WRITERS’ NEWS
http://www.writers-online.co.uk NOVEMBER 2019^89Liner Notes is the
parenting magazine
of the Juno website, a
friendly, informative,
site for new mothers
full of useful facts,
and the members are
encouraged to offer
help and support for
each other. Aiming
to build a safe and supportive space, they
prefer ‘women writing for women’ and
‘stories that inspire confidence, give insight
into this journey, and let others know that
they’re not alone.’
There are story suggestions at the website.
Submissions, 500-1,000 words, preferably
first-person and certainly non-fiction,
should be pitched first. Product reviews
should be specific and short. Payment
is competitive and negotiated, paid on
acceptance.
Details: Liner Notes, email pitches to
[email protected] and iza@hellojuno.
co; website https://hellojuno.co
Barrelhouse is a
print and webzine,
needing ‘short fiction,
nonfiction, interviews,
and random stuff...
with an edge and a
sense of humour’ for
their readers. Read
lots of web issues and
check the rolling submissions periods which
change overnight. Currently book reviews
and poetry are wanted. Fiction and non-
fiction will be up next for submissions.
Work, ‘shorter than 8,000 words’ should
be submitted through the Submittable
online submissions manager. Poets may
submit ‘up to five poems’ in one file.
Response time is ‘two to three months...
even six months’. Payment is $50 ‘for the
usual rights’.
Website: http://www.barrelhousemag.com
Big Fiction is a
great market for
longer stories,
‘ambitious
fiction and
nonfiction’. It
needs novelettes
and essays which
are ‘experiments
of curiosity and
self-awareness that examine the lies that we
believe in, consciously or not’. Most work
appears online but they also publish limited
edition, commemorative print issues.
Submissions are open until 1 December,
then 15 March to 1 June. Fiction in most
genres is accepted if it is written ‘with a
clear literary intent’, and essays should
be ‘narratively straightforward or as
experimental as you envision.
Submit self-contained work, 7,500-
20,000 words, through the website: http://www.
bigfictionmagazine.com
Payment is $50 and ‘Every published
writer will also be interviewed for our
podcast.’Polu Texni is a zine publishing ‘mixed-
media arts and speculative or weird
fiction’. Editor Dawn Albright and her
team ‘are interested in the intersection
where different media, styles, crafts, and
genres meet to create something more
interesting than what they would be alone’.
Currently it needs seek ‘articles, poems,
or art profiles’.
Non-fiction is urgently wanted. Articles
on ‘future art, technology and art, fannish
culture, emerging media, art and science,
or art and fantasy, among other things’ are
sought. Query with ‘a quick email with anidea and a short bio’ before completing a
piece.
Poetry on SF or fantasy themes should
give the reader a strong visual image. Book
Reviews of speculative fiction books, art
books, illustrated books or graphic novels
are also welcomed.
Payment is 3¢ a word for book reviews,
3-5¢ a word for articles, and $20 for
poetry.
Website: http://www.polutexni.comWith an editor who is ‘crazy’ about horror,
the Haunted MTL wants work that really
makes a reader ‘tick, chill, and shiver’.
They want ‘gore... moaning banshees...
anything unique’, as short stories, flash, or
graphic pieces. Read the work, guidelines
and contract at the website: https://
hauntedmtl.com
Submissions are always open. Just scare
them silly!Switchback is
published by the
Master of Fine
Arts in Writing
Program of the
University of
San Francisco.
Submissions
are open until
1 December. It
needs your ‘best
work... strangest work... most honest
work’. Read the submission guidelines and
published work, then submit online: http://www.
switchbackjournal.com
For prose submit a story or essay under
4,500 words, preferably around 3,500
words. For poetry submit up to three
poems. Payment and rights are discussed
on acceptance.ZINE SCENE
INTERNATIONAL
by PDR
Lindsay-SalmonFish Publishing is inviting entries for the
Fish Short Story Prize. This year’s judge is
Colum McCann.
The winner will receive €3,000 and a
five-day short story workshop at the West
Cork Literary Festival. The second prize
is a week at Anam Cara Writers’ Retreat
and €300, and the third prize is €300.
Seven honourable mentions each get €200.The top ten stories will be published in
the Fish Anthology 2020 and their writers
will be invited to read at the launch at the
West Cork Literary Festival.
Enter original unpublished short
stories up to 5,000 words. International
entries by writers writing in English are
welcomed.
The entry fee is €20 online and €22 forpostal entries.
The closing date is 30 November.
Website: http://www.fishpublishing.comA swimming short story competition