Online
literature resource Duotrope, once a free haven to find markets for your poem or short story, has
now gone subscription-only. There's now a $5 monthly fee to get
access to the thousands of magazines looking for submissions.
The
site has been surviving for many years through donations, but a
circular went out explaining that these targets had not been hit for
a number of months, and the site admins had no choice but to start to
charge users.
It's
been great having the site to find markets for stories, and I owe a
hat-tip to Duotrope with regards to the majority of my published
work. It was also a good place to search for free short literature,
if you had a spare half hour. I used the site sporadically to find
markets so a $5 monthly fee wouldn't really work for me now.
I've
found a small closed group on Facebook that is sharing information
about publishing markets, but I'm keen to see what else there is out
there to help the struggling scribe. Can you advise?
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