• Crossed Genres Issue 2

    Crossed Genres is a new online magazine that specialises in scifi/fantasy stories that have elements of another genre. Issue 2 has four dystopian scifi/fantasy stories. Of the four, Nesting Instinct is the best. It may be a result of the dystopian theme but I found the stories hard work. Too much telling, too much description…

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  • Space Westerns

    In the course of wandering around in the internet, I stumbled across an ezine called Space Westerns. It publishes weekly and pays money. They are looking for stories, radio plays, artwork, comics, film, poetry and reviews. Have a look at the submission guidelines.

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  • Strange Horizons

    Strange Horizons is an online magazine considered a professional market and paying reasonable rates. They publish weekly in bite size pieces. I’m sure this isn’t news to a lot of people, but I just found out about them so I thought I’d mention it.

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  • Hub Issue 70

    Latest short story fix – Hub #70. I like Hub – it’s delivered weekly as a pdf via email and contains one story (SF, fantasy or horror) and a couple of reviews. It’s a tasty snack that can easily be consumed in between the less interesting things that I ‘should’ be doing. The story in…

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  • Just read the December issue of the Writer’s Market newsletter. It has an article on writing speculative fiction short stories which is quite interesting.

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  • Guidevines for Writers

    Guidevines Useful site full of hints and tips and markets for your stories.

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  • The kind and generous editors are playing a mini slush pile game. Entries are posted on the blog with comments – and so far, it’s been highly constructive advice. Read ElectricSpec. Read the ElectricSpec Editors blog.

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