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We publish novellae and long essays. And poetry. Short stories when we're short on novellae. Guidelines here.
We've won the Million Writers Award for Best Publisher of Novella-Length Fiction three times in a row. Here's the notable stories they selected from 2007. (We're also among the top 10 online journals in terms of being most-often chosen by Million Writers for "notable" stories.)
Best of the Web 2008: Bruce Fisher's essay, "Flat at Dawn and at Twilight," which appeared in our Winter 2007 issue, has been selected to appear in Best of the Web 2008, Dzanc Books' inaugural print volume of outstanding online work. Tune in to a podcast of Bruce reading his essay. Also, be sure to check out the nonfiction we nominated for inclusion in The Best Creative Nonfiction, Volume 2.
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Reims, France, 1917. True color photo from The Heritage of the Great War
"Another journal accepted one of my stories, part of the same cycle as 'Black Star Out of Heaven.' Your acceptance of that long story gave me such a shot of caffeine to go on trying to learn how to write short stories. I've read that the second acceptance is even more important than the first, because you can easily convince yourself that it was a fluke the first time. But I'll always be grateful that you read and liked that first story and did such a careful job with editing it. I feel as though you were the midwife who brought that child into the world, although it has my DNA."
--Leif Nikunen, author of "Black Star Out of Heaven,"
published in The King's English, Summer 2007.
"I want you to know that working with you on 'Ahalya's Valahalla' helped me a lot as a writer. The 'ands' are a minority community in my prose now; the sentences are sharper too. Thank you, Benjamin."
--Rumjhum Biswas, author of "Ahalya's Valhalla,"
published in The King's English, Winter 2007.
