Submitting short stories to magazines takes a lot of time
and effort. I’ve found a resource that’s
helped. It’s the (Submission) Grinder website, a listing of magazines, e-zines, anthologies and contests you can send your fiction to.
I like it because the magazines are searchable by length, payment, genre, whether they accept
reprints, and even style of writing. It also has a good layout for each magazine's main page, clearly showing the most important information and giving fairly reliable links to their website and specific guidelines.
You can also sign up for an account and track your
submissions, helping keep you organized and giving valuable information back to
the community about rejection rates and response times.
They plan to add non-fiction and poetry listings in the
future (though some of the magazines here accept non-fiction and poetry too, so
it can be useful if you have a portfolio of various genres).
Head on over to the Submission Grinder and submit some of your work!
10 comments:
Thanks for posting this, Melinda. I recently entered a "mini contest" and am awaiting word on it (I think winners will be announced next Sunday) and I've missed entering contests as this is how I got my start in writing. As a challenge from a friend of mine, entering a contest - taking a shared second place win (she got first place but I got third and the person who got second won the same thing that I won so I consider it a shared second place).
I've saved the website and when I have time will go in to register so I can start using it. E :)
Elysabeth Eldering
Author
FINALLY HOME, a Kelly Watson YA paranormal mystery
http://elysabethsstories.blogspot.com
Melinda, Thanks for sharing. It looks like a helpful freelance writing resource. I'll check it out.
Elysabeth, was it by any chance the On the Premises same word, different meaning mini contest?
Yes it was. Did you enter also? I'm anxiously awaiting to hear from that as it was my first submission to On The Premises. E :)
I did! What a coincidence. Good luck. I had a story accepted by them for a regular contest last spring, and they were really great to work with.
Good luck to you too. I didn't "tell" a whole story but evoked a full story with my sentence and 20-40 words was difficult to come up with something sensible. Do you hear before they announce or when they put the newsletter out is when you find out if you placed or what?
Yeah, 40 words was hard, but I like what I wrote. I don't know if they'll inform you earlier if you win. They did with the regular contest, but I don't know about now.
Thanks Melinda. This sounds like it could be useful. I will take a look as soon as I surface for air!
Melinda, this is perfect for me! Thanks so much.
A useful resource with great features! Thanks.
Debra Toor, www.ecostoriesbydebtoor.com
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