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"An award-winning, high quality, printed journal for fiction and poetry from writers born or living in Scotland and featuring literature from around the world. "

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Introduction

An award-winning, high quality, printed journal for fiction and poetry from writers born or living in Scotland and featuring literature from around the world.

Vibe

Send us your best but less intimidating

Response Time
within six months / 65 days
Average acceptance rate
0%

Types of Submissions Accepted

3 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Poetry

Max lines: 120

Max pieces: 5

Poetry submissions can consist of up to five poems, totalling no more than 120 lines.

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Nonfiction

Max words: 3000

Max pieces: 1

Gutter is open to essays on any subject - previous essays have covered birdwatching, substance abuse, community care and historical memoir – as long as the work has literary merit.

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Fiction

Max words: 3000

Max pieces: 1

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poetry genre icon

Poetry

Max lines: 120

Max pieces: 5

Poetry submissions can consist of up to five poems, totalling no more than 120 lines.

nonfiction genre icon

Nonfiction

Max words: 3000

Max pieces: 1

Gutter is open to essays on any subject - previous essays have covered birdwatching, substance abuse, community care and historical memoir – as long as the work has literary merit.

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Fiction

Max words: 3000

Max pieces: 1

all

Need to know for submitting

Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox

  • 01

    Details

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  • 02

    How to submit 🏗️

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  • 03

    Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️

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  • 04

    Awards

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  • 05

    Demographics & Eligibility

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  • 06

    Formatting requirements 🏗️

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  • 07

    Rights for published work 🏗️

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Magazine

Founded in ? | United Kingdom

Masthead

We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)

Henry Bell
Editor-in-Chief
Ryan Vance
Editor
Calum Rodger
Editor
Laura Waddell
Editor
Katy Hastie
Editor
Colin Begg
Editor
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)

Total tracked

8

Average acceptance rate

0% (so far)

Average response time

65 days

Average acceptance/rejection time

-/65 days

Fastest response time

58 days

Slowest response time

73 days