To Pay or Not to Pay

What are short story submission fees and when should you pay them?

Margery Bayne
The Writing Cooperative
5 min readMar 13, 2020

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In the pursuit of submitting short stories to literary magazines and other markets, you will run across markets that charge submission fees. This can inspire a lot of questions. Is this market legitimate or is it a scam? Why do they charge submission fees? Is it worth it to pay the fees?

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