Paying Markets For Writers

This is a list of paying markets for writers. Publishers who will pay writers for articles, submissions, fiction, non-fiction, poems, true stories, cookbooks, chicklit, romantic musings and more. Personally speaking, I have neither need nor time for pursuing publishers. That's a discreet way of saying that my writing is trash and I'm scared of putting my thoughts to paper and submitting it to publishers. Doesn't mean that I can't list these publishers.


  • AA Independent Press Guide - A free, online writer's resource, with detailed listings of over 2000 literary & genre magazines, and links to over 700 internet magazines.
  • Absolute Markets - Paying market guidelines for freelance writers, writing contests, and interviews with editors, publishers, and agents.
  • Avalanche of Jobs for Writers - Employment opportunities for writers and journalists in reporting, feature writing, reviewing, editing.
  • Bonnie Mercure's Guide to Writers' Markets - Market listings for speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy, horror, slipstream, mystery fiction. Divided into paying/non-paying markets and print magazines/ezines.
  • The Critter's Workshop Market List - Market list from Critter's Workshop. Targets science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
  • Duotrope's Digest of Fiction Fields - Free, searchable list of fiction markets (mainstream and genre). Also offers a calender of themed publication deadlines.
  • Every Literary Magazine - A list of literary magazines, zines, and online publications. (Some link rot).
  • Foreign Language Market List - Douglas Smith's market list for multilingual writers.
  • Forwriters.com - This is an all-purpose site with links to such writer's resources as markets, agents, groups, conferences, forums, and workshops where writers can have their works critiqued.
  • FTP Directory of the news.answers/writing Newsgroup - Contains a listing of market information under Resources.
  • ITI's Literary Market Place.com - Searchable database of the book publishing industry. Search by subject, type of publication, city, state, zip, and even by number of publications issued in the past year.
  • Just Markets - Markets from travel writing to freelance newspaper jobs. Subscribe for $9.95 a month.
  • Kimberly Brown's Writing Page - Contains links to writing markets.
  • Literary Magazines Reviewed for Writers - Short descriptions of literary magazines for prose writers: typical stories, story length, when to submit, typical contributor's background.
  • The Market List - "A resource for writers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror."
  • Mastheads.org - A website dedicated to updating hundreds of magazine mastheads, with information for freelancers on how to contact magazine editors.
  • Media Bistro - A website connecting journalists and new media professionals to jobs and each other.
  • Online Content UK: Jobs List - The job list of Online Content UK, the national organization for new media editorial professionals in the United Kingdom. Jobs cover editorial roles, including writing, editing and other content-related jobs.
  • The Paper Journey Press - Links to writer's guidelines for various literary journals.
  • Paula Fleming's Market List - List of markets for speculative fiction.
  • Publisher Database - Offers a submission tracker, forums, and a member-maintained database of magazines looking for writers and poets.
  • Ralan's Webstravaganza - Writing market listings by genre. Also a spec. fiction newsletter.
  • The Rose & Thorn Writer's Market Info - Paying and non-paying market listings; links to other sites offering market listings; on- and offline contests and competitions; links to additional market sources.
  • Sally Stuart - Market guide targeted to Christian writers, including periodical, book, greeting card, poetry, and specialty markets. Also links to conferences contests, and agents.
  • SciFi Editor: Paying Markets - Paying markets for writers of science fiction, fantasy, speculative fiction, and horror.
  • Speculations - An online resource for writers who wish to break into or increase their presence within the science fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction subgenres. Subscribe for $20 a year.
  • Speculative Fiction Markets - Paying markets for short science fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction. Categorized by pay rate.
  • Submitting to the Black Hole - Links to science fiction/ fantasy/ horror magazine and book publishers including market information. Site reports statistics on average response times for submitted manuscripts, the theory being that markets with very slow response times are akin to black holes. Only paying markets are tracked.
  • Wooden Horse Publishing - A news and market resource site for nonfiction periodicals writers.
  • Word Dragon - Markets for writers to send their work to.
  • Worldwide Freelance Writer - Global directory of markets for freelance writers.
  • The Write Market - Online writer's market list, containing listings for print magazines, book projects, contests, webzines, and publishers.
  • Writerfind.com - Global freelance and telecommuting jobs for writers.
  • The Writers' Desk - A service query desk which allows authors to send multiple queries, pitches, manuscripts, articles and screenplays to syndicates, agents, magazines and publishers.
  • Writer's Digest - Writer's Digest features daily writing and publishing updates, writer's guidelines, ranking of places to get published, courses and contests.
  • The Writers Place - Market database, Chicken Writer daily cartoon and a humour column. Home page of the Writing for Dollars newsletter.
  • Writers Write: Paying Markets - List of paying markets and writer's guidelines from Writer's Write.
  • WritersMarket: Market Watch - Searchable database of publishers and agents. Offers features such as the Submission Tracker, the Tips Library, Your Writer's Market, Web Resources, the Market Watch section, the Spotlight Market and the Ask the Agent column.
  • WritersWeekly.com - Free listing of paying markets for freelance writers. Also includes links to various resources for writers.
  • Writers@Work - Job board and market database.
  • Zongoo - Writers submit their articles, publishers get their free content.



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