Okay, if you've visited my website, by now you know I'm trying to spread the word... Fledgling writers, especially genre writers, need markets to establish themselves. Those markets are primarily composed of speculative fiction magazines, such as Asimov's, Analog, Weird Tales, and others. The problem is, those markets are slowly dying off now that TV and mindless internet surfing have begun to replace reading. Subscription counts are falling. Magazines that have been running for decades are having no choice but to close their doors and stop printing. This is devastating to young writers who haven't had a chance to make a name for themselves, not to mention it's just one more step in the vicious cycle of diminishing Western reading habits.

So what can you do?

That's easy...go take out a subscription from one of these magazines, read it, enjoy it, and pass it around. Get your friends to do the same, and maybe we can turn the cycle around.

Analog: Science Fiction and Fact
Asimov's Science Fiction
Dark Tales
Realms of Fantasy
Interzone Recommended!
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Weird Tales Recommended!
Fantasy Magazine
H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror
Black Gate
Forgotten Worlds
Book of Dark Wisdom
Amazing Journeys
Cemetery Dance
Dark Realms
The Edge
Apex Digest Recommended!
Neo-Opsis
Paradox
Andromeda Spaceways
Subterranean
Postscripts
Talebones
Aberrant Dreams I'm a fiction editor for this one, highly recommended!
Shimmer
STAR*LINE
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show (ezine) Recommended!
Chizine
Clarkesworld Magazine
On-Spec
Aeon
Aurealis
Black Gate
Dark Recesses Press
Dark Wisdom
Electric Velocipede
Fictitious Force
Strange Horizonsezine
Flytrap
All Possible Worlds
On Spec
Grendelsong


Amazon.com is also a good place to look for speculative fiction magazines.   Just search Magazines for the names above.
A website I found to have the cheapest magazines for some of the titles above is:  www.mags4cheap.com
You won't find all of them, but you'll get some pretty good prices on the ones they do have.


A few other places you might want to check:
Shocklines
Clarkesworld
Duotrope
Wildside Press
Ralan's Webstravaganza (Shows market listings of most genre magazines)
SpecFicWorld


Some other places Science Fiction writers need to check out if you're serious about getting published:


Ralan's
(Various speculative fiction markets, arranged by pay rates)

Locus Magazine
(Lists links to all the major science fiction magazines)

Duotrope's Digest
(Searchable markets for writers)

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
(The professional association for writers of sci-fi and fantasy)

Absolute Write
(A good writing forum site frequented by several major authors, including James D. Macdonald)

Preditors and Editors
(An excellent site that exposes writing scams)

The Black Hole
(Lists response times and rejection rates for book and magazine publishers)
Spicy Green Iguana
(A much more thorough and interactive compilation of spec-fic links than I could ever create here.)

Keep in mind when submitting to Spec-Fic magazines that most of them will fast-track your submissions if you're a subscriber. Simply write it in your cover letter.

I plan to add to this eventually, but here's a couple cool contests for writers:
Apex Halloween Contest
Writer's Digest Contests
Writers of the Future Contest



And of course, no writers list could be complete without a few workshops:
Clarion Writers' Workshop
Clarion West Writers' Workshop
Clarion South Writers' Workshop
Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop

And here's one I've been to and can personally recommend:
Writing the Breakout Novel Intensive with Donald Maass



And here's two more places that are more personal:
Bentalit
(Where I was raised and get a lot of my inspiration)
My Homepage
(The never-ending time-sink that is my website)

Thanks for looking!
-Sara King
http://www.kingfiction.com

P.S. If you know of a magazine or writing link that's not listed here, please let me know in an email and I'll put it in.