This opportunity is for members of Federation of Writers (Scotland) only.

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New Voices Press (NVP) is an imprint of the Federation of Writers (Scotland) NVP is not a commercial publisher and is open for submissions only from members of the FWS. Membership of the FWS is free, and open to writers anywhere with an interest  in Scotland and Scottish writing. FWS membership is separate from membership of the Facebook group, and you can apply via this website.

All members of the FW(S) editorial team will look at all work submitted within the terms of these guidelines. An acknowledgement of receipt will be sent to the author within four weeks of submission.

NVP considers poetry, short works of prose fiction and non-fiction, in any of the languages of Scotland, Scots, English & Scots Gaelic. Scots Gaelic submissions must also be accompanied by an English translation.

The following are guidelines for initial submissions:

• Send us your best pieces!!

• We are moving to one entry per category this year, in part to include as many members as possible in the anthology

• Poetry: One poem, not more than 40 lines in length. (longer poems will be automatically disqualified)

• Prose: One short story; over 501 and under 2,000 words in length

• Prose: One piece of flash fiction: 500 words in length or under

• Please indicate the line count - excluding title - at end of each poem and the word count at the end of each piece of Prose Writing. 

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• All work to be single spaced and in Times Roman 12 point.

• Do not include your name or other identifying mark on the work submitted but submit it with a separate sheet, giving your name, address and contact details as well as the titles of each submission.

• Example: Email with one submission piece only, should contain two word docs: one with contact detailing and another with the submission, etc etc. 

• The editorial team will not separate pieces which come as one continuous word document… and will return them to the sender for resubmission.

• The editorial team will not accept work which does not follow our guidelines

• Please send as a Word attachment (doc. or docx). Do NOT send as rtf or pdf.

• The editorial team regret that they do not have resources to support publication through NVP of novels or novellas, screenplays, full-length dramas or large non-fiction projects. They recommend that members submit these to commercial publishers or literary agents in line with guidance available in the current editions of The Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook or The Writer’s Handbook.

• No work submitted should have been previously published/broadcast/e-published or posted on-line in any form.

• Material already being considered by other publishers should not be offered to NVP. 

• Whilst copyright remains with the author of the individual works, NVP would respectfully ask for exclusive access to the work until end 2023. 

• No correspondence can be entered into with the selectors. Successful contributors will be notified by Wednesday 14th February 2024.

Submissions should be sent via email to Janet Crawford at fwsanthology@gmail.com 

All members should ensure that they keep a copy of everything they submit.
 

• Anthology Co-ordinators

  • Janet Crawford

  • Lesley Traynor

• Selectors

  • Morag Anderson (Poetry)

  • Carol McKay (Prose)

  • Marcas Mac an Tuairneir (Gaelic) 

  • Ann MacKinnon (Scots)

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All members of the FW(S) editorial team will look at all work submitted within the terms of these guidelines. An acknowledgement of receipt will be sent to the author within four weeks of submission.