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  • Wordrunner wants whatever strikes your fancy.

    Wordrunner echapbooks wants emotionally complex and compelling writing. This could be from you.

    Submissions for the Wordrunner echapbooks anthology series are open January 1-February 29, 2020.

    Submit your best fiction, creative non-fiction or poetry to Wordrunner’s 10th Anniversary issue, to be published in April 2020.

    There is no theme. “We want emotionally complex and compelling writing about whatever strikes your fancy, be it serious or humorous or both. Please look in the Archives at previous anthologies to get an idea of what we like to publish.”

    Submission Guidelines

  • Submit to Wordrunner echapbooks

    Two fiction collections, each by one author, will be selected for Wordrunner’s Fall 2017 e-chapbooks, to be published in September and November, respectively. Stories by authors who receive Honorable Mentions will be considered for publication in the annual spring anthology.

    Last day to submit July 31, 2017.

    Stories may be flash or longer, from 500 up to 5,000 words each. Quality trumps word count.

    Minimum of five stories and no more than 15 (if flash fiction). They need not be linked, but it would be a plus if they belong together for some reason, be it theme, location or character/s. Excerpts from novels will also be considered for these echapbooks.

    Looking for fiction that is subtle in emotional complexity.

    Submit your best work only. Each story should be original and compelling. No genre fiction, please, unless a story is good enough to transcend genre.

    General guidelines:

    At least one-fourth of any collection should be previously unpublished.

    Submission Guidelines.

     

  • Wordrunner eChapbooks

    Wordrunner eChapbooks has published 25 online chapbooks — 10 fiction, 5 memoir and 5 poetry collections, each featuring one author, and 5 themed anthologies by multiple authors. Wordrunner is pleased and proud to be showcasing these diverse and talented writers.

    Theme for next submission is “Devices” (technology’s impact on our lives and relationships):  Fiction, memoir and poetry.

    There is no fee to submit and authors are paid.

    Submissions will open from November 15 through January 15, 2016.

    Guidelines will be posted after November 15, 2015. Note from Marlene:  Start writing now, so you have time to revise, edit and submit.

    Jo-Anne Rosen is the publisher/editor of Wordrunner. Jo-Anne’s fiction has appeared in many publications.  Two of her stories were performed at the New Short Fiction Series in Hollywood, California, on October 12, 2014.

    Jo-Anne is a book and web designer and a small press publisher. Jo-Anne established Wordrunner Publishing Services in the 80s, a print chapbook service in the 90s, and Wordrunner eChapbooks in 2008.

    Jo-Anne will read from her short story collection, What they Don’t Know, on Monday, October 12, 2015, 6:00-8:00 p.m at Gaia’s Garden in Santa Rosa, CA, along with Susan Bono, Wind Hughes and Mara Lynn Johnstone.  For reservations: email Jeane Slone: info@jeaneslone.com

    About Chapbooks

    A few hundred years ago, chapbooks were pamphlets of popular tales or ballads, hawked in the streets for pennies. 21st century echapbooks are the contemporary equivalent with the potential for reaching many more readers than do limited print editions.

    Donations

    If you share enthusiasm for the stories, poems and memoirs on this site, as well as the conviction that authors should be paid for their work, please consider supporting Wordrunner with a donation.

    Why should you donate? Wordrunner does not charge a fee for submissions nor subscriptions, nor are there any advertisements on this site. Simply excellent and engaging reading.

    “If you share our enthusiasm for the stories, poems and memoirs we’re publishing, as well as our conviction that authors should be paid for their work, we hope you will consider supporting us with a donation.”

    Another way to support Wordrunner is by purchasing the Kindle or Smashwords version of the echapbooks. Links to these may be found on the e-Store page.

    Rosen.What They Don't KnowNote from Marlene: Jo-Anne Rosen is a tireless supporter of writers, writing classes/workshops, writing events. . . all things writerly. She collects, formats and produces Sonoma County Literary Update. If it’s about writing and it’s in Sonoma County, Jo-Anne has it listed here.

  • Wordrunner eChapbooks now accepting submissions.

    Wordrunner eChapbooks: Small Fiction Collection

    Submissions for this fiction collection, to be published online in June 2014, will be accepted until May 31, 2014.

    Stories may be flash or longer, from 750 up to 4,000 words each, totaling a minimum of approximately 8,000 and a maximum of 18,000 words for the collection. We would like at least five stories, but no more than 20 (if flash fiction). They need not be linked, but it would be a plus if they belong together for some reason, be it theme, location or character/s. We will also consider novel excerpts for this echapbook. There is no fee to submit and authors receive token payment.

    Submit your best work only. Each story should be original and compelling. No genre fiction, please, unless a story is good enough to transcend genre. Click here for additional guidelines and submission link.

    Arlene Mandell.ScenesArlene Mandell‘s memoir Scenes From My Life on Hemlock Street  was first published by Wordrunner eChapbooks (December 2009) and  is now available in paperback and e-book in Turns: A Collection of Memoir Chapbooks from Telling Our Stories Press (June 2012). On Amazon or Smashwords.

     

    Jo-Anne Rosen

    Jo-Anne Rosen, Wordrunner eChapbook publisher,  prepares any sort of publication for print or electronic distribution. She provides pre-publishing services and a chapbook press for self-publishing authors, as well as website design, building and maintenance. For more information, visit www.wordrunner.com or contact Jo-Anne at publish@wordrunner.com.

  • Interview character – Prompt #6

    Inspired from “Character Profile” by Patrick Scalisi in the November issue of The Writer magazine. Interview your main character or supporting characters.

    If you have a fictional character, you can work with that.

    If you are writing about something that really happened, you can use those people as your characters.

    If neither of those work, use a photo . . . develop a picture into flesh and blood characters.

    For your fictional character:  Interview him or her as a journalist would. . . but not at the age they are in your story.  If they are older . . . interview the younger version of your character.  If they are young. . . imagine what they might be like as an older person.

    For your real-life person:  Same thing. . . have an imaginary interview of him or her. . . you can pick the age. . . younger if you know them as an older person.  Older if you know them as a young person (someone from school no longer interact with, for example).

    Same with the photo . . . whatever age the person appears to be . .  .interview him or her as an older or younger person.

    Prompt:  Interview character. Main or supporting fictional character. Someone from real life. Or a photo.

    Arlene and Joey.1

    Arlene Mandell and Joey, “Scenes from My Life on Hemlock Street,” published by Wordrunner echapbooks

    Arlene L. Mandell is a retired English professor, formerly from New Jersey, now living in sunny Santa Rosa, CA

    Do you have a photo you would like to post?  Contact Marlene: mcullen – at – comcast.net