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'.
NEW WRITERS COMPETITION
To make a competition entry click here
Short
FICTION’S 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Entries must be of previously unpublished work (in magazine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).
There is no word limit for this year's competition.
GENERAL SUBMISSIONS
Our reading period is open: 1 Sept 09 to 30 March 2010.
Please submit only one story at a time. If you want to know what kind of fiction to submit, please 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). We pay (depending on funding) and give authors we're publishing two copies of the journal.
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 email: submissions
Anthony
Caleshu
Editor
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