My main focus here is on fiction, but many of these literary/mainstream markets also publish poetry and nonfiction. Comments from anyone other than myself in "quotes".

Tiered listings are followed by detailed market info. The tiering assessments are highly idiosyncratic, based on a combination of pay scale, reputation, and circulation; it's rather difficult to tell which magazines are actually most prestigious. If you disagree with a particular publication's tier listing, please don't get upset -- just write and let me know why, and there's a good chance that I'll adjust it. (Note: I don't have time to keep this list up properly -- I have at least a hundred backlogged edits to make to it. If you're interested in helping me update it, please let me know. Long-term, I think making it a freely-editable wiki may be the right way to go, although I'm not sure how to keep people from just up-tiering their favorite pubs...)

Thanks to Ben Rosenbaum, Toiya K. Finley, Alan DeNiro, and Paul Ketzle for extensive market listing help.

-- Mary Anne

O. Henry Award Magazine Index

• ($) -- pays cash
• (AG) -- only agented subs
• (SS) -- simsub okay
• (B) -- consulted for Best American Short Stories
• (O) -- consulted for O. Henry Awards
• (P) -- consulted for Pushcart
• (AW) -- stories/poetry published have won awards
• (NE) -- open to novel excerpts
• (SF) -- accepts quasi-speculative, or surrealist, or stylistically experimental fiction
• (R) -- reading period

LAST UPDATED -- March 22, 2006

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First Tier

• The Atlantic Monthly ($)
• Esquire ($)(NE)
• GQ ($)(AG)
• Harper's ($)
• The New Yorker ($)(SF)
• Playboy ($)(SF)
• Redbook ($)(AG)
• Saturday Evening Post ($)
• Seventeen ($)
• Zoetrope ($) (SF)

Second Tier

• Glimmer Train ($)(NE)
• Granta ($)(SF)
• Missouri Review (SF)
• The Paris Review ($)(SF)(O)(P)(B)(AW)
• Ploughshares (SS)(NE)
• The Sun ($)(NE)
• Tin House ($)(SS)(SF)(O)(AW)
• Virginia Quarterly Review ($)(NE)(O)(AW)(SF)
• The Yale Review ($)

Third Tier

• Agni ($)(SS)(NE)
• Black Warrior Review ($)(SS)
• Boston Review (SS)
• Five Points ($)(R)
• The Georgia Review ($)
• The Gettysburg Review ($)
• Indiana Review ($)(NE)(SS)(O)(P)(R)
• The Iowa Review ($)
• Kenyon Review ($)
• McSweeney's (SF)
• Mid-American Review ($)(O)
• Mississippi Review
• North American Review (SF)(B)(O)(P)(AW)(R)
• Other Voices ($)(NE)(O)(P)(B)(AW)(R)
• Prairie Schooner
• Quarterly West ($)(SS)(O)(P)(SF)
• The Southern Review ($)(O)(AW)(NE)
• The Threepenny Review ($)

Fourth Tier

• ACM (Another Chicago Magazine)
• Alaska Quarterly Review (R)
• The Antioch Review
• Arts and Letters ($)
• Boulevard ($)(SS)(SF)(NE)(P)(O)(R)
• Callaloo (SF)(NE)(P)(O)(B)(AW)
• Chelsea (SF)
• Chicago Review
• Conjunctions
• Crab Orchard Review ($)(SS)(NE)(P)(O)(R)
• Crazyhorse (SF)(SS)(O)
• Double Take ($)(SS)(O)(AW)
• Epoch (NE)
• Exquisite Corpse
• Fiction ($)(SF)(SS)(O)(B)(P)(AW)(R)
• Happy ($)
• Harpur Palate ($)(SF)(NE)(SS)(O)(P)(R)
• The Harvard Review
• Hayden's Ferry Review ($)(NE)
• Implosion
• Malahat Review (NE)
• Massachusetts Review (SF)
• Michigan Quarterly Review
• New England Review ($)(O)
• New Virginia Review ($)
• New York Stories ($)(SS)(R)
• Oasis ($)
• Shenandoah
• Third Coast (SF)
• Zyzzyva

Fifth Tier

• Alabama Literary Review
• Antaeus
• The Artful Dodge ($)(SF)
• The Asian Pacific American Journal
• The Notre Dame Review
• Santa Monica Review (SF)

