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The
Literary Journal with a Visual Edge
Our first issue features 14 stories by 12 writers from
around the world. Writers include National Short Story
Prize Winner, Julian Gough, Rooney Prize Winners, Philip
Ó Ceallaigh and Kevin Barry, and newly translated
work by lauded Bulgarian writer, Georgi Gospodinov.
All 12 writers’ works are illustrated and appear
in their own 'chapbook' designed space. Pigeons from
Sarah
Chapman’s photo-essay, Mrs Mays Pigeons
fly throughout - cooing and scribbled on - to complete
our narrative package of literature and art.
Submissions
Our new and improved reading period for submissions
is 1 September - 30 March. Please do not submit outside
these months as we need the summer months to process
the fine stories we're accepting. We welcome submissions
of up to two stories at a time. The word limit guideline
is 5000/story, but as one will find in our first issue
we're very happy to accept exceptional stories which
exceed such an arbitrary number. We might note a request
for 'short shorts' - we won't attach a word limit, but
needless to say these are very short stories, as exemplified
by Julian Gough's and Philip Gross's in Issue 1. As
we accept less than 1% of submissions, we not only invite
but expect simultaneous submissions. If you want your
work returned or a response regardless of our decision,
make sure to include a Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope.
If you only care to hear back from us if your work is
accepted, no SASE is necessary, but, of course, contact
information is required. Cover letters are optional,
but do put your name and email address (or phone number)
on each page of your submission (an aside: please number
your pages). If you want to know what kind of fiction
to submit, we direct you to see our first issue... which
is another way of saying, we like exceptionally well-crafted
stories and form-breaking fiction which has narrative
drive and dynamic tension. Novel chapters which function
as self-contained units may additionally work well for
us.
Our response time is 1 week to 4 months.
Payment is made on publication, and varies depending
on funding (gratefully given to us by Arts Council England
and Plymouth City Council for this first issue).
Anthony
Caleshu
Editor
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