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.
Comments
From Chapter 29:
Was it any better that Bree had talked to the manager about his treatment of Robert — that that was all they had been doing in his office with the blinds drawn? This struck Robert also as the sign of some intimacy between the two of them that Robert could not fathom, or could fathom but did not like to think about. He thought about it in his bed, and then tried not to. He thought about Kate but then remembered the failure of his kiss and tried not to think of that either and then remembered the naked man standing in the hallway from her bedroom. All of this was no good. He thought about Bree’s legs, the backs of her knees, but the manager’s hand kept slipping into frame.
Necessary News
Contributor Robert Kloss thinks about 2009.
Nominations are now being accepted for the Million Writers Award.
We are thrilled that four stories from NF’s first year will be included Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web 2010.
As of January 28, we are reading submissions again. Thanks for your patience while we caught our breath.
Contributor Amber Sparks has posted some provocative thoughts about fiction and history at her blog.
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.