Friday, 20 June 2008

Question to the floor

Where should I submit a very good, but 'nice' mainstream story? It's just under 4,000 words. Ideally a decent paying market. Not many people seem to like nice stories. It either has to be abrasive, sad or funny. This story's not really any of the above, and I don't think it's quite right for the women's magazine market as it's structurally interesting. I suppose Granta is an outside shot, but not sure it's a perfect. And I'm not sure they accept writing not written by somebody with a first class honours degree from Oxford or Cambridge.

Any ideas?

4 comments:

no said...

Face it. Nobody does nice.

Ooh, apart from 'nice monthly'. Two words that really don't belong together.

David Isaak said...

Glimmer Train? (Tin House and Swink are possible, too, but a little un-nicer.)

If nothing else, Glimmer Train encourafes you to submit a pre-puberty snapshot as your author's photo...

David Isaak said...

Encourafes?

Unknown said...

But of course, David. How could I have forgotten them? They have a nice new online submissions system now, which is encourafing.