Many writers do not find themselves comfortable writing educational or How-to articles for various freelance writing websites. This may be due to the simple fact that writers who are good at fiction find themselves suited only for works of fiction which require imagination and more dramatic writing. Fiction writing is different from educational articles in the sense that they require less of research but more of emotional and verbal power. If you are one of those fiction writers who just can’t get into educational stuffs for making money, then help is here!

Here is a list of the sites which gives upfront payment for your fiction works:-

1. Grassrouts Publishing Co. :- This site is for all the romantic writers who have a lot of stuffs to share and earn money but don’t know where. If you have got a flair for love stories, you can get 0 for EACH of your work. This site accepts love stories and if they find your story worth publishing, they’ll give you 0 for your work along with complimentary copies of the magazine. They take around 10-12 weeks for evaluating submissions but they pay good amount for fiction works.

2. Heliotrope Magazine :- They accept fiction and poetry for their issues. Currently they have closed submission as the next two issues of the magazine are already full. But, you can keep checking the site as they are going to re-open the submissions soon. They accept fiction which is not more than 5000 words especially those related to science fiction, mystery and horror. The best part is that they pay per word. For each word in your fiction story, you will receive .10. That makes it 0 for a 5000 words fiction! 

Heliotrope also accepts poetry at per submission. You can submit even non-fiction materials and receive if it gets accepted. They usually respond to submissions withing 30 days.

3. Andromeda Spaceways :- It is an Australia based company which accepts science fiction, mystery and horror stories. They accept submission of up to 10,000 words from writers who are residents of countries other than Australia and New Zealand. For the residents of Australia and New Zealand, the limit is 20,000 words. The payment is 1.25 cents (Australian) for each word. 

They also consider poetries of all genre. The payment for both poetry and flash fiction is (Australian) per piece. 

4. The Pedestal Magazine :- They accept both fiction and poetry. They have specific time every month during which you can submit your fiction work or poetry. You can submit up to 6 poems and 1 fiction during this time each month. The minimum and maximum length for fiction is 1200 and 4500 respectively. The pay rate for poem is per piece. In the case of fiction, they pay per word at the rate of .08 per word.

5. Bibliobuffet :- They offer a wide range of jobs. They accept book reviews, personal essays, editorials, commentary, humor, interviews, profiles of literary people, places and things, excerpts from upcoming books and short stories. You have to write twice a week for them and they’ll pay you per piece. The payment is done by check. The submissions must be in between 660- 6000 words. 

Apart from these sites, there are many other sites which run contests from time to time. They are too many to be listed and hence I’ll skip those. In case you need information about contests, leave a comment for me at the end of the article and I’ll get back to you. You can also make money by posting your fiction and poetry materials on your own website or blog and earn via revenue from the traffic they generate.