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Write On
Short fiction submissions are open for the month of April 2024!
What we’re looking for …
Good stories well told.
Literary.
h2 >Write On
Short fiction submissions are open for the month of April 2024!
What we’re looking for …
Good stories well told!
Literary? Mystery? Horror? Crime?
Scifi? Speculative? Historical? Satirical?
A unique combo of any (all?!) of the above?
Send us your best!
Please remember: We do not publish non-fiction, memoir, or young adult and children’s stories. Aside from that, send us anything entertaining and well written!
Short Fiction Guidelines
We are looking for entertaining, accessible stories. We do appreciate clever and poetic turns of phrase. But we want to stretch people’s minds — not give them a headache.
We want a balance of serious and lighthearted stories. We strive for emotional balance in each of our issues, and want our readers to leave feeling challenged yet refreshed.
We aren’t satisfied with a joke. Some writers send stories that end with a twist or revelation that is funny, but not a resolution. A story is about a person, not a plot twist.
We take all genres, not just pulp. Because our name is “Pulp”, some authors assume we want guns and blood. The pulp in our title refers to the cheap pulp paper of dimestore novels and digests of the past.
We love stories and art by and about underrepresented groups. We love to publish works featuring fiery feminism, a rainbow of LGBTQIA+, skin colours that don’t begin with the letter ‘W’, indigenous and immigrant experiences alike, and people of varying shapes, sizes, ages, and abilities.
We take more short fiction than novellas. While we try to have one longer work of 15-20,000 words in every issue, that is only one story out of a dozen. Stories under 5000 words have the best chance of publication.
We want both plot and character. We like some action along with those intriguing personalities, and we want to see characters that grow and change throughout the story arc.
We have high standards. Send us stories that we can treasure, that show the love and sweat of strong storytelling. These are the works we get excited about.
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