We’ve got miCRo on the mind this week! First of all, you have just under a week to send us miCRo submissions before we close that category for six weeks while we accept contest submissions. Review the guidelines here to make sure you follow directions (quick summary: less than 32 lines of poetry or 500 words for prose pieces; up to 3 pieces per submission), but don’t delay! We’ll switch around the available categories as May 31 turns into June 1.
We also wanted to announce that we’ve nominated Barbara Black’s story “Needlework” for the VERA Award for the best flash fiction story from the previous year, sponsored by the Vestal Review. As Assistant Editor Sakinah Hofler put it when she introduced this story and one other by Black, “From the first sentence to the last, both ‘Needlework’ and ‘Gotunabe’ pull the reader in with their odd, satisfying images.” We’ll be crossing our fingers for “Needlework”!
And we’ve heard that THREE pieces from our miCRo series will be featured in the Best Small Fictions anthology this year! Congratulations to:
“Telling” by May-lee Chai
“Three Filipinas” by Harrison Geosits
“Kim” by Koss
In fact, the editors of the anthology picked CR and the miCRo series to be a spotlighted journal! Check out the anthology later this year for a Q&A with several editors who oversee the series.
