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Respecting the Reader: Some Things Writers Should Consider

It’s our responsibility as writers to give readers a good experience when they pick up our books and stories. If we don’t respect their time and intelligence, they’re not very likely to listen to what we have to say in its entirety, let alone take a look at our other work.  But how do we…
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23 Terrific Small Presses Open to Direct Submissions

We review a lot of wonderful small presses here, and we also list even more here, here, and here (although some of these lists include large presses also). We also feature a lot of these presses in our biannually updated guide, which you can download here. This list doesn’t include all of our favorites, but…
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50 Romance Publishers Seeking Submissions

For the first few years of Authors Publish, even though I only reviewed romance publishers that were over a year old, I had no lack of options in terms of romance publishers to review. They were the easiest genre to find publishers open to direct submissions, other than those focused on non-fiction. Particularly in 2016…
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53 Magazines Seeking Genre Fiction

Most literary journals are interested in literary work, by which they mean, not genre work (although this is changing a little). The definition of genre is a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter. However, in the context of writing, genre can refer to…
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30 New Literary Magazines to Send Your Work To

These are a mix of literary and genre magazines, and they publish fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid works, and translations. They launched their first issue, at most, a year or so ago. Some of them have yet to publish their first issue. Many, but not all, of them are open for submissions now, and some of…
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30 Magazines Publishing Hybrid Writing

These magazines accept hybrid/genre-bending/cross-genre works. They also accept other genres, like fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. A few of these magazines pay writers. Many, but not all, are open for submissions now. The Literary Times MagazineThey publish “original, experimental, and aesthetically powerful literature” – hybrid (2,000-3,000 words), fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. They want work “with an…
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58 Literary Journals that Pay their Authors

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. – W.H. Auden As someone who makes their living writing about writing and publishing, I can attest to how truthful Auden’s quote is. It is hard making…
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28 Journals with Fast Response Times

It is good to start out by submitting your work to literary journals that have fast response times. It is rewarding to hear back from journals within a month, rather than a year later, when you have forgotten all about them. Submitting to journals with fast response times helps keep you motivated. All of these…
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27 Approachable Literary Journals

Some journals accept a lot more submissions than others. Acceptance rates change all the time, so realize that over time these journals may become harder to get into. These are not the only publishers that are easy to get into, but they are a good place to start if your sole goal is to get…
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42 Themed Submission Calls and Contests for May 2026

▾ Filter listings Fiction Poetry Contest Essay ✕ Showing all These are themed calls and contests for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Some of the call themes are: light the beacons; sinister soiree (celebration horror); beyond the red line; if you say so; out of office; breaking the mold; witches & warlocks; reborn; were (creatures); gold;…
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49 Traditional Children’s Book Publishers Seeking Submissions (No Agent Required)

All of the publishers on this list publish children’s books. Some just publish picture books, some publish only middle-grade fiction, and some publish a wide variety of genres aimed at adults as well. Some are looking for educational work, others are open to anything. A number of these publishers are large and established. Others are…
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50 Literary Journals Publishing Poetry

These journals / websites publish poetry of many kinds – rhymed and traditional verse, free form, video and audio poems, poem comics, as well as essays about poetry. Some also accept other genres, like fiction and CNF. A few of them accept themed work. Some magazines pay writers. Most, but not all, are open now….
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A Quick Start Guide to Children’s and Young Adult Publishing

Writing for children and young adults is very different than writing for adults. Audience expectations are different. Picture books, for example, have completely different sub-genres than adult books. Whereas adult books have genres like science fiction and fantasy, picture books have sub-genres like fairy tale, alphabet, and bedtime books. There is a whole body of…
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27 Literary Fiction Publishers that Accept Direct Submissions – No Agent Required

Literary fiction is one of the harder genres to get published in without an agent. There are smaller presses that specialize in it, but unfortunately more and more of those presses are now charging reading fees. However, there are still good options for authors who are unagented and averse to paying reading fees. The manuscript…
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42 Publishers that Accept Direct Submissions of Speculative Fiction

Speculative fiction is generally defined as a genre of fiction where the setting is not in the world as we know it because of supernatural, fantastical, or futuristic elements. Three genres are covered by this umbrella term: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. This term is also used to cover work that doesn’t fit exactly in…
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