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What are the Length Requirements for Submissions to the

Author's Journal of Inventive Literature?

We've decided not to institute strict length guidelines at this time. A work should be precisely as long as it needs to be. 

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Novelettes are now being considered as we transition to an anthology format. However, please keep them under 40,000 words or so.

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We generally publish around 20,000 total words of story in each journal issue.

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Poems should be somewhere between 2 lines and 4 pages.

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Poetic essays have similar lengths to poems.

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