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six little things
is a quarterly online literary magazine devoted to an underappreciated genre, the short prose thing. Some will call them "prose poems," others "short short stories," and you may feel free to argue amongst yourselves all you'd like, but I am happy calling them very nice paragraphs and recommending a maximum count of 250 words. At the bottom of this page, you can find a short suggested-reading list; taken with the examples of past issues, writers should find this a realistic guide to our aesthetic leanings.
Every issue of Six Little Things contains six original works, each written by a different writer and each responding to a previously announced theme or phrase. Submissions are currently open for: issue number eleven, Summer 2008 (theme: "Banned For Life" – Deadline May 30th).
If you are interested in submitting to an upcoming issue of Six Little Things, the best guide to understand what I am interested in publishing, generally speaking, is what I have published. Direct submissions and inquiries to Bard Cole at the email address: editor @ sixbrickspress.com.
Please paste your submissions into the body of an email. If you'd prefer to include an attached version as well, please save it as an MS Word document or a Rich Text Format document. (Please be mindful of your subject headers -- something like "SLT submission" is always appropriate -- as there is an awful lot of spam in the world and emails with silly headers may be summarily deleted in the interest of security.)
Authors submitting work are agreeing to one-time reproduction as part of an issue of Six Little Things and the continuing availability of their work as archived in the context of that original issue. Issues will be archived indefinitely.
Please be forewarned, editorial selections are made four times annually, after the closing of the deadline for an issue. I do not make decisions in advance of the final deadline for each issue. This may mean a wait of several months. However, I do my best to respond to submissions within two weeks of the deadline closing. I accept only six pieces, and only for the immediately forthcoming issue.
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suggested reading
Baudelaire, Charles. Paris Spleen. New York: New Directions, 1947.
Carson, Anne. Short Talks. London, ONT: Brick Books, 1992.
Edson, Russell. The Tunnel: Selected Poems. Oberlin: Field Poetry Series, 1994.
Milosz, Czeslaw. Road-Side Dog. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1998.
Williams, Diane. Excitability: Selected Stories 1986-1996. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1998.
Yourgrau, Barry. Wearing Dad's Head. New York: Arcade Publishing, 1987.
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