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Pay Rates

All EA podcasts are SFWA qualified short fiction markets*, and offer the following pay rates:

  • Original fiction: USD $0.08/word regardless of length
  • Reprints: USD $20 for flash fiction, and USD $100 for short fiction

Reprints are defined as stories that have been previously published in any form (print, digital or audio) or location. This includes Patron-only Patreon feeds, Goodreads, and self-publication.

Our story contracts request the following rights:

  • Nonexclusive audio and print rights
  • Four months exclusivity of text and audio for original stories only

Our license applies only to our audio performance of an author’s work, for which we’ve contracted and paid. It does not apply to the story itself. Authors retain their copyright and all rights to any other use of the story.

Our narration contracts are work for hire for vocal performance, and offer the following standard pay rates:

  • Flash fiction: USD $15
  • Short fiction: USD $30

*CatsCast is applying! We’ll update you when we hear more.

Payment Methods

We use PayPal as our primary form of payment, which also allows us to pay transaction fees. In some territories, like the United States, PayPal requires that a recipient ‘accept’ their payment within 30 days of it being sent or it will be declined on your behalf. We will follow up with you if we’ve seen your payment has timed out and work with you to resend it. Occasionally PayPal will, entirely of its own volition, charge a recipient a fee. If this happens to you please contact us and we’ll reimburse you. However we are unable to reimburse fees for currency conversion.

Alternative payment methods including Wise and World Remit are available where needed. Please let us know at time of contracting and we’ll send you an addendum to complete with the needed details.

Payment Restrictions

As a US 501(c)(3) company, we are subject to restrictions set by the US government which limit our ability to make payments to certain countries. We have no control over this, and monitor this list quarterly.

The Escape Artists Foundation has limited capacity to, or is unable to make payments to, creatives resident in: Afghanistan, Belarus, Central African Republic, Cuba, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Myanmar, North Korea (DPRK), Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Uzbekistan, Ukraine regions (Crimea, Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, Zaoprizhzhia), Venezuela, and Yemen.