Getting Hitched Fiction Submission Guidelines

Short Fiction Wanted - Themes for 2008

Original short stories required. Stories must be about relationships and fit the theme of the month below but can be in any genre. Submissions close on the second Friday of each month.

• July - Suspicion
• August - Food
• September - A New Start
• October - Birthdays
• November - Sunburn
• December - Christmas

Requirements & Payment

Stories must be your own original work and be unpublished.

Submissions: Please submit by email to
editor [at] gettinghitched.com.au  Successful authors will be required to sign an agreement confirming that they own copyright of the work and are assigning electronic rights to us.

On your submission, please make the subject of the email "Submission for Month Year" eg "Submission for June 2008" if your story is on the Expectations theme.

Length & Payment:
Length can be anything from 200 to 2000 words - whatever tells the story best. Payment is a flat fee of AU$45 (+GST  for registered authors) regardless of length for assignment of exclusive rights to publish on the Internet. Accepted authors will need to supply an invoice that includes an ABN. If you need to register for an ABN you can do so online at the Australian Business Register.

Copyright: You retain copyright in your work. We only require rights for Internet publishing.

Editing: We may do some minor editing (eg spelling) - more significant editing will be done in consultation with the author.

Promotion of your work:
GettingHitched.com.au is a website for the general public, not just writers. That means your work will be exposed to a much wider audience than most short story websites. Short teasers for each month's stories will appear in our newsletters and on some other sites in our network to attract readers.