Submissions for The Good Journal are now open!
We're excited to open the submission window for the fourth issue of The Good Journal.
Issue 4 will be guest edited by Diana Evans
The submission window will be for three weeks between 15th February 2018 and 15th March 2019. Anything sent in after then won’t be considered. Submissions close at 11.59pm on Friday 15th March 2019
Please read the guidelines carefully then fill in the form at the end.
If you are a publisher or agent who wants information about submitting writers you publish or represent please email thegoodjournaluk@gmail.com
Guidelines
Who Are You?
We’re looking for work by British writers of colour. Either you are a British citizen, born her or naturalised, or you are a resident of Britain. That makes you eligible. You have to be over 18. In terms of your publishing history, we’re not fussed. We’re only concerned about the work. So, if you’ve never been published before, ever; or if you have a blog; or if you had an essay published online or in a university journal; or if you’ve had short stories published in anthologies; or if you’ve had your first novel published; or if you’ve won major prizes and have had seventeen books published – all we’re interested in is your submission and it being awesome. If you’re usually known for another medium eg film or dance or music, if you have a story you have to tell and it needs to be written, that’s cool too. Basically, we’re looking for all of you. But most of all, we particularly encourage the yous who have never been published before, or are starting out, or have been writing for years but have had no luck getting published – you especially, you… you send your work in.
What exactly is a writer of colour? How do I know if I/my author is one? Person of colour is a term used to describe any person who is not white. The term encompasses all non-white groups, emphasising common experiences of racism. It typically refers to individuals of non-Caucasian heritage.
What Are We Looking For?
First and foremost, we’re looking for finished work.
Beyond that we’re looking for essays, articles, features, creative non-fiction, fiction, short stories, poetry, comics, photo essays, extracts of novels. If you’ve got any of those, go for it. It doesn’t have to be on a particular topic. It just has to be good. How do we define good? Well, it’s just good innit.
Length & practicalities
For prose – anywhere from 1,000 words to 3,500 words.
For poems – maximum 3. We will pick a maximum of one per poet.
For comics or photo essays – maximum 2 pages.
And we only want one submission per person so we really do want you to submit your absolute best work.
A word on those novel extracts – whilst we're keen to publish novel extracts we need to make sure that what we're publishing is both original and not going to impinge on a publisher's usage and rights. So if it’s for a novel that’s going to be published then we can’t take it unless it's submitted by the publisher. If it’s already been published, we can’t take it. If it gets accepted and you get a publishing deal before the issue is out, we can’t take it, unless the publisher is happy with this.
A word on those other things – this has to be the first place your piece has been published, both in print and digitally. You’ll retain the copyright on the work but we’ll be signing for the right to publish that work for the first time.
So, don’t think there’s any one thing we’re looking for. We’re just looking for good writing first and foremost.
How Do We Want It Submitted?
This bit’s important and we’re gonna be ruthless about it. Mostly because we’ll be reading a lot of these on screens and ereaders and it can get confusing quickly. So here’s some helpful bullet points and there's more detail below on poetry, comics & photo essays:
Save the filename as YOUR NAME TITLE OF PIECE. Not as ‘essay’ or 'short story'
Arial. 12 point. Double spaced.
Save either as a .doc, a .docx or a .pdf. Nothing else. N-O-T-H-I-N-G
Don’t share a OneDrive, Dropbox or Google Doc with us. We need the saved file.
Your name and the title of the piece should be on the front page. Don’t put it in the header or footer cos ereaders sometimes does horrible things with these.
It has to be submitted through the portal. Not emailed directly to us. Even if you know us or have chatted to us informally or we’ve tweeted or whatever. Submit through the portal. It has to all be in one place.
Finished work only. I don’t mind if all our entries come in on the last day. Just so long as it’s all finished.
Check you’ve done all these things before submitting. Because if you haven’t, we won’t read it. Sorry.
If you are sending POETRY, this is how we would like them to be submitted:
We will accept a maximum of three poems. The poems can be any length. The poems must come in one single document. Each new poem must start on a brand new page in the document. It's important you use Arial 12 point as the font and size. However, if you have specific formatting requirements for the poems, then they don't need to be double spaced. It's important they be formated as intended. When saving the file name, please call it YOUR NAME POEMS. EG William Shakespeare Poems. Nothing else. Your name, followed by the word Poems.
