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Markets Accepting Submissions

Hone your craft by writing magazine articles. Here are 7 options.

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Magazines on a rackLet’s admit it, writing a book is hard work and takes time. It’s not something you can do in a day or two. But you can write the draft of a magazine article in a day, and then spend the next few days revising it.

And one of the best ways to hone your skill as a writer is to write for magazines. (Tweet this.)

You can also make greater use of your time by first querying magazines with your idea. Then when a magazine buys your idea, you write the article.

Finding magazines for your article ideas [Read more…] about Hone your craft by writing magazine articles. Here are 7 options.

5 Places to Sell Your Devotional Articles

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Writing a short devotional for a daily devotional magazine is a good way to bring in some $$. Many markets pay $20-$25 per devotional, and most devotionals run around 200-300 words. That’s not bad money for so few words.

But writing devotionals is exacting. Requirements for devotional pieces vary widely and can be very detailed. Be sure to thoroughly read each market’s submission guidelines.

5 Devotional Markets

The Upper Room: http://www.upperroom.org/about/writer-guidelines/upper-room

Augsburg Fortress, http://www.augsburgfortress.org/company/submit.jsp This submission page contains links to several submission opportunities including download files for their 2 devotional magazines The Word in Season and Christ in Our Home.

Light From the Word, https://www.wesleyan.org/wg   scroll down to find specifics

The Secret Place, http://judsonpress.com/catalog_sp_guidelines.cfm

Writing Grants, Awards, and Contests

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Grant Money

The SCBWI Book Launch Award (must be a member of SCBWI), entries submitted June 1 – July 1, 2015, http://www.scbwi.org/awards/book-launch-grant/
The SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators), offers several other grants for members. If you’re a children’s book writer, investigate membership.
If you haven’t visited FundsforWriters yet, be sure you do. It’s a Writer’s Digest 101 Best Website for Writers inner and offers links to several grants for writers among many other resources. http://www.fundsforwriters.com/grants/

Awards

American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) Carol Award, open to members only, http://www.acfw.com/carol
2016 Coretta Scott King Children’s Book Award, http://www.ala.org/emiert/2016-coretta-scott-king-book-awards-submission-form

Contests

Writer’s Digest offers a variety of contests. Their 84th Annual Writing Competition is now open with an early bird entry deadline of May 4. Check out all their contests here: http://www.writersdigest.com/competitions/writing-competitions
Crab Orchard Review annual contests, http://craborchardreview.siu.edu/dyer.html

For guidelines on determining the legitimacy of contests and awards, here are two resources: The Myths of Writing Contests, http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/04/the-myths-of-writing-contests/
Writing Contests: When Winners are Losers http://www.writing-world.com/contests/scams.shtml

Writer’s Guidelines for 5 Christian Publications

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Here are today’s markets. Read the writer’s guidelines thoroughly and study at least one sample issue before submitting.

Prism Magazine, a publication of Evangelicals for Social Action, http://prismmagazine.org/writers-guidelines/

The Lookout is designed to provide Christian adults with true-to-the-Bible teaching about current topics to help them mature as believers and live in the world as faithful witnesses of Christ. http://www.lookoutmag.com/about-us/write-for-us/

RELEVANT covers faith, culture and intentional living. Their readership is culturally savvy, mainly Christian twenty- and thirtysomethings who are looking for purpose, depth and spiritual truth. https://relevantmagazine.com/write

Light & Life Magazine, http://fmcusa.org/lightandlifemag/writers/

Faith Today, a Canadian publication, http://www.faithtoday.ca/writers

Listing here does not constitute endorsement of magazine.

 

8 Literary Agents Accepting Submissions

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Looking for a Literary Agent?You want to sell your manuscript, right?

But the time and energy required for your publisher search can be exhausting. And you’d really rather spend that time and energy toward your next writing project. 

What’s even more frustrating is [Read more…] about 8 Literary Agents Accepting Submissions

Database of Writer’s Guidelines

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Formatting your submissions according to a publication’s writer’s guidelines is essential. Finding those guidelines isn’t always easy, and even in this day of digital everything you often have to request guidelines via email.

For easy reference, FreelanceWriting.com provides a database of 836 writer’s guidelines, by category. http://www.freelancewriting.com/guidelines/pages/