Venues and resources
Venues for long form non-fiction
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Traditional print and online
Check out newspages.com’s list of Literary Magazines http://www.newpages.com/literary-magazines/ it includes a huge list of possible venues as well as submission details / guidelines.
Australia
A lot of these journals have websites too, but so far most are not publishing long form online.
Meanjin http://www.meanjin.com.au
Overland http://www.overland.org.au
Island Magazine http://islandmag.com
Griffith Review http://griffithreview.com/
Kill Your Darlings Journal http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com
The Lifted Brow http://www.theliftedbrow.com
You can also publish your work with publishing houses:
Random House has an e-book collection, Storycuts. Submit your work to Publisher Meredith Curnow via Random House’s Sydney office. You can read more about Storycuts in this post.
Penguin has an e-book collection, Penguin Specials. Submit your work via the email address penguin.specials@au.penguingroup.com . You can read more about Penguin Specials in this post.
UK
Granta Magazine – they have a ‘New Voices’ section just for emerging writers – up to 4,000 words http://www.granta.com/
USA
Creative Non-fiction http://www.creativenonfiction.org
LA Review of Books http://lareviewofbooks.org/
Hippocampus accepts up to 3,500 words http://www.hippocampusmagazine.com
McSweeny’s Quarterly http://www.mcsweeneys.net/
Etude http://etude.uoregon.edu/
E-book publishers (but not self-publishing)
Editia is a digital first publishing business devoted to longform journalism and non-fiction shorts. http://www.editia.com
The Atavist is independently run, but publishing words and multimedia as a kind of imprint of Kindle Singles (as well as several other platforms) http://www.atavist.com/
Byliner is also independently run and publishing into the Kindle Singles programme (as well as several other platforms) http://byliner.com/
Random House has an e-book collection, Storycuts. Submit your work to Publisher Meredith Curnow via Random House’s Sydney office. You can read more about Storycuts in this post.
Self publishing
‘So you want to publish a Kindle Single’ video http://www.thestoryboard.ca/so-you-want-to-publish-a-kindle-single/
Smashwords guide to marketing your ebook http://www.smashwords.com/extreader/read/305/1/smashwords-book-marketing-guide
There are dozens of e-book publishing opportunities out there, but I haven’t had any experience with them. Let us know what you know in the comments below.
Enterprise journalism / Community funded reporting / Crowd sourcing
http://www.spot.us – US based community funded reporting
http://www.youcommnews.com – Australian foray into community funded reporting
http://www.pozible.com – Crowd funding
www.kickstarter.com – Crowd funding (US based)
www.indiegogo.com – Crowd funding (US based)
Also check out www.crowdfunding.org to help get your head around it (including this video about crowd sourcing).
I have written a number of posts on crowd funding.
Resources
Promote your work
Long Reads http://www.longreads.com
Long Form http://www.longform.org
Explore the future of publishing
IF book – http://www.ifbook.com.au
Meanland – http://www.meanland.com.au
Digital Publishing Australia http://www.digitalpublishingaustralia.org.au [Focuses on publishers rather than writers, but could give you some inspiration]
