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Wordrunner eChapbooks

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About the press

Wordrunner eChapbooks is a digital publishing project founded in 2010 by a collective of writers and editors committed to the chapbook as a vital, accessible form. Operating without a physical press, it publishes short-story collections, novellas, and poetry chapbooks exclusively in e-book formats, with a focus on work that is formally adventurous yet emotionally grounded. The press emerged from a desire to bypass the commercial constraints of traditional publishing, offering writers a curated platform that honors the chapbook's historical role as a space for experimentation and concentrated vision. Its mission is to sustain a rigorous, editorially independent series that brings emerging and mid-career voices to a readership that values literary craft over market trends.

Publishing focus

Wordrunner eChapbooks , having published its 16th and final annual anthology in May 2026 (Issue 57), is henceforth publishing one-author collections of prose and poetry or novel excerpts by invitation only, both online and in e-book and paperback format. Authors are paid. Once or twice a year (spring and fall), they will publish micro fiction with no fees to submit (but no payment, aside from Editor’s Choice).

PoetryFictionCreative NonfictionChapbookNovellaShort Story CollectionsEssay CollectionsMemoir

Selected authors
Atar Hadari, Jesse Millner, Jerry Ratch, Ed Mycue, Stefanie Freele, Susan Meyers, Paul Sohar, James Cihlar, Tania Hershman, Nils Peterson, Elaine Ford, Jane Turner Goldsmith

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ClosedDeadline · 2027-01-01

Wordrunner eChapbooks — Submissions

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ClosedDeadline · 2027-01-01

Wordrunner eChapbooks — Submissions

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ClosedDeadline · 2027-01-01

Wordrunner eChapbooks — Submissions

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Manuscript submissions

Reading periodJan 1 to Feb 28
Reading feeNo
Response timeLess than 3 months
Simultaneous submissionsYes
Unsolicited submissionsNo

Wordrunner eChapbooks accepts submissions through periodic reading windows, typically announced on its website and newsletter. Prospective authors should send a complete manuscript—no partials or proposals—formatted as a single .docx or .pdf file, with a brief cover letter that states the work's genre, word count, and publication history if any. The editors favor collections with a clear thematic or formal through-line, and they read for sentence-level precision as much as narrative arc. Simultaneous submissions are permitted, but notify immediately upon acceptance elsewhere. Response times can stretch to several months; a polite query after 90 days is acceptable. There are no reading fees, and the press does not offer advances, though contributors receive a modest honorarium and digital copies. Above all, avoid pitching a chapbook as a stepping stone to a novel—the editors are interested in the form itself, not its potential to be something else.

See www.echapbook.com/submissions.html for micro-prose submission schedule and guidelines.

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