09 May 2011
Call for Submissions in Filipino: Tampok na Tula/ Maikling Kuwento sa Asia Writes
Deadline: 28 June 2011

Nagbubukas ang AW Featured Work para sa maikling kuwento o tulang isinulat sa Filipino/ Tagalog mula ngayon, 9 Mayo, hanggang 28 Hunyo. Itatampok ang mga napiling maikling kuwento o tula nang halinhinan sa mga akdang Ingles sa buong buwan ng Hunyo 2011 upang ipagdiwang ang araw (o buwan) ng kalayaan ng Pilipinas.


Ipadala ang inyong maikling kuwento o tula kasama ang maigsing bio sa editors@asiawrites.org. Ang tema ay hindi kinakailangang tungkol sa kalayaan ng Pilipinas o nasyonalismo. Ang manunulat ay maaari ring nakabase sa loob o labas ng bansa. Ang mahalaga ay isinulat ang akda sa Filipino o Tagalog at hindi pa ito nailalathala sa ibang publikasyon. "Form and premise" ang tinitimbang sa pagtanggap ng mga akda.

Kung maaaari ay basahin ang iba pang mga alituntunin para sa pagsumite ng inyong akda (guidelines here) at ipamahagi ang panawagang ito sa inyong mga kaibigang manunulat o organisasyon.

Maraming salamat at hihintayin namin ang inyong mga kontribusyon.

Contact Information:

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29 March 2011
37 Writing Opportunities for Asian Writers with March 31 Deadline
Here are 37 writing contests, careers, calls for submissions, and other opportunities for Asian writers with submissions or applications due on the 31st of March, 2011:
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17 December 2010
81 SciFi/ Fantasy Markets that Pay at least $50 per Story
Assumption: For journals/ magazines paying on a per-word basis, we assumed that a story had 2,000 words on the average. Rates were converted to US$.

Sites are ranked based on the rates, from highest-paying to lowest-paying market. To visit the site/ see the complete guidelines, please click on the magazine/ journal title.

1. Tor.com - pays $0.25 per word

2. Cosmos Magazine - pays a flat rate of $500

3. Odyssey - pays $.20 per word

4. Heritage Tales - pays a flat rate of $250

5. Heliotrope - pays $0.1 per word

6. Clarkesworld Magazine - pays $0.1 per word

7. Futurismic - pays a flat rate of $200

8. Twelfth Planet Novella Series - pays a flat rate of $180

9. Daily Science Fiction - pays $0.08 per word

10. Alfred Hitchcock's - pays $0.08 per word

11. Wrong World - pays $0.075 per word

12. Futures - pays a flat rate of $130

13. Realms of Fantasy - pays $0.06 per word

14. Jim Baen's Universe - pays $0.06 per word

15. Asimov's Science Fiction - pays $0.06 per word

16. Grantville Gazette - pays $0.06 per word

17. Intergalactic Medicine Show - pays $0.06 per word

18. Analog Science Fiction and Fact - pays $0.06 per word

19. F & SF - pays $0.06 per word

20. AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review - pays $0.059 per word

21. The Night Land - pays $0.055 per word

22. Fantasy Magazine - pays $0.05 per word

23. Universe Annex - pays $0.05 per word

24. Doorways Magazine - pays $0.05 per word

25. Redstone Science Fiction - pays $0.05 per word

26. Nature Futures - pays $0.05 per word

27. Lightspeed Magazine - pays $0.05 per word

28. Bull Spec - pays $0.05 per word

29. Dark Discoveries - pays $0.05 per word

30. Apex Magazine - pays $0.05 per word

31. Shock Totem - pays $0.05 per word

32. vMeme21 - pays $0.05 per word

33. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - pays $0.05 per word

34. Beneath Ceaseless Skies - pays $0.05 per word

35. On Spec - pays $0.05 per word

36. Illusion Presents: Transmitter - pays $0.05 per word

37. Cemetery Dance - pays $0.05 per word

38. Wee Ones - pays $0.05 per word

39. Lenox Avenue - pays $0.05 per word

40. Dark Cloud Press - pays $0.05 per word

41. Strange Horizons - pays $0.05 per word

42. GigaNotoSaurus - pays a flat rate of $100

43. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly - pays a flat rate of $100

