With the release of our spring 2026 anthology, Endings, we have published 57 online chapbooks — 28 fiction, 8 CNF/memoir and 5 poetry collections, each featuring one author — and 16 anthologies by multiple authors.
All of our previously published echapbooks may be read in the ARCHIVES and many can also be ordered as Kindle or Smashwords ebooks. We are building a list of e-pubs in our e-STORE that can be added to your library. Older issues and the annual anthologies are not available as ebooks but as downloadable pdf files.
As of 2025, all of our issues are housed in pdf format in the EBSCO database, an information services company that provides university and public libraries with peer-reviewed journals such as ours.
SUBMISSIONS are closed and will not open again for anthologies or collections. Prose and poetry collections will henceforth be published by invitation only. ENDINGS IS OUR FINAL ANTHOLOGY. But we will continue to offer our readers a wide variety of original, high quality writing in the years to come.
Micro-prose submissions will still open periodically. Since October 2024, we've been publishing micro fiction and CNF (creative nonfiction). Issue 3 was released November 12, 2025.
Micro-prose submissions for Issue 4 will be open August 1-31, 2026 with publication early in September. In 2027 we anticipate two submission calls.
We read submissions anonymously, on the alert for genuinely excellent writing.
PUSHCART NOMINATIONS:
We nominated work by one author for a 2026 Pushcart award:
“The Boy David,” an excerpt from Don J Taylor's novel Merely Players.
In many (though not all) issues, hyperlinks to photos, videos, background articles, maps, poetry and artwork add new dimensions to the online reading experience.
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