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NEWS: Submissions moving to email-only

News

Effective immediately, I will only be accepting submissions sent via email to tim@fiftywordstories.com.

I just discovered that since the start of June, almost 100 submissions have been routed into my spam folder. I believe the ones going to spam all came through the form on the website. There must have been some update to the plugin that changed the way the form delivered the submissions to my email inbox, and my email provider isn’t very happy with it.

All of the newly discovered stories will be moved into the review queue and will be read and considered. This may cause some backlog for the next month or so as I work through them all.

To solve the spam issue, I’m going to remove the form from the Submissions page and require all submissions to be emailed me directly. Apologies for the inconvenience.

STORY OF THE MONTH: June 2025

News

The Story of the Month is chosen from the Story of the Week winners announced from the past month.

The finalists for June were:

Queue by Tomiko Nanashi
Helicopter Seeds by Kate E. Lore
Inheritance by Paul D’Arcy
Triggered by Internet Photo by Matthew Eichenlaub

The winner of the June 2025 Story of the Month is…

Queue

STORY OF THE MONTH: May 2025

News

The Story of the Month is chosen from the Story of the Week winners announced from the past month.

The finalists for May were:

Eye of the Beholder by Alicia Cox
Swimming by Melanie Winklosky
What Remains by Susan Hunt
The Visit by Terry Gallagher
I Grow a Metropolis by Rachel Turney
Inheritance by Nathan Jones
Questions for the Woman Crying in the Office Bathroom by Nina Feinberg

The winner of the May 2025 Story of the Month is…

Inheritance