Submissions & Writers Guidelines
- Love And Respect your characters. Be true to them. Make sure their words and actions reflect who they are.
- Your story will need a plot. Well created interesting characters doing nothing? Nothing Doing!
- Write your story the way it needs to be written. Do not write it in a manner that you think will get it published.
- Jeff's Shorts is open to any genre except religious/political recruitment.
- Protagonists may not smoke. No cigarettes, pipes, cigars, dope, crack. No exceptions.
- In stories for the Eat Jeff's Shorts section protagonists may smoke/use smoked food products in their recipes.
- Use spell check.
- Eat Jeff's Shorts: Every story must include at least one recipe that has both a list of ingredients and the technique including cooking time and temperature. The recipe must be a real, edible recipe. The story may be written in paragraph form or a standard recipe format. THE RECIPE MUST BE INTEGRAL TO THE STORY!
- Short Shorts: Keep the story to 1,000 words/2 standard pages.
- Poetry: Do not submit poetry for publication unless your poem is a story. Meaning it has to have a: Theme b: Plot c: Setting d: characterization. While I occasionally write and like poetry this is not a poetry magazine.
- Stories About Arnika: Write your story about what you see in the picture/pictures. Do not use wordsearch and substitute the name Arnika for another character in a previously written story. Granted, I have will have no way of telling if you do this.
- Writers Pages: Just send me anything you think interesting as long it falls under the scope of the magazine. Do not send reviews of JeffsShorts published stories. Do not send me negative reviews of anything.
Submissions
- e-mail submissions only
- Submit no more then three stories in one e-mail.
- Place Jeff's Shorts section(s) in subject window of e-mail. Featured Stories, Eat Jeff's Shorts, Short Shorts, Stories About Arnika, Writers Pages, A Novel Idea.
- Stories must be submitted by their writer only.
- The writer must have the rights to publish the submitted work(s). If your story has been previously published I need to know where and when.
- Jeff's Shorts obtains: One Time Publishing Rights
- All stories will be permanently archived on the www.JeffsShorts.com site
- Submissions to: submissions@JeffsShorts.com
- My preference is to publish a photograph and brief autobiography of each published writer. No links may be included in the autobiographies. E-mail addresses may be included.
- Let me know how you heard about www.JeffsShorts.com
This is not a paying magazine. Writers will be compensated by contributors subscriptions.
