Monday, January 25, 2010

Market Notes

I spent part of the weekend adding a few links to the left and also added a Western links section. I also found a new (at least to me) market for western shorts called Rope and Wire. They're looking for traditional and contemporary western stories up to 5000 words. They're a non-paying market. You can submit to their online form or email your submission. You can find all the details at http://www.ropeandwire.com/index.html

While clicking around the site, I found a page with links to western music, film clips, and some old time radio shows like "Gunsmoke". http://www.ropeandwire.com/MainPages/bunkhouse.html There's loads of good stuff at this site for Western fans.

A note from Paul Brazill brings the news that Pulp Metal has put out a call for submissions. They take shorts up to 2500 words in a variety of genres. They're a non-paying market. http://pulpmetalmagazine.webs.com/

For those of you who write those really, really short stories, The Vestal Review has something for you. Launched in October, the Dirty Dozen is a twelve word story with a one word title. They pay $10 and a print copy for the top story. You can find the details and some published stories here http://www.vestalreview.net/dirtydozenOctober2009.html

And Bloody Bridge Review launched today with a piece of poetry by Howie Good. This is a flash and poetry market and they're still looking for more submissions. A non-paying market also. http://bloodybridge.blogspot.com/

5 comments:

Paul D Brazill said...

Thanks for that Sandra, though I should point out that Pulp Metal is ALL Our Man In France Jason Michel's work. I'm just the big mouth that writes a column and submits the odd story!

sandra seamans said...

You're welcome, Paul, but writers are just as much a part of the zine world as the publishers. If we don't write and submit, what are they going to publish? And the better we are, the better the zine is. Two way streets, my friend, two way streets.

Charles Gramlich said...

Pulp metal! I've got to check that one out.

Matthew Pizzolato said...

Thanks for adding a link to The Western Online. We've already gotten several hits from your blog. :)

sandra seamans said...

It looks pretty good, Charles. And they keep adding new content so there's a good chance they're planning on sticking around for the long haul.

That's great, Matthew!