Submissions are Open

From 10th July to 16th July 2023 Seaside Gothic is open for submissions of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and visual collections of photographs or illustrations!

If you would like to submit a short story, a poem, a piece of creative nonfiction, or a set of images, we would love to hear from you. Please check before sending to make sure your submission fits with the Seaside Gothic aesthetic and meets the terms stated on the Submissions page. If you would like to find out about previous submission statistics, they are accessible to subscribers.

A written submission should exist as a stand-alone piece of maximum 1,000 words. Visual submissions should be a collection of no less than five and no more than ten images which work coherently as a set. Each submission is required to meet the three criteria that define seaside gothic literature:

1. It is led by emotion, not reason, exploring the human experience mentally and spiritually as well as physically, and is unashamed to embrace the violence of the sea and the wind along with the beauty of the land and the sky and the ever-changing tide.
2. It addresses duality—land and sea, love and hate, the beautiful and the grotesque—to reflect the structures that line the coast, which are both those solidly braced against the fiercest elements and those built from what surrounds in a state of shanty transience.
3. It connects to the edge, living on the seaside either literally or figuratively, and has one foot in the water and the other on solid ground, presenting the juxtaposition of a physical border with open space and a wilderness of water that provides life yet is inconsumable.

To gain an insight into the type of content Seaside Gothic is actively seeking, please take a look at the previous Issues.

Seaside Gothic kindly asks for first UK publication rights and a three month exclusivity period beginning from the date of publication. Content which is accepted is published both in print (ISSN 2752-7867) and digitally (ISSN 2755-001X), with print copies available for purchase through seasidegothic.com and in a selection of retailers, and digital content available online with some pieces accessible only through a Patreon subscription. Seaside Gothic is a non-profit magazine which pays for accepted content with rates based upon income. There are no fees for submission.

Submissions will remain open until midnight Greenwich Mean Time at the end of 16th July 2023. For submission details please see the Submissions page.