Paying Novelettes

Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine continues to bring together celebrated authors, new talent, and award-winning stories, poems, and articles, as it has since its launch in 1930. Originally published as Astounding Stories of Science Fiction, Analog remains the unparalleled literary magazine in the genre, and rewards readers with realistic stories that reflect both the highest standards of scientific accuracy and the far reaches of the imagination, as well as lively articles about…
Genres: Science Fiction.
Lengths:     Short Story, Novelette, Novella, Novel.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.08-$0.10/word for short fiction; $0.06/word for serials.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 82.7 days.
Acceptances: Average. 8.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

A cash prize and publication in Boulevard awarded to the winning story by a writer who has not yet published a book of fiction, poetry, or creative non-fiction with a nationally distributed press.
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Short Story, Novelette.
Winner's Prize: Professional. Details: USD $1,500.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 183.6 days.
Acceptances: Average. 2.6% of fiction submissions accepted.

Clarkesworld is a monthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in October 2006. Each issue contains interviews, thought-provoking articles, and between six and eight works of original fiction. Our fiction is also available in ebook editions/subscriptions, audio podcasts, print issues, and in our annual print/ebook anthologies. Clarkesworld has been recognized with a World Fantasy Award, three Hugo Awards, and a British Fantasy Award…
Genres:   Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths:    Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.14/word.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 2.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

CutBank has thrived for fifty-three years as Montana's foremost literary magazine, founded in 1973 by the Creative Writing program at the University of Montana and helmed initially by favorite literary son William Kittredge. CutBank publishes two print issues a year of compelling poetry, fiction, literary nonfiction, art, and hybrid work, as well as three prize-winning chapbooks. Over the years, CutBank has featured work by D. A…
Genres: General.
Lengths:    Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Unknown.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 130.6 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

Doric Literary is a bare-bones fiction site that takes its name from the oldest order of Greek architecture. Known for simple and unadorned but highly functional and enduring forms, a Doric temple perfectly represents what we look for in a short story: a solid foundation or beginning, soaring columns or plotlines that lead directly to a satisfying and beautiful conclusion that still has impact and relevance in the modern world…
Genres: General.
Lengths:    Short Story, Novelette, Novel Excerpt.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: CAD $20.00.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 0.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.3% of fiction submissions accepted.

Fiction on the Web is a labour of love. Every single story on here is hand-picked and carefully copyedited by me. Any money I make from donations is ploughed back into the site and related projects. I do this because I want to give authors a chance to get their work out there, and I love sharing great stories with the world. Fiction on the Web has been online and continuously publishing since July 1996, which makes it the longest-running short stories website on the Internet…
Genres:       Open to all/most genres, including: General, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery/Crime, Science Fiction.
Lengths:   Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: GBP £15 or USD $15.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 4.7 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 11.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

LCRW is an Occasional Outburst, an arrow shot into the future, a harbinger, a break from the daily meh, a lightness, a laugh, an incredibly serious archiving of a moment, a cinder from an old star set to light once more in the hands of readers.
Genres:    Open to all/most genres, including: Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths:      Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novelette, Novella, Novel.
Payment: Semi-pro. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $0.03/word with a $25 minimum.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 138.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.0% of fiction submissions accepted.

At The Lemonwood Quarterly we strive to offer readers exquisite, well-crafted, stories and plays that illuminate underexplored regions of the human condition. In particular, we seek to highlight fresh and authentic portrayals of individuals that, as a group, hold up half the sky, and yet in popular culture have often been marginalized into one-dimensional stereotypes. Our magazine clings to the belief that the written word is one of the best tools available for cultivating empathy…
Genres: General.
Lengths:   Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: to Semi-pro to Professional. Details: USD $200 per story; $1000 Charlotte Ann Porter Prize for Fiction awarded once each year.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 67.4 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

nachtljocht is a quarterly literary journal for fiction and short plays. The name is Frisian for “night light.” The small one left on in the dark, the one you read by when you cannot sleep. We are building a home for good writing without restrictions on genre, form, or subject matter. The strange, the quiet, the romantic, the horrific, the impossible. If it is well-made, we want to read it. What we're looking for: Good writing. Work that knows what it's doing…
Genres:   Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths:   Short Story, Novelette.
Payment: Token. Free copy(ies). Details: USD $15 per piece.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 33.1 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.