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PAYING MARKETS FOR
PERSONAL ESSAYS
Categories
General Interest MagazinesHumor
Sports Magazines
Special Population Magazines
Religious/Inspirational Magazines
Magazines for People with Disabilities/Medical Conditions
Literary Journals
Women's Magazines
Newspapers
Airline Magazines
Lists of Paying Markets
General Interest Magazines
Cappers
1503 S.W. 42nd St.
Franklin, TN 37068
Personal essays about family issues and home life in the rural Midwest
www.cappers.com
Chicken Soup for the Soul
www.chickensoup.com
Cyber Oasis (an online journal)
www.sunoasis.com/oasis.html
Email: eide491@earthlink.net
Personal essays that are evocative, wise observations patterned after
Thoreau
FATE Magazine
PO Box 460
Lakeville, MN 55044
www.fatemag.com
Stories concerning personal experiences with the unknown
Good Old Days
306 East Parr Rd.
Berne, IN 46711
www.goodolddaysmagazine.com
Personal experience pieces on first half of the 20th century
Grit Magazine
1503 SW 42nd St.
Topeka, KS 66601
www.grit.com
Pet tales, stories of favorite gardens, hobbies, love, hometowns,
unique travel nostalgia, holiday remembrances
Ms.
135 W. 50th St., 16th Floor
New York, NY 10020
www.msmagazine.com
"Guest Room" is the back page essay
TheSmartSet.com Smithsonian
3210 Cherry St.,
Philadelphia PA 19104
Pays $350 to $750 for columns (1,500 words). Feature assignments
(2,500 to 6,000 words) pay significantly more. Takes personal essays
and travel essays. Check guidelines at www.thesmartset.com/about
900 Jefferson Drive
Washington, DC 20560-0406
www.smithsonianmag.si.edu
Funny Times
PO Box 18530
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
www.funnytimes.com
www.alaskaairlinesmagazine.com
Air Time section takes humor essays to 700 words.
Orion
Orion Society
187 Main Street
Great Barrington, MA 01230
www.oriononline.org
Curmudgeon in the Wild section takes humorous essays to 600 words.
Spirituality and Health
74 Trinity Place
New York, NY 10006
Takes humorous essays to 600 words.
www.spiritualityhealth.com
Adventure Cyclist
Pays $0.30 to $0.45 per word for personal accounts about cycling trips.
Check detailed guidelines and submission requirements at:
www.adventurecycling.org.
Adventure Kayak
Adventure Kayak Magazine
Box 70
Palmer Rapids, ON K0J 2E0
Pays up to $0.20 per word for essays on kayaking. Check detailed guidelines at:
www.rapidmedia.com/Kayayking.html.
American Angler
Abenaki Publishers, Inc.
160 Benmont Avenue
Bennington, VT 05201
The magazine of fly fishing and fly tying
http://americanangler.com
Backpacker
Rodale
33 E. Minor Street
Emmaus, Pa 18098-0099
www.backpacker.com
Backcountry column: personal perspectives, quirky and idiosyncratic,
humorous critiques, manifestos and misadventures, interesting angle,
lesson, revelation or moral
Canoe & Kayak Magazine
10526 NE 68th St., Suite 3
Kirkland, WA 98033
www.canoekayak.com
Cruising World
Box 3400
Newport, RI 02840-0992
www.cruisingworld.com
The Golfer
21 E. 40th Street
New York, NY 10016
Email: racquet@walrus.com
Sail Magazine
takes personal stories and photos for the Sailing Memories and Voice of Experience
sections. Send manuscripts to:
Managing Editor
SAIL Magazine
98 North Washington Street, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02114
amy.ullrich@primedia.com
Send images to:
Photo Editor, same address
kathryn.berry@primedia.com
Details:
www.sailmag.com
Soundings
10 Bokum Road
Essex, CT 06426
Monthly boating newspaper carries personal essays. Pays $200.
Soundings
Alaska Magazine
Morris Communications Corp.
301 Arctic Slope Ave., Ste. 300
Anchorage, AK 99518
www.alaskamagazine.com
Takes personal experience pieces on all aspects of life in Alaska. Send SASE for guidelines.
Backhome Magazine
Wordsworth Communications, Inc.
