Type Of Publisher
Online
Genres Published
Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, Cross Genre Hybrid, Audio, Drama, Environment Nature, Experimental
Year Established
2024
Address
Bar Harbor, ME
Name
Nina Barufaldi
Title
Editor
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Mission Statement / Editorial Focus
Here at TPOW, we believe the practice of writing is a living craft; one that sharpens the mind, deepens empathy, and keeps language dangerous and alive.
The Practice of Writing (TPOW) exists to teach that craft with rigor and to publish the stories that prove it’s still possible to be astonished by a sentence. We are a home for work that refuses to sit quietly on the page.
Editorial Focus
We publish short story and flash that surprises us. We want your tender grit, work that risks sentimentality but never succumbs to it, work that makes the familiar feel newly perilous or the surreal feel inevitable.
We want stories that feel written with emotional truth front and center: precise, unsettling, odd, resonant.
We want voice.
Authors we LOVE: Sayaka Murata, Zadie Smith, Larry McMurtry, Ted Chiang, Haruki Murakami, Joy Williams, Kathy Fish, Carmen Maria Machado, Deb Marquart, Ron Currie, Jr., Tom Robbins. Sentences that earn their keep
Endings that feel both surprising and preordained
Humor that arrives with a scalpel
Characters who embarrass, frighten, or outrun their authors
Experiments that remember the reader is human
Quiet stories that detonate hours later We have no interest in fiction that explains, soothes, moralizes, or mistakes cruelty for depth.
Length: Flash up to 1,000 words · Short stories 1,001–7,500 words
(We read every word, so make them count.)
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions
Yes
Reading Period
Year round
Charges Writers A Submission/Reading Fee
no
Author Payments
none, cash, copies, subscription
Contests
no
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