Print Magazines

NFG Magazine

http://www.nfg.ca/

Canadian Magazine. They seem to have an interesting submission process. You have to create a log on account but it is free.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

One of the premier magazines out there. Almost every famous crime writer has had something published here.

http://www.themysteryplace.com/eqmm/guidelines/

Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine

Another big one.

http://www.themysteryplace.com/ahmm/guidelines/

Strand

http://www.strandmag.com/glines.htm

The New Yorker

They publish crime type stories on a semi regular basis, and they publish once a week.

http://www.condenet.com/mags/newyorker/submissions.html

Argosy Magazine

Magazine that publishes genre pieces.

They’re no longer taking unsolicited manuscripst

http://www.argosymag.com/ArgosySubmission.html

Bullet Magazine

Short Rock and Roll Noire, under 1500 words

http://www.bulletmagazine.co.uk/submissions.htm

Playboy Magazine

A long shot, they only publish around 12 or 13 stories a year and they get thousands of submissions, but they usually reply quickly and they publish a lot of crime stories.

http://www.playboy.com/help/fiction-guidelines.html

Crime Scene Magazine

A new Crime Magazine from Milwaukee- The first Print Magazine to accept one of my stories

http://www.crimespreemag.com/contact.html

Crime Wave Magazine

An impressive looking British Magazine

http://www.ttapress.com/publCWguides.html

Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine

http://www.fmam.biz/guidelines_story.html

Webzines

Allan Guthrie’s Noire Originals

He doesn’t publish short stories, just novel excerpts but it is a great site.

http://www.allanguthrie.co.uk/authsub.htm

Plots with Guns

Not currently taking submissions but you should check back.

http://www.plotswithguns.com/info.htm

Hardluck Stories

http://www.hardluckstories.com/zineGuidelines.htm#Submission%20Guidelines

Thrilling Detective

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/fiction/guidelines.html

Hand Held Crimes

http://www.handheldcrime.com/authors/submission-guidelines.html

Shots

A British zine

http://www.shotsmag.co.uk/about.htm#shorts

Shred of Evidence

http://www.shredofevidence.com/about/

Crime Scene

A zine from Scotland

http://www.crimescenescotland.com/guidelines.htm

SDO Detective

http://www.sintrigue.org/detective/guides.html

Anthologies

Contests

J.A. Konrath

He is a writer with his first book coming out and he has a short story contest featured on his web site.

http://www.jakonrath.com/contest.html

Cape Fear Crime Festival Short Story Contest

http://www.galleone.com/cfcf/Story/contest_rules.htm

CWA Debut Dagger Contest

A novel writing contest form Englans

http://www.thecwa.co.uk/awards/2004/form.html#rules

Best Private Eye Novel Writing

This contest is where Steve Hamilton got his start

http://www.minotaurbooks.com/minotaur/privateeye.html

Updated 06/24/04