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Location: New York  New York
Pays? Yes: Low
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Writer's Guidelines for Analog Science Fiction and Fact

Often considered the magazine where science fiction grew up. Analog pays 6-8 cents per word for short stories up to 7,500 words, $450-600 for stories between 7,500 and 10,000 words, and 5-6 cents per word for longer material. Preferred lengths are between 2,000 and 7,000 words for shorts, 10,000-20,000 words for novelettes, and 40,000-80,000 for serials. Fact articles are paid for at the rate of 6 cents per word.

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This market was added to our database on October 24, 2012, and was last modified on January 20, 2016.

Filed under: fiction, science


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