Scout & Engineer

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About

Scout & Engineer is a print and electronic publication founded upon the idea that great storytelling involves blameless technique, yes, but embedded with the author's unapologetic conceptions and value evaluation. Those stories that work as philosophical page-plays and pure luxuries for bookheads? That reveal practiced ideological gardening that goes beyond ever-trendy jabs at human volition and structure? Those are the stories S&E will proudly host.

Country of Publication

United States

Publication Media & Frequency

Electronic Publication Electronic Publication: Unknown publication frequency
Print Publication Print Publication: Unknown publication frequency

Fiction On Hiatus

We are interested in literary, mainstream, and humorous short stories; high-quality genre fiction that incorporates our keynote themes is not excluded. Themes likely to find a home here include individualism, individual rights, efficacy of volition, the importance of personal- over crowd-perspective, freedom from dogma, political freedom, etc. Note that, while we do not automatically rule them out, we're not particularly interested in stories focused exclusively on current politics.

Audience:

Unknown

Genres:

General

Lengths:

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

Styles:

Humorous, Literary, Mainstream.

Topics:

None found.

Payment:

Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word) Pay ranges from Semi-pro payment (1-4.9 US cents per word) to Professional payment (5 or more US cents per word).
Note: We list broad pay categories rather than payment specifics. Check with the publisher for details.

Submissions:

Method: Postal.
Reprints: Reprints are NOT allowed.
Simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are allowed.
Media: Text.

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Dates

Last Updated: 22 May 2026