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we want writers, not faux-philosophers. |
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we don't want your pseudo-intellectual quasi-conceptual stories, or any of your half-baked philosophical monologues. |
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we want writers who are good readers. |
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we want writers who are good writers as well. |
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we are not looking for high-brow, low-brow, no-brow literature. |
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we are looking for good writing. period. |
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no more stories about smokers in diners or on trains. |
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no more literary masturbation about the change of seasons. |
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| more precisely we want: |
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short stories |
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novel excerpts or chapters |
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creative non-fiction |
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creative essays |
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memoirs |
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| authors we like: |
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sherman alexie |
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john cheever |
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ernest hemingway |
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raymond carver |
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vladimir nabokov |
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jhumpa lahiri |
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amy tan |
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thom jones |
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david sedaris |
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timothy o'brien |
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we like chuck palahniuk. just not his nut-hugging fan boys. |
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junot diaz |
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katherine dunn |
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hubert selby jr. |
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kurt vonnegut |
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philip roth |
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isaac asimov |
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ray bradbury |
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george orwell |
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we like kerouac and burroughs and bukowski, but it's already been done. |
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zora neale hurston |
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james joyce |
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william faulkner |
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virginia woolf |
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russians. because they gave us vodka. duh. |
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franz kafka |
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john steinbeck |
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d.h. lawrence |
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and plenty more we're too tired to get into. |
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so if you really want to know what we think, send it.
we can't pay you. yet. but we can give your story a home.
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| submission guidelines: |
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'XPEHb! submission' in the subject line |
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manuscript must be attached to email |
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body of email includes the following:
- name
- email address
- title of story
- word count |
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previously published work accepted (for now) |
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simultaneous submissions accepted, but let us know ASAP if it gets picked up elsewhere |
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| manuscript format: |
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manuscript must be in 12 point courier new font |
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microsoft word document |
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