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Issue Six Hundred Ninety Seven

5 Paying Literary Magazines to Submit to in October 2026

These magazines pay for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They are a mix of literary and genre magazines. Translunar Travelers LoungeThey want fun speculative fiction; stories must have elements of science fiction or fantasy. “A fun story, at its core, is one that works on the premise that things aren’t all bad; that ultimately, good wins…

Issue Six Hundred Ninety Seven Paying Market

Five Minutes: Accepting Submissions

Five Minutes is a nonfiction only online literary journal with an unusual premise. They only publish 100-word pieces that explore five minutes of the author’s life. These are very much “micro memoirs” (and in the past they ran a micro memoir marathon). The five-minute limit is not particularly literal, what they say about it is…

The Single List That Finally Made Me a Productive Writer

Beginning is the second-most difficult part of writing (the most difficult is finishing what you start) and I’d been struggling with it for the last few months, when the writer’s block was rather more severe than usual. I wanted to write, but just couldn’t get started. I didn’t know where to begin. I had a…

Issue Six Hundred Ninety Seven

Changes to the Canon of Ethics at the Association of American Literary Agents

This article started out as a note for Notes from the Editor’s Desk, and as such very much reflects my personal opinion as an editor, and is more informal in tone. I am not trying to tell anyone else what to think, only where I am coming from, in terms of this. I’m always happy…

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