Dead Shorts - Deadline: Tue 1 July 2014

Dead Ink are looking for submissions of literary or speculative long short stories, short fiction collections and novellas for publication in 2015

Please send your manuscript as a single-spaced MS Word document of the first 10 000 words along with a synopsis and cover letter describing the intentions of your work and your publishing history. We are seeking works for our 2015 list for print and ebook publication.

We are accepting unsolicited submissions of:

Novellas between 20 000 and 40 000 words
Shorts stories between 5000 and 20 000 words
Collections of stories with a total word count of 30 000 and 50 000 words

Before you submit, please spend some time aquatinting yourself with Dead Ink and the kind of works we publish. You can keep up to date with Dead Ink on twitter and by joining our mailing list.

Please email Wes Brown with your submission at deadink@live.co.uk