Here
on this page, you will find a list of UK based magazines that
offer payment and prizes for things such as letters, fillers and
poems.
Please include your full contact details and remember that all
contributions and letters can be edited (and added to) on publication.
I also recommend Linda Lewis's book ' How to make £10 in
ten minutes' available for kindle at just under £1.00.
LOVE IT!
magazine is a weekly women's magazine.
For some reason, they would like to know your age as well as your
contact details, so don't forget to send this on your correspondence.
Their letters page is called We love your letters.
They pay £20 for a letter.
The star letter receives a prize. (In June 2012, it was a Marilyn
Monroe movie set on blue ray).
The letters are usually about something in a previous issue and
not all have a photo.
E-mail: letters@loveitmagazine.co.uk
Cash is paid for other sections of the magazine:
You've been shamed! Daft photos
pay £20
E-mail: shamed@loveitmagazine.co.uk
Chizzy's top tips page pay
£20 for tips and £60
for the star tip.
They usually like a photo as well as a few lines to demonstrate
the tip.
E-mail: tips@loveitmagazine.co.uk
Cute wars
Send in cute photos of animals and children
Pays £15 for every one published
and the cutest each week receives £50.
E-mail cute@loveitmagazine.co.uk
WEB USER
magazine is published every fortnight. Their letters page is called
Inbox.
They are looking for comments about software programmes, the net
and websites. Anything that involves using the web (Hence the
mag's name!)
PAYMENT: Star e-mail receives £25.
E-mail: webuser@dennis.co.uk
MY WEEKLY
magazine letters page is called All About You.
There are different headings:
Past Pics (A nostalgic photo and
a few lines)
Little Treasures (Photos of children
with a few lines)
Pets Corner (A photo and few lines
about your pet)
Rant! (What makes you mad? State
it in a paragraph with a photo of yourself)
The Best Friends section also appears
on the letters page. The prize is a bouquet of flowers. This requires
a photo of you and your best friend and a long paragraph.
PAYMENT: £25 for each letter
(together with a photo) printed and £50
for the star choice letter and photo.
They also have a Bright Ideas page
- which covers top tips.
PAYMENT: £25 for each one.
They like photos but in the May/June 2012 issue, I saw tips published
without a photo.
E-mail address is the same for the letters but head it up with
BRIGHT IDEAS.
E-mail: allaboutyou@dcthomson.co.uk
WHAT'S ON TV
is a weekly television listings magazine. They require short,
snappy pieces (plus rants) for their letters page, which is called
Have your say.
They also require a few words for their 'What do you think section?'
but this requires a photo.
PAYMENT: £10 for every letter
or rant, £25 for the star letter
and £15 for every What do you
think?
E-mail: wotv_postbag@ipcmedia.com
TVCHOICE
is also a weekly TV listings magazine. They require short letters
for their page, which is called Choice Letters.
PAYMENT: £10 for the best letter
and £5 for the rest.
E-mail: tvchoice@bauer.co.uk
WOMAN'S WEEKLY
magazine letters page is called What You're saying.
PAYMENT: All letters chosen for publication
receive £10 and the letter
of the week receives £25.
The All About Me section requires a photo and any published will
receive 'a gift.'
E-mail: WomansWeeklyPostbag@ipcmedia.com
TAKE A BREAK'S FICTION
FEAST have a piece called My Favourite Book. Write
about your favourite book in 70 words or less. You need to send
a photo too.
Send to: My favourite book, Freepost, RSBB-CLCU- SJXC, H Bauer
publishing, Academic House, 24-28 Oval road, London, NW1 7DT.
No e-mail add for this.
PAYMENT: £20 for each one used.
YOURS
magazine's letters page is called Meeting Place. They also accept
poetry (rhyming and non rhyming) for their poetry corner slot.
PAYMENT: £10 in high street
shopping voucher for every poem or letter published. £25
for the star letter.
They have a 'Pet of the fortnight' section and this also pays
£10 in high street shopping
vouchers.
You need to send a photo of your pet and few details about them.
See YOURS mag for more details.
E-mail: yours@bauermedia.co.uk
TAKE A BREAK's
weekly magazine letters page is called 'We've got mail!'
PAYMENT: A whopping £75
for each letter, and £100 for
the star letter.
They've got sections called What a star! and What a laugh. They
like photos to accompany letters.
Write to: Letters, Take a break, Freepost LON12043, H Bauer publishing,
London, NW1 1YU.
TESCO MAGAZINE
is free from branches of Tesco. Their letters page is called Inbox.
PAYMENT: All chosen letters for publication
receive a prize (March/April's 2012 prize was a lavender hand
and body set) with the star letter receiving a big lavender beauty
basket.
They don't require photos.
E-mail: tesco@tescomagazine.co.uk
WRITERS' FORUM
monthly magazine letters page is called Writers' circle.
PAYMENT: A prize of a small moleskin
notebook worth £9.95. No photo
required.
E-mail: letters@writers-forum.com
READER'S DIGEST
is a monthly subscription only magazine.
PAYMENT: £50 for the star letter,
£30 for normal letters and
£15 for short extracts on its
"Over to You" pages.
Email: readersletters@readersdigest.co.uk
or write to Readers' Letters, Reader's Digest, 157 Edgware Road,
London W2 2HR
They also pay £70 for the
true stories, anecdotes and jokes in Laugh! and You Couldn't Make
it Up... (funny things people have done or that's happened to
them) and contributions to end-of-article fillers, travel, and
gardening- readers' tips and ideas, with photos.
Email excerpts@readersdigest.co.uk
or write to Excerpts, Reader's Digest, 157 Edgware Road, London
W2 2HR
Ensure submissions have not previously been published. Contributions
used become world copyright of Vivat Direct Ltd. (t/a Reader's
Digest).
REAL PEOPLE
magazine have a weekly 60 word fiction slot, which appears on
their letters page. Please e-mail:
letters@realpeoplemagazine.co.uk
PAYMENT: £25 for each one published.
PAYMENT for letters - £25.They
like letters with photos.
YOUR CAT
magazine.
The letters page is called Cat Chat and the snippets are usually
accompanied by a photo. Anything unusual about what your cat gets
up to, where they sleep, etc.
PAYMENT: The star letter gets a cat
related prize.
Email to: catchat@yourcat.co.uk.
TAKE A BREAK'S MY
FAVOURITE RECIPES.
Write about your recipe, list the ingredients and method and send
a clear photo of it when the dish has been cooked/baked.
They also require a head and shoulders photo of you.
PAYMENT: £25 for each recipe
published and £5 for a culinary
tip. (The tips don't need a photo).
E-mail: myfavouriterecipes@bauer.co.uk
VEGETARIAN LIVING
magazine comes out every month. The letters page is called Share
your thoughts.
PAYMENT: The letter of the month
receives a gift. In the April 2012 issue it was a summer beauty
travel set.
E-mail: letters@vegmag.co.uk
WRITING
magazine is also published every month.
The letters page is called Letters to the Editor.
They require a max of 250 words per letter.
PAYMENT: The star letter wins a copy
of the current Writers and Artists yearbook.
E-mail: letters@writersnews.co.uk
WOMAN
magazine.
Their letters page is called Let's Talk.
PAYMENT: The letter of the week in
May 2012 received a 50ml bottle of perfume.
E-mail: woman@ipcmedia.com
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