Market News

First off, my apologies to Paul Brazill who sent me a link to a radio talk show yesterday. I should have paid closer attention to the date in the email. It was a call-in show about short stories with Lynn Alexander, editor of Blink Ink, that aired live last night. While you can no longer call in to read your stories or ask questions the half hour show is recorded and you can have a listen here http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lynnalexander/2010/03/02/blink-ink-fiction

Over at Fried Chicken and Coffee they're sponsoring a contest in honor of Southern short story writer, Barry Hannah, who passed away yesterday. The deadline is March 31 for short stories of 2000 to 4000 words. First prize is a collection of some of Barry's books and a $25 gift certificate from B&N. You can find all the details at http://www.friedchickenandcoffee.com/2010/03/01/fried-chicken-and-coffee-and-the-barry-hannah-memorial-competition/

From Cormac Brown we have the new quarterly zine Dark Valentine Magazine http://darkvalentine.net/ They're looking for dark fiction of 500 to 5000 words. The pay is $10 per story. They also have a section called Through a Lens Darkly for writers to write a story of up to 1000 words based on a posted picture. There's no pay for this section of the zine. You can find all the details at http://darkvalentine.net/index.php/submission-guidelines/

Woodland Press will be publishing the "Mountain Magic: Spellbinding Tales of Appalachia" anthology. They're looking for short stories up to 2500 words set in the Appalachia region with a magical bend (not the dragon and wizards type of magic) The submission period is March 20 to June 21 and the pay is 5cents a word for shorts, $5 per poem. You can find the details here http://www.brianjhatcher.com/mmguidelines.htm

If you're looking for a new zine for your gritty flash pieces you might want to check out The Molotov Cocktail http://themolotovcocktail.com/ The deadline for the first issue is March 10 for a March 15 publishing date. They're planning on publishing twice a month so submission will be accepted continuously. This is a non-paying market.

And a few markets notes:

I believe I mentioned Dark and Dreary here as a market, but the word at Duotrope is that they've closed up shop and shut down their web site.

Big Pulp and CrimeSpree are both open for submissions this month urls to the left.

And Wig Leaf is open for flash subs of under 1000 words. http://www.wigleaf.com/