Paying Markets for Writers

Wine & Country Wedding Planner

Wine & Country Wedding Planner

20% freelance. “Everything you need to plan your dream wedding in Virginia wine country and beyond! We are here to guide you to the best vendors, inspire you with gorgeous ideas, and help you dazzle your wedding party and guests with artisanal gifts made locally.” Welcomes new writers. Annual. Pays on acceptance. Buys print plus digital rights. No reprints. Responds in 4-6 weeks. Subscription $18/year. Guidelines online

Pays a flat fee of $75-$150/article.

Abyss & Apex

Abyss & Apex

“We publish Science Fiction and Fantasy only, up to 10K words, and genre poetry. We also review small press books (not self-published unless the author has previously had a story in Abyss & Apex). We especially like to review short story collections.” Welcomes new writers. “25% of our stories are the first things that writer had published. We cannot afford to pay pro rates so, if we see promise in a writer we work with them on rewrites and MAKE pro writers. Some of the writer’s we’ve helped launch are Lavie Tidar and Aliette de Bodard. We published early NK Jemisin and Alan Smale.” Pays 30 days after publication. Publishes around a year after acceptance. Buys “World English Rights, for publication in the English language on the World Wide Web and in downloadable PDF; Right of first offer on world anthology rights; The work shall be available online through an archived copy for at least four months and then Indefinitely or until the author requests its removal.” No reprints. Responds between 2 weeks to 6 months. Guidelines online.

Pays $0.06/word, not to exceed $75/story.

Workers Write

Workers Write

“Since our first anthology, Workers
Write! has become an important voice in working class literature. We are collecting the stories and poems about jobs that define who we are as individuals and communities.” Welcomes new writers. Circ. 500. Annual. Pays on acceptance. Publishes ms 6-9 months after acceptance. Buys FNAS Rights. Accepts reprints. Responds within one week.

Pays flat fee of $25-$50/story up to 5,000 words (no minimum); $5-$20/poem.

Rack Magazine

Rack Magazine

“We ONLY publish stories about the harvests of world-class animals, 90 percent of which are white-tailed deer scoring 180 or more inches as Typicals or 200+ as Non-typicals. Other stories may revolve around the harvest of most any North American big game trophy, so long as the animal qualifies for one of the major record books.” Welcomes new writers. Six issues per year. Pays on publication. Publishes ms 6-12 months after acceptance. Buys first N.A. rights. Accepts reprints. Responds within 30 days. Guidelines by email.

Pays up to $360.

Machine Intelligence Research Institute

Machine Intelligence Research Institute

MIRI is an AI research organization that performs original mathematical research to ensure the development of artificial intelligence has positive effects for humanity.

We pay by the step, a discrete, well-defined unit that consists of one round of interaction between the DM and the player, along with the DM’s accompanying Thoughts for that round. One step is roughly between 250-450 words, the majority being the DM’s Thoughts.

We’re offering 100 USD for reading the guidelines carefully and submitting 6–8 steps along with a short (less than 1 page) description of how the rest of the story/run might play out. Applicants whose submissions meet our quality bar will be asked to write a follow-up batch of 5 more steps. If those meet our standards, they will be accepted to write long-term for the project, at a rate of 10 USD per step, paid either monthly or every 100 steps.

Please see https://intelligence.org/visible/ for more details.

Welcomes New Writers. Pays on Acceptace. Publication purchases all rights. No Reprints. Guidelines online.

PAYS $100

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