short-shorts

Fall Story Contest

Narrative

Entry Fee:

$27

Deadline:

November 30, 2021

A prize of $2,500 and publication in Narrative is given annually for a short story, a short short story, an essay, a short graphic narrative, or an excerpt from a longer work of prose. A second-place prize of $1,000 and publication in Narrative is also awarded. The editors will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit up to 15,000 words of prose with a $27 entry fee by November 30. All entries are considered for publication. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

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Spring Story Contest

Narrative

Entry Fee:

$27

Deadline:

July 31, 2021

A prize of $2,500 and publication in Narrative is given annually for a short story, a short short story, an essay, or an excerpt from a work of fiction or creative nonfiction. A second-place prize of $1,000 is also awarded. The editors will judge. Using only the online submission system, submit a work of fiction or creative nonfiction of up to 15,000 words with a $27 entry fee by July 31. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

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essays | short stories | short-shorts

Barthelme Prize for Short Prose

Gulf Coast

Entry Fee:

$20

Deadline:

August 31, 2021

A prize of $1,000 and publication in Gulf Coast is given annually for a short work of prose. Submit a prose poem, a piece of flash fiction, or a micro-essay of up to 500 words with a $20 entry fee, which includes a subscription to Gulf Coast, by August 31. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

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short-shorts

Flash Fiction Contest

Gemini Magazine

Entry Fee:

$7

Deadline:

August 31, 2021

A prize of $1,000 and publication in Gemini Magazine is given annually for a short short story. The editors will judge. Submit a story of up to 1,000 words with a $7 entry fee by August 31. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

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short-shorts

Flash Fiction Prize

Fish Publishing

Entry Fee:

$16

Deadline:

February 28, 2021

A prize of €1,000 (approximately $1,170) and publication in the Fish Publishing anthology is given annually for a short short story. The winner is also invited to give a reading at the West Cork Literary Festival in July 2021. Kathy Fish will judge. Submit a story of up to 300 words with a €14 (approximately $16) entry fee for online entries or €16 (approximately $18) for postal entries by February 28. Visit the website for complete guidelines.

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Wood Coin Magazine: Art & Lit

Basic Information

General Delivery

Website:

http://woodcoin.net

Vancouver

Washington

United States

98661

Submission Guidelines:

http://woodcoin.net/about.html

Contact Information

James K.

Beach

Editor & Publisher

Details

Genres Published:

Poetry

Fiction

Creative Nonfiction

Formats:

Web

Reading Period:

Jan 1 to Dec 31

Reporting Time:

Less than 3 months

Charges Reading Fee:

No

Accepts Electronic Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions:

Yes

Accepts Unsolicited Submissions:

Yes

Payment:

No payment

Year Founded:

2008

Percentage of Unsolicited Submissions Published:

Greater than 50

Representative Authors:

AnnyNymity, Elena Botts, Patrick Dobson, Hugh Fox, Colin Dodds, Dirk van Nouhuys, Christine Herzer, Michael t smith, Ruth Lepson, Changming Yuan, Carol Berge, Simon Perchik, XeusZenon, Hugh Fox, Jose Oseguera, Mutahira Moqueet, Felino A Soriano, Robert Masterson, T S Hidalgo, James Beach (contrib. ed./pub.)

Issues per Year:

Varies.

Circulation:

5,000 to 10,000

Subscription Price:

Online.

Issue Price:

Free.

Number of Debut Authors per Issue:

Varies.

The issues are cohesive; the whole of the magazine is comprehensive.

Submit anything, from new to almost-forgotten, previously published if noted in an email, or rejected for whatever reason from other venues. I do work with talented writers if a theme or plot or character can be drawn out and refined for publication in Wood Coin. The magazine is uncensored as of January 2018, yet extreme literary or artistic stunts need to coincide with US obscenity laws.

Subgenres:

Irish Pages

Basic Information

The Linen Hall Library

17 Donegall Square North

Website:

http://www.irishpages.org

Belfast

Northern Ireland

BT1 5GB

Submission Guidelines:

http://irishpages.org/submissions/

Contact Information

Chris

Agee

Editor

Details

Genres Published:

Poetry

Fiction

Creative Nonfiction

Formats:

Print

Reading Period:

Jan 1 to Dec 31

Reporting Time:

Greater than 6 months

Charges Reading Fee:

No

Accepts Electronic Submissions:

No

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions:

No

Accepts Unsolicited Submissions:

Yes

Payment:

Contributor copies only

Year Founded:

2002

Distributors:

Ubiquity, Gill & Macmillan

Representative Authors:

Wendell Berry, Ciaran Carson, Patricia Craig, Leontia Flynn, Brian Friel, Hugo Hamilton, Seamus Heaney, Julia Kristeva, Samuel Menashe, Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Zakaria Mohammed, Paul Muldoon, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Glenn Patterson, W. G. Seabald, Gary Snyder, Susan Sontag, Charles Wright.

Issues per Year:

2

Circulation:

2,500 to 5,000

Subscription Price:

45 USD

Number of Debut Authors per Issue:

at least one

Irish Pages is a biannual journal, edited in Belfast and publishing, in equal measure, writing from Ireland and overseas. Its policy is to publish poetry, short fiction, essays, creative nonfiction, memoir, essay reviews, nature-writing, translated work, literary journalism, and other autobiographical, historical, religious and scientific writing of literary distinction.

Please do read the journal before submitting.
Please do not send standard reviews or narrowly academic articles.

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international authors

The Writing Life in Mexico City, Amazon to Open Chicago Bookstore, and More

by

Staff

Daily News

8.31.16

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies author sued by Hachette; how a contemporary poetry book became a best-seller; Lena Dunham to publish short story collection; and other news.

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poetry | fiction | translations | international | short-shorts

Pat Conroy Literary Center, LGBTQ Novel Recommendations, and More

by

Staff

Daily News

6.10.16

Carla Hayden close to securing Librarian of Congress appointment; fiction writer Max Porter on the fragmentary nature of grief; the vindication of Ernest Hemingway’s second wife; and other news.

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An Interview With Fiction Writer Robert Olen Butler

by

Ken Gordon

Direct Quote

9.29.06

Earlier this month Chronicle Books published Severance, a book of extremely short stories, each told from the point of view of a person who has been decapitated. Nicole Brown Simpson, John the Baptist, and Cicero are among the narrators. But Severance isn’t the work of some drooling, maniacal scribbler. In fact, the author, Robert Olen Butler, has published over a dozen books of fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection, A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain (Henry Holt, 1992).

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