P.O. Box 70
Hendersonville, NC 28793
www.backhomemagazine.com
Pays $35 per printed page for first-person experience on sustainable, self-reliant living.
Chicago Reader
11 East Illinois Street
Chicago, IL 60611
www.chicagoreader.com
Surprise, takes Chicago-related items
First Things
156 Fifth Avenue, Suite 400
New York, NY 10010
www.firstthings.com
Personal essays related to religion in public life
GreenPrints
c/o Pat Stone, Editor
PO Box 1355
Fairview, NC 28730
Query patstone@atlantic.net; no email submissions
www.greenprints.com
Personal gardening writing
Horticulture Magazine
Horticulture Magazine
F + W Media, Inc.
4700 E. Galbraith Rd.
Cincinnati, OH 45236
Takes personal gardening experiences from 900-1,200 words.
Pays $600 to $1,000. Email for guidelines. edit@hortmag.com.
Samples at hortmag.com.
House Beautiful
The Hearst Corp.
1700 Broadway, Fl. 29
New York, NY 10019
"Thoughts of Home" section takes literary, personal (is there any other kind?)
memoirs up to 2,000 words. Send detailed outline first. Pay not noted but
Hearst tends to pay well. www.housebeautiful.com
Islands
PO Box 4728
Santa Barbara, CA 93140
www.islands.com
Pieces with a narrative thread and a personal voice.
Midwest Today
P. O. Box 685
Panora, Iowa 50216
www.midtod.com
Short true-life stories with a Heartland setting, particularly stories
which are uplifting or inspirational, with a positive outcome.
Mother Earth News
P. O. Box 685
1503 SW 42nd St.
Topeka, KS 66609-1265
www.motherearthnews.com/writers-guidelines.aspx
pays $150 for first-person stories of 1,500 to 2,000 words about
sustainable lifestyles of all sorts for the Firsthand Reports section.
Ocean
Writing Submissions
P. O. Box 84
Rodanthe, NC 27968
www.oceanmag.org
Publishes essays and other forms about the ocean. Check guidelines online.Pay varies.
Plenty, The World in Green
Check guidelines at:
www.plentymag.com/guidelines.php.
Reminisce
PO Box 998
Greendale, WI 53129-0998
www.reminisce.com
Rotarian
1560 Sherman Ave.
Evanston, IL 60201
www.rotary.org
Organization of hope, encouragement, cooperation
Seedhouse: The Magazine for Modern Writers and
Poets
PO Box 883009
Steamboat Springs, CO 80488
Email: seedhouse98@yahoo.com
Sierra
Sierra Club
85 2nd Street, Fl. 2
San Francisco, CA 94105
www.sierraclub.org
Pays $800 - $3,000 for essays with an enviromental theme from 1,500 - 3,000 words.
Wine Enthusiast
103 Fairview Park Dr.
Elmsford, NY 10532
Takes true travel tales related to wine from 200 to 800 words.
Pay varies, on acceptance. Find guidelines at:
www.winemag.com
Yoga Journal
475 Sansome St., Ste. 850
San Francisco, CA 94111
the "Yoga Diary" section takes first person stories of 250. Pays 90days
after acceptance. Not great, but it does pay. Send queries to:
queries@yogajournal.com.
Check content at:
www.yogajournal.com.
You & Me-America's Medical Magazine Religious/Inspirational
Magazines
Guideposts
is an ezine seeking personal stories about dealing with any aspect
of a medical experience. Pays $0.03-0.10/word for 1500-3000 words.
Check guidelines at:
www.youandmemagazine.com.
16 East 34th St
New York, NY 10016
www.guideposts.org
True first-person stories telling in dramatic form how people have
overcome difficulties, gained courage, or developed positive attitudes
through faith in God. Payment: $200 - $400.
Liguorian
Pays 10 to 15 cents per published word for personal essays from 1,200 to 1,400
words that provide practical direction for Catholics in this changing world.
Guidelines at:
www.liguorian.org.
Moment
Takes personal essays from 1,000 to 2,500 words relating to all branches
of the North American Jewish community and Israel. Pay varies.
Guidelines at:
www.momentmag.com.
