2015 NANO Prize
The seventh-annual NANO Prize, awarding publication and $1,000 to a previously unpublished work of fiction 300 words or fewer, opened on April 1, and will be judged by Amber Sparks! All entrants will receive a one-year subscription to NANO Fiction and winners will be announced in mid-September.
Rules and Guidelines: All entries must be unpublished and 300 words or fewer. While there will be only one winner of the contest, all submitted pieces will be considered for publication.
The entry fee is $20 for up to three shorts. Please paste all three works into the submission manager as one submission. You may enter as many times as you like. Each separate entry requires its own entry fee of $20. Entry fees are nonrefundable. Please withdraw your submission immediately if taken elsewhere.
The entrant’s name should not appear anywhere in the body of the submission.
Friends and family of the editors are not eligible to submit.
Deadline: September 1, 2015.
The Queer Issue — Opening June 15, 2015
We are looking for the best, brightest, and queerest fictions for our spring 2016 issue. As always we want short, beautiful, and compelling work. And for this issue we want all that and more. Representation matters. We want your flash fiction that deals in the breadth of LGBTQIA experience, and work that combats typical erasures. So send queer characters of color. Send us gender-queer characters. Send us thoughtfully rendered aromantics, aesexuals, and intersex persons. Send us everyone and every story in between. We look forward to reading your work.
We ask that all submissions for publication be sent through our online submission manager and that writers follow our general submission guidelines.
All queries and request may be sent to associate editor, Kayla Rae Candrilli at nanofictionmag@gmail.com.
We look forward to reading your work.
Deadline: October 1, 2015
General submissions
NANO Fiction is currently accepting previously unpublished works of fiction 300 words or fewer.
We are looking for work that experiments with form while still balancing narrative. We are interested in stories we haven’t read before, stories we think we are tired of reading–but are told in such in a new way that we gain fresh insights, writing remain attentive to language and lyricism without abandoning story, and work that surprise us–but not by using a trick ending. We also are looking for writing that takes unexpected perspectives on commonly-seen stories.
We ask that all submissions for publication be sent through our online submission manager and that previous contributors please wait two years from being published with us to submit again.
All submission guidelines are located on our submission manager website. Before submitting, we strongly recommend taking a moment to read through our online archive.
Queries and other correspondence may be sent to Elizabeth Wade at managingeditor@nanofiction.org. Unsolicited, emailed work will not be responded to. Submissions are rolling.
>via: http://nanofiction.org/submit