They have published a number of respected and best selling authors including Elizabeth Gilbert, B.J. Novak, Stephen O’Connor, and Aimee Bender.

One Story pays all their contributors $500 per story and they also offer 25 contributor copies.

One Story is respected, they have published a large number of established authors, and they pay. Also they only publish one story every three weeks. As you might imagine they have a very small acceptance rate. But it is higher than a market like the New Yorker or Glimmer Train.

They do not accept reprints, unless the work has only been previously published in print outside of North America. If they accept your work you agree to grant them first rights to publish in North America. After the work is published all rights revert to you.

Stories should be between 3,000 and 8,000 words in length. They accept all submissions through their online submission manager. They do not accept postal submissions.

Please include the story title and all writer contact info on the first page of the submitted file. Files must be PDF or RTF formatted.

They try to respond to every submission within three months. They do not offer personal feedback on stories.

To learn more visit their website here.

This marriage of gaming and reading came about as Keri Multerer realized the demands of mothering three children was taking a toll on her reading. Boyd Multerer, Keri’s husband and the founder of Xbox Live, founded SilkWords in July 2013. Sharon L. Fisher, a romance writer with various awards in the genre, and Amanda Sumner, an editor for W.W. Norton and Company later joined the endeavor. So authors can be rest assured that they will be working with experienced professionals.

SilkWords offers authors two ways to work with them. The first is a traditional manuscript submission, fully written with significant choices offered in the choose-your-own format. The second option is a pitch for a web series that offers online readers the opportunity to vote on where the story should go. This second option means an author submits a pitch with a writing sample and the understanding that, because of the format, the story may evolve based on fan choices. With either of these formats, SilkWords publishes an ebook of the final product, with an advance of $500 and royalties at 50%.

Authors interested in SilkWords should read more about them here and enjoy the web series currently in production, maybe even do some voting!

BIO: Mandy Brown is a writer in Central Texas, the 2013 recipient of A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Tillie Olsen Fellowship, and the author of The Sting (Sweatshoppe Publications, 2013). Mandy currently teaches English at an alternative school and loves it! Read more of her writing at mandyalyssbrown.weebly.com.

All of the publishers are accept manuscripts without an agent. Some are small companies others are imprints of major publishing houses. They are not listed in any particular order. Not all of them may be currently open to submissions.

All of the publishers are only briefly described on this page, however if you click on the link you will reach our full review of them. The review includes submission information and links to their websites.

1. DAW

DAW is an imprint of Penguin books. They publish science fiction and fantasy books. Read the full review here.

2. BelleBooks/BelleBridge

BelleBooks/BelleBridge is a respected independent publisher. They publish science fiction and fantasy books along with a wide variety of other genres. Read the full review here.

3. Edge

Edge is an established and well respected Canadian publisher of Science Fiction and Fantasy. They have great distribution within Canada, and good distribution within North America. They are open to authors regardless of nationality. To learn more read the full review here.

4. Pen-L Publishing

A small publisher that is generally well regarded and publishes a wide variety of genre fiction including science fiction. To learn more read about them here.

5. Beu-Coup Publishing

A small e-publisher that publishes a wide variety of genres including science fiction. To learn more read the full review here.

6. Baen

Baen is one of the best known publishers of science fiction and fantasy novels. They are very well regarded. To learn more read our full review here.

7. Jupiter Garden Press

A small independent publisher that is open to a wide variety of genre work including science fiction. To learn more read our review here.

8. All Things That Matter Press

A small press that publishes a wide variety of books including science fiction. They publish print and electronic versions of all their books. To learn more read our review here.

9. Solstice Publishing

A large independent e-publisher that publishes a wide variety of genre books including science fiction and fantasy. To learn more read our review.