One Minute Play

Fiction is to nonfiction as theater is to poetry, but "if it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well It were done quickly."

We like to publish a few one-minute plays in each issue. Send up to three in one attachment. Your chances improve with a lightly furnished stage which isn't too cinematic. Plots without setup and characters without biographies are a plus. In a one minute drama, there isn't a lot of time for context. Let it be action, action, action. Or contrarily, inaction, inaction, inaction!

One-minute plays may have been previously performed, for example, at a one-minute play festival or some other venue. If you have a simultaneous submission please let us know.  

Upon acceptance, you grant Free State Review  First North American Serial Rights and the right to publish your work on our website for up to six months after your work is printed in our  journal. Publishing rights revert back to the author after printing,  but if you do print elsewhere, we ask you note us as publishing your work first.