44. Pseudopod - pays a flat rate of $100

45. Vulgata - pays a flat rate of $100

46. Podcastle - pays a flat rate of $100

47. Tetragon Science Fiction - pays a flat rate of $100

48. Ennea - pays $0.047 per word

49. Twelfth Planet Novelette Doubles - pays a flat rate of $90.97

50. New Ceres Magazine - pays $0.04 per word

51. Enchanted Conversation, The - pays $0.04 per word

52. Onirismes - pays a flat rate of $78.56

53. Abyss & Apex - pays a flat rate of $75

54. Parabola - pays a flat rate of $75

55. The Internet Review of Science Fiction - pays a flat rate of $70

56. Basement Stories - pays $0.03 per word

57. Damnation Books - pays $0.03 per word

58. Brain Harvest - pays $0.03 per word

59. Untied Shoelaces of the Mind - pays $0.03 per word

60. Vestal Review - pays $0.03 per word

61. Weird Tales - pays $0.03 per word

62. Ideomancer - pays $0.03 per word

63. Spacesuits and Sixguns - pays $0.03 per word

64. Trabuco Road - pays $0.03 per word

65. GUD Magazine - pays $0.03 per word

66. Aberrant Dreams - pays $0.03 per word

67. Black Gate - pays $0.03 per word

68. Carnifex Press - pays $0.03 per word

69. Panverse - pays a flat rate of $60

70. Big Ole Face Full of Monster - pays $0.025 per word

71. Icarus - pays a flat rate of $50

72. Nil Desperandum - pays a flat rate of $50

73. Flash Fiction Online - pays a flat rate of $50

74. Wily Writers - pays a flat rate of $50

75. Hotel Guignol - pays a flat rate of $50

76. Hub Magazine - pays a flat rate of $50

77. Edge of Propinquity, The - pays a flat rate of $50

78. I Love Cats - pays a flat rate of $50

79. AlienQ - pays a flat rate of $50

80. TQR Total Quality Reading - pays a flat rate of $50

81. Chrysalis Reader - pays a flat rate of $50
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01 December 2010
Asia Writes's Official Pushcart Prize 2011 Nominations for Short Fiction and Poetry
Here is our official line-up of nominated works for Pushcart Prize 2011:

Poetry (Selected by award-winning poet, Professor Joanie Mackowski. View our announcement of the shortlisted works here.)

1. "House and Man" by Nicholas YH Wong (Malaysia)

2. "Paradise" by Luisa A. Igloria (Philippines)

3. "The Irishman in My Backyard" by Trisha Bora (India)

4. "Television" by Sumana Roy (India)

5. "Bloodlines" by Cathy Linh Che (Vietnam/USA)

Short Fiction (Selected by Ms. Susan Abraham whose book, Call the Ships of Dar-es-Salaam, is now available on Amazon. More information about Ms. Abraham here.)

"Transcendence" by Guy Cranswick (Australia)

Guy Cranswick lives in Sydney and, apart from English, speaks French and Italian—and survival German. He has written screenplays, a novel, My Wife, My Job, My Shoes; and a collection of stories, Corporate. His short fiction has been published in Canada, the US, UK, Ireland, Israel, Singapore and Australia.

Susan Abraham writes, "I chose Transcendence because of the story’s highly original and brilliant study of painful inner journeys that seek to define an individual’s life with the advent of the sudden, tragic circumstance. The solitary discourse of a searching soul’s pursuit of existence or rather in the way that I gathered it to be, proved highly meditative and intriguing with its various puzzling perceptions, that makes such a story ahead of its time. I thought Cranswick to have been comfortable with his plot. He did not allow such a difficult subject to engulf him; on the contrary, the character’s painstaking patient thoughts moved me deeply. Here was a story with its satisfying closure, that welcomed honesty and humility, along the way. I liked the neat structure of each personal study that rose and dipped with an arresting enigma as Cranswick sketched different philosophical subjects, supplemented by various everyday actions. The character was desperate for answers and I pictured a rivulet rushing to meet its brook. I took away an unforgettable feeling of an exquisite if not lingering intrigue."

We sent Ms. Susan Abraham a shortlist of four short stories for consideration. This included Anita Kainthla’s "Heat, Hatred and Retribution", O Thiam Chin's "The Other Woman", and Smitri Ravindra's "Snakes and Fishes," which she described as "high standard. Each commanded a personal form and a subsequently individual flair."

Here are her individual comments on the rest of the shortlisted stories:

"Heat, Hatred and Retribution" by Anita Kainthla

I felt Anita Kainthla’s "Heat, Hatred and Retribution" was daring and merciless in its approach of characterisation which was excellent. I also liked the idea that Kainthla used the imagery of a scorching weather outdoors to compliment the visual violence indoors. This was a similar technique used by Indra Sinha in "Animal People", with its variety of ‘fire images.’

"The Other Woman" by O Thiam Chin

"The Other Woman" by O Thiam Chin is a painstaking and carefully-crafted piece. There was a real promise of the story becoming highly atmospheric and being placed in its winning element.

"Snakes and Fishes" by Smitri Ravindra

I liked "Snakes and Fishes" by Smitri Ravindra. I thought Ravindra to have real talent. A born storyteller where entertainment held the main focus. She cleverly maneuvered her story to introduce the right ounce of colour and intrigue.

Congratulations and good luck to our first batch of nominated writers. We mailed a hard copy of these works to the Pushcart Prize Committee yesterday.

Note:

Submissions to Asia Writes are open year round and works are eligible for nomination to the three anthologies (Best of the Net, Best of the Web, Pushcart Prize). If you would like to contribute, please read our submission guidelines. Previously featured writers are most welcome to submit new works.
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24 November 2010
Asia Writes's Pushcart Prize 2011 Nominations
(Note: The official nominations for short fiction and poetry have been announced. Read the announcement here.)

The Pushcart Prize - Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is "the most honored literary project in America. Hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry and essays have been represented in the pages of these annual collections."

Our distinguished judge for our Pushcart Prize nominations is award-winning poet Joanie Mackowski. She is an Assistant Professor at Cornell University and the author of two books of poems: View from a Temporary Window (University of Pittsburgh Press January 2010) and The Zoo (University of Pittsburgh Press 2002). She received her BA from Wesleyan University, her MFA from the University of Washington, and her PhD from the University of Missouri. Her awards include the Emily Dickinson Prize from the Poetry Society of America in 2008, the Associated Writing Programs Award in Poetry in 2000, the Kate Tufts Discovery Prize in 2003, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Grant, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. Professor Mackowski's poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2009, Best American Poetry 2007, The Yale Review, The American Scholar, New England Review, among many others.

