Available from November 2009.
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). 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.
Advance info: next year's New Writers Competition opens 1 January - 30 March 2010.
To make a general submission email: submissions
Anthony
Caleshu
Editor
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