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The
Literary Journal with a Visual Edge
Our second issue features work from celebrated writers
Toby Litt and Helen Oyeyemi as well as a major new translation
of Romanian writer, Ioan Grosan. Contributing to our
interest in visual narratives, illustrations complement
each story while stills from Anya Lewin's recent film,
'With Heartfelt Gratitude for the painless Treatment',
are featured throughout.
Submissions
As a green initiative, we are asking all submissions
to come through email.
We receive over 600 stories in a reading cycle and can
only correspond with writers whose works we are accepting.
If you have not heard from us after a period of four
months, please assume that we will not be publishing
your work. We appreciate that ‘no response’
at all is even less satisfying than a rejection slip,
but be assured that we’re using the time saved
to work with those authors whose work will appear in
the next issue.
We
accept submissions from 1 September - 30 April each
year. Please do not submit outside these months as we
need the summer months to process the fine stories we're
publishing. We welcome submissions of up to two stories
at a time. The word limit guideline is 5000/story, but
as one will find after perusing back issues, we're very
happy to accept exceptional stories which exceed such
an arbitrary number. As we accept less than 1% of submissions,
we not only invite but expect simultaneous submissions
(we do ask, however, that you notify us immediately
if a work has been accepted elsewhere). If you want
to know what kind of fiction to submit, we direct you
to order issue 1 or issue 2 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.
Published
authors receive two copies of the journal and a nominal
payment (dependent on funding).
Anthony
Caleshu
Editor
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