The Sun Magazine: Up to $2,000 for Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry

I read your powerful, haunting essay published in the Summer 2016 issue of Under the Sun, “Death, Driveways, and Dreams,” which was a Best American Essays 2017 Notable. I loved the braided structure, and your vulnerability and honesty brought me to tears. I have been shell shocked and was scared of publishing after academia felt like the harshest critics of my work.

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I agree about the undue US influence in so many areas. I’m finding more EU resources, groups, journals, etc. every day. I have to almost write in two languages for submissions as the English varies so much on either side of the ocean.

Considering the quality of their publication, this is not a surprise. Detailed submission guidelines, including our compensation rates, are available on our website. To withdraw just one poem from a submission of multiple poems, please send us a message through Submittable with the title of the poem you’d like to withdraw. If you haven’t heard from us within six months about something you mailed, we recommend submitting your manuscript again, preferably online. We are happy to consider manuscripts that have also been submitted elsewhere. Please notify us immediately if your work is accepted by another journal.

Prefer to keep your short stories extremely short? Vestal Review publishes flash fiction of no more than 500 words. Its editors are open to all genres except for syrupy romance, hard science fiction and children’s stories, and they have a special fondness for humor.

If we like and see promise in a piece, we’ll work with you to make it shine. Got a fresh voice and a compelling story to share? To bridge the gap between emerging and established authors, SLICE offers a space where both are published side-by-side. In each issue, a specific cultural theme becomes the catalyst for articles, interviews, stories and poetry from renowned writers and lesser-known voices alike.

This is unfair as the majority of poetry magazines are based in the states. We pay poetry contributors $50 per published piece and offer feedback on 5-10% of declined submissions. They want you to submit your character-oriented, “serious, thoughtful, yet accessible fiction,” but there’s room for humor as well. While science fiction dominates what the magazine publishes, you’re welcome to submit borderline fantasy, slipstream and surreal fiction — steer clear of sword and sorcery, explicit sex or violence.

Detailed submission guidelines, including our compensation rates, are available below. All accepted submissions are automatically considered forThe Isele Prizes. All accepted submissions are automatically considered for The Isele Prizes. Models of interpretive discussions of poems such as William Blake’s “The Garden of Love” and Plath’s “Fever 103” are available. Have students explore “Assumption of the Virgin,” the painting by Renaissance artist Lodovico Cigoli who was a close friend of Galileo’s. The first example of Galileo’s telescopic views of the moon to appear in visual art, the painting depicts the moon at the feet of the Virgin Mary.

You will have a better idea of what they are looking and know which magazines fit best with your writing style. If you really want to get ambitious, you can also write a four-part story that uses each of that year’s first lines (which is due by the next year’s spring issue deadline). To find each issue’s assigned first line, check out the submission guidelines. Huge bragging rights; pay for unsolicited submissions isn’t specified. As of this post’s publication, no rates specifically for short stories.

Unless the publisher’s guidelines state otherwise, always use industry standard manuscript formatting. Always check guidelines for details and restrictions. If you aren’t familiar with these terms, see our glossary. Want more insight into the editors’ preferences? Most stories are 1200 to 1800 words in length; however, they occasionally serialize longer stories of up to 6,000 words. For submissions from the 1st to the 21st of the month.