If you are sending COMICS, please format them to A4 full colour. If possible, the lowest possible file size would be great. So under 2mb. If we like what we see, we will ask to see something higher resolution. All the final formatting, including correct sizing and bleed will come if we select you for the magazine. It's important we gauge the work first.
If you are sending PHOTO ESSAYS, please embed text and photo into a document and pdf it. Again, we'd appreciate the lowest possible file size for the moment, so under 2mb. If we like what we see, we'll ask to see something higher resolution.
Obviously your work will come with a degree of specific requirements that sit outside of the submission guidelines we've laid out. We've tried to be as accessible and general as possible. However, if you feel like you have concerns about how to deliver the work and whether you're formatting it correctly, please drop us an email at thegoodjournaluk@gmail.com
Don't tweet us or Facebook us specific submission questions. We might miss them.
What If I Don’t Get Selected For This Issue?
You can totally submit something new for issue 3. If you don’t get selected for this one, it just means it wasn’t the right piece for the issue. But totally do keep trying. You can only submit one piece once. If it gets rejected, you can’t resend it for the next issue submission period. In special cases, you may be selected for a future issue but not the first one. We don’t think we’ll be able to give individual feedback sadly. Not because we don’t want to. But because we’re a small operation and our time is very stretched!
What If I Get Selected For This Issue?
Congratulations! You’ll get an email from us, letting you know. At which point, take the rest of the day off! How it’ll work is, we’ll let people know in late January/early February. We’ll then deliver notes and probably a very tight turnaround to get a version back to us. It’ll then be typeset and we’ll then send you back a copy of those pages to proofread before it goes to print. Don’t worry. We will also be proofreading. It’s not just down to you. Once we have the final version we are both happy with, you can invoice.
Is It Paid?
Yes. You get paid £150 for a story or essay or £50 for a poem. Which isn’t much, we know. But we’re operating on a tiny budget and it’s the best we can offer!
We're excited to open the submission window for the fourth issue of The Good Journal.
Issue 4 will be guest edited by Diana Evans
The submission window will be for three weeks between 15th February 2018 and 15th March 2019. Anything sent in after then won’t be considered. Submissions close at 11.59pm on Friday 15th March 2019
Please read the guidelines carefully then fill in the form at the end.
If you are a publisher or agent who wants information about submitting writers you publish or represent please email thegoodjournaluk@gmail.com
Guidelines
Who Are You?
We’re looking for work by British writers of colour. Either you are a British citizen, born her or naturalised, or you are a resident of Britain. That makes you eligible. You have to be over 18. In terms of your publishing history, we’re not fussed. We’re only concerned about the work. So, if you’ve never been published before, ever; or if you have a blog; or if you had an essay published online or in a university journal; or if you’ve had short stories published in anthologies; or if you’ve had your first novel published; or if you’ve won major prizes and have had seventeen books published – all we’re interested in is your submission and it being awesome. If you’re usually known for another medium eg film or dance or music, if you have a story you have to tell and it needs to be written, that’s cool too. Basically, we’re looking for all of you. But most of all, we particularly encourage the yous who have never been published before, or are starting out, or have been writing for years but have had no luck getting published – you especially, you… you send your work in.
What exactly is a writer of colour? How do I know if I/my author is one? Person of colour is a term used to describe any person who is not white. The term encompasses all non-white groups, emphasising common experiences of racism. It typically refers to individuals of non-Caucasian heritage.
What Are We Looking For?
First and foremost, we’re looking for finished work.
Beyond that we’re looking for essays, articles, features, creative non-fiction, fiction, short stories, poetry, comics, photo essays, extracts of novels. If you’ve got any of those, go for it. It doesn’t have to be on a particular topic. It just has to be good. How do we define good? Well, it’s just good innit.
Length & practicalities
For prose – anywhere from 1,000 words to 3,500 words.
For poems – maximum 3. We will pick a maximum of one per poet.
For comics or photo essays – maximum 2 pages.
