Smart Search List of the Day Paying Novelettes Smart Search is one of several search options for our members. It enables you to search for publishers and agents using the most common options and provides a short list of results that's curated and updated daily. This helps you find that gold nugget in the stream with as little effort as possible. Although you aren't a member yet, we are giving you a free preview of our Smart Search below. Read our Guide to Smart Search for more information about this feature.Note: These are the results of a previous Smart Search List of the Day. Today's Smart Search is Essays. Instructions: Select at least one bolded (asterisk) option below and click Search. To include some lesser-known publishers, select "Include Wildcards." 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Exact Matches Only Sort By: Acceptance Pct (high to low) Acceptance Pct (low to high) Avg Response Time (low to high) Number of Submitters (reporting to Duotrope) Title Today's Smart Search List of the Day is: Paying Novelettes. Check back tomorrow for a new list.Color Coding: Purple indicates a Wildcard, Green indicates a paying publication, and Blue is everything else. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine For over sixty years, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine has been one of the foremost publishers of mystery, crime, and suspense short stories, offering mystery fiction of the broadest range and the highest quality. Home to many renowned authors, including Martin Limón, Jane K…Genres: Mystery/Crime, Suspense/Thriller.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.Payment: Unknown.Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 378.5 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 3.0% of fiction submissions accepted. Cold Caller Magazine Cold Caller is a publisher of crime and mystery fiction, and we define those terms broadly. We're looking for stories of bad decisions and worse consequences; unlucky losers who can't catch a break; grifters and con men convinced they're about to score big; good men and women who have very good reasons to do terrible things.Genres: Mystery/Crime.Lengths: Short Story, Novelette.Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $125.Avg. Response: Average responder. 70.4 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 1.3% of fiction submissions accepted. Dragon Soul Press Short Story Anthologies We have your best interests at heart. Dragon Soul Press provides high-quality anthologies with a broad audience reach.Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction.Lengths: Short Story, Novelette, Novella.Payment: No monetary payment. Royalties. Details: Share of 30% royalties for the first year.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 35.3 days.Acceptances: Approachable. 42.5% of fiction submissions accepted. ergot. ergot. is a literary website interested in furthering the innovatative and experimental tradition in horror.Genres: Horror.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $25.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 17.6 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 4.8% of fiction submissions accepted. Fabula Argentea Fabula Argentea (FA for short) is Latin for “silver story” and the name is pronounced FAH-boo-la ar-GEN-tee-ah (where the “g” is hard as in “grape”). FA is a paying market. Our goal is to bring its readers the best writing we can find. Period. We accept a wide variety of material: genre, literary, humor, the grit of life, happy endings, sad endings, and perhaps the occasional spicy story.Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.Payment: Token. Details: USD $5 up to 1,000 words, $10 for 1,000-5,000 words, $15 for 5,000-8000 words.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 20.8 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 1.3% of fiction submissions accepted. MENACE Magazine Mature M E N A C E publishes work that encapsulates the dark, the transgressive, and the gross. While not strictly a space for the speculative, M E N A C E seeks the “literary weird”—work that would be rejected from big literary magazines for being too genre…Genres: General, Fantasy, Horror.Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.Payment: to Token to Professional. Details: USD $50.Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 8.5 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 1.5% of fiction submissions accepted. The Mississippi Review Prize Fees No description available.Genres: General.Lengths: Short Story, Novelette.Winner's Prize: Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $1,000 first prize.Avg. Response: Average responder. 87.4 days.Acceptances: Average. 3.2% of fiction submissions accepted. The People's Friend Wildcard The People’s Friend is DC Thomson’s flagship title and the longest-running women’s weekly magazine in the world. First gracing newsagents’ shelves on 13 January 1869, the magazine has an ever-rising subscription base and is loved and trusted all around the world, with readers in Canada, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa…Genres: General.Lengths: Short Story, Novelette, Novella, Novel.Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: GBP £300 for pocket novels; £80-100 for stories; see their site for full details. The Southern Review Fees The Southern Review is one of the nation’s premier literary journals. Hailed by Time as "superior to any other journal in the English language," we have made literary history since our founding in 1935. The Southern Review strives to discover and promote a diverse array of engaging, relevant, and challenging literature—including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translation from literary luminaries as well as the best established and emerging writers…Genres: General.Lengths: Short Story, Novelette, Novel Excerpt.Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $75 for first printed page, with $25 for each subsequent page, up to a max. of $300.Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 208.7 days.Acceptances: Challenging. 1.8% of fiction submissions accepted. Writers of the Future Contest The L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest is an ongoing competition designed to discover new and amateur writers of science fiction and fantasy, present certificates of merit when earned and award monetary prizes to the winners. All types of science fiction, fantasy and dark fantasy are welcome.Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction.Lengths: Short Story, Novelette, Novella.Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $1,000.Avg. Response: Average responder. 95.7 days.Acceptances: Approachable. 4.9% of fiction submissions accepted. Bulk Actions: Select all | Deselect all Jump to Top Add selected to Favorites Add selected to Ignore List (Ignored listings will be hidden from you across the site.) Cookie Consent: This site uses secure first-party cookies for essential, preference-setting, and statistical purposes. We do not use any marketing, advertising, or third-party cookies. Read our full cookie policy. Accept All Cookies Allow Essential Cookies Only