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Submitting poetry and prose
Ambit is put together entirely from unsolicited, previously unpublished poetry and short fiction submissions. When we say unpublished we mean completely original, never been on your blog, never been on a website and certainly never been in print.
Due to the amount of submissions we receive, we are only able to print about three per cent of the work that comes through our door. So how do you get into that narrow band?
First, get to know Ambit before you submit. Is your work a good fit? What sort of thing does Ambit print? Buy a copy to find out . . .
If you decide your work is right for us then send us 3-6 poems, or 1 story up to 5000 words in length. We’re very enthusiastic about flash and very short fiction too which is under 1000 words that have not been published elsewhere including blogs and internet. Please include your postal address, phone number, and word count in your cover letter.
Use our online submission portal
If you are not able to use the online submissions portal, we do have a postal address to which you can send your work: Staithe House, Main Road, Brancaster Staithe, Norfolk, PE31 8BP, UK. We would encourage you to submit online if at all possible.
• We do not read any email submissions, use the portal above.
• If sending via post, please include your email address. If you do not have an email address, include a self-addressed envelope with UK stamps. For international submissions, we can only reply via email.
• If you have sent your work in by post and want your manuscripts returned, please make sure the return envelope is big enough and includes sufficient postage.
• Our response times vary. We receive a huge amount of copy, have only a few readers, and like to read submissions carefully. We generally respond within two months.
• We do not accept simultaneous submissions, and please only send one submission per submission window.
• Keep a record of exactly what you have sent and when.
• We receive too many submissions to be able to give feedback on rejected work.
• We do not print articles, essays, interviews, memoirs or biography.
• By submitting your work you give us first print rights, and the right to reprint your work on our website and in digital form. Once we have printed your work, all rights return to you (except for our digital and internet reprint rights). Those electronic rights do not affect your right to publish your work elsewhere in any forms you wish. Please be aware that we use social media for marketing and we are in the process of working on our on-line digital archive so that is included in the digital rights.
• If work appears in Ambit, you must credit us in any future anthologies or collections in which your work appears stating that the piece was first published in Ambit Magazine and giving the year in which it was published.
• Once something has been published in Ambit we request that it isn’t posted on a blog or website for at least three months. After that please include a link to our site with a note that the piece was first published in Ambit.
Submitting art
The art in Ambit is selected by the Art Editors following exhibitions, art fairs and artists’ studios visits. We like to discover the work of other artists. If you enjoy Ambit’s art features and would like to share your work with us, send us a link containing your personal / gallery’s website with images of your practice.
We encourage illustrators to submit with an example of their work. Pending the editorial team’s approval you will be added to a list of illustrators. All styles are welcome and illustrations are commissioned on the basis of how well they will suit the prose to illustrate.
Payment
Ambit is a charity and we run on a tiny budget, however any money we do make goes back into the magazine. Please see our payment schedule below:
For poets, flash fiction writers and illustrators from the UK – a copy of the Ambit you appear in plus either: an extra copy, a half-price subscription (worth £15) or a cheque for £10
For UK story writers and featured artists – a copy of the Ambit you appear in plus either: three extra copies, a one year subscription (worth £30) or a cheque for £30.
For overseas contributors we are restricted due to currency exchanges and postage rates. So the following applies:
For Overseas poets, flash fiction writers and illustrators – two copies of the issue you appear in.
For Overseas story writers and featured artists – three copies of the issue you appear in.
Here are a few more things to think about:
The editors are not overly fond of the following: wild flights of stylistic abandon (indiscriminately centre-justified poems, jazzy fonts, poems all in italics) and folders full of poetry or reams of stories in a single submission. We’re not afraid of genre fiction, but it should probably have an interesting relationship to the genre at hand – a straight-ahead detective or horror story probably won’t appear in Ambit.
Please note: emailed work will be deleted – please use our online submissions portal
Submitting artwork
Most of the art in Ambit is found by our Art Editor on visits to art schools, private views and exhibitions. The illustrations that accompany the poems and stories are commissioned from an established team of artists.
If, however, you have explored the art in the magazine and feel that your work would print well (black and white only) alongside what you have seen, you are welcome to send in a sample. Please use our online submissions portal
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