We’re currently closed to submissions.
Our next submission window will open on the 1st June to the 31st July, for short story submissions from writers living in the North of England. The theme will be sorcery.
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Schedule
- Anthology 2 will open for submissions on the 1st June to midnight on the 31st July on the theme of sorcery. You can read the guidelines here.
- Anthology 3 will open for submissions in Autumn 2026.
- Submissions are closed for publishing enquiries. You can refer to our past guidelines here.
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. We may accept writers from across the UK in the future.
