Welcome to Short Story Shoutout.

Find out what lit mags are looking for by reading the best of what they publish, once weekly.

Time. There’s too little of it.

Work, family, friends—everywhere you turn, obligations.

And on top of all that, you want to write and publish short stories.

But how do you spend your precious writing time? You just keep compiling that running list of H.L. Menken quotes. Toward what end? Seriously, it’s like you want to fail…

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.”

― H. L. Mencken

It makes sense, though, that you’d find a way to procrastinate. Because when you do get to work, you learn that writing great stories is only a small part of what you need to do to succeed.

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All those fine publications that you long to grace the pages of are regularly cranking out new works, and each of them recommends that you read their issues to get a sense of the material they gravitate to.

That would be fine if there were only twenty lit pubs. Or seventy-five. But there are hundreds upon hundreds, each with their own editorial slant, their own dos and don’ts.

So where to start?

“Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.”

― H.L. Mencken

Short Story Shoutout can help.

We scour the internet for the best short fiction so you don’t have to.

You’ll be introduced to a new-banger-of-a-story weekly, along with info about the magazine that published it (what they’re looking for in short fiction, when their submission window is open, what word counts they cotton to.)

In no time at all, you’ll have a better grasp on who wants what, and when.

You’ll also get introduced to plenty of exciting new writers along the way.

“You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.”

― H.L. Mencken

And it’s all brought to you for the low, low cost of nothing.

Ask yourself: “What would H.L. Menken do?”

Well, he’d subscribe to Short Story Shoutout, of course!*

“There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.”

― H.L. Mencken

Consider us your happy accident for today.

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* The estate of H.L. Mencken does not support, champion, extoll, sing-the-praises-of, laud, exalt, praise or otherwise recommend Short Story Shoutout. The great man’s progeny are too busy rolling around in fat stacks of that sweet, sweet quote-cash.