And we only want one submission per person so we really do want you to submit your absolute best work.
A word on those novel extracts – whilst we're keen to publish novel extracts we need to make sure that what we're publishing is both original and not going to impinge on a publisher's usage and rights. So if it’s for a novel that’s going to be published then we can’t take it unless it's submitted by the publisher. If it’s already been published, we can’t take it. If it gets accepted and you get a publishing deal before the issue is out, we can’t take it, unless the publisher is happy with this.
A word on those other things – this has to be the first place your piece has been published, both in print and digitally. You’ll retain the copyright on the work but we’ll be signing for the right to publish that work for the first time.
So, don’t think there’s any one thing we’re looking for. We’re just looking for good writing first and foremost.
How Do We Want It Submitted?
This bit’s important and we’re gonna be ruthless about it. Mostly because we’ll be reading a lot of these on screens and ereaders and it can get confusing quickly. So here’s some helpful bullet points and there's more detail below on poetry, comics & photo essays:
Save the filename as YOUR NAME TITLE OF PIECE. Not as ‘essay’ or 'short story'
Arial. 12 point. Double spaced.
Save either as a .doc, a .docx or a .pdf. Nothing else. N-O-T-H-I-N-G
Don’t share a OneDrive, Dropbox or Google Doc with us. We need the saved file.
Your name and the title of the piece should be on the front page. Don’t put it in the header or footer cos ereaders sometimes does horrible things with these.
It has to be submitted through the portal. Not emailed directly to us. Even if you know us or have chatted to us informally or we’ve tweeted or whatever. Submit through the portal. It has to all be in one place.
Finished work only. I don’t mind if all our entries come in on the last day. Just so long as it’s all finished.
Check you’ve done all these things before submitting. Because if you haven’t, we won’t read it. Sorry.
If you are sending POETRY, this is how we would like them to be submitted:
We will accept a maximum of three poems. The poems can be any length. The poems must come in one single document. Each new poem must start on a brand new page in the document. It's important you use Arial 12 point as the font and size. However, if you have specific formatting requirements for the poems, then they don't need to be double spaced. It's important they be formated as intended. When saving the file name, please call it YOUR NAME POEMS. EG William Shakespeare Poems. Nothing else. Your name, followed by the word Poems.
If you are sending COMICS, please format them to A4 full colour. If possible, the lowest possible file size would be great. So under 2mb. If we like what we see, we will ask to see something higher resolution. All the final formatting, including correct sizing and bleed will come if we select you for the magazine. It's important we gauge the work first.
If you are sending PHOTO ESSAYS, please embed text and photo into a document and pdf it. Again, we'd appreciate the lowest possible file size for the moment, so under 2mb. If we like what we see, we'll ask to see something higher resolution.
Obviously your work will come with a degree of specific requirements that sit outside of the submission guidelines we've laid out. We've tried to be as accessible and general as possible. However, if you feel like you have concerns about how to deliver the work and whether you're formatting it correctly, please drop us an email at thegoodjournaluk@gmail.com
Don't tweet us or Facebook us specific submission questions. We might miss them.
What If I Don’t Get Selected For This Issue?
You can totally submit something new for issue 3. If you don’t get selected for this one, it just means it wasn’t the right piece for the issue. But totally do keep trying. You can only submit one piece once. If it gets rejected, you can’t resend it for the next issue submission period. In special cases, you may be selected for a future issue but not the first one. We don’t think we’ll be able to give individual feedback sadly. Not because we don’t want to. But because we’re a small operation and our time is very stretched!
What If I Get Selected For This Issue?
Congratulations! You’ll get an email from us, letting you know. At which point, take the rest of the day off! How it’ll work is, we’ll let people know in late January/early February. We’ll then deliver notes and probably a very tight turnaround to get a version back to us. It’ll then be typeset and we’ll then send you back a copy of those pages to proofread before it goes to print. Don’t worry. We will also be proofreading. It’s not just down to you. Once we have the final version we are both happy with, you can invoice.
Is It Paid?
Yes. You get paid £150 for a story or essay or £50 for a poem. Which isn’t much, we know. But we’re operating on a tiny budget and it’s the best we can offer!
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