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Some Potential Markets for Story #1!

 

SOME POTENTIAL MARKETS FOR STORY #1 (and others to follow)

 

ESCAPE POD/POD CASTLE/PSEUDO POD (up to 6K, but prefers 3-4K)

We are an audio magazine. Our audience can’t skim past the boring parts, and stories with beautiful language at the expense of plot don’t translate well. We’re looking for fiction with strong pacing, well-defined characters, engaging dialogue, and clear action. It can be beautiful too, if you’ve got all those other bases covered, but above all we’re looking for fun. escapepod.org

GOOD FITS: Haley, Blake, Eden, Serenity, Addison, Kayden, Eli, Joy, Rylee

BENEATH CEASELESS SKIES (up to 7K, though may publish longer works)

Beneath Ceaseless Skies is a new online magazine dedicated to publishing the best in "literary adventure fantasy." We love traditional adventure fantasy, including classics from the 1930s pulp era and the new wave of fantasy from the 1970s post-Tolkien boom. But we also love how the recent influence of literary writing on fantasy short fiction has expanded and advanced the genre…We want stories that combine the best of both these styles—adventure fantasy plots in vivid secondary worlds, but written with a literary flair. beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/

GOOD FITS: Jaxon, Shelby, Lilian, Kayden

THE DARK (up to 6K)

What we publish: Horror and Dark Fantasy. Don’t be afraid to experiment or to deviate from the ordinary; be different—try us with fiction that may fall out of “regular” categories. However, it is also important to understand that despite the name, The Dark is not a market for graphic, violent horror. thedarkmagazine.com

GOOD FITS: Candi, Eden, Serenity, Shannon, Addison, Miles, Kayden

UNCANNY (up to 7K)

Uncanny is seeking passionate SF/F fiction and poetry with gorgeous prose– intricate, experimental stories and poems with verve and imagination that elicit strong emotions and challenge beliefs from writers from every conceivable background. Uncanny believes there’s still plenty of room in the genre for tales that make you feel. uncannymagazine.com

GOOD FITS: Everyone!

ALLEGORY (up to 5K)

We're looking for good, solid fiction. We specialize in the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror genres. We will consider other genres, such as humor or general interest, provided that the work possesses an original, "quirky" slant. DO give us strong characters and good plotting. DO put clever, but logical twists on the end of your tales. DO experiment with new ideas and unusual writing styles, but without falling into traps of contrivance and cliché. allegoryezine.com

GOOD FITS: Matt, Aidan, Eli, Garnet, Cindy, Haley, Brittini, Rylee

FABULA ARGENTEA (up to 8K)

Give us something unexpected. Amaze us with your writing, use of language, sense of story, and memorable characters. Give us a story that we and our readers will not be able to forget. Give us an intriguing opening or premise, then follow it through to a strong ending. Pieces that don’t do this will usually be declined. fabulaargentea.com 

GOOD FITS: Everyone!

THE FUTURE FIRE (up to 7K, but open to taking longer work)

The Future Fire welcomes submissions of speculative fiction with progressive, inclusive and socially aware disposition. All stories in TFF magazine are selected from the open submission pile. We are particularly interested in feminist, queer, postcolonial and ecological themes, and writing by under-represented voices (but nobody is required to self-identify, publicly or privately, as any identity). futurefire.net 

GOOD FITS: Aidan, Lilian, Haley, Eli, Joy, Garnet, Rylee

PENUMBRIC SPECULATIVE FICTION MAGAZINE (up to 7K, but open to longer work)

In terms of genre, I am looking for work that constitutes the ever-moving edge of its kind, as a place between light and dark, consciousness and un, today and tomorrow; work exhibiting the strange, the bizarre, that which is not of the world we know, but more of a twilight realm or even altogether alien place. Not necessarily science fiction, not necessarily fantasy, not necessarily horror, and not necessarily not these things. In short, ideally edgy. Maybe even idealistically edgy. penumbric.com

GOOD FITS: Aidan, Shelby, Jaxon, Rylee, Eli, Kayden

MIDWEST WEIRD (up to 7K, but may consider more)

What is Weird? It could be the style. The content. The genre. It could be you. If you think it’s weird, your work may fit with us. https://www.broadsandbooksproductions.com/tag/midwest-weird/

GOOD FITS: Eden, Serenity, Kayden, Shannon, Garnet

BONUS: Listen to my story, “Eviction Notice,” my one sort-of ‘haunted house’ story as read by the team at Midwest Weird on their website: https://www.broadsandbooksproductions.com/midwest-weird-eviction-notice-joshua-grasso/

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