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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

Australian Writer's Market

Canadian Writer's Market

Children's Writers' Market

Christian Writers' Market Guide

Novel & Short Story Writers' Market

Poet's Market

(UK) Writers' and Artists' Yearbook

(UK) Writer's Handbook

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