Animal Wellness, a natural pet magazine published in North America, takes pride in providing readers with the information they need to make wise health care choices for their animal companions. They welcome unsolicited articles and story outlines. Articles range in length from 500 to 1,500 words. View website for details.
http://animalwellnessmagazine.com/p/awsubmit.htm

UK based Capall Bann publish a range of over 300 books of interest to Pagans, New Agers and others interested in alternative healing, earth mysteries, folklore, psychic and spiritual development. They welcome submissions. View website for guidelines.
http://www.capallbann.co.uk/information.cfm

Everyone has a story to tell. What’s yours? Enter the BBC’s My Story competition. The finalists will get to tell their story in a major BBC One series. And five people will get their stories made into a book, which includes receiving an advance payment! For full details, visit the website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mystory/

Ambit is a literary magazine that exists to promote new writers and new writing. They do this by reading through mountains of unsolicited submissions and picking out the very best. They offer a token fee for accepted material. View website for contact details.
http://www.ambitmagazine.co.uk/Writer.htm

UK based Strident is on the lookout for exciting new work to publish. They are interested in: Fiction for any part of the 5-18 age group. View website for details.
http://stridentpublishing.co.uk/category/submissions/

Experience Life is a progressive health/fitness/quality-of-life magazine and a membership magazine of Life Time Fitness — a large and rapidly growing health and fitness organization with dozens of industry-leading facilities. The magazine is written for a general audience of active, educated, discerning people who are interested in good health and passionate about self-improvement, well-being and living a good, satisfying life.  They welcome submissions. View website for full guidelines.
http://www.experiencelifemag.com/about-us/experience-life-writers-guidelines.html

Page Forty-Seven online anthology has been created for you, the new or not-yet-published writer. The purpose of this anthology is to help you establish yourself as a writer by providing an early publication credit, possibly your first. They only post short stories they have purchased. If your short story submission is of publishable quality, and if they wish to purchase it and feature your work, you will hear from them within one week. Pay is $50 flat fee on acceptance. View website for info.
http://www.be-a-better-writer.com/short-story-submission.html

About.com is an online neighborhood of hundreds of helpful experts they call Guides. Every month, millions visit for help with everything from health care and parenting issues to advice on travel, cooking, technology, and hobbies. They are currently looking for new writers to become About.com guides to cover various topics. A base payment is provided – guaranteed to be $675 per month for Guides in their first two years, with a minimum of $500 per month afterwards. View website for more details.
http://beaguide.about.com

Fate magazine reports a wide variety of strange and unknown phenomena. They are open to receiving any well-written, well-documented article. Readers especially like reports of current investigations, experiments, theories, and experiences. Standard payment for feature articles is 5 cents/word. You can download PDF guidelines here http://fatemag.com/WritersGuidelines.pdf or visit the website
http://fatemag.com

A full-time staff writer is required for Classic Ford magazine. The position is based in Bath, UK. Closing date: 2 Oct.09. View website for more information.

UK based Peter Owen Publishers continues the tradition of producing new and interesting writing. The company has published seven Nobel Prize winners and boasts a backlist that includes some of the most talented and important writers from all over the world. They accept unsolicited submissions, preferably in the form of an emailed covering letter with attached synopsis and sample chapters. View website for background details.
http://www.peterowen.com/submissions.html

Short Stories are invited by UK based Forward Press in a variety of genres. Visit website for details.

UK based Tartarus Press are looking for novels and short story collections of between 75,000 and 120,000 words. Subject matter – contemporary, literary, strange/supernatural fiction. View website for more information.
http://www.tartaruspress.com/submissions.htm

Twenty First Century Publishers publishes fiction, thrillers and crime and concentrates on developing new authors whom they wish to bring to market. They use the latest technology to achieve publication in minimum times. They welcome submissions by email, which should include a brief one to two page synopsis in the body of the email and the full manuscript , or if you prefer extracts from your book, in a file attachment. View website for more information.
http://www.twentyfirstcenturypublishers.com/index.asp?PageID=251

Espace magazine presents and promotes contemporary sculpture through analysis and reflection. This is the only journal in Canada devoted to this disciplinary field. Texts are published in both French and English.The next deadline to submit an article — maximum 1 000 words — is December 5th. The editorial committee evaluates all texts, and the authors whose texts are published receive a fee of $60/page and a copy of the magazine. View website for more details.
http://www.espace-sculpture.com/en.php?lien=submit

Are you interested in writing erotica for Xcite Books? Please sign-up for their writers’ newsletter to receive updates of new writing opportunities. They are seeking stories with varied, erotic themes for upcoming titles. There is a token payment of £50  for each story on publication. View website for more details.
http://www.xcitebooks.com/writersguidelines.html

Do you want to train as a journalist with one of the world’s largest broadcasting organisations? The BBC are looking for 15 exceptional people who will be the broadcast journalists of the future.  You will be trained in online, TV and radio in a mix of face to face sessions, online learning and work placements around the UK.
They pay you a salary and you will be mentored by a senior BBC journalist. View website for details.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/jobs/jts/

UK based Legend Press are publishing the fifth in an acclaimed series of short story-collections and are looking for talented, vibrant authors to submit stories for consideration.  Through this series they hope to reaffirm the short story’s inimitable place in the mainstream market. They plan to publish the new collection in Spring 2010 and are calling for writers to send in their submissions by 16th October 2009. View website for full details. http://legendpress.co.uk

Subtropics seeks to publish the best literary fiction, essays, and poetry being written today, both by established and emerging authors. They will consider works of fiction of any length, from short shorts to novellas and self-contained novel excerpts. For stories and essays, Subtropics pays a flat fee of $1,000 ($500 for a short short) for North American first serial rights. Poets are paid $100 per poem. Subtropics pays upon acceptance for prose; for poetry, they pay after the publication of the issue preceding the one in which the author’s work will appear. View website for more details.
http://www.english.ufl.edu/subtropics/submit.html

WeekendNotes is currently looking for freelance writers to contribute articles to their email newsletters in New York and London. Contribute anything from 1 article a year, to 1 article a week. If you live in London or New York, have some fresh ideas, and know the difference between it’s and its, and there and their, please drop a line for more information. View website for contact details.
http://www.weekendnotes.com/freelance/