Comments on: How you can help

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:31:16 +0000

Great site!

Why don’t you have Mavis Gallant on your list?

By: c jensen

c jensen — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:40:31 +0000

I’m a huge fan of short stories and have about a hundred collections and anthologies on my shelves, but I believe one of the reasons for the lack of interest in the form these days is that too many many short stories are impenetrable to all but literary academics. I often finish short stories feeling baffled,
angry, and thoroughly unsatisfied. Some seem to set out to be quirky without actually telling a story at all. This the reason they are not
as loved by the reading public as they could - and should - be.

By: Sammy Sullivan

Sammy Sullivan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:12:55 +0000

check mine out……

keep up the good work man…….

By: Lynn

Lynn — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:31:50 +0000

If you give books as gifts at the holidays, it seems like a beautifully wrapped short story collection would be a wonderful way to support the short story genre, introduce someone else to the joy of reading short fiction and do your bit to keep short stories circulating among the general population. After all, even if your friend does not fall in love with the short story form, he/she might pass the book on to someone who does!

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:55:44 +0000

It is my firm belief that short stories are aggressive, distillations of thoughts, through words. Poetry and other various forms withstanding, short story is one deserving of both eye and pen, by its shear simplistic complexes. For composers it is the Quartet, for writers, the short.

Each time when I written a short, I’ve written something of myself in its process.

By: Adam Lofting

Adam Lofting — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:43:09 +0000

I’ve just found this site which is great!

I’m also working with a friend of mine to promote the short story format at www.bibliofaction.com

I don’t know whether you would call us a short story publication or a short story community but the key thing is that we love short stories!

Keep up the good work,

Adam

By: Tarl Kudrick

Tarl Kudrick — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:18:35 +0000

You can also, if you have reliable and sustainable funding,
start your own short story magazine and make it available
for free. Barring death or disabling catastrophe, we’re going
to be around for a long time.

We pay up to $140 for short stories and charge authors no
fees of any kind. We advertise on WritersMarket.com, Ralan.com,
and will be listed in the 2009 edition of Novel and Short Story
Writer’s Guide.

Take a look! www.OnThePremises.com

By: Ben King

Ben King — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:14:15 +0000

Writing short stories is merely the old art of storytelling.
With all due humility I would ask you to check out Think About
It!: 30 Short Stories by Ben King and see if the short story is
still alive. Writer’s digest calls it “a treat to read.”
Thank you for your time.

By: max

max — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:11:57 +0000

I think you guys would really dig Bryan Young’s short stories… (http://shortstorycorner.blogspot.com)

He’s really good and I have no idea why he isn’t more well known in short stories… He publishes comics and produces films but no one pays attention to these…..

I’ve been all over the internet looking for places with good short stories and his, so far, are the best I’ve found. So I’ve taken it upon myself to try to guide more people to him….

By: Trudi Topham

Trudi Topham — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:51:46 +0000

Here are a couple of short story sites for you:
http://pantechnicon.net
http://www.hub-mag.co.uk

Both are Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. Hub is emailed weekly to all subscribers, and Pantechnicon is downloadable quarterly to all.

If you read them, tell the publishers what you think.