LitRefs: Prose

Magazines

• American Short Fiction
• Barcelona Review
• Bottom Of The World
• Carve
• Dark Tales (speculative and horror fiction)
• Fiction at work
• Fiction International
• Flash Magazine
• Glimmer Train Stories
• GRANTA
• Hobart
• left hand waving
• Mechanics' Institute Review
• Modern Fiction Studies
• Muse
• Necessary Fiction
• New Fairy Tales
• Noon
• One Story (3000-8000 words, pays $100)
• Our Stories
• Out of Print
• Platinum page
• Prospect (publishes a short story each month)
• Pulp Net
• Riptide (short stories)
• Serendipity (magical realism and light fantasy)
• Short FICTION
• Short Stories (east of the web)
• Spilling Ink Review
• Storyglossia
• Summerset Review
• VerbSap
• Zoetrope

General

• Festivals
  • Charleston Small Wonder Short Story Festival
• Publishers
  • Elastic Press (small press)
  • The Fiction Desk
  • Tindal Street Press
• Collections
  • Free audio prose sites
  • Bound Off (monthly literary audio magazine)
  • The Guardian's short stories
  • paperbackwriters (showcase for novels)
  • The Short Story Page
  • Short story radio
  • Spoiled Ink (prose)
  • Short story library (from American Literature)
  • John Kessel's audio stories
  • StoryBank - downloadable (MP3) stories
• Formalism
  • confiction.org
  • Fixed Forms for Narrative (Bruce Holland Rogers)
  • A Form of Words (Formalist prose anthology)
• Information
  • January Magazine
  • Tangled-Web UK (Crime & Mystery Fiction Journal)
• Competitions
  • Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition
  • The storySouth Million Writers Award for online Fiction
  • Short story competitions (from the "save our short story" campaign)
  • The Binnacle's Ultra-Short Competition (150 words)
• Misc
  • BBC writers room
  • Common faults in short stories submitted (Willesden Herald)
  • Fiction Uncovered
  • Novel Readings
  • Highlands and Islands Short Story Association
  • National short story week
  • story (campaign to celebrate the UK short story)
  • Survive Dickens' London (game)
  • Things (writings about objects)
  • Thresholds (international postgraduate short story forum)
  • So You Wanna Get a Short Story Published

Flash Fiction

• Double Room
• Every Day Fiction (pays)
• Flash Fiction Forums
• Flash Magazine
• Flashes On The Meridian: Dazzled by Flash Fiction (Pamelyn Casto)
• Vestal Review (pays!)
• Flashquake
• Flash Fiction online
• Journal of Microliterature
• Liberty Hall Flash Forum
• The Pygmy Giant
• Quick Fiction (less than 500 words)
• six little things (250 words)
• SmokeLong Quarterly (flash)
• Twelve Stories
• Wigleaf
• Writing Flash Fiction (G. W. Thomas)

Science Fiction

• Eidolon (SF)
• Escape Pod (SF MP3s)
• Science Fiction and Fantasy World
• Interzone (SF)
• Technovelgy.com - inventions by science fiction writers Explore hundreds of inventions by science fiction writers; learn about the technology of science fiction.

Writers/Works

• Gadsby (a lipogram)
• Stephen Hammond
• The Hawler and Klaxon City by DF Lewis
• Wu Ming
• 253 (by Geoff Ryman)
• Gormglaith (by Heidi Wyss)
• The Peckham Rifles (serialised novel by Reggie Parker)

Discussion Groups

• Boot Camp Keegan
• BrambleStory
• Critique Circle (prose workshops)
• Deep Genre: 13-Line Critiques
• East of the Web (unpublished short stories)
• Eratosphere (from AbleMuse)
• everyauthor (prose forum)
• Fictionaut
• Fiction Daily
• Flash Fiction online
• The Frontlist
• The Grail
• One of Us (prose workshops)
• Paragraph Planet
• Poets & Writers Speakeasy
• Scrawl
• Short Fiction
• Short Story Group
• The Wordcloud
• The Workhouse
• Writers' Dock
• WritingForums.Org
• Zeotrope Virtual Studio

Reviews

• Asylum
• The Bookbag
• booklit
• dovegreyreader scribbles
• Five Star Literary Stories
• Goodreads
• Necessary Fiction
• Reading Matters
• Short story reviews (from "story")
• Short story reviews (Tim Love)
• Novel reviews (Tim Love)
• newpages fiction reviews
• Open Letters Fiction Reviews
• the short review
• pulp.net reviews

Blogs

• Book Brouhaha
• FictionBitch (Elizabeth Baines)
• FlashFiction.Net
• Vanessa Gebbie
• Tania Hershman
• The Art of Fiction (Adrian Slater's Blog)

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