Three Websites You Should Know that List Short Story Magazines

If you have trouble finding the right magazines to submit your science fiction short stories, if you're new to the submission process, or if you just want to a find a magazine for your reading pleasure, there are only three websites you should know, which are valuable resources:

• duotrope.com 
• ralan.com 
• sfwa.org 

The links above will either go to a page that lists magazines or to one where you can search for magazines.

If you just want to know the professional magazines or anthologies that publish science fiction short stories -- which meet Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America qualifications -- here are 21 markets from sfwa.org: (they are not all currently open to submissions, however):

• Analog Science Fiction and Fact (guidelines)
• Apex (guidelines)
• Asimov’s Science Fiction (guidelines)
• Bull Spec (guidelines)
• Cicada (guidelines)
• Clarkesworld Magazine (guidelines)
• Cosmos (guidelines)
• Cricket (guidelines)
• Dark Wisdom (guidelines)
• Flash Fiction Online (guidelines)
• Grantville Gazette (guidelines)
• Lightspeed Magazine (guidelines)
• The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (guidelines)
• Nature (guidelines)
• Odyssey (guidelines)
• Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show (guidelines)
• The Pedestal Magazine (guidelines)
• Redstone Science Fiction (guidelines)
• Strange Horizons (guidelines)
• Tor.com (guidelines)
• Writers of the Future Anthology (rules)