Submissions

Wordrunner eChapbooks publishes quarterly online collections of fiction, poetry or memoir (personal narrative) and the occasional anthology. Guidelines are different for each collection, so please visit again.

Collections of poetry by one author will be considered for the summer solstice, 2013 e-chapbook, to be published around June 21.

Submissions will be accepted from April 1, 2013. Last day to submit is May 31, 2012.

Submit a minimum of 15 and a maximum of 24 quality poems on any theme. Any style, short or long, but no shaped poems. Please read back issues of poetry in the e-chapbook archives before submitting. Note that really long poems are not suitable for this venue. Send us your best. Final selections will be judged by Doug Larsen and Amanda Yskamp.

Please read the general guidelines carefully:

At least one-fourth of any collection should be previously unpublished.

Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but only one submission per author. Please notify Wordrunner eChapbooks if your work is accepted elsewhere. We prefer that you withdraw the submission from your Submittable account. Alternately, you may write directly to editor@echapbook.com.

Submit ONE FILE (Word doc, RTF, ODT or WordPerfect), which includes a title for the collection and a list of contents, followed by the poems. (Please do not send docx files, thank you!)

In the cover letter, indicate which, if any pieces, were previously published and where.

Please do NOT include identifying information anywhere in the manuscript, as the readings will be blind.

Click here to submit to Wordrunner eChapbooks via Submittable (formerly Submishmash).

There is no fee for open submissions.

Payment: varies, up to $65

All rights revert to authors.

Note: By submitting to Wordrunner eChapbooks, you are also signing up for the quarterly emailed announcement of newly published echapbooks. We will never give out your e-mail to anyone else. You can always opt out of the mailing.

Click here to sign up online for quarterly email reminders of each issue and upcoming submission deadlines.

The featured echapbook
for spring 2013 is Our Place, a novella within a novel by Atar Harari.

What are we looking for in submissions?
Click for Duotrope interview.
See Jim Harrington's Six Questions blog.

Also see interview with Bonnie ZoBell on Flash Fiction Chronicles.

DONATIONS
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Submission Schedule 2013
Submissions will be open for e-chapbooks, as follows:

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