Submission Guidelines

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General Info

Flax is committed to publishing NW writers; this means any writer who lives or works in the ACE NW arts region.

We only publish work that has not been published previously, either in print or on the web. (NB: On the web refers to work that has been selected by an external editor. We are happy to read work you have posted on your own site or networking page)

You’ll notice that we do not ask for work that is of a particular theme.

You might find the advice here really useful. There is more stuff here

Please note the submission dates. We will only consider work that arrives within the dates given. This is to preserve our sanity.

We will let you know of our decision as soon as we can (usually within a month of the close of submissions).

All writers in our digital anthologies have profiles on the Flax site, which includes professional portraits which you can use for your own publicity purposes. You're also offered a one-to-one session on your professional development. By submitting work to an anthology you are agreeing to travel to the office in Lancaster for these.

Poets (Flax022)

Thanks to everyone who has submitted work. We'll be reading everything in next wee while and get back to you mid August-ish.

Singles (Flax023-025)

Flax 023 - 025 will be a series of online chapbooks. We are looking for writers who already have a collection or a novel published and are working on a new project. These chapbooks offer an opportunity to get work out to an audience before it is completed, or for a small, exclusive project to find an audience. We are asking for 4000 words of prose (fiction or non fiction) and 700 lines of poetry. These could include extracts of a novel, or a longer piece of nonfiction; a single story, or several; a sequences of poems, or a single long one. These will be published online over the course of three weeks.

1. Submit up to 4000 words in prose, either as chapters of an unpublished novel, short stories, or non fiction; OR up to 700 lines of poetry.

2. Email submissions only.

3. Send all work as a single attachment, as a Word document, if possible, rtf if not. Please put your name as footer (with page numbers) and the document’s name. Prose to be double-spaced, poetry not. Please set your page to A4 portrait (you can find this in the page setup).

4. Submissions to Flax023 – 025 are welcome 1 – 27 October 2010

5. Use Singles for the subject line of the email, and send to Sarah Hymas

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We look forward to the work, and hope you enjoy creating it.