100 Word Story | Poets & Writers

Website:

http://www.100wordstory.org

Genres Published:

Fiction

Subgenres:

Autobiography/Memoir, Experimental, Prose Poetry, Narrative Nonfiction

Representative Authors:

Stuart Dybeck, Thaisa Frank, Meg Pokrass, Frances Lefkowitz, Lou Beach, Molly Giles, Pamela Painter, Meg Tuite, Tom Hazuka

Formats:

Web

Submission Guidelines:

http://www.100wordstory.org/submit

Reading Period:

Jan 1 to Dec 31

Reporting Time:

Less than 3 months

Charges Reading Fee:

Yes

Accepts Electronic Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Unsolicited Submissions:

Yes

Number of Debut Authors per Issue:

2-3

Issues per Year:

6-8

Issue Price:

Circulation:

1,000 to 2,500

Editorial Focus

The whole is a part and the part is a whole. The 100-word format forces the writer to question each word, to reckon with Flaubert’s mot juste in a way that even most flash fiction doesn’t. At the same time the brevity of the form allows the writer “to keep a story free from explanation,” as Walter Benjamin wrote. None of us will ever know the whole story in other words. We can only collect a bag full of shards that each seem perfect.

Contact Information

2323 Glen Ave.

Berkeley

94708

grant.faulkner@sbcglobal.net

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Last updated: Feb 17, 2017