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February Theme Week (Call for Submissions)

January 25, 2016 by Christine Jacobson Leave a Comment

Hello SFB Readers,

In November, we launched our first-ever Theme Week. This is one week per month when we publish 3-5 posts around a specific theme prompt. Themes are always focused on current events and/or seasonality, but with a thought-provoking “twist.”

Our January theme was about “New Beginnings” (different interpretations of change, whether good, bad or somewhere in between) . You can view our January theme posts here:

  • Poplars
  • The New Year’s Eve Party
  • Unchanged
  • Alarm Clock
  • Change of Plans

For our January Theme Week, we have several Regular Contributors scheduled to publish, and we are also looking for a few top-notch guest submissions to showcase. All posts are due to sfbprompts@gmail.com for review by our Prompt team by Friday, February 5th, and must follow the submission guidelines below. Here is our February theme:

February Theme: Fuzzy Love
Love is one of the most written-about subjects in human history, but somehow, no matter how much we write about it, it’s never fully definable. Is it really a form of sickness? Mental illness? Obsession? Is it a social construct, or something in our DNA that we can’t shake? We are looking for posts of 2,500 words or fewer that explore the complicated, nuanced nature of human love. Give us “warm,” but give us “fuzzy,” too. 

In addition to following this thematic guideline for the monthly Theme Week, all submissions must meet SFB’s standard guidelines:

  1. All submissions are done electronically. The body of the email should contain your query letter and a short bio. The story itself should be an email attachment in .doc, .docx, or google doc format.
  2. Along with your story, please send us the links to any online presence you want readers to see (your blog address, facebook page, twitter handle, etc…). If we choose to publish your story, giving us these in advance will save time later.
  3. Submissions must be less than 2500 words.
  4. Submissions must be fiction. (If it’s not fiction, lie to us and tell us it is.)
  5. One story per submission. Please do not submit multiple stories, wait to hear back on the current submission.
  6. By submitting, you agree that you are solely responsible for your content and any consequences of the submissions posted.
  7. By submitting, you are asserting that you have all legal rights to the content you are submitting. Parents or legal guardians are solely responsible for submissions of their children.
  8. If we post your submission, we expect you to share it across your social media network.
  9. No erotica or hate.
  10. To submit a story to Short Fiction Break, send your story to the Short Fiction Break Prompt Team at sfbprompts@gmail.com. Note that this is a different email address than regular story submissions.

We are excited to see what all of you come up with!

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