While their preferred genres are sci-fi, fantasy, and horror they're open to all well-written stories. You can find their guidelines here http://dunesteef.com/submission-guidelines/
SnipLits has been around for a while and right now they're closed to subs but you can still listen to a wide variety of stories at this site. http://sniplits.com/
CrimeWAV.com podcasts stories on their site. They aren't open to submissions but seek out stories from anthologies and zines to broadcast. They have a nice mix of new and well known authors there. http://crimewav.com/
And finally there's Well Told Tales which is a pulp fiction podcast. They're open for subs and their link is in the zine column to the left as I've mentioned them before.
I've noticed at Ralan.com that there are quite a few new sites that are podcasting now mostly in the sci-fi and horror genres if you're looking for this type of market for your shorts.
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