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The Lonely Crowd

The Lonely Crowd is a new Welsh magazine devoted to the short story. There are print and online versions and the editor wants to provide ‘a new space in which the short story form can flourish’. However some poetry is allowed because ‘we believe that the two forms share a great deal in common’. Read the samples of writing at the website.

Submissions ‘are welcome from everyone and from everywhere.’ Short stories submitted should be 500 to 5,000 words and poetry should be two or three short poems or one long piece. Submit a doc file attached to an email, with full contact details and a brief bio in the body, to: johnlavin@thelonelycrowd.org

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