Paying market, Kansas City Voices, pays $35 per story/ $10 per poem/ $100 for editor's choice

Deadline: 15 March 2011

Kansas City Voices’ mission is to discover, encourage and promote creativity and communication through literature and other forms of art and self-expression.

We publish an annual eclectic mix of fiction, essays, interviews, articles, poetry, and art. We seek exceptional written and visual creations from established and emerging voices. The magazine is published in November of each year.

SUBMISSION PERIOD AND DEADLINE |

Our submissions period for Volume 9 is November 1, 2010, through March 15, 2011. Submissions before and after these dates will not be accepted. Late submissions will not be held until our next submissions period. They must be resubmitted during our next submissions period (beginning in November 2011). Watch this page for specific dates for the next open submissions period.

PAYMENT |

See each submission category for payment amounts.

GENERAL SUBMISSION INFORMATION |

• Please note: We are now accepting only online submissions for Prose, Poetry and Art. No hard copy submissions will be accepted, nor will they be returned.

• All submissions are blind. Any submissions with identifying information will be rejected.

• All work must be unpublished at time of submission.

• Simultaneous submissions are accepted. Please notify us if your work is accepted elsewhere.

• We will contact you only if your piece is selected for publication. If you have not heard from us by June 15, 2011, your work has not been accepted.

Violation of the general submission guidelines or of the specific guidelines set out below for the category of your work is an automatic disqualification. You will not receive any notification that your work is disqualified, please read the guidelines carefully.


PROSE—SPECIFIC GUIDELINES |

• We accept fiction, memoir, essays, interviews, and articles on places or history.

• Prose pieces must be in 12-point font, Times New Roman or Courier, double-spaced.

• Prose pieces must be no longer than 2500 words. We do accept excerpts from longer works.

• Please complete all required fields: name, address, phone, email, title, type, word count, and file name.

• Authors may submit up to two works of prose. Submission of more than two works of prose will disqualify all prose submissions from being considered.

• If submitting more than one prose submission, each must be sent as a separate online submission.

• Only DOC and RTF formats will be accepted (not DOCX).

• Payment for each published prose piece will be $35 and one free copy of the magazine. In the sole discretion of the publisher, one prose piece may receive a "Best of Prose" award in the amount of $100.

POETRY—SPECIFIC GUIDELINES |

• Poems must be no longer than 35 lines. Any subject considered.

• Poems must be in 12-point font, Times New Roman or Courier fonts.

• Work must be single-spaced (double-spaced between stanzas, if any).

• Please complete all required fields: name, address, phone, email, title, line count, and file name.

• Authors may submit up to three poems. Submission of more than three poems will disqualify all poems from being considered.

• If submitting more than one poetry submission, each must be sent as a separate online submission.

• Only DOC and RTF formats will be accepted (not DOCX).

• Payment for each published poem will be $10 and one free copy of the magazine. In the sole discretion of the publisher, one poem may receive a "Best of Prose" award in the amount of $100.

Submit here.