The Glasgow Review of Books is OPEN for submissions of Poetry, Short-Fiction, Non-Fiction and Visual Art which respond creatively to our theme: FUTURE GLASGOW.
Deadline for submissions is: Midnight, 5 January 2024. Full details below.
What happens next? What do you hope for, from the future? What are you afraid the future may hold? We are looking for inspired clairvoyance, future-historiography, discoveries and messages from the wreck – all your love/hate, ambivalence, aspirations, desires, poured into the unmade vessel of the next, however-many years, and inscribed onto the tabula rasa of things to come.
Send us your dreams, your visions, your theories, your long-shots. Interpret the brief as creatively as you want. Be as precise geographically, or roam as widely across Glasgow’s internationality as you like. Read the tea-leaves. Tell us what you see.
General
Your are encouraged to read these guidelines before sending in your submission.
While we are unlikely to quibble over little things, submissions that deviate significantly from our guidelines may not be read (e.g. if you send us eight poems instead of the number we’ve asked for).
Please submit your work to GlasgowReview@Gmail.com before our deadline of 5 January, 2024.
Please include the following in the subject line of your email – <Submission – Future Glasgow – [genre – i.e. ‘Poetry’ or ‘Short-Fiction]>
Please provide your name, contact email address and (if you have them) social media handles, along with short bio (100 words) at the top of the first page of your submission.
You are encouraged to ‘respond creatively’ to our theme. We are here to be surprised by how this plays out in practice.
We accept simultaneous submissions, as it is likely that there will be a delay between your work being accepted and being published on our site. Please do let us know, though, if your work is accepted elsewhere in the meantime.
We are only able to accept one submission per person for this call-out. If you send us multiple submissions, it’s likely that none of them will be read.
Your must have the right to identify yourself as the author of the work you submit. Work that potentially breaches copyright or which commits plagiarism will not be published.
Editorial decisions are final and you should bear in mind that, while we are open minded about most things, our tolerance for language, subject-matter or themes we consider to be derogatory is very low.
We aim to respond to all submissions no later than six weeks after our deadline.
That said, meeting this target will be dependent on the number of submissions we receive and our capacity to review them. If you have not heard from us by the time six weeks are up, please feel free to get in touch.
If we agree to publish your work, you will still retain all rights, including the right to be identified as the author wherever and whenever your work is published. We do, however, ask that latter publications should recognise the Glasgow Review of Books as the original publisher.
The Glasgow Review of Books currently generates no income. This means that we are unable to pay contributors for their labour, time and talent.
We do not like being in this position – and are actively planning to place the title on a more sustainable footing – but it will remain the case for the forseeable future. If you would prefer to submit your work elsewhere because we are unable to reimburse you, that’s absolutely fine.
If you have any questions regarding this call-out, please contact us via our social media channels @GlasgowRevBooks or via email to GlasgowReview@Gmail.com. Please allow up to five working days for us to respond to emails.
Poetry
Please follow the guidelines above and submit up to FOUR POEMS, with a total line-length of 250 lines.
Poems may be in any style or form (including prose poems) so long as they respond creatively to our theme.
Poems should be submitted as a Microsoft Word .doc or .docx. Formatted in a plain font and single-spaced.
If your poem includes irregular formatting, please also submit it as a .pdf document to preserve your formatting.
Poems may be in any of the languages of Scotland – English, Gàidhlig or Scots.
Short-fiction
Please follow the guidelines above and submit ONE piece of short-fiction, with a total length of not more than 3,000 words.
Pieces should be submitted as a Microsoft Word .doc or .docx. Formatted in a plain font and single-spaced. Documents with embedded files of any kind will be deleted.
Short-fiction can be of any genre, so long as it responds creatively to our theme – but please bear in mind that our preference as a journal, is towards the niche, off-the-wall and unusual.
Hybrid, meta-fictional and other non-traditional forms of prose fiction are welcome. Collaging and use of found text is fine, but please acknowledge your sources in an end-note. Work that potentially breaches copyright or which commits unacknowledged plagiarism or appropriation will not be published.
Work may be in any of the languages of Scotland – English, Gàidhlig or Scots.
Non-Fiction
Please follow the guidelines above and submit ONE piece of non-fiction writing, with a total length of not more than 3,000 words.
Pieces should be submitted as a Microsoft Word .doc or .docx. Formatted in a plain font and single-spaced. Documents with embedded files of any kind will be deleted.
We are a review journal, so we are looking for non-fictional and critical writing about books, literature and the literary arts that responds creatively to our theme. Please bear in mind that our preferences are towards the niche, off-the-wall and unusual.
We have a particular interest in writing on, or in translation and we would welcome submissions of such work, that respond to our theme.
Hybrid, memoir, intersectional and other non-traditional forms of non-fiction writing are welcome.
Work may be in any of the languages of Scotland – English, Gàidhlig or Scots.
Visual Art
Please follow the guidelines above and submit up to FOUR pieces of concrete poetry, visual art, visual poetry, illustration, collage, photo-collage or any hybrid visual form.
Pieces should be submitted as a single .pdf document, laid out with one image per page.
Visual art submissions in any other format (e.g. as separate attachments to an email or files embedded in a Word .doc) will be immediately deleted.
If we decide to publish your work, we will contact you to obtain high-resolution image files of your pieces prior to publication.
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