SHORT FICTION SUBMISSIONS WILL BE OPEN:

1st Dec 2023 - 7th January 2024 for ISSUE 33

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Under the Radar is a magazine of new contemporary writing and is published three times a year by Nine Arches Press. We welcome submissions of short fiction to Under the Radar.

We especially welcome submissions of new work by writers from diverse backgrounds who have been traditionally under-represented in literature and publishing, and actively encourage women, writers of colour, LGBTQ+, Disabled, D/deaf, and low-income writers to consider sending us their work.

We welcome submissions of short fiction to Under the Radar magazine, but please take note of the following guidelines and our open submissions dates:

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

• Please only submit previously unpublished work.

• Send a maximum 2,500 words of short fiction.

• We accept submissions from anywhere in the world.• All submissions must be made online through our Submittable portal during our open submission dates (see below). Please contact us if you are not able to access Submittable online to arrange alternative method of submission. Please do not otherwise send your work to the Nine Arches Press email or postal addresses.

• Please do not make multiple submissions by sending work you have also simultaneously submitted to other magazines, competitions or publications, or by sending us further work to consider before we have responded to your first submission. 

• In addition, please do not submit and then withdraw work once submitted.

• Please include a cover letter with your full postal address, as well as a short biographical note (in the third person of no more than 50 words).

• Unfortunately, we are not able to offer payment for poems or short stories selected for publication in the magazine but we do send a complimentary copy of the magazine and offer discounts on subscription for featured writers. 10 free magazine subscriptions for low income writers who do not currently have a subscription to the magazine are made available annually every September. 

• To ensure plenty of variety, we do not feature the same poets in consecutive issues. Please allow at least six months before submitting to the magazine again if we have published some of your poems in the most recent issue.

• We receive a high volume of submissions. Please allow at least 12 weeks from the close of the submissions window for our reply. We always respond to every submission.

Under the Radar magazine will be open to submissions of short fiction on the following dates in  2024:

SHORT FICTION:

1st June -7th July 2024

If you do have a query about submission, which is not covered by these guidelines, you can contact us at:  mail@ninearchespress.com 

SUBMISSIONS OPEN:

• 1st - 30th April 2024
• 1st - 31st October 2024

Please read these submission guidelines carefully. We cannot consider submissions that ignore these guidelines

• We actively encourage and welcome diverse submissions, and would love to see more poetry submitted to us by women and non-binary poets, Black, Asian, mixed-race and other Poets of Colour, D/deaf, disabled, working class/low income, and LGBTQI+ poets.

• Please note that we are not currently accepting submissions for: poetry pamphlets, posthumous publications, children's poetry, collaborations, translations or manuscripts by more than one author, or illustrated books.

• We are currently accepting submissions for both debut collections from new or emerging poets and submissions from established poets with previous collections published. We welcome poets of all ages.

• We request that you send us a sample of twenty poems in one document from your full collection in the first instance. Please also include a short biographical note, which should include information of any previous or forthcoming publication (in magazines, journals, pamphlets, collections, online etc.).

• Please only submit previously unpublished work. By this, we mean that the complete collection of poems you are sending us should not have already been published either in physical form or online together as one complete collection, book or pamphlet. Publication of individual poems in various or selected magazines, journals, or e-magazines is fine, and a selection from a pamphlet is also acceptable. Please contact us if you're unsure.

• We will only seriously consider publishing poets who have a track record of publication or audience for their poems in the United Kingdom in some form. By this, we mean that you have had a record of previous publication of your poems in some of the following: poems in magazines or journals, featured, listed or winning as part of prizes or competitions, published in anthologies, in pamphlets or in previous full collections (but not in self-published volumes) or commissioned for performance, video or audio. If you have no track record of previous publication in any of the forms listed above, please consider this point carefully before sending us your work, as it is highly unlikely we would accept a collection where the poet has no track record of previous publication of poems elsewhere. If in doubt, please send us an email to clarify.

• Please do not make multiple submissions, either by sending us work you have also simultaneously submitted to other publishers (whole or in part), or by sending further additional manuscripts for us to consider before we have responded to your first submission. We cannot consider submissions which ignore this request.

• We do have a very high volume of work to consider, so please allow at least twelve weeks from the close of each submission window for a reply with regard to your manuscript.

Thank you for reading these guidelines, and all the very best of luck with your submission. We look forward to reading your work.


Any questions? Please contact our Editor Jane Commane via email at: mail@ninearchespress.com