SSL celebrated our two years of publishing this past May and what a great 2 years it has been with having the honor of publishing some of the best short form writing on the web. We are now releasing our second volume of the best of SSL which includes the best poetry, micro, flash and [...]
As we move into April I wanted to take a chance to promote some of the great poets I have published this year including our chapbook which has a variety of talented poets called Everyday Musings and our last release which was our first solo collection by a very talented poet Theodore Edwin Hovey the [...]
Hope all of you had a great holiday season and able to take time away from work and just relax for a little while. As a magazine SSL had a great 2009 with our subscription now reaching 300 readers each week and averaging around 4000 pages (stories, poems, articles, etc) read each and every month. [...]
If you are looking for a last second gift this holiday season or just a fan of SSL and ReadMe Publishing please consider two new books that I want to tell you about. The money from the sales of our print books go right into funding next year’s contests and publishing more short story and [...]
The final decisions were made by Aston West for the “What If” science fiction contest this week and here are the winners:
1 Extra Good Care – By Valerie Hodge
2 Not Your Ordinary Little Green Men – By Kelli Wilkins
3 Danger, Maybe – By Marian Powell
The following stories will be included in the anthology that should [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
With the success of the online magazine Short Story Library I have enjoyed being able to read so many great submissions and interact with various authors at different stages in their writing careers. One of the things I have always wanted to do was be able to provide the same authors the opportunities for two [...]
