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Guidelines and Guideline Databases

Absolute Markets Newsletter
http://www.AbsoluteMarkets.com
Offers a free monthly markets newsletter, and a paid biweekly "premium" newsletter; the latter is packed with magazine and book markets, international markets, job listings and more.

Children's Writers Marketplace
http://write4kids.com/wmarket/index.html

Colossal Directory of Children's Publishers Online
http://www.childrens-publishers.com
Comprehensive, alphabetical listings of children's magazines and book publishers, including links to submission guidelines and web sites.

Duotrope's Digest of Fiction Fields
http://www.duotrope.com/writing
An excellent, regularly updated list of fiction markets (nonpaying and paying), searchable by category, pay rate, and more. Also offers a calendar of deadlines for themed publications such as anthologies.

Erotica Readers & Writers Association
http://erotica-readers.com/ERA/G/Call_For_Submissions.htm
A frequently updated listing of markets and current calls for submissions.

Eugie Foster's Page: Children's Markets
http://www.eugiefoster.com/kidmarkets.htm

First Writer
http://www.firstwriter.com
Appears to have extensive information, but one must be a paid subscriber to access it.

Freelance Daily
http://freelancewriters.blogspot.com
Daily e-mail newsletter with freelance job listings.

FreelanceWriting.com Magazine Guidelines Database
http://www.freelancewriting.com/guidelines/pages

Funds for Writers
http://www.fundsforwriters.com

Jacqui Bennett Writers Bureau: UK Markets
http://www.jbwb.co.uk/markets.html
Selection of UK markets for fiction and nonfiction.

JustMarkets
http://www.justmarkets.com/
This site offers a paid daily e-mail market newsletter and a free biweekly newsletter. The trouble is, it's a bit hard to find out what the actual cost of the daily newsletter is -- it mentions $9.95 plus discounts for longer subscriptions, but you can't seem to find out the price unless you actually start filling out the subscription form. However, I've seen a sample and it looks good.

Market List
http://www.marketlist.com
Covers speculative fiction markets (e.g., sf, fantasy, horror).

Markets for Writers
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Culture/WFNS/periodicals.html
Focuses primarily on Canadian markets, with some U.S. magazines as well.

Mary Soon Lee's speculative fiction market list
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mslee/mag.html

Passionate Pen
http://www.passionatepen.com/romancepubs.htm
Romance publishers

Ralan's Webstravaganza
http://www.ralan.com
Speculative fiction anthologies, adult markets, book markets, semiprofessional and professional markets, paying and nonpaying markets and contests, plus humor markets.

TravelWriters.com
http://www.travelwriters.com

Wooden Horse Publishing
http://www.woodenhorsepub.com
Though the markets database on this site costs $149 per year, the site is also packed with loads of free stuff, including extensive coverage of magazine industry changes (new magazines, shut-downs, editorial changes, etc.)

World Wide Freelance Writer
http://www.worldwidefreelance.com

The Write Markets Report
http://www.writersweekly.com/books/677.html
Monthly electronic (PDF) guide to markets (paid subscription)

Writer's Market
http://www.writersmarket.com
Paid membership.

Writers Markets for Speculative Fiction: SF/F/H's Journal
http://community.livejournal.com/specficmarkets/
Calls for SF/H anthologies and other markets

Writing for Dollars
http://www.writingfordollars.com/Guidelines.cfm
Offers nearly 1200 listings, drawn from past issues of "Writing for Dollars." While the collection is extensive, many entries are outdated, but still worth a look.

WritersWeekly Markets & Jobs
http://www.writersweekly.com/markets_and_jobs.php

WritersWeekly.com Warnings
http://www.writersweekly.com/warnings/warnings.html
A great place to check on websites and publishers that have a reputation for slow or non-payment, or are going out of business or rumored to be having troubles.

Writers Write
http://www.writerswrite.com/guidelines
Offers an extensive list of paying markets, as well as a number of nonpaying markets. Can be searched by category, keyword, paying vs. nonpaying, and by markets that accept fiction, nonfiction, or poetry.

See also:

Magazines, Newspapers and Other Media

Book Publishers


Recommended Reading


Writer's Market

Canadian Writer's Market

Book Markets for Children's Writers

Children's Writer's and Illustrator's Market

(UK) Children's Writers' and Artists' Yearbook

Christian Writers Market Guide

Magazine Markets for Children's Writers

Novel & Short Story Writers' Market

Poet's Market

(UK) Writers' and Artists' Yearbook

(UK) Writer's Handbook

Writer's Market UK

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