Gray's Sporting Journal

Open now for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Gray's Sporting Journal is a magazine focused on hunting, fishing, and outdoor sporting adventures, publishing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with a strong emphasis on vivid storytelling and high entertainment value.

Response time info: 10 to 12 weeks

Read the full guidelines at grayssportingjournal.com↗

Submission calls

fictionPays: $600–$1,250 for features; yarns average $600

Fact or fiction features and yarns related to hunting, fishing, and sporting adventures; features may be fact or fiction, hunting or fishing, long or short but no shorter than 1,500 words; yarns are campfire tales, fact or fiction, and should run from 750 to 1,500 words. No previously published…

nonfictionPays: $600–$1,250 for features; $850–$1,000 for expeditions plus $75 per picture; yarns average $600

Nonfiction features, expeditions (travel pieces), and yarns related to hunting, fishing, and sporting adventures; expeditions run 2,500–3,000 words and must include photographic support (except in Expeditions and Guides Annual); features may be fact or fiction, no shorter than 1,500 words; yarns…

poetryPays: $100 per poem

Poetry of any style, though preference for poems shorter than 1,000 words; usually one poem per issue except Expeditions and Guides Annual. Payment: $100 per poem.

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