Issue Six Hundred Fifty Six

Notes from the Editor’s Desk: December 2025

This monthly column is published on the fourth Thursday of every month, and is a space to share information that doesn’t fit anywhere else in our publication. This includes a wide range of opportunities for writers, news and information, and subscriber’s recent success stories. Opportunities: Tokyo Poetry Journal is open for submissions from now through…

Gramarye: Now Seeking Submissions

Updated January 2, 2026: They are closed to submissions of fiction/poetry submissions for their next issue. Please do not submit fiction/poetry to them at this time.Gramarye is an established journal of fairy tales, fantasy writing, and folklore, produced by The Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction. They publish both academic writing—such as…

An Argument for Writing Short Stories

“Write a short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.’ — Ray Bradbury “A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.” — David Sedaris Writers who are serious about improving and developing…

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