We specialise in literary fiction and non-fiction, reportage, memoir, travel writing, poetry and photographic essays.
We publish book reviews on our website and invite submissions of completed reviews for inclusion in advance of a book’s publication date.
All submissions must be original and not previously published elsewhere online or in print.
Prose submissions should be a minimum of 1,000 words and may extend to 5,000 words. Shorter pieces will be considered, particulalry for Web publication. White Esprit does not publish academic work or travel writing without a narrative focus. Excerpts and adaptations from longer works should stand alone, complete in their own right. Simultaneous submissions and translations are acceptable.
Poetry submissions may include up to three poems, with a combined total of not more than 150 lines.
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE ARE UNLIKELY TO READ SUBMISSIONS THAT DO NOT ADHERE TO THE FOLLOWING GUIDELINES:
1) Submissions must
a) be pasted as text into the body of the email or the given form and
b) attached as a Word or Pages file in Times New Roman 12pt.
2) Please set language to English (UK).
3) At the top of the first page include the title, author’s name and contact details, and a biographical note of not more than 70 words.4) No headers, footers, pagination or fancy formatting, please. 5) We prefer to avoid notes but if they’re really necessary, these should be included as endnotes, not footnotes. Begin the subject line with Poetry Submission.Prose should begin the subject line with ProseSubmission.
We aim to read each manuscript within two months but can respond only to successful submissions. If you have not been contacted within that period please take the opportunity to present your manuscript to other publications. We receive many submissions and are sometimes unable, for reasons of space or theme, to include all that we’d like to. If your writing is not accepted, please do not assume that this is because we don’t think it’s good enough.
All contributions accepted for publication will be subject to editing in collaboration with the author.
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