Complete Sentence a magazine of single-sentence prose

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Complete Sentence is an online magazine of single-sentence prose. We champion punchy and poignant work that celebrates syntactical exploration—narratives that expand or contract within a single sentence.

Country of Publication & Year Established

United States

Established in 2020

Publication Medium & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic Publication: Published 26 x per year

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Collapse section Fiction Open

We like the punchy and bizarre, the speculative, but also that throwback Kmart realism, anything that makes us cry, or laugh, or ideally, cry and laugh at the same time.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Genres:

Open to all/most Genres, including:
General

Lengths:

Flash Fiction: No specific word count limits known (our definition: up to 1000 words).
Short Story: No specific word count limits known (our definition: 1000 to 7500 words).

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Humorous, Literary, Mainstream.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Methods: Email. Online form.
Reprints: Unknown.
Simultaneous submissions: Unknown.
Media: Text.

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We want your single-sentence memoir, your lyric essay, and hell, maybe even your heady researched work that explores how experience and identity impact the way we move through the world. Send us your single-sentence reviews of books, albums, chain restaurants, basketball teams, social media apps, dog breeds, cities, beaches, deserts, desserts, theme parks, time periods, video games, seminal life experiences, or anything else you would like to review. Our Op-Ed section needs your single-sentence knee-jerk reactions to the world around you.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Essay: No specific word count limits known.
Narrative Nonfiction: No specific word count limits known.

Styles:

Open to all/most Styles, including: Critical, Humorous, Literary, Mainstream, Personal.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics including...
Memoir.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Methods: Email. Online form.
Reprints: Unknown.
Simultaneous submissions: Unknown.
Media: Text.

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Send us your cut-and-paste collages of cat pictures you printed out from the internet, your watercolors, your oil paintings, your photos of plastic bags caught in trees, rippling in the wind like ghosts or the decaying flag of some dead country.

Audience:

Open to a broad Audience.

Lengths:

Artwork: Unlimited number of pieces.

Art Media:

Open to all/most Art Media, including...
Collage.
Painting.

Art Styles:

Open to all/most Art Styles.

Topics:

Open to all/most Topics.

Payment:

No monetary payment No monetary payment.

Submissions:

Methods: Email. Online form.
Reprints: Unknown.
Simultaneous submissions: Unknown.
Media: Image.

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Complete Sentence Submission Statistics

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We have received 1 report within the past 12 months, not including pending responses (see below). The more responses reported, the more accurate the information.

Pending

5 responses are pending (65 min | 176.0 mean avg | 204.0 median | 283 max days waiting | 83.6 std dev) from 5 different members

Other Information

The editors will try to make a decision within 90 days. (100.0 % of the responses reported to us for this listing have taken longer than 90 days.)
Do not query on the status of your submission before 90 days have passed.
Most recent response reported was received on 15 Oct 2025.
Responses have been received for submissions sent as recently as 29 Jun 2025.
Date compiled: 15 Sep 2026 09:47 UTC (less than a minute ago).

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Dates

Last Updated: 23 Jul 2026

We check their guidelines for changes every four weeks, and we audit the listing twice a year.