The People's Friend
Literary Magazine
The longest running women's magazine in the world. We're famous for fiction, knitting and cookery.
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Highlights
- Vibe:Send us your best but less intimidating
- Response time: 12 weeks*Editor reported data
- Acceptance rate: ?
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FeeNo
Accepts simultaneous submissions
What's that?
When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time
Accepts previously published
What's that?
When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary
Nominates for prizes
Active on social media
Available in print
Provides contributor copies
Has examples online
Offers expedited response
What's that?
Expedited submission: When the magazine offers a faster response time for an extra fee
Fiction - 10000 words max
Max words: 10000
Max pieces: 1
Sub Genres: Literary, Crime, Thriller
Payment: £80-110
Poetry
Max lines: 20
Max pieces: 3
Payment: £ 15
How to submit
Processs
Email
Cover letter
No cover letter advice
Eligibility
No specific eligibility requirements
Formatting
Pages can get mixed up in the reading process, so to save time, please number each one. Please put your name under the title of your story on the opening page of your manuscript. If we buy your story, we will then ask for an electronic copy. This makes it easier for our Production team when it comes to making up the issue and running the copy onto the page. No formatting Please use double spacing, and don’t include any indents. Once again, this saves oodles of time when we run the copy on the page. All dialogue should be in double quotes.
Author's rights
We don't have rights information for this magazine
Additional info
The best way to get a sense of our style is to read the magazine regularly. “Friend” readers range in age from about thirty to well over eighty. They like being entertained — and dislike being depressed. They like realistic material, but not so realistic — with sex, violence, drugs, drink, etc — that they are frightened or saddened.
Tracker statistics
19
Total submissions tracked
42 days
Average response time
Average acceptance rate
1 days
Fastest response time
161 days
Slowest response time
*Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 1257 days
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About
“The People’s Friend” is DC Thomson’s flagship title and the longest-running women’s weekly magazine in the world. First gracing newsagents’ shelves on 13 January 1869, the magazine has an ever-rising subscription base and is loved and trusted all around the world, with readers in Canada, New Zeala...
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1869
Country
GB
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Stuart Johnstone
Editor-in-Chief