About Five Chapters
Five Chapters is the home of the best original fiction on the web. A five-part story will be published every week, serial-style, beginning on Monday and followed by a new installment each weekday.
The editor of Five Chapters is David Daley. David curated the 20-Minute Fiction in issue 12 of McSweeney’s, created the Tag-team Fiction series for The Journal News, and is the former features editor of Details magazine.
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FiveChapters accepts story submissions online through Submishmash. To submit, click here. Submissions must be attached as a Word file. FiveChapters stories work best between 5000 and 10,000 words. Please understand, however, that FiveChapters is a one-person operation, and that all submissions cannot be individually acknowledged.