But before we announce her final nominations, we would like to first share with you Professor Mackowski's shortlist of nine poems. She described these poems as having a "rich, inventive, and clattery language use." These poems deal with "unusual subject matter", exhibit "coherence without convention", and are "provocative".

The Shortlist

1. As Far as Cho-Fu-Sa by Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta (Philippines)

"What I am, ever, is this: composure of stone.../ ...This claw of stars/ Must constellate somewhere into a bear,/ Else names would lie..."

Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta hails from Manila and holds an MFA from the New School University in NYC. Her first book of poetry, The Proxy Eros, was published in 2008 by Anvil Publishing Inc., the foremost publishing house in the Philippines. Her work has been published in The New York Quarterly and will appear in the forthcoming issue of Defunct, an online literary magazine. She has also received Palanca and Philippines Free Press awards, the top literary honors in the Philippines.


2. Bloodlines by Cathy Linh Che (Vietnam/USA)

"... That’s poison drawn out./ When I dig in,/ the bloodlines emerge,/ rib from spine,/ each line a bone,/ each bone/ a story..."

Cathy Linh Che was born in Los Angeles in 1980. Her parents immigrated to America in 1976, after spending a year in a refugee camp in the Philippines. A graduate from New York University's MFA program, she is a current Kundiman fellow and recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and from Poets & Writers, Inc. Her current projects include: collecting for an anthology of writing by children of the Vietnam War and editing Paperbag: an online journal of the arts, which can be found at www.paperbagazine.com.


3. Camera 1 by Oliver de la Paz (Philippines/USA)

"... Because of my hunger, this image is not a salve or a slave but a want. I want the boats to come back. Listen again. Throats are calling from the shoals..."

Oliver de la Paz is the author of three collections of poetry, Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby (SIU Press 2001, 2007), and Requiem for the Orchard (U. of Akron Press 2010), winner of the Akron Prize for poetry chosen by Martìn Espada. He co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of Asian American Poetry. A recipient of a NYFA Fellowship Award and a GAP Grant from Artist Trust, his work has appeared in journals like Virginia Quarterly Review, North American Review, Tin House, Chattahoochee Review, and in anthologies such as Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation. He teaches at Western Washington University. Visit him at http://oliverdelapaz.com

4. House and Man by Nicholas YH Wong (Malaysia)

"... The coins, so I read, were older, kept/ beneath their bases. I was no longer/ a keeper of coins, so no one ran the risk/ of pillars crumbling before the house did./ But such fidelity finds no fortune..."

Nicholas YH Wong is a recipient of the Academy of American Poets Award in 2008 and 2010. He studies Comparative Literature & Society at Columbia University and is working on his first poetry collection, Extinction Suite. His poems have appeared in The Rialto, Southeast Asian Review of English, and The Columbia Review, among others. He is currently a fellow at the beautiful La Muse (Languedoc, France), working on pieces about Cathar history, Occitan culture and troubadour verse.

5. First Person Indefinite by Sonam Kachru (India)

"It was not always submarine./ There was life in the bodies we left by the water./ You thought them, together, unlikely to be either/ A lost seabird beside its reflection in water, or/ Distracted branches in half-open shutters..."

Sonam Kachru is a Kashmiri and was last seen working towards a PhD at the University of Chicago as an international student. This poem is from a collection he has tentatively titled: The Unbearable Likeness of Unbecoming Splendor. Kachru is at present completing a book-length project, Make Humans Again: Voices From Kashmir, an illustrated book of contemporary poetry translated into English from Kashmiri. Initial work from this project has been accepted for publication in Another Chicago Magazine, Greater Kashmir, and Words Without Borders.

6. Paradise by Luisa A. Igloria (Philippines)

"... Sometimes they trekked/ through red earth... if only/ to watch the moon grow flagrant, saying so little/ it was a silence she came to mistake for habit—/ light's silver coin, surely being offered and not merely held/ over the water, inscrutable/ at their feet..."

Award-winning poet Luisa A. Igloria currently directs Old Dominion University's MFA Creative Writing Program. Originally from Baguio City, Philippines, she is the author of JUAN LUNA'S REVOLVER (2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, University of Notre Dame Press), TRILL & MORDENT (WordTech Editions 2005), and 8 other books. Her recent awards include the 49th Parallel Prize in Poetry from the Bellingham Review, the 2007 James Hearst Poetry Prize (selected by former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser), the 2006 National Writers Union Poetry Prize (selected by Adrienne Rich), and the 2006 Stephen Dunn Award for Poetry.

7. Television by Sumana Roy (India)

"... Desire/ is ceremony. All is a picture – baby food, insomnia, honey./ Attachment grows in breadth, like suspicion – a queue of blinks..."

Sumana Roy's first novel, Love in the Chicken's Neck, was long listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008. She teaches at the Department of Humanities, Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College. She is working on a collection of stories tentatively titled SML.



8. The Irishman in My Backyard by Trisha Bora (India)

"... I traced the chisel’s faint path back/ ... —a shy world/ caught in the tangle of another man’s/ net, dark tea that burnt our tongues and/ filled dainty china cups.../ and the writing of these/ practiced words, put neatly, side by/ side, in another man’s strange tongue."

Trisha Bora is an editor and writer who has been away from her hometown – Assam – for many years now and currently lives in Delhi. She studied Lierature at Delhi University, and started a career in publishing immediately after. Her poems have been published at Ultra Violet, nth position, Pyrta Journal, and Poetry Super Highway among others. She is working on her first collection of poetry.

