the Missing Link Journal - Fiction - Non-fiction - Flash Fiction - Poetry - Artwork - Photography - Graphic Essays

The Missing Link Journal
http://www.missinglinkjournal.com/

I came across the Missing Link Journal while searching through Craigslist looking for some writing opportunities. They had not yet published their first issue, but they put out a call for submissions. I didn't want to speak about them until after their first issue came out. And well...it's out :) I also submitted some of my own poetry to them and was duly rejected :( But for those of you that clock such things, the time from submission to rejection was about 3 months, but that was for the first issue.

Anywho

Missing Link Journal is a journal dedicated to providing its readers with diverse non-fiction, fiction, poetry, graphic essays, artwork and photography. Our goal is to highlight beautiful and honest art, writing and photography that describes our connections to each other and the natural world.

As you can see, Missing Link buys fiction, poetry and various types of artwork. They look at flash fiction too. They pay somewhere between $25 and $50 for a piece. They accept submissions through submishmash like a lot of other publications these days. To fully understand their guidelines you should check both their submission guidelines page here: http://www.missinglinkjournal.com/submissions.html and the separate guidelines on their submishmash page here: http://themissinglinkjournal.submishmash.com/submit

The journal is electronic at the moment, but I do believe they plan on having print issues at some point in the future.

As they are only one issue in, I don't think they really have everything quite the way they would like on the website, but please do look around. There are no samples but the site itself states what they are looking for and there are a few links to check out more from some of the first issues contributors.

Correction, if you check the individual purchase page for the first issue here you can actually view the first 20% of the journal, which is about 11 pages :)

They are currently taking submission for the second issue.

They haven't set up a Twitter or Facebook Page as of yet. But I'll update this posting as things change. On a side note, I do believe the main editor is a chef :)

If you want to purchase the first issue of the Missing Link Journal, you can find it here for $1.99 in every available e-format.

Dreams & Nightmares - Poetry - Flash Fiction - Artwork

Dreams and Nightmares
http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.com/

My kind of publication! Dreams and Nightmares (DN) publishes mostly poetry of the speculative type (fantasy and science fiction).

Welcome to the website for Dreams and Nightmares magazine. DN is a print magazine of science fiction and fantasy poetry. DN was founded in January of 1986.

The magazine accepts poetry and short (flash) fiction as well as some artwork. Of course the editor/publisher prefers email submissions :) I do believe he will pay by paypal as well if requested. Also, this happens to be one of those glorious "pays on acceptance" markets (as opposed to "pays on publication")
http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.com/guidelines.htm

Poetry & Fiction
Maximum length for poetry or fiction is 2 single-spaced typed pages, but I prefer less than one page. I prefer e-submissions in the body of the message.
I print 15-20 poems per issue. Buying 1st N.Am. serial rights unless state otherwise. Payment is $12 on acceptance + 2 contributor's copies.
Fewer than 5% of submissions are accepted. Response time is commonly 4-8 weeks.

Artwork
Artwork should be line drawings; no half-tones. Good photocopies OK, but I prefer to receive JPEG's as e-mail attachments. Art should be no larger than 4 1/2 by 7 1/2 inches, but I can reduce it. Payment $12 on acceptance plus 2 copies.

For samples of artwork, the site has a gallery section with covers from back issues: http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.com/gallery.htm

Send submissions to: dckmdnmag@gmail.com

http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.com/guidelines.htm

David (the editor/publisher) also keeps a regular blog with site updates, announcements and examples of his own work - it looks like he posts a daily haiku :) http://dreamsandnightmaresmagazine.blogspot.com/

You can also find him on Twitter and...lot's of other places.

Matter Press: The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts - Poetry - Flash Fiction

Matter Press: The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts
http://matterpress.com/journal/

Before we get into it, I want to let you know that this market is currently only open for poetry submissions, and that will close on October 31, 2011! So be quick about it! And keep your eye open for when the flash fiction reads come back around.

The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts is a non-profit publisher of compressed creative arts, such as micro fiction, flash fiction, prose poetry, compressed poetry & visual arts, and whatever other forms compression might take. Matter pays authors $50 for their accepted pieces. We publish weekly bursts of compression & decompression and make as many varied word-plays on matter as we can. We also blog here and at FlashFiction.Net.

Submissions

The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts is currently closed to prose fiction and creative nonfiction submissions at this time.  Our reading period ended on August 15, 2011. We publish (very) tiny, compressed prose creations of 600 words or less. We use Submishmash for all submissions.  We value form, character, and words that fit to both.  Experimentation is interesting.  Experimentation for the sake of appearing experimental is less interesting.  We like close reading and close writing.  We like to feel what we read before we understand. Poetry submissions are now open and will close on October 31, 2011.

So, when they are accepting fiction submissions, it's flash fiction (for all you flash enthusiasts out there:) - And if you are a friend of flash fiction, Matter is closely connected with http://flashfiction.net/ - They are both ran by Matter founder, Randall Brown.

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I really love the concept of this journal. There are some very good examples on the website...lots of them actually. So I suggest you get familiar.

Matter pays professional rates and I hear thier response times are superhumanly fast!

In the future they plan to also hold some chapbook competitions through the "press" part of thier site: http://matterpress.com/press/

Of course you assumed there was a Facebook page right? :) https://www.facebook.com/pages/Matter-Press-for-Compressed-Creative-Arts/122763447779831