Submission Guidelines

Okay gang. Follow the rules, or we show up and kick your asses.

No previously published materials

Please don't send us more than one story per given month. The editorial staff's time is volunteer and limited. If we get 2000 stories a month, we're fucked. Besides, we’re only giving you a T-shirt, for chrissakes.

We only want original pieces of short crime fiction.  No reprints, no excerpts.

OBEY THE WORD COUNT!!!!!  Limit your stories to 5000 words or less. See reasoning behind number 1. We don’t care if you wrote the best story since Dashiell Hammett picked up a crayon.  If it’s 5001 words, we ain’t even gonna read it.  We check.  Don’t waste both our time.

Look at the box.  See it?  Now try to think outside it. Please.

Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease no more goddamn serial killer stories.  Even if you’ve done what you think is a great one, ITS BEEN DONE!!!!  Hitmen are coming in a close second.  IF YOU NEED TO USE THESE CLICHES, please have a decent new angle to the story.  A twist, ANYTHING!

This is a genre-specific mystery and noir website. If you don't know what that means, then don't send me your damned story. No Sci-Fi, Horror or Romance. Erotica (by way of sex) is okay, but PLEASE have violence, crime, murder, mayhem and chaos. Or a monkey. We like monkeys. They throw poop.

Stories may be attached as a Word Document (preferred) or cut and pasted into an e-mail.
Contact info we need: Name, address, word count and a short bio. The chosen will be notified by e-mail and on the website.

Fan fiction will never be chosen AND openly mocked on the website. You have been warned

Don't get your panties in a bunch if you don't get picked.

Send your stories to:
Submissions@thuglit.com