Although STNY remains closed to unsolicited submissions, we do consider work by authors personally recommended by our writer pals and editors. The personally is important because it means we trust the source (whom we admonish to aim high).
Big drag, we know, but thus tis.
We select manuscripts and authors for originality, excellence, and the strength to engage the present publishing establishment.
We ask writers to appreciate today's literary landscape against the busy media background. We ask for
- Quick pacing
- Vivid images
- Bold storytelling
In the content department, here are a few present interests
Malice, whether of murder or menace, in realistic urban or rural settings
Complex villains with credible psychologies
Poverty represented as a matter-of-fact background character in a story not about poverty.
Unsentimental characters who are not self-pitying.
Realistic stories that go deep into a character's day-to-day life inside non-European countries.
Non-fiction that posits a worldwide story
Our advice to all: do not pull your punches
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