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Q3 2006
Short-Short Markets
The short-short story -- or flash fiction or sudden fiction or micro fiction -- is becoming ever more popular. This January, New Sudden Fiction will be published by Norton, the fifth anthology of short-short stories edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas.
If you're interested in reading short-shorts or writing and publishing short-shorts, check out the following lit journals (some of which publish prose poems, the short-shorts' cousin).
Print journals that focus on short forms
Electronic journals that focus on short forms
Other journals that feature short forms
- Diagram: Electronic journal that regularly publishes short-shorts and prose poems
- Elimae: Electronic journal that regularly publishes short-shorts and prose poems
- Glimmer Train: Print journal that has a biyearly very short story contest
- Indiana Review: Print journal that sponsors a yearly short-short contest (1/2K Prize)
- Mid-American Review: Print journal that sponsors a yearly short-short/prose poem contest (Fineline Competition)
- Mississippi Review: Print (does electronic too) will focus on the prose poem, fall 2006
- Monkeybicycle: Electronic journal (does print too) publishes prose and poetry under 1001 words
- Narrative Magazine: Electronic journal that will publish a feature on the short-short in January
- Noon: Print journal edited by Diane Williams, one of the best very-short-story writers
- Quarter After Eight: Print journal that publishes sudden fiction, prose poetry, and other forms of prose
- Redivider: Print journal that regularly publishes short-shorts
- StoryQuarterly: Print journal that regularly publishes short-shorts among longer stories
- Syntax: Electronic journal that encourages fiction under 2000 words
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