Penning a great story that's not quite short but not lengthy enough for a novel? How about an essay that goes on just a bit too long for the average magazine piece? Enter Kindle Singles, a new offering from Amazon that will allow writers to submit their work for inclusion in the Kindle e-bookstore.

Kindle Singles is for writers who have content that is "twice the length of a New Yorker feature or as much as a few chapters of a typical book," Amazon said. Accepted content will be available on all devices that support the Kindle app, and will be backed up on the Kindle library for easy access.

"Ideas and the words to deliver them should be crafted to their natural length, not to an artificial marketing length that justifies a particular price or a certain format," Russ Grandinetti, vice president of Kindle Content, said in a statement. "With Kindle Singles, we're reaching out to publishers and accomplished writers and we're excited to see what they create."

Amazon did not provide too much detail as to what type of content they are looking for, except to say that it wants "serious writers, thinkers, scientists, business leaders, historians, politicians and publishers." Interested writers can submit their work to digital-publications@amazon.com, the company said, but no timeline for publication was provided.

The announcement comes several days after Barnes & Noble launched PubIt, a platform that allows independent writers and publishers to upload their work for digital publishing and distribution via its e-bookstore.