Not Yet Tiered

• 96 Inc.
• Absinthe
• African American Review
• The Barcelona Review
• Cafe Irreal ($)(SF)
• Columbia
• Confrontation (NE)
• Edifice Wrecked
• Eureka Literary Magazine
• Fence (SF)
• Florida Review
• Hudson Review
• Literary Review
• Lorraine and James
• Mad Hatters' Review
• Manoa
• Michigan Avenue Review
• New Letters
• Night Train
• Nimrod
• Noo Journal
• North Atlantic Review
• Ontario Review
• Open City ($) (SF) (SS)
• The Pedestal ($) (SF)
• Philadelphia Stories ($)
• Pleiades
• Puerto Del Sol
• Scruffy Dog Review
• Sewanee Review
• Smokelong Quarterly
• Son and Foe
• South Dakota Review
• Story Quarterly
• TriQuarterly Review
• Vestal Review ($) (SF)
• Witness
• Yaoi Press

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The Markets

• 96 INC.
  - biannual

  Send to:
  Vera Gold, Editor
  96 INC.
  P. O. Box 15559
  Boston, MA 02215

• Absinthe

• ACM (Another Chicago Magazine) - (R)
  - only reads from February 1 to August 31, simsub okay, up to 25 pages, prefers not "strictly genre"; no "inspirational" or religious

  Send to:
  Editor
  Another Chicago Magazine
  3709 North Kenmore
  Chicago, IL 60613

• African American Review
  - quarterly; focus on African-American literature and culture; averages one short story per issue

  Send to:
  Joe Weixlmann, Editor
  Stalker Hall 213
  Indiana State University
  Terre Haute, IN 47809

• AGNI - (NE)
  - poetry, fiction, essays, reviews; submit no more than one story or five poems; no e-mail subs; unsolicited nonfiction not ordinarily considered; simsubs okay; response time 2-4 months, $10/page, up to $150

  Send to:
  Askold Melnyczuk, Editor
  AGNI
  236 Bay Street Road
  Boston University Writing Program
  Boston, MA 02115

• Alabama Literary Review
  - no juvenile/romance, stories average 3500 words, publishes at least annually, pays in copies, no notes in guidelines on reprints or simsubs

  Send to:
  Theron Montgomery, Chief Editor
  Alabama Literary Review
  Smith 253
  Troy State University
  Troy, AL 36082

• Alaska Quarterly Review - (R)
  - short stories and novel excerpts in traditional and experimental styles (generally not exceeding 50 pages); no cover letter required -- if you do send one, include pub. credits; responds within 1-3 months, submit between August 15 and May 15, simsub okay, but notify

  Send to:
  Editor
  Alaska Quarterly Review
  University of Alaska Anchorage
  3211 Providence Drive
  Anchorage, AK 99508

• The American Voice
  - 1/01 - ceased publication with No. 50, fall 1999

• Antaeus
  - pays $10/page

• The Antioch Review
  - Editor: Robert S. Fogarty; Poetry Editor: Judith Hall; publishes fiction, poetry, nonfiction; published quarterly; read from September 2 - end of May; prefers under 8000 (and under 5000 better), no sim sub

  Send to:
  The Antioch Review
  Antioch University
  150 E. South College St.
  Yellow Springs, OH 45387

• The Artful Dodge - ($)(SF)
  -- ($5/page and down)

• Arts and Letters - ($)
  -- ($10/page and down); reads from September to April 1st, up to 25 pages, sim sub okay

  Send to:
  Arts & Letters Journal of Contemporary Culture
  Campus Box 89
  Georgia College & State University
  Milledgeville, GA 31061

• The Asian Pacific American Journal
  - publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction; no e-mail subs; poetry (no more than 10 pages) / fiction and creative nonfiction (no more than 20 pages); include cover letter with brief bio

  Send to:
  The Asian Pacific American Journal
  The Asian American Writers' Workshop
  37 St. Marks Place, Suite B
  New York, NY 10003-7801

• The Atlantic Monthly
  - guidelines
  - regularly has stories chosen for Best American Short Stories; publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry; no e-mail subs; send two to six unpublished poems to the attention of Peter Davison, Poetry Editor; Senior Editor C. Michael Curtis; monthly, circ. 500,000

