It's important that you chose a publisher or publication that is a good fit for both you and the writing that you produce. Think about what type, genre or style of writing you produce. Who are the intended audiences? 

Web resources

• 10 things to consider when choosing a publisher - Publishing Talk
• How we choose the best publisher - Gardner Literary
• Choosing a Publisher - Lynne Connolly

Most serial publications and publishers have a set of submission guidelines. Editors may disregard your pitch completely if you do not comply with their submission guidelines. Read more about submission guidelines below.

Web resources

• What Are Submission Guidelines in Writing? - Writer's Digest
• Writing Submissions for Magazines: How to Submit Writing to a Magazine  - Writer's Digest
• Writer's Guidelines Database for Publications - FreelanceWriting
• Review our Manuscript Preparation Guidelines  - Wiley

The Dark Magazine

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror, with stories selected by award-winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books!

Nightmare Magazine

Nightmare is a horror and dark fantasy magazine. In Nightmare’s pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales to visceral psychological horror. We believe that horror is for everyone, and we aim to publish the widest possible variety of the most delicious, spine-tingling tales.

Third Estate Books

We are a small Horror Indie Press focused on representing the unheard voices of working-class authors. Too often, Art is treated like a privilege, not the necessity that it is. We at Third Estate seek to reverse this frightening trend. Without working-class Queers, POC, the Disabled, and degenerates, there would be no Art at all.

Weird Horror Magazine (Undertow Publications)

Established in 2009 by owner and Editor-in-Chief Michael Kelly, Undertow Publications is an independent press dedicated to publishing bold and unique fiction of exceptional literary merit in the weird fiction and horror genre. ... Our goal is to keep narrative fiction alive and viable; to share great new contemporary writing; and to prove that modern genre writing is a vital mode of literature that displays great craft, is entertaining and provocative, and comments on society and the human condition in imaginative ways. We are endearingly weird, and proud of it.

Aniko Magazine

Welcomes flash fiction, short stories, creative non-fiction, and poetry. 

Curiouser

Curiouser Magazine is a literary journal that celebrates weird and fantastical fiction and explores the existential nature of being. Bi-annual, founded by Thomas Bailey in September 2020.

Going Down Swinging

Going Down Swinging is a literary journal that publishes digital, print and audio anthologies.

Island

Island Magazine is a literary publication produced in Hobart, Tasmania. Island is one of only two literary magazines operating from regional Australia.

Meanjin

One of Australia’s oldest homes for new writing. Publishes Australian fiction, essays, long-form journalism, poetry, memoir, interviews, and more.

Overland Literary Journal

Overland’s quarterly print journal publishes essays, stories and poetry, while the online site publishes cultural commentary.

Miniskirt Magazine

Miniskirt Magazine publishes literary work that speaks to the theme of love & romance. We use the term "love" broadly, from romantic & sexual love to familial love & friendship, even love of things: baseball, a trip to Paris, chicken nuggets, or petrichor. As long as the underlying emotion of the writing is love, relationships, connection, we want to read it.

Shades of Romance Magazine

Shades of Romance Magazine is an award winning guide for readers and writers of multi-cultural literature. We feature interviews, book reviews, articles about the craft of writing and the business part of writing, book promotion, literary news and short stories.

Asimov's

From its earliest days in 1977 under the editorial direction of Isaac Asimov, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine has maintained the tradition of publishing the best stories, unsurpassed in modern science fiction, from award-winning authors and first-time writers alike.

Analog

Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine continues to bring together celebrated authors, new talent, and award-winning stories, poems, and articles, as it has since its launch in 1930. Originally published as Astounding Stories of Science Fiction, Analog remains the unparalleled literary magazine in the genre, and rewards readers with realistic stories that reflect both the highest standards of scientific accuracy and the far reaches of the imagination, as well as lively articles about current research on the cutting edge of science.

Auraelis

Aurealis is an Australian speculative fiction magazine published by Chimaera Publications, and is Australia's longest running small-press science-fiction and fantasy magazine.

Baffling

Baffling Magazine is a quarterly online magazine of flash fiction. We love fantasy, science fiction & horror stories with a queer bent.

The Deadlands

The Deadlands is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine. We publish short stories, poems, and essays about the other realms, of the ends we face here, and the beginnings we find elsewhere. It is an adventure into the unknown, to meet those who live there still, even though they may be dead. Death is a journey we all will take, but we’d like to peek at the map before we go.

Fantasy & Science Fiction

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine which is the original publisher of SF classics like Stephen King's Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes's Flowers for Algernon, and Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz. Each double-sized bimonthly issue offers: compelling short fiction by writers such as Kelly Link, Mary Robinette Kowal, Michael Moorcock and many others; the science fiction field's most respected and outspoken opinions on Books, Films and Science; humor from our cartoonists and writers.

FIYAH

FIYAH is a quarterly speculative fiction magazine that features stories by and about Black people of the African Diaspora.

Antithesis Journal

Australia’s long-running graduate journal of contemporary theory, criticism and culture.

