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Writing for women's magazines is a lucrative and easy way of
getting into print. Most National magazines have readerships in the
thousands, some in the millions, so your name can gain huge
exposure through this medium. Indeed, many writers who have had
stories published regularly by women's magazines go on to build
their careers in writing through short stories and novels, helped
by the exposure gained from stories they've had published in
women's magazines.
Is it simple to do?
The process of submitting a story couldn't be more straightforward:
firstly write your story, secondly send it to the fiction editor of
the magazine of your choice, and in a few weeks you'll know if
it's going to be published! No agents, no publishers, no mystifying
contracts, advances or royalties! Women's Magazines usually pay a
one-time fee for your story and you retain copyright. That means
that you are free to sell the story again sometime to another
magazine! Payments range usually between �100 - �300 (approx.
$200-$600) per story, depending on the magazine and story length.
And as the story length seldom exceeds 2,000 words, that's a great
rate of pay!
"That's fine," I hear you say, "but what do I write about"
Click here to read on...
Woman's Weekly Fiction Guidelines
This popular and well-established magazine publishes short fiction both in the weekly magazine and in the Fiction Specials which come out 8 times a year.
Stories for the magazine should be either 1000 or 2000 words long, or serials which should be in 3 parts and have 3,800 words each.
For the fiction special magazines, which publish 25 stories in each issue, there is a little more leeway. Aim for a length between 1000 and 6000 words.
As always, study the market before submitting by reading several issues to get a feel for the type of story and storyline that the magazine accepts.
Send stories or serials to:
Fiction Department,
Woman's Weekly,
IPC Media,
Blue Fin Building,
110 Southwark Street,
London,
SE1 0SU.
Email submissions are not accepted.
Allow up to 16 weeks for your story to be considered.
Typed/wordprocessed manuscripts only. Handwritten work, or work submitted on disk will not be considered.
Include return postage, and for overseas submissions include IRC.
Updates to Writing Out Loud
As well as starting an archive for this newsletter, new articles added this month are:
Storytelling - Is your approach Stalling Your Fiction
Outlining with Clusters
Common Grammar Mistakes by Nicole Dean
Plus a feed to my blog so website visitors can automatically keep up with what's happening there as well. The blog is where I post new writing exercises, timed writing exercises, miscellaneous comments on the writing life and life in general, and the odd rant when something is getting me down. We all need a little rant now and then, after all :)
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See you next month, and meantime, keep on Writing Out Loud.
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