Short FICTION

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The Literary Journal with a Visual Edge
Our second issue features work from celebrated writers Toby Litt and Helen Oyeyemi as well as a major new translation of Romanian writer, Ioan Grosan. Contributing to our interest in visual narratives, illustrations complement each story while stills from Anya Lewin's recent film, 'With Heartfelt Gratitude for the painless Treatment', are featured throughout.

Submissions
As a green initiative, we are asking all submissions to come through email. We receive over 600 stories in a reading cycle and can only correspond with writers whose works we are accepting. If you have not heard from us after a period of four months, please assume that we will not be publishing your work. We appreciate that ‘no response’ at all is even less satisfying than a rejection slip, but be assured that we’re using the time saved to work with those authors whose work will appear in the next issue.

We accept submissions from 1 September - 30 April each year. Please do not submit outside these months as we need the summer months to process the fine stories we're publishing. We welcome submissions of up to two stories at a time. The word limit guideline is 5000/story, but as one will find after perusing back issues, we're very happy to accept exceptional stories which exceed such an arbitrary number. As we accept less than 1% of submissions, we not only invite but expect simultaneous submissions (we do ask, however, that you notify us immediately if a work has been accepted elsewhere). If you want to know what kind of fiction to submit, we direct you to order issue 1 or issue 2 which is another way of saying, we like exceptionally well-crafted stories and form-breaking fiction which has narrative drive and dynamic tension. Novel chapters which function as self-contained units may additionally work well for us.

Published authors receive two copies of the journal and a nominal payment (dependent on funding).

Anthony Caleshu
Editor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Short FICTION Issue 2
publication date: November 2008
ISSN 1755-3474
paperback 230 x 150mm full colour
140gms, 192 pages


Story Sampler
New Writers Competition, Winner Announced

Congratulations to Peter Deadman who has won this year’s competition for his story, ‘Emile in the Circus’. Louis Malloy’s ‘Buddy Holly, Holy Buddha’ has been chosen as a runner up. Both will be published in this coming Fall issue. Thank you to all who entered. As ever, it was heartening to read so many good entries from around the world.

For those entrants whose fee included a copy of the issue, it will be with you by late October.


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Anthony Caleshu
Editor, Short FICTION
University of Plymouth
Faculty of Arts
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