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 Full details   Writing Competition 2025 Do you ever feel that your writing and creative work is made to feel like detritus? Like debris, rejected and lost, floating amongst the myriad of new writing that exists out there? You know your work is good and so do we – which is why we’re proud to launch the Detritus Writing Competition 2025 - for unpublished writers whose work has been previously rejected. Detritus is our first international writing competition and will open to entrants on 7th April 2025. Following a long and shortlisting process, the winner will be offered a prestigious full publishing contract with Pudding Press Ltd. The theme of the competition is flexible, but we are looking for original, inspirational and engaging work from within the categories of Horror, Philosophy or Young Adult fiction. We are particularly looking for urgency and excitement within the content. The competition is open to all writers internationally. Entrants must be ...

  Full submissions  Dear Writers... Thank you for your interest in submitting your work to us. ​ We publish high-quality literary fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and short-story anthologies. We consider submissions in all genres, including  action-adventure, urban contemporary, biography, memoir, high-quality romance and women’s literature, children’s stories, young adult, satire, mystery, historical fiction, thrillers, humor, philosophy, and educational works. What We Offer As a small, independent nonprofit located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, we are able to offer very competitive terms to our authors, including professionally-designed covers, editing, formatting, and distribution to online outlets as well as availability to any bricks-and-mortar bookstore through Ingram. ​ Our books are also available directly from us, through our easy-to-remember Bookstore URL, www.visitourbookstore.com . Through pre-orders, you can promote ...

  Full details  We will consider only previously unpublished  and philosophically informed creative work (though our understanding of “philosophically informed” is capacious). Please submit only one prose manuscript or up to five poems for each issue. Please submit poems in one document. All submissions should be made through Submittable. There is no submission fee.  We pay $200 for each piece that we publish (or $50 for each poem we publish).  We are generally looking for pieces that are between 2,000 and 7,000 words, though we will happily consider submissions that are shorter or longer than this. However, please do not submit any work that is more than 10,000 words. We realize that you might also want to submit the same manuscript to other literary journals. If you do, please include a note to that effect in the cover letter you include with your submission and notify us immediately if the piece(s) you sent to us is(are) accepted for publication by another ma...