If you’ve a passion for writing fiction and you would LOVE getting paid for it, consider writing short stories! As an aid to those writers, published or not, who want to earn some revenue for their work, here is a list of short story publishers that pay right around $500 (and some, more) for an accepted submission. Here’s my “Super Seven” list of publishers: Heroes and Heartbreakers is a branch of McMillan, a major publishing house. Short story submissions should be 15k-30k words long and they pay $1,000 to $2,000. As an advance against a 25% royalty offer. You can find their submission guidelines, HERE. Fireside is a short story magazine that loves publishing great stories for which the writers are well paid. More than normal rates for their category of magazine, Fireside pays 12.5 cents/word, up to 5,000 words and they like to publish 10,000 new words of fiction each and every month! Learn about their submission guidelines, HERE. Cicada Magazine is a YA mag with a large teenage audience. They pay $0.25 / word, up to 9,000 words which means their max pay-out is $2,250. Submission guidelines are HERE. If writing fiction for the younger half of the YA audience is your thing, Cricket Magazine targets ages 9 – 14, paying $0.25/word for between 1,200 and 1,800 words / submission. Once in a great while, they’ll accept a serialized story that maxes out at 6,000 words. Their submission guidelines are HERE. Sci-Fy and Fantasy are genres that many love to write; if this is you, Fantasy and Science Fiction is one of the major magazines for you to consider. They pay a generous 7 – 12 cents/word, up to 25,000 words which means you could have a payout of up to $3,000. If you’ve a story line that would appeal to all fantasy and sci-fy readers (if it has some humor in it, even better), then their submission guidelines are HERE. Clarkesworld is another science fiction mag that has won many awards, including 3 Hugo’s. This mag pays $0.10/word for the first 5,000 words, and $0.08/for each word after that. So if you have a longer piece of fiction (up to 16,000 words, max), you could receive up to a $1,380. Payout for your fiction! That’s not peanuts, pal! For submission guidelines, CLICK HERE. Last but not least, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Harper’s Magazine. They’re “the oldest general-interest monthly in America” and usually publish thought-provoking articles about contemporary issues. So if you’ve written something along those lines you can expect payment to be VERY GOOD. They also accept unsolicited fiction submissions!! Here are their submission guidelines. List not long enough for ya? Don’t worry; there’s more to come. But THIS LIST is my best. As with anything, please do your due diligence: check out their submission guidelines, READ some of the work they’ve published in the past, if you want to submit to them, SPELL / GRAMMAR CHECK your work, first!! In a few days from now, I’ll post some additional options you can check out, as well. Until then … Happy Writing! ~ Gail
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