Submissions
STATUS: OPEN
To submit and idea, a current project or finished manuscript, you can either email submissions@ghostandribbon.com, fill out the submission form below or post your submission to Ghost & Ribbon Ltd, Suite 106, 20 Winchcombe St, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL51 2LY, following our submissions guidelines.
We read everything, so we need as much detail as possible about you and your project.
We accept unsolicited fiction, non-fiction and poetry of any genre from new or self-published authors.
We read everything, so we need as much detail as possible about you and your project.
We accept unsolicited fiction, non-fiction and poetry of any genre from new or self-published authors.
Submission
Guidelines
Please include the final or working title of your work. If emailing, name the subject of the email as the title of the project (or 'Untitled' if your project does not have a name yet) and include a covering letter, detailing:
These points are detailed on the form below if you would prefer to use this instead. Along with the covering letter, send in or upload either:
Ideally, we would prefer this double-line spaced. If you haven't started writing yet, just a detailed description of your plans will do!
You should receive a response within 4 weeks to let you know the outcome of your submission. If we're ever closed for submissions, we will let you know here and let you know when we expect to re-open. Please do not submit while we are close as those submissions will be have to be resubmitted.
- Whether your writing is prose or poetry
- The genre, e.g. romance, science fiction, historical
- Word count estimated or actual
- Your concept creation process
- A little bit about you
- What you would like from us, whether it is to inspire you to write, to shape and finesse your fiction or just to become an author
These points are detailed on the form below if you would prefer to use this instead. Along with the covering letter, send in or upload either:
- The first three chapters of a novel
- Three pages of a detailed plot for a novel
- One page of a detailed concept of a novel, short story or poem/poetry collection
- Three pages of poetry or three short poems
- 30% of a short story
Ideally, we would prefer this double-line spaced. If you haven't started writing yet, just a detailed description of your plans will do!
You should receive a response within 4 weeks to let you know the outcome of your submission. If we're ever closed for submissions, we will let you know here and let you know when we expect to re-open. Please do not submit while we are close as those submissions will be have to be resubmitted.
