Welcome to the new and improved Write Market. Created in 1996 the Write Market provides internet resources for you to create, improve, and submit your work. Our collection of links is available to you free of charge, all of our links are varified and monitored on a regular basis for your convience.
Pets and Animals - Markets ( Markets | Publishers )
ASPCA Animal Watch -
Description: ASPCA Animal Watch is The ASPCA's four-color, quarterly magazine covering topics of importance to everyone who cares about animals.
Submission Needs: ASPCA purchases first North American print rights, and electronic rights for approximately six months.
Art/Photo Needs: For art and photo inquiries, please write to: photo@aspca.org
Payment: Payment for features ranges from $150 to $650, depending on length and other factors. Short items/filler pay $25 to $75. Additional payment is made for professional quality prints or slides.
Rights: ASPCA purchases first North American print rights, and electronic rights for approximately six months.
Address: 424 E. 92nd St., New York, NY 10124, USA.
Cat Fancy -
Hot-To. Humor, Photo Feature, Behavior, Health, Lifestyle. 1000-2000 words. Pays $50-$450. Postal: Cat Fancy, P.O. Box 6050, Mission Viejo, CA 92690-6050.
Claw & Quill -
Description: The webzine’s theme is animals used in a fantastic (in the literary sense) manner: stories from an animal point of view, animal people, and magic realism. Length: 2,000–6,000 Words. The pay rate is a half-cent per word, with a minimum payment of $5 and a maximum of $25 & 60 day excl display.
Dog & Kennel -
Description: Submissions for consideration may cover all aspects of dogs, cats and birds including breed/species profiles, breeder-kennel profiles, medical-technical articles, training, humorist, stories of pet dogs, cats and birds that go to work with their owners, heroic tales, etc.
Word Length: Short articles are defined as 500 to 1,000 words, and features are defined as 1,200 to 2,000 words.
Payment: Payment is 10 cents a word on the final edited published word count, payable upon publication of the article.
Address: Mail to: Rita Davis, Executive Editor, 7-L Dundas Circle, Greensboro, NC 27407.
I Love Cats -
Description: No poetry but I am interested in feature stories about cats and their owners, interesting or odd happenings with cats, tips for cat owners, health issues, nonfiction pieces, behavior problems, that sort of thing. Please do not send stories about cats that go or live outdoors. I'm looking for a story--preferably with photos or drawings.
Word Length: 1,000 words, tops, ideally 500-800 words.
Rights: I buy all rights, since we copyright all stories.
Payment: I pay between $25-$75. Payment is upon publication.
Address: completed manuscripts to be delivered by mail to I Love Cats, c/o Lisa Allmendinger, Editor, 16 Meadow Hill Lane, Armonk, NY 10504. I am now accepting email queries and completed stories at ilovecatseditor@sbcglobal.net.
The Bark -
Description: The Bark is a quarterly magazine about life with dogs; we pay homage to the age-old relationship between our two species.
Guidelines: Commentaries, essays, stories, fiction and well-researched non-fiction will be considered but all work must include dogs in a prominent manner.
Word Length: Articles and stories should not exceed 2,000 words. Ideally an article should be no longer than 1,200 words, and will stand a better chance of publication if it is below this limit. We also accept short pieces (less than 600 words) on general tips, how-to articles and on other topics as well.
Payment: pays upon publication, prices vary according to quality and length.
Address: Claudia Kawczynska, Editor, The Bark, 2810 Eighth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710.
The Chronicle of the Horse -
Description: In addition to reporting news about these disciplines, we feature articles on horse care and profiles of prominent horse people. We also occasionally accept humor, human interest and historical articles. No poetry, please, and no clinic reports. News Stories before covering any competition, clear the assignment with us. Approx. 1,500 words. $165-$220. Feature Articles We advise sending a query letter. Approx. 1,500-2,500. $150 - $250.
Address: The Chronicle of the Horse, P.O. Box 46 · Middleburg, VA 20118.
Tropical Fish Hobbyist -
Description: We are looking for good writing about interesting non-fiction aquarium science, aqua culture, tropical fish topics.
Payment: Pays $100-$250.
Address: Albert Connelly, Editor, Tropical Fish Hobbyist Magazine, One TFH Plaza, Neptune City, NJ 07753.