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About Us
We only publish novel excerpts. Some magazines and journals take excerpts, but they want them twisted and crammed into the shape of a short story. We're dedicated to real excerpts that feel like they come from novels we want to read -- they may pop us into the action and leave us hanging at the end. Each issue includes 5 winning novel excerpts from our contest across a variety of styles and genres. |
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Our Mission
We want more people to read more novels, it's that simple. Why? Because we agree with Milan Kundera: "The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. The totalitarian world... is a world of answers rather than questions. There, the novel has no place." (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
We are a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization dedicated to paying new- and early-career novelists for excerpts and working to get those excerpts in front of agents and publishers.
We want more people to read more novels, it's that simple. Why? Because we agree with Milan Kundera: "The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. The totalitarian world... is a world of answers rather than questions. There, the novel has no place." (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
We are a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization dedicated to paying new- and early-career novelists for excerpts and working to get those excerpts in front of agents and publishers.
Our Team
Founding Editor
Hardy Griffin's novel Broken Kismet recently won the Eyelands Book Award and will be published in Greek. His work has been published in the collection Tide by the Red Noise Collective, Aesthetica Magazine, Fresh Ink, New Flash Fiction, Alimentum, Assisi, The Washington Post, American Letters & Commentary, and a chapter in The Gotham Writer’s Guide to Writing Fiction (Bloomsbury).
Editor
Stephanie Johnson grew up in Toledo, Ohio but ended up taking the most circuitous route possible to Sydney Australia, where she writes poetry and speculative fiction while living with type 1 diabetes. Her work has been featured in Witty Partition, Authora Australis, Orion’s Belt, force/fields, and numerous other publications. Stephanie was a 2022 judge for NYC Midnight and is currently working on her first full length science fiction novel.
Founding Editor
Hardy Griffin's novel Broken Kismet recently won the Eyelands Book Award and will be published in Greek. His work has been published in the collection Tide by the Red Noise Collective, Aesthetica Magazine, Fresh Ink, New Flash Fiction, Alimentum, Assisi, The Washington Post, American Letters & Commentary, and a chapter in The Gotham Writer’s Guide to Writing Fiction (Bloomsbury).
Editor
Stephanie Johnson grew up in Toledo, Ohio but ended up taking the most circuitous route possible to Sydney Australia, where she writes poetry and speculative fiction while living with type 1 diabetes. Her work has been featured in Witty Partition, Authora Australis, Orion’s Belt, force/fields, and numerous other publications. Stephanie was a 2022 judge for NYC Midnight and is currently working on her first full length science fiction novel.
