Submissions

Wordrunner Electronic Chapbooks publishes online collections of fiction, poetry or memoir quarterly. Guidelines are different for each collection, so please visit again.

Collections of short fiction by one author will be considered for the mid-September e-chapbook.

Submissions will be accepted beginning July 1, 2010. Last day to submit is August 21, 2010.

Stories may be flash or longer, from 600 up to 2,000 words each, totalling a minimum of approximately 8,000 and a maximum of 14,000 words for the collection.

The stories should belong together for some reason, be it theme, location or character/s. Submit your best work only. Each story should be high quality, original and compelling. No genre fiction, please, unless a story is good enough to transcend genre.

At least half of the collection should be previously unpublished. (But no stories need be previously published.)

Email manuscripts to editor@echapbook.com with SUBMISSION in the subject line. Attach only ONE FILE (Word or WordPerfect or RTF), which includes a title for the collection and a list of contents, followed by the stories. Indicate which stories, if any, were previously published and where.

Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but only one chapbook collection per author. Please notify Wordrunner Electronic Chapbooks if your collection, or any part of it, is accepted elsewhere.

There is no fee for open submissions.

Payment, beginning with September issue: $65.

All rights revert to authors. Files will remain on this site indefinitely, unless authors request otherwise.

Submission Schedule 2010-2011:
Submissions will be open for the fall 2010 and spring and summer 2011 e-chapbooks, as follows:

Contest submissions for the December 2010 e-chapbook will be accepted from October 1 through November 21. Please check this page again in September for information on fees and prizes and detailed guidelines.

SELF-PUBLISHING:
If you are interested in self-publishing an e-chapbook, visit www.chapbooks-online.com. To self-publish via traditional print, please see www.wordrunner.com/publish for information on perfect bound books and stapled chapbooks.

The featured e-chapbook for spring 2010 is Translation of Light, Poetry by Ruhama Veltfort.