Paying Markets for Writers

The Christian Science Monitor, The Home Forum Section

The Christian Science Monitor, The Home Forum Section

“The Home Forum is a venue for upbeat first-person essays of 600 to 800 words. We seek a wide range of experiences and voices. The most successful essays are ones of self-discovery, insight, and progress. No medical themes, please, and nothing overtly religious. This is not an OpEd venue, I am not looking for mere travelogues, nostalgia, parenting, or nature essays, but travel, nostalgia, nature, and parenting themes must be in service to broader, more universal ones.” Weekly in print, daily online. Pays on publication. Publishes ms 3-8 weeks after acceptance. Buys 90 day exclusive rights, nonexclusive thereafter. No reprints. Responds in 3-4 weeks. Guidelines online

Pays $250/article of 600-800 words.

Buckmasters Magazine

Buckmasters Magazine

“We publish stories about trophy buck harvests; our primary goal is to help readers become better hunters. Story categories: Deer Tales, How-To, Deer Biology/Behavior, Destination.” Welcomes new writers. Pays on publication. Publishes ms 6-12 months after acceptance. Buys First N.A. rights. Accepts reprints. Responds within 30 days or less. Guidelines by email.

Pays up to $600 for an 1,800-word article with photos.

Bass Angler Magazine

Bass Angler Magazine

“BASS ANGLER MAGAZINE (BAM) is a quarterly print magazine created specifically to help you become a better fisherman. As the industry’s leading bass magazine we simply provide you with fresh new features every season. Bass Angler is filled with 25 or more full length articles uncovering the latest bass catching secrets from the nation’s top touring pro anglers.” Pays on publication. Publishes ms two months after acceptance. Buys all rights, and non-exclusive electronic rights.

Pays $100/article of approximately 1200 words with pictures.

VAN Magazine

VAN Magazine

30-60% freelance. “Independent classical music publication interested in strong personalities and radical points of view.” Welcomes new writers. Weekly. Pays on publication. Publishes ms within 3-5 weeks of acceptance. Accepts reprints, if previously published in a different language. Responds in 2-3 weeks. Guidelines online.

Pays Pays £150 to £300/article

New Letters

New Letters

“New Letters is an international quarterly magazine featuring fiction, essays, poetry, reviews, and interviews with writers and original art, published by the University of Missouri at Kansas City.” Welcomes new writers. 90% freelance. Quarterly. Pays on publication. Publishes ms 3-9 months after acceptance. Buys First NA rights. No reprints. Responds in 3-6 months.

Pays “$15 to $35 per poem; $35 book reviews; $65 to $200 short stories

OutLook by the Bay

OutLook by the Bay

“Chesapeake Bay regional publication, targeting active Bay Boomers (seniors 55+).” Circ. 18K. Bimonthly. Pays on publication. Publishes ms 1-2 months after acceptance. Buys First NA rights. Accepts reprints, if allowed by previous publication. Responds in two weeks.

Pays $25

Wyngraf

Wyngraf

“Wyngraf publishes original cozy fantasy short stories and occasional other features such as interviews.” Welcomes new writers. Biannual. Pays within 90 days of acceptance. Publishes ms within 2-3 months of acceptance. Buys first international English serial rights. No reprints. Responds in 2-4 weeks. Guidelines online.

Pays $0.015/word

Sasee Magazine

Sasee Magazine

“Women’s lifestyle monthly publication distributed free to readers along the northeastern coast of SC, and the southeastern coast of NC, plus a monthly digital issue.” Welcomes new writers. Pays 90 days after publication. Publishes ms about a month after acceptance. Buys first time rights, reverts back to writer upon publication. Occasionally accepts reprints. Responds in less than a week.

Pays $0.10/word.

The Sprawl Mag

The Sprawl Mag

100% freelance. “The Sprawl Mag is a (cyber-)feminist, anti-colonial speculative fiction, poetry, and visual art magazine focused on publishing perspectives that have historically been left out of canonical sci-fi and fantasy.” Welcomes new writers. Biannual. Pays on acceptance. Publishes ms within a few months of acceptance. Buys first serial rights. No reprints. Responds within two months. Sample articles available online. Guidelines online.

Salt Lake

Salt Lake

This publication ONLY works with local writers. Do not contact them if you are not located in their city.

“Lifestyle, fashion and culture magazine, glossy for Park City, Salt Lake City and Utah.” Welcomes new writers. 33% freelance. Circ. 127K. Bimonthly. Pays on acceptance. Publishes ms 2-4 months after acceptance. Buys all rights. No reprints. Responds within one month.

Pays $0.45/word.

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