Finding places to send your humor writing is a bitch. Here’s my little master list of possible markets. Most don’t pay, but whoever heard of a writer who EATS?! That’s just rumor spread by writers still able to walk around and not yet too weak to speak. PLEASE comment below if you would like to add another market to the list! We have to stick together people. The world would be a boring place without us. – Personal essays – Literary -Spoof/Satire – Newsy – General -Pays LITERARY/GENERAL HUMOR MARKETS Site Site Site Grin and Tonic – B&N Review The Funny Times Hobo Pancakes Funny or Die The Smart Set Asinine Poetry New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs – ByGone Bureau Yellow Ham McSweeneys Defenestration Cavalier Literary Couture The Rumpus Opium Magazine SpaceSquid – $5 SciFi The Morning News Kugelmass Daily WICF The Toast Monkeybicycle Feathertale MAD The Big Jewel The Nervous Breakdown The Reject Pile Yankee Pot Roast HUMOR MARKETS FOR WOMEN’S STORIES Site Site Site Jezebel Bust Magazine Happy Woman Magazine Babble Bitch Magazine Wears the Trousers Magazine The Frisky Feministe Tom Tom Magazine xoJane Racialicious On The Issues Magazine Hello Giggles Comediva make/shift Hairpin Aiming Low The Pop Manifesto Gurl AWID MyPheme Scary Mommy Guest Posting Sadie Got a Girl Crush More.com Funny Not Slutty Grrrl Beat Skirt! Shameless Magazine Tuff Titties Feministing fbomb Daily WICF Rookie LADYGUNN NEWSY/SATIRE/TOPICAL HUMOR Site Site Site Huffington Post Salon The Spoof The Examiner College Humor CAP News Daily WICF Nerve The Glossy News Slate Splitsider Farce Haven Tribune Cracked Free Wood Post Polite Company Fiction Untoward Magazine Wow. You Made it Markets Harper’s Smithsonian The Atlantic Vanity Fair Esquire Paris Review The New Yorker Saturday Evening Post Bonus: Great link I found listing TRAVEL WRITING MARKETS. Travelated * means sometimes pays for articles
Molly September 16, 2012 Oh my goodness, I love this list, and I wish I had found it before I did all the legwork to come up with almost the same list on my own. (Although this list is actually better than mine). Thank you! 0 likes Reply
Nancy Freedman Goldstein May 4, 2017 Thank you for this list! Any listing of humor poetry? Yes, the P word… 0 likes
Ben April 27, 2017 I’ve published a couple of pieces in McSweeneys before, but it’s tough :/ Another good literary comedy outlet is Points in Case: http://www.pointsincase.com/submissions Pretty fast turnaround time. 3 likes Reply
Sarah February 16, 2016 This list is fantastic! Thank you for putting this all together. I have been pulling out my hair trying to figure out where to submit what after a long writing hiatus. Endless thanks! 0 likes Reply
Shelli February 29, 2016 Hey, I love this list! Do you have any notes on mags that publish cartoon humor, paid and unpaid? I publish lots in Funny Times but it is very hard to find other venues. Sadly books like Artists and Graphic Markets don’t have much useful stuff. 1 likes Reply
Van Scott October 4, 2016 Shelli- The New Gag Recap has a comprehensive market list that includes pay info & contact details for cartoonists & gagwriters (also short humor). You can see the first sample issue here http://www.gagrecap.com We just sent out the latest issue #36 a few weeks ago. 2 likes Reply
Barry Knister April 17, 2016 Unfortunately, virtue is not its own reward, but those of us who rightly or wrongly think we write funny thank you for this list. 0 likes Reply
Joel Miller July 11, 2016 Hi Amy, Great list. If you’re interested in adding another, I edit a humor website called The Reject Pile (rejectpile.com). Submission guidelines: rejectpile.com/submit Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Thank you! 0 likes Reply
David McCarty July 20, 2016 Online Magazine. Angry Dave Trading Post. Now accepting submissions for Short Humor and Personal Essays. http://www.angrydave.net/submissions/ Maybe you could add to your list. 0 likes Reply
Anthony Rhody March 29, 2017 The Free-Range Non-fiction link actually turns out to be something called Vitua Design. This site/blog then trapped me and wouldn’t allow me to return to Amy Van Sant. 0 likes Reply
Amy Vansant March 30, 2017 this post is really old – they probably went out of business. I’ll remove – thanks! 0 likes Reply
L. H. Freeman July 13, 2017 Hi Amy. Does ” POINTS IN CASE ” have a snail mail address ? 0 likes Reply
Jen August 30, 2017 The Chaos publishes humor, and we pay ($25 per accepted piece). We’re a literary journal that publishes true stories about life events. We’re interested in essays that illustrate the chaos of life, but with a balance of humor and pathos. 0 likes Reply
McKiney September 14, 2018 Hi, Amy! I work at Women in Comedy Festival Daily and we’d love to be listed on your website. We’re looking for humor articles, original think pieces, personal essays, why your favorite television show is feminist, etc. We accept pitches for cartoons, videos, and articles. Creators can submit pitches and first draft articles to editor@wicf.com. Thanks! 0 likes Reply
