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Starting immediately, Avery only accepts submissions via Submishmash. Submissions received via e-mail after the close of our last reading period have been discarded.

GENERAL FICTION
(opens January 1, 2011)
Send us your strongest fiction (30 pages max), double-spaced, with all of your contact information on the first page of your story. One story per reading period, please.

PLEASE NOTE: While general submissions are closed while we read for the Small Spaces Fiction Prize, each contest submission will be considered for publication.

ADVICE FOR _____
(open/accepting/publishing on a rolling basis)
Avery’s newest, online-only effort.
Whether it’s a genuine desire to help your fellow man or choice words and cutting commentary couched in old adages, we all have “advice” we’d like to share with a deserving/needy person (or five). Thanks to the internet, now everyone’s qualified to dispense how-tos and life lessons! Arrange yours in list-form and send it to us.

A VERY AVERY FLASHER CONTEST
(opens Halloween 2010, closes Christmas 2010)
Every reading period, we here at Avery struggle to find really good flash fiction. It isn’t easy to write—then again, what kind of fiction is easy to write—and because of that, either we don’t see a lot of it or we don’t see enough flash in the stuff we do see. To us, a story that can fit onto one printed page is flash fiction. To us, a story that can animate, insight, and ignite one printed page is good flash fiction.

So, in the hopes that you will start to submit more of it, we’re having our first Flasher contest: a very Avery Flasher contest, if you will. Send us your flashiest flash fiction. As long as it can fit onto one printed page (about 250 words), it qualifies.

We’ll slide the winning story onto 100 beautiful broadsides so that your fellow readers and writers can – if they so desire – take a little piece of fiction home with them.  The winning story will also be published in Avery 7.  Entry fee is $5.  Contest opens up on Halloween and closes on Christmas.

So please, by all means: Be brief.

SMALL SPACES FICTION PRIZE
(open now, closes Thanksgiving 2010)
About once a year, we offer our Small Spaces prize. Writers pay a $10 entry fee and send us their strongest fiction, double-spaced and under 30 pages. Last year, we were proud to have Kevin Brockmeier judge Small Spaces and we were happy to announce Alyssa Knickerbocker’s story “House of Wind” as our winner.

This year, Small Spaces opens on Labor Day and closes on Thanksgiving. We’re excited to announce our judge: Junot Díaz.
Our winner will receive $300 and will be published in Avery 7.

So go ahead: Start your engines.