Reform Judaism
633 3rd Avenue, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10017-6778
http://reformjudaismmag.org
Personal experience of Reform Jews
Magazines for People with Disabilities/Medical Conditions
Arthritis Today
1330 W. Peachtree St
Atlanta, GA 30309
www.arthritis.org
Upbeat, inspiration, also articles generally appealing to older audience
non-arthritis
Careers & the Disabled
Equal Opportunity Publications
1160 E. Jericho Turnpike, Suite 200
Huntington, NY 11743
www.eop.com
Coping with Cancer
Unique, upbeat stories about a cancer experience. 775 words
www.copingmag.com
Cure AGNI The American Scholar Black Warrior Review The Chattahoochee Review Colorado Review Crazyhorse Creative Nonfiction Event Five Points Fourth Genre The Georgia Review Gettysburg Review Iowa Review Indiana Review The Kenyon Review Literal Latte The Massachusetts Review The Malahat Review The Missouri Review
3500 Maple Avenue, Suite 750
Dallas, TX 75219
This magazine for cancer patients and their caregivers takes 700 word max
reader essays. Pays $100 for the print edition and $25 for the quarterly
online newsletter.
www.curetoday.com
236 Bay State Rd.
Boston, MA 02215
www.bu.edu/agni
Accepts personal essays, memoirs. Pays $10 per page up to $150.
Snail mail submissions only, no e-queries. Reads Sept. 1 through May 31.
Check guidelines online before submitting.
1606 New Hampshire Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20009
www.theamericanscholar.org
Published by Phi Beta Kappa, this one is for experienced writers. Recommended
personal essay length 3,000 to 5,000 words. Pays $500 on acceptance.
E-queries OK. scholar@pbk.org Check guidelines online before submitting.
P.O. Box 862936
Tuscaloosa, AL 35486-0029
Black Warrior Review
Accepts personal essays. Honorarium provided.
Georgia Perimeter College
2101 Womack Road
Dunwoody, GA
www.chattahoochee-review.org
Pays $100 for essays from emerging and established writers.
Colorado State University
English Dept.
Fort Collins, CO 80523
www.coloradoreview.colostate.edu
Pays $5 per page and up for personal essays. Snail mail submissions only.
Reads September through April.
Takes personal essays to 25 pages, pays $20 per printed page.
Crazyhorse
Essays can be personal, but must reach out universally.
www.creativenonfiction.org
Pays up to $500 for personal essays up to 5,000 words.
Event Magazine Guidelines
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3999
Atlanta, GA 30302
www.webdelsol.com/Five_Points
Pays $15 per page with $250 maximum for personal essays of 7,500 words.
Reads Sept. 1 through April 30.
Michigan State University
285 Bessey Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824-1033
http://msupress.msu.edu/journals/fg/
Awards an annual prize of $1,000 for an essay or memoir up to 6,000 words.
Winners and runners up published. $15 entry fee. Reads August 15 through November 30.
Reads from Aug. 16-May 14.
www.uga.edu/garev
Takes memoir from 3,000-7,000 words.
www.gettysburgreview.com
The Iowa Review
308 EPB
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
Reads September through November
Pays $.08 per word, $100 minimum, for personal essays.
www.iowareview.org
Indiana University
Ballantine Hall 465
1020 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405
Reads Sept. 1-May 31.
Pays $5 per page, $10 minimum, for lively essays.
inreview@indiana.edu
www.indiana.org
Pays $30/page for essays,7,500 words max.
www.kenyonreview.org
Takes personal essays, all topics.
www.literal-latte.com
South College
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
Reads Oct. 1-June 1.
Pays $50 for lively essays.
massrev@external.umass.edu
www.massreview.org
The Malahat Review
University of Victoria
P.O. Box 1700
Stn CSC
Victoria, B.C. V8W 2Y2
Canada
Pays $40 per page for personal essays or memoirs of 1,000 to 3,500 words.
Be sure to check Canadian postage needs at: www.malahatreview.ca.
1507 Hillcrest Hall, University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
www.missourireview.org
Takes personal essays and much more. For experienced writers.
