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Hint Fiction

Details: http://www.robertswartwood.com/?page_id=8

hint fiction (n) : a story of 25 words or less that suggests a larger, more complex story.

Anthology Guidelines: Tentatively scheduled for the fall of 2010, W.W. Norton will publish an anthology of Hint Fiction. What is Hint Fiction? It’s a story of 25 words or less that suggests a larger, more complex story. The thesis of the anthology is to prove that a story 25 words or less can have as much impact as a story 2,500 words or longer. The anthology will include between 100 and 150 stories. We want your best work.

It’s possible to write a complete story in 25 words or less — a beginning, middle, end — but that’s not Hint Fiction.

The very best Hint Fiction stories can be read many different ways.

We want stories we can read again and again and never tire of. Stories that don’t pull any punches. Stories that make us think, that evoke some kind of emotional response.

Take a look at the winners and honorable mentions of the Hint Fiction Contest for examples.

Payment is $25 per story for World and Audio rights.

Reprints? Sure, but unless you’re one hundred percent confident in the reprint, why not try to write an original piece?

For formatting purposes, you must include a title (which actually works in your benefit, as the title helps give a better “hint” of the overall story).

Writers can only submit up to two stories, both embedded in the same e-mail. Don’t worry about a cover letter. We don’t care where you’ve been published or what graduate program you’ve attended — all author identification will be stripped by a third party so we will only see the stories and nothing but the stories.

To make everyone’s lives easier, embed the stories like this:

TITLE

Story.

TITLE

Story.

Your name.

Submissions open August 1 and close at midnight Eastern time August 31.

Submit only to this address: hint.fiction@gmail.com

 

The Front Range Review

Please check submission guidelines at http://www.frontrangereview.org

Now accepting submissions of high quality short fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction as well as artwork for its spring 2010 issue.  Reading window is 1 Aug-7 Nov 2009.
 

Submission Guidelines Fourth River Awards for Poetry and Nonfiction

Details: http://fourthriver.chatham.edu/submit.cfm

Seeking poetry and creative nonfiction that capture the places—natural, built and imagined, urban, rural or wild—where humans and nature converge and collide.

First place winner in each category will be published in the Fourth River and will receive a $500 cash prize upon publication.

Contest Guidelines

1. Submissions should be postmarked no later than October 15, 2009
2. Previously published works and works accepted for publication elsewhere are not eligible. Students, faculty and employees of Chatham University are not eligible.
3. Include a title page with your name, address, phone number and the title of your submission(s). Your name must not appear on the actual manuscript.
4. The reading fee is $5 for three poems or one essay (7,000 word maximum), and includes a copy of Issue 7. Please make checks payable to Chatham University. Multiple submissions are acceptable, but each submission must be accompanied by a reading fee. Manuscripts will not be returned.
   (Please note: the reading fee does not apply to regular submissions.)
5. Send your submission, your reading fee and a self-addressed stamped envelope to:
   
   The Fourth River
   Chatham University
   Woodland Road
   Pittsburgh, PA 15232
   Attention: Fourth River Award for (please insert genre here--Poetry or Nonfiction).

In August, the Fourth River will be accepting nonfiction, short fiction, poetry, and young adult/children ’s writing (without illustration). Please send up to seven poems or up to 7,000 words of prose to the address below. Due to the volume of submissions we receive, we will recycle all the manuscripts we receive. Please do not send us your only copy.

No reading fee is required for submission to Issue 7. Accepted authors receive two contributor's copies of the journal.

Submission Address

The Fourth River
Chatham University
Woodland Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15232


Contact Us

For more information, contact The Fourth River at fourthriver@chatham.edu.

Mid-American Review

Details:http://www.bgsu.edu/studentlife/organizations/midamericanreview/

Notorious Press is committed to producing at least 2 anthologies per year, along with selected single-author collections and reprints of forgotten works in the Mystery/Horror/Fantasy realm. See the website for other submission possibilities: http://www.notoriouspress.com
 

Submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, critical writing, book reviews, and editorials by new and established writers will be accepted through October 20, 2009.The journal is also interested in original artwork and photography. Please read our submission guidelines carefully as we take them very seriously (http://sylvanecho.net/journal/submission-guidelines/). We do accept simultaneous submissions. As with all literary journals, we have an aesthetic; we suggest you read the journal prior to submitting. Our newest issue is online at

http://currentissue.sylvanecho.net.

With the exception of poetry, artwork, and photography, you may submit 1 piece per genre. Should you submit more than one piece per genre, we will ignore your second and subsequent submissions (and will look less than favorably on your first submission, as well).

Submit your work by email to editor@sylvanecho.net.

All work should be sent as an attachment in the following formats: Poetry and prose as 12pt doc or rtf attachments; artwork and photography as the highest resolution bmp, tif, or jpg. We do not accept work submitted in the body of an email or in a docx file format.

List the genre in your subject line, e.g. Submission: poetry.

Each submission must be accompanied by a brief (50-150 word) bio, written in the third person.

By submitting to The Sylvan Echo you are acknowledging that all creative work is original and that you own all rights.

Call for Submissions: Tarpaulin Sky

Details: http://www.tarpaulinsky.com

Poetry / Prose / Transgenre work: Submissions are accepted throughout the year.

Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose

Details: http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/dogwood/