writing markets
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My market for you this week is called ‘The Letters Page‘. It’s a correspondence-themed literary journal, which publishes hand-written letters. The journal is published three times a year. Each copy is free and downloadable as a PDF file. They’re looking for ‘stories, essays, poems, memoir, travelogue, reportage, conversation, criticism, speculation, illustration, deviation, and more. If
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For those of you who relish writing something with a dark edge to it, this competition will be perfect for you. ‘Almond Press are holding their ‘The Apocalyse Chronicles’ short story competition. They say, ‘The key theme of the short story competition is Apocalypse. We value diversity, so stories written from a dystopian, dark fiction, weird fiction
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My market for your this week is of the horror genre. Dark Markets is a US site, which provides horror writers with free market resources. They hold regular competitions, offering only a small prize but the competitions are exciting and give you the chance to think outside the box. One competition with a closing date
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You’ll need to get your skates on with this week’s market (closing date a week today – Wednesday 25th February), but when you hear about the prize money, you may very well want to! The BBC National Short Story Award in partnership with Booktrust gives the first place prize winner £15,000, the runner-up £3,000 and
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The Fiction Desk’s Annual Ghost Story. I have Geoff Le Pard to thank for this week’s market. The Fiction Desk publish fiction of between 2000 – 11000 words (see my ‘More Markets For Freelancers Page’ for more info) They also hold regular competitions and are currently holding a ghost story competition, with a first prize
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A huge thank you to Nica (Sacha Black) for sending me in last week’s market. Looks like I’m going to have give her another big thanks to her as she’s sent in another market. L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest is an US based writing competition for new science fiction and fantasy writers.
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Cinnamon Press is an independent publisher, publishing poetry, fiction and also selective non-fiction. It’s a small company run by a family team. As well as publishing books, Cinnamon Press hold twice yearly competitions for poetry, mini-stories, short stories and novels/novellas. To find out more about each competition, take a look at their competitions page and
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A few weeks ago, I mentioned devising a daily plan and aiming to send work out each day. I’m now starting to see the benefit of this approach, with e-mails confirming two readers’ letters and one tip will be published in future magazines. I’ve also had an article I pitched commissioned and a children’s story
Esther Chilton 