Submissions for...

THE MIDDLE OF A SENTENCE

The Common Breath Short Prose Anthology 2020
...are now closed.

We will be contacting all writers with news of inclusions over the next couple of weeks.

'The Middle of a Sentence' is a celebration of prose in its shortest forms (stories of 6 to 500 words), and will feature the work of renowned novelists, new voices from our open submissions process, and some classic artists from literary history.

Submissions closed: 1st September 2020
Publication Date: 1st December 2020

Those who are successful with their submissions will receive a free copy of the anthology.

If you have any further questions, send us a comment via Twitter: @thecommonbreath

Good Luck!









fiction & essays
The Nightshift
In the end, it was probably right that the first job I got after uni was a nightshift – I hadn’t slept properly in months. Or longer. My old boy done nightshift his whole life
In The 25th Year Since
How Late It Was, How Late
Any specific memories of the first time I read How Late It Was have faded over time, but the one thing I know is that I read and re-read the opening of the book multiple times...
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the works in progress blog
'Holy buttons, sad but dignified'
by Bechaela Walker
She sat at the full-length streaky café window overlooking the carpark and thought of how empty the train had been—how did they keep running such services?
'Jamie' by Jim Gibson
There’s no one else to talk to so I might as well make the most of it. It’s a horrible thought but I can’t help thinking that his life is sort of like an animal’s