16 September 2008

Submissions wanted for literary magazine

New Writing Dundee, the magazine produced by the University of Dundee is calling for submissions from budding writers.

Last year the magazine sold out after four print runs and enjoyed a fantastic event at the Dundee Literary Festival where contributors read their work.

The magazine is locally produced but has an international focus, with renowned authors such as Kirsty Gunn, Meaghan Delahunt and Jonathan Falla all featured in last years magazine.

Rachel Marsh, editor of New Writing Dundee says, 'Last year's NWD proved that Dundee can attract and publish a high calabre of writing, and we hope to continue with that tradition of success in the upcoming Fourth Issue. We will again this year feature some award winning authors, but our main objective is to discover unpublished talent who need a bit of a kickstart to their careers.'

'We are strongly encouraging anyone to submit. We want to see writing of various styles, genres, subjects and voices in hopes of finding pieces which will create an anthology that is interesting to read and a credit to the Dundee publishing industry.'

Submissions of stories, chapters or short drama have to be under 3000 words, 20 lines for poetry and must be in by 30th November.

All themes and genres will be accepted and any number of pieces may be submitted. Only submissions as pasted into the body of an email will be accepted, and we cannot open or accept any attachments.

Please send all submissions to newwritingdundee@dundee.ac.uk.

Those selected for Issue 4 will be notified by the 1st of February 2009.

Issue 3 still available at the Dundee Borders or by contacting newwritingdundee@dundee.ac.uk.

For media enquiries contact:
Anna Day
Press Office
University of Dundee
Nethergate Dundee, DD1 4HN
TEL: 01382 384768
E-MAIL: a.c.day@dundee.ac.uk