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LITERARY JOURNALS THAT PAY (!)

(included: publications that pay more than $3)

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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Flame Tree Press // $0.08 per word of unpublished fiction; $0.06 per word for reprints

Flash Fiction Online // $0.08 per word of unpublished fiction; $0.02 per word for reprints (1st through 21st of each month)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
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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
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Subterrain // $50 per poem; $0.10 per word of prose
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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
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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
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Breath & Shadow // $20 for poetry; $30 for prose

Spartan // $20 per author + contributor's copy


Contrary Magazine // $20 per author

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Claw & Blossom // $25 per accepted piece 
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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
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The Sun // $300-2,000 for prose; $100-250 for poetry -- and one-year subscription 
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THEMA // $25 for short stories; $10 for flash fiction or poetry
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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)
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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
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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
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Analog // unspecified payment for science fiction
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SCUM // $60AUD per piece

Strange Horizons // unspecified payment for science fiction

Blackbird // unspecified payment for poetry
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MARY // $50 per piece

VIDA Review // $20 per author
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Frozen Wavelets // $0.08 per word for speculative flash fiction; $1 per line of poetry 
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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.
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