summer break, what we’ll feature during our “hiatus,” submissions re-opening soon

Next week will be our annul birthday post, celebrating turning three with what has become something of a tradition of pulling back the curtain and sharing some (maybe interesting, maybe not?) numbers — subscribers, submissions, money in and out.

Here’s the last two:

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As has also become our annual tradition, we’re going to take the next two months (June and July) off from publishing new stories (and their accompanying interviews). It helps keep us a little more fresh and excited about everything, reading submissions through rested eyes, only having to accept the stories we really most fall in love with, being able to give our most devoted time and energies to those stories we so fall in love with.

That said, we’re not totally taking the months off. We’re going to keep posting every Tuesday, only for these next couple of months, it’ll be all “bonus material”! We’re going to publish some interviews between our published authors, and some features with the artists we work with to commission original art for every published story, and some reflections on submission reading, and hopefully some other behind-the-scenes material and fun and interesting ways to celebrate writers and artists and short stories.

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Finally, a note:

Submissions will re-open in June!

If you have a 3k-8k word story that you think might be a fit, we’d love to read it! If you’re in the middle of working on one that feels like something we might love, try to finish it in the coming weeks! If you have friends who write longer fiction and are wondering which journals they should know about, tell them about us!

(If you have a story still under consideration, you should be hearing back very, very soon (before June).)

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As always, thank you everyone!
—Aaron Burch
Editor, Short Story, Long