Welcome to Our Stories! We're glad you found us. We promise to not only read your story--we promise to give you a customized review about your short story. That's what we do at Our Stories, it's a little different--we hope you like it. Below you'll find some guidelines to help you through the process.
Best of luck,
--The Staff
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Submission Guidelines |
- All submissions are sent using the form below.
- Get your work ready in a Microsoft Word Document. This is important, we only accept stories in a .doc format.
- Short stories should be less than 7,000 words. Anything less than 7,000 is cool.
- We accept simultaneous submissions but ask that you email us as soon as you receive word that you are accepted elsewhere.
- Yup, flash fiction is fine.
- Nope, we don't publish poetry.
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The Cost
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Payment
- For our Summer 2008 Emerging Writers Contest we will
pay $400 to the winner, and will choose 3-5 finalists who will
also have their contest & review
fees refunded.
- Everyone and we mean everyone who submits will receive a customized review of their work with suggestions for another draft. So, if you don't win this time, we'll help you win next time. Don't just submit to other journals, learn to receive something for your money.
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- If we choose to publish your work, we retain publishing
rights for the quarter that we publish your work in Our Stories. We also reserve the right to publish
your work in the "Best of Our Stories"
annual issue and any future issues that may appear in print. Your story will be archieved on our site indefintely. All rights transfer back to the author after
said quarter, and your story will be archived indefinitely
on our website.
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We accept stories during our open submission period as
follows:
Fall Issue - July 1st - September 31st
Spring Issue - January 1st - March 31st
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We accept stories accompanied by submission fees during our
contests:
Summer Issue - April 1st - June 30th
Winter Issue - October 1st - December 31st
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- All submissions are reviewed by our staff and
reviews and suggestions are sent back to the author in a timely
fashion. Check out our About page for page for more information. You will have a response within three months.
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- If your work has been published elsewhere before, let us
know, we'll be happy to review the work, but unfortunately
we won't be able to publish it in Our
Stories.
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- Reading & Reviewing times take at least two to three
weeks. We accept and review year round, 365 days of the year.
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*mandatory fields
After hitting the submit button you will be redirected
to a confirmation page where you pay your submission fee.
You will receive an email from us shortly confirming your submission.
If you can't get this form to work, email us your stories at submissions@ourstories.us
Step 2 - Submit Your Submission Fee Via PayPal |
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Thank you for submitting to the Best Emerging Writer Contest! Best of Luck!
--The Staff
