Discover the world's best short stories
"Paragraph Shorts couldn't have come at a better time"
- Lorin Stein, Editor, The Paris Review
Vision
While the future of the book might be in question, the future of the story is not. Stories transport us to a different universe, only to bring us back to earth a little different, a little wiser, than we were before. Let Paragraph be your rocketship.
Content
What can you expect to find?
In short: Pow!
In longer terms: Powerful stories and powerful storytellers.
Paragraph features stories from master storytellers such as John Cheever, Donald Barthelme and Mavis Gallant, alongside fresh voices like Etgar Keret, Taylor Mali and April Ayers Lawson. Every issue of Paragraph features music from an up and coming band to create a moveable feast for the eye, ear and mind. The core of Paragraph is a community of people like you. People who like to stop every once in a while, experience an amazing story, and continue with their life, partially changed for the better.
Features
Moving Stories, Moving Images
Every story in Paragraph is accompanied by an amazing image from a talented illustrator or photographer that's as beautiful and evocative as the story it surrounds.
Stories get Social
Sometimes you want to read a story without distractions. Sometimes you want to interact with the community and see what everyone else is saying. We made it easy to move between the two by simply rotating your iPad.
Text, Audio and Video
Great stories come in many forms, so instead of focusing only on fiction or video or text, we decided to bring you the best of all worlds. If it's a great story you can experience in one sitting, we'll feature it.
Sounds Good
Every issue of Paragraph features new music from an up and coming band. Read the lyrics, support the band by purchasing their music or just kick back and listen.
Suggest a Story
Know a story we should feature?
Even great stories are hard to discover and difficult to promote. By making your stories available on Paragraph you can grow your audience and make it easy for them to tell all their friends about you and your work.
As writers ourselves, we take great care to make sure that authors and the publishers representing them receive maximum exposure on Paragraph. Each story contains the author's bio, one-click buttons to purchase their books and the ability for the user to "follow" and receive direct notifications from the author. When a story is shared via Twitter, Facebook or email, it includes a link directly back to the original source publication.
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