Gutter is a new, high quality, printed journal for fiction and poetry from writers born or living in Scotland. The editors believe there is a need for an energetic, ambitious magazine dedicated exclusively to the best in new Scottish creative writing.
Gutter now invites submissions of up to 3,000 words of fiction (short stories, novel extracts) or 120 lines of poetry. Preference will be given to provocative work that challenges, re-imagines or undermines the individual or collective status quo. We are also interested in work that relates Scotland to an international context.
Second Issue Submission Deadline
30th October 2009
Already confirmed for Issue 1: new work by: Ewan Morrison (The Last Book You Read [Chroma 2005], Swung [Jonathan Cape 2006], Distance [Jonathan Cape 2008]) and Toni Davidson (Scar Culture [Rebel Inc 1999], The Gradual Gathering of Lust [Canongate 2007])
Work should be submitted by email to info@guttermag.co.uk (format: Microsoft Word, .txt, .rtf or .pdf document). Formatting: Times Roman, 1.5 spacing, each page numbered. Please include name, address, postcode and word count on the title sheet. Work should not previously have been published in any form, including self-publication or online.
At this stage no payment is available for published submissions (we hope to remedy this by issue 3) but successful writers will receive a free two-year subscription (4 magazines) worth £18.00.
Subscriptions
Please support Gutter Magazine.
Subscriptions are available for one or two years. Payment can be made by Paypal or credit card. Click a link below to subscribe.
United Kingdom, Personal
1 year (2 issues) - £10.00 (incl. P&P)
2 years (4 issues) - £18.00 (incl. P&P)
United Kingdom, Library
1 year (2 issues) - £25.00 (incl. P&P)
2 year (4 issues) - £45.00 (incl. P&P)
International, Personal
1 year (2 issues) - £12.50 (incl. P&P)
2 years (4 issues) - £20.00 (incl. P&P)
International, Library
1 year (2 issues) - £28.00 (incl. P&P)
2 years (4 issues) - £48.00 (incl. P&P)
Editorial Service
Unfortunately we do not have the resources to provide feedback on individual submissions. However, we can provide a detailed editorial service for a small donation to the magazine. If you’d like feedback on work already submitted please make a payment by Paypal or credit card here - £10 per short story, £5 per poem - and then email info@guttermag.co.uk to confirm your payment and the title of the piece to be reviewed and we will come back within 3 weeks with a detailed, written critique of your work by an experienced and masters degree qualified creative writing tutor. If you’d like us to review a piece that hasn’t yet been submitted please follow the same procedure but attach the work to the email (marking clearly in the subject field ‘New work for editorial review’).
Editors
Adrian Searle, Colin Begg
Review Editor
Helen Sedgwick
Editorial Board
Gutter is currently recruiting an editorial board. To date, novelists Kirsty Gunn and Alan Warner, poet Kathleen Jamie and agent Maggie McKernan, are all confirmed as members.
About the Publisher
Freight is a Glasgow-based design and publishing company. It has published a number of acclaimed anthologies of new Scottish writing including: The Hope That Kills Us, An Anthology of Scottish Football Fiction (2002), The Knuckle End, A meaty collection of new Scottish writing (2004) and Let’s Pretend, 37 stories about (in)fidelity (2008).
Issue 2
Click here to see the authors selected for issue 2 of Gutter.
