“…You’re still quite a small person in a wide world after all.” “Thanks goodness!” said Bilbo, and handed him the tobacco jar.
From “The Hobbit” by jrr tolkien
A journal of wonder and overlooked awe
What happens when you look deepest? What happens when you’re still? What happens when you follow stories into the wells of the world?
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Submissions Reading Timeline & Guidelines
& Small Things accepts short stories, short editorial, opinion or personal essays; poetry; reviews of relevant or wonderful present and past media; and linguistic gymnastics.
We enjoy Fairy Tales, under the umbrella of Tolkien’s study and wonder in his essay On Fairy Stories. But any good yarn can catch our eye–Dickensian, gritty, whimsical, and onward. We look for a strong voice, a solid wonder, and humour. Let your love of words show, and tell us a tale.
Currently, in fiction, we accept nothing over 6,000 words.
Poetry may be narrative or epic, or meditative, image-laced. Kindly nothing book-length.
Opinion, personal essay or editorial may encompass the minutiae of syntactical development in Russian, to current events, to book reviews or interviews. Query if you are unsure of whether your piece fits.
Submit all manuscripts in the body of an email. No attachments will be accepted at this time. Please specify which category your submission falls under within the title of your email, and give us your name, a brief background and / or how you found us before the beginning of your piece.
Send to shikis_strings.smallthings@yahoo.com
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