Pays $100-$1,000. Reading fee $5. Check guidelines at www.narrativemagazine.com
New England Review
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753
www.nereview.com
New England Writers' Network
Email Glenda Baker, Editor-in-Chief at newsmag@aol.com
New Letters
Offers prizes plus publication. Reads Oct. 2-April 30.
www.newletters.org
Pleiades Pif Magazine Ploughshares
Pleidaes
Dept. of English
University of Central Missouri
Warrensburg, MO 64093
Reads August 15 through May 15. Pays on pubication, amount not mentioned.
Send nonfiction submissions (personal essays) to Phong Nguyen.
www.ucmo.edu/englphil/pleiades/submit.
Requires free membership to submit. Takes memoir.
www.pifmagazine.com
Emerson College
120 Boyle Street
Boston MA, 02116-4624
www.pshares.org
Accepts some personal essays, reads August 1-March 31
Snowy Egret
P.O. Box 29
Terre Haute, IN 47808
Seeks essays on human relationship to the natural world from 500-10,000 words,
and first-hand experiences (Woodnotes)from 250-2,000 words. Snowy Egret.
The Sun - A Magazine of Ideas
107 N. Roberson St,
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Pays starts at $300 for personal essays.
www.thesunmagazine.org/about/submission_guidelines/writing
Tin House
Pays $200 for nonfiction essays.
www.tinhouse.com
Women's
Magazines
Most major women's magazines do not post guidelines. Send SASE or
check current issue for appropriate departments.
Bridal Guide
3 E. 54th Street, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10022
www.bridalguide.com
Guidelines from Valerie Berrios at vberrios@bridalguide.com
Country Woman
PO Box 643
Milwaukee, WI 53201
www.countrywomanmagazine.com
Takes nostalgia pieces of 300-500 words
Essence
1500 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
www.essence.com
Family Circle
375 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10017-5514
www.familycircle.com
Glamour
350 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10017
www.glamour.com
Viewpoint or Hers/His column
Good Housekeeping
959 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10019
www.goodhousekeeping.com
Dramatic narratives
Ladies' Home Journal
Ladies' Home Jouranal
Pay varies on the high end. Query first and check guidelines.
More
More
379 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10017
www.more.com
Prints personal essays on subjects of interest to midlife women (in their 40s and 50s).
For guidelines send a note and SASE to the address above.
Self
4 Times Square
New York, NY 10036
www.self.com
Personal, dramatic narratives
Radience, The Magazine for Large Women
PO Box 30246
Oakland, CA 94694
Radiance Magazine
Skirt!
Takes personal essays on topics of interest to women between 800 and 1,200 words.
Monthly themes at http://skirt.com/contributor_guidelines.
Woman's World
270 Sylvan Avenue
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632
Dramatic personal women's stories
Woman's World
Newspapers
Hundreds of newspapers across the U.S. and many more around the globe print personal essays, usually in the lifestyles, travel and op-ed sections. Often they seek a local angle, but also accept items with a universal theme. Send your completed personal essays to the appropriate section editor. Call if you can't locate it in a copy or eslewhere and verify the name and spelling. Two sources for global newspaper markets are: www.nettizen.com/newspaper and newslink.org
Hemispheres
Pace Communications for United Airlines
1301 Carolina Street
Greensboro, NC 27401
www.hemispheresmagazine.com
Accepts personal experience essays
Horizon Air
Paradigm Communications Group for Alaska Airlines
2701 First Avenue Suite 250
Seattle, WA 98121
Alaska Airlines Magazine.
Accepts personal experience essays
Mexico Travel & Life Travel + Leisure TravelSmart Newsletter US Airways Magazine
Lists
of Paying Markets The (annual) Writer's Market
Mexico Travel & Life
5850 San Felipe, Ste. 500
Houston, TX 77057
Takes memoirs about, oddly enough, Mexico.
Guidelines at:
www.mexicotravelandlife.com.
1120 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
www.travelandleisure.com
TravelSmart
P.O. Box 397
Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
Pays $50 for 1,500 words of true advice for travelers.
Sample at:
www.travelsmartnewsletter.com.
Email: TravelSmartNow@aol.com>
Pace Communications for US Air
1301 Carolina Street
Greensboro, NC 27401
www.usairwaysmag.com
Accepts essays
The (annual) Paying Markets for Writers
Published May. Available from Amazon.com or (faster delivery) at writersmarkets.com.
Published in the fall by Writer's Digest Books. Available in book
stores or from
www.writersdigest.com.
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