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New Towns: An Anthology of New Writing
Call for Submissions 1st December 2019 to 31st January 2020 |
Wild Pressed Books is excited to announce a call for submissions for their upcoming anthology, New Towns. Edited by author, R. M. Francis, this collection of writing will be a unique creative exploration of the genius loci and sense of place found in New Towns across the UK.
We’re defining New Towns by those associated with the New Towns Act 1946, and the subsequent waves of development following the Second World War. These towns were designed to alleviate housing shortages by expanding into the UK’s Green Belt and areas considered “overspill” close to large cities. That said, some already existing conurbations were designated with New Town status during these waves, this included town planning and housing projects in keeping with the design and ethos of the wider projects.
The UK literary world is riding a wave of great place-writing at the moment. From the New Nature Writers like Robert McFarlane and Helen MacDonald to writers like Paul Farley who rethink the post-industrial edges of our estates. From projects like Places of Poetry to the digital site-specific work of Birmingham’s Overhear and Hull’s QR Poetry. Writers have investigated coasts and rivers, hamlet and city, wild and tamed. This will be the first creative anthology with singular attention to these important yet overlooked areas of the UK landscape, featuring writers from and who deal with these uniquely haunting places.
Submission Guidelines
We welcome submissions from writers working in prose and poetry, as well as more experimental or hybrid forms.
We are looking for polished literary fiction and poetry.
** Please ensure your work uses a specific New Town as setting or topic for your pieces. See list here
Send your submissions to [email protected] from 1st December 2019 to 31st January 2020.
Fiction, Personal Essay or Memoir should be less than 3,000 words or made up of several pieces up to the word limit.
Poetry should be up to three poems of no more than 40 lines each, or one / two longer poems of equivalent length.
Your submission should contain a summary of your work and a short biography of the author within the email, with the text attached as a Word or PDF document.
We welcome submissions from writers working in prose and poetry, as well as more experimental or hybrid forms.
We are looking for polished literary fiction and poetry.
** Please ensure your work uses a specific New Town as setting or topic for your pieces. See list here
Send your submissions to [email protected] from 1st December 2019 to 31st January 2020.
Fiction, Personal Essay or Memoir should be less than 3,000 words or made up of several pieces up to the word limit.
Poetry should be up to three poems of no more than 40 lines each, or one / two longer poems of equivalent length.
Your submission should contain a summary of your work and a short biography of the author within the email, with the text attached as a Word or PDF document.
The published anthology will be available in both physical and eBook format.