MARKET:
http://steampod.org/submission-guidelines/
Steampod is always searching for new science fiction and fantasy to broadcast to all of our listeners. If you want to hear your story read aloud on our podcast – email your story either in a word document or unformatted in the body of your email to submissions@steampod.org We should have a fairly quick response time, and you will hear back from us within a few weeks.
We are looking for all types of Steampunk that makes young and old alike feel a certain sense of wonder. We want to maintain a broad balance variety of stories within the steampunk genre, but we are not looking for horror or erotica. We want stories that can make you think, stories that challenge the status quo and stories that simply give a good escapist read.
We are looking for stories that are between 2,000 to 7,000 words long. We will also run a flash fiction piece as an extra bonus to our listeners waiting for the next episode to roll around. We pay $20 dollars for a story over 2,000 words and we do not pay for shorter fiction. However, you do get a link on the site.

 

 

GROUNDWOOD BOOKS
http://www.groundwoodbooks.com/gw_guidelines.cfm
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We are always looking for new authors of novel-length fiction for children in all age areas. Our mandate is to publish high-quality, character-driven literary fiction. We do not generally publish stories with an obvious moral or message or genre fiction such as thrillers or mysteries. We do not publish high-interest/low-vocabulary fiction or stories with anthropomorphic animals or elves/fairies as their main characters.
 

http://www.whistlingshade.com/submissions.html
Themes for 2008
Whistling Shade will be publishing Government (Winter issue). With regime change in the air, we're interested in all things political, as long as it's not propaganda. Bad memories of the Bush Administration? The true life story of how you met Hillary? Or the tawdry saga of your career on the school board? This is your number, baby. We may pick a few poems and perhaps a little fiction for this issue, but it will mostly focus on memoir and articles. Deadline September 1.

What We Are Looking For
Whistling Shade is currently accepting poetry, fiction, essay, review and cartoon submissions for upcoming issues. Our emphasis is primarily mainstream and literary, but we have a broad readership and do not espouse any given school of writing.
Poetry can be of any form, including lyric verse that employs rhyme and meter, and there is no word limit. Short stories can be anywhere from very short to 10,000 words. Essays should surround writers or literary works. Profiles of contemporary writers are very much welcome!
We also do a few book reviews with each issue (we prefer poetry and fiction, but occasionally we review non-fiction as well). If you are a publisher or author and would like us to review your work, please mail to the address below. We may or may not do a review - basically if we like the book we'll review it, if not ... well you probably wouldn't want us to do a review anyway.
Whistling Shade abides by a a code of literary ethics, as described below. See our Pitfalls page for common mistakes we see in submissions.

When to Submit
We are open for submissions year round, and only post deadlines for special features. Our publishing dates are roughly mid-April, mid-July, mid-September and mid-January and we usually finalize the content 30 days before press.

What to Submit
All submissions should contain:
A name and mailing address. The address is important because if we accept your work we will mail your copies to this address. E-mail submissions without a mailing address may be sent back.
A cover letter or brief bio about you. Where have you been published before? (This will only minimally influence our decision, but we do like to know.) A mention of where you heard of Whistling Shade would also be appreciated as it lets us know how writers are getting the good word on us. What cafe did you pick us up in? What web site did you surf to get here?
If an e-mail submission, a rational subject line. We recommend including "submission" in the subject. If you just use "Re:" or the title of your work, our spam filter might be fooled and the submission will cruelly be dumped into the doomed sea of cyber flotsam.
The work, obviously. A word count is helpful, if it isn't too much trouble. So is page numbering. We do not have ridiculously strict format guidelines that require certain fonts, margins etc. We live in the 21st century.
No reprints please. Simultaneous submissions are okay, just let us know. Also, please take it easy on our submissions staff and don't submit more than 5 poems or 1 story at a time (up to 3 stories for flash fiction under 1000 words). Please do not submit again until you hear back from us.
 

 

WOMEN ON WRITING

We depend on talented freelancers to write for us. Please send your query and/or submission in the body of your email. For more details on submissions, see our writer’s guidelines and details below:

WOW! Writer's Guidelines: http://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/contact.php

WOW! welcomes queries and submissions from its readers. Remember each issue focuses on Women, Writing and the monthly Theme.

Upcoming Themes:

Please sign up for our monthly newsletter to keep up on the latest upcoming themes.

Columns, Word Counts and Pay Rates:

Twenty Questions:  $50
How 2 (1,500 - 2,000 Words): $75
Inspiration (1,500 - 2,000 Words): $75
Feature Interviews (up to 3,000 Words): $75
Feature Articles (up to 3,000 Words): $150

Rights:

We do not accept reprints. If you would like to repurpose a previously published article, please notify us at the time of your query and include the proposed changes that will make it specifically suited to WOW!. Acceptance is not guaranteed and is up to the discretion of the editorial board.

 

 

Pelican Publishing Company: http://www.pelicanpub.com/
CURRENT NEEDS: "Regional, popular history, Civil War, World War II, biography, politics, cookbooks, art, architecture, business, self-help, Jewish, Scottish, Irish, African-American, children's picture books." Pays advance and royalties of 10%.

 

 

KNOW Ministries http://www.knowministries.org/
PAY: $1/word

We are launching a Christian magazine within 3 - 6 months. We are seeking capable Christian freelance writers for the premier/prototype issue and subsequent issues. ARTICLE LENGTH: 500 - 1200 words. TARGET
AUDIENCE: Women, Secular, Christian - Charismatic and Evangelical. WRITING STYLE: Creative, Prophetic, Spiritual. Writers will be required to work with our editors for final version. DELIVERY FORMAT: MS Word (preferred). CONTENT TOPICS: Health
Healing
Prosperity
Biblical
Food
Book & Movie Reviews (Christian related)
Please send by email a letter of self-introduction and your past writing sample to: mailto:freelance@knowministries.org
Pastor Shaun L. Ettinger
President/Founder

 

Valley Voices: A Literary Review (ISSN: 1553-7668) is a perfect-bound bi-annual of literature, culture, criticism and book reviews. Valley Voices pays two contributor's copies.

We are happy to announce two forthcoming special issues in 2008. Valley Voices seeks submissions on:

1. Landscape and Literature (Spring issue) Critical essays, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, memoir or translation on landscape and especially on the Mississippi Delta history, literature, art, music, civil rights movement, and folklore studies are welcome.

2. Richard Wright Studies in the 21st Century (Fall issue). The fall issue will be an essay issue on Richard Wright. Critical essays on any of Richard Wright's work, especially his haiku, are welcome. Manuscripts should conform to the MLA Style.

Submissions are welcome. Please enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope to guarantee a return of your manuscript. No previously published material or simultaneous submissions will be considered. Submissions from outside the U.S. may be e-mailed with an attachment to valley_voices@yahoo.com.  Cutoff dates for the receipt of submissions are March 30 for the spring issue and September 30 for the fall issue, but material may be sent at any time and upon acceptance will be published in the next available issue. Send submissions to The Editor, Valley Voices, 14000 Hwy 82 W., #7242, Itta Bena , MS 38941-1400 , USA .

Please send maximum of 5 poems that must be typed and single-spaced and critical essays, fiction or nonfiction (no more than 5,000 words) that must be typed and double-spaced