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May Theme Week

April 23, 2016 by Jeff Elkins 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.”

For our May 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, May 6th, and must follow the submission guidelines below. Here is our May theme:

May Theme: Memories
In honor of Memorial Day, we would love to see posts of 2,500 words of fewer that are about nostalgia or memory. What do people remember? What do they forget? 

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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About Jeff Elkins

Jeff is a writer living in Baltimore with his wife and five kids. He is the author of four books, including Mencken and the Monsters. He regularly blogs at Vagrant Misunderstandings.

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