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New Writers Competition
Short
FICTIONS fourth annual New Writers Competition
will be accepting submissions 1 January 30 March 2010.
Prize is £300 plus publication in Issue 4 of Short
FICTION (due out October 2010). Writers who haven't published a book of fiction
are eiligible (authors with books of poetry etc are fine).
Entries must be of previously unpublished work (in magazine
or online).
ISSUE
3
Issue
3 features work from America to Japan. From the US,
we've new work from Melanie Rae Thon, Brad Watson, Michael
Martone, and Benjamin Percy amongst others.Translations
from Japan and Croatia of Naoka Awa and Roman Simic
respectively. Illustrations lead into stories and a
special supplement of text and image are provided in
a 'Science Times' corroboration by Terri Kapsalis and
Katie Kahn.
Congratulations
to Peter Deadman who has won 2009's New Writers Competition.
His story, 'Emile in the Circus' appears in Issue 3,
as does runner-up Louis Malloy's, 'Buddy Holly, Holy
Buddha'.
SUBMISSIONS
Our
reading period is open: 1 Sept 09 to 30 March 2010.
Short
FICTION is going long... For Issue 4, we're looking
for submissions over 5000 words and (if we're forced
to give another number) under 20,000. We appreciate
this pushes into the territory of the novella, but really
what we're interested in is providing a home for a form
which is even harder to place than the 'short short'
stuff we like so much.
We anticipate questions about whether we'll be reading
work under 5000 words... and so, yes, we will, but please
appreciate that we're hoping for the bulk of the material
in the next issue to be dedicated to the longer form.
Please submit only one story at a time. If you want
to know what kind of fiction to submit, we direct you
to order a back issue, which is another way of saying,
we like stories with narrative drive and dynamic tension.
Novel chapters which function as self-contained units
may additionally work well for us. We receive over 600
stories in a reading cycle so we not only invite, but
expect simultaneous submissions (we do ask, however,
that you notify us immediately if a work has been accepted
elsewhere). Due to popular demand, we're now responding
to those whose work we can't use, but this only applies
to emailed submisssions. We will still read postal submissions,
however, though will only respond by post to those whose
work we'll be publishing. If you're submitting by post,
there is no need to send SASEs or IRCs, but please provide
contact information including postal and email addresses
as well as a phone number.
To
make a general submission please email: submissions
Anthony
Caleshu
Editor, Short FICTION
University of Plymouth
Faculty of Arts
6 Portland Villas
Plymouth PL4 8AA
UK
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