Australian Book Review

ABR is one of Australia’s major cultural magazines, presenting high-quality journalism and new writing.

Frankie

Frankie, styled as frankie, is a bi-monthly Australian magazine that features music, art, fashion, photography, craft and other cultural content.

Kill Your Darlings

KYD is an eclectic online magazine of commentary, essays, interviews, fiction and reviews.

Mascara Literary Review

A journal which focuses on the work of First Nations, CaLD, disabled and neurodivergent writers, as well as human rights and experimentation

TASWeekend

The best of Tasmania, every weekend. In the Mercury Newspaper on Saturday.

Cuisine

Cuisine is a bi-monthly food and wine magazine published in New Zealand. It began publication in 1986, and has also existed in website form since December 2000. The magazine features recipes, restaurant reviews, wine reviews and travel features.

Delicious

Voted magazine brand of the year, delicious. is Australia's number-one premium food title that offers everything you need to create incredible meals at home. With inspiring ideas from leading Australian chefs, including Matt Moran and Jo Barrett, along with inspiring culinary talent such as Khanh Ong and Natalie Paull, you'll find impressive yet effortless recipes that are perfect for every occasion.

Gourmet Traveller

Gourmet Traveller is Australia's trusted authority on food, travel and lifestyle. It covers news and trends through journalism and recipes.

Taste

Taste.com.au magazine brings to life all recipes that are a joy to make and eat, whether you're after quick and healthy midweek meals, something lusciously indulgent or amazing food to share with family and friends. Plus, each month the magazine features some of Australia's favourite foodies including Manu Feildel, Matt Preston, and Marion Grasby, showcasing irresistible new recipes and ideas from their kitchens. Here comes food like you’ve never seen it before.

Australian Women's Weekly

As the trusted voice of Australian women for over eight decades, The Australian Women’s Weekly magazine sets the agenda on what matters most to women every month. The Australian Women’s Weekly has a proud history of sharing authentic and important stories with and about women across the country.

Breathe

Breathe Magazine Australia is a beautifully crafted, bi-monthly lifestyle title published by Lovatts Media. A body-and-soul guide to a happier, healthier life, Breathe’s message is to ‘make time for yourself’. Every issue contains five pillars – Wellbeing, Living, Mindfulness, Creativity and Escaping, each featuring tips and insights to improve mental, emotional and physical health.

Esquire Magazine

Esquire Magazine embodies a captivating blend of characteristics that set it apart in the world of publications. It is a bold, tasteful, irreverent, stylish, wise, cool, and progressive magazine that transcends traditional boundaries.

Wellbeing Magazine

A magazine that celebrates both ‘wellness’ and ‘being’, WellBeing is food for the mind, body and soul, enlightening us all about natural health, therapy, holistic healing and sustainable green living.

Forty South

Tasmania 40° South is an independent Australian magazine focusing on the society, culture and lifestyle of Tasmania. It has been published quarterly since 1997. It was once described by Hobart's Mercury newspaper as "a lifestyle magazine with brains".

The Guardian

Guardian Australia is the Australian website of the British global online and print newspaper, The Guardian. Available solely in an online format, the newspaper's launch was led by Katharine Viner in time for the 2013 Australian federal election.

Mona Magazine

Mona Magazine is a new community-focused women’s literary magazine for women who live in regional, rural and remote communities in Australia, and is completely authored and produced by these women. We are not driven by profit, we are driven by women and our stories.

The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans.

The Sun Magazine

The Sun is a magazine based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The overall goal for the publication, as stated by editor and co-founder, Sy Safransky, is to create a feeling of connection between contributors and readers.

Vox

Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it.

Australian Geographic

Uniquely Australian, Australian Geographic Magazine is a bi-monthly magazine renowned for its photography, stories and cartography that cover Australian life, natural history, adventure, science, culture, innovation & travel.

Australian Traveller

Australian holiday and travel guides plus advice you can trust from the Australian Traveller team. Find the best things to do and places to visit.

Great Australian Outdoors

Great Australian Outdoors is Australia’s first magazine of ‘destination, exploration and conservation’. We take an in-depth look at issues affecting our continent’s landscape, fauna and flora by uniquely consulting with academics, environmental experts and custodians of the land and seas, be it farmers, fishers or those charged with protecting it for future generations. Along the way we showcase beautiful destinations, provide travel tips and ideas, maps, technical and product information, reviews and more. GAO is the big authentic Australian outdoors magazine befitting our big sensational country!

Retreat Magazine

Retreat Magazine: Your Premier Luxury Travel Companion. Retreat Magazine is the quintessential luxury travel guide for discerning women. Delivered quarterly, it's available in both print and digital formats.

Vacations & Travel Magazine

Vacations & Travel is Australia's longest-running travel magazine, inspiring readers to discover unique locations and experiences.

Wild Magazine

What is Wild? Wild is adventure. Wild is conservation. Wild is wilderness. Wild is, and has been for nearly 40 years, the inspiring voice of the Australian outdoors. Wild is self-reliance and challenge and sometimes doing it tough.