Getting any short story published is tough.
Getting a non-literary (genre) story published, especially by a journal that actually pays, is a real challenge -- but not an impossibility, honest.
What follows are eight journals that publish genre short stories. Who knows, their next acceptance might be from a Stories Space author.
* Historical and Western
The Copperfield Review
The Copperfield Review is a literary journal for writers of historical fiction. They pay all their authors.
Historic Heroines
Historic Heroines is a publication focused on historical tales of female empowerment. They publish stories about fictional or real women experiencing real-life historical events. They are a paying market.
The Western Online
The Western Online is a magazine devoted to everything Old West. They’re looking for historical western fiction of 5,000 words and under, though guidelines note their sweet spot is around 3,000 words. They offer token payment.
Cowboy Jamboree
They publish short fiction and flash fiction in the western genre, though not traditional western – they describe themselves as a “Grit-lit magazine focused on the rural working class and revisionist western writing.”
* Mystery & Sci-Fi
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
They publish every kind of mystery short story: the psychological suspense tale, the deductive puzzle, the private eye case – the gamut of crime and detection, from the realistic to the more imaginative.
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
This paying and competitive magazine publishes short stories and novellas in the mystery genre.
Asimov’s Science Fiction
Stories in Asimov’s have won many Hugo and Nebula awards. They pay well.
Analog
This is a respected science fiction journal that publishes everything from short stories to novellas. They pay well.
note: Excerpted from the free, online newsletter of, Authors Publish Magazine (highly recommended)
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