Deadline: open
Geographical Restrictions: none
Reading Fee: none
Accepts (genre): short stories
Prize/Payment: $25-75
Page Forty Seven, an online anthology of literary short fiction publishing Canadian and international writers, invites original work from new and established writers.
If you are a new writer, we are particularly interested in helping you establish yourself as a writer by providing an early publication credit, possibly your first. We actively solicit new and unpublished writers and welcome your short story submissions.
The payment is $25 to $75 per story, with a maximum character-length, rather than word-length, of 10,000.
How payments are made
All payments are made electronically, via PayPal or Hyperwallet. If you do not have an electronic account, please be prepared to open one upon acceptance of your story. As noted above, if we wish to purchase your story, you will hear from us within one week.
What we look for in a short story submission
In any short story competition or publishing environment, good writing is always refused along with bad. The same is true here. We have a small budget and particular tastes. We can only purchase a fraction of the stories we receive, a few stories a year, and we’re looking for something out of the ordinary.
We particularly welcome short humorous pieces, such as “Death by Scrabble” and strong literary stories. Please read the published stories before you submit, read about submission etiquette, and use the editing checklist.
Before you submit a short story to this site, or simply for good reading, please review the stories we’ve already published in Page Forty-Seven Online Anthology.
How to submit your short story
Please use the information and tips found on the website to do a final edit of your work before submitting your story. Many otherwise good stories are rejected for overuse of adverbs and participial phrases, improper understanding of dialogue conventions, lack of good editing, and so on.
Checklist
1. Have you read the published stories to see if your work is a good fit?
2. Have you edited carefully and replaced all “curly” quotation marks and apostrophes?
3. Have you included a paragraph at the end of your story that answers the following questions:
Have you been published yet?
How did you find this site?
What is the email address to which we should send payment?
If you have a website, feel free to include it in your byline so others may contact you directly. To protect you from spammers, we do not publish email addresses.
What happens next
If your short story submission is of publishable quality, and if we wish to feature your work, you will hear from us within two weeks.
If you do not hear from us within two weeks, you may assume that we cannot use the work at this time. Please do not email to ask why you have not heard from us.
We would like to respond to every submission with a personal note, but unfortunately it is all we can do to read the submissions in a timely fashion. When a story is not quite ready, but catches our attention because of its originality and potential, we may contact you to let you know that we would like to see it after revisions, but this contact is at our discretion.
This is an adjudicated publication, where your work is selected and published on the basis of merit. This site is visited by print publishers looking for quality short fiction, and at least one story (”Woman Under the Thames”), has been reprinted after publication here. If we hear from someone interested in your work, we will let you know.
More information here.
Geographical Restrictions: none
Reading Fee: none
Accepts (genre): short stories
Prize/Payment: $25-75
Page Forty Seven, an online anthology of literary short fiction publishing Canadian and international writers, invites original work from new and established writers.
If you are a new writer, we are particularly interested in helping you establish yourself as a writer by providing an early publication credit, possibly your first. We actively solicit new and unpublished writers and welcome your short story submissions.
The payment is $25 to $75 per story, with a maximum character-length, rather than word-length, of 10,000.
How payments are made
All payments are made electronically, via PayPal or Hyperwallet. If you do not have an electronic account, please be prepared to open one upon acceptance of your story. As noted above, if we wish to purchase your story, you will hear from us within one week.
What we look for in a short story submission
In any short story competition or publishing environment, good writing is always refused along with bad. The same is true here. We have a small budget and particular tastes. We can only purchase a fraction of the stories we receive, a few stories a year, and we’re looking for something out of the ordinary.
We particularly welcome short humorous pieces, such as “Death by Scrabble” and strong literary stories. Please read the published stories before you submit, read about submission etiquette, and use the editing checklist.
Before you submit a short story to this site, or simply for good reading, please review the stories we’ve already published in Page Forty-Seven Online Anthology.
How to submit your short story
Please use the information and tips found on the website to do a final edit of your work before submitting your story. Many otherwise good stories are rejected for overuse of adverbs and participial phrases, improper understanding of dialogue conventions, lack of good editing, and so on.
Checklist
1. Have you read the published stories to see if your work is a good fit?
2. Have you edited carefully and replaced all “curly” quotation marks and apostrophes?
3. Have you included a paragraph at the end of your story that answers the following questions:
Have you been published yet?
How did you find this site?
What is the email address to which we should send payment?
If you have a website, feel free to include it in your byline so others may contact you directly. To protect you from spammers, we do not publish email addresses.
What happens next
If your short story submission is of publishable quality, and if we wish to feature your work, you will hear from us within two weeks.
If you do not hear from us within two weeks, you may assume that we cannot use the work at this time. Please do not email to ask why you have not heard from us.
We would like to respond to every submission with a personal note, but unfortunately it is all we can do to read the submissions in a timely fashion. When a story is not quite ready, but catches our attention because of its originality and potential, we may contact you to let you know that we would like to see it after revisions, but this contact is at our discretion.
This is an adjudicated publication, where your work is selected and published on the basis of merit. This site is visited by print publishers looking for quality short fiction, and at least one story (”Woman Under the Thames”), has been reprinted after publication here. If we hear from someone interested in your work, we will let you know.
More information here.
