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RESULTS of the first-ever all-writer-voted issues
Enter the upcoming vote by July 24
Win $1000, $200, $100 for your short story or poems
Vote online to create the next Sixfold

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Upload your own short-story or poetry manuscript PDF for a $6 entry fee by July 24, 2013. Then, vote within your genre to decide the three prize-winning manuscripts of $1000, $200, and $100, and all the manuscripts published in each issue of Sixfold.

Sixfold is a collaborative, democratic, completely writer-voted journal. The writers who upload their manuscripts vote to select the prize-winning manuscripts and all the short stories and poetry published in each issue. All participating writers’ equally weighted votes choose what's published, instead of the usual decision-making of one judge or small group of editors. With an open and transparent process, all writers involved decide with fair, rule-based voting (i.e. you never vote for your own manuscript, or for the same manuscript twice). Everyone's vote finds the best writing and prints the short stories and poems everyone wants to read.

In addition to voting manuscripts into publication, you give and receive workshop feedback on your and your fellow writers’ work. By the end of three rounds of voting, you read, evaluate, vote, and write comments on 18 other writers’ manuscripts, and receive up to 6, 24, or 78 votes and comments on your own manuscript from other writers, depending on how far it progresses through the three voting rounds.

Join a community of writers engaged in a fair manuscript judging process. Read your fellow writer and the variety of short stories and poems out there. Read, vote, give comment, get comment, and so better your own writing. And connect! If you wish. Be anonymous during the entire voting process, or opt-in to connect and network with other writers after the secret-ballot voting rounds are over.

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Opt-in to make your name, profile, and/or manuscript publicly viewable on a post-voting results page that lists all participants’ manuscripts ranked by voting score. If you like, give your e-mail, Facebook, or other link to the writers you vote for and give feedback to, made available to them only after voting is over.

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From Recent Entries to Sixfold

poetry |   Came out swinging an Encyclopedia Britannica before the wind // got knocked out of me.      Death did not interrupt the speaking just the breathing      You see a pill-shaped post / warning of fire-mad cable. / You wonder whom it is speaking / To.

short story |   Jacob sneaks up behind me and tickles the back of my neck. “We're free,” he says.      The authorities could not determine the cause of death because he was face down. So, the elders determined it was shame.      Danny wanted to know where Shep had been at sundown, and Faith said he was out in the barn working on the Honda. “Alone out there, were you?” Danny asked.

 

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Call for Your Excerpts, Photos, Art

Send us your words and images to feature on Sixfold. E-mail, Facebook, or Twitter a short except (140 characters) of a manuscript you might enter, or of another writer's work you enjoy. Or, send your photos or art files to feature as a hexagon on the site and in the pages, or on a Sixfold cover.   Image Credits

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Fiction Spring 2013

Enjoy these works in place of the first issue’s writer-voted short stories and poetry.

Virginia Woolf      Kew Gardens
Nathaniel Hawthorne     Young Goodman Brown
Virginia Woolf     Kew Gardens
Nathaniel Hawthorne     Young Goodman Brown
Virginia Woolf      Kew Gardens
Nathaniel Hawthorne     Young Goodman Brown


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Poetry Spring 2013

Enjoy these works in place of the first issue’s writer-voted short stories and poetry.

Walt Whitman      Song of Myself
Emily Dickinson     Four Poems
Walt Whitman      Song of Myself
Emily Dickinson     Four Poems
Walt Whitman      Song of Myself
Emily Dickinson     Four Poems


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