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F – Blink-Ink Seeking Submissions for Issue #61 on the Theme of: Phones
When Alice Cooper sang The telephone was ringing …. he established a real sense of urgency. Somebody had to deal with the phone! What happened? Now our devices natter away, pulling us this way and that.
Have a “work phone” and a “personal”, maybe a “secret phone” for only certain people? We are interested in how all of this has changed us and our behaviors. Past, present, future––pretend, or all too real.
Send us your best stories of approximately fifty words about Phones in the body of an email to: blinkinkinfo@gmail.com. Submissions are open June 1st, 2025 through July 15th, 2025. No attachments, poetry, bios, or AI generated content, please. We love poetry but do not publish it.
What we love most is writing that has found that preternatural detail of thought or thing that cracks the story open and allows it to matter or to reveal a truth.
Nearly all of our issues are themed and guidelines specific to the current theme along with opening and closing dates for submissions to those issues will appear here on our website, on our Facebook page and in New Pages and Duotrope.
We want your best, original and unpublished work and will consider up to four stories at any one time. We do reply personally to every submission and every query. We aim to treat you right.
Sometimes we wish to make small changes in a piece we want to publish but will never do that without consulting you— with one exception: If you have offset the final line of a piece for no good reason, we will put it back in the body of the piece where it belongs.
No fees, and quick-ish response.