[Bench Press]: Shorties

This is a journal publication of Bench Press. Please know what it is before submitting.

• This journal is for individual SPORTS ROMANCE short stories, short fiction, flash, micro, hybrid, and novelettes only.
• Doesn't have to be fluffy, and you can think outside the box, but it should have a sport, a romance, and a happy ending.
• Open to all styles, themes, relationships, identities. Love is love.
• Up to 30,000 words per story.
• Any sport, broad categorization.
• Must be 18 to submit.
• We pay .08¢ per word (.008 x word count) up to $40 max, OR you can opt to receive one copy of the paperback issue instead. Payment will be on final word count after editing, so don't needlessly pad your word count; it will be edited. We also give one complimentary epub and PDF to authors included in the issue.
• Please identify your sport(s), style(s) (spicy, sweet, etc.), tropes used (grumpy/sunshine, meet-cute, enemies-to-lovers, etc.), expertise with the sport(s), or anything else you think we need to know about you or your story in the cover letter field or on the first page of your story attachment.
• Submit only one story per reading fee.
• There is a $6 reading fee to support our press and pay our readers. Reading submissions takes an incredible amount of time, and charging a small reading fee allows us to give your story the care and attention it deserves. We thank you so much for your support. Each submission comes with an ebook of our latest title, currently Sharp Edges by Olivia North (hockey romance, book 1 in the Fresh Ice Series).

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