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Story Unlikely [1]

Basic Information
State: 
Iowa
Website: 
https://storyunlikely.com [2]
Country: 
United States
Submission Guidelines: 
https://storyunlikely.com/#submit [3]
City: 
Davenport
Zip / Postal Code: 
52806
Contact Information
Danny
Hankner
Editor in Chief
Contact E-mail: 
dan@storyunlikely.com [4]
Details
Formats: 
Online
Digital
Print
Payment: 
Cash
Genres Published: 
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Charges Reading Fee: 
No
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
Yes
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Reading Period: 
Feb 2 to Oct 14
Response Time: 
Less than 3 months
Free

Story Unlikely is an award-winning monthly publication that features fiction and nonfiction that focuses on the quality of both the writing and storytelling, not on genre or author pedigree (or lack thereof).

Most stories get “bumped” before we finish reading the first page (that’s right, we’re a merciless bunch). A trained eye can tell the quality of a story and the ability of the storyteller from only a few sentences, so tighten that opening!

Representative Authors: 
Mike Barretta, Wulf Moon, Roger Sheffer, Lynne Golodner, David Hankins
Issues per Year: 
12
Year Founded: 
2020
Percentage of Unsolicited Submissions Published: 
26% to 50%
Issue Price: 
Free
Number of Debut Authors per Issue: 
1-2
Greater than 10,000
Subgenres: 
Commercial Fiction [5]
Creative Nonfiction [6]
Cross-genre [7]
Experimental [8]
Fiction [9]
Flash Fiction [10]
Humor [11]
Literary Fiction [12]
Narrative Nonfiction [13]
Short Fiction [14]
Speculative Fiction [15]

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/story_unlikely

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/story_unlikely [2] https://storyunlikely.com [3] https://storyunlikely.com/#submit [4] mailto:dan@storyunlikely.com [5] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/commercial_fiction [6] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/17192 [7] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/crossgenre [8] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/experimental [9] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/fiction [10] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/flash_fiction [11] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/humor [12] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/literary_fiction [13] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/narrative_nonfiction [14] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/short-fiction [15] https://www.pw.org/category/subgenres/speculative-fiction