9. The Wallace Line by Nicolas YH Wong (Malaysia)

"...I’m jealous. Of both your findings, the last/ survived the beauty of my homeland, with/ flying frogs and fierce beetles, and the Wallace/ line marking the side I stood on, who we’ve/ come from..."

Nicholas YH Wong is a recipient of the Academy of American Poets Award in 2008 and 2010. He studies Comparative Literature & Society at Columbia University and is working on his first poetry collection, Extinction Suite. His poems have appeared in The Rialto, Southeast Asian Review of English, and The Columbia Review, among others. He is currently a fellow at the beautiful La Muse (Languedoc, France), working on pieces about Cathar history, Occitan culture and troubadour verse.

We will announce the selected five poems (that we will send to the Pushcart Prize committee for consideration) by the end of this month. Thank you very much to these writers for the contributions and for allowing us to publish these admirable pieces of poetry.

Note:

Submissions to Asia Writes are open year round and works are eligible for nomination to the three anthologies (Best of the Net, Best of the Web, Pushcart Prize). If you would like to contribute, please read our submission guidelines. Previously featured writers are most welcome to submit new works.
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31 October 2010
Asia Writes's Best of the Web 2010 Nominations
Best of the Web and Best of the Net are two different anthologies that showcase the best poems and short stories that have appeared in online literary journals. Best of the Web is published in book form by Dzanc Books, while Best of the Net appears on Sundress Publications' website.

In the previous months, we announced our nominated poems and short stories (selected by Professor Lee Upton and Ms. Susan Abraham) for Best of the Net. This time, we would like to present to you our selected works to be nominated for inclusion in the Best of the Web 2010 anthology that seeks to "promote and expand the reach and prestige of online literature."

Our esteemed judge - poet, editor, translator, and teacher Chad Sweeney

Chad Sweeney’s third book of poems, Parable of Hide and Seek, was recently published by Alice James Books. Poems from the book appeared in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior, Verse, New American Writing and Best American Poetry 2008, and the poem “The Methodist and His Method” was read by Garrison Keillor on the NPR radio show The Writer’s Almanac. Chad’s co-translations of the Selected Poems of Iranian poet H.E. Sayeh will appear next year from White Pine Press, and his fourth book of poems, a bilingual Spanish/English edition is forthcoming from Forklift Books, Wolf Milk: Lost Poems of Juan Sweeney. Chad teaches poetry and is a Ph.D. candidate at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, where he lives with his wife, poet Jennifer K. Sweeney, and their baby son, Liam.

Nominated works
(This is in no particular order. Please click on the title to read the poem.)

1. Personal History by Ching-In Chen

Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart's Traffic (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press). Daughter of Chinese immigrants, she is a Kundiman, Macondo and Lambda Fellow. A community organizer, she has worked in the Asian American communities of San Francisco, Oakland, Riverside and Boston. She can be found at www.chinginchen.com

Chad Sweeney's review: “Personal History” is at once casual and graceful, unwinding its images the way thought itself moves, when unhurried, toward recognition. The poem is honest, unsentimental, yet from its traceries of the ordinary artifacts of two lives, it develops a rich emotional texture, haunted by the mystery of ancestry, both intimate and distant, the unknown “other” from which our lives spring, the old cultures, the old bodies, whose very disappearances somehow issue into who we are.

2. Scratch by Sharanya Manivannan

Sharanya Manivannan's first book of poems, Witchcraft, was published in 2008 to critical acclaim, and was described by Singapore Literature Prize winner Ng Yi-Sheng as being “sensuous and spiritual, delicate and dangerous and as full as the moon reflected in a knife” in The Straits Times. Sharanya’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including Drunken Boat, Softblow, White Whale Review, Kritya, Clementine, Istanbul Literary Review, Danse Macabre, A Café In Space and Pratilipi. A personal column, The Venus Flytrap, appears biweekly in The New Indian Express. She was the recipient of the Lavanya Sankaran Fellowship for 2008-2009. She is working on a novel and a second book of poetry, and more of her work can be found online at www.sharanyamanivannan.com.

Chad Sweeney's review: “Scratch” drops us into the intrigues of an international relationship. Its lines are artfully shaky, hurried, a little disoriented, like a taxi ride home at dawn in a foreign country. The speaker’s subliminal anxiety asks if the self may survive exile for the sake of love, if the monsoon remains in the blood when the woman has left her home, and if the sacrifice (of rabbit blood, its gift of fertility) has been received with equal elan. The poem explores how two lovers may negotiate without the inherited codes of courtship, and offers no easy answers, even as blood becomes a kind of shared currency—and language.

3. First Person Indefinite by Sonam Kachru

Sonam Kachru is a Kashmiri and was last seen working towards a PhD at the University of Chicago as an international student. This poem is from a collection he has tentatively titled: The Unbearable Likeness of Unbecoming Splendor. Kachru is at present completing a book-length project, Make Humans Again: Voices From Kashmir, an illustrated book of contemporary poetry translated into English from Kashmiri. Initial work from this project has been accepted for publication in Another Chicago Magazine, Greater Kashmir, and Words Without Borders.

Chad Sweeney's review: “First Person Indefinite” is either a murder mystery or a parable of figuration, which are probably one and the same after all. Its images teeter dangerously between the real and the figurative, precise as a knife edge and yet as ambiguous as a shape in shallow water—which may be a branch, a water bird, or the ghost of someone’s childhood. The poem is drenched in love and menace, and its ambiguity, its “resistance to closure,” would be a weakness, if it weren’t so pleasurable to dwell in its cold, watery spaces.

