Every Day Fiction

Every Day Fiction is an on-line magazine headquartered in Vancouver that specializes in bringing you fine fiction in bite-size doses. Every day, we publish a new short story of 1000 words or fewer that can be read during your lunch hour, on transit, or even over breakfast. There’s no such thing as too short. if you can tell a story in 50 words, have at it!

There is also an Every Day Poets magazine.

All fiction genres are acceptable for Every Day Fiction, and stories that don’t fit neatly into any genre are welcome too. While personal experiences and other non-fiction can be great sources of inspiration, please turn them into fiction for us, or send them elsewhere.

Our readership is adult, so children’s stories are unlikely to be accepted unless they are relevant to adults as well. On the other hand, we are not impressed by gratuitous sex and violence, or pointlessly foul language; edgy content should be necessary and appropriate to the plot and characters.

It ought to go without saying that any story submitted to Every Day Fiction must be your own unpublished original creation. If you publish a story on a blog, even your own personal blog, we consider it published and therefore inappropriate for our market.

Unfortunately, simultaneous submissions are not possible: when you submit using our online form, you must grant us the right to publish your story if we select it for Every Day Fiction, which you cannot do if you have offered that same right elsewhere.

We believe in the importance of being paid for your writing, even if it’s only a token amount. At this time, we are able to offer three dollars for each published story.

In addition, if requested we will set up a free Author Forum for you right here at EDF where you will be able promote your own writing. More importantly, publication also includes an opportunity to promote your writing beyond Every Day Fiction. We will gladly provide a link to your blog or website, and if you have a book on Amazon, we can link to that as well.

Finally, the author whose story is the most read in a given month will be featured in Every Day Fiction’s monthly Author Interview–a chance for our readers to get to know you, and a further opportunity for you to promote your blog or website and any books or other publications you may have out there.

Everyday Fiction home: http://www.everydayfiction.com/

Complete submission guidelines: http://www.everydayfiction.com/submit-story/

Photo: The Best of Every Day Fiction 2008, an anthology of the best 100 stories from the first year of Every Day Fiction, published as a genuine hardcover book.

Note: For information about Brian Henry's writing workshops and courses, see here.