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"Fiction on the Web has been online and continuously publishing since July 1996, which makes it the oldest short stories website on the Internet. Thousands of stories have been enjoyed by millions of readers."
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Introduction

Fiction on the Web has been online and continuously publishing since July 1996, which makes it the oldest short stories website on the Internet. Thousands of stories have been enjoyed by millions of readers.

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Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time
within a month / 14 days
Average acceptance rate
50%

Types of Submissions Accepted

1 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Fiction

Max words: 10000

Short stories. funny stories - for when you need a laugh creepy stories - to make your hair stand on end fantastic stories - orcs, swords, magic and fantasy futuristic stories - many worlds of science fiction criminal stories - crooks and detectives real life stories - everyday life and relationships

all

fiction genre icon

Fiction

Max words: 10000

Short stories. funny stories - for when you need a laugh creepy stories - to make your hair stand on end fantastic stories - orcs, swords, magic and fantasy futuristic stories - many worlds of science fiction criminal stories - crooks and detectives real life stories - everyday life and relationships

all

Need to know for submitting

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    Details

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  • 02

    How to submit 🏗️

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  • 03

    Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️

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  • 04

    Awards

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    Demographics & Eligibility

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    Formatting requirements 🏗️

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    Rights for published work 🏗️

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Magazine

Founded in 1996 | United Kingdom

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

Charlie Fish
Editor-in-Chief
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

4

Average acceptance rate

50%

Average response time

14 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

14/15 days

Fastest response time

5 days

Slowest response time

24 days