Submissions are open for the 100 Word Project from Manawaker Studio.
The 100 Word Project is an ongoing project focused on 100 word stories which will be published as a monthly, themed online journal and in a yearly print anthology. Each month (except for June and December) will bring a new prompt, and on the last weekday of the month nine of the submitted drabbles for that prompt will be posted in the public-facing section of the Manawaker Patreon alongside one drabble from Manawaker EiC, CB Droege. At the end of the year, the ten stories from each of the ten prompts will be assembled into the next volume of the 100 x 100 series.
The Prompt for January 2024 is not yet decided
BUT we are currently accepting submissions for some prompts that didn’t recieve enough submissions over the last year, while the project was still taking submissions only from members of the Creative Questers writing collective. You may submit one story apiece for each of these prompts. The deadline for this the end of January, though it may be extended if we still need a few more to hit 100 drabbles:
The project is curated and edited by Manawaker Studio. 100 x 100 is published by Manawaker Studio as part of their regular line of anthologies.
The only restrictions are that the stories are 100 words long (not including the title), and previously unpublished. The idea is that each contributor is writing a brand new story for each prompt as they are announced, but if you happen to have an unpublished drabble that already fits the theme, that works too. There are no genre requirements. Please keep content family friendly. No gore, no explisit sex, use profanity sparingly. General guideline: Would you feel uncomfortabel reading the story to a group that includes at least one 12 year old child? If so, maybe it’s not right for us.
If your work is accepted, you will grant Manawaker Studio the right to publish the work non-exclusively (we will ask nicely for exclusivity for one year). The work or parts of it may also be used for promotional purposes in print or online.
Original creators will retain all other copyrights.
If you’d like to see how it all will fit together, take a look at the first volume here.
Note that because part of the goal of the project is to currate, not just a bunch of drabbles, but a community of regular drabble contributors, a small amount of preference will be given to submissions from previous contributors.
Compensation for inclusion in the project will be a token payment of 1$/story, and an electronic copy of the 100 x 100 volume it appears in. Payments will be made in June and December for the previous half-year’s stories (Since we are expecting, and encouraging, repeat contributors, this will save a few paypal transactions)
Contributors may also order the physical book at a discounted price, so that they may resell it at signings, readings, and shows without having to bump the cost above the MSRP.
In order to allow submissions right up to the wire, we wont be sending out contracts with acceptance letters. If you submit, you are assumed already to have agreed to the conditions of the contract, which is here.
The deadline for each prompt is the penultimate weekday of the month it applies to.
Please no simultanious submissions on this project. The turn around is just too short.
Only submit one drabble per prompt.
We prefer text pasted in the email, but will also accept files, as long as they open in MS Office.
All submissions should be sent to submissions@manawaker.com with ‘100 x 100 Submission’, your last name, and the prompt in the subject line. No need for a cover letter, but please include:
Acceptance notes will be sent out on the final weekday of each month, just before the stories are posted. Rejection notes will not be sent. If you don’t recieve an acceptance on publication day, and your story does no appear in the post with the others, then you can assume your piece didn’t make the cut.
Any questions about the project or these guidelines (or any queries after submissions) should be sent to contact@manawaker.com