Chad Sweeney's shortlist included:

1. "Tales of Winter & Exile" by Michael Caylo-Baradi
2. "The Irishman in my backyard" by Trisha Bora
3. "Talk" by Cathy Linh Che
4. "Walking home with groceries" by Iris Law
5. "KUMPI (THE WORK OF THE ORACLE)" by Sharanya Manivannan
6. "before the word" by Janice Pariat

We would like to thank Mr. Chad Sweeney who had to find time in his busy schedule (being a poet, editor, translator, and teacher) to review our featured works. We recommend that you check out his books, Parable of Hide and Seek, Arranging the Blaze, and An Architecture, which are available at Amazon and elsewhere. Some of his latest works can be found on the Serving House Journal.

By the end of November, we will announce our nominations for Pushcart. Another award-winning writer will help us in selecting works. Congratulations to all the nominated writers.

Note:

Submissions to Asia Writes are open year round and works are eligible for nomination to the three anthologies (Best of the Net, Best of the Web, Pushcart Prize). If you would like to contribute, please read our submission guidelines. Previously featured writers are most welcome to submit new works.
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30 September 2010
Our Best of the Net Nominations for Short Fiction
We announced our Best of the Net nominations for poetry last August 8th. To complete the line up, here are the nominated short stories (February-June 2010), as selected by Ms. Susan Abraham:

1. The Decree by Farha Hasan

"Slightly old-fashioned. Sophisticated. Graceful in its narration. The story breaks into layers and adds interest. There is neat symmetry to the narrator's thoughts. The writer was knowledgeable about her subject. There is a wordplay of both 'shadow and light' to her story."

Farha Hasan is a librarian living and working in Boston. She has come back to writing fiction after a brief stint in advertising where she was involved in copywriting, casting and strategic planning. Her short stories have been published or are forthcoming in various e-zines and small circulation presses such as, the Binnacle, Toasted Cheese, Wild Violet, Skyline Magazine, and the South Asian Review. She has recently completed her first novel. You can read more about Farha on her website www.farhahasan.com

2. Brothers by O Thiam Chin

"Refreshing. The writer has a flawless ability to convey the poignancy and tragedy of life without laboured effort or fuss."

O Thiam Chin’s short stories have appeared in Asia Literary Review, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Kyoto Journal, The Jakarta Post, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Karavan, Qarrtsiluni as well as in several literary anthologies. He is the author of two story collections, ‘Free-Falling Man’ and ‘Never Been Better,’ and his new collection of flash fiction will be published in 2010. He is currently a fellow at the Iowa International Writing Program.

About our esteemed judge. Susan Abraham is a Malaysian-Indian writer, currently based in Dublin, Ireland. She is also a traveller and mountaineer on the East African trails. Recently, she was invited by by YouWriteOn.com Publishing London to submit two book titles for publication. She was one of 200 writers chosen in a Publishing Round. In the past, Susan Abraham has worked as a magazine journalist in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, and has produced radio plays for Radio Malaysia and poetry for a few press magazines in Britain.

Invitation:

Asia Writes features select poetry and short fiction by Asian/mixed-Asian writers. So far, we have featured works by award-wining writers (Palanca, Academy of American Poets Award, Sahitya, Meritage, Unisun-Reliance); Pushcart, Missisauga, Man Asia Prize nominees; previous Iowa, Charles Wallace, Hawthornden, PEN USA, Kundiman and other international/ reputable local workshop fellows; editors of literary journals; and other important literary figures in Asia.

You may submit your polished/proofread works in English and a third-person bio (which may include a photo and links to your books/personal website) to editors@asiawrites.org. Previously unpublished works OR those that have not appeared on the web are preferred. We recommend that you read some works that we have featured HERE for you to have a feel of the quality of works we accept.

Reading of submissions is year round and since we would like to reserve only the best works, you can expect a quick reply. Response time is 48 hours for accepted works. We feature works every other day and we inform the author one day at least prior to the publication of his/her work(s).

Watch out for:

Our announcement of nominated works for Best of the Web (a different anthology from Best of the Net) and Pushcart's Best of the Small Presses. Works that we will feature until October 2010 are eligible for Best of the Web nomination, and until December 2010 for Pushcart Prize.


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15 September 2010
Updated: 100 Highest-Paying Magazines for Articles/Non-Literary Works
Please click on the magazine title to view the guidelines and check if they are accepting submissions at this time. For magazines paying on a per-word basis, our assumption is that an article contains 1,000 words. Top-paying markets for poetry can be found here, and for short stories here. Kindly advise us of broken links.

(Note to editors/publishers of these magazines, advise us of corrections, if any. This list is updated as of September 16, 2010.)

Best of luck.

