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Deadline: November 1st, 2015 Payment: $25.00 - $50.00 for fiction, $5.00 - $10.00 for poetry, and $25.00 for nonfiction (all U.S. dollars). We also send you a copy of the issue in which your piece appears. You'll receive your money and issue at the same time. Winter: George pressed the call button and said, "Mrs. Whitfield, you have a visitor." We love the fact that writers around the world are inspired by our first lines, and we know that not every story will be sent to us. However, we ask that you do not submit stories starting with our first lines to other journals (or post them online on public sites) until we’ve notified you as to our decision (usually two to three weeks after the deadline). When the entire premise of the publication revolves around one sentence, we don’t want it to look as if we stole that sentence from another writer. If you have questions, feel free to drop us a line. One more thing while I’ve got you here: Writers compete against one another for magazine space, so, technically, every literary magazine is running a contest. There are, however, literary magazines that run traditional contests, where they charge entry fees and rank the winners. We do not – nor will we ever – charge a submission fee, nor do we rank our stories in order of importance. Occasionally, we run contests to help come up with new first lines, or we run fun, gimmicky competitions for free stuff, but the actual journal is not a contest in the traditional sense. Fiction: All stories must be written with the first line provided. The line cannot be altered in any way, unless otherwise noted by the editors. The story should be between 300 and 5,000 words (this is more...

Deadline: November 1, 2015 Payment: $25.00 - $50.00 for fiction Winter: George pressed the call button and said, "Mrs. Whitfield, you have a visitor." We love the fact that writers around the world are inspired by our first lines, and we know that not every story will be sent to us. However, we ask that you do not submit stories starting with our first lines to other journals (or post them online on public sites) until we've notified you as to our decision (usually two to three weeks after the deadline). When the entire premise of the publication revolves around one sentence, we don't want it to look as if we stole that sentence from another writer. If you have questions, feel free to drop us a line. One more thing while I've got you here: Writers compete against one another for magazine space, so, technically, every literary magazine is running a contest. There are, however, literary magazines that run traditional contests, where they charge entry fees and rank the winners. We do not - nor will we ever - charge a submission fee, nor do we rank our stories in order of importance. Occasionally, we run contests to help come up with new first lines, or we run fun, gimmicky competitions for free stuff, but the actual journal is not a contest in the traditional sense. Fiction: All stories must be written with the first line provided. The line cannot be altered in any way, unless otherwise noted by the editors. The story should be between 300 and 5,000 words (this is more like a guideline and not a hard-and-fast rule; going over or under the word count won't get your story tossed from the slush pile). The sentences can be found on the home page of The First...

Deadline: November 1st 2015 Payment: .25 cents per hundred words The term Cheapjack originated as the name for a traveling peddler or tinker. The insinuation was that he was carrying inferior goods. This was moot because he served a poor clientele and did them the service of bringing the goods to them. It was all that some of them had sometimes. In the spirit of the penny dreadful, the pulp magazines of the industrial age, and the traveling tinkers of old....We proudly present to you CHEAPJACK PULP. SUBMISSIONS FOR THE MARCH 2015 ISSUE ARE OPEN FOR ALL DEPARTMENTS PLEASE EMAIL SENIOR EDITOR USING BUTTON ON SUBMISSION PAGE AND INCLUDE THE DEPARTMENT YOU WOULD LIKE CONSIDERATION FOR IN YOUR SUBJECT LINE. PLEASE INCLUDE ALL SUBMISSIONS AS AN ATTACHMENT (.doc or .rtf) For all art work please send queries. Submission Schedule: March issue submission deadline: February 1st (2015 only deadline extended to 2/15/15) June issue submission deadline: May 1st September issue submission deadline: August 1st December issue submission deadline: November 1st CheapJack Pulp is a quarterly pulp webzine which is archived in ebook format. We are free each month to the public. Our back issues are free immediately following archival of the current issue through Kindle Direct Publishing as an e-book. Stories and artwork relating to the pulp themes can be submitted to senior editor in the format the department editor specifies on submission page as they wish to receive it for review.The individual editors will list their contact info as they see fit for individual submission. Stories or articles should be no more than 8000 words long. Longer submissions are accepted by invitation and query only. CHEAPJACK PULP is currently a profit-making webzine (not much mind you!), we will be offering payment, we pay at a rate of .25 cents per...

Deadline: November 1st, 2015 Payment: 25 cents per hundred words Note: Yes, this is an EXTREMELY low paying market for one that doesn't take reprints. The term Cheapjack originated as the name for a traveling peddler or tinker. The insinuation was that he was carrying inferior goods. This was moot because he served a poor clientele and did them the service of bringing the goods to them. It was all that some of them had sometimes. In the spirit of the penny dreadful, the pulp magazines of the industrial age, and the traveling tinkers of old....We proudly present to you CHEAPJACK PULP. SUBMISSIONS FOR THE MARCH 2015 ISSUE ARE OPEN FOR ALL DEPARTMENTS PLEASE EMAIL SENIOR EDITOR USING BUTTON ON SUBMISSION PAGE AND INCLUDE THE DEPARTMENT YOU WOULD LIKE CONSIDERATION FOR IN YOUR SUBJECT LINE. PLEASE INCLUDE ALL SUBMISSIONS AS AN ATTACHMENT (.doc or .rtf) For all art work please send queries. Submission Schedule: March issue submission deadline: February 1st  (2015 only deadline extended to 2/15/15) June issue submission deadline: May 1st September issue submission deadline: August 1st December issue submission deadline: November 1st CheapJack Pulp is a quarterly pulp webzine which is archived in ebook format. We are free each month to the public. Our back issues are free immediately following archival of the current issue through Kindle Direct Publishing as an e-book.  Stories and artwork relating to the pulp themes can be submitted to senior editor in the format the department editor specifies on submission page as they wish to receive it for review.The individual editors will list their contact info as they see fit for individual submission. Stories or articles should be no more than 8000 words long. Longer submissions are accepted by invitation and query only.   CHEAPJACK PULP is currently a profit-making webzine (not much...