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The Innocent Loss of First Rights

By Craig Westmore You only get one chance to make a first impression and that applies to fiction as well. Writers need to choose carefully where their fiction first appears. Whether you are seeking feedback or posting for family and friends, uploading your story to the internet can cause difficulty when trying to get it…
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SPRY Lit: Now Seeking Submissions

Updated December 21st, 2023: They have temporarily closes to submissions, probably after hitting caps. Please check back in at the start of the next month. SPRY Lit is open to submissions of fiction, creative-nonfiction, and poetry, as well as art. You can  get a good feeling for what they have are interested, by reading their…
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Icon Books: Now Accepting Book Proposals

Icon books is an adult non-fiction publisher that was founded in 1992. You can get a good feel for the books they publish here. The books they publish tend to fall into the following categories, Biography and Memoir, Business and Self Help, History and Current Affairs, Lifestyle and Travel, Literature & Language, Philosophy, Popular Culture,…
Issue Five Hundred Fifty Manuscript Publishers Non Fiction

The 5 Dos and Don’ts of Self-Promotion for Authors

By Ellie Matama Writing a book is an accomplishment because it takes a lot out of you. By the time you finish, you will have invested a lot of effort and time. But completing your book is only the beginning of the struggle because books don’t sell themselves. Below are some basics of self-promotion. 1. …
Issue Five Hundred Fifty Special Feature

Opportunities for Historically Underrepresented Writers This December

This list of publishers meet our guiding principles, but are only open to free submissions from historically underrepresented writers or focus on publishing content produced by historically underrepresented writers. Some of these publications are open to a wide range of writers including writers of color, gender non-conforming and LGBTQ+ writers, and those living with disabilities….
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5 Paying Literary Magazines to Submit to in December 2023

These magazines publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They are a mix of literary and genre magazines. On SpecThis is a Canadian magazine of speculative fiction and poetry. They are open for submissions now.Deadline: 15 December 2023Length: Fiction up to 6,000 wordsPay: CAD100 for short-shorts (under 2,000 words) and poetry, CAD0.05/word for fiction up to 6,000…
Issue Five Hundred Forty Nine Paying Market

Good River Review: Now Accepting Submissions

Good River Review is the literary journal of the Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University.   They have published two issues a year online. They were founded in 2020. In that time they have already published a number of well-known writers, and have started to establish a reputation as publishing strong…
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Tra Publishing: Now Accepting Book Proposals

Tra Publishing was founded in 2016 in Miami by Swiss-born graphic designer and author Ilona Oppenheim. They have good distribution and in North America their books are widely available in libraries and bookstores. While they publish excellent children’s books (I first encountered them through the book, The Rare, Tiny Flower by Kitty O’Meara), they do…
Issue Five Hundred Forty Nine

Scary Things for Writers to Do to Challenge Themselves

By Ratika Deshpande In my psychology classes in school, I learned that you overcome your fears not by avoiding them but by facing them. So, as a young, ambitious writer, I started doing the things I was afraid of doing, such as submitting my work to a magazine I really admired. I don’t know if…
Issue Five Hundred Forty Nine

Dragonblade: Now Accepting Manuscript Submissions

This digital-first publishing house only publishes works of historical fiction with a clear focus on romance. Within the historical romance genre they are open to most subgenres including: Viking, Regency, Georgian, Tudor, Highlander, Medieval, Victorian, Roman, Civil War, Restoration, Edwardian, etc. They are interested in anything pre-20th century except Westerns and Amish. They are also…
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In the Mood Magazine: Now Seeking Submissions

In the Mood Magazine bills itself as a “Pop Culture Journal about the Things We Like to Watch.” Their focus as a publication, is on the viewer, and their preoccupations. This is one example they give to try to make it clear what they are interested in learning about: “Why can’t we stop thinking about…
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How to Carve Out Time to Write

By Aliya Bree Hall We’re all busy. From balancing our jobs, families and social calendars, it can be hard to justify using our hard-earned free time to write when there’s hundreds of other things we could spend that energy on. As you can imagine, the problem with that approach is that if we’re not actively…
Issue Five Hundred Forty Eight Special Feature

How to Write Effective Subplots

By Ley Taylor Clark So you’ve finally plotted out — and maybe even drafted! — all the major beats of your story. You know what’s meant to happen and when, and your novel is starting to take impressive shape. You’re feeling good, but after you do another read through or pass it off to a…
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Eucalyptus Lit: Now Seeking Submissions

Eucalyptus Lit is a new online magazine of poetry, prose, and hybrid genres. They publish a wide variety of writing, but they especially like confessional writing and, “simple, pretty things.” They’re looking for authentic writing that “plays with language in beautiful ways.” Eucalyptus Lit will be published four times a year. Their first issue, which…
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Walker Books: Now Accepting Picture Book Submissions

Updated April 14th, 2025, they are no longer open to direct submissions. Walker Books, an established and respected UK based publisher of Picture books, is open to direct submissions, but only of work that is already illustrated. So if you have an un-illustrated picture book, this is not the right home for it. Walker Books…
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