Magazine
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Must Read Books Publishing
DeadlineOpen anytime (no fixed deadline)
- Pay / prize
- 6–8¢/word (fiction); $25–50 per poem; 7¢/word nonfiction
- Entry fee
- Free
- Length
- 2,500–8,000 preferred (700–20,000 considered)
- Eligibility & notes
- All mystery/crime subgenres; no explicit sex or violence. Must be unpublished in the US. Department of First Stories for writers never published professionally. .doc/.docx via online system.
- Last checked
- 2026-10-28
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