Only Interconnect:
Social media + short fiction
Call for Submissions: April 1, 2013
Have you penned fables featuring Flickr? Tales told through texting? Pinterest prose, Reddit reading, LinkedIn lit, irony over Instagram — or flash fiction in the framework of Facebook? If so, your work may have a place in ONLY INTERCONNECT, a forthcoming print and e-Book exploring the intersection between social media and short stories.
Digital media is now an inescapable aspect of how our lives are lived, and it influences who, what, where, why and how we read — and write. Increasingly, writers not only invoke emails, iPads and even good old MySpace in our plots, but integrate interactive conventions into the actual form and structure of our work.
Authors as diverse as Dennis Cooper and Tao Lin have embraced the constraints and opportunities presented by ever-shifting rubique of online communication. We’re aware of many other great examples, and we’d like to experience even more and offer them exposure and a collective home — on the printed page and digital screen.
ONLY INTERCONNECT is being curated by a couple of experienced writers and editors with a keen interest in how short stories are increasingly informed by digital-media platforms — from blogging to YouTube, DeviantArt and eBay. We’re approaching several respected indie literary publishers to find a place for this unique book.
ONLY INTERCONNECT seeks highly creative work whose content and/or form are inspired by social media — great writing that moves beyond using digital forms as mere quirks or gimmicks. In essence, we’re looking for effective, provocative storytelling whose form and content just happens to be pretty damn innovative, too.
If you have a story that fits this bill or want to try your hand at creating one between now and April 1, 2013, we want to hear from you. We'd love to see new, previously unpublished work but we're open to giving a wider audience to reprints that are aligned with our theme.
Submissions
Ends on 4/1/2013
SubmitMost passionate specifically about the possibilities of the short-story form, we expect that given our focus, some overlap with poetry -- and even undefinable in-between hybrid forms -- is probably inevitable. And definitely exciting. We’re also open to novel excerpts that are aligned with the vision of ONLY INTERCONNECT if they work as self-contained standalone pieces.
