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 | 35 | Founded | 6 months ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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"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...
"The Flatlander" by Courtney Pasko / Grist Journal
The first thing that struck me while reading Courtney Pasko’s “The Flatlander” (2,000 words) in Grist Journal is the piece’s voice. I read a lot of published stories for Shoutout, and I’m surprised by how many of them are hyper focused on t...
"Accurate Witness" by Nell Freudenberger / The Sewanee Review
If you were to equate short stories with meals, “Accurate Witness” (7,000 words), by Nell Freudenberger in The Sewanee Review, offers a healthy alternative to the sugary rush that comes with big, emotional, barn burning story climaxes.
Let...
“Independent Living” by Hannah Kingsley-Ma / The Drift
If pressed for one defining characteristic that has run across the two-dozen wildly different short stories I’ve written Shoutout appreciations for this year, I’d note the outstanding execution of a particular story element in each (charact...
"The Golden Apples of Little River, Alabama" by Kate Tooley / The Kenyon Review
Let’s start with an opening paragraph:
“Sharks are older than the North Star and gingko trees are the last of their kind and Shasta Lee was the first waitress at Diamond Jim’s Steakhouse to carry three forty-eight-ounce porterhouses, tray...
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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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