guidelines

How To Get Published: Use A System

In an earlier article, I supplied a list of publications to which a prospective writer of short genre fiction might submit their work. While that’s an invaluable resource, by itself it won’t get you far. In fact…

…but before I get started, let me give you some excellent second-hand advice:

“If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”

Dorothy Parker
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Where To Submit

As a writer of genre fiction, I’m often asked advice on where best to submit work. The following list has been cobbled together using information posted on the websites for the several magazines. Special thanks are due to Austin Hackney of writingcooperative.com for providing the initial inspiration, as well as a few tips I would have missed otherwise.

The following list begins with sci-fi and fantasy, has a block of flash-only, horror and New Weird, two mystery mags, and closes with kids and literary publications. NO NEWS OR OP-ED PUBLICATIONS ARE INCLUDED. Only those publications that pay in cash rather than prestige made the list, since prestige contains zero nutritional value.

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