Give us your unique, your unusual, your hard-to-place flash stories yearning to be read. We’re running an online flash fiction edition in the fall, and we want YOU (to submit)!
We’ll open our Submittable queue for flash fiction for three days at the end of the month: August 28-30.
To help you prepare, here’s what we’ll be looking for:
You can submit one or two stories of up to 1,000 words each; but in order to spread opportunities as broadly as possible, we won’t be able to accept two stories from the same author.
Pieces can be humorous or serious (or both!), and there’s no theme. We’ll read both traditional stories and experimental pieces.
We’re open to “hermit crab” flash (stories told in non-traditional formats like lists, letters, forms, recipes, etc.), and will be able to accept stories in Word or PDF to preserve unusual formatting.
That said, we’re also thrilled when extraordinary stories rise out of the good old tradition of words in a row on the page.
We’re also open to new voices in flash fiction. Maybe you’re a poet going long, or a novelist going short for a change. Let’s hear your weirdness in all its funky glory!
And as always, BIPOC/LGBTQ writers are encouraged to submit.
Selected authors will receive $50 for their story.
The nitty gritty: If you plan to submit two stories, we’ll ask you to put them in a single document, starting the second story on a new page, and to include your name and the story title(s) in the document. Unless you are submitting a hermit crab story that relies on specific formatting, please double space.
All right? All right! Watch this link, starting on August 28th!
