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Non-paying Markets

3AM Magazine
3AM Magazine is an online publication with a "loose, eclectic forum for literary upstarts." Learn More...

collectedstories.com
collectedstories.com is an online magazine, which publishes literary short fiction and select short stories. If a story is accepted for publication, it will be featured on a portion of their site and then archived in a storybank. Learn More...

East of the Web
East of the Web offers writers a high quality location to publish their work. The website receives half a million unique page views per month, so this site offers high visibility for authors wanting to gain exposure. East of the Web also receives attention from agents and other publishers. Learn More...

The Fiction Warehouse
The Fiction Warehouse features "emerging and established authors." The website offers featured stories, story archives, contests, and listings to Ezines. Learn More...

LitDotOrg
Lit.Org is a community for readers and writers. Authors can publish their stories, share ideas and thoughts, or browse the extensive collection of stories, poetry, and classics. Lit.Org encourages reader response. Learn More...

Lulu
Lulu is an online marketplace for digital content. This unique, online community allows authors, musicians, and artists the ability to publish their work at no charge. Authors control the process and retain all rights. Learn More...

Science Fiction and Fantasy World
Science Fiction and Fantasy World is one of the largest SF and Fantasy literature websites on the Internet. SFF World offers discussion forums, book reviews, interviews, articles, short stories, and more. Their intent is to "showcase the works of authors, both amateurs and professional, and to provide a forum for others to comment on and give feedback on the work." Learn More...

Small Spiral Notebook
Small Spiral Notebook offers authors a place to publish their original work. This well-produced and attractive site has a growing audience and receives over 5,000 unique visitors per month. SSN offers fiction, poetry, non-fiction, art/photography, and interviews. Learn More...

Storymania
Storymania offers authors access to a community of creative writers and readers for original, previously unpublished works. They encourage interaction between writers and their readers. Learn More...

Paying Markets

Absolute Magnitude
Absolute Magnitude is a quarterly magazine, which features science fiction short stories. This publication specializes in action/adventure science fiction and focuses on tightly plotted stories that are character driven. Learn More...

AlienSkin Magazine
AlienSkin Magazine offers genre writers a free mix of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror stories, articles, contests, and writing tips. Their site includes Featured Fiction as well as Flash Fiction. Learn More...

The Cafe Irreal
The Cafe Irreal is a semi-annual web-zine that focuses on readers and writers of literary fiction with fantastic themes. (They note such authors as Franz Kafka and Jorge Luis Borges.) The Cafe Irreal offers a type of fiction that "defies many of the conventions of, especially, American literature." Learn More...

Net Author's E2K
E2K is a monthly literary journal, which focuses on forming a quality community for writers, editors, and publishers. They offer fiction, non-fiction, and creative tools as well as writer's resources and e-mail-based writer's discussion groups. Net Author is a publicly supported organization. Learn More...

flashquake
flashquake is a quarterly, web-based journal that specializes in flash literature or stories in the most compact form possible. Their goal is to make flashquake a "top quality, paying venue for literary writers." Learn More...

Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine
Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine (FMAM) is a quarterly publication that seeks to nourish writers and artists. They feel that there is a tremendous amount of energy in the writing community and that the future "market value" of writers will be "higher than can be imagined." FMAM considers itself a "stepping stone for many younger writers." Learn More...

inkburns
inkburns is a weekly literary journal, which focuses on content for the "busy, modern reader." inkburns received a ranking of 18 in the Writer's Digest list of the 25 Best Places to Get Published Online. Learn More...

Pif Magazine
Pif Magazine is a monthly e-magazine, which ranked on Writer's Digest "Top 30" list of markets for fiction writers. Pif features original short stories, micro-fiction, novel excerpts, poetry, creative non-fiction, book reviews, zine reviews, interviews, and literary commentary. Learn More...

PulpLit
PulpLit is a quarterly publication, which focuses on popular culture. They publish literary fiction and believe that "good writing often transcends genre." Learn More...

The Strand Magazine
The Strand Magazine, a quarterly publication that was once famous for publishing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his Sherlock Holmes stories, Agatha Christie, H.G. Wells, and Aldous Huxley, has returned to offer readers articles, book reviews, short stories, and interviews. Learn More...

The Vestal Review
The Vestal Review is a free, quarterly e-zine, which focuses on flash fiction (short-shorts). VR considers this one of the more difficult forms of fiction to write, as authors must condense a cohesive plot, rich language, and enticing imagery into 500 words or less. Learn More...

Would That It Were
Would That It Were is a quarterly publication specializing in historical science fiction (such as that written by H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Mary Shelley). Learn More...

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