Scribes*MICRO*Fiction

* * *   Managing Editor: Edward Ahern   * * *
*   Submissions Editor: P.C. Keeler   *
​*   Submissions Editor: P.M. Ray   *
*  Associate Editor: Alison McBain   *
*  Featured Contributor: Matthew P.S. Salinas  *

* * *

New Issue Published!
Check out Issue # 17 *HERE*

---

Issue 13

January 15, 2022

​Featuring the short scribblings of:
* John Grey * Bethany Jarmul * Mary Keating *
​* Leslie Hopper Keeler * Melissa Marie Keeping *
* Alastair Millar * Marlou Newkirk * B.G. Smith *
​* Phillip Temples * Sally Wagner * Stuart Watson *
​

Issue # 14

February 15, 2022

Featuring the short scribblings of:
* Jason P. Burnham * Gregg Chamberlain *
* Gabi Coatsworth * ​Dr. Eugene Garone *
* David Henson * Doug Jacquier * Bethany Jarmul *
* Shelly Jones * Melanie Maggard ​* Mark J. Mitchell *
​* Matthew P.S. Salinas * Karen Southall Watts *

Issue # 15

March 15, 2022

Featuring the short scribblings of:
* Guy Belleranti * Michael Brodin * RC deWinter *
​* Halimah S. Dilazak * Clara Frank *
* Peggy Gerber * Clive Aaron Gill *
* Lee Hammerschmidt ​* Mary Keating * Julia LaFond *
* Terri Mullholland * Matthew P.S. Salinas *
​* Karen Southall Watts * Marla Sterling *

Issue # 16

April 15, 2022

​Featuring the short scribblings of:
* K.D. Barakat * Jason P. Burnham * RC deWinter *
​* Eugene Garone * Gene Goldfarb * John Grey *
* David Henson * Victoria Hochman *
​* Melissa Marie Keeping * Grove Koger *
​* Denny E. Marshall * Raymie Martin * Robert Runté *
​* Matthew P.S. Salinas * Nelly Shulman *

Issue # 17

May 15, 2022

Featuring the short scribblings of:
* Amita Basu * Jason P. Burnham * Gene Goldfarb *
​* Lee Hammerschmidt * Gabriella Herkert *
* Mary Keating * Melissa Marie Keeping *
* Elizabeth Leyland * Alastair Millar *
* Maria Nestorides * Marisca Pichette *
* Robert Runté * Matthew P.S. Salinas *

---

Looking for older issues?
​

Issues 1-12 (2021)

Prologue Issue (2020)

​An Inspirational Note
from ​our Head Honcho​
​

​Dear readers and writers,

I’m the guy who gets the final vote on what you send to Scribes*MICRO*Fiction. Very possibly a mistake on the part of the other editors, but here’s a thumbnail description about who’s giving your words a last read.
 
I’ve been published a lot. Not always glowingly, but a lot. Over three hundred stories, poems, essays, and six books. Counting reprints, around seven hundred publication credits.
 
My fiction writing sputtered to life when I was sixty-seven, and poetry began oozing out at seventy-one. I've been rejected far more often than I've been accepted, and I encourage you, regardless of age, to submit to us and elsewhere until people say “yes.”
 
So, when your poem or story drops into my file, there’s a reasonable basis for evaluation. But not to fear. We encourage new writers, and even if we decline a piece, we’re apt to offer suggestions. We like both dense literary items and horror, but among my many biases is that writers write for readers and not just for themselves. If I don’t understand it, many of our readers won’t either, so lead me gently through a complex poem.
 
There’s no money involved, but if you are published with us, you get serious credit for being succinct and interesting. Starting in February, our issues will feature an interview highlighting one special contributor for each month. Starting in August, we'll add indie book reviews.

I hope to see your stuff.

~Edward Ahern

P.S. This is twice as long as what you need to submit.

                 Scribes*MICRO*Fiction