  Send to:
  The Atlantic Monthly
  77 North Washington Street
  Boston, MA 02114

• The Barcelona Review
  -- up to 4000 words, responds in 1-2 months

  Send electronically to:

  Jill Adamas, Editor
  editor@barcelonareview.com
  Correu Vell 12-2
  Barcelona, SPAIN 08002

• Black Warrior Review
  - pays up to $150 for fiction, $75 for poems; awards $500 each to a fiction writer and a poet that they've published in the previous year; published biannually, circ. 2000; manuscripts read year round; simsubs okay, fiction under 7500, 5-7 poems/sub, one sub/envelope; short book reviews (under 1000 words)

  Send to:
  Black Warrior Review
  P.O. Box 862936
  Tuscaloosa, AL 35486-0027
  

• The Boston Review
  - publishes fiction, poetry, nonfiction; From Jodi Daynard, fiction editor: "I'm looking for stories that are emotionally and intellectually substantive and also interesting on the level of language. Things that are shocking, dark, lewd, comic, or even insane are fine so long as the fiction is controlled and puposeful in a masterly way. Subtlety, delicacy and lyricism are attractive too." Work should be polished--clearly revised, grammatical, proofread. Length should be no less than 1,200 and no more than 5,000 words." Send all poetry submissions to Mary Jo Bang and Timothy Donnelly, poetry editors. Buys first serial rights, no reprints, simul subs okay with notification, no email subs; pay varies; response time 6-8 weeks.

  Send to:
  Boston Review
  E53-407 MIT
  Cambridge, MA 02139

• Boulevard -- (SS)(P)(O)(NE)(R - does not read April 1 - October 1)
  - up to 30 pgs, responds in 1-4 weeks, sim sub okay, but notify

  Send to:
  Boulevard Magazine
  6614 Clayton Rd
  Box 325
  Richmond Heights, MOÂ 63117

• Cafe Irreal($)(SF)
  - (1 c/word), 2000 words and under ,magical realism, surrealist speculative fiction, 2 month RT

• Callaloo - (SF)(NE)(P)(O)(B)(AW)
  -- African diaspora, buys ALL rights!

• Cappers - ($)
  - pays $75-$300, circ. 240,000

• Chelsea
  - pays $5/page

• Chicago Review
  - out of The University of Chicago, my alma mater. Publishes fiction, poetry and nonfiction; no sim subs; no e-mail subs; no length requirement (poetry prefers 3-7 pgs; fiction/nonfiction average around 20 pgs); pays in 3 copies plus subscription; average response time three months; published quarterly.

  Send to:
  [genre] Editor
  Chicago Review
  5801 S. Kenwood
  Chicago, IL 60637

• Columbia
  "Edited solely by graduate students of Columbia University's MFA program, Columbia is a bi-annual literary journal featuring nonfiction, fiction, poetry and a full-color, curated art section. The bi-annual change in staff allows us to continually engage with new literature and art. We have published nonfiction by authors such as Italo Calvino, John D'Agata and Lorrie Moore; poetry by Robert Pinsky, Lucille Clifton, and Jack Gilbert; fiction by Raymond Carver, Gary Lutz, Jonathan Lethem and Ha Jin; and art from Kara Walker and Nan Goldin, along with many others. We have also featured interviews with authors such as Allen Ginsberg and Phillip Lopate."

• Confrontation - (NE)
  pays $20 - $250; Martin Tuck, Editor-in-Chief, responds in 1-2 months, up to 3000 words

  Send to:
  Jonna Smeks, Associate Editor
  Confrontation
  English Dept.
  C.W. Post Campus of Long Island Univ.
  Brookville, NY 11548

• Conjunctions
  - published twice a year; huge magazine; Bradford Morrow, Editor; no stated policy on sim subs

  Send to:
  Conjunctions
  Bard College
  Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504

• Crab Orchard - ($)(SS)(NE)(P)(O)(R), sim sub okay, but notify; only reads January - May (May to November for Spring/Summer special issue, different each year, check page)

• Crazyhorse (SF)(SS)(O)
  - up to 35 pages, 5 week RT

  Send to:
  College of Charleston
  Dept. of English
  66 George Street
  Charleston, SC 29424

