LITERARY JOURNALS THAT PAY (!) |
(included: publications that pay more than $3)
The West Review // $10 per poem or prose piece (always open for submissions) The Threepenny Review // $200 per poem; $400 per short story (Jan. 1 through July 30th) Redivider // unknown payment Banshee // small payment and contributor's copy Minola Review // $20 per piece Hypocrite Reader // unknown/varying payment per author Kikwetu Lit Journal // $30 per piece (Black / African writers only) Yellow Arrow // $10 per contributor + contributor's copy Beestung Mag // $20 per piece (nonbinary and two-spirit writers only) Baffling Mag // $0.08 per word for each story (queer SF, fantasy, and horror) Daily Science Fiction // $0.08 per word Dream of Shadows // $20EU per story (fantasy and horror) Dirty Spoon // $50 per piece (nonfiction prose only) Smarty Pants Magazine for Kids // $15 per story Peril AU // $50-150AU per piece (Australian writers only) Twenty-Two Twenty-Eight // $30 for a number of poems ($30 total, not each) Perpetual Motion Machine // $25 per flash piece Ombak // $0.08 per word of fiction (must have connection to Southeast Asia) Westerly // $120 per poem and $150 for two or more poems; $200 for prose; $120 for art (must live in Aus) Volney Road Review // $10 per accepted piece Third Point Press // $10 per contributor Doubly Mad // $15 per contributor + contributor's copy Matchbook Lit Mag // $20 per prose piece Electric Literature // $100 per accepted poem or prose piece Extra Teeth // $100EU per prose piece Room Magazine // unknown payment Lor Journal // $50 per accepted piece Freefall // $10-$100 for prose and $25 per poem -- plus contributor's copy (July 1 through Nov 30) The Mighty Line // unknown payment for flash piction Downstate Story // $50 per story The Arcanist // $50 per flash story If There's Anyone Left // $0.08 per word of science and speculative fiction under 1,000 words Flame Tree Press // $0.08 per word of unpublished fiction; $0.06 per word for reprints Flash Fiction Online // $0.08 per word of unpublished fiction; $0.02 per word for reprints (1st through 21st of each month) Bywords // $50 per poem (current and former residents of Ottawa only) El Chapo Review // $100 per piece Funny Times // $60 per story + $25-$40 per cartoon Fun For Kidz // $0.05+ per word of prose; $10+ per poem or puzzle -- plus contributor's copy Love Letters to Poe // $0.05 per word of Gothic fiction Flash Bang Mysteries // $50 per flash mystery story The Earthian Hivemind // $1 per line of poetry and $0.08 per word of prose Folded // $5 per accepted piece City River Tree // unknown payment via Venmo per flash fiction piece Understorey // $50-$100 per acceptance Retcon Mag // $0.08 per word of fiction; $20 per poem; $100 per essay; $100-$500 for art (BIPOC only) Raconteur Mag // $5 per poem; $10 for prose Nanoism // $1.50 per piece under 140 characters The Martian Magazine // $0.10 per word for stories of exactly 100 words Subterrain // $50 per poem; $0.10 per word of prose Nectar Poetry // $10 per poem Three Crows Magazine // $0.01 per word of horror, sci-fi, or fantasy The Short Story // $15EU per prose piece Barrelhouse // $50 per piece Josephine Quarterly // $30 per poem Frontier Poetry // $50 per poem Palette Poetry // $50 per poem Daybreaking Zine // $10 per queer/communist/sci-fi-related piece of writing Clarkesworld // $0.10 per word (SF and fantasy only) The Rush // undisclosed payment for poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and visual art The Malahat Review // $65CAD per published page, plus a one-year subscription Terra Preta Review // undisclosed payment for poetry, translations, CNF, craft essays, reviews, and art Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine // undisclosed payment for mystery stories and novellas Breath & Shadow // $20 for poetry; $30 for prose Spartan // $20 per author + contributor's copy Contrary Magazine // $20 per author Claw & Blossom // $25 per accepted piece Eye to the Telescope // $0.03 per word for speculative poetry ($25 max) Upstreet // $50-250 for prose; unknown for poetry -- and contributor's copy The Sun // $300-2,000 for prose; $100-250 for poetry -- and one-year subscription THEMA // $25 for short stories; $10 for flash fiction or poetry The Virginia Quarterly Review // $200 per poem; $1,000+ for prose Poetry // $10 per line (minimum $300) AGNI // $10 per page of prose; $20 for page of poetry Bennington Review // $20 per poem; up to $200 for prose (Nov 1 through May 8) Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine // $0.08-10 per word for short stories; $1 per line of poetry (up to $40) CŌNFINGŌ MAGAZINE // $20EU per contributor One Story // $500 per story and 25 contributor copies The New Yorker // unspecified payment The Wanderer // $25 per poem The Forge // $60 for nonfiction and fiction. Grain Magazine // $50-250CAD The Paris Review // unspecified payment Analog // unspecified payment for science fiction SCUM // $60AUD per piece Strange Horizons // unspecified payment for science fiction Blackbird // unspecified payment for poetry MARY // $50 per piece VIDA Review // $20 per author Frozen Wavelets // $0.08 per word for speculative flash fiction; $1 per line of poetry The Puritan // $25 per page of poetry; $100+ for prose Blue Marble Review // $25 per piece; $75 for cover art -- by people ages 13-22 only Ruminate Magazine // $20 per page for poetry and visual art; $0.05 per word for prose The Waking // $10 per piece -- plus two free copies of Ruminate CRAFT // $50-100 per prose piece Chestnut Review // $100 per piece + 1 copy of annual anthology Isele Magazine // unspecified payment for poetry, prose, and art Salamander // $35 + two contributor's copies Book XI // $200 per philosophical prose piece; $50 per philosophical poem Honeyguide Magazine // $25 per story; $50 for art -- plus free PDF of the upcoming issue CAROUSEL // $20CAD per poem; $50-80CAD per story; $20-50CAD per review LOLWE // unspecified payment for prose, poetry, and art Bracken Magazine // $0.04 per word of fiction; $15 per poem; unknown payment for cover art Trampset // $25 per accepted piece Terse Journal // $10 per accepted piece Serotonin Poetry // $5 per poem Newfound // $25 per accepted piece Down River Road // $30 per piece (for print contributors only) + a one-year subscription Iskanchi Literary Magazine // unspecified payment per piece by African writers A Velvet Giant // $20 per author Elevator Stories // unspecified payment (and accepts reprints!) Paranoid Tree // $50 for fiction, CNF, and *prose* poetry + 10 copies of the final printed zine All Guts No Glory // $5 for poetry, flash fiction, essays, horoscopes, playlists, art, etc. ($5 per author -- not per piece) Middle House Review // $25 per poem or short fiction piece Little Blue Marble // $0.11 per word of unpublished prose; $0.01 for reprints Bloodbath Lit Zine // $30 per author Underground Writers // $50 per accepted piece The Maine Review // $25 for poetry and prose Pandemic Publications // $120CAD for fiction and nonfiction; $50 per poem; $150 for art Page & Spine // $5-$30 for fiction, depending on length The Seventh Wave // unknown payment Lumin // $10 per contributor Timeless Tales Magazine // $30 per piece What Wonderful Things // $15 per contributor Her Stry // $20 per story (themed prompts) Black Telephone Magazine // $25 per piece + contributor's copy Light and Dark Magazine // $15 per short story Funicular Magazine // $10 per page of short stories; $25 for flash and poetry -- and a contributor's copy Fireside Fiction // $0.12 per word of fiction Filthy Loot // $5 per author + contributor's copy All Due Respect // $25 for crime fiction The Copperfield Review // $15 for book reviews and poems; $20 for fiction and interviews; $25 for craft essays Briar Patch Magazine // $100-$300 for articles The Blue Route // $25 per piece (undergraduate writers only) CHILLFILTR // $20-$60 per piece Writer Shed Press // $20 per author Gaze Journal // $25 per written piece; $75-$100 for a collection of images (**pays twice as much to Black writers!