Publications that Pay for Your Short Stories
Below is a list of organisations and publications that will pay for your short stories. Getting featured in any of these publications can be a great way to gain exposure for your writing, get paid for them and also just for the joy of having your work published and read by many readers. At the end of this post are also links to several writing competitions.
All of the links below are for short stories from 500 to 12000 words and vary from genres such as mystery, horror and to drama. Before you submit to any of these publications do remember to check on the kind of work that they accept and prefer.
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Accepts works of mystery and murder:
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
This publication only accepts crime stories: 12000 max
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
Harpers
This is mainly literature/drama based stories and to send your work to Harpers you have to print it and then send:
https://harpers.org/submissions/
The Atlantic
This will be primarily for literary/drama based stories and horror or ghost stories probably would not get accepted here.
Everyday Fiction
Accept stories of 50 to 1000 words in length:
The A3 Review
150 Words Short Stories:
The Writers Digest Story Competition
Nothing in The Rule Book
International Writers Collective
A general list of good places to submit stories:
For further posts on publications that will pay and/or publish your work please see the links below:
If you know of any good links to other publications then please do mention them in the comments or message us directly and this page will be updated accordingly.