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Duotrope's Digest is a good site to search through for short fiction and poetry markets. In most cases, the markets that are listed are paying ones. The database can be searched by genre, length, media, country, theme, payscale, sub-type, and reprints.

Duotrope's Digest also offers a free weekly e-mail/e-newsletter called The Weekly Wire, which contains a list of markets that have been added or significantly updated at Duotrope's Digest every week.

In the Notes for Writers section you'll find:

dear fellow writer,

We write fiction ourselves and have been published in small press publications. Also, we edited a small press 'zine years ago. We have seen the fiction publishing world from both sides. We know the joys and frustrations of being writers and the joys and frustrations of being editors. While we don't purport to be experts, we can offer you some basic advice to help reduce your frustration when submitting and to help make editors happier when reading your work.

Do . . .

* Be professional and polite when corresponding with editors, even through e-mail. This includes using full sentences and avoiding informal abbreviations such as "BTW", etc. Also, it should go without saying that you should never respond rudely to a rejection or attempt to enter into a debate with an editor -- that will get you on their bad side but fast!
* Target your submissions. Sending a story to an inappropriate market does not increase its chance of getting published. Instead it keeps the story in limbo longer.
* Read and follow the publisher's guidelines. Always. No exceptions. Even if you've submitted to the market in the past, re-read the guidelines. You never know when they might change. Also, if you can manage it, you should try to read at least one issue of the publication to get a better idea of what the editor is looking for.

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