HeyJaredShort Story Shoutout
Short Story Shoutout presents one published work of short fiction each week, so you can better understand what individual lit pubs are looking for in submissions and find the best homes for your stories.
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“The Mango Tree” by Dalia Rosenfeld / Salmagundi Magazine (opens the original)
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When I’m writing a short story, I try to keep the telling as clear and simple as possible. I’m always mindful that if I tax my audience too much, they might shut down and stop reading.I want to create enough space for individual story beats, lines of dialogue, specific details to stand out when they need to.That said, I don’t know that I ask myself enough how complexity might serve me.If the goal is nuance, a writer needs to embrace more complexity to get there. But beyond that, an argument can
Shoutout Q&A with Caroline Giudice (opens the original)
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Welcome back to our Friday feature: Shoutout Q&A.Check out our archives for access to great short stories published across the last half-year-plus, including this posting from May: an appreciation of Caroline Giudice’s genre-bending romance “Van Cleef” (3,100 words) in BULL Literary Magazine. I strongly recommend reading this great short stor
“The Big Reboot” by Michael Hughes Wesner / The Masters Review (opens the original)
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Across my screenwriting years, I was always in hot pursuit of the elusive, undeniably high concept script idea: something with an immediately intriguing premise that could be described in a sentence or two (aka the “elevator pitch”). It’s what every producer was chasing. And every producer was necessarily being chased by every screenwriter.High concept is often derided as being cheap or easy, especially in the world of literature, where novel manuscripts evolve gradually, word by word, sentence
Shoutout Q&A with Amelia Valasek (opens the original)
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Welcome back to our Friday feature: Shoutout Q&A.Check out our archives for access to great short stories published across the last half-year-plus, including this posting from February: an appreciation of Amelia Valasek’s eerie opus “Mud Season” in Split Lip Magazine.Amelia Valasek is an Idahoan, the holder of a Masters of Art in T
“Night Nanny” by Emily Culp / Tupelo Quarterly (opens the original)
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To my mind, there are two main ways to analyze a short story.The first is through an emotional read. Does the story engage you, does it reach you, does it move you?The second is via a technical read. How is it structured, what literary devices are deployed, does the story work?It goes without saying that without an emotional appeal, without heart, you’re dead in the water. But the same goes for the technical. If the story isn’t rendered well, it can have a hea
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