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Short Story Length Statistics
Short stories are typically under 7,500 words in length but can vary depending on the publication and genre.
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"The typical length of a short story is between 1,000 and 20,000 words,"
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"The long short story typically ranges from 7,000 to 20,000,"
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"The average word count of an Edgar Allan Poe’s short story is 4,716 words,"
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"Ernest Hemingway’s short stories average 3,830 words,"
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"On average, short stories published in literary magazines are around 3,000 words,"
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"Short stories published in The New Yorker average around 5,000 words,"
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""The Dead", one of the longest short stories by James Joyce, is more than 15,000 words long,"
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"Short stories for children are usually about 500 words long,"
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""The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by C.S. Lewis, another story sometimes considered a short story, is 36,363 words long,"
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"The shortest story ever written, according to popular legend, is "For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn.", at just six words, attributed to Ernest Hemingway,"
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"On average, it takes 4-6 submissions before a short story is accepted by a publication,"
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"Readers spend an average of 15 minutes reading short stories on the digital platform Medium,"
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""Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx, which won the O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction in 1998, is approximately 9,135 words long,"
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