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Silk Road now accepts first chapters of novels for publication
in the magazine.

Our editors would like to showcase first chapters that would
pique a reader’s interest and get a great story rolling. We also
want to encourage writers to keep going and finish that novel!

The chapter need not be as self contained as a short story, but it
should not operate solely as an introduction to your book. We
need action and character development. We are looking for
controlled prose, concrete details of landscape, vivid characters
who come off the page and compel us to keep reading.
Guidelines here.

The Winter/Spring
2012 issue of
Silk Road brings
under the big tent
21 writers from
around the world.

Fiction: "The Bell Choir"
by Jennifer Robinette
looks through the eyes
of a young girl dealing
with loss and
disappointment.

Poetry: California poet
Barbara Price's "I Find
God on Facebook" is a
delightfully irreverent
poem that forces us to
look at our increasing
dependence on social
media.

Nonfiction: Catherine
Doucette brings
heartwarming
childhood memories
together with haunting
imagery in "When the
Lake Makes Ice."

See all the writers in
Vol 7.1 and read
excerpts.

Visit our blog and interview page.

Online Pieces from Past Issues

New Nonfiction:
John Ashford's Topo
Coleen Muir's Home
Jessica McCaughey's Scramble
Go deep into childhood. Read Charles Finn's nonfiction
A Secret Hide Hideout of Leaves and Mud.

Fiction:
R.H. Sheldon's Birds of Paradise
Stever Edward's Award-Winning A Writer's Story
Karin Lin-Greenberg's short story Weight:
A garden. A mother and a son. A price to be paid.
Read Breakneck Road by Josie Sigler.
A down-and-out narrator finds a baby abandoned by
his mailbox. Find out what happens next.

Poetry:
Tania Runyan's Beach Walk
Luisa A. Igloria's Status, News Feed, Most Recent, Last