Markets for Mystery and Crime Short Fiction

Below is a sample of publications open to short mystery fiction. We will try to keep the links here up to date, but market status changes frequently.

To add, remove, or correct a market, email KEVINRTIPPLE at VERIZON dot NET.

We recommend reading a publication's previous issues or editions to get the best idea of what is accepted. It is common sense to read and follow submission guidelines. Editors have every right to reject improperly formatted or unsuitable submissions.


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PRINT MAGAZINES

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
Black Cat Mystery Magazine  (Editor Michael Bracken, special cozy issue opens from 3/1 to 3/31/21)
Cemetery Dance
Crimespree Magazine
Crimewave
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

Lamplight: A Quarterly Magazine of Dark Fiction 

Mystery Weekly Magazine
The People's Friend 
Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine 
Switchblade
The Strand Magazine
Vautrin


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ONLINE / ELECTRONIC MAGAZINES

All Due Respect: The Zine
Beat to a Pulp
Big Pulp 
Crimson Streets

Econo Clash Review Flash 
I Pulp 
Kings River Life Magazine 
Mysterical-E
Noir Nation (also print version available)

Pulp Modern Flash 
Raven Review
Retreats from Oblivion: The Journal of NoirCon
Serial Magazine
Shotgun Honey
Suspense Magazine - print and ezine
Thriller Magazine (non paying)
Tough
Yellow Mama


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ANTHOLOGIES

2021 Al Blanchard Award Contest (Deadline April 30,2021)

Murderous Ink Press / Crimeutopia 

Pro Se Productions (Various) 

Rock and a Hard Place Press: Under The Thumb: Stories of Police Oppression (2/22 to 7/1/2021--Editor S. A. Cosby--Charity Anthology) 

Sinister Smile Press: A Pile of Bodies, A Pile of Heads (Volumes 1 and 2) Let the Bodies Hit the Floor Series (NEW Deadline 4/7/2021)

Smart Rhino Publications: ASININE ASSASSINS (Deadline is May 1^st or when the anthology is full)

The Mercy Seat: Stories From Death Row (Deadline 9/1/2021) 

Untreed After Dark: Sex and Violins: The Music of Murder (Editor Jay Hartman, Deadline May 31, 2021)

NOVELLAS

Fahrenheit Press/ 69 Crime Doubles 

Unnerving (Various)






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100 of the Best Publications for Short Mystery Stories - Bookfox/