Scribes*MICRO*Fiction

* * *   Managing Editor: Edward Ahern   * * *
*  Associate Editor: Alison McBain   *
*  Special Features Editor: Matthew P.S. Salinas  *
*   Submissions Editor: Sarah Anderson   *   Submissions Editor: P.C. Keeler   *
*   Submissions Editor: P.M. Ray   *   Submissions Editor: Ira Rosofsky   *
*   Submissions Editor: Felicia Strangeways   *   Submissions Editor: Amita Basu   *
*   Featured Contributor: Aaron H. Davis   *​

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New Issue Published!
Check out Issue # 27 *HERE*

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​How would you like to win hundreds of dollars for a story of 90-110 words? Now's your chance to enter The Scribes Prize and win big cash awards, receive an award seal for your fabulous writing, and also be published in a special issue of Scribes*MICRO*Fiction. Check out the rules HERE. Opens May 1st!

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Issue 25

January 15, 2023

Featuring the short scribblings of:
* Raydon Barrow * Amita Basu * Brian Beatty *
* Robin Blasberg * Scott Bogart * Samantha Carr *
* Aaron H. Davis * Thompson Emate *
* Lee Hammerschmidt * Mary Keating * D X Lewis *
​* Robert John Miller * Matthew P.S. Salinas *
* Laurie Swinarton * Christopher C Tennant *

Issue 26

February 15, 2023

Featuring the short scribblings of:
* Amita Basu * Zylla Black * Scott Bogart *
* Paula Cappa * Aaron H. Davis * Tim Frank *
* RA Haskell * Stephanie L. Haun * David Henson *
* Shelly Jones * Mary Keating * Jessica Klimesh *
​* Mary Anne Mc Enery * Monica McHenney * Alistair Millar *
​* Jonathan Odell * Robert Runté * Matthew P.S. Salinas *

Issue 27

March 15, 2023

Featuring the short scribblings of:
* Amita Basu * Lisa Lynn Biggar * Scott Bogart *
* Adam Breckenridge * Jason P. Burnham * Tim Dadswell *
* Aaron H. Davis * Birgit Solvsten D'Alpoim Guedes *
* RA Haskell * David Henson * Mary Keating *
​* Yvonne Lang * Jim Latham * Nicholas G. Marconi *
* Ken Poyner * Niles Reddick * Matthew P.S. Salinas *
* Judith Shapiro * Cheryl Snell * Charity Tahmaseb *

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Looking for older issues?
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​Prologue Issue (2020)

Issues 1-12 (2021)

Issues 13-24 (2022)

​An Inspirational Note
from ​our Head Honcho​
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​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 minimal 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.

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