Submission Guidelines

You may enter up to one piece in each of the four divisions.  

• Short Fiction – up to about 5000 five thousand words in any genre except erotica.
• Short Non-Fiction – up to about five thousand words on any topic.
• Flash / Micro Fiction –  must not exceed 1000 words and must tell a complete story ie. Not an excerpt from a longer piece.
• Poetry – Must not exceed 1500 words.

All submissions will be published providing the following

• Submissions are only allowed by our members.
• Submissions must be sent electronically. Paper submissions will not be included and will not be returned.
• All work is subject to editorial review. Editors may or may not provide feedback and reserve the right to suggest minor corrections.
• All work is subject to our community standards.
• We reserve the right to refuse any work, authors of any refused pieces may or may not be informed of the refusal at our sole discretion.
• You must own the copyright to your work. 
• Submissions that have been published elsewhere are allowed. 
  
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