I'm looking for a respectable magazine that publishes fiction of short story to novella size length of 15-20k words. Genre is mainstream / literary.
I've searched writer's market but have only found 10k at most, could anyone help, please?
Posted by Paul-girtbooks (Member # 2799) on :
Wish I could, SB. I wrote a 35,500 word novella this time last year and haven't got a clue what to do with it. And because of the layout (mock-documents, sidebar comments, etc.) I really don't know who could publish it.
When it comes to short fiction I feel most comfortable north of the 9,000 word mark.
What about "Glimmer Train", what's their word limit?
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I did a search at Storypilot.com, but couldn't get the search results to link properly from here. Just try searching for literary markets and it comes up with a dozen or so options.
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Posted by Spaceman (Member # 9240) on :
Your best bet is to look in Writers Market. If you can't find a market for that length, then look for one that will serialize the story over several issues. Story House Coffee is a pro market famous for serializing, but they want it in 1000-word chunks.
Posted by HSO (Member # 2056) on :
Serialization might do well for you, if you can get it. Markets that won't take novellas might consider serializing your story if they believe it's worth it (and it should be complete before attempting to sell it... unless your famous). Send a query -- per their guidelines -- and ask. There's almost never any harm in asking (as long as their guidelines say it is okay to ask). Indeed, they'd rather you did ask than send the whole story.
Of course, another option is to try to sell a few novellas and short stories in a collection. Typically, you must be an established writer for this to happen, but not necessarily. And from what I've read, short story collections do not sell as well as novels, so some publishers are reluctant to print them. And if they do print them, they barely market them.
So, yeah, consider Spaceman's recommendation to serialize and hope that someday you can reprint it in a collection.