• Double Take ($)(SS)(O)(AW)
  -- on hiatus until 1/04 at least, financial trouble

• Epoch - (NE)
  - pay varies, responds in 1-2 months, read 9/15 - 4/15, no sim subs

  Send to:

  Joseph Martin, Senior Editor
  251 Goldwin Smith Hall
  Cornell University
  Ithaca, NY 14853

• Esquire - ($)(NE)
  - up to 8000 words, responds in 1-4 weeks

  Send to:
  Hearst Corp.
  1790 Broadway
  New York NY 10019
  Editor: David Granger

• Eureka Literary Magazine
  - "We publish fiction and poetry, and will consider creative nonfic if it's good (approx. 5-8 new authors per year). We pay in 2 contributors' copies to the author, alas no more. We can be reached at:"

  Eureka College
  300 East College Ave.
  Eureka, IL 61530
  elm@eureka.edu

• Exquisite Corpse
  - accepts e-mail subs as RTF's, no sim subs, under 15 pages

• Fence - (SF)

• Fiction ($)(SF)(SS)(O)(B)(P)(AW)(R -- does not read June-Aug.)
  - $114 and up, (circ. 4,500), up to 5000 words, sim sub okay but notify

• Five Points ($)(R -- does not read April 30 - Sept 1)
  - prefers under 7500 but will consider longer; one story/sub, pays $15/page, no sim subs

  Send to:
  Five Points
  Georgia State University
  University Plaza
  Atlanta, GA 30303-3083

• The Georgia Review
  - publishes nonfiction ("We are seeking creative personal essays and informed, thesis-oriented essays that view their subjects against a broad perspective--provocative work that can engage both the intelligent general reader and the specialist. For the most part we are not interested in scholarly articles."), poetry and fiction ("We seek the very best work whether by Nobel laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners or by little-known (or even previously unpublished) writers."). No novel excerpts or translations; response time 2-3 months; no reprints or sim subs; submit one story, one essay or 3-5 poems; reading period September-May; no e-mail subs; purchases first serial rights; pays minimum $40/printed page for prose and $3/line for poetry.

  Send to:
  The Georgia Review
  The University of Georgia
  Athens, Georgia
  30602-9009

• The Gettysburg Review ($30/page)
  - sim subs okay, notify
  - reads 9/1 - 5/31

  Send to:
  Peter Stitt, Editor
  The Gettysburg Review
  Gettysburg College
  Gettysburg, PA 17325-1491

  Glimmer Train - (NE)
  - pays $500 for first pub and onetime anthology rights; send manuscripts in January, April, July and October; "please, no story fragments, poetry, children's stories, or nonfiction"; also runs short story contests ($1200/$500/$300); 1200-7500 words (web guidelines say up to 10,000); pays on acceptance; no sim subs
  -- I looked at their Summer '99 issue; I liked the stories quite a bit. Mid-to-long lengths, with heart. Definite emotion.

  Send to:
  Glimmer Train Press, Inc.
  710 SW Madison Street
  Suite 504
  Portland, Oregon 97205

• Granta
  - "The only literary type magazine I subscribe to is Granta, a British paperback format quarterly that publishes mostly longish pieces of contemporary fiction and journalism. I guess they publish maybe 8 stories a year or so, and recent contributers have included John Barth, Martin Amis, T. C. Boyle, Vikram Seth, Paul Theroux, and Salman Rushdie. In other words, competition is stiff." (MS) Published quarterly, pays "up to" 5000 pounds), circ. 90,000
  - remember to include IRC for SASE or e-mail address if manuscript disposable

  Send to:
  The Editor
  Granta
  2-3 Hanover Yard
  Noel Road
  London N1 8BE
  United Kingdom

• GQ - ($)(AG)

  -- couldn't find any guidelines online

• Happy
  - (circ. 500), up to 6000 words, responds in 1-4 weeks, pays 1 c/word

  Send to:
  Bayard, Editor
  240 E. 35th Street
  Suite 11A
  New York, NY 10016

• Harpers
  - "Harper's is a magazine for clever people and they publish clever fiction. The average Harper's story is short and funny, the New Yorker piece is short and puzzling, and the Granta piece is probably long and depressing." (AE) Accepts unsolicited fiction only; not poetry or articles. Publishes 12 stories/year, circ. 216,000.
  - no sim subs, no manuscripts over 30 pages, only rarely publishes unsolicited work, 4-6 week response time

