A writing collective. Forty-one members, eleven countries, one rule: send the draft, not the pitch.
We publish short prose on the open web the way it was published in 1997: one file, one page, no cookie banner, no newsletter modal, no autoplaying video of somebody nodding at a laptop. If you can read this sentence, your browser is fully supported.
Blue means you have not read it yet. Purple means you have. That is the entire interface, and it has not changed since 2011. New pieces go up Mondays and Thursdays at 09:00 UTC and stay up forever — we have never taken a page down.
To: submissions@plaintext.org
Subject: SUBMISSION — <working title>
Body: the piece, pasted as plain text. No attachments, no shared links.
Length: under 2,000 words. Poetry: under 60 lines.
Reply: within nine days, to everyone, including the no.
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