1. Explore Magazine pays $1500 minimum

2. Hispanic Business pays up to $1500 per article

3. National Parks Magazine pays $1300 for features and travel articles

4. The Progressive pays $1300

5. Family Fun pays $1.25 per word

6. Smithsonian pays $1000 to $1500 for last word humor page

7. Entrepreneur pays $1 per word

8. On Wall Street pays $1 per word

9. Discovery Channel Online pays $1 per word

10. Robb Report pays $1 per word

11. This Old House pays $1 per word

12. U.S Airways pays $1 per word

13. Vibe Magazine pays $1 per word

14. Wish pays $1 per word

15. Trazzler pays $1000 per month

16. Sierra Magazine pays $750 - $3500

17. Car & Driver pays $750 - $3000 per article; send e-mail to editors@caranddriver.com

18. Wine Enthusiast pays $750 - $2000; query by sending e-mail to tmoriarity@wineenthusiast.com

19. National Parks Magazine pays $750 - $1300 per article; issues kill fee if article doesn't run

20. About.com pays $675 per month plus bonuses for traffic

21. Scrap Magazine pays $600 - $1000

22. Chile Pepper pays $600

23. Baby Talk Magazine pays $500 - $2000; query by mail to 530 5th Avenue, NY NY 10036 and be sure to include a SASE

24. Sub Tropics pays $500 - $1000

25. Romantic Homes pays $500

26. Meetings Media pays $500 per article

27. HistoryNet pays $500

28. American Scholar pays up to $500

29. Vietnam Magazine pays $400 - $800

30. The Saturday Evening Post pays up to $400

31. Metro Parent pays $350 per article

32. The Sun Magazine pays $300 to $3000

33. North Shore pays $300 to $1500

34. American Kennel Club Gazzette pays $300 - $500 per article

35. America's Civil War pays $300 minimum

36. GoMediaZine pays up to $300 per article

37. Art Calendar pays $250

38. Chidren's Advocate pays $225 - $450

39. Paste Magazine pays $0.25 per word

40. Credit Today pays $200 - $1400

41. Kitchen and Bath Design News pays $200 - $650

42. Her Sports pays $200 - $600 per assigned article

43. Blade Magazine pays $200 - $300

44. Christian Science Monitor pays $200 - $225 per article

45. SQLServerPerformance.com pays up to $200 for 1500-word articles

46. AAA Living pays $150 - $1800 per assigned article

47. Laptop Magazine pays $150 - $1250

48. Model Railroad Hobbyist pays $150 - $1000

49. Aerospace Magazine pays $150 - $750

50. Boys Life pays $150 - $750

51. Persimmon Hill pays $150 - $300

52. The Network Journal pays $150 - $200

53. psd.tut pays $150 per tutorial

54. Threads pays $150 per page

55. Skirt Magazine pays $150 per article

56. New York Spirit pays $150

57. Minnesota Trails Magazine pays $125 minimum

58. ProBlogDesign pays $125 per post

59. SitePoint pays $100 plus bonuses

60. Astronomy pays $100 - $1000

61. Brick pays $100 - $500 per submission

62. International Living pays $100 - $500

63. Family Motor Coaching Magazine pays $100 - $500

64. Northwest Travel pays $100 - $500

65. Seattle Homes & Lifestyles pays $100 - $400 per article

66. Broken Pencil pays $100 - $400

67. Russian Life Magazine pays $100 - $300

68. Readers Digest pays $100 - $300 for accepted jokes and humor

69. Dance Teacher pays $100 - $300; e-mail jtu@dancemedia.com for guidelines

70. Bee Culture pays $100 - $250

71. Web Design Tuts pays $100 per tutorial

72. Web Design Tuts pays $100 per tutorial

73. Snafu Designs pays $100 per idea; guidelines at info@snafuguidelines

74. DotNet Slackers pays $100 per article

75. Common Ties pays $100 per story

76. Martini Media Network pays $100 per article

77. Dropzone.com pays $100

78. Technical Articles on Power Supply Power pays $100

79. Auto Pilot Magazine pays $100

80. Messaging Talk pays up to $100 per article

81. Greater Good pays $75 - $350

82. Graphic Design School pays $75 - $120

83. Qatar Vistor pays $75 per article

84. Sex, etc pays $75 per article

85. Apron Strings pays €60 - €100

86. LabMice pays $60 - $100

87. Freelance Switch pays $60 per guest post

88. Across the Board pays $50 - $2500 per article

89. Family Business pays $50 - $1000

90. Oregon Humanities pays $50 - $800

91. Tutorial9 pays $50 - $300

92. TutToaster pays $50 - $200 per article or tutorial

93. Australian Women Online pays $50 - $150 per article

94. Radish pays $50 - $150

95. DeveloperTutorials.com pays $50 - $100 for tutorials

96. Seattle Dining pays $50 - $60

97. Room Magazine pays C$50 - C$75

98. PS Deluxe pays $50 per tutorial

99. The Change Agent pays $50

100. International Living pays $50

101. Literary Traveler pays $50

102. Woman's Day pays $50
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Updated: 100 Highest-Paying Magazines for Articles/Non-Literary Works

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31 August 2010
Highest Paying Journals/Magazines for Short Stories (updated as of August 31, 2010)
These are paying markets for short stories (see a separate list for poetry here) that accept online submissions or submissions via email. Please check the site first if they are open to submissions at this time.

Note that we categorize a journal/magazine as a paying market if payment rates are clearly stated in their submission guidelines. If not, they will not appear on this list. For magazines/journals that pay per word or page, our assumption is that a story contains 1,000 words, or around four pages.

This is not comprehensive but we will update this on a monthly basis as we discover more journals/magazines with online submission system that pay for literary works.

(Note to editors/publishers of these journals, advise us of corrections, if any. This list is updated as of September 16, 2010.)

