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It started with a simple idea, a simple assignment: write the entire story of your life in 400 words or less.

400 Words is a magazine of short-short nonfiction. (Kind of like ‘microfiction,’ but all first-person, and all true.) There’s a website (you’re here) and a print magazine, too. Each piece that appears in it is 400 words in length or shorter. It’s a literary magazine for people with short attention spans and over-abundant curiosity. Every issue of 400 Words covers a theme. The short responses are delightful in themselves, but when put into conversation with each other they gain a truly awesome kinetic quality.

400 Words lends itself to being read compulsively, in small sips and Big Gulps; on trains; while waiting; and most of all, in the bathroom.

We exist, and want to exist, at the seams of sociology and lit.

Above all, 400 Words wants you. Participation is the blood that keeps this project alive. Everyone is invited to write their own 400-words-or-less about the upcoming theme, and send them in for possible inclusion on the website or in the next issue of the magazine.It started with a simple idea, a simple assignment: write the entire story of your life in 400 words or less.

400 Words is a magazine of short-short nonfiction. (Kind of like ‘microfiction,’ but all first-person, and all true.) There’s a website (you’re here) and a print magazine, too. Each piece that appears in it is 400 words in length or shorter. It’s a literary magazine for people with short attention spans and over-abun
400 Words lends itself to being read compulsively, in small sips and Big Gulps; on trains; while waiting; and most of all, in the bathroom.

We exist, and want to exist, at the seams of sociology and lit.

Above all, 400 Words wants you. Participation is the blood that keeps this project alive. Everyone is invited to write their own 400-words-