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Women - Markets ( Markets | Publishers )
Bride Again -
Description: Looking for articles about not just the wedding day itself, but about remarriage, blending families and beating the odds the second time around. All articles are to be double spaced, compatible with Microsoft WORD 6.0.
Word Length: Word count for all topics is 300 words.
Address: emailed to staff@brideagain.com.
Bust -
Description: Pop culture personalities and events important to women (250-350 words long). Cooking, crafts, cars, and careers (250-350 words long). Health, beauty and style coverage (250-350 words long). The insider dirt on the best girl-friendly hotspots (1000-1500 words long). Features for the front page theme (2,500 words or less). Book, movie and music review (150-250 words long). Sex toys, sex enhancing products and porno guides for girls (250-350 words long). Erotic fiction (1500 words long).
Address: Stories or story ideas can be emailed to submissions@bust.com, or mailed to: BUST Submissions, P.O. Box 1016, Cooper Station, New York, NY 10276.
Curve -
Description: The nation's best-selling lesbian magazine. Our editorial content profiles lesbian heroes and icons, illuminates trends, and offers a lesbian and woman centered perspective on issues and events.
Address: All submissions, query letters, and article clips should be sent to: Gretchen Lee, Managing Editor, Curve Magazine, 1550 Bryant Street Suite 510, San Francisco, CA 94103.
Good Housekeeping -
Description: Submissions will be reviewed only in Real Lives, 400- to 600-word features on people involved in inspiring or heroic pursuits. We will also review health narratives -- stories of women who've overcome a significant medical problem.
Guidelines: Queries should be typed, and when possible, should have clips of previously published articles attached. You must included an SASE to receive a reply. Please allow 2 to 3 months for a response.
Address: Send submissions to: Good Housekeeping, Article Submissions, 250 West 55th Street, New York, NY 10019.
Her Sports -
Description: Features: Profiles and Training Articles, Departments: Body & Mind, Weekend Warrior, Her Gear, Active Travel, Adventure Journal, Her Journal.
Payment: is made on publication. General fees range from $200 to $500.
Rights: Her Sports buys all North American serial rights.
Address: Send queries and submissions to: Christina Gandolfo, Editor in Chief, christina@hersports.com, Her Sports Editorial, 4480 33rd St., San Diego, CA 92116.
Herizons “> -
Description: A quarterly magazine focused on empowering women in their relationships, work, culture, health, social justice, spirituality and family by using current research and feminist theory in articles, essays and interviews.
Guidelines: http://www.herizons.ca/writers.html. We give preference to Canadian authors. No poetry or fiction. No e-queries or attachments.
Word Count: News: 500-800 words. Features: 1,000-3,000 words. Reviews: 400 words.
Payment: $200 per thousand words. Honoraria for photos or original artwork used with articles. $40-$150 for unsolicited art.
Rights: Non-exclusive firtst time North American rights, including right to transfer material to CD ROM, distribute, sell story via this medium for 2 years. Reprint fees through Herizons are shared 50-50 with writer.
Address: Herizons, PO Box 128, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. R3C 2G1.
Long Island Woman -
Description: Looking for Non-fiction articles including: Arts, Food, Books, Beauty, Celebrity Interviews, Fashion, Health, Home, Money, Relationships and Travel.
Word Length: 500 - 2,000 words in length.
Payment: $35 for 500 words up to $150 for 1800 words.
Address: PO Box 309, Island Park, NY 11558, USA., Email: editor@liwomanonline.com.
Redbook -
Description: Looking for News stories on contemporary social issues that strike a universal chord, First-person essays about dramatic pivotal moments in a woman's life, Marriage articles with an emphasis on strengthening the relationship, Short parenting features on how to deal with universal health and behavioral issues. We prefer to see detailed queries.
Address: Send queries to: Articles Department, Redbook Magazine, 224 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019.
Today's Christian Woman -
Description: Looking for family, friendship, faith, marriage, single life, self, work, finances, and health articles from a Christian perspective.
Guidelines: TCW does not accept unsolicited manuscripts. Please query first.
Payment: on acceptance of completed articles, 20-25 cents per printed word.
Rights: First rights.
Address: Today's Christian Woman, Attn: Lisa Cockrel, 465 Gundersen Drive, Carol Stream, IL 60188, E-mail: tcwedit@christianitytoday.com.
Woman's Day -
Description: Woman's Day publishes articles on a broad range of subjects of special interest to women. Woman's Day regularly publishes personal essays in the YOU section of the magazine.
Word Length: Article lengths range from 650 to 1,600 words. Essays run about 650 words.
Payment: Woman's Day pays $2,000 on acceptance.
Address: Submissions should be sent to Reader Service, Woman's Day, 1633 Broadway, New York, NY 10019.
Women's Review of Books, The -
Description: The Women's Review of Books appears monthly (except August). We publish reviews of new books by and about women, in all fields, including non-fiction, fiction and poetry.
Guidelines: No unsolicited submissions. Send samples of your published reviews (print only). Only experienced writers. No poetry at this time.
Submission Needs: To submit a book for review: Only new published books (no paperback reprints). We look at 10% of nonfiction sent to us. We don't review self-help, reference books, resource guides, bibliographies, textbooks. Must be about women or gender issues. No sexist, racist, homophobic, or discriminatory topics.
Address: WROB, Wellesley College, Center for Research on Women, Wellesley MA. 02481.