Call for Submissions: Issue #3

Wowie zowie David Bowie!

We are all spruced up and ready for submissions for issue #3 of Wufniks.
The response has been great so far and we know that there are more and more of you out there who can’t wait to submit to this little magazine.
We know that there are others out there who are about to hit the multiple submissions milestone.
We call this the Bronze Club.

So!
You know by now that submissions can be:

- Short Stories (now of up to a mere 2,000 words)

- Submissions to the Writer’s Challenge (see below)

- Miscellany (aka anything else in the world. Some people are scared off by this freedom. Don’t be one of them. Be bravery.)

Holy cheese on toast!
Did you see that Irvine Welsh has been kind enough to supply us with a challenge for issue #3?
Well what are you waiting for? Sharpen those pencils, misters and misses!

email submissions to:
wufniksmagazine@gmail.com
deadline: the twelfth of april two thousand and eight

Ahhhh,
You make us wonderful with your stories and your rhythmic chants.

Love and postmodern smiles,

Issue #2 Submissions

Once more. Here we are.
Issue #1 is rising in the oven as we speak. Thanks again to everyone who has contributed. Things are really looking delightful. Specific details as to where and how to pick up a copy will be forthcoming at the speed of progress. Not long now.

The time has come, though, for thoughts to turn to Issue #2. We want your stories and your stuff. Without you, Wufniks is just a fancy font and a saggy blog.

What we absolutely want:

1) Short stories. Up to 2,500 words. About anything. Can be your latest gems or old neglected .doc files sitting in Your Documents. As long as you want someone to read it, we want it.

2) Writer’s challenge. This month’s challenge has been set by Geoff Ryman. He’s won more awards than you and I have hands, and is the author of the groundbreaking novel, 253.

Stories for this section should be:

• set in the future
• written in the future tense
• written in the second-person

Read the full challenge here! (including an example from Geoff)

3) Miscellany. This issue we’d like you to try to give us something that looks like this:

• Write a Personal ad that would tickle your boniest bone. Keep it short.
  eg. High-ranking Koopa Troopa WLTM same for fun and walking back-and-forth from pipe to pipe. Must live in Level 3 and like Tom Jones. Box 404.
  shhh.
  or
  shhh.
• Write a biography of a fictional character. It must be exactly 100 words long.
  For example, you could choose Mr. Miyagi, the Jack of Spades, the blond guy from Double Dragon, the trombonist from the Lurpak adverts, or anyone else we might have heard of. (Even if we haven’t we can look them up.)

Of course, anything you send us will be received with salivating mouths. So don’t be put off if none of these tickle your proverbial gherkin.

email submissions to: wufniksmagazine@gmail.com
deadline: 29th February 2008

Once again, we can’t pay you. We’re sorry. We’re cold. We’re running low on Oxo cubes as it is. We hear they have army shirts where you can boil the buttons to make broth. Maybe we could get one of those.

As per ever, we’re looking forward to reading your submissions,
Have some fun writing them.

OK
All the Wufniks,
Love from,

Issue #1 Submissions

Now.
This is it. This is the first call for submissions for Wufniks. Issue #1 is just around the corner and we’re looking for a variety of things, as long as they fit into one of these three categories:

1) Short stories. Up to 2,500 words. About anything. These can be your new babies or best old dusty .doc files. All that matters to us is you want other people to read them.

2) Writer’s challenge. Each issue will feature a challenge set by a published author we like. They’ll provide a set of rules for a story (for example: setting, point-of-view, subject matter). Booker-shortlisted novelist M.J.Hyland has been kind enough to set this issue’s challenge.

These stories should be:

• about hypochondria
• written in the first-person
• maximum 1,000 words

Read the full challenge here!

3) Miscellany. By this we mean: frivolous snippets, humorous self-indulgent wiffleballs, contrivances, lists, phone numbers, menu items, instructions ripped from the backs of condom packets, photographs of dead relatives with mustaches drawn on, complaints or verbal attacks on our persons, and other nonsense of all varieties.

You could send us a review of a book that doesn’t exist, or a list of sounds that make you think of smells, or a six-word story. Those or none of those.

email submissions to: wufniksmagazine@gmail.com
deadline: 31st December 2007

We can’t pay you. We’re sorry. We can barely clothe ourselves.

We’re looking forward to reading your submissions,
Hopefully you’ll have fun writing them.

Good Wufniks,

From,