Short stories for Yours magazine, one story published per issue, and Yours Fiction magazine, 26 stories published per issue, have different submission criteria.
Popular themesmagazine are romance, families, grandchildren and nostalgia. Stories should be approximately 950 word long and not have been previously published. Occasionally, serialised stories of three episodes, each of 3,000 words, are published with the first two episodes finishing on a cliffhanger.