Submission site for fables?
May 5, 2008 7:42 PM Subscribe
Can anyone recommend any places (print or online) where I can submit short fiction articles such as fables about animals, the environment and so on? Hopefully, ones that pay. Thanks very much.
Start with Duotrope's Digest, a great online database of print & electronic journals, searchable by genre & paying/non-paying markets. Or go sit in a bookstore with a good magazine selection and read for a couple hours. Some people like the book Writer's Market, which lists thousands of magazines by genre in succinct little paragraphs; I don't because there's no sense in carpet bombing magazines with writing that may not be at all relevant to their aesthetic or interests. Be sure to get a good sense of a journal/magazine before you submit (i.e. read an issue, or comb their website for excerpts & samples). As someone who's read the slush pile of a small literary magazine, I can attest that a good 50+% of submissions came from writers who clearly had no sense of the magazine's prevailing aesthetic. Those submissions never got a second glance. Don't waste your postage/an editor's time.
Another good place to ask questions like these is the Speakeasy message board over at Poets & Writers.
My perspective on all this, by the way, is as a poet and writer of literary fiction. When you say "fiction articles," I don't really have a sense of what you write, or the audience it's aimed at. Children's publications? Literary journals? Popular interest magazines? Are you hoping to be paid as a means to make a living (and thus are you willing to take on freelance jobs &/or write copy for websites?), or would it be nice to get thirty bucks for a short prose piece every once in a while? These are important things to clarify if you hope to get accurate answers from AskMe folks and others.
posted by soviet sleepover at 9:41 PM on May 5, 2008 [1 favorite]
Another good place to ask questions like these is the Speakeasy message board over at Poets & Writers.
My perspective on all this, by the way, is as a poet and writer of literary fiction. When you say "fiction articles," I don't really have a sense of what you write, or the audience it's aimed at. Children's publications? Literary journals? Popular interest magazines? Are you hoping to be paid as a means to make a living (and thus are you willing to take on freelance jobs &/or write copy for websites?), or would it be nice to get thirty bucks for a short prose piece every once in a while? These are important things to clarify if you hope to get accurate answers from AskMe folks and others.
posted by soviet sleepover at 9:41 PM on May 5, 2008 [1 favorite]
Write your own Zine. Can sell it for $2 a piece if it's really good.
posted by saxamo at 8:38 AM on May 6, 2008
posted by saxamo at 8:38 AM on May 6, 2008
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