SFWA Market Qualification Request

The following is to be used if you wish to qualify a publishing market so it may later be used on a membership application. Other questions should be addressed to the Executive Director via by email.

Please understand and anticipate that qualifying a market may take a substantial length of time (possibly a year or more), as should be evident from the Qualification Requirements and the need to gather data, some of which may have to come from the publisher.

When a market becomes qualified it will be placed on the list of qualifying markets and you or others may then use it on applications.

Please be sure you are not querying about a market already on the qualifying list or the list of other venues.

Contact information if we have questions:
Your name:
Your email address:

Are you:

An author who wishes to use this market on an application

With the market (publisher/editor/staff/etc.)

Name of the market (magazine name or name of book publisher):

This market publishes primarily which format of fiction:

Books

Short stories

Market's Home page URL:

URL to guidelines:

Contact information for someone at this market (name, title, email, phone):

If you are with the market, please confirm the following necessary conditions for this market by checking each box (the membership committee will verify all information, but if all boxes are not checked, this market is not eligible for qualification; if you are not with the market, please answer what you know, and we'll try to find out the rest, but be aware that the market will not qualify if we can't determine that they meet all the criteria):

Pays at least 5 cents/word or $2,000 for ALL new fiction
Is NOT a small press, self-publication, or vanity press
Has a circulation/print run/or other distribution of 1,000 or more
Has published works by at least 10 different people
Authors do not pay nor are asked to pay a fee or give consideration of any kind

Please describe payment terms in detail for all fiction:

 

Please describe when this market first began publishing, and for short fiction markets, also describe its stated frequency of publishing (e.g. quarterly), and how well it has maintained this stated frequency:

 

Please describe the circulation, size of print runs, or other elements relating to number of copies or number of readers:

 

Any additional comments:


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