The other side of hope: Journeys in refugee and immigrant literature submissions window open
The other side of hope: Journeys in refugee and immigrant literature
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until 31st of May 2023
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email submissions to:
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A.M. Heath Literary Agency will offer 1-2-1s to 6 of our vol.3 contributors. A.M. Heath was founded in London in 1919.
We admire, respect, and are friends with writers and poets from all walks of life. However, the other side of hope exists to serve, bring together, and celebrate the refugee and immigrant communities worldwide. To help promote and showcase writing from these communities, fiction and poetry are open to refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants only. We accept non-fiction, book reviews, and author interview submissions by everyone on the theme of migration. Please see categories below.
We publish twice a year, one print issue and one online issue.
Payment: We offer £100 per published author in the print issue, and £50 per published author in the online issue. Sadly, due to legal constraints from the Home Office, we cannot offer payment to people who are seeking asylum; however, accepted authors who are seeking asylum will receive a £100/£50 online gift card (you choose which one, and we’ll try to get it for you). The authors we publish in print will also receive one complimentary copy of the issue in which their work appears.
We offer £300 and two copies of our print issue for artwork that we will use in our print and online covers. See details below in Submission Guidelines.
Payment method: Please note that we can only pay via PayPal or into UK bank accounts. Due to high international transaction fees, we cannot transfer fees into non-UK bank accounts.
Print Vs Online: All submissions are considered for either the print or the online issue, at the editors’ discretion. Please do not ask us to consider your work for a specific issue.
Response time: It can take us 6 months or more to get back to you. Apologies for slow responses.
Pitches: No, sorry. Please send us complete work only.
Multiple submissions (i.e. poetry and prose): Yes, but it will help us if you send us everything in one email. After sending us your work, please wait for a response before submitting again.
Groupwork poems: We consider poems from refugee/asylum seeker writing groups.
Please send us your work in Word only. No online or PDF files, please.
We welcome works in English, from anywhere in the world, but please see individual categories below for eligibility.
Please submit completed, previously unpublished work only.
Simultaneous submissions: Yes, just let us know if your work was accepted elsewhere. We will be happy for you.
Cover letter: Include your name, short bio, country of origin and (if you have moved) the country you currently live in. Indicate whether your submission has been simultaneously submitted elsewhere.
Translations: No, sorry.
Copyright: After we publish your work on the other side of hope, all rights revert to our authors. Published authors do not need our permission to reprint, though we appreciate an acknowledgement of first publication.
Submission fee: We do not and will never charge submission fees.
Submissions guidelines
Fiction
Open to refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants only.
There is no theme; you don’t have to send us work that relates to the refugee or immigrant experience. Up to two short stories or stand-alone chapters from unpublished novels (1,000 to 8,000 words) are welcome. Or you can send us up to five pieces of flash fiction.
Email us your work at submissions.otherside@gmail.com
When you send us fiction, please tell us whether you are (or had been) a refugee, asylum seeker, or whether you are an immigrant (a writer living in a country other than that of your birth). We will not question you on this.
Poetry
Open to refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants only.
There is no theme; you don’t have to send us work that relates to the refugee or immigrant experience. Please send up to four poems in a single file.
Email us your work at submissions.otherside@gmail.com
When you send us poetry, please tell us whether you are (or had been) a refugee, asylum seeker, or whether you are an immigrant (a writer living in a country other than that of your birth). We will not question you on this.
Non-fiction
Open to everyone. Theme: Migration.
We accept narrative non-fiction, short essays, creative ethnography, memoir, criticism, reportage, and travelogue. The suggested word limit is between 2,000 to 5,000 words. Please send us up to two pieces in a single file. Academic submissions are highly discouraged.
Email us your work at submissions.otherside@gmail.com
Book reviews & author interviews
Open to everyone. Theme: Migration.
We accept book reviews on novels, collections of short stories, poetry and non-fiction books (no academic books please), preferably between 500 to 1,000 words. Interviews with authors (up to around 2,000 words) do not have to be about a specific book; they could also be discussions around the writing process.
Email us your work at submissions.otherside@gmail.com
Cover artwork
Open to refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants only.
We accept illustrations, drawings, photography, comics and anything else that we can use in our print and online covers. Please send us a minimum of five artworks or links to your work. If your artwork is accepted, we will ask you to write two very short pieces on your works, and additional black & white artworks that we will use as dividers in our print issue.
Email us your work at submissions.otherside@gmail.com
When you send us your work, please tell us whether you are (or had been) a refugee, asylum seeker, or whether you are an immigrant (an artist living in a country other than that of your birth). We will not question you on this. https://othersideofhope.com/submissions.html#