**) Invictus Quarterly // $0.08 per word of fiction (1,000-17,499 words); $0.01 per word of reprinted fiction; $25 for a comic series Jaded Ibis Press // $80 per piece Liisbeth // $250-$2000 Noir Nation // unknown payment for crime fiction Penny // $25-$50 per piece Corvid Queen // $5 per piece Sciphi Journal // $0.03 per word of SF The New Southern Fugitives // $50 per book review; $40 per poem; $40 per piece of art; $45-$105 for prose Six Hens // $50 per writer of nonfiction (women only) Sunlight Press // unknown payment for poetry, prose, art, etc. Malefaction Mag // $10-$20 for poetry and prose related to crime Rivet Journal // $25 per author Outlook Springs // $10 per poem; $10 per flash piece; $25 per short story Mumber Mag // $25 per poem; $50 per short story Coastal Shelf // $20+ per piece Sycamore Review // $25 per poem; $50 per fiction piece -- plus two contributor's copies Epoch Press // $15EU for CNF, poetry, and art Neon Magazine // $0.10 per line of poetry; $0.05 per line of prose; $3.50 per image SmokeLong Quarterly // $50 per short story Mslexia // $25EU per published piece Fractured Lit // $50 for microfiction; $75 for flash fiction Tinderbox Poetry Journal // $15 per author Epoch Press // $15EU per accepted piece + contributor's copy The Margins (Asian American Writers' Workshop) // $30 per page of poetry ($50 for two); undisclosed payment for prose Hexagon Magazine // $5CAD for speculative poetry and cartoons; $10CAD for prose and graphic stories; $50CAD for cover art Inkwell Black // $15 per poem (Black poets only) Curioser // $100 per short essay that is hopeful, insightful, compassionate, inclusive, and embraces curiosity Brevity Mag // $45 for featured essays and craft essays Constellary Tales // $0.08 per word of SF Voiceworks Mag // $100AU for writing and art (young Australian writers only) Canthius // $15 per poem; $50 for prose -- plus a contributor's copy Cloud Lake Literary // $50CAD (Canadian writers only) Carte Blanche // unknown payment for all Porter House Review // undisclosed payment for poetry and prose; $25 per accepted art piece Pangyrus // $10 per acceptance + contributor's copy (charges submission fees) Vestal Review // $50 per flash fiction piece (charges submission fees) Split Lip Magazine // $50 per author for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, and art, and $25 for interviews/reviews for web issues. $5 per page, minimum of $20, plus 2 contributor copies for print issues. (usually charges submission fees) Colorado Review // unknown payment (professional rate) for poetry and prose (charges submission fees) Nunum // $20 for flash fiction and art (charges submission fees) Raleigh Review // $15 per piece, plus free contributor's copy (charges submission fees) Crazyhorse // $20 per page (charges submission fees) Gulf Coast // $50 per printed page of poetry, fiction, or nonfiction (charges submission fees) Silk Road Review // $10 per page of writing; $30 per piece of art (charges submission fees) December Magazine // $40-200 per accepted piece + two contributor's copies (charges submission fees) Dreamers Magazine // $20CAD per contributor (charges submission fees) Zizzle Lit // $100 for flash; $250 for short stories (charges submission fees) Oscilloscope Literary Magazine // $500 per strange/absurd short story + 5 contributor's copies (charges submission fees) ($7.50) Birdcoat Quarterly // $10 per poem; $25 per essay (charges submission fees) The Gettysburg Review // $2.50 per line of poetry; $25 per page of prose -- and contributor's copy; one-year subscription (charges submission fees) Black Warrior Review // $100-220 per contributor (unspecified) (charges submission fees) Southeast Review // $50+ for poetry; $100 for prose + a contributor's copy (charges submission fees) River Styx // $25-150 + contributor's copy + one-year subscription (charges submission fees) The Missouri Review // unknown payment for poetry and prose (charges submission fees) American Short Fiction // unknown payment (charges submission fees) Cherry Tree // $20 per contributor + two contributor's copies (charges submission fees) Unstamatic // $10 per accepted piece (charges submission fees) Twyckenham Notes // $25 per poem (charges submission fees) Copper Nickel //$30 per printed page + two contributor's copies (charges submission fees) American Poetry Review // unspecified payment for poetry and prose + year-long subscription (charges submission fees) And, in case we missed any, here's another resource that lists paying journals. |