  Send to:
  Harper's Magazine
  666 Broadway
  New York, NY 10012

• Harpur Palate ($)(SF)(NE)(SS)(O)(P)(R - reading periods: Aug 1 - Oct 15 and Jan 1 - Mar 15)
  - ($5/page and down), literary mainstream, literary genre and experimental fiction up to 8000 words with emphasis on both story and style, sponsors fiction and poetry contests, sim sub okay if notified, accepts up to 5 fiction pieces at a time?
  - 3/20 update: "award-winning publication with stories accepted by Best of the Rest 3 and Best American Mystery Stories"

  Send to:
  Dept. of English
  Binghamton University
  P.O. Box 6000
  Binghamton, NY 13902-6000

• The Harvard Review
  - published twice a year

  Send to:
  The Harvard Review
  Lamont Library
  Cambridge, MA 02138
  617-495-9775
  haviaras@fas.harvard.edu

• Hayden's Ferry Review - (NE) - $25/page, responds in 6-10 weeks, does not specify re sim sub

  Send to:
  Fiction Editor
  P.O. Box 871502
  ASU
  Tempe, AZ 85287

• Implosion
  - circ. 18,000

• Indiana Review ($)(NE)(SS)(O)(P)(R -- does not read mid Dec - mid Jan)
  - ($5/page and down), sim subs okay

• Iowa Review
  - pays $10/page; triannual; David Hamilton, Editor, reads from September to March; all other work returned unread, responds within three months (but mid-winter break from mid-Dec to mid-Jan), prefers no sim subs, also considers HTML subs; no pay; submit on disk or direct them to page

  Send to:
  Iowa Review
  308 English/Philosophy Building
  University of Iowa
  Iowa City, IA 52242-1492

• The Kenyon Review
  - pays $30-$40/page; no reprints or sim subs; publishes fiction and essays (up to 7500 words), poetry (up to 10 pgs), plays (up to 35 pgs), excerpts (up to 35 pgs) from longer works and translations of poetry and short prose (original language work must accompany the translation and translator is responsible for author permission); no e-mail subs; reading period September-March; response time up to four months

  Send to:
  Editor
  The Kenyon Review
  Gambier, OH 43022

• Lorraine and James
  - "LORRAINE AND JAMES is a literary journal whose mission is to till the urban landscape in search of new writers and give attention to the noncommercial work of established writers from the United States and around the globe. It is our intent that through this process we will act as a conduit though which a writer from anywhere can connect with readers everywhere."

  "LORRAINE AND JAMES is looking for original, unpublished short fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry for its inaugural issue. Women writers from around the world are encouraged to submit. Payment ranges from $50 to $200 plus copies. Submission details at www.lorraineandjames.com"

• Mad Hatters' Review:
  Edgy & Englightened Literature, Art & Music in the Age of Dementia

• Malahat Review - (NE)
  - responds in up to 3 months, circ. 1,200, does not specify re sim subs, up to 20 pages preferred

  Send to:
  Editor, Malahat Review
  P.O. Box 1700
  STN CSC
  Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2
  CANADA

• Massachusetts Review - (SF) ($50/story)
  - up to 25-30 pages preferred
  - does not read 6/1 - 10/1

  Send to:
  Editorial Office
  South College
  University of Massachusetts
  Amherst, MA 01003

• McSweeney's - (SF)
  - "Irrepressibly wacky and bizarre" (Ben Rosenbaum); print mag is closed to subs, but their internet zine is open

• Michigan Avenue Review
  - "Every new artistic endeavor comes with a new challenge. We'll tighten those challenges. Each online issue of Michigan Avenue Review will be themed...specifically themed...very specifically themed. We may want all submissions to in some way relate to pine cones. Or perhaps ice cream. Maybe a paperclip? So send us your best, and make sure they are directly or adjacently attached to our choice theme in form and/or content. Spring: The spring issue will focus on urban matters. Any creative and provocative work with an urban focus, overtone, flavor, smell, or sprinkle will be considered. Fall: The fall issue's theme is spherical objects. From cheese puffs to atoms, marbles to planets, send us your finest spherical work."
  Full guidelines: http://www.roosevelt.edu/michiganavenuereview.

