Publishers: Creative Writing / Short Stories

76 Publishers
  • Mud Season Review is an international literary journal run by members of the Burlington Writers Workshop, a free writing workshop based in Vermont. They seek deeply human work that will teach something about life, but also about the craft of writing or visual art. According to their guidelines, they pay $50 for work that appears in their issues. To learn more, refer to this page.

  • Arc Poetry features poetry that is woozy, cunning, shearing and wildlike. They accept unsolicited submissions from poets at all stages of their writing careers. According to their guidelines, they pay $50 per page. To learn more, refer to this page.

  • DMR Books publishes fantasy, horror, and adventure fiction in the traditions of Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, and other classic writers of the pulp era. They are interested in stories between 4,000 and 8,000 words. According to their guidelines, they pay one cent per word (to a maximum of $80). To learn more, refer to this page.

  • Cutleaf publishes a new issue online every other week throughout the year. They seek work that responds to our common experience and reflects our differences. They welcome unsolicited original prose (literary nonfiction and fiction) and poetry from established and emerging writers during their open submission windows. According to their guidelines, they pay from $100 to $400 for published fiction, $100 to $400 for published nonfiction prose, and $50 to $200 for published poetry. To learn more, refer to this page.

  • West Branch is a thrice-yearly magazine of poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews. They welcome submissions of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and translation. According to their guidelines, they pay $100 per submission of poetry, and $.10/word for prose with a maximum payment of $200. To learn more, refer to this page.

  • Fantasy Magazine is a speculative fiction magazine published by Psychopomp. They are looking for original fiction and poetry submissions, and accept only anonymous submissions. According to their guidelines, they pay 10¢/word for original fiction and $50 for original poetry. To learn more, refer to this page.

  • Griffith Review is a quarterly literary journal. Every edition explores a different theme, bringing together long-form critical and analytical non-fiction and creative writing from the finest emerging and established writers from Australia and overseas. They run open calls for submissions throughout the year. According to their guidelines, fiction and non-fiction commissioned for the print edition is paid at AUD$0.75 per word, poetry is paid at AUD$200 per poem, and work commissioned for GR Online is paid at AUD $500 per piece. To learn more, refer to this page.

  • Belmont Story Review is a national magazine of literary arts, faith and culture. They seek to publish new and established writers, and feature works of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. According to their guidelines, they pay $100 for prose and $50 for poetry. To learn more, refer to this page.

  • Split Lip Magazine is a literary journal that loves stories, poetry and art. They only accept free submissions a few times a year. According to their guidelines, they pay $75 per author for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, art, and interviews/reviews, and $50 for mini-reviews for our web issues. To learn more, refer to this page.

  • EVENT is one of Western Canada’s longest-running literary magazines, and publishes contemporary new poetry and prose. They normally have two open submissions windows per year, and are looking for fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and reviews. According to their guidelines, they pay $40/page for poetry and $35/page for prose, up to a maximum of $500. To learn more, refer to this page.