1. Glimmer Train
Payment rate: $700
Submissions: http://www.glimmertrainpress.com/writer/html/index2.asp

2. Poetry Magazine
Payment rate: $150/page
Submissions: https://submissions.poetrymagazine.org/

3. American Scholar
Payment rate: Up to $500
Submissions: scholar@pbk.org

4. KNOW
Payment rate: C$0.50 per word
Submissions: adrienne@knowmag.ca

5. US Catholic
Payment rate: $300min
Submissions: literaryeditor@uscatholic.org

6. New Love Stories
Payment rate: $300
Submissions: submit@newlovestories.com

7. Westerly
Payment rate: $150
Submissions: westerly@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

8. Black Warrior Review
Payment rate: Up to $150
Submissions: http://bwrsubmissions.ua.edu

9. Virginia Quarterly
Payment rate: $0.15-0.20/word
Submissions: http://www.vqronline.org/submission/

10. Weavings
Payment rate: $0.13/word
Submissions: weavings@upperroom.org

11. The Missouri Review
Payment rate: $30/page
Submissions: http://www.missourireview.org/store/e-submit_gateway.php

12. Missouri Review
Payment rate: $30/page
Submissions: http://www.missourireview.com/main_info/e-submissions.php

13. Ploughshares
Payment rate: $50min/ $250max ($25/page)
Submissions: http://www2.pshares.org/submit/

14. Voiceworks
Payment rate: $100
Submissions: editor(at)expressmedia(dot)org(dot)au

15. Iron Horse
Payment rate: $100
Submissions: not open for submissions at this time

16. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
Payment rate: $100
Submissions: editors [at] heroicfantasyquarterly.com

17. Nashville Review
Payment rate: $100
Submissions: http://nashvillereview.submishmash.com/

18. DesiLit
Payment rate: $100
Submissions: poetry@desilit.org

19. One Story
Payment rate: $100
Submissions: https://www.one-story.com/submissions/

20. Hayden's Ferry
Payment rate: $25/page ($100 maximum)
Submissions: http://submit.haydensferryreview.asu.edu/

21. Ninth Letter
Payment rate: $25/page
Submissions: https://www-s.art.uiuc.edu/ninthletter/submissions/

22. Pedestal Magazine
Payment rate: $.08/word
Submissions: http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/submitwork.php

23. New Welsh Review
Payment rate: £80
Submissions: submissions [at] newwelshreview.com

24. Gulf Coast
Payment rate: $20/page
Submissions: http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/submissions/

25. Red Stone Science Fiction
Payment rate: $20/page
Submissions: submissions@redstonesciencefiction.com

26. Abyss & Apex
Payment rate: Up to $75 ($0.05/word)
Submissions: abyssandapex@gmail.com, aandapoetry@gmail.com

27. Etchings
Payment rate: AU$75
Submissions: etchings@ilurapress.com

28. Chiaroscuro
Payment rate: $0.07/word
Submissions: savory@rogers.com

29. Apron Strings
Payment rate: €60-100
Submissions: ssmith3@ireland.com

30. Indiana Review
Payment rate: $5/page ($10min)
Submissions: http://www.indianareview.org/submissions/

31. Turnrow
Payment rate: $15/page
Submissions: ryan@ulm.edu

32. Ancient Paths Literary Magazine
Payment rate: $50
Submissions: SSBurris@cox.net

33. River & Sound Review
Payment rate: $50
Submissions: poetry@riverandsoundreview.org

34. Flash Me Magazine
Payment rate: $50
Submissions: sfh@wingedhalo.com

35. Wily Writers
Payment rate: $50
Submissions: submissions@wilywriters.com

36. Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
Payment rate: $0.05/word-$450
Submissions: http://asimovs.magazinesubmissions.com/

37. Strange Horizona
Payment rate: $50/min ($0.05/word)
Submissions: poetry@strangehorizons.com

38. Bear Deluxe Magazine
Payment rate: $0.05/word
Submissions: bear@orlo.org

39. Apex Magazine
Payment rate: $0.05/word
Submissions: apex.submission@gmail.com

40. Gum Show Review
Payment rate: $0.05/word-$50
Submissions: editor@gumshoereview.com

41. Scribblers and Ink Spillers
Payment rate: $40
Submissions: submissions@scribblersandinkspillers.com

42. Agni
Payment rate: $10/page ($150 maximum)
Submissions: http://www.bu.edu/dbin/agni/

43. West Branch
Payment rate: $10/page
Submissions: http://westbranchsubmissions.bucknell.edu/

44. Witness
Payment rate: $10/page
Submissions: http://witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/submit/login.php

45. Critical Writing
Payment rate: $30
Submissions: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/poetry-/

46. GUD Magazine
Payment rate: $5min ($0.03/word)
Submissions: http://www.gudmagazine.com/user/edit.php

47. Aberrant Dreams
Payment rate: $.03/word ($100 maximum)
Submissions: http://www.aberrantdreams.com/content/user/register

48. Damazine
Payment rate: $25
Submissions: poetry@damazine.com

49. Spinetingler
Payment rate: $25
Submissions: spinetinglermag@gmail.com

50. Brain Harvest
Payment rate: $0.03/word-$22.50
Submissions: submissions@twelfthplanetpress.com
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Highest Paying Journals/Magazines for Short Stories (updated as of August 31, 2010)

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Highest Paying Journals/Magazines for Poetry (updated as of August 31, 2010)
These are paying markets for poetry (see a separate list for short fiction here) that accept online submissions or submissions via email. Please check the site first if they are open to submissions at this time.

Note that we categorize a journal/magazine as a paying market if payment rates are clearly stated in their submission guidelines. If not, they will not appear on this list. For magazines/journals that pay per line, our assumption is that a poem contains 20 lines.

This is not comprehensive but we will update this on a monthly basis as we discover more journals/magazines with online submission system that pay for literary works.

(Note to editors/publishers of these journals, advise us of corrections, if any. This list is updated as of September 16, 2010.)

