Gutter is an award-winning, 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.
Issue 6 out now. Contributors include:
Rizwtn Akhtar, WIlliam Bonar, Larry Butler, Karen Campbell, Regi Claire, AC Clarke, Julian Colton, Graham Fulton, Alexander Hutchison, Alison Irvine, Bridget Khursheed, Carl MacDougall, Donal McLaughlin, Rob A Mackenzie, Kevin MacNeil, Kona Macphee, Andrea McNicoll, Andrew Philip, Tessa Ransford, Dilys Rose, Graeme Williamson, Jim C Wilson and Nicholas YB Wong.
Click here for the full list of contributors.
Thank you to everyone who sent us work for Issue 6 – the pile was bigger than ever. Unfortunately due to the volume of submissions we cannot contact everyone personally. Needless to say, restrictions on space meant that many excellent pieces missed out. So if you didn’t make it this time, keep trying!
Our profuse apologies to Allan Harkness whose name was misspelt in Issue 6. An inexplicable demotion to ‘Alan’ – which we hope has not caused any confusion over the provenance of his poem ‘Auld grulsh, efter ‘the poetry reading’’
Issue 7 submission deadline:
30th April 2012
Submission Guidelines
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 but successful writers will receive a free two-year subscription (4 magazines) worth £22.00.
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
1 year (2 issues) - £12.00 (incl. P&P)
2 years (4 issues) - £22.00 (incl. P&P)
International
1 year (2 issues) - £15.50 (incl. P&P)
2 years (4 issues) - £25.00 (incl. P&P)
E-subscription (magazine emailed in PDF format)
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’).
Correction
In the review ‘People and Places: Collections and Pamphlets of New Poetry’ in Gutter 05, the collection Too OK (Blazevox Books) was wrongly attributed to Colin Hind rather than Colin Herd. We offer our sincere apologies for this error and for the undoubted embarrassment caused.
Editors
Adrian Searle, Colin Begg
Review Editor
Helen Sedgwick
Editorial Board
Prof. Kirsty Gunn, Ian Jack, Bob McDevitt, Maggie McKernan, Alan Warner.
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).
