All Kinds of Markets Today

Found quite a few markets that are open to submissions in my clicking about travels today so I decided to put them in a separate post.

I don't know how many of you drop by darkmarkets.com looking for leads but they've revamped the site again, added a few more people to help with the chores and the site is looking pretty great with all kinds of new content, from markets to reviews and everything in between. I have a permanent link in the Market Resources links to the left. http://darkmarkets.com/

New Fairy Tales has opened to subs with a April 15 deadline for their May issue. They're looking for shorts up to 3000 words. They're also looking at poetry, flash and comic strips if these are your fields of interest. What they want in a story is a new fairytale, not a "remake" of a classic. You can find all the details at http://www.newfairytales.co.uk/pages/submissions.html There's no pay here, but readers are asked to donate to the Derian House Children's Hospice.

Eclectamatic Ezine http://eclectomatic.net/ is looking for your dark stories in any genre up to 4000 words. They're also looking for poetry, articles, essays and visual arts. For visual arts they'll take anything that falls between pornography and cute fluffy unicorn kitties. I didn't notice any mention of pay for this one. You can find all the details at http://eclectomatic.net/?page_id=833

Full Armor Magazine is set to lunch in June from Dragon Dreamz Publications. They're looking for fantasy, slipstream and mystery with a Christian-Judean message or symbolism at the core of the story. There's a list of examples on the sub page. The pay here is a penny a word for stories up to 3000 words and they pay $1.00 a line for poetry. http://www.dragondreamzpublications.info/submissions.html

Pow Fast Flash Fiction is looking for 100 - 1000 words in the genres of horror, crime/suspense, sci-fi and humor. They also want you to think outside the box with your stories. This is a non-paying market and there's some stories already up if you want to take a look at what they're publishing. http://powfastflashfiction.com/

I found a lovely site called Short Story America http://www.shortstoryamerica.com/index.html This is sort of a teaching site as they have contests for school age children, but they also publish one new short story a week that's collected into an anthology at the end of the year and the authors receive a percentage of the sales. They're looking for stories of 500 - 12000 words in length and they have an online submission form. You need to be a member to submit but membership is free. They will also consider reprints. On this site you'll also find a great collection of classic short stories along with the weekly shorts. Here's the classic link if you'd like to take a look http://www.shortstoryamerica.com/classics.html I will say that this is one of the most beautiful sites I've come across in a long time.

And finally, a big Thank You to Paul Brazill who awarded me the Circle of Friends Award. http://pdbrazill.blogspot.com/2010/01/circle-of-friends-awards.html Its most appreciated kind sir.