1. Poetry Magazine
Payment rate: $300min ($10/line)
Submissions: https://submissions.poetrymagazine.org/

2. Virginia Quarterly
Payment rate: $200min ($5/line)
Submissions: http://www.vqronline.org/submission/

3. Progressive
Payment rate: $150
Submissions: editorial@progressive.org

4. Voiceworks
Payment rate: $100
Submissions: editor(at)expressmedia(dot)org(dot)au

5. US Catholic
Payment rate: $75min
Submissions: literaryeditor@uscatholic.org

6. Westerly
Payment rate: $75
Submissions: westerly@cyllene.uwa.edu.au

7. Weavings
Payment rate: $75
Submissions: weavings@upperroom.org

8. Black Warrior Review
Payment rate: Up to $75
Submissions: http://bwrsubmissions.ua.edu

9. Ploughshares
Payment rate: $50min/ $250max ($25/page)
Submissions: http://www2.pshares.org/submit/

10. New Love Stories
Payment rate: $50-$75
Submissions: submit@newlovestories.com

11. Tin House
Payment rate: $50min
Submissions: http://www.tinhousesubmissions.com/

12. Turnrow
Payment rate: $50
Submissions: ryan@ulm.edu

13. Ancient Paths Literary Magazine
Payment rate: $50
Submissions: SSBurris@cox.net

14. Pedestal Magazine
Payment rate: $40
Submissions: http://www.thepedestalmagazine.com/submitwork.php

15. Iron Horse
Payment rate: $40
Submissions: not open for submissions at this time

16. Red Stone Science Fiction
Payment rate: $40
Submissions: submissions@redstonesciencefiction.com

17. Etchings
Payment rate: AU$35
Submissions: etchings@ilurapress.com

18. The Missouri Review
Payment rate: $30/page
Submissions: http://www.missourireview.org/store/e-submit_gateway.php

19. Missouri Review
Payment rate: $30/page
Submissions: http://www.missourireview.com/main_info/e-submissions.php

20. Gulf Coast
Payment rate: $30/poem
Submissions: http://www.gulfcoastmag.org/submissions/

21. New Welsh Review
Payment rate: £25
Submissions: submissions [at] newwelshreview.com

22. Hayden's Ferry
Payment rate: $25/page ($100 maximum)
Submissions: http://submit.haydensferryreview.asu.edu/

23. Ninth Letter
Payment rate: $25/page
Submissions: https://www-s.art.uiuc.edu/ninthletter/submissions/

24. River & Sound Review
Payment rate: $25
Submissions: poetry@riverandsoundreview.org

25. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
Payment rate: $25
Submissions: editors [at] heroicfantasyquarterly.com

26. Nashville Review
Payment rate: $25
Submissions: http://nashvillereview.submishmash.com/

27. Crazy Horse
Payment rate: $20-$35/page
Submissions: http://www.crazyhorsejournal.org/submitionmaneger/index.php?page=login&module=account

28. Agni
Payment rate: $20/page
Submissions: http://www.bu.edu/dbin/agni/

29. West Branch
Payment rate: $20/page (+$10 additional page)
Submissions: http://westbranchsubmissions.bucknell.edu/

30. Strange Horizona
Payment rate: $20
Submissions: poetry@strangehorizons.com

31. Bear Deluxe Magazine
Payment rate: $20
Submissions: bear@orlo.org

32. Contrary
Payment rate: $20
Submissions: http://www.contrarymagazine.com

33. Contrary Magazine
Payment rate: 20
Submissions: http://contrarymagazine.com/Contrary/Submissions.html

34. DesiLit
Payment rate: $20
Submissions: poetry@desilit.org

35. Scribblers and Ink Spillers
Payment rate: $20
Submissions: submissions@scribblersandinkspillers.com

36. Aberrant Dreams
Payment rate: $1/line ($50 maximum)
Submissions: http://www.aberrantdreams.com/content/user/register

37. Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine
Payment rate: $40max($1/line)
Submissions: http://asimovs.magazinesubmissions.com/

38. Philippines Ripe
Payment rate: $15-30
Submissions: inkslinger215@live.com

39. Zoland Poetry
Payment rate: $15/page ($150 maximum)
Submissions: http://www.zolandpoetry.com/submission.htm

40. Jerseyworks
Payment rate: $10-$50
Submissions: jerseyworks@gmail.com

41. Dirtcakes
Payment rate: $10-$50
Submissions: http://dirtcakes.org/node/add/submission

42. Cornerstone
Payment rate: $10-$25
Submissions: poetry@cornerstonemag.com

43. Stickman Review
Payment rate: $10-$20
Submissions: poetry@stickmanreview.com

44. Indiana Review
Payment rate: $5/page ($10min)
Submissions: http://www.indianareview.org/submissions/

45. Witness
Payment rate: $10/page
Submissions: http://witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/submit/login.php

46. Chiaroscuro
Payment rate: $10
Submissions: savory@rogers.com

47. Critical Writing
Payment rate: $10
Submissions: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/poetry-/

48. Damazine
Payment rate: $10
Submissions: poetry@damazine.com

49. Strong Verse
Payment rate: $10
Submissions: http://www.strongverse.org/submitform.html

50. Basement Stories Magazine
Payment rate: $10
Submissions: basementstoriesmag@gmail.com
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Highest Paying Journals/Magazines for Poetry (updated as of August 31, 2010)

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Ranked: 500 highest-paying publications for freelance writers
The Freelance 500 Report (2015 Edition, 138 pages) profiles the highest-paying markets, ranked to help you decide which publication to query first. The info and links in this report are current. Details here.