Please do NOT include identifying information anywhere in the manuscript, as all readings will be blind.
Simultaneous submissions are acceptable, but only one submission per author per category. Please notify Wordrunner eChapbooks if your work is accepted elsewhere. We prefer that you withdraw the submission from your Submittable account
Authors whose collections have been published by Wordrunner eChapbooks, please wait a minimum of three years before submitting a new collection.
Authors of published work (with the exception of micro-prose,) receive payment. Annual anthology: $10.00 for poems, $15 to $25 for stories and essays. $125 for each prose collection.
Wordrunner eChapbooks is primarily an online publication. Our one-author collections are also published as Kindles.
For our 2025 anthology, we welcome fiction on any theme.
Our preference is for emotional complexity and nuanced characters, as well as precise and telling language. We are not interested in genre fiction (horror, supernatural, crime). Science fiction, if character-driven, is of interest, as is historical fiction.
Submit one short story (maximum of 5,000 words) or up to three flash fictions (500 to 1,000 words each) in a Word doc or docx, RTF or ODT, which includes title/s in the file name (but NOT the author's name). Please use standard 12 point type, double space and PAGINATE.
Do not include author name anywhere in the file, as readings are blind.
Work should not have been previously published, either online or in print. Simultaneous submissions are fine. You may submit to more than one category, but only one submission per category, please. And no AI-generated or assisted writing.
Please read back issues in our archives to get an idea of what we are looking for (at http://echapbook.com/archives.html).
Payment: $15 for flash fiction, $25 for short stories. One Editor's Choice prose author will receive $50.
For our 2025 anthology, we welcome creative nonfiction or memoir on any theme.
Our preference is for emotional complexity, as well as precise and telling language. For this issue, we are especially, though not exclusively, interested in historical CNF, either family history or a wider perspective.
Submit one essay (up to 5,000 words) in ONE Word doc or docx, RTF or ODT, which includes title/s in the file name (but NOT the author's name). Please use standard 12 point type, double space and PAGINATE.
Do not include author name anywhere in the file, as readings are blind.
Work should not have been previously published, either online or in print. No AI-generated or assisted writing, please.
Simultaneous submissions are fine. You may submit to more than one category, but only one submission per category.
Please read back issues of anthologies in our archives to get an idea of what we are looking for (at http://echapbook.com/archives.html).
Payment: $25. One Editor's Choice prose author will receive $50.
For our 2024 anthology, we welcome poetry on any theme.
Surprise and delight us with fresh language and boundary-breaking daring. Show us something we have never seen before, but have always felt is true. Uncover or discover a new mode of expression, inextricably wed to its message.
Submit one to three poems in ONE Word doc or docx, RTF or ODT, which includes title/s in the file name (but NOT the author's name). Each poem should be no longer than one page. Do not include author name anywhere in the file, as readings are blind.
Work should not have been previously published, either online or in print. Simultaneous submissions are fine. You may submit to more than one category, but only one submission per category, please. And no AI-generated or assisted writing.
Note that really long poems are not suitable for this venue. Please read back issues of anthologies in our archives to get an idea of what we are looking for (at http://echapbook.com/archives.html).
Payment: $10.00 per poem