True Tales from The 90-Day Memoir
Publish Your Short Story
This year’s short story collection theme is FATHERS
the details
Submission Type
We're looking for true stories between 500-4000 words that focus on fathers (either your relationship to your father, or your experience as a father.) Poems are also welcome!
Submit by May 1st, 2026
All are welcome to submit a story. They can be excerpts from a memoir you are working on, but ideally they would work as stand alone pieces as well.
faq
Please send your submission(s) as a Google doc or Word doc.
Any font/text size is accepted at this time. If your story is selected, we will work with you on any necessary edits.
All authors will retain the copyrights to their own stories and poems. At the end of each entry we will include a brief author’s bio
Submissions are due by May 1st.
You will hear from us by July 1st regardless if your story is chosen or not.
Read Last Year's Collection:
Mothers
This collection, featuring 34 authors, explores the profound bond between mother and child, marked by fierce love and inevitable fractures.
Through diverse voices, these stories illuminate motherhood’s contradictions and the ways we both cherish and challenge the women who shaped us.
