We are open to publishing enquiries for novellas and short story collections! We’re looking for new strange and literary speculative fiction from writers living in the North of England, up to 40,000 words in length. Submissions close at midnight on the 20th December.
Please read our full submission guidelines to make sure your work is eligible before entering.
Schedule
- We’ll be open to publishing enquiries between the 1st November and midnight on the 20th December.
- Submissions to our folklore anthology have now closed. If you previously submitted, you can review the archived terms and conditions here.
- We’re currently planning to publish one anthology and one collection or novella per year.
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What we like to read
We’re hungry for everything speculative: fantasy, horror, science fiction, magical realism and weird fiction.
We love writing which is literary and experimental: beautiful, ambitious prose that expands what genre fiction can do. It doesn’t need to be neat. It definitely shouldn’t be conventional. We want ideas that burn. We want stories that haunt us.
We’re looking for fiction for adults, so no YA or children’s books please. Stories that involve superheroes or time travel are a hard sell, as is excessive violence. We’re specifically interested in writers living in the North of England, and welcome submissions from queer, disabled, working class and otherwise marginalised writers. Please don’t send us your work if you’re not living in the North of England. We may accept writers from across the UK in the future.
