The next period for submissions to Seaside Gothic will be 9th October to 15th October 2023. This will begin at midnight at the opening of Monday 9th October 2023 and will end at midnight at the closing of Sunday 15th October 2023, UK GMT time. During this window Seaside Gothic will be open to unsolicited submissions of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and visual collections.
Submissions are only via email, and there are no fees required for submitting. Accepted work will be paid for upon publication. To be eligible, a submission must be human-created, previously unpublished (including appearing publicly on any website or form of social media), and should meet the three criteria of seaside gothic literature.
Full submissions criteria, including the required exclusivity period, pay rate, and formatting requirements, can be found on the Submissions page.
Acceptance rate statistics are available to subscribers. To find out how to subscribe, please visit Seaside Gothic’s Patreon.
It is important to consider whether work lines up with the style and quality Seaside Gothic is interested in. Please take a look at the freely available examples from previous Issues.