Call for Submissions
Nature & Eco-writing
Deadline: May 15 2025
Our fourth edition will focus on nature, the environment, and climate change. We would love to read your short fiction, flash, non-fiction, and poetry circling this theme. You might want to submit nature poetry, whether traditional or innovative, or you may want to send us your folk retellings and fractured fairytales that make the natural world their setting. We would be excited to see eco-fiction that intersects with the dystopian and the speculative, as well as ‘new nature writing’ style essays and creative nonfiction pieces that reflect on personal connections with nature. This call includes a wide range of forms, from flash to prose poetry, to concrete and erasure poetry, to micro-fiction, and we are always happy to see the bold, the experimental, and the unexpected.
We are a literary journal who publish flash fiction, short stories & non-fiction that prioritise voice, character and emotional engagement. We love great short fiction, poetry and art, especially those pieces that take us somewhere new, and we welcome a range of poetry, from tried and true free verse to bold experiments with form, as well as visual art for our illustrations. We would love to hear from you, whether you are established or just getting started with publishing!
Guidelines
Prose
We publish short fiction, flash, and non-fiction. We are especially keen on reading flash (200 to 1000 words) and prose poetry pieces. Please send unpublished work no longer than 6,000 words in a double spaced 12-point font. All works should be attached in a single .DOC/.DOCX file
Poetry
We publish poetry of all types, but we especially love to see poetry that takes risks, including prose, erasure, vispo, concrete poetry, experimental and hybrid work. Please send 5 maximum unpublished poems in a single .DOC/.DOCX file with one poem per page (five pages max).
Simultaneous Submissions
Simultaneous submissions are encouraged. If your work is accepted elsewhere, we just ask that you let us know immediately through email.
Rights
We require First UK Serial Rights. Following publication, all rights revert to the author, but we ask that Inkfish is credited in subsequent reprints. In addition, we reserve the right to edit submissions in accordance with the rules of our style guide.
Payment
Whilst we would love to be able to pay our writers and artists, as an indie mag volunteering our time, we are not currently in position to do so, though we hope to be able to in the near future!
