🇦🇺 Australia
11 publications are based in Australia, and 100 in total confirm in their own guidelines that they are open to writers from here. A further 189 do not state an eligibility rule either way.
A listing is an invitation to pitch, never a promise of acceptance or payment. Every entry links to the publication’s own guideline and the date BRYME last checked it.
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Based here
Short fiction
Short fiction
Online analysis / polemic
Literary essays and features
Commentary essays and criticism
Analytic op-eds
Poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and reviews
Themed fiction or non-fiction
Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Longform essay
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction and graphic narratives
Read the silence
6 of the 11 publications based in Australia print a pay figure in their own guidelines.
Desk-wide, 184 of the 304 publications BRYME tracks state a rate. The rest are not necessarily unpaid - most simply do not publish a rate card, and BRYME will not print a number the publication has not printed itself. So treat an empty pay row as an unanswered question to put to the editor, not as evidence of anything. Where a record does carry a figure, it is quoted exactly as stated and dated with the day it was read.
For Australia, that means the 5 records without a figure are the part of this page to test by asking — a commissioned piece is where a rate gets named.
Getting these wrong will not sink a good idea, but they are the fastest way for an editor to tell you have not read them.
| Spelling | -ise and -our, followed more strictly than in Britain. But program, not programme, and jail, not gaol |
|---|---|
| Dates | 3 April 2026 — day first |
| CV or résumé | CV, never with a photo |
| Quotation | Largely British usage; house styles vary |
Labor without the u only ever refers to the Australian Labor Party — everywhere else it is labour. Getting that wrong in a political piece is an immediate tell. The authority is the Macquarie Dictionary.
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