Magazines Paying Professional Rates

This page has a list of magazines which are published in paper format, and which pay professional rates. You will find contact information, genres published, payment information, and other items of interest. If the magazine has an on-line presence, a link is provided. There is more information provided on this page for magazines that do not have web sites than for those that do.

• Aboriginal Science Fiction
  • Address: The 2nd Renaissance Foundation Inc., P.O. Box 2449, Woburn, MA 01888-0849.
  • Genres: Science Fiction.
  • Payment: $200 on publication for first North American serial rights, and non-exclusive options on other rights. Publishes 18 months after acceptance on average.
  • Reporting time: 3 months.
  • Story lengths: 2,000-6,500 words.
• Analog Science Fiction & Fact
  • Address: Analog, Dell Magazine Fiction Group, 1270 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.
  • Genres: Science Fiction.
  • Payment: 4 cents/word for novels, 5-6 cents/word for novelettes, 6-8 cents/word for stories under 7,500 words, $450-$600 for lengths between these for first North American serial rights and non-exclusive foreign serial rights. Pays on acceptance.
  • Reporting time: 1 month.
  • Story length: 2,000-80,000 words.
• Asimov's Science Fiction
  • Address: Asimov's Science Fiction, Dell Magazine Fiction Group, 1270 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.
  • Genres: Science Fiction.
  • Payment: 5-8 cents/word, 4 cents/word for novel serializations, for first North American serial rights and non-exclusive foreign serial rights.
  • Reporting time: 2 months.
  • Story length: 100-20,000 words.
• Century
  • Address: Robert K.J. Killheffer, Century, P.O. Box 150510, Brooklyn, NY 11215-0215.
  • Genres: Must have some speculative or fantastic element.
  • Payment: 4-6 cents/word.
  • Misc.: No e-mail submissions.
• Glimmer Train
  • Address: Glimmer Train, 710 SW Madison St., Suite 504, Portland, Oregon 97205.
  • Genres:
  • Payment:
  • Misc.:
• Magazine of Fantasy and Science-Fiction
  • Address: Kristine Rusch, P.O. Box 420, Lincoln City, OR 97367.
  • Genres: Fantasy, Science-Fiction.
  • Payment: 5-7 cents/word on acceptance.
  • Misc.:
• Marion Zimmer Bradley's FANTASY Magazine
  • Address: Mrs. Marion Zimmer Bradley-Editor, Marion Zimmer Bradley's FANTASY Magazine, P.O. Box 249, Berkeley, CA 94701.
  • Genres: Fantasy-action and adventure. No Science-Fiction, Occult, Horror, Poetry, or Children's fiction.
  • Payment: "Rates are professionally competitive", pays on acceptance.
  • Misc.: Stories submitted here are considered for all projects on which Marion Zimmer Bradley is currently working, such as her SWORD AND SORCERESS anthologies.

Last updated 6/12/98.