• Michigan Quarterly Review
  - publishes fiction (1500-7000 words) and poetry; no sim subs; response time six weeks; no e-mail subs

  Send to:
  Michigan Quarterly Review
  University of Michigan
  3032 Rackham Graduate School
  915 E Washington Street
  Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070

• Mid-American Review - (O)
  - pays $10/page up to $50; George Looney, Editor-in-Chief; biannual, fiction, poetry, translations and nonfiction, response time 1-4 months (longer in summer), yes simsubs, no reprints, "Mid-American Review considers work that is character- and/or language-oriented without sacrificing narrative. We are open to submissions from new and established authors, both traditional and experimental work, including short-shorts, but discourage genre fiction. MAR considers pieces up to 25 pages in length; authors wishing to submit longer manuscripts or novel excerpts should query first with SASE.", also two fiction contests, interested in grad student writing

  Send to:
  Fiction Editor: Michael Czyzniejewski
  Mid-American Review
  Dept. of English
  Bowling Green State University
  Bowling Green, OH 43403

• The Mississippi Review
  From the editor:
  "Mississippi Review is available in two editions, one in print and one online. The two editons have the same editor but largely different content. We pay in copies most time, but also sponsor an annual contest with prizes of $1000 for fiction and poetry, we are consulted for all the major prize anthologies (in fact we're right there in your O'Henry list), we've been in business 33 years, and we publish both well known and emerging writers.
  Mississippi Review, one of the most highly regarded literary magazines in the nation, and a magazine that was recently referenced in Writer's Digest as the fifth most important and influential on-line publication, and which, in 1995, was named by GNN as the first winner in its national competition for web sites in the category Professional Literary Magazine.

  Mississippi Review is a widely recognized literary magazine that has and continues to publish National Book Award winners, Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Critics Circle winners. It's a magazine which Ann Beattie characterized as 'Among the best small magazines being published,' and of which perhaps the most famous American author of the second half of the century, Raymond Carver, who was an occasional contributor, said, 'MR is one of the most remarkable and indispensable literary journals of our time.' Long-time Southern writer David Madden commented that 'Mississippi Review has become a vital and significant publication, as good as any, and right here in the South, right there in Mississippi.' And the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Charles Simic, himself a contributor to MR, said, 'Mississippi Review is probably one of the best magazines in the country.' Finally, the late John Hawkes, former head of the writing program at Brown University and a remarkable writer and prize winner in his own right, said, 'Yours is among the truly sustaining literary publications in the country today.'"

• The Missouri Review
  - 'general literary interest with a distinctly contemporary orientation'; publishes 3 times a year; poetry, fiction and nonfiction -- clearly mark the outer envelope with genre; do not mix genres in the same sub; no reprints; 10-12 wk response time. Poetry features only -- 6-14 pages by each of 3-5 poets per issue; pay varies; Tom McAfee award chosen from regular subs for poets who have not yet published a book -- additional cash award. Fiction -- no length restrictions, but "flash fictions" rarely accepted; William Peden Prize chosen from regular stories published in mag, $1000, circ. 6,800.

  Send to:
  [genre] Editor
  The Missouri Review
  1507 Hillcrest Hall
  University of Missouri-Columbia
  Columbia, MO 65211

• New England Review (O)
  - $10/page, reads 9/1 - 5/31, up to 30 pages, sim sub okay but notify

  Send to:
  Fiction Editor
  New England Review
  Middlebury College
  Middlebury, VT 05753

• New Virginia Review
  - has been replaced by an excellent online publication called Blackbird

• The New Yorker
  - Bill Buford, Fiction Editor; weekly with special fiction issues in June and December; no simsubs or reprints; responds in three months; buys poetry as well, circ. 750,000, no attachments -- send as plain text in body of e-mail, no more than one story or six poems at one time, prefers to receive no more than two submissions per writer per year, and generally won't reply to more
  -- "The New Yorker publishes highbrow fiction for highbrow people." (AE)

  Send to:
  fiction@newyorker.com

• New York Stories - ($)(SS)(R - does not read June - Aug)
  - prefers under 5000 words, likes psychological stories and dark humor, likes stories set in NY, sim subs okay, ($100-$1000)

  Send to:
  Daniel Caplice Lynch, Editor
  New York Stories
  English Department
  LaGuardia Community College, E-103
  31-10 Thomson Ave.
  Long Island City, NY 11101

  Noo Journal
  "We publish short fiction, poetry, political essays and art, especially photography. We pay in 2 contributors copies and exposure to an enthusiastic audience of readers in Northern California and Southern Oregon. Please see http://www.noojournal.com/submissions.htm for full guidelines."

