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Short Fiction - call for submissionsShort FICTION is a new literary magazine dedicated exclusively to short fiction.While we might not call what we see happening today a renaissance of the form (we’ll agree, it never left), we have noticed that it’s currently being practised so finely that we’re keen to celebrate it. If we have one remit, it’s to publish quality fiction. A second remit might mention the quality setting which will host the quality fiction; we’ve a group of talented designers working on art direction as we write (illustrations and photo-essays in each issue, see Sarah Chapman’s series Mrs. May’s Pigeons which will appear in issue 1). If we have three-to-five remits we might talk about making a contribution to the world of letters which reveals fiction at its most unique and inspirational and different. To this end, we’ll mention our contributing editors: Ali Smith, Toby Litt, Mike McCormack, Helen Oyeyemi, and Rattawut Lapcharoensap. To help realise our ambitions, we want to encourage your submissions until we have the most unhealthiest of slush piles – a slush pile as high and leaning as the Tower of Pisa, a slush pile that at any moment might teeter over taking us with it into the breach of some short fiction’s own unique and inspirational and different world. Dedicated to short fiction, means we’re keen on stories. At least in the first instance. Form-breaking fiction is also welcome so long as it has the narrative drive and dynamic tension we like and expect. Novel chapters which function as self-contained units may additionally work well for us. We advise would-be-contributors to make submissions of under 5000 words; as and when something lengthier and yet feeling shorter appears (if that makes sense), we’ll hope to make an exception (we do like Poe’s definition of ‘short’ as something one might read in one sitting). Please submit no more than 2 stories at one time. If you want a reply, please include a self-addressed-stamped envelope with your submission. Alternatively, if you’re happy to only hear from us if your work is accepted, don’t worry about the SASE, but do remember to include contact details. Anthony Caleshu, Editor More information here Deadline - June 1st |