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.

Fiction collections by one author will be considered for the mid-March, 2012 e-chapbook.

Submissions will be accepted beginning January 1, 2012. Last day to submit is February 21, 2012.

Stories may be flash or longer, from 750 up to 3,500 words* each, totalling a minimum of approximately 8,000 and a maximum of 18,000 words for the collection. We would like a minimum of five stories, but no more than 18 (if flash fiction). They need not be linked, but it would be a plus if they belong together for some reason, be it theme, location or character/s. We will also consider novel excerpts for this echapbook.

*Quality trumps word count.

Submit your best work only. Each story should be original and compelling. No genre fiction, please, unless a story is good enough to transcend genre.

General guidelines:

At least one-fourth of any collection should be previously unpublished.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 collection, or any part of it, is accepted elsewhere.

Submit ONE FILE (Word doc, RTF, ODT or WordPerfect), which includes a title for the collection and a list of contents, followed by the stories. (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 submishmash.

There is no fee for open submissions.

Payment: $65.

All rights revert to author.

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.

Or write to echaps@wordrunner.com to be added to the mailing list.

The featured echapbook
for winter 2011-12 is The Loose Fish Chronicles: Exerpt From a Memoir in Stories by Beverly A. Jackson.

Submission Schedule 2012
Submissions will be open for e-chapbooks, as follows:

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