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Story Shack Magazine is OPEN to submission of short stories.

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Please be sure to properly edit your short story and read the guidelines before you submit. Only a low volume of stories will be selected, so the more polished your work, the higher the chance that it will make the cut.

Short Story Submissions: Guidelines

• Story Length: 1.000 words or less.
• Language: English
• Genres: All except for erotic, heavy language and excessive gore.
• Payment: None as of yet. You will however receive the opportunity to work with an illustrator, and your work will be promoted upon publication.
• Rights: Only the right to publish your submitted story on Story Shack Magazine, which means:
  • Once on thestoryshack.com
  • Additional rights may be requested, such as inclusion in Shackcast or an anthology.
• Biography: You will receive the opportunity to present a short, end-of-story biography as well as an extended one like the one for Donal Mahoney. We will request this on acceptance.

Format (Important!)

• Please only submit plain text. This is how you do that:
  1. Copy your complete story from the text editor of your choice into Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac). This will strip your text of all formatting.
  2. Create non-indented block paragraphs. See any story on Story Shack Magazine for an example of what I mean. If you don’t do this, my face will look like this.
  3. Done? Great! All that’s left is the following:
     • Place the words and sentences that need to be italic in between <i> tags, like this: <i>Example</i>.
     • Place the words and sentences that need to be bold in between <b> tags, like this: <b>Example</b>.
     • When using dialogue, please place it in between double quotes (“Example”). Single quotes are fine anywhere else.
• Copy your beautiful plainly formatted text in the submission box below.

Taking these steps truly saves me heaps of tedious formatting when preparing your story for publication, so I highly appreciate you taking the effort to do this. If copying from Word is giving you trouble, you could try this conversion tool.

Submit your Short Story

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Accepted or not, you will receive a response. In case of a rejection, this is most of the time a (politely) written standard response. I would love to provide everyone with detailed feedback, but unfortunately lack the time for it. If you still haven’t heard back after a month, please get in touch. Most likely your submission got lost.