General Guidelines / Theme / Individual Collections
To submit a manuscript for consideration for our anthology, please be sure to address the envelope to: The MSR Short Fiction Anthology, PO BOX 690100, Charlotte, NC 28227-7001. Since we also read more than one theme at a time and each theme is read by a differnet editor, it is helpful to mention on the envelope which theme the author is targeting. Authors who want to submit stories for more than one theme, please send them in separate envelopes.
For those who may have skipped over the General Guidelines on the Submissions Page where it says "NO EMAILED SUBMISSIONS," it applies to the short fiction anthology as well.
Author may send as many as 2 stories at a time of a length of up to 10,000 words (each). Please wait until we report on one submission before sending another.
Double-space on 8.5 X 11 paper using 11 or 12pt serif font (Times, Times New Roman, etc.).
We can report by email to save return postage, but if you want your manuscript returned, be sure to include an SASE that is large enough to fit the manuscript and has the proper amount of postage.
Report Time: We will try to report in 2 months or less, but prose does take longer to read than poetry and the Associate Editors who will be selecting these manuscripts also have teaching duties. We appreciate you patience.
(1) Stories that feature unique people, characters, within a small town setting.
(2) Stories that feature one or more female characters who are eccentric, quirky, living on life's edge.
We think these two themes allow a lot of room to maneuver than others we have used. If in doubt, I recommend you send it anyway and let the editor decide.If you have an idea for a future theme, please submit your idea to: editor@mainstreetrag.com.
We are not open to unsolicited submission of full-length manuscripts. We will invite authors to send full-length collections on the basis of how much we like stories that have been submitted to our Short Fiction Anthology. So if you are looking for someone to publish a complete collection and you think you want it to be Main Street Rag, the first step is to submit something for us to read for our anthology.
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