Literary Dundee


New Writing Dundee


The open call for submissions to New Writing Dundee 2010 is now closed. We are happy to announce that this year we received 560 submissions, and are currently in the depths of the selection process.

In February we will be posting a list of all selected entries, and we will be accepting submissions for 2011 in July next summer.


New Writing Dundee is a literary anthology featuring both new authors and invited published artists. Celebrating its fifth year, this book is a Dundee community based project with an international reputation. The last two issues have gone through two print runs and have held its own event at the Dundee Literary Festival.

For the 2010 issue we are seeking submissions from the general public. The book is open to all styles, genres, themes and nationalities. Send in your prose, poetry, essays, drama and creative non-fiction by 1 November, 2009. For more information see the writer’s guidelines below.

Submission Guidelines:

Deadline: 1 November, 2009

Entrants: Authors from all over the globe are encouraged to enter.

Entrees: Accepting all types and genres of English language creative writing.

Only ONE piece of prose will be accepted for each entrant.

Only TWO pieces of poetry will be accepted for each entrant.

Length: Prose should not exceed 2500 words, but can be less.
Poetry should not exceed 25 lines, but can be less.

How to Submit:
Submit to newwritingdundee@dundee.ac.uk

We can ONLY accept email submissions.

Please paste your document into the body of an email.

Please ensure that you have spaced the document correctly when pasting it into the email.





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