New Alternatives for Your Writing Submissions If you’re not sure whether your work is ready to submit, I hope you’ll have us take a look. The link will take you to Writer Advice’s Manuscript Consultation and Editing Service. We’ll say what we love, make suggestions about places that trip us up, and ask questions to
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Fall 2025 ~~ Contests and Markets
Looking for the right place to submit your writing? If you’re not sure whether your work is ready to submit, I hope you’ll have us take a look. We’ll say what we love, make suggestions about places that trip us up, and ask questions to help you go deeper. Reasonable prices. Take a look at what
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Summer 2025 ~~ Contests and Markets
September Opportunities: There are many publishers seeking manuscripts. Read the opportunities below. If it sounds right for you, click on the link. If your work is accepted, please let us know. We want to celebrate with you. Thanks! These opportunities were found in C. Hope Clark’s Funds for Writers Newsletter: ANTHOLOGY FLASH FICTION CONTEST €12
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“It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.” –C. J. Cherryh Places Looking For Your Work If something here appeals to you, please visit the website and list it in your journal or a page of places to submit someday—even if you miss the deadline. There may well be other deadlines.
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Winter 2025 ~~ Contests and Markets
Some Contests With March & April 1 Deadlines Totally Entwined: Family Business. Genre: Novellas, 30,000–50,000 words. Theme: Mafia romance. Payment: Royalties. Deadline: April 1, 2024. The Beast Hunt. Genre: Speculative fiction. “Theme: Monsters have feelings too, even if it’s used to rage against the machine.” Payment: Royalties. Deadline: April 1, 2024. Write or Die. Genre: Short fiction. Length: Up to 4000 words. Payment:
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Fall 2024 ~~ Markets and Contests
There are more markets than contests here, including some that will let you voice your opinion in OpEds. You’re guaranteed publication with the last opportunity on the page. Why not give something here a try and let us know how it goes. We’d really like to know. Do you write for or represent a publication
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Summer 2024~~Markets and Contests
WOW, Women on Writing, shared this list and more in their latest newsletter. Most of these opportunities don’t have deadlines. Please let us know if you try any of these or have questions. Insider – Essays businessinsider.com Senior Editor Conz Preti is looking for pitches on the topics of parenting, health, relationships, retirement, and more. Pay:
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Spring 2024 ~~ Markets & Contests
Contest winners and finalists gain credibility with agents and publishers. What are you waiting for? Opportunities for June and Beyond This is a mixture of publication opportunities, and each link below shares lots of places seeking your work. Tell me what, exactly, you are looking for, and I’ll see what I can come up with.
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Winter 2024 More Markets than Contests
“If you don’t submit, you won’t get published.” ~~ B. Lynn Goodwin March Deadlines for Paying Markets Seeking Work These markets come from an article written by Erica Verrillo who is the president at American ME and CFS Society. Which are right for you? Hexagon. Genre: Speculative fiction short stories, flash fiction, poetry, graphic
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Fall 2023 –Contests and Markets
“Contests build your platform.” –Brenda Knight, Mango Publishing Group “They also build your credibility.” — B. Lynn Goodwin, Writer Advice December Deadlines I have not double-checked each link. If one doesn’t work, please let me know using the Contact box. Which contests are you submitting to? If you want to make a list and share
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Summer of 2023 — More Markets Than Contests
“Write a sentence as clean as a bone.” ~~James Baldwin Fifteen Markets That Pay By B. Lynn Goodwin I have not submitted to most of these sites but if their requests match your writing, please give them a try. Please let us know how it goes using the contact box. What kinds of markets would
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Summer of 2023~~Contests and Markets
Are you submitting your writing to publications, agents, and contests? Why or why not? Fifteen Markets That Pay By B. Lynn Goodwin I have not submitted to most of these sites but if their requests match your writing, please give them a try. Then let us know how it goes using the contact box. What
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