A change to our guidelines
We’ve raised our maximum length for stories from from 2000 to 3000 words. Not because we don’t love the stories we’re already getting, but in hopes this will give the site even more breadth, and will create opportunities for those slightly longer stories that fall through the cracks between print and web journals.
Going higher than 3000 words is a definite possibility for the future, but that might be too taxing for our currently modest stable of readers… or, to be more accurate, for our current modestly unstable reader. This seems a workable compromise between keeping up with our queue, and getting a wider sampling of stories, so we’ll give it a try and see how it works.
Feel free to share your thoughts about it in the comments below.
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ARTIFACT 16: The Life Within, by Robert Kloss
Robert Kloss kicks off our excavation today with “The Life Within:” Ah, the hiss and seethe of man, of man no longer man, of man enclosed in brass and gold and steel. This man who will not rot, nor sag nor droop nor gray. How we cut him open and found the life within…
Necessary News
A big thanks to Matt Briggs as his month in residence here at NF comes to a close.
Our September 2010 Writer In Residence will be Amber Sparks, and we’re sure it will be an historic event.
The Zoo, a Going: (The Tropic House) is a new chapbook by JA Tyler, available from sunnyoutside.
99 Problems, a book of essays on running and life by Ben Tanzer, is available from CCCLap.
Congratulations to Ethel Rohan, whose book Cut Through The Bone is forthcoming from Dark Sky Books.
Fantastic! I think this is, as you say, a wonderful way to bridge the gap between Web and print journals. Too much of Web-based fiction is flash-centered – this is a positive step forward.