Short Story Library

ReadMe Publishing has now released the latest publication which is a poetry chapbook named “Everyday Musing” – The collection of poems was the result of a poetry contest (http://shortstory.us.com/2009/04/readme-publishing-poetry-winners-announced/ ) offered by ReadMe Publishing which the top poems received a cash payout and inclusion in the collection. The collection has poems from the following poets:
  
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Imagine what if?
and so you ask yourself, what if… what? Well you tell us! We want short science fiction short (micro, flash or short stories) that tell us a science fiction story around the idea what if. Where ever you take it, take it interesting! The word limit is 5,000 words.
This contest will be judged [...]

As many of you know in addition to editing this magazine and ReadMe Publishing, I also write prose and poetry of my own. Back in November of last year I was lucky enough to have a collection of poems accepted for publication by a small press and now the book is out!
The book was released [...]

ReadMe Publishing has announced the release of its second collection “The Library’s Best” – the collection is an anthology of the best writing released from the popular online magazine Short Story Library -http://shortstory.us.com
The collection was edited by Casey Quinn and written by:
Derek Eyring, Emily-Jo Hopson, Melonie Magruder, Jennifer Walmsley, Usiku, Michael Lee Johnson, Adam Jeffries [...]

With over 350 well written poems the Everyday Musing poetry contest was extremely hard to judge. The contest involved a wide range of takes on the theme and forms including many structured styles, haiku, tanka and free form.
There were three rounds in the contest.
The first round cut the 350 down to 50 poems.
The second round [...]

There have been some great poems entered into the contest and trying to cut it down to only the top three for the cash prize and top 30 to 40 for inclusion in our poetry chapbook has been a very hard challenge.
Out of the 350 poems submitted for this contest, round one has finished and [...]

For those of you on the popular social networking site Facebook, you have a new group to stop by and join ! Thanks to James Bowler, the Short Story Library now has a Facebook group located:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67441838124
It is a great way to stay current with many writers who have contributed to the site or active members [...]

Just wanted to share a note that we have finished editing the 2008 collection of the best works we published in 2008. The artwork is finished and we are just working on putting the finishing touches on the anthology this week and will have it off to the printers shortly.
This collection features six stories that [...]

If you are anything like me, then you have found that the cliché is true. Life is stranger than fiction. The world is filled with a diverse population who go through both entertaining and dramatic situations all of the time. While Stephen Shieber’s collection, Being Normal is a work of fiction, it comes a close [...]

The print publishing arm, ReadMe Publishing, has released its first publication based on the horror writing contest held towards the end of 2008. As you all know, SSL is a weekly online magazine which does not ask for donations nor do we charge for our stories. We do it for the love of prose and [...]