• North American Review (B)(O)(P)(AW)(R - reads fiction from Jan 1 - Apr 1)(SF)
  - circ. 4,000

• The Notre Dame Review - ($)

• Oasis
  - $5/page and down, responds in 1-4 weeks

  Send to:
  Neal Storrs, Editor
  P.O. Box 626
  Largo, FL 33779

• The Ohio Review - (R -- Sept - May)
  - published twice a year

  Send to:
  Editors
  The Ohio Review
  Ellis Hall
  Ohio University
  Athens, OH 45701-2979

• Open City ($)(SF)(SS)

• Other Voices ($)(O)(P)(B)(AW)(R - reading period Oct 1 - Apr 1)
  - $5/page and down, up to 30 pages, responds in 10-12 weeks

  Send to:
  Lois Hauselman
  Other Voices
  University of Illinois at Chicago
  601 S. Morgan St.
  Chicago, IL 60607

• The Paris Review ($)(O)(P)(B)(AW)
  - pays "up to" $1000
  - sim sub okay
  Send to:
  Fiction Editor
  The Paris Review
  541 E. 72 Street
  New York, NY 10021

• Philadelphia Stories ($) - only open to authors from the Delaware Valley / Greater Philadelphia area ((N. Jersey, S.E. PA and Delaware.)
  - pays a small honorarium to authors published both in print and on the web; detailed guidelines on site
  Send to:
  Carla Spataro, Fiction Editor
  2021 S. 11th Street
  Philadelphia, PA 19148
  215/551-5889

• Playboy - ($)(SF)
  - circ. 3,300,000, has taken SF, but *not* experimental fiction, no stated policy on sim sub, responds in 8-10 weeks, only up to 5000 words

• Ploughshares - (NE)
  - regularly has stories selected for Best American Short Stories; publishes lots of poetry as well as some prose. Complex; rich stories -- no easy answers.
  - Submit from Aug 1 - Mar 31; no specific themes; mail one prose piece and/or 1-3 poems at a time (mail genres separately); no e-mail subs; occasionally publish essays/self-contained novel excerpts; no more than a total of two submissions per reading period! Address to Fiction Editor/Poetry Editor/Nonfiction Editor. Expect 3-5 months response time; simultaneous subs okay if indicated as such and notify immediately if accepted elsewhere; no reprints! Pays $25/printed page, $50 minimum per title, $250 maximum per author, with two copies of the issue and a one-year subscription (rates will be lower in 2000), up to 30 pgs.
  Published three times a year.

  Send to:
  Ploughshares
  Fiction Editor
  Emerson College
  120 Boylston St.,
  Boston, MA 02116-4624

• Prairie Schooner
  - reads Sept 1 - May 1

  send to:
  Fiction Editor
  Prairie Schooner
  201 Andrews Hall
  University of Nebraska
  Lincoln, NE 68588-0334

• Quarterly West - ($)(SS)(O)(P)(SF)
  - circ. 1,800

• Redbook ($)(AG)
  - circ. 3,200,000, currently (9/03) not accepting unsolicited fiction subs

• Santa Monica Review (SF)

• Saturday Evening Post ($)

  - "Although we seldom publish new fiction, our readers enjoy upbeat stories that stress traditional relationships and family values. A light, humorous touch is appreciated. We are also always in need of straight humor articles. Make us laugh and we'll buy it." - sim sub okay

• Scruffy Dog Review
  "A bi-monthly electronic literary magazine offering the best of both traditional and eclectic flash fiction, poetry, short stories, screenplays and book reviews."

• Seventeen - ($)
  - circ. 2,500,000

• Shenandoah

  Send to:
  R.T. Smith, Editor
  Mattingly House
  2 Lee Avenue
  Washington & Lee University
  Lexington VA 24450

• Son and Foe
  Online journal of short fiction, poetry, and art. Full Guidelines. They accept both genre and non-genre fiction, and pay 5 cents/word for fiction, with a limit of $500.

• The Southern Review - ($)(O)(AW)
  - pays $12/page - James Olney, Dave Smith, Editors; quarterly (NE), up to 15,000 words, responds in 1-4 weeks, no position on sim subs

  Send to:
  43 Allen Hall
  Louisiana State University
  Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5005

• Story -- suspended publication; no longer accepting manuscripts

• The Sun - (NE)
  - pays $300-500, up to 7000 words, responds in 3 months, circ. 31,000, no sim subs

  Send to:
  Sy Safransky, Editor
  The Sun
  107 N. Roberson St.
  Chapel Hill, NC 27516

• Third Coast - (SF)
  - sim sub okay, pays in copies, up to 9000 words (query if longer)

  Send to:
  Fiction Editor
  Third Coast
  Department of English
  Western Michigan University
  Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5092

• The Threepenny Review
  - pays $200, only accepts up to 4000 words, responds in 1-4 weeks (circ. 9000)

  Send to:
  Wendy Lesser, Editor
  P.O. Box 9131
  Berkeley, CA 94709

• Tin House - ($)(SS)(SF)(O)(AW)
  -- pays $100-$800, sim subs okay but notify

  Send to:
  Submissions Editor
  P.O. Box 10500
  Portland, OR 97296-0500

• Troika - ($)
  -- pays $250 max, circ. 100,000

• Vestal Review ($) (SF)
  -- purchases flash fiction, up to 500 words, full guidelines on site, accepts SF, but not hard SF

• Virginia Quarterly Review - ($)(NE)(O)(AW)(SF)
  -- pays $10/page, no sim subs

  Send to:
  Ted Genoways, Editor
  One West Range
  P.O. Box 400223
  Charlottesville, VA 22904-4223

• The Yale Review
  - published quarterly, pays $300-400, circ. 7000, no policy on sim subs stated

  Send to:
  Yale University
  P.O. Box 208243
  New Haven, CT 06520-8243
  203-432-0499

• Yankee -
  -- 1/12/03 update - no longer publishing fiction or poetry

• Yaoi Press
  PAY: $200-$250 for a 20 page script
  "Yaoi Press publishes graphic novels. These are thick, soft-cover, digest-sized comic books. Our books are drawn in the Japanese "manga" style. Our stories all fall into a niche Japanese genre called 'yaoi' that is popular with women in the United States. Yaoi is romantic stories about guys in love with other guys for women readers. We need graphic novel script writers. We're hoping some polished fiction writers will consider making the leap into something different. Please research the genre of yaoi online before you submit. It's not the same as gay fiction. Payment is $10-$15 per graphic novel page depending on your professional published credits. A full-length graphic novel is 100-120 pages. We also publish shorter bonus stories of 20-60 pages. Sample scripts available upon request. Please read our submissions guidelines carefully: http://www.yaoipress.com/info.htm"

• Zoetrope: All-Story - (SF)
  - closed to subs until Feb 2002
  - it accepts anytime after Aug. 31st and before June 1st. They pay $1,200, and accept 32-40 stories a year. They word count cut off is at 7,000 words, they buy first serial with film option, and take queries with an SASE and a full manuscript, circ. 40,000, sim sub okay.

  Send to:
  Fiction Editors
  Zoetrope: All-Story
  The Sentinel Building
  916 Kearny Street
  San Francisco, CA 94133
  Phone # 415-788-7500

• Zyzzyva -
  - "They frequently publish first-time writers. I think they publish a large volume of fiction compared to some of the really high-paying markets. I don't know how well Zyzzyva pays, but they do get good stuff."
  -- Detailed guidelines on their web page; West Coast writers/artists only (currently living in AK ,HI, WA, OR, or CA); no e-mail subs, no sim subs, pays $50 plus copies; poetry, fiction, nonfiction; buys one-time plus nonexclusive electronic; I liked what I read of the excerpts on the web page, any length, responds in 1-4 weeks

  Send to:
  Howard Junker, Editor
  Zyzzyva
  41 Sutter Street
  PMB 1400
  San Francisco, CA 94104