Short Story Shoutout
Short Story Shoutout presents one published work of short fiction each week, so you can better understand what individual lit pubs are looking for in submissions and find the best homes for your stories.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 39 | Founded | 7 months ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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“Manatees Don’t Dream of Electric Boats” by Bethany Bruno / The Journal Literary Magazine
“Manatees Don’t Dream of Electric Boats” (3,000 words) by Bethany Bruno in The Journal’s latest issue gives readers a vibrant, near-term sci-fi take on environmentalism. Its title is a nod to Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of...
Shoutout Q&A with Vaidhy Mahalingam
Welcome to our new Friday feature: Shoutout Q&A.
Check out this past Wednesday’s Story Story Shoutout: an appreciation of Vaidhy Mahalingam’s “The Vandal” in Solstice Literary Magazine’s Winter 2025 issue.
Vaidhy was a San Francisco Bay...
“The Vandal” by Vaidhy Mahalingam / Solstice Literary Magazine
Reduce a story, boil it down to its essence, and what are you left with?
If you’re an elementary school student, you’re taught it’s beginning, middle, end.
If you’re an MFA student, it’s probably inciting incident, progressive complicatio...
Storyknife by Jess Row / A Short Story Collection
A treat this week—a solid baker’s-dozen-plus of shoutout-able short stories, curated and bound in one of those…whaddaya call ‘em…books.
One stop shopping.
I love the experience I had getting to know the work of Jess Row. I’d read a story...
"A Gentleman" by Frank Reilly / Cleaver Magazine
Full disclosure: I’m Frank Reilly, the writer who’s been knocking out these weekly short story appreciations, and yes, I’m putting my own wares on display this week. But there’s a reason for that! Beyond my standard issue aspiring-writer-cr...
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Short Story Shoutout presents one published work of short fiction each week, so you can better understand what individual lit pubs are looking for in submissions, and find the best homes for your stories.
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