: Re: What should be in a cover letter for short story submission to a magazine? It's been about five years since I last submitted any of my work for publication, and my memory of what I was taught

Two tips for submissions (no matter how short the story is):

Write just a letter/email and ask for permission to send them your story.
In this letter (like in every cover letter) you should describe your story and yourself shortly and you should put in there, why they should publish your story. Why is it fantastic? Why do people really want to read it? What's different from all these other boring 50 submissions they got?

Yeah, I know, the second one is harder than the first ...

Edit:
To be more specific about describing your story:

It's not about: "It's a crime story about incest."
It's about: "It's about a woman killing